Psalm 79:7

Faith Amid Confusion

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Pour out Your wrath on the [Gentile] nations that do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.
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For they have devoured Jacob
And made his pasture desolate. ⁸
O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.
Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.

Jacob

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had restored its Sabbaths; for as long as the land lay desolate it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.

Psalm 80:13

A boar from the woods eats it away,
And the insects of the field feed on it.

Isaiah 9:12

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;
And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.
In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away
But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Isaiah 24:1-12

Behold, the Lord lays waste to the earth, devastates it, twists and distorts its face and scatters its inhabitants.

Isaiah 64:10-11

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 50:7

“All who found them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Because they have sinned against the Lord [and are no longer holy to Him], their [true] habitation of righteousness and justice,
Even the Lord, the [confident] hope of their fathers.’

Jeremiah 51:34-35

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me,
He has set me down like an empty vessel.
Like a monster he has swallowed me up,
He has filled his belly with my delicacies;
He has spit me out and washed me away.

Zechariah 1:15

But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease and feel secure; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster [against the people of Israel].”