Psalms Chapter 79 verse 7 Holy Bible
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
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For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
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For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
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For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
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For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.
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For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
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For `one' hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. This and the preceding verso occur also, almost word for word, in Jeremiah 10:25. It is difficult to say which writer has quoted from the other.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Dwelling place.--Literally, pasture, as in Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 1:19. The figure is a favourite one in the Asaphic group of psalms.Former iniquities.--Better, iniquities of former ones, i.e., of ancestors. (Comp. Leviticus 26:45, "covenant of their ancestors," and for the thought Exodus 20:5; Leviticus 26:39.) . . .