What other scriptures discuss nations devouring God's people, similar to Psalm 79:7? Psalm 79:7—The Starting Point “For they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.” Echoes in Jeremiah • Jeremiah 10:25 – “Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You... For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him; they have laid waste his homeland.” • Jeremiah 30:16 – “Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered, and all who exploit you I will give up to pillage.” • Jeremiah 50:17 – “Israel is a scattered flock driven away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.” Echoes in Isaiah • Isaiah 1:7 – “Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Right before you, foreigners devour your fields; a desolation, overthrown by strangers.” • Isaiah 49:19 – “Surely your ruins, desolate places, and devastated land will now be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.” Echoes in Lamentations • Lamentations 2:16 – “All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, ‘We have swallowed her up! This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it!’” Echoes in Ezekiel • Ezekiel 36:3 – “Because you have been ravaged and crushed on every side, becoming the possession of the rest of the nations and an object of gossip and slander...” Summary Snapshot • Scripture repeatedly pictures hostile nations “devouring,” “swallowing,” or “ravaging” Israel. • The same passages often promise that God will reverse the injustice—those who devour will themselves be devoured (Jeremiah 30:16). • The motif underscores both the severity of Israel’s suffering and the certainty of God’s righteous intervention. |
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