Of the prisoner; of thy poor people now in prison, or, at least, in captivity. Those that are appointed to die, Heb. the children of death, i.e. which were either designed to death, or in manifest danger of it, as being wholly in the power of their cruel and barbarous enemies.
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Psalms 79:11
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;