A Prayer for Deliverance
Psalms 79:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- KJV
- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
- WEB
- for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
- ASV
- For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
- LSV
- For [one] has devoured Jacob, || And they have made his habitation desolate.
- YLT
- For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
- DBY
- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
- DRC78:7
- Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.
- GNV
- For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.
- JPS
- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
- LXXE78:7
- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּ֭י אָכַ֣ל אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְֽאֶת־נָוֵ֥הוּ הֵשַֽׁמּוּ׃
- LXX-Br78:7
- Ὅτι κατέφαγον τὸν Ἰακὼβ, καὶ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἠρήμωσαν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 51:34–35“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out. May the…
- Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
- Isaiah 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us…
- Isaiah 24:1–12Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and…
- Jeremiah 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
- Psalms 80:13The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
- Isaiah 9:12Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 78:7 in some Bibles
- 79:7 in most Bibles