Imamat 26:22

26:22 I will send the wild animals ¹  against you and they will bereave you of your children, ²  annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population ³  so that your roads will become deserted.

Yesaya 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ⁴ 

there are no travelers. ⁵ 

Treaties are broken, ⁶ 

witnesses are despised, ⁷ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ⁸ 

[26:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the animal of the field.” This collective singular has been translated as a plural. The expression “animal of the field” refers to a wild (i.e., nondomesticated) animal.

[26:22]  ² tn The words “of your children” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[26:22]  ³ tn Heb “and diminish you.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”