Psalms 79:1-5
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."
object of disdain <02781> [become.]
taunt <03933> [scorn.]
Lord <03068> [How long.]
angry <0599> [wilt.]
rage <07068> [jealousy.]
