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They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered.

I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.

You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

"Now as for you, son of man, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Say to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, "Gather and come, assemble from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces.

I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,And I will tear open the chest enclosing their heart;There I will also devour them like a lioness,As a beast of the field would rip them open.

"I will end man and beast;I will end the birds of the skyAnd the fish of the seaAnd the ruins along with the wicked;And I will cut off man from the face of the ground," declares Yahweh.

For they could not bear what was being commanded, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned."