Ezekiel 14:15
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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:Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
In other translations
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:Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
Hebrew words
לוּ־lu-ifH3863חַיָּהchaiyahanimal[s]H2416רָעָהra'ahwildH7451אַעֲבִיר'a'avirI will cause to passH5674בָּאָרֶץba'aretzin the landH776וְשִׁכְּלָתָּהveshikelatahand it will make childless itH7921וְהָיְתָהvehayetahand it will beH1961שְׁמָמָהshemamaha desolationH8077מִבְּלִיmibelibecause notH1097עוֹבֵרover[one who] passes byH5674מִפְּנֵיmipenei<from> because ofH6440הַחַיָּה׃hachaiyahthe animal[s]H2416
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Related verses
- Leviticus 26:22I 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.I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
- Ezekiel 5:17So 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.I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
- Jeremiah 15:3And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
- 2 Kings 17:25And 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.Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
- 1 Kings 20:36Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.
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