🔥WEB · Ezekiel 14:17
What does Ezekiel 14:17 mean?
"“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’"
— Ezekiel 14:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’
though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.
“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
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