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 highways shall be desolate.
I will also send wild beasts. This was one of the four judgments threatened, Ezekiel 14:21: see also 2 Kings 2:24.
Your high ways ... Trade and commerce will be destroyed-freedom and safety will be gone-neither stranger nor native will be found on the roads (Isaiah 33:8). This is an exact picture of the present state of the Holy Land, which has long lain in a state of desolation, brought on by the sins of the ancient Jews (see a list of forty-two public roads which intersected ancient Judea in various directions, contained in Relandi, 'Palaest. Illust.,' tom. public roads which intersected ancient Judea in various directions, contained in Relandi, 'Palaest. Illust.,' tom.
i., p. 415.