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Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].
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A Dishonorable End
The prophecy uses two graphic images to describe the coming judgment. Commentators explain that bodies will be scattered "as dung," signifying a repulsive and dishonorable end. They will also be like a "handful after the harvestman"—the small bundles of grain dropped by reapers—strewn everywhere but, unlike the grain, left ungathered and unburied. This depicts a death devoid of all dignity and respect.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length.
Jeremiah 9:10
19th Century
Anglican
Speak, Thus saith the Lord. — The abrupt opening indicates a new prediction, coming to him unbidden, which he is constrai…
Baptist
So dreadful was the devastation caused by these Chaldeans because of the people's sin, that dead bodies lay like heaps of dung that a farmer scatte…
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16th Century
Protestant
Although Jeremiah continues the same subject, he nevertheless introduces a preface—that he had been commanded to declare what he says here; for bec…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Speak, thus says the Lord. These are the words of the Lord to Jeremiah, to go on with his prophecy in his name; so the Targum, "pro…
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13th Century
Catholic
