World English Bible
Psalms 79:3
“Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.”
Psalms 79:3 in the King James Version
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.Read Psalms 79:3 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Psalms 79
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Cross references for Psalms 79:3
- 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 th...
- 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 wickedn...
- 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 laid in a tomb.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 15:3
I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: 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.
- Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunken 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.
- Psalms 141:7
As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
- 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 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.
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