The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 79:10

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

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? (so Joel 2:17). A triumph over a foreign nation was always regarded in the ancient world as a triumph over their gods. Their gods were bound to protect them, and, if they did not, must either have been absent or powerless.

Let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed; rather, let there be shown forth among the heathen in our sight vengeance for the blood of thy servants that has been shed; or, in other words, "Let an evident judgment, visible to us, fall upon the heathen who have shed the blood of our brethren, thy true servants."

An immediate judgment is prayed for; but it did not please God to send the judgment till after the expiration of a long term of years.

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