Psalm 79:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.

Jeremiah 16:4

Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:7

I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:20

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 7:33

And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.