^18 (A)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, ^[a]free and slave, both small and great.”

¹⁶ He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, ^(A)to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,

¹⁵ And the ^(A)kings of the earth, the great men, ^[a]the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, ^(B)hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

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.

⁷ And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, ^(A)and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their ^(B)corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

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 The ^(A)corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.

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.