Psalm 79:2 (WEB)
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
““They have made the dead bodies of Thy servants morsels for the fowls of heaven, the fleshes of Thy saints for the beasts of the earth” (ver. 2).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth: they have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them:” but more to heighten the cruelty of them who did these things, not to the infelicity of them who suffered them.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxix. 2, 3
Read the whole comment“Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxix. 2, 3.
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Jerome
“Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxix. 1–3.
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Aphrahat
“For in his days was fulfilled the word that David spoke:—O God, the Gentiles have come into thine inheritance, and have defiled Thy holy temple.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxix. 1–3.
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Cross-references · 14
Parallel passages
Psalm 79:2 and Jeremiah 7:33 share the same wording (14 words).
Psalm 79:2 and Jeremiah 16:4 share the same wording (10 words).
Psalm 79:2 and Jeremiah 19:7 share the same wording (11 words).
Psalm 79:2 and Jeremiah 34:20 share the same wording (10 words).
Cited together with
Cited together in The City of God I.12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God I.12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in The City of God I.12.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
