Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
KJV
coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse. Excita potentiam tuam, et veni, ut salvos facias nos.
Vulgate
ἐναντίον Ἐφράιμ καὶ Βενιαμεὶν καὶ Μανασσή, ἐξέγειρον τὴν δυναστείαν σου καὶ ἐλθὲ εἰς τὸ σῶσαι ἡμᾶς.
LXX
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
ASV
שָׁפְכ֬וּ דָמָ֨/ם כַּ/מַּ֗יִם סְֽבִ֘יב֤וֹת יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗ם וְ/אֵ֣ין קוֹבֵֽר
Hebrew
Open in reader with connections →
In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
הוּ
hv
verb · 131×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
yrvshlm
proper_noun · 634×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
סָבִֽיב
sbyb
noun · 334×
שְׁפָךְ
shpk
verb · 115×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 12.—Of the Burial of the Dead: that the Denial of It to Christians Does Them No Injury.6161 Augustin expresses himself more fully on this subject in his tract, De cura pro mortuis gerenda. Further still, we are reminded that in such a carnage as then occurred, the bodies could not even be buried. But godly confidence is not appalled by so ill-omened a circumstance; for …
Cross-references
- 2Sam 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi
- Jer 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 th
- Jer 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famin
- Jer 25:33 — And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the gro
- Rev 11:9 — And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.