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.

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17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to (A)all the birds that fly directly overhead, (B)“Come, gather for (C)the great supper of God, 18 (D)to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,[a] both small and great.”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 19:18 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

The Day of the Lord Is Near

(A)Be silent before the Lord God!
    For (B)the day of the Lord is near;
(C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice
    and (D)consecrated his guests.

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(A)You shall fall on (B)the mountains of Israel, you and all your (C)hordes and the peoples who are with you. (D)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

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Is (A)my heritage to me like (B)a hyena's lair?
    Are the (C)birds of prey against her all around?
Go, (D)assemble all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.

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The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(A)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Israel's Irresponsible Leaders

(A)All you beasts of the field, come to devour—
    all you beasts in the forest.

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10 (A)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (B)a day of vengeance,
    (C)to avenge himself on his foes.
(D)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (E)a sacrifice
    (F)in the north country (G)by the river Euphrates.

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(A)They shall all of them be left
    to the birds of prey of the mountains
    and to the beasts of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
    and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

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46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. (A)And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day (B)to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, (C)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

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And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. (A)And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.”

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13 As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”

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54 and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called (A)his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.

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