Psalms 79:1-3
psalm <04210> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. (Title.) A Psalm.]
This Psalm is supposed, with much probability, to have been written on the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.
Asaph <0623> [of Asaph. or, for Asaph.]
foreigners <01471> [the heathen.]
chosen land <05159> [into.]
holy <06944> [holy.]
turned <07760> [have laid.]
blood <01818> [Their.]
bury <06912> [and there, etc.]
Either there was no friend or relation left to bury them, or none was allowed to perform this last sad office. The despotism of eastern princes often proceeds to such a degree of extravagance as to fill the mind with astonishment and horror. In Morocco, no person dares to bury the body of a malefactor without an order from the emperor; and Windus, speaking of a man who was to have been sawn in two, informs us, that "his body must have remained to be eaten by the dogs, if the emperor had not pardoned him."
