Ver. 26. Thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air— "Your conquerors shall not only transplant you into distant countries, but shall make such terrible slaughter of you, that the carcases of vast numbers shall be exposed in the streets, and lie, like those of beasts, without burial." Nothing was accounted a greater calamity among the ancients, than to have their bodies lie exposed to be devoured by birds and beasts: this is what Jeremiah calls being buried with the burial of an ass, ch. Deuteronomy 22:19 and the Psalmist bewails it as one of the sorest judgments which had befallen his nation; Psalms 79:2-3. How far this terrible threatening was fulfilled in the Babylonish captivity, will appear on consulting the pathetic descriptions of that calamity in the book of Lamentations; where it is often declared, that those judgments inflicted upon them were in consequence of their breach of God's covenant. See Lamentations 1:14; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 2:17; Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 4:6; Lamentations 4:13, &c. and Matthew 24.
38 which has reference to the like calamity in their destruction by the Romans.