A moment in scripture
Psalms 79:2
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 79:1
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
- Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
- Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.