Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

King James Version

And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

Holman Bible

The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.

International Standard Version

The dead bodies of these people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the land, and no one will disturb them.

A Conservative Version

And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth, and none shall frighten them away.

American Standard Version

And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

Amplified

And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth and no one will frighten them away.

Bible in Basic English

And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

Darby Translation

And the carcases of this people shall be food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall scare them away.

Julia Smith Translation

And the carcass of this people was for food to the birds of the heavens and for the cattle of the earth; and none terrifying.

King James 2000

And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the dead bodies of this people [will be] as food for the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth, without anyone to scare [them] away.

Modern King James verseion

And the bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea, the dead bodies of this people shall be eaten up of the fowls of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

NET Bible

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

New Heart English Bible

The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

The Emphasized Bible

And the dead bodies of this people shall become food, For the bird of the heavens, and For the beast of the earth, - And there shall be none to drive them away.

Webster

And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

World English Bible

The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נבלה 
N@belah 
Usage: 48

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

shall be meat
מאכל 
Ma'akal 
Usage: 30

for the fowls
עוף 
`owph 
Usage: 71

of the heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and for the beasts
בּהמה 
B@hemah 
Usage: 190

of the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Lament For Disobedient Judah

32 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere. 33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. 34 And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:26

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

Jeremiah 12:9

Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:20

And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 79:2-3

They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

"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.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak, "Thus declares the LORD: 'The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'"

Jeremiah 19:7

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

Jeremiah 22:19

With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem."

Jeremiah 25:33

"And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

Ezekiel 39:4

You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

Ezekiel 39:18-20

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 fat beasts of Bashan.

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come, gather for the great supper of God,

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