The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. ¹  But other birds of prey are all around them. ²  Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own. ³ 

“I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses. ¹ 

Therefore desert creatures and jackals will live there. Ostriches ¹  will dwell in it too. ²  But no people will ever live there again. No one will dwell there for all time to come. ³ 

“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly ¹  to God, and everyone ²  must turn from their ³  evil way of living ⁴  and from the violence that they do. ⁵ 

No woman will miscarry her young ¹  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ²  the number of your days.

they ¹  set those on the breasts and he offered the fat parts up in smoke on the altar.

You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; ¹  they are unclean to you.

Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

I will provide pasture ¹  for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

Moreover, the strength of their ¹  hands – what use was it to me? Men whose strength ²  had perished;

Can you count on ¹  it to bring in ²  your grain, ³  and gather the grain ⁴  to your threshing floor? ⁵ 

The wild boars of the forest ruin it; ¹  the insects ²  of the field feed on it.

Let the fields and everything in them celebrate! Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy

Over here is the deep, wide sea, ¹  which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, ²  living things both small and large.

She has prepared her meat, ¹  she has mixed her wine; she also has arranged her table. ² 

When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this – animals trampling on my courtyards? ¹