Psalms 79:2
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
KJV
Qui regis Israël, intende ; qui deducis velut ovem Joseph. Qui sedes super cherubim, manifestare
Vulgate
Ὁ ποιμαίνων τὸν Ἰσραὴλ πρόσχες, ὁ ὁδηγῶν ὡσεὶ πρόβατα τὸν Ἰωσήφ· ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῶν χερουβεὶμ ἐμφάνηθι,
LXX
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
ASV
נָֽתְנ֡וּ אֶת נִבְלַ֬ת עֲבָדֶ֗י/ךָ מַ֭אֲכָל לְ/ע֣וֹף הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִם בְּשַׂ֥ר חֲ֝סִידֶ֗י/ךָ לְ/חַיְת/וֹ אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 12.—Of the Burial of the Dead: that the Denial of It to Christians Does Them No Injury.6161 Augustin expresses himself more fully on this subject in his tract, De cura pro mortuis gerenda. Further still, we are reminded that in such a carnage as then occurred, the bodies could not even be buried. But godly confidence is not appalled by so ill-omened a circumstance; for …
Cross-references
- Deut 28:26 — And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
- Jer 7:33 — 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.
- Jer 14:16 — And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor th
- Jer 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famin
- Jer 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famin
- Jer 19:7 — And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcas
- Jer 34:20 — I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the ear
- Ps 94:5 — They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
- Rev 11:9 — And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.