Psalms 79:2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the skies, 1 the bodies of your faithful people to the beasts of the earth. 1
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3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem, 1 and there was none to bury them. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:26Your dead body will be food to all the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to frighten them away.
Jeremiah 15:3For I will assign them to four groups—this is Yahweh's declaration—the sword to slaughter some, the dogs to drag some away, the birds of the skies and the beast of the earth to consume and destroy some.
Jeremiah 19:7In this place I will make the plans of Judah and Jerusalem useless. I will make them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of the ones seeking their lives. Then I will give their corpses as food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth.
Zephaniah 1:17For I will bring distress upon mankind, so that they will walk about like blind men 1 since they have sinned against Yahweh. 1 Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their inner parts like dung. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:2-6
Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be… Read the whole commentary →