Psalm 74:3
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3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.(A)
Psalm 79:1
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Psalm 79
Plea for Mercy for Jerusalem
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.(A)
Revelation 11:2
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2 but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.(A)
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Luke 21:24
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24 they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.(A)
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Mark 11:17
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17 He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
But you have made it a den of robbers.”(A)
Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.(A)
Micah 1:3
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3 For the Lord is coming out of his place
and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.(A)
Daniel 11:31
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31 Forces sent by him shall occupy and profane the temple and fortress. They shall abolish the regular burnt offering and set up the desolating sacrilege.(A)
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Daniel 9:27
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27 He shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall make sacrifice and offering cease, and in their place[a] shall be a desolating sacrilege until the decreed end is poured out upon the desolator.”(A)
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- 9.27 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Daniel 9:17
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17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord,[a] let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.(A)
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- 9.17 Theodotion Vg Compare Syr: Heb for the Lord’s sake
Daniel 8:11-14
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11 Even against the prince of the host it acted arrogantly; it took the regular burnt offering away from him and overthrew the place of his sanctuary.(A) 12 Because of wickedness, the host was given over to it together with the regular burnt offering;[a] it cast truth to the ground and kept prospering in what it did. 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is this vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled?”[b](B) 14 And he answered him,[c] “For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”
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Lamentations 1:10
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10 Enemies have stretched out their hands
over all her precious things;
she has even seen the nations
invade her sanctuary,
those whom you forbade
to enter your congregation.(A)
Jeremiah 52:13
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13 He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.(A)
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Isaiah 64:10-11
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10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(A)
11 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(B)
Isaiah 63:3-6
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3 “I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their juice spattered on my garments,
and I stained all my robes.(A)
4 For the day of vengeance was in my mind,
and the year for my redeeming work had come.(B)
5 I looked, but there was no helper;
I was abandoned, and there was no one to sustain me,
so my own arm brought me victory,
and my wrath sustained me.(C)
6 I trampled down peoples in my anger;
I crushed them[a] in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”(D)
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- 63.6 Heb mss: MT I made them drunk
Isaiah 61:4
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4 They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.(A)
Isaiah 25:10
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10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain.
The Moabites shall be trodden down in their place
as straw is trodden down in the manure.(A)
Isaiah 10:6
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6 Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.(A)
Psalm 102:13-14
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13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to favor it;
the appointed time has come.(A)
14 For your servants hold its stones dear
and have pity on its dust.
Psalm 44:26
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26 Rise up, come to our help.
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.(A)
Psalm 44:23
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23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(A)
Nehemiah 2:13
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13 I went out by night by the Valley Gate past the Dragon’s Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.(A)
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Nehemiah 2:3
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3 I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”(A)
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Nehemiah 1:3
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3 They replied, “The remnant there in the province who escaped captivity are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”(A)
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2 Samuel 22:39-43
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39 I consumed them; I struck them down so that they did not rise;
they fell under my feet.(A)
40 For you girded me with strength for the battle;
you made my assailants sink under me.(B)
41 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
those who hated me, and I destroyed them.(C)
42 They looked, but there was no one to save them;
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.(D)
43 I beat them fine like the dust of the earth;
I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.(E)
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