Psalms 79:3 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 79:3

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem - They have poured it out in such quantities that it seems to flow like water - not an uncommon occurrence in war. There was no event in the history of the Hebrews to which this description would be more applicable than to the Babylonian invasion. The language might indeed be applicable to the desolation of the city by Antiochus Epiphanes, and also to its destruction by the Romans; but, of course, it cannot refer to the latter, and there is no necessity for supposing that it refers to the former. All the conditions of a proper interpretation are fulfilled by supposing that it refers to the time of the Chaldean invasion. And there was none to bury them - The Chaldeans would not do it, and they would not suffer the Hebrew people to do it.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שָׁפְכ֬וּ	sha.fe.Khu	they have poured out	H8210 →
דָמָ֨ם׀	da.Mam	blood their	H1818 →
כַּמַּ֗יִם	ka.Ma.yim	like <the> water	H4325 →
סְֽבִ֘יב֤וֹת	se.Vi.Vot	round about	H5439 →
יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗ם	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
וְאֵ֣ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
קוֹבֵֽר׃	ko.Ver	[was one who] buried [them]	H6912 →

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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
Jeremiah 34:20
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
leads to
- Jeremiah 7:33
  The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 16:4
  “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 19:7
  And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and…
Through
Revelation 11:9
For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.
leads to
- Psalms 79:2–3
  They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 16:4
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will…
leads to
- Jeremiah 25:33
  Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying…
- Psalms 83:10
  who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
Through
Psalms 141:7
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
leads to
- Psalms 53:5
  There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
- Romans 8:36
  As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”