Psalms 79:1 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 79:1

The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance. It is the cry of amazement at sacrilegious intrusion; as if the poet were struck with horror. The stranger pollutes thine hallowed courts with his tread. All Canaan is thy land, but thy foes have ravaged it. "Thy holy temple have they defiled." Into the inmost sanctuary they have profanely forced their way, and there behaved themselves arrogantly. Thus, the holy land, the holy house, and the holy city, were all polluted by the uncircumcised.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֱֽלֹהִ֡ים	'elo.Him	O God	H430 →
בָּ֤אוּ	Ba.'u	they have come	H935 →
גוֹיִ֨ם׀	go.Yim	[the] nations	H1471 →
בְּֽנַחֲלָתֶ֗ךָ	be.na.cha.la.Te.kha	in inheritance your	H5159 →
טִ֭מְּאוּ	Ti.me.'u	they have made unclean	H2930 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הֵיכַ֣ל	hei.Khal	[the] temple of	H1964 →
קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ	kod.She.cha	holiness your	H6944 →
שָׂ֖מוּ	Sa.mu	they have made	H7760 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֣ם	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
לְעִיִּֽים׃	le.'i.Yim	into heaps of ruins	H5856 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
leads to
- Jeremiah 26:18
  “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a…
- Micah 4:1–2
  In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to…
- Micah 1:6
  Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.
Through
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 23:3
  No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Jeremiah 51:51
  “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
- Isaiah 64:10–11
  Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Lamentations 1:7
  In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked…
- Psalms 74:4–8