Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 79:7

"For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation." — Psalms 79:7 (ASV)

Dwelling place. —Literally, pasture, as in Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 1:19. The figure is a favourite one in the Asaphic group of psalms.

Former iniquities. —Better, iniquities of former ones, i.e., of ancestors. (Compare to Leviticus 26:45, covenant of their ancestors, and for the thought Exodus 20:5; Leviticus 26:39.)

Prevent. —Better, come to meet. Daniel 9:16 seems to combine the language of this verse and Psalms 79:4.