“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal —”
Ezekiel 14:19 (WEB)
Context Reading
17“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’ — 18though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves. 19“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal — 20though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.” 21For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem — the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence — to cut off from it man and animal!