Poetry & Wisdom
What should a child notice in Psalms 79?
Psalms 79 opens with these words: “God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.” The line to keep is Psalms 79:1: “God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.” Carry the word “nations” from that verse into the rest of the day. A sentence to keep is Psalms 79:1: “God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.” What happens first in Psalms 79?
Psalms 79:1
“God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.”
Psalms 79:3
“Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.”
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Practice Psalms 79:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God,thenationshavecomeintoyourTheyhavedefiledyourtemple.TheyhavelaidJerusalemin