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.
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Gill's Exposition
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven,.... For such there were, both at the time of the Babylonish captivity, and in the times of Antiochus, who were…
Barnes' Notes
The dead bodies of thy servants ... - They have slain them, and left them unburied. See 2Ch 36:17. This is a description of widespread carnage and slaughter, such as we know occurred at the time when…
We have here a sad complaint exhibited in the court of heaven. The world is full of complaints, and so is the church too, for it suffers, not only with it, but from it, as a lily among thorns. God is…
Cambridge Bible
The horrors of a remorseless slaughter were aggravated by the disgrace of the corpses being left unburied, in accordance with the threats of the law (Deu 28:26) and prophets (Jer 7:33; Jer 8:2; Jer…
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