Ezekiel 14:17 “Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass thr…”

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

World English Bible

“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’—

American Standard Version

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;

Geneva Bible 1599

Or if I bring a sworde vpon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it,

Darby Translation

Or [if] I bring the sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it,

Young's Literal Translation

'Or — a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast —

Bible in Basic English

Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:

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Cross references

“I bring”

Leviticus 26:25 Ezekiel 5:12 Jeremiah 47:6 Ezekiel 5:17 Ezekiel 21:9–15 Ezekiel 29:8

Leviticus 26:25 · BSB

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Ezekiel 5:12 · BSB

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Jeremiah 47:6 · BSB

‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

Ezekiel 5:17 · BSB

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 21:9–15 · BSB

“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—

Ezekiel 29:8 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

“so that”

Zephaniah 1:3 Ezekiel 14:13 Ezekiel 25:13 Jeremiah 33:12 Hosea 4:3

Zephaniah 1:3 · BSB

“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 14:13 · BSB

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 25:13 · BSB

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Jeremiah 33:12 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

Hosea 4:3 · BSB

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

18then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.

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