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Psalms 79:2 — King James Version← Study notes

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.


Psalms 79:2Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 79:211 words
HebrewMeaning
נָֽתְנ֡וּnātənw
they have givenverbH5414
apply · appoint · ascribe · assign ···
אֶתʾet
(as such unrepresented in English)particleH853
נִבְלַ֬תnibəlat
the corpses ofnounH5038
carcase · dead of itself · which died · that dieth of itself
עֲבָדֶ֗י/ךָʿăbādeykā
servants yournounH5650
bondage · servant · servant
מַ֭אֲכָלmaʾăkāl
foodnounH3978
fruit · meat · victual
לְ/ע֣וֹףləʿwōp
to the birds ofpronH5775
that flieth · flying · fowl
הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִםhašāmāyim
the heavensparticleH8064
astrologer · heaven
בְּשַׂ֥רbəśar
the fleshnounH1320
(fat · lean) flesh · kin · kind ···
חֲ֝סִידֶ֗י/ךָḥăsiydeykā
faithful people youradjH2623
good · holy · merciful · saint ···
לְ/חַיְת/וֹləḥayətwō
to the animals ofpronH2416
age · appetite · beast · company ···
אָֽרֶץʾāreṣ
the earthnounH776
common · earth · field · ground ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 79:2

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?…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 79 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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