New Revised Standard Version
they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals.

Contemporary English Version
Swords will run them through, and wild dogs will eat them.

New American Bible
Those who would hand over my life to the sword shall become the prey of jackals!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.

They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.

They shall fall [heb.

1 Samuel 26:10 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

1 Samuel 31:1-6 And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe. . . .

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Ezekiel 35:5 Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.

a portion

Songs 2:15 Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our vineyard hath flourished.

Ezekiel 39:4,17-20 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth to be devoured. . . .

Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: . . .