26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.(A)

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26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(A) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(B)

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They gave the corpses of your servants
to the birds of the sky for food,
the flesh of your faithful ones
to the beasts of the earth.(A)

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They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,(A)
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.(B)

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They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface.(A) They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.(B)

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“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried(A) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(B) They will perish by sword and famine,(C) and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”(D)

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I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who intend to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.(A)

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“‘In this place I will ruin[a] the plans(A) of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies,(B) at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses(C) as food(D) to the birds and the wild animals.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:7 The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).

20 all these I will hand over to their enemies, to those who intend to take their life. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.(A)

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20 I will deliver(A) into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them.(B) Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.(C)

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I will leave you in the desert,(A)
you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open ground
and will not be taken away
or gathered for burial.(B)
I have given you
to the wild creatures of the earth
and the birds of the sky as food.(C)

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I will leave you in the desert,
    you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open field
    and not be gathered(A) or picked up.
I will give you as food
    to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.(B)

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