The Metaphor of Wild Beasts
Isaiah 56:9-12
All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.…


The people being represented in the following verses as a flock, their destroyers are naturally represented here as wild beasts.

(J. A. Alexander.)That a new chastisement at the hands of the heathen is actually contemplated need not be assumed.

(Prof. J. Skinner, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

WEB: All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.




The Flock: its Guardians and its Devourers
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