⁴ “They shall die ^(A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be ^(B)lamented nor shall they be ^(C)buried, but they shall be ^(D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their ^(E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”

^33 (A)And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be ^(B)lamented, ^(C)or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

²² Speak, “Thus says the Lord:

²⁰ I will ^(A)give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their ^(B)dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

² And it shall be, if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

³ “And I will ^(C)appoint over them four forms of destruction,” says the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, ^(D)the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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.”