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Leviticus 26:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

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‘Suppose I allow dangerous animals  to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals.


They will be weak from hunger, ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs, as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.


In the days of Shamgar  son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the main roads were deserted because travellers kept to the side roads.


I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.’


The roads to Zion   mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.


The roads are deserted; travel has ceased. An agreement has been broken, cities  despised, and human life disregarded.


When they first lived there, they did not fear the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.


I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.


Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.


I will make the land a desolate waste,  and its proud strength will come to an end.  The mountains of Israel  will become desolate, with no one passing through.


‘For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send my four  devastating judgements against Jerusalem #– #sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague #– #in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!


I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. 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.’


‘I will ordain four kinds  of judgement for them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away,  and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land  to devour and destroy.


Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.


In those times there was no peace for those who went about their daily activities because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.


He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord.  Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the children.


the prophet Jeremiah and said, ‘May our petition come before you;  pray to the Lord your God on our behalf,  on behalf of this entire remnant (for few of us remain out of the many,  as you can see with your own eyes),





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