Jeremiah 7:33

New American Bible - revised edition

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.

Cross References

Isaiah 18:6

They shall all be left to the mountain vultures and to the beasts of the earth; The vultures shall summer on them, all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.

Jeremiah 12:9

My heritage is a prey for hyenas, is surrounded by vultures; Come, gather together, all you wild animals, come and eat!

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Jeremiah 15:3

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:7

In this place I will foil the plan of Judah and Jerusalem; I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hand of those who seek their lives. Their corpses I will give as food to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 22:19

The burial of a donkey he shall be given, dragged forth and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 25:33

On that day, those whom the Lord has slain will be strewn from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, they will not be gathered, they will not be buried; they shall lie like dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 34:20

These I will hand over to their enemies, to those who seek their lives: their corpses shall become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.

Jeremiah 9:21

Corpses shall fall like dung in the open field, Like sheaves behind the harvester, with no one to gather them.

Jeremiah 9:22

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the strong boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast of his riches;

Ezekiel 29:5

I will hurl you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your Nile. You will fall into an open field, you will not be picked up or gathered together. To the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky I give you as food.

Ezekiel 39:4

Upon the mountains of Israel you shall fall, you and all your troops and the peoples with you. I will give you as food to birds of prey of every kind and to wild beasts to be eaten.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.

Deuteronomy 8:20

Like the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not listening to the voice of the Lord, your God.