“So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.”
The psalm concludes with a vow: "Then we your people, the flock of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise." The supplicants commit to perpetual thanksgiving and proclamation of God's praise if God responds to their prayer. The image of people as a flock emphasizes their dependence on God's shepherding care; their purpose is to give glory to God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 79:13
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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