Psalm 79:3
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Their
- Psalm 79:10; Matthew 23:35; Romans 8:36; Revelation 16:6; Revelation 17:6; Revelation 18:24
- Psalm 79:3
- and there, etc. Either there was no friend or relation left to bury them, or none was allowed to perform this last sad office. The despotism of eastern princes often proceeds to such a degree of extravagance as to fill the mind with astonishment and horror. In Morocco, no person dares to bury the body of a malefactor without an order from the emperor; and Windus, speaking of a man who was to have been sawn in two, informs us, that "his body must have remained to be eaten by the dogs, if the emperor had not pardoned him."
- Psalm 141:7; Jeremiah 8:1, 2; Jeremiah 14:16; Jeremiah 15:3; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33; Jeremiah 34:20; Revelation 11:9