Psalm 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Cross-references
Psalm 79:10 calls for vengeance on the blood poured out like water in v3, linking the lament to a plea for justice.
Revelation 17:6 portrays Babylon drunk on the blood of saints, directly reflecting the blood poured out in Psalm 79:3.
Revelation 16:6 declares that those who shed the blood of saints receive blood to drink, a divine response to the bloodshed in Psalm 79:3.
Jeremiah 8:2 explicitly says the dead 'shall not be gathered or buried' — identical to the psalm's 'no one to bury them'.
Jeremiah 14:16 repeats the same phrase 'none to bury them' — a direct parallel to the psalm's lament.
Revelation 11:9 describes the dead bodies of the witnesses left unburied — directly mirroring the psalm's 'no one to bury them'.
Jeremiah 16:4 states 'nor shall they be buried' and bodies as food — directly echoing the psalm's no burial.
Matthew 23:35 condemns the shedding of righteous blood from Abel to Zechariah, continuing the pattern of killing God's servants seen in Psalm 79:3.
Jeremiah 25:33 says the slain 'shall not be... buried' — same theme of unburied dead as the psalm.
2 Chronicles 36:17 describes the same event — the slaughter in Jerusalem with no compassion — paralleling the bloodshed.
Ezekiel 32:4 describes a corpse left on the field for birds and beasts — directly parallel to the unburied dead.
Jeremiah 19:7 also prophesies dead bodies given as food for birds and beasts — identical to the lack of burial.
Jeremiah 7:33 explicitly describes the same fate — dead bodies left unburied as food for birds and beasts.
Revelation 11:8 depicts dead bodies lying unburied in the streets of Jerusalem, mirroring the lament of no one to bury the slain.
Jeremiah 34:20 describes dead bodies as food for birds and beasts — a consequence of no burial, similar to the psalm.
Revelation 18:24 echoes this image of bloodshed — the blood of saints and prophets is found in Babylon, linking to the unburied blood in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 15:3 describes bodies devoured by animals — a related fate to the unburied dead in the psalm.
Genesis 50:5 describes a promised burial for Jacob — contrasting with the lack of burial here.