A Triumphant Festival

17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, (A)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:

(B)“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My (C)sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal (D)on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.

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The Beast and His Armies Defeated

17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, (A)“Come and gather together for the [a]supper of the great God, 18 (B)that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, [b]free and slave, both small and great.”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 19:17 NU, M great supper of God
  2. Revelation 19:18 NU, M both free

(A)Be silent in the presence of the Lord God;
(B)For the day of the Lord is at hand,
For (C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has [a]invited His guests.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:7 Lit. set apart, consecrated

(A)You shall [a]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; (B)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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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:4 Be slain

My [a]heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture;
The vultures all around are against her.
Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,
(A)Bring them to devour!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:9 inheritance

The (A)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made [a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For (B)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat

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 For this is (A)the day of the Lord God of hosts,
A day of vengeance,
That He may avenge Himself on His adversaries.
(B)The sword shall devour;
It shall be [a]satiated and made drunk with their blood;
For the Lord God of hosts (C)has a sacrifice
In the north country by the River Euphrates.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:10 Filled to the full

They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
And for the beasts of the earth;
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 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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Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.”

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13 As soon as you come into the city, you will surely find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now therefore, go up, for about this time you will find him.”

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54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

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