Psalm 79:2
New International Version
They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.

New Living Translation
They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals.

English Standard Version
They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.

Berean Standard Bible
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
The dead bodies of Your servants They have given as food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

New American Standard Bible
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants to the birds of the sky as food, The flesh of Your godly ones to the animals of the earth.

NASB 1995
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

NASB 1977
They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Thy godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
They have given the dead bodies of Your slaves for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your holy ones to the beasts of the earth.

Amplified Bible
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
They gave the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They gave the corpses of Your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They gave the corpses of your Servants as food for birds of the sky and the flesh of your righteous ones to the animals of the Earth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
They have fed the bodies of your servants to flesh-eating birds; your loyal people are food for savage animals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to the birds for food. They have given the flesh of your godly ones to the animals.

Good News Translation
They left the bodies of your people for the vultures, the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.

International Standard Version
to give the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the skies and the flesh of your godly ones to the beasts of the earth;

JPS Tanakh 1917
They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants to be food unto the fowls of the heaven, The flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Literal Standard Version
They gave the dead bodies of Your servants | [As] food for the birds of the heavens, | The flesh of Your saints | For the wild beast of the earth.

Majority Standard Bible
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

New American Bible
They have left the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of those devoted to you for the beasts of the earth.

NET Bible
They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.

New Heart English Bible
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your faithful to the animals of the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to the beasts of the earth.

World English Bible
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.

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Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
1A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. 2They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.…

Cross References
Revelation 11:9
For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

Deuteronomy 28:26
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Psalm 4:3
Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.

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.

Jeremiah 14:16
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

Jeremiah 16:4
"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 and beasts of the earth."

Jeremiah 19:7
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 the air and the beasts of the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be meat to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 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.

Jeremiah 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 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 famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

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Psalm 79
1. The psalmist complains of the desolation of Jerusalem
8. He prays for deliverance
13. and promises thankfulness














(2) In addition to references in Margin see Deuteronomy 28:26.

Saints.--Heb., chasidim. (See Note, Psalm 16:10.) Here with definite allusion to the Assd?ans of 1 Maccabees 7.

Verse 2. - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to Be meat unto the fowls of the heaven. A common incident of warfare (see the Assyrian sculptures, passim). The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth; or, of the land. Hyaenas and jackals would dispute the flesh of the slain with vultures and crows.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They have given
נָֽתְנ֡וּ (nā·ṯə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

the corpses
נִבְלַ֬ת (niḇ·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5038: A flabby thing, a carcase, carrion, an idol

of Your servants
עֲבָדֶ֗יךָ (‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

as food
מַ֭אֲכָל (ma·’ă·ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3978: An eatable

to the birds
לְע֣וֹף (lə·‘ō·wp̄)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5775: Flying creatures

of the air,
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם (haš·šā·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

the flesh
בְּשַׂ֥ר (bə·śar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of Your saints
חֲ֝סִידֶ֗יךָ (ḥă·sî·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2623: Kind, pious

to the beasts
לְחַיְתוֹ־ (lə·ḥay·ṯōw-)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

of the earth.
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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