Ezekiel 14:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send My four sore acts of judgment upon Jerusalem–the sword, the famine, the evil wild beasts, and the pestilence–to cut off from it man and beast! [Lev. 26:21-33.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Common English Bible

²¹ The LORD God proclaims: How much more if I send all four of these terrible acts of judgment—sword, famine, wild animals, and plague—against Jerusalem, to eliminate both humans and animals?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For thus says the Lord God: Even though I will send upon Jerusalem my four most grievous judgments, sword and famine and harmful beasts and pestilence, so that I destroy from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 14:21 Cross References

Ezekiel 33:27

Say this to them: Thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and those who are in the open field I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.

Ezekiel 5:17

I will send famine and wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and bloodshed shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 14:19

Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off humans and animals from it,

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, “Let a sword pass through the land,” and I cut off humans and animals from it,

Ezekiel 14:15

If I send wild animals through the land to ravage it so that it is made desolate and no one may pass through because of the animals,

Ezekiel 14:13

Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,

Ezekiel 5:12

One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.

2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad came to David and told him; he asked him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you on your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.”

Jeremiah 27:8

But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the Lord, until I have completed its destruction by his hand.

Jeremiah 32:24

See, the siege ramps have been cast up against the city to take it, and the city, faced with sword, famine, and pestilence, has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has happened, as you yourself can see.

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations where they go; then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:20

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would save neither son nor daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.

Isaiah 51:19

These two things have befallen you —who will grieve with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will comfort you?

Ezekiel 5:13

“My anger shall spend itself, and I will vent my fury on them and satisfy myself, and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I spend my fury on them.