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Ezekiel 14:21

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?

KJV

Quoniam hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Quod etsi quatuor judicia mea pessima, gladium, et famem, ac bestias malas, et pestilentiam, immisero in Jerusalem, ut interficiam de ea hominem et pecus,

Vulgate

τάδε λέγει Κύριος Ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τὰς τέσσαρας ἐκδικήσεις μου τὰς πονηράς, ῥομφαίαν καὶ λιμὸν καὶ θηρία πονηρὰ καὶ θάνατον, ἐξαποστείλω ἐπὶ Ἰερουσαλὴμ τοῦ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι ἐξ αὐτῆς ἄνθρωπον καὶ κτῆνος,

LXX

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!

ASV

כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהֹוִ֗ה אַ֣ף כִּֽי אַרְבַּ֣עַת שְׁפָטַ֣/י הָ/רָעִ֡ים חֶ֠רֶב וְ/רָעָ֞ב וְ/חַיָּ֤ה רָעָה֙ וָ/דֶ֔בֶר שִׁלַּ֖חְתִּי אֶל יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְ/הַכְרִ֥ית מִמֶּ֖/נָּה אָדָ֥ם וּ/בְהֵמָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

20 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַף
'p
adverb · 133×
אַרְבַּ֥ע
'rb'
adjective · 318×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
בְּהֵמָ֑ה
bhmh
noun · 189×
דָּ֑בֶר
dbr
noun · 49×
הִכְרַתִּ֥י
hkrty
verb · 283×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
י
y
noun · 440×
יְהוִ֔ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 305×
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
yrvshlm
proper_noun · 634×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כֹּֽה
kh
adverb · 574×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×
שְׁפָטִ֖ים
shptym
noun · 16×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 25:3 — And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
  • Amos 4:6 — And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
  • Deut 32:23 — I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
  • Ezek 5:12 — A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third p
  • Ezek 5:17 — So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
  • Ezek 5:17 — So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
  • Ezek 6:11 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
  • Ezek 6:11 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
  • Ezek 14:13 — Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will
  • Ezek 14:13 — Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will
  • Ezek 14:15 — If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
  • Ezek 14:17 — 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:
  • Ezek 14:19 — Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
  • Ezek 21:3 — And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
  • Ezek 33:27 — Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and
  • Jer 4:20 — Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
  • Jer 14:12 — When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
  • Jer 15:3 — And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
  • Jer 21:6 — And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
  • Jer 27:8 — And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that na
  • Jer 32:24 — Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence:
  • Jer 38:2 — Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a
  • Lev 26:6 — And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
  • Matt 24:7 — For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.