Isaiah 56:9

New International Reader's Version

Come, all you enemy nations! Come like wild animals. Come and destroy like animals in the forest.

Cross References

Psalm 104:20

You, Lord, bring darkness, and it becomes night. Then all the animals of the forest prowl around.

Isaiah 18:6

Their dead bodies will be left for the birds of the mountains to eat. They will be left for the wild animals. The birds will eat the dead bodies all summer long. The wild animals will eat them all through the winter.

Isaiah 46:11

I will send for a man from the east to carry out my plan. From a land far away, he will come like a bird that kills its food. I will bring about what I have said. I will do what I have planned.

Jeremiah 12:9

My own land has become like a spotted hawk. And other hawks surround it and attack it. Come, all you wild animals! Gather together! Come together to eat up my land.

Jeremiah 23:1

“How terrible it will be for the shepherds who lead my people astray!” announces the Lord. “They are destroying and scattering the sheep that belong to my flock.”

Ezekiel 29:5

I will leave you out in the desert. All the fish in your streams will be there with you. You will fall down in an open field. You will not be picked up. I will feed you to the wild animals and to the birds in the sky.

Ezekiel 39:17

The Lord and King said to me, “Son of man, speak to every kind of bird. Call out to all the wild animals. Tell them, ‘Gather together. Come from everywhere. Gather around the sacrifice I am preparing for you. It is the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat human bodies and drink human blood.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Birds and wild animals will eat up your dead bodies. There won’t be anyone left to scare them away.