2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Psalms 79:2–4
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