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They have fed the bodies
of your servants
    to flesh-eating birds;
your loyal people are food
    for savage animals.
All Jerusalem is covered
    with their blood,
and there is no one left
    to bury them.
Every nation around us
    sneers and makes fun.

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They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,(A)
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.(B)
They have poured out blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there is no one to bury(C) the dead.(D)
We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn(E) and derision to those around us.(F)

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