26 (A)Your dead bodies will [a]serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:26 Lit be for

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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They have given the (A)dead bodies of Your servants to the birds of the sky as food,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the animals 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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Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me?
Are the (A)birds of prey against her on every side?
Go, gather all the (B)animals of the field,
Bring them to devour!

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Has not my inheritance become to me
    like a speckled bird of prey
    that other birds of prey surround and attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.(A)

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And I will (A)frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and (B)I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their (C)carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals 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).