Deuteronomy 28:26

26 Carrion birds and animals will boldly feast on your dead body with no one to chase 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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Deuteronomy 28:26 In-Context

24 From out of the skies God will rain ash and dust down on you until you suffocate.
25 God will defeat you by enemy attack. You'll come at your enemies on one road and run away on seven roads. All the kingdoms of Earth will see you as a horror.
26 Carrion birds and animals will boldly feast on your dead body with no one to chase them away.
27 God will hit you hard with the boils of Egypt, hemorrhoids, scabs, and an incurable itch.
28 He'll make you go crazy and blind and senile.
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