“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.”
The desecration continues: "They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the air for food, and the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth." The denial of proper burial—leaving corpses exposed to scavengers—represents a final indignity and violation of covenantal dignity. In ancient Near Eastern thought, the inability to bury the dead and the exposure of bodies to wild animals constituted the ultimate humiliation. The phrase "your servants" and "your faithful" emphasizes that these are God's own people being subjected to this degradation.
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