Jeremiah 12:9

New Living Translation

My chosen people act like speckled vultures, but they themselves are surrounded by vultures. Bring on the wild animals to pick their corpses clean!

Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

Then the Lord sent bands of Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Judah to destroy it, just as the Lord had promised through his prophets.

Isaiah 2:11

Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has a day of reckoning. He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted.

Isaiah 56:9

Come, wild animals of the field! Come, wild animals of the forest! Come and devour my people!

Jeremiah 15:3

“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left.

Jeremiah 2:15

Strong lions have roared against him, and the land has been destroyed. The towns are now in ruins, and no one lives in them anymore.

Jeremiah 34:20

I will give you to your enemies, and they will kill you. Your bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.

Jeremiah 7:33

The bodies of my people will be food for the vultures and wild animals, and no one will be left to scare them away.

Lamentations 1:17

Jerusalem reaches out for help, but no one comforts her. Regarding his people Israel, the Lord has said, “Let their neighbors be their enemies! Let them be thrown away like a filthy rag!”

Ezekiel 34:5

So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd, and they are easy prey for any wild animal.

Revelation 17:16

The scarlet beast and his ten horns all hate the prostitute. They will strip her naked, eat her flesh, and burn her remains with fire.