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 25:33
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33 (A)“And those pierced by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. (B)They shall not be lamented, (C)or gathered, or buried; (D)they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
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Psalm 83:10
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Jeremiah 9:22
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22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
(A)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
(B)like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”
Zephaniah 1:17
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17 (A)I will bring distress on mankind,
so that they shall walk (B)like the blind,
because they have sinned against the Lord;
(C)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
and their flesh (D)like dung.
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 22:18-19
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18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
(A)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
(B)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
(C)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (D)he shall be buried,
dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 15:2-3
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2 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
(A)“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
3 (B)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and (C)the birds of the air (D)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
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Revelation 19:17-18
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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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- Revelation 19:18 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
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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Isaiah 18:6
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6 (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.
Psalm 79:2-3
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2 They have given (A)the bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your (B)faithful to (C)the beasts of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was (D)no one to bury them.
Amos 6:9-10
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9 And (A)if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And when one's relative, (B)the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, (C)“Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
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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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Ezekiel 5:12
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12 (A)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; (B)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; (C)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
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Jeremiah 44:27
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27 (A)Behold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. (B)All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.
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Jeremiah 36:30
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30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: (A)He shall have none (B)to sit on the throne of David, (C)and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
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Jeremiah 34:17
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17 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me (A)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; (B)behold, I proclaim to you liberty (C)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. (D)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Jeremiah 16:5-7
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5 “For thus says the Lord: (A)Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord. 6 Both great and small shall die in this land. (B)They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or (C)cut himself (D)or make himself bald for them. 7 No one shall (E)break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.
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Jeremiah 14:15-16
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15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although (A)I did not send them, and who say, (B)‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: (C)By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, (D)with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.
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Jeremiah 8:1-3
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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. 2 And they shall be spread (A)before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. (B)And they shall not be gathered or buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. 3 (D)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family (E)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.
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Isaiah 5:25
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25 Therefore (A)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and (B)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were (C)as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Psalm 78:64
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2 Kings 9:36-37
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36 When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: (A)‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be (B)as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”
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2 Kings 9:10
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10 (A)And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.
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