Leviticus 26 · Verse 22

Leviticus 26:22

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus 26:22, King James Version

Leviticus 26:22 in other translations

BSBI will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
WEBI will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
ASVAnd I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.
YLTand sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.
DARBYAnd I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.
BBEI will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.
WebsterI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, and your high-ways shall be desolate.

What does Leviticus 26:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. I will also send wild beasts among you--This was one of the four judgments threatened (Eze 14:21; see also 2Ki 2:4). your highways shall be desolate--Trade and commerce will be destroyed--freedom and safety will be gone--neither stranger nor native will be found on the roads (Is 33:8). This is an exact picture of the present state of the Holy Land, which has long lain in a state of desolation, brought on by the sins of the ancient Jews.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 I will also send wild beasts among you - God fulfilled these threatenings at different times. He sent fiery Serpents among them, Num 21:6; Lions, 2Kgs 17:25; Bears, 2Kgs 2:24, and threatened them with total desolation, so that their land should be overrun with wild beasts, etc., see Eze 5:17. "Spiritually," says Mr. Ainsworth, "these are wicked rulers and tyrants that kill and spoil, Pro 28:15; Dan 7:3-6; Psa 80:13; and false prophets that devour souls, Mat 7:15; Rev 13:1, etc. So the prophet, speaking of their punishment by tyrants, says: A Lion out of the forest shall slay them; a Wolf of the evening shall spoil them; a Leopard shall watch over their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn to pieces, because their transgressions be many. And of their prophets it is said: O Israel, thy prophets are like Foxes in the deserts, Eze 13:4; Jer 8:17; Jer 15:3."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39

After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience…

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Leviticus 26:22 in the original Hebrew

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וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֨יve.hish.lach.Tiand I will sendH7971
בָכֶ֜םva.Khemamong <the> you
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
חַיַּ֤תchai.Yat[the] animal[s] ofH2416
הַשָּׂדֶה֙ha.sa.Dehthe fieldH7704
וְשִׁכְּלָ֣הve.shi.ke.Lahand it will make childlessH7921
אֶתְכֶ֔ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853
וְהִכְרִ֙יתָה֙ve.hikh.Ri.tahand it will cut offH3772
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בְּהֶמְתְּכֶ֔םbe.hem.te.Khemlivestock yourH929
וְהִמְעִ֖יטָהve.him.'I.tahand it will diminishH4591
אֶתְכֶ֑ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853
וְנָשַׁ֖מּוּve.na.Sha.muand they will be desolateH8074
דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם\׃dar.khei.Khemroads yourH1870

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Cross references for Leviticus 26:22

  • Ezekiel 14:15

    If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

  • Deuteronomy 32:24

    They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • Judges 5:6

    In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

  • Zechariah 7:14

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • Ezekiel 5:17

    So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • 2 Chronicles 15:5

    And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

  • Leviticus 26:6

    And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

  • Isaiah 33:8

    The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

  • 2 Kings 17:25

    And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them.

  • Isaiah 24:6

    Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
wild.
6; De 32:24; 2Ki 17:25; Jer 15:3; Eze 5:17; 14:15,21
rob you.
2Ki 2:24
your high.
Jud 5:6; 2Ch 15:5; Isa 24:6; 33:8; La 1:4; Eze 14:15; 33:28
Mic 3:12; Zec 7:14

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Context

  • Leviticus 26:21

    And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:22

    I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

  • Leviticus 26:23

    And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

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Leviticus 26:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Enviaré también contra vosotros bestias fieras que os arrebaten los hijos, y destruyan vuestros animales, y os apoquen, y vuestros caminos sean desiertos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et j’enverrai contre vous les bêtes des champs, qui vous raviront vos enfants, et détruiront votre bétail, et vous réduiront à un petit nombre; et vos chemins seront désolés.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde das Getier des Feldes unter euch senden, daß es euch eurer Kinder beraube und euer Vieh ausrotte und euer weniger mache; und eure Straßen sollen öde werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
immittamque in vos bestias agri, quæ consumant vos, et pecora vestra, et ad paucitatem cuncta redigant, desertæque fiant viæ vestræ.