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)

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments^(A)—sword^(B) and famine^(C) and wild beasts and plague^(D)—to kill its men and their animals!^(E)

²⁷ “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.^(A)

²⁵ “‘I will make a covenant^(A) of peace^(B) with them and rid the land of savage beasts^(C) so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.^(D)