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19 “Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it, 20 even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were among them, as I live” says the Lord God, “they couldn’t save their own sons or daughters. They would only save their own souls due to their own righteousness.”

21 This is what the Lord God says, “I’m sending four of my most destructive judgments—military invasion,[a] famine, wild animals, and pestilence—into Jerusalem to destroy both human beings and livestock in it.

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  1. Ezekiel 14:21 Lit. judgments—the sword