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Jeremiah 7:33

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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth,.... That is, those which remain unburied, for which there will be found no place to bury…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Jeremiah 7:29-33

Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 7:29-34

Here is, I. A loud call to weeping and mourning. Jerusalem, that had been a joyous city, the joy of the whole earth, must now take up a lamentation on high places (Jer 7:29), the high places where…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

fray frighten. The word is obsolete, except as a provincialism. It is the root of affray(participle, afraid). Cp. "he thought hir to affraye." Chaucer's Clerk's Tale. (Bible Word-Book.)