“Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;”
The people request deliverance of prisoners: "Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power preserve those doomed to die." The reference to prisoners suggests that some survivors have been taken captive; the supplicants ask that their cries reach God's ears. The phrase "doomed to die" suggests that the prisoners face execution, making the prayer's urgency acute.
Church Fathers on Psalms 79:11
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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