Study it in the app“A psalm of Asaph. Elohim, nations have come into your inheritance; they have made unclean your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps of ruins.”
A psalmמִזְמוֹרof Asaph.לְאָסָףElohim,אֱלֹהִיםnationsגוֹיִםhave comeבָּאוּinto your inheritance;בְּנַחֲלָתֶךָthey have made uncleanטִמְּאוּyour holy temple;אֶת הֵיכַל קָדְשֶׁךָthey have madeשָׂמוּJerusalemאֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַםinto heaps of ruins.לְעִיִּים
psalm
Psalm: a song sung with instruments. It is the title of many of the poems in the book of Psalms.
Where else “mizmor” appearsAsaph
Asaph: a name meaning "gatherer," borne by the father of Joah, Hezekiah's recorder (2 Kings 18:18); the Levite who led the singers in David's time, to whom several psalms are attributed (1 Chronicles 16:5; Psalms 50; 73-83); and a keeper of the Persian king's forest (Nehemiah 2:8).
Where else “asaf” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “bau” appearsinheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachalate” appearsdefile
To make someone or something unclean.
Where else “timu” appearstemple
Literally "palace": YHWH's great house.
Where else “hechal” appearsholy thing
Something set apart for God: a day, an offering.
Where else “kadshe” appearsmake
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “samu” appearsJerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yerushalaim” appearsheap of ruins
A heap of ruins, the rubble of what was torn down.
Where else “iyim” appearsJerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
1 · This verse (above)
2They have given the corpses of your servants as food to the birds of the sky, the flesh of your faithful ones to the animals of the earth.
