Psalm 79:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² They have given the dead bodies of Your servants As food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your kind ones to the wild beast 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

Psalm 79:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 15:3

“And I shall appoint over them four kinds,” declares יהוה, “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4

“They shall die of deaths from diseases, they shall not be lamented nor be buried, but be like dung on the face of the earth, and be consumed by sword and by scarcity of food. And their corpses shall be meat for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.”

Jeremiah 19:7

“And I shall pour out the counsel of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 34:20

‘And I shall give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their corpses shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 7:33

“And the corpses of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them away.

Zephaniah 1:17

“And I shall bring distress on men, and they shall walk like blind men – because they have sinned against יהוה, and their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.”

Deuteronomy 28:26

“And your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.