Psalms 79:3 - Exposition

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem. During the long siege (eighteen months) the number slain in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem would be very large. And there was none to bury them (compare the prophecy of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 14:16 ). The population being for the most part carried into captivity, and but few left in the land ( Jeremiah 52:15 , Jeremiah 52:16 ), the bodies of the slain lay unburied, the few left not being able to bury them. Compare the preceding verse.