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 24:6

24:6 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,

the pot whose rot ³  is in it,

whose rot has not been removed ⁴  from it!

Empty it piece by piece.

No lot has fallen on it. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ⁶  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ⁷  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 38:22

38:22 I will judge him with plague and bloodshed. I will rain down on him, his troops and the many peoples who are with him a torrential downpour, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

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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.

³ tn Or “rust.”

⁴ tn Heb “has not gone out.”

⁵ tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.

⁶ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”