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The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
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A Punishment Worse Than Death
Commentators agree that being left unburied for animals to consume was a horrific judgment, described as a fate "more severe than death itself." The detail that no one would frighten the beasts away underscores the total desolation and abandonment, fulfilling the covenant curses found in Deuteronomy 28:26.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered…
19th Century
Anglican
None shall fray them away. —No picture could be more appalling in its horrors—streets and valleys filled with the bodies …
16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah threatens them with something more severe than death itself — that God would impress the marks of His wrath even on their dead bodies. It …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the ea…
As a token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.
The heart is t…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he threatens them with punishment.
He prefigures it with a sign: cut off your hair. As in Ezekiel 5:2, you shal…
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