Ezekiel 5:16

Famine, Sword, and Dispersion · Ezekiel 5:11–17
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Translations

Modern
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
Traditional
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:
Literal
…in my sending against them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you; and the famine I am adding upon you, and I will cut off unto you the staff of bread.
Latin
Ego Dominus locutus sum: quando misero sagittas famis pessimas in eos, quæ erunt mortiferæ, et quas mittam ut disperdam vos: et famem congregabo super vos, et conteram in vobis baculum panis:

Original

Hebrew
English
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

Notes

These chapters discuss words and actions that warned of disaster for Jerusalem (Ezekiel 4–5) and the land of Judah (Ezekiel 6–7).

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Topics

Arrow: Figurative Arrows of God's Judgment Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Bread: Called the Staff of Life Bread: Scarceness of, Sent As a Punishment Church: Backslidden Famine: Expressed by The Arrows of Famine Famine: Sent As a Judgment