“Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.”
The suffering extends to the living: "They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them." The profusion of blood spilled suggests not merely individual deaths but wholesale slaughter; the absence of anyone to perform burial rites indicates the totality of the catastrophe. The entire community structure has collapsed; survivors lack the capacity or safety to fulfill basic covenantal duties.
Church Fathers on Psalms 79:3
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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