Matthew Poole and continuators on 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 .

Of thy poor people now in prison, or at least, in captivity.

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.

Marginal references: Psal. 102. 20.; Heb. thine arm.; Heb. reserve the children of death.