Psalms 79:2
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. 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.
Psalm 79 belongs to a group of post-Davidic psalms associated with the Babylonian captivity, applying to the time when Jerusalem had been brought low and its people scattered. It expresses the sorrow and desolation of the captives together with their longing and prayers for deliverance.
The verse depicts the devastation and humiliation of God's servants and saints in the calamity over Jerusalem, slain and left unburied with their bodies exposed as food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth. The phrase for dead bodies denotes dead persons, described in Hebrew as dead souls, where soul means the whole person and not an immaterial part that remains alive after death.