Psalm 79:1 Part 3 of 3

O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.  

they have defiled your holy temple 
Leviticus 20:3  " 'I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.' " 
Psalm 74:7  They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
Jeremiah 7:30  " 'The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.' "
Ezekiel 5:11  "Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you."

they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble 
2 Kings 25:8-9  On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
Isaiah 63:18  For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
Isaiah 64:11  Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
Nehemiah 4:1-2  When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, "What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble--burned as they are?"
Jeremiah 26:18  "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, 'This is what the Almighty says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.' " ( Micah 3:12)
Isaiah 6:11  Then I said, "For how long, Lord?" And he answered: "Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, ..."

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