King James Version (KJV)
Psalms 79:2
“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.”
Verse in context — Psalms 79
1
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.
2
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.
3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them].
4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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