Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
Parallel translations
- WEB Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
- KJV Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
- NKJV Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations. The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
- NASB Step toward the irreparable ruins; The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
- NLT Walk through the awful ruins of the city; see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary.
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Quick answer
He asks God to come to the perpetual ruins and see all the destruction the enemy has wrought in the sanctuary.
Overview
Asaph urges God to behold the desolation of his holy place. The plea assumes that God cares about his dwelling and the worship of his people. The ruin of the earthly sanctuary points ahead to the day when God dwells with his people perfectly, a hope secured by Christ, in whom God's true temple is restored (John 2:19-21).
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Cross-references · 25
- Lam 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Ps 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- Dan 9:17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
- Mark 11:17Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- 2 Sam 22:39–43I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
- Mic 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
- Isa 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Neh 2:13So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
- Dan 9:27And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
- Isa 61:4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
- Ps 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- Jer 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- Neh 2:3and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
- Dan 8:11–14It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
- Isa 63:3–6“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- Ps 44:26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
- Dan 11:31His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
- Josh 10:24When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.
- Rev 11:2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
- Ps 102:13–14You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
- Neh 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Mic 1:3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
- Isa 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
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