Ezekiel 7:15 “The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the count…”

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The sword is without, and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field, shall dye with the sword, and he that is in the citie, famine and pestilence shall deuoure him.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

The sword [is] without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dieth, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence devour him.

Bible in Basic English

Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

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Cross references

“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.”

Ezekiel 5:12 Jeremiah 14:18 Lamentations 1:20 Deuteronomy 32:23–25 Jeremiah 15:2 Jeremiah 15:3

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 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Lamentations 1:20 · BSB

See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

Deuteronomy 32:23–25 · BSB

I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

Jeremiah 15:2 · BSB

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those…

Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Also

Ezekiel 6:12

Ezekiel 6:12 · BSB

He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

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

In context

14They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

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