Isaiah 56:9
Good News Translation
The LORD has told the foreign nations to come like wild animals and devour his people.

New Revised Standard Version
All you wild animals, all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!

Contemporary English Version
Come from the forest, you wild animals! Attack and gobble up your victims.

New American Bible
All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts in the forest!

Douay-Rheims Bible
All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

Deuteronomy 28:26 And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.

Jeremiah 12:9 Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.

Ezekiel 29:5 And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.

Ezekiel 39:17 And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.

Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: . . .

Context
Israel's Sinful Leaders
9All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.10His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.…
Cross References
Psalm 104:20
Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

Isaiah 18:6
And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Isaiah 46:11
Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:

Jeremiah 12:9
Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.

Jeremiah 23:1
Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:17
And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.

Isaiah 56:8
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