Psalm 74:7 {73:7}
Good News Translation
They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire; they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.

New Revised Standard Version
They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrated the dwelling place of your name, bringing it to the ground.

Contemporary English Version
They burned down your temple and badly disgraced it.

New American Bible
They set your sanctuary on fire, profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.

cast fire into thy sanctuary.

2 Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Isaiah 64:11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.

Matthew 22:7 But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

defiled

Psalm 89:39 Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

dwelling

Exodus 20:24 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

Deuteronomy 12:5 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

1 Kings 8:20 The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in the room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
6They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down. 7They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.8They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.…
Cross References
2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Psalm 79:1
A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

Psalm 89:39
Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

Psalm 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange gods.

Lamentations 2:2
Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.

Psalm 74:6
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