Psalm 79:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The dead bodies of Your servants they have given as food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

² The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Common English Bible

² They’ve left your servants’ bodies as food for the birds; they’ve left the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The One who reigns over Israel: Be attentive. For you lead Joseph like a sheep. The One who sits upon the cherubim: Shine forth

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

Psalm 79:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall become like dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall become food for the birds of the air and for the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:7

And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem and will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:20

shall be handed over to their enemies and to those who seek their lives. Their corpses shall become food for the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the animals of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring such distress upon people that they shall walk like the blind; because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your corpses shall be food for every bird of the air and animal of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.