^22 (A)I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that ^(B)your roads become deserted.

The Bronze Serpent

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

^17 (A)I will send on you famine and vicious animals, 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 this is what the Lord God says: “How much more when ^(A)I send My four ^[a]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal life from it!