Animals: Suffer Under Divine Judgments, Sent Upon Man
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Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
Jeremiah 21:6
I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
Ezekiel 14:13, 17, 19–21
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast, / Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast, / Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
Joel 1:18–20
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. / To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. / Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.