Proverbs 30:17

17  The eye that mocks a father

and scorns to obey a mother

will be picked out by the ravens of the valley

and featen by the vultures.

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Deuteronomy 28:26
And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

1 Samuel 17:44
The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”

Isaiah 18:6
They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

Jeremiah 7:33
And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.

Ezekiel 29:5
And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.

Revelation 19:17–18
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.”


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]