Leviticus 26:22

WEB

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.

KJV

I 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.

Commentary

I will also send wild beasts among you,.... Either in a literal sense, as lions, bears, wolves, &c. and so is the reverse of what is promised to them on their doing well, Lev 26:6 ; or figuratively, mighty monarchs and cruel oppressors, such as were the kings of Assyria and Babylon, Jer 50:17 , which shall rob you of your children; as the bears, in a literal sense, destroyed the children of them in the times of Elisha, Kg2 2:24 , and destroy your cattle; the tame beasts, who often become a prey to the wild ones, as both those of the flock, and of the herd, sheep and oxen, do to lions, wolves, &c. and make you few in number; or diminish them, their number, by bereaving them of their children, and their wealth and substance, by destroying their cattle: and your high ways shall be desolate; or ways, the word high not being in the text, and may signify both their public and private ones, which would be all forsaken, none caring to venture to walk in them for fear of beasts of prey.