26 (A)Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

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26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(A) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(B)

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44 And the Philistine (A)said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

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44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds(A) and the wild animals!(B)

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46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give (A)the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, (B)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

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46 This day the Lord will deliver(A) you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses(B) of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world(C) will know that there is a God in Israel.(D)

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11 The dogs shall eat (A)whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the Lord has spoken!” ’

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11 Dogs(A) will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds(B) will feed on those who die in the country. The Lord has spoken!’

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The dogs shall eat (A)whoever belongs to Baasha and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the fields.”

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Dogs(A) will eat those belonging to Baasha who die in the city, and birds(B) will feed on those who die in the country.”

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(A)The dead bodies of Your servants
They have given as food for the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

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They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,(A)
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.(B)

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33 The (A)corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.

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33 Then the carcasses(A) of this people will become food(B) for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(C)

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“They shall die (A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be (B)lamented nor shall they be (C)buried, but they shall be (D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their (E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”

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“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried(A) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(B) They will perish by sword and famine,(C) and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”(D)

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And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, (A)and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their (B)corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

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“‘In this place I will ruin[a] the plans(A) of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies,(B) at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses(C) as food(D) to the birds and the wild animals.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:7 The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).