Psalms 79:3

What does Psalms 79:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 79:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].

Context

v.2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

v.3This passage

v.4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 food unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth.

  • Matthew 23:35

    that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

  • Revelation 16:6

    for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.

  • Jeremiah 25:33

    And the slain of Jehovah 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 face of the ground.

  • Jeremiah 15:3

    And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

  • Revelation 18:24

    And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.

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