I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”

You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’

All Israel joined David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood!

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –

So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe.

When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.

My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin.

In God – I boast in his promise – in God I trust, I am not afraid. What can mere men do to me?

They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

My mouth will praise the Lord. Let all who live praise his holy name forever!

Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed, as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.

“At that time Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, and he will become skin and bones.

The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it.”

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

The Lord said to the people of Judah, “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: ‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

along with their entire bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.