Deuteronomy 28:26
New International Version
Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

New Living Translation
Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.

English Standard Version
And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

Berean Standard Bible
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

King James Bible
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

New King James Version
Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

New American Standard Bible
Your dead bodies will serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

NASB 1995
“Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

NASB 1977
“And your carcasses shall be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

Legacy Standard Bible
And your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Amplified Bible
Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Christian Standard Bible
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.”

American Standard Version
And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And your corpse shall be food for birds of the sky and for the beasts of Earth and there is no one to chase them away.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

Contemporary English Version
and no one will disturb the birds and wild animals while they eat your dead bodies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to fray them away.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals. There will be no one to scare them away.

Good News Translation
When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.

International Standard Version
Your dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to chase them away.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thy carcasses shall be food unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Literal Standard Version
and your carcass has been for food for every bird of the heavens and for the beast of the earth, and there is none causing [them] to tremble.

Majority Standard Bible
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

New American Bible
Your corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.

NET Bible
Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

New Revised Standard Version
Your corpses shall be food for every bird of the air and animal of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

New Heart English Bible
Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thy carcass shall be food to all fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man shall drive them away.

World English Bible
Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Young's Literal Translation
and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.

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Context
The Curses of Disobedience
25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away. 27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

Psalm 79:2
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.

Proverbs 30:17
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

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 15:3
I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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

And your carcass shall be meat to all fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

1 Samuel 17:44-46
And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field…

Psalm 79:1-3
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps…

Isaiah 34:3
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

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(26) And thy carcase shall be meat.--Repeated in Jeremiah 7:33, and to be fulfilled in Tophet, when they had buried until there was no more room. (Comp. also Jeremiah 15:3.)

No man shall fray (i.e., frighten) them away.--Not even a woman like Rizpah, who at the foot of the gallows watched her children's bodies for half the year, and "suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night" (2Samuel 21:10). There shall be no one to do it.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your corpses
נִבְלָֽתְךָ֙ (niḇ·lā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5038: A flabby thing, a carcase, carrion, an idol

will be
וְהָיְתָ֤ה (wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

food
לְמַאֲכָ֔ל (lə·ma·’ă·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3978: An eatable

for all
לְכָל־ (lə·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the birds
ע֥וֹף (‘ō·wp̄)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5775: Flying creatures

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

and beasts of
וּלְבֶהֱמַ֣ת (ū·lə·ḇe·hĕ·maṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

the earth,
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

with no
וְאֵ֖ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

one to scare them away.
מַחֲרִֽיד׃ (ma·ḥă·rîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2729: To shudder with terror, to fear, to hasten


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