Ezekiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. 1  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, 2  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 14:21

14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 3  to kill both people and animals!

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city 4  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 5  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

1 tn Heb “will bereave you.”

2 tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

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4 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”