Ezekiel 5:16

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. And I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 5:16 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
  3. 2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
  4. Psalms 7:13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
  5. Psalms 91:5You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
  6. Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
  7. Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
  8. Ezekiel 4:16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
  9. Ezekiel 14:13“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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