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Psalm 74:7–8

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7They set your sanctuary on fire;

they utterlyC desecrated

the dwelling place of your name.e

8They said in their hearts,

“Let’s oppress them relentlessly.”

They burned every place throughout the land

where God met with us.Df

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Footnotes

  1. C they to the ground
  2. D every meeting place of God in the land

Cross references

  1. e2Kg 25:9; Ps 79:1
  2. fPs 83:4; Jos 18:1; 1Sm 3:21; 7:16; 2Ch 17:9

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They set your sanctuary on fire;

they profaned the dwelling place of your name,

bringing it down to the ground.

They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;

they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They burned your sanctuary to the ground;

they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!”

They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.

NLTNew Living Translation

They burned your sanctuary to the ground.

They defiled the place that bears your name.

Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!”

So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They have set fire to your sanctuary.

They have defiled to the ground,

the dwelling place for your name.

They have said in their heart,

“We will completely oppress them.”

They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

KJV 1900King James Version

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,

They have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:

They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.