Leviticus 26:22

I will also send wild beasts among you - God fulfilled these threatenings at different times. He sent fiery Serpents among them, Numbers 21:6 ; Lions, 2 Kings 17:25 ; Bears, 2 Kings 2:24 , and threatened them with total desolation, so that their land should be overrun with wild beasts, etc., see Ezekiel 5:17 . "Spiritually," says Mr. Ainsworth, "these are wicked rulers and tyrants that kill and spoil, Proverbs 28:15 ; Daniel 7:3-6 ; Psalm 80:13 ; and false prophets that devour souls, Matthew 7:15 ; Revelation 13:1 , etc. So the prophet, speaking of their punishment by tyrants, says: A Lion out of the forest shall slay them; a Wolf of the evening shall spoil them; a Leopard shall watch over their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn to pieces, because their transgressions be many. And of their prophets it is said: O Israel, thy prophets are like Foxes in the deserts, Ezekiel 13:4 ; Jeremiah 8:17 ; Jeremiah 15:3 ."