Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
O God, [the] nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
New American Standard Bible
A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the
They have defiled Your
They have
King James Version
{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Holman Bible
A psalm of Asaph.
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
International Standard Version
God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,
A Conservative Version
O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
American Standard Version
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Amplified
They have defiled Your sacred temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Bible in Basic English
O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
Darby Translation
{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Julia Smith Translation
Chanting to Asaph. O God, the nations came into thine inheritance; they defiled thy holy temple; they set Jerusalem for ruins.
King James 2000
[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Modern King James verseion
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{A Psalm of Asaph} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones.
NET Bible
A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
New Heart English Bible
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
The Emphasized Bible
O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple, - Have laid Jerusalem in heaps:
Webster
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
World English Bible
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Youngs Literal Translation
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,
Themes
Gentiles » Often ravaged and defiled the holy land and sanctuary
Gentiles/heathen » The gentiles/heathen treading jerusalem under their feet
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Calamities of
Jerusalem » The gentiles treading jerusalem under their feet
Jews, the » Captivity of » Calamities of
Jews, the » Denunciations against those who » Slaughtered
Temple » Solomon's » Destroyed by nebuchadnezzar, and the valuable contents carried to babylon
Temple » General references to
Topics
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 79:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith Amid Confusion
1 O God, [the] nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins. 2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to [the] beasts of [the] earth.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:19
And they burned the house of God. And they shattered the walls of Jerusalem and burned its citadels with fire and destroyed all the vessels of its treasuries.
Jeremiah 26:18
"Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, {saying}: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Zion will be plowed, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the {temple} as high places of wood." '
Lamentations 1:10
The enemy has stretched out his hand over all her treasures; for she has seen the nations, they entered her sanctuary, those whom you commanded not to enter in your assembly.
Micah 3:12
Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem will be a heap of rubble, and {the temple mount} as a high place [in] a forest.
Exodus 15:17
You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance, a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh, a sanctuary, Lord, [that] your hands established.
2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He showed no mercy on a young man, a virgin, [the] elderly, or decrepit. He delivered all into his hand.
Jeremiah 52:13
And he burned the {temple} of Yahweh, and the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire.
2 Kings 21:12-16
therefore, thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Look, I am bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah about which the two ears of all who hear it will tingle.
2 Kings 24:13
Then he took from there all of the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and the treasures of the palace of the king. He cut up all of the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had foretold.
2 Kings 25:4-10
Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war [entered] by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [were] against the city all around, so he left by the way of the Arabah.
2 Chronicles 36:3-4
Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid a tribute upon the land [of] one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36:6-7
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up against him, and he bound him with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon.
Psalm 74:1-4
Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 74:7-8
They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.
Psalm 78:71
He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
Psalm 80:12-13
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all [who] pass on [the] road pluck [fruit from] it?
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give} them mercy; on [the] aged you made your yoke very heavy.
Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the palace of the king and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 7:20-21
" 'And the beauty of its ornament {he made into a prideful thing} and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them.
Ezekiel 9:7
And he said to them, "Defile the house and fill the courtyards [with] the dead; go out! And they went out, and they killed in the city.
Luke 21:24
and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Revelation 11:2
And leave out the courtyard outside of the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample the holy city [for] forty two months.