Holy Scripture

Psalms 78:1

A church father on this verse
“Divine Scripture commands that, when we have been invited to a rich man's banquet, we should with understanding put forth our hand to the dishes. And so for us too the banquet of Scriptures has been set out as a rich man's feast. We have come into a meadow; it has very many flowers: here the rose is red, there the lil…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 11, on Psalm 77

Source: Septuagint

Original

1A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; They have polluted thy holy temple; They have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

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— Psalms 78:1 —

2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants To be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

3They have shed their blood as water, Round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

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