⁴ “They shall die ^(A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be ^(B)lamented nor shall they be ^(C)buried, but they shall be ^(D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their ^(E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”

⁶ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; ^(A)neither shall men lament for them, ^(B)cut themselves, nor ^(C)make themselves bald for them.

^4 (A)You shall ^[a]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; ^(B)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

A Triumphant Festival

¹⁷ “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ^(A)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: