“Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.”
The concern is that God's enemies will insult God: "Why should the nations say, 'Where is their God?'" The fear is that the nations witnessing Israel's destruction will conclude that Israel's God is powerless or nonexistent. The question becomes a challenge to God: your reputation is at stake; your people's fate reflects on your character.
Church Fathers on Psalms 79:10
1. Over the title of this Psalm, being so short and so simple, I think we need not tarry. But the prophecy which here we read sent before, we know to be evidently fulfilled. For when these things were being sung in the times of King David, nothing of such sort, by the hostility of the Gentiles, as yet had befallen the city Jerusalem, nor the Temple of God, which as yet was not even built. For that after the death of David his son Salomon made a temple to God, who is ignorant?…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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