Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is on the outside, and plague and famine are inside the building. 1 Those who are in the field will die by the sword, while famine and plague will consume those in the city. 1

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The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

In Context

14They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but there is no one marching to battle; 1 since my anger is on the entire multitude. 1

16But some survivors will escape from among them, and they will go to the mountains. 1 Like doves of the valleys, all of them will moan—each man for his iniquity. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, 1 and in the bedrooms terror will do so. 1 It will destroy both young man and virgin, 1 the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs. 1

Jeremiah 15:2It will happen that they will say to you, 'Where should we go?' Then you must say to them, 'Yahweh says this: 1 Those who are for death should go to death; those who are for the sword should go to the sword. 1 Those who are for famine should go to famine; and those who are for captivity should go to captivity.'

Lamentations 4:9Those who have been killed by the sword were happier than those killed by hunger, 1 who wasted away, pierced by the lack of any harvest from the field. 1

Ezekiel 6:12The one far away will die by plague, and the one who is near will fall by the sword. Those who remain and survive will die by famine. In this way I will accomplish my fury against them.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:2-16

The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine… Read the whole commentary →

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