1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.


In Context

1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to the beasts of the earth.

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

Psalm 79:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

79:1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

79:1O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

79:1A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

79:1O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

79:1{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

79:1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

79:1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

79:1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

79:1O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.