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 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 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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“‘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 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,
    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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