Psalm 79:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 They have given the corpses of your servants
as food to the birds of the air,
the flesh of your saints
to the beasts of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and no one is left to bury them.[a]
4 We have become the scorn of our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.[b]
Footnotes
- Psalm 79:3 They have given . . . the flesh . . . to bury them: these verses are cited freely in 1 Mac 7:17 in application to the massacre of sixty pious Jews in Jerusalem during the Maccabean wars.
- Psalm 79:4 A secular hostility opposed Israel to its neighbors, as is shown by the oracles of the Prophets against the nations (see Lam 3:45; Zep 2:8).
Psalm 79:2-4
New International Version
2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the sky,(A)
the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.(B)
3 They have poured out blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury(C) the dead.(D)
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
of scorn(E) and derision to those around us.(F)
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