Psalms 79:7 Cross References - ISV

⁷ For they consumed Jacob, making his dwelling place desolate.

²¹ All of this fulfilled what the LORD had predicted through Jeremiah. And so the land enjoyed its Sabbaths, and the length of the land’s desolation lasted until a 70-year long Sabbath had been completed.

¹³ Wild boars of the forest gnaw at it, and creatures of the field feed on it.

¹² Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west— and they devour Israel with open mouths! “Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”

¹ The Earth is Judged “Watch out! The LORD is about to depopulate the land and devastate it; he will turn it upside down and scatter its inhabitants. ² It will be the same for the lay people as for priests, the same for servants as for their masters, for female servants as for their mistresses, for buyers as for sellers, for lenders as for borrowers, and for creditors as for debtors. ³ The earth will be utterly depopulated and completely laid waste — for the LORD has spoken this message. ⁴ “The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth. ⁵ The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore the curse keeps on consuming, and its inhabitants are declared guilty. Furthermore, the inhabitants of earth are ablaze, and few people are left. ⁷ The new wine evaporates; the vine and the oil dry up; all the merrymakers groan. ⁸ “The celebrations of the tambourine have ended, the noise of the jubilant has stopped, and the mirth that the harp produces has ended. ⁹ No longer do they drink wine accompanied by singing; even beer tastes bitter to those who drink it. ¹⁰ The chaotic city lies broken down; every house is closed up so that no one can enter them. ¹¹ There is an outcry in the streets over wine; all cheer turns to gloom; the fun times of the earth are banished. ¹² Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins.

¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹ Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.

⁷ All who find them devour them, but their enemies say, ‘We’re not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.’

³⁴ Judah’s Complaint against Babylon“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away. ³⁵ May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon,” says the inhabitant of Zion. “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

¹⁵ I am deeply angry with the nations who are complacent, with whom I was only a little displeased—but they made things worse!”