Psalms 79:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Psalms 79:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 51:34-35
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. …
Zechariah 1:15
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Jeremiah 50:7
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
Isaiah 24:1-12
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. …
Isaiah 64:10-11
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

The petitions here put up to God are very suitable to the present distresses of the church, and they have pleas to enforce them, interwoven with them, taken mostly from God’s honour. I. They pray that God would so turn away his anger from them as to turn it upon those that persecuted and abused them (Ps. 79:6): “ Pour out thy wrath, the full vials of it, upon the heathen; let them wring out the dr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-7. (Compare Jr 10:25). Though we deserve much, do not the heathen deserve more for their violence to us (Jr 51:3-5; Zec 1:14)? The singular denotes the chief power, and the use of the plural indicates the combined confederates. called upon--or, “by” thy name--proclaimed Thy attributes and professed allegiance (Is 12:4; Ac 2:21).