Ezekiel 14:21-23

Expanded Bible

²¹ “This is what the Lord God says: ·My plans for Jerusalem are much worse [^LHow much more for Jerusalem]! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—·war [^Lsword], ·hunger [famine], wild animals, and ·disease [pestilence; plague]—to destroy its people and animals. ²² But [^Llook; ^Tbehold] some ·people will escape [survivors will be left]; some sons and daughters will be led out. They will come out to you, and you will see ·what happens to people who live as they did [^Ltheir ways and deeds]. Then you will be ·comforted [consoled] after the disasters I have brought against Jerusalem, after all the things I have brought against it. ²³ ·You will be comforted [They will console you] when you see ·what happens to them for living as they did [^Ltheir ways and deeds], because you will know ·there was a good reason for [it was not without cause that I did] what I did to Jerusalem, says the Lord God.”