Leviticus 26:22 “I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, dest…”

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

World English Bible

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

American Standard Version

And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.

Geneva Bible 1599

I will also sende wilde beastes vpon you, which shall spoyle you, and destroy your cattell, and make you fewe in number: so your hye waies shalbe desolate.

Darby Translation

And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.

Young's Literal Translation

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

Bible in Basic English

I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

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Cross references

“wild”

Deuteronomy 32:24 Ezekiel 14:15 Leviticus 26:6 2 Kings 17:25 Ezekiel 5:17 Jeremiah 15:3

Deuteronomy 32:24 · BSB

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Ezekiel 14:15 · BSB

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

Leviticus 26:6 · BSB

And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.

2 Kings 17:25 · BSB

Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

Ezekiel 5:17 · BSB

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

“rob you”

2 Kings 2:24

2 Kings 2:24 · BSB

Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

“your high”

Judges 5:6 Zechariah 7:14 2 Chronicles 15:5 Isaiah 33:8 Lamentations 1:4 Isaiah 24:6

Judges 5:6 · BSB

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

Zechariah 7:14 · BSB

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

2 Chronicles 15:5 · BSB

In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

Isaiah 33:8 · BSB

The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

Lamentations 1:4 · BSB

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

Isaiah 24:6 · BSB

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

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