But you are thrown out without a grave, like a worthless branch, covered by those slain with the sword and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
Isaiah 18:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They will all be left for the birds of prey on the hills and for the wild animals of the land. The birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, and all the wild animals the winter. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They [the dead bodies of the slain warriors] shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds will summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them. American Standard Version (1901) They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. Common English Bible They will all be left to the mountain birds and to the beasts of the land. The birds will eat them in summer, all the beasts of the land in winter. Catholic Public Domain Version And together they will be abandoned to the birds of the mountains and to the wild beasts of the earth. And the birds will be continuously on them in the summer, and all the wild beasts of the earth will winter over them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. |
But you are thrown out without a grave, like a worthless branch, covered by those slain with the sword and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
Look at the land of the Chaldeans – a people who no longer exist. Assyria destined it for desert creatures. They set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.
I call a bird of prey from the east, a man for my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.
‘I will ordain four kinds of judgement for them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land to devour and destroy.
They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface. They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.
The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.
All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs.