Psalm 79:7

Faith Amid Confusion

⁶ Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. ⁸ O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily precede us: for we are brought very low.

Jacob

2 Chronicles 36:21

To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.

Psalm 80:13

The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.

Isaiah 9:12

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with an open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 24:1-12

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

Isaiah 64:10-11

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 50:7

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Jeremiah 51:34-35

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has cast me out.

Zechariah 1:15

And I am very much displeased with the nations that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they furthered the disaster.