Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
New American Standard Bible
And there was
King James Version
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Holman Bible
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
International Standard Version
to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.
A Conservative Version
They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
American Standard Version
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
Amplified
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one to bury them.
Darby Translation
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
Julia Smith Translation
They poured out their blood as water round about Jerusalem; and none burying.
King James 2000
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].
Modern King James verseion
They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them.
NET Bible
They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.
The Emphasized Bible
They have poured out their blood like water, Round about Jerusalem, With none to bury.
Webster
Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
World English Bible
Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.
References
Watsons
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 79:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith Amid Confusion
2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones to the animals of the earth. 3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:16
The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them?them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them."
Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
Psalm 79:10
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
Psalm 141:7
"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
Jeremiah 8:1-2
"At that time," says the LORD, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
Jeremiah 15:3
I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
Jeremiah 25:33
The slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
Jeremiah 34:20
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.
Matthew 23:35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Revelation 11:9
From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb.
Revelation 16:6
For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
Revelation 18:24
In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."