¹⁵ “Or if I send wild beasts^(A) through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,^(B)

¹⁷ I will send famine and wild beasts^(A) against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed^(B) will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.^(C)”

²² I will send wild animals^(A) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few^(B) in number that your roads will be deserted.^(C)

³ “I will send four kinds of destroyers^(A) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword^(B) to kill and the dogs^(C) to drag away and the birds^(D) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.^(E)

²⁵ When they first lived there, they did not worship the Lord; so he sent lions^(A) among them and they killed some of the people.

³⁶ So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion^(A) will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.