19 Or if I were to send a (A)plague against that country and pour out My wrath on it in blood to eliminate man and animal from it, 20 even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not save either their son or their daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.”

21 For this is what the Lord God says: “How much more when (B)I send My four [a]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal life from it!

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 14:21 Lit evil

19 “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath(A) on it through bloodshed,(B) killing its people and their animals,(C) 20 as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.(D)

21 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments(E)—sword(F) and famine(G) and wild beasts and plague(H)—to kill its men and their animals!(I)

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