Psalm 79:7 {78:7}
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Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.

for they

Psalm 80:13 The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

Isaiah 9:12 The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 50:7 All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers.

Jeremiah 51:34,35 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out. . . .

Zechariah 1:15 And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.

laid

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Isaiah 24:1-12 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. . . .

Isaiah 64:10,11 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. . . .

Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.8Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:19
And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious they destroyed.

Psalm 53:4
Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house, and the houses of the people with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem.

Lexicon
for
כִּ֭י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

they have devoured
אָכַ֣ל (’ā·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

Jacob
יַעֲקֹ֑ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

and laid waste
הֵשַֽׁמּוּ׃ (hê·šam·mū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy

to his homeland.
נָוֵ֥הוּ (nā·wê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5116: Abode of shepherd or flocks, habitation


Additional Translations
for they have devoured Jacob and laid waste to his homeland.For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.

For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

For one hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
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