15. If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they destroy it so that it becomes desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts,
16. though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they could deliver neither their sons nor their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
17. Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, “Let the sword go through the land and cut off man and beast from it,”
18. though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would deliver neither their sons nor their daughters, but they alone would deliver themselves.
19. Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood to cut off from it man and beast,