24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?(A) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

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24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

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24 All nations would say, (A)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’

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Psalm 79

A psalm of Asaph.

O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;(A)
    they have defiled(B) your holy temple,
    they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.(C)

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79 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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A Dirge and a Prayer for Israel, Destroyed by Enemies

A Psalm of Asaph.

79 O God, the [a]nations have come into (A)Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they have defiled;
(B)They have laid Jerusalem [b]in heaps.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 79:1 Gentiles
  2. Psalm 79:1 in ruins

12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(A)
    the temple(B) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(C)

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12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (A)plowed like a field,
(B)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (C)the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:12 Lit. house