Deuteronomy 28:26

26 Your carcasses will become food for all the birds in the air and the wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them away.

Deuteronomy 28:26 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:26

And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and
unto the beasts of the earth
Which was always reckoned a very grievous calamity, have no other burial than in the bowels of beasts and birds; and was the case of many of the Jews in the Antiochian persecution, ( Psalms 79:2 ) ; and in a treatise of theirs ^F8, which relates their many afflictions and sufferings in their present captivity, speaking of a persecution of them in Spain, in the Jewish year 5172, it is reported, how that those that fled to avoid punishment were killed in the fields, where their carcasses lying unburied became a prey to beasts:

and no man shall fray [them] away;
the fowls and the beasts; none of their friends being left to do it, and their enemies would not show so much respect to them, and care of them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Shebat Judahm sive Hist. Jud. a Gentio, sect. 46. p. 312.

Deuteronomy 28:26 In-Context

24 ADONAI will turn the rain your land needs into powder and dust that will fall on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

25 "ADONAI your God will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will advance on them one way and flee before them seven. You will become an object of horror to every kingdom on earth.

26 Your carcasses will become food for all the birds in the air and the wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them away.

27 ADONAI will strike you down with the boils that broke out on the Egyptians, tumors, skin lesions and itching, all incurable.

28 ADONAI will strike you with insanity, blindness and utter confusion.