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Psalms 79:3

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

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שָׁפְכ֬וּshafekhvcastשָׁפַךְverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “cast”, a completed actionH8210to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl outcast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.דָמָ֨םdamamblood , innocentדָּםnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “blood , innocent”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.כַּמַּ֗יִםkamayimas waterמַיִםpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “as water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).סְֽבִ֘יב֤וֹתsevivotaboutסָבִיבnoun, common, both genders, plural, construct — “about”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5439(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around(place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗םyerushalimJerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםnoun, proper name — “Jerusalem”H3389Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineJerusalem.וְאֵ֣יןveeynand elseאַיִןconjunction, particle, negative — “and else”H369a non-entity; generally used as a negative particleelse, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare H370 (אַיִן).קוֹבֵֽרqoverburyקָבַרverb, qal, participle, absolute — “bury”, a verb used as a describing wordH6912to inter[idiom] in any wise, bury(-ier).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

Young’s Literal Translation

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

World English Bible

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Darby Translation

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].

Douay-Rheims

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν ὡς ὕδωρ, κύκλῳ Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ θάπτων.