Psalms 79:2

World English Bible (2000)

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 7:33 : 33 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.
  • Jer 16:4 : 4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
  • Jer 34:20 : 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.
  • Deut 28:26 : 26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
  • Jer 19:7 : 7 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
  • Jer 15:3 : 3 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 34:20
    82%

    20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.

  • Deut 28:26
    80%

    26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

  • Jer 7:33
    80%

    33 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.

  • Ps 79:1
    80%

    1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • Ps 79:3
    79%

    3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

  • Jer 19:7
    76%

    7 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

  • Jer 16:4
    75%

    4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

  • Ezek 39:4
    73%

    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 the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.

  • Isa 18:6
    73%

    6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

  • Ezek 39:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

    18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  • Jer 8:2
    71%

    2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

  • Ps 79:10
    71%

    10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.

  • 1 Sam 17:44
    71%

    44 The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field."

  • Ps 63:10
    71%

    10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

  • Isa 34:3
    71%

    3 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.

  • Isa 26:14
    71%

    14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

  • Mic 3:3
    71%

    3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • Ezek 32:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

    5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

  • Ps 148:10
    70%

    10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

  • Jer 12:4
    70%

    4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • Rev 11:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

    9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

  • Ps 79:7
    70%

    7 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

  • Ps 74:7
    70%

    7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Isa 5:17
    70%

    17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

  • Ps 49:14
    70%

    14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

  • Isa 56:9
    69%

    9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

  • Ezek 44:31
    69%

    31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.

  • Ps 147:9
    69%

    9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 78:27
    69%

    27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

  • Jer 12:9
    69%

    9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

  • Ps 27:2
    69%

    2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  • Deut 32:24
    69%

    24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • Jer 15:3
    69%

    3 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

  • 1 Kgs 14:11
    69%

    11 He who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it."'

  • Lam 2:20
    69%

    20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Hos 4:3
    69%

    3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

  • 1 Kgs 21:24
    69%

    24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field."

  • Zech 11:4
    69%

    4 Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

  • Isa 65:4
    69%

    4 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

  • Ezek 34:19
    69%

    19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

  • Jer 25:33
    69%

    33 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.