Verse | Translation | Text |
Jer 34:20 | Strong Concordance | I will even give [05414] them into the hand [03027] of their enemies [0341], and into the hand [03027] of them that seek [01245] their life [05315]: and their dead bodies [05038] shall be for meat [03978] unto the fowls [05775] of the heaven [08064], and to the beasts [0929] of the earth [0776]. |
King James | I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
I will even give--resuming the sentence begun, but not completed (Jer 34:18), "I will give," &c. seek their life--implacably: satisfied with nothing short of their blood; not content with booty. dead bodies--The breakers of the covenant shall be cut in pieces, as the calf between whose parts they passed. |