Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms 79:3 in other translations
| BSB | They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. |
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| WEB | They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. |
| ASV | Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them. |
| YLT | They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying. |
| DARBY | Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. |
| BBE | Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place. |
| Webster | Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. |
What does Psalms 79:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 79:2-3
2-3. (Compare Jr 15:3; 16:4).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 79:1-5
God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread…
Psalms 79:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 79:3
- Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 14:16
And 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 upon them.
- Revelation 11:9
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
- Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Jeremiah 25:33
And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
- Jeremiah 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
- Jeremiah 8:1-2
At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
- Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
- Matthew 23:35
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
- Jeremiah 34:20
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
- Revelation 18:24
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
- Psalms 79:10
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
10; Mt 23:35; Ro 8:36; Re 16:6; 17:6; 18:24
and there, etc.Either there was no friend or relation left to bury them, or none was allowed to perform this last sad office. The despotism of eastern princes often proceeds to such a degree of extravagance as to fill the mind with astonishment and horror. In Morocco, no person dares to bury the body of a malefactor without an order from the emperor; and Windus, speaking of a man who was to have been sawn in two, informs us, that "his body must have remained to be eaten by the dogs, if the emperor had not pardoned him."
141:7; Jer 8:1,2; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; 25:33; 34:20; Re 11:9
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Context
- Psalms 79:2
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
- Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
- Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Derramaron su sangre como agua en los alrededores de Jerusalem; y no hubo quien los enterrase. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Elles ont versé leur sang comme de l’eau tout autour de Jérusalem, et il n’y a eu personne pour les enterrer. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie haben ihr Blut wie Wasser vergossen rings um Jerusalem, und niemand war da, der begrub. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse. Excita potentiam tuam, et veni, ut salvos facias nos. |