Psalms 79:2-3,7
Psalms 79:1-4 The Message (MSG)
God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble! They’ve served up the corpses of your servants as carrion food for birds of prey, Threw the bones of your holy people out to the wild animals to gnaw on. They dumped out their blood like buckets of water. All around Jerusalem, their bodies were left to rot, unburied. We’re nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.
Psalms 79:5-7 The Message (MSG)
How long do we have to put up with this, GOD? Do you have it in for us for good? Will your smoldering rage never cool down? If you’re going to be angry, be angry with the pagans who care nothing about you, or your rival kingdoms who ignore you. They’re the ones who ruined Jacob, who wrecked and looted the place where he lived.
Psalms 79:2-3 King James Version (KJV)
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
Psalm 79:7 King James Version (KJV)
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place.
Psalms 79:2-3 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them.
Psalms 79:7 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For they have devoured Jacob And laid waste his habitation.
Psalms 79:2-3 New Century Version (NCV)
They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the wild birds. They have given the bodies of those who worship you to the wild animals. They have spilled blood like water all around Jerusalem. No one was left to bury the dead.
Psalms 79:7 New Century Version (NCV)
They have gobbled up the people of Jacob and destroyed their land.
Psalms 79:2-3 American Standard Version (ASV)
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
Psalms 79:7 American Standard Version (ASV)
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Psalms 79:2-3 New International Version (NIV)
They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild. They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
Psalms 79:7 New International Version (NIV)
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
Psalms 79:2-3 New King James Version (NKJV)
The dead bodies of Your servants They have given as food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them.
Psalms 79:7 New King James Version (NKJV)
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place.
Psalms 79:2-3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them.
Psalms 79:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For they have devoured Jacob And made his pasture desolate.
Psalms 79:2-3 New Living Translation (NLT)
They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals. Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead.
Psalms 79:7 New Living Translation (NLT)
For they have devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.
Psalms 79:2-3 The Passion Translation (TPT)
The corpses of your loving people are lying in the open— food for the beasts and the birds. The shed blood of your servants has soaked the city, with no one left to bury the dead.
Psalms 79:7 The Passion Translation (TPT)
See how they’ve attacked us, consuming the land, leaving it desolate.
Psalms 79:2-3 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.