Yehezkiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ¹ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

Yehezkiel 32:4

32:4 I will leave you on the ground,

I will fling you on the open field,

I will allow ²  all the birds of the sky to settle ³  on you,

and I will permit ⁴  all the wild animals ⁵  to gorge themselves on you.

Yeremia 8:2

8:2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. ⁶  These are things they ⁷  adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, ⁸  from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people ⁹  will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground. ¹⁰ 

Yeremia 22:19

22:19 He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey.

His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’” ¹¹ 

[29:5]  ¹ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”

[32:4]  ² tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ³ tn Heb “live.”

[32:4]  ⁴ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

[8:2]  ⁶ tc MT, 4QJer^a and LXX read “the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven,” but 4QJer^c reads “the sun and all the stars.”

[8:2]  tn Heb “the host of heaven.”

[8:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sun, moon, and host of heaven which they…”

[8:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “followed after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the idiom.

[8:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “they will not” but the referent is far enough removed that it might be ambiguous.

[8:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “like dung/manure on the surface of the ground.”

[22:19]  ¹¹ sn A similar judgment against this ungodly king is pronounced by Jeremiah in 36:30. According to 2 Chr 36:6 he was bound over to be taken captive to Babylon but apparently died before he got there. According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Nebuchadnezzar ordered his body thrown outside the wall in fulfillment of this judgment. The Bible itself, however, does not tell us that.

[22:19]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.