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Psa 79:1 — [[A Psalm of Asaph.]] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		A. M. 3416. B.C. 588.
(Title) A Psalm		This Psalm is supposed, with much probability, to have been written on the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar
(Title) of Asaph		or, for Asaph. Psa 74:1; *title, marg:
the heathen		Psa 74:3,4; Psa 80:12,13; 2Ki 21:12-16; 2Ki 25:4-10; 2Ch 36:3,4,6,7,17; Luk 21:24; Rev 11:2
into		Psa 74:2; Psa 78:71; Exd 15:17; Isa 47:6
holy		Psa 74:7,8; 2Ki 24:13; Lam 1:10; Eze 7:20,21; Eze 9:7
have laid		2Ki 25:9,10; 2Ch 36:19; Jer 26:18; Jer 39:8; Jer 52:13; Mic 3:12

Correlating Passages

(Title) of Asaph

Psa 74:1

[[Maschil of Asaph.]] O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

the heathen

	Psa 74:3	Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
	Psa 74:4	Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs.
	Psa 80:12	Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
	Psa 80:13	The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
	2Ki 21:12	Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
	2Ki 21:13	And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.
	2Ki 21:14	And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
	2Ki 21:15	Because they have done [that which was] evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
	2Ki 21:16	Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
	2Ki 25:4	And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.
	2Ki 25:5	And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
	2Ki 25:6	So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
	2Ki 25:7	And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
	2Ki 25:8	And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
	2Ki 25:9	And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house burnt he with fire.
	2Ki 25:10	And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
	2Ch 36:3	And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
	2Ch 36:4	And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
	2Ch 36:6	Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
	2Ch 36:7	Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
	2Ch 36:17	Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.
	Luk 21:24	And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
	Rev 11:2	But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.

into

	Psa 74:2	Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
	Psa 78:71	From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
	Exd 15:17	Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to dwell in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have established.
	Isa 47:6	I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

holy

	Psa 74:7	They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
	Psa 74:8	They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
	2Ki 24:13	And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
	Lam 1:10	The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.
	Eze 7:20	As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
	Eze 7:21	And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
	Eze 9:7	And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

have laid

	2Ki 25:9	And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house burnt he with fire.
	2Ki 25:10	And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
	2Ch 36:19	And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
	Jer 26:18	Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
	Jer 39:8	And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
	Jer 52:13	And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire:
	Mic 3:12	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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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 79:1," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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