Psalms 79:2

"They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth."

Key Reflection

This verse vividly portrays a dire consequence where God's people are slaughtered and left as prey for beasts, symbolizing a profound loss and suffering. It highlights the devastating impact of enemies' cruelty and underscores the depth of divine wrath when the covenant community fails to live up to its obligations.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The dead bodies of thy servants ... -They have slain them, and left them unburied. See2 Chronicles 36:17. This is a description of widespread carnage and slaughter, such as we know occurred at the time when Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans. At such a time, it is not probable that the Chaldeans would pause to bury the slain, nor is it probable that they would give opportunity to the captive Hebrews to remain to bury them. That would occur, therefore, which often occurs in war, that the slain would be left on the field to be devoured by wild animals and by the fowls of heaven.

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