Deuteronomy 28:26
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26 And (A)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and (B)there shall be no one to frighten them away.
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Jeremiah 34:20
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20 And I will give them into the hand of their enemies (A)and into the hand of those who seek their lives. (B)Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 16:4
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4 (A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 7:33
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33 (A)And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, (B)and none will frighten them away.
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Jeremiah 19:7
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7 And in this place (A)I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, (B)and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. (C)I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.
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Ezekiel 39:17-20
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17 “As for you, (A)son of man, thus says the Lord God: (B)Speak to (C)the birds of every sort and to (D)all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to (E)the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 18 (F)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them (G)fat beasts of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.
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Jeremiah 8:1
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8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.
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Isaiah 34:3
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3 Their slain shall be cast out,
and (A)the stench of their corpses shall rise;
(B)the mountains shall flow with their blood.
Psalm 79:1-3
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How Long, O Lord?
A Psalm of (A)Asaph.
79 O God, (B)the nations have come into your (C)inheritance;
they have defiled your (D)holy temple;
they have (E)laid Jerusalem in ruins.
2 They have given (F)the bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your (G)faithful to (H)the beasts of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was (I)no one to bury them.
1 Samuel 17:44-46
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44 The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh (A)to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.” 45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with (B)a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, (C)whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. (D)And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day (E)to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, (F)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
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