Ezekiel 5:17
So will I send upon you famine and mischievous beast and they shall bereave thee,—and pestilence and blood, shall pass through thee,—and a sword, will I bring in upon thee, I Yahweh, have spoken.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Leviticus 26:22And will send among you the wild-beast of the field And it shall rob you of your children, And cut off your cattle, And make you few in number; And your roads shall be silent.
2 Kings 17:25And so it was, that, when they first dwelt there, they revered not Yahweh,—therefore Yahweh sent among them, lions, which were slaying them.
Ezekiel 5:12The third part of thee by pestilence, shall die, and by famine, be consumed in thy midst And the third part by the sword, shall fall round about thee,- And the third part to every wind, will I scatter, and a sword, will I make bare after them.
Ezekiel 6:12He that is far off by pestilence, shall die and He that is near by the sword, shall fall, and He that is left and is besieged by the famine, shall die; Thus will I make an end of mine indignation against them.
Ezekiel 14:19Or pestilence, I, should send into that land,—and should pour out mine indignation thereon in blood, to cut off therefrom man and beast
Ezekiel 17:21And all his fugitives throughout all his bands by the sword, shall fall, And they who are left, to every wind, shall be scattered,- [So shall ye know that I, Yahweh, have spoken!]
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 5:6-17
The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 594.) 5 Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round… Read the whole commentary →