^22 (A)I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that ^(B)your roads lie deserted.

The Bronze Serpent

^6 (A)The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and ^(B)they bit the people, so that ^(C)many people of Israel died.

¹⁷ Moreover, ^(A)I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; ^(B)plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

²¹ For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when ^(A)I send My four ^[a]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!