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Psalm 79

Psa. 79:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they have devoured
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
, and laid waste
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
his dwelling place
naveh (Hebrew #5116)
from 5115; (adjectively) at home; hence (by implication of satisfaction) lovely; also (noun) a home, of God (temple), men (residence), flocks (pasture), or wild animals (den)
KJV usage: comely, dwelling (place), fold, habitation, pleasant place, sheepcote, stable, tarried.
Pronounce: naw-veh'
Origin: or (feminine) navah {naw-vaw'}
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For they.
laid.
2 Chron. 36:21• 21{i}to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbath,{/i} for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath to fulfil seventy years. (2 Chron. 36:21)
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Isa. 24:1‑12• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
3The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
4The earth mourneth, it fadeth away: the world languisheth, it fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish,
5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
8The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
10The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man entereth in.
11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin.
(Isa. 24:1‑12)
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Isa. 64:10‑11• 10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
(Isa. 64:10‑11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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For they have devoured Jacob{HR}And laid waste his habitation.