Psalms 79:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O God, the heathen are come As invaders and conquerors; into thine inheritance Into Canaan and Judea, which thou didst choose for thine inheritance. Thy holy temple have they defiled By entering into it, and touching and carrying away its holy vessels, and shedding blood in it, and burning of it; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps Made of the ruins of those goodly houses which they have burned and thrown down. Thus, in this verse, the psalmist enumerates three deplorable calamities which were come upon God's people: “the alienation of God's inheritance, the profanation of his sanctuary, and the desolation of the beloved city.”