Jeremiah 7:33 “The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air a…”

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

World English Bible

The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

American Standard Version

And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye carkeises of this people shalbe meat for the foules of the heauen and for the beastes of the earth, and none shall fraie them away.

Darby Translation

And the carcases of this people shall be food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall scare [them] away.

Young's Literal Translation

And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.

Bible in Basic English

And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

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Cross references

“And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.”

Jeremiah 12:9 Deuteronomy 28:26 Jeremiah 9:22 Jeremiah 16:4 Jeremiah 22:19 Jeremiah 25:33

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.

Jeremiah 9:22 · BSB

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air an…

Jeremiah 22:19 · BSB

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 25:33 · BSB

Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Also

Jeremiah 19:7

Jeremiah 19:7 · BSB

And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of…

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

In context

32So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

Read Jeremiah 7