6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. 1 6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these 2 will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.
26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!
28:23 I will send a plague into the city 3 and bloodshed into its streets;
the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 4 from every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
30:6 “‘This is what the Lord says:
Egypt’s supporters will fall;
her confident pride will crumble. 5
From Migdol to Syene 6 they will die by the sword within her,
declares the sovereign Lord.
32:10 I will shock many peoples with you,
and their kings will shiver with horror because of you.
When I brandish my sword before them,
every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.
32:12 By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall –
all of them are the most terrifying among the nations.
They will devastate the pride of Egypt,
and all its hordes will be destroyed.
1 sn By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18).
2 tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”
3 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”
5 tn Heb “come down.”
6 sn Syene is known as Aswan today.