3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

Other Translations of Psalm 79:3

New International Version

3 They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

English Standard Version

3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

The Message

3 They dumped out their blood like buckets of water. All around Jerusalem, their bodies were left to rot, unburied.

New King James Version

3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them.

New Living Translation

3 Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 79:3

Commentary on Psalm 79:1-5

(Read Psalm 79:1-5)

God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.