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)

⁶ Then the Lord sent venomous snakes^(A) among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.^(B)

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.

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)”