Leviticus 26:22

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 darkheichem (your roads, ways) shall be deserted.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The 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.

In Context

21And if ye remain walking contrary unto Me, and will not pay heed unto Me, I will bring seven times more makkah (plagues) upon you according to your chattot (sins).

23And if ye will not be corrected by Me, but will walk keri (contrary, hostile) unto Me,

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:6And I will give shalom in HaAretz, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid the savage beast out of HaAretz, neither shall the cherev pass through your land.

Judges 5:6In the days of Shamgar ben Anat, 1 in the days of Ya'el, the roads were abandoned, 1 and the travellers walked the byways. 1

2 Kings 17:25And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Hashem; therefore Hashem sent among them the arayot which killed some of them.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore hath the curse devoured Eretz, 1 and they that dwell therein are guilty; therefore, 1 the inhabitants of her + 24:6 the earth are diminished, 1 and few enosh (humankind) left. 1

Jeremiah 15:3And I will appoint over them four mishpechot (families, categories ), + 15:3 of covenant reprisal saith Hashem; the cherev to slay, and the kelevim to drag off, and the oph HaShomayim, and the behemat ha'aretz, to devour and destroy.

Ezekiel 5:17So will I send upon you ra'av (famine) and chayyah ra'ah (wild beasts), and they shall leave thee bereaved as childless: and dever and dahm shall pass through thee; and I will bring the cherev upon thee. I Hashem have spoken.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →

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