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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26 And (A)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and (B)there shall be no one to frighten them away.

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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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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

18 (A)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 (B)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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(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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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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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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19 With the burial of a donkey (A)he shall be buried,
    dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

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And in this place (A)I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, (B)and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. (C)I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

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(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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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.’”

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“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. 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.

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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.
They have poured out their blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there was (D)no one to bury them.

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