Isaiah 56:9
New International Version
Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!

New Living Translation
Come, wild animals of the field! Come, wild animals of the forest! Come and devour my people!

English Standard Version
All you beasts of the field, come to devour— all you beasts in the forest.

Berean Standard Bible
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.

King James Bible
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

New King James Version
All you beasts of the field, come to devour, All you beasts in the forest.

New American Standard Bible
All you wild animals, All you animals in the forest, Come to eat.

NASB 1995
All you beasts of the field, All you beasts in the forest, Come to eat.

NASB 1977
All you beasts of the field, All you beasts in the forest, Come to eat.

Legacy Standard Bible
All you beasts of the field, All you beasts in the forest, Come to eat.

Amplified Bible
All you beasts of the field, All you beasts (hostile nations) in the forest, Come to eat.

Christian Standard Bible
All you animals of the field and forest, come and eat!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All you animals of the field and forest, come and eat!

American Standard Version
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Every animal of the wilderness, come eat every animal of the forest

Brenton Septuagint Translation
All ye beasts of the field, come, devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

Contemporary English Version
Come from the forest, you wild animals! Attack and gobble up your victims.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

English Revised Version
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All you animals in the field, all you animals in the forest, come and eat.

Good News Translation
The LORD has told the foreign nations to come like wild animals and devour his people.

International Standard Version
"All you wild animals, come and devour— even all of you wild animals.

JPS Tanakh 1917
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, Yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

Literal Standard Version
Every beast of the field, | Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

Majority Standard Bible
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.

New American Bible
All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts in the forest!

NET Bible
All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

New Revised Standard Version
All you wild animals, all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!

New Heart English Bible
All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.

Webster's Bible Translation
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all ye beasts in the forest.

World English Bible
All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.

Young's Literal Translation
Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Israel's Sinful Leaders
9Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest. 10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.…

Cross References
Psalm 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Isaiah 18:6
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

Isaiah 46:11
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.

Jeremiah 12:9
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

Jeremiah 23:1
"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 39:17
And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: 'Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.


Treasury of Scripture

All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

Deuteronomy 28:26
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Jeremiah 12:9
Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

Ezekiel 29:5
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

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Isaiah 56
1. The prophet exhorts to sanctification
3. He promises it shall be general, without respect of persons
9. He protests against blind watchmen














(9) All ye beasts of the field . . .--The sudden change of tone indicates that we enter on an entirely new section, which extends to the close of Isaiah 57. The contents of that section fit in with the assumption of its having been written early in the reign of Manasseh, better than With that of a date after the exile. The opening words summon the enemies of Israel to do their work of punishment, and this is followed naturally by a denunciation of the sins which had made it necessary. For the form of the summons, comp. Ezekiel 34:8; Jeremiah 12:9.

Verses 9-12. - THE BLIND GUIDES OF ISRAEL REBUKED. A sudden change of style marks the introduction of an entirely new prophecy. The eye of the prophet, apparently, goes back from the period of the exile, which he has been so long contemplating, to his own day, or at any rate to the pre-exile period, and rests upon Israel in their own land. He sees them misled by their teachers (vers. 10-12), given to idolatry (Isaiah 57:3-9), and offering themselves a ready prey to their enemies (Isaiah 56:9). Many modern critics regard the passage as the composition of an unknown prophet belonging to the time of Manasseh. But there is no sufficient evidence of this. The prophecy has many Isaiah characteristics. Verse 9. - Beasts of the field... beasts in the forest; i.e. "all wild beasts of whatever kind" - all the enemies of God's flock (see Jeremiah 12:9; Ezekiel 34:8). Come to devour. Make haste, now is your opportunity. The people have none to protect them, and will be an easy prey. Come, set to work; devour.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Come,
אֵתָ֕יוּ (’ê·ṯā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 857: To arrive

all
כֹּ֖ל (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

you beasts
חַיְת֣וֹ (ḥay·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

of the field,
שָׂדָ֑י (śā·ḏāy)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land

eat greedily,
לֶאֱכֹ֥ל (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

you beasts
חַיְת֖וֹ (ḥay·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

of the forest.
בַּיָּֽעַר׃ (bay·yā·‘ar)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3293: A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb


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