The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 79:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to Be meat unto the fowls of the heaven. A common incident of warfare (see the Assyrian sculptures, passim). The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth; or, of the land.

Hyaenas and jackals would dispute the flesh of the slain with vultures and crows.

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