Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 26. Away. No threat could be more terrible to the Jews. They did not refuse burial to those who had been hung on the gibbet. Calmet. 21:23. Even the high priest, if he should find a corpse in the field, was obliged to bury it; though he was not allowed on other occasions, to attend the funeral of his relations. God threatens the impious king ( Calmet.) Joachim, that he shall be buried with the burial of an ass. Jeremiah 22:19. Bible.—The ancient Christians allowed the sacred vessels to be sold, in order to bury the dead. “For we shall not suffer the figure and the work of God to be exposed a prey to the wild beasts and birds.” Lactant. 6.