Then He said to them, “Defile the [a]temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.

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  1. Ezekiel 9:7 Lit. house

Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain.(A) Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

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20 ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,
He set it in majesty;
(A)But they made from it
The images of their abominations—
Their detestable things;
Therefore I have made it
Like refuse to them.
21 I will give it as (B)plunder
Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
And they shall defile it.
22 I will turn My face from them,
And they will defile My secret place;
For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

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20 They took pride in their beautiful jewelry
    and used it to make(A) their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;(B)
    therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.(C)
21 I will give their wealth as plunder(D) to foreigners
    and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
    who will defile it.(E)
22 I will turn my face(F) away from the people,
    and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
    and will defile it.(G)

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17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who (B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

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17 He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[a](A) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men(B) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.(C) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.(D)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 36:17 Or Chaldeans

Repent or Perish

13 There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had [a]mingled with their sacrifices.

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  1. Luke 13:1 mixed

Repent or Perish

13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate(A) had mixed with their sacrifices.

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(A)Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain (B)all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.

(C)The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
(D)He has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.

He has done violence (E)to His [a]tabernacle,
(F)As if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has (G)spurned the king and the priest.

The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has (H)abandoned His sanctuary;
He has [b]given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
(I)They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.

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  1. Lamentations 2:6 Lit. booth
  2. Lamentations 2:7 delivered

Like an enemy he has strung his bow;(A)
    his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
    all who were pleasing to the eye;(B)
he has poured out his wrath(C) like fire(D)
    on the tent(E) of Daughter Zion.

The Lord is like an enemy;(F)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.(G)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation(H)
    for Daughter Judah.(I)

He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed(J) his place of meeting.(K)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;(L)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.(M)

The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.(N)
He has given the walls of her palaces(O)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.(P)

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A Dirge and a Prayer for Israel, Destroyed by Enemies

A Psalm of Asaph.

79 O God, the [a]nations have come into (A)Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they have defiled;
(B)They have laid Jerusalem [b]in heaps.
(C)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.

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  1. Psalm 79:1 Gentiles
  2. Psalm 79:1 in ruins

Psalm 79

A psalm of Asaph.

O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;(A)
    they have defiled(B) your holy temple,
    they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.(C)
They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,(D)
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.(E)
They have poured out blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there is no one to bury(F) the dead.(G)

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