Isaiah 56:9

All ye animals of the wild, come to devour, 1 yes, all ye animals in the ya'ar (forest). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

In Context

8Thus says Adonoi Hashem, 1 Who gathereth the Nidchei Yisroel (the outcasts of Israel, i.e., those being divinely gathered back from the Golus): 1 Yet will I gather others, 1 besides those that are already gathered. + 56:8 See Yn 10:16 1

10His tzof (watchmen, sentinels, nevi'im) are ivrim (blind); 1 they all lack da'as, 1 they are all kelavim illemim (mute watchdogs) that cannot bark; 1 lying around dreaming, they love to slumber. + 56:10 See Jer 6:17; Ezek 3:17 by contrast 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 18:6They shall be left together 1 unto the birds of prey of the harim, 1 and to the behemat ha'aretz; 1 and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, 1 and all the behemat ha'aretz shall winter upon them. 1

Ezekiel 29:5And I will throw thee out into the midbar, 1 thee and all the dag (fish) of thy river channels; 1 thou shalt fall upon the open sadeh; 1 thou shalt not be picked up together, nor gathered; 1 I have given thee for food 1 to the beasts of ha'aretz 1 and to the oph HaShomayim.

Revelation 19:17And I saw one malach (angel) having taken his stand in the shemesh (sun) and he cried out in a kol gadol (loud voice), saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven, “Bo! Gather to the Seudah Hagedolah of Hashem; + 19:17 Jer 12:9; 46:10; Ezek 39:17; Isa 34:6

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 56:4-9

Encouragement to the Sincere; Encouragement to the Gentiles. ( b. c. 706.) 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord , speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of… Read the whole commentary →

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