Leviticus 26:22

New Century Version

I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will take your children away from you and destroy your cattle. They will make you so few in number the roads will be empty.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:25

At first they did not worship the Lord, so he sent lions among them which killed some of them.

2 Kings 2:24

Elisha turned around, looked at them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two mother bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.

2 Chronicles 15:5

In those days no one could travel safely. There was much trouble in all the nations.

Isaiah 24:6

So a curse will destroy the earth. The people of the world are guilty, so they will be burned up; only a few will be left.

Isaiah 33:8

There is no one on the roads, no one walking in the paths. People have broken the agreements they made. They refuse to believe the proof from witnesses. No one respects other people.

Jeremiah 15:3

“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord. “I will send war to kill, dogs to drag the bodies away, and the birds of the air and wild animals to eat and destroy the bodies.

Jeremiah 42:2

They said to him, “Jeremiah, please listen to what we ask. Pray to the Lord your God for all the people left alive from the family of Judah. At one time there were many of us, but you can see that there are few of us now.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Jerusalem are sad, because no one comes for the feasts. No one passes through her gates. Her priests groan, her young women are suffering, and Jerusalem suffers terribly.

Ezekiel 14:15

“Or I might send wild animals into that land, leaving the land empty and without children. Then no one would pass through it because of the animals.

Ezekiel 14:21

“This is what the Lord God says: My plans for Jerusalem are much worse! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—war, hunger, wild animals, and disease—to destroy its people and animals.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will make the land an empty desert. The people’s pride in the land’s power will end. The mountains of Israel will become empty so that no one will pass through them.

Ezekiel 5:17

I will send a time of hunger and wild animals against you, and they will kill your children. Disease and death will sweep through your people, and I will bring the sword against you to kill you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Leviticus 26:6

I will give peace to your country; you will lie down in peace, and no one will make you afraid. I will keep harmful animals out of your country, and armies will not pass through it.

Micah 3:12

Because of you, Jerusalem will be plowed like a field. The city will become a pile of rocks, and the hill on which the Temple stands will be covered with bushes.

Zechariah 7:14

‘I scattered them like a hurricane to other countries they did not know. This good land was left so ruined behind them that no one could live there. They had made the desired land a ruin.’ ”

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved and sick, destroyed by terrible diseases. I will send them vicious animals and gliding, poisonous snakes.

Judges 5:6

“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the main roads were empty. Travelers went on the back roads.