²⁵ And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

^41 (A)So these nations feared the Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day.

³⁴ To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, ^(A)whom He named Israel,

³² So they feared the Lord, ^(A)and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the ^[a]high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

⁹ So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear ^[a]the Lord, the God of heaven, ^(A)who made the sea and the dry land.”

²¹ For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when ^(A)I send My four ^[a]severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?

¹⁵ “If I cause ^(A)wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ^[a]empty it, and make it so desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts,

³ “And I will ^(A)appoint over them four forms of destruction,” says the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, ^(B)the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.