Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 79:2

"The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth." — Psalms 79:2 (ASV)

In addition to references in Margin, see Deuteronomy 28:26.

Saints. —Hebrew, chasîdîm. (See Note, Psalms 16:10.) Here with definite allusion to the Hasideans of 1 Maccabees 7.