Psalm 79:3 They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

New American Standard Bible
They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

International Standard Version
to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

Darby Bible Translation
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

Young's Literal Translation
They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:16
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.

Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung on the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 25:33
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the ground.

Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

79:1-5 God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2, 3. (Compare Jer 15:3; 16:4).