Leviticus 26:22

And will send among you the wild-beast of the field And it shall rob you of your children, And cut off your cattle, And make you few in number; And your roads shall be silent.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

21If therefore, ye will go in opposition to me, And not be willing to hearken unto me, Then will I yet further plague you seven times according to your sins;

23And, if, by these things, ye will not be corrected by me,—But will go in opposition to me,

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:6And I will give peace in the land, And ye shall lie down, and nothing shall make you afraid; And I will take away vicious beasts out of the land; And, the sword, shall not go through your land.

Judges 5:6In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the roads were forsaken,—and, the frequenters of highways, betook them to roundabout paths:

2 Kings 17:25And so it was, that, when they first dwelt there, they revered not Yahweh,—therefore Yahweh sent among them, lions, which were slaying them.

Isaiah 24:6For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein,—For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining—are few.

Jeremiah 15:3And I will set in charge over them—four species Declareth Yahweh, The sword to slay, and The dogs to trail along,—and The bird of the heavens and The beast of the earth to devour and to destroy.

Ezekiel 5:17So will I send upon you famine and mischievous beast and they shall bereave thee,—and pestilence and blood, shall pass through thee,—and a sword, will I bring in upon thee, I Yahweh, 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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