Psalm 79:1
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A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins. (NASB ©1995)

2 Kings 25:9 He burned the house of the LORD, the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

2 Kings 25:10 So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

Psalm 74:2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance; And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Psalm 74:3 Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

Psalm 74:7 They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

Jeremiah 26:18 "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, 'Thus the LORD of hosts has said, "Zion will be plowed as a field, And Jerusalem will become ruins, And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest."'

Jeremiah 52:12 Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:10 The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they should not enter into Your congregation.

Micah 3:12 Therefore, on account of you Zion will be plowed as a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest. (NASB ©1995)



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

1 The psalmist complains of the desolation of Jerusalem
8 He prays for deliverance
13 and promises thankfulness

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. A Psalm. This Psalm is supposed, with much probability, to have been written on the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. Ps 74:1

the heathen Ps 74:3,4 80:12,13 2Ki 21:12-16 25:4-10 2Ch 36:3,4,6,7,17 Lu 21:24 Re 11:2

into Ps 74:2 78:71 Ex 15:17 Isa 47:6

holy Ps 74:7,8 2Ki 24:13 La 1:10 Eze 7:20,21 9:7

have laid 2Ki 25:9,10 2Ch 36:19 Jer 26:18 29:8 52:13 Mic 3:12

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