Isaiah 56:9 “Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the…”

Isaiah 56:9

Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

World English Bible

All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.

American Standard Version

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

Geneva Bible 1599

All ye beastes of the fielde, come to deuoure, euen all ye beastes of the forest.

Darby Translation

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts in the forest.

Young's Literal Translation

Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

Bible in Basic English

All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

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Cross references

“All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.”

Jeremiah 12:9 Deuteronomy 28:26 Ezekiel 29:5 Ezekiel 39:17 Revelation 19:17 Revelation 19:18

Jeremiah 12:9 · BSB

Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

Deuteronomy 28:26 · BSB

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Ezekiel 29:5 · BSB

I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds o…

Ezekiel 39:17 · BSB

And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you…

Revelation 19:17 · BSB

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

Revelation 19:18 · BSB

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

Also

Isaiah 18:6

Isaiah 18:6 · BSB

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

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