Psalms 79:3

Psalms chapter 79 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

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.

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.