You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan—a list that emphasizes the abundance and quality of the sacrificial feast. The emphasis on eating princes and mighty ones inverts normal sacrificial practice; the bodies of the invaders become the sacrificial offering. The specification of sacrificial animals (rams, lambs, goats, bulls) frames the invader's corpses within cultic categories. The reference to 'fatlings of Bashan' recalls that region's reputation for abundant livestock and suggests the full satisfaction of the sacrificial feast. This verse emphasizes that the judgment provides total satisfaction to the scavenging animals and that the invader becomes the consumed offering.

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