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Revised Standard Version

Psalms 79:7

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Habitation;   Intercession;   Psalms, Book of;   Worship;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for they have devoured Jacoband devastated his homeland.
Hebrew Names Version
For they have devoured Ya`akov, And destroyed his homeland.
King James Version
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
English Standard Version
For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.
New Century Version
They have gobbled up the people of Jacob and destroyed their land.
New English Translation
For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.
Amplified Bible
For they have devoured Jacob And made his pasture desolate.
New American Standard Bible
For they have devoured Jacob And laid waste his settlement.
World English Bible
For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.
Legacy Standard Bible
For they have devoured JacobAnd laid waste his abode.
Berean Standard Bible
for they have devoured Jacob and laid waste to his homeland.
Contemporary English Version
They have gobbled down Jacob's descendants and left the land in ruins.
Complete Jewish Bible
for they have devoured Ya‘akov and left his home a waste.
Darby Translation
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those nations killed Jacob's family and destroyed their land.
George Lamsa Translation
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
Good News Translation
For they have killed your people; they have ruined your country.
Lexham English Bible
because they have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation.
Literal Translation
For they have eaten up Jacob, and laid waste to his dwelling-place.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For they haue deuoured Iacob, and layed waiste his dwellinge place.
American Standard Version
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Bible in Basic English
For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
King James Version (1611)
For they haue deuoured Iacob: and laid waste his dwelling place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they haue deuoured Iacob: and layde waste his dwelling place.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.
English Revised Version
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei eeten Jacob; and maden desolat his place.
Update Bible Version
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Webster's Bible Translation
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.
New King James Version
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place.
New Living Translation
For they have devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.
New Life Bible
For they have destroyed Jacob. They have laid waste the place where he lived.
New Revised Standard
For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For he hath devoured Jacob, - And, his dwelling-place, have they laid waste.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(78-7) Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.
Young's Literal Translation
For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they have devoured Jacob And laid waste his habitation.

Contextual Overview

6 Pour out thy anger on the nations that do not know thee, and on the kingdoms that do not call on thy name! 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation. 8 Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake! 10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes! 11 Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die! 12 Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord! 13 Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For they: Psalms 80:13, Isaiah 9:12, Jeremiah 50:7, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:35, Zechariah 1:15

laid: 2 Chronicles 36:21, Isaiah 24:1-12, Isaiah 64:10, Isaiah 64:11

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 4:2 - and they 2 Chronicles 36:19 - they burnt Psalms 94:5 - break Psalms 102:14 - General Jeremiah 10:25 - Pour Ezekiel 19:14 - she hath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they have devoured Jacob,.... The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish antichrist: and laid waste his dwelling place; both Jerusalem and the temple, which was done both by the Chaldeans and the Romans, and also in the times of Antiochus; see the Apocrypha:

"38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her. 39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.'' (1 Maccabees 1)

"4 In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey. 5 For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.'' (1 Maccabees 3)

which were types of the Gospel church made desolate by the Papists: the word d used signifies a sheepcote, the dwelling place of those sheep that are troubled by the beast of Rome.

d נוהו "caulam ejus", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they have devoured Jacob - literally, “They have eaten.” That is, they have eaten up what the land produced.

And laid waste his dwelling-place - His home; his habitation; the residence of Jacob, or of the people of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 79:7. Laid waste his dwelling-place. — The Chaldee understands this of the temple. This, by way of eminence, was Jacob's place. I have already remarked that these two verses are almost similar to Jeremiah 10:25, which has led many to believe that Jeremiah was the author of this Psalm.


 
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