Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ¹  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Le 26:33; De 28:65; Jer 9:16; Jer 15:2; Jer 21:9; Jer 42:16,17,22; Jer 43:10,11; Jer 44:27; Eze 5:2; Eze 5:2,10; Eze 6:8; Eze 6:12; Eze 12:14; Am 9:4; Zec 7:14; Zec 13:7-9

¹ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

² sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.