Psalms 79:2 meaning and explanation
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79:2, Berean Standard Bible
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The psalmist, a temple singer named Asaph, speaks for a devastated Jerusalem after an invading army has sacked the city and defiled the temple. Here he describes the aftermath: the bodies of God's own servants lie unburied, left for vultures and wild animals.
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