Jeremiah 15:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.

Leviticus 26:22

I will unleash wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.

Leviticus 26:16

then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 14:21

Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.

Isaiah 18:6

They shall all be left to the mountain vultures and to the beasts of the earth; The vultures shall summer on them, all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.

Psalm 68:23

The Lord has said: “Even from Bashan I will fetch them, fetch them even from the depths of the sea.

Jeremiah 12:9

My heritage is a prey for hyenas, is surrounded by vultures; Come, gather together, all you wild animals, come and eat!

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Lamentations 3:11

He turned me aside and tore me apart, leaving me ravaged.

Ezekiel 33:27

Say this to them: Thus says the Lord God: As I live, those among the ruins shall fall by the sword; those in the open field I have made food for the wild beasts; and those in rocky hideouts and caves shall die by the plague.

Amos 5:19

As if someone fled from a lion and a bear met him; Or as if on entering the house he rested his hand against the wall, and a snake bit it.

Deuteronomy 32:24

Emaciating hunger and consuming fever and bitter pestilence, And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not listen to their supplication. If they sacrifice burnt offerings or grain offerings, I will take no pleasure in them. Rather, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.