Psalm 79:2

New American Bible - revised edition

They have left the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of those devoted to you for the beasts of the earth.

Cross References

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 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 7:33

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.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will hem the people in till they walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; And their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their bowels like dung.

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.