Ezekiel 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ When I shall loose against them the evil arrows of hunger that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. And I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ When I launch my deadly arrows of famine against you, I have released them for your destruction! I will add to your famine and completely cut off your food supply.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I, the Lord, have spoken. At that time, I will send among them the most grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send so that I may destroy you. And I will gather a famine over you, and I will crush the staff of bread among you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I the Lord have spoken it. When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine which shall bring death and which I will send to destroy you, I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread.

Ezekiel 5:16 Cross References

2 Kings 6:25

As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

Psalm 7:13

he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

Isaiah 3:1

For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff— all support of bread and all support of water—

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 3:12

he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.

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 4:16

Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Ezekiel 5:15

You shall be a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken—

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.”

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.