Ezekiel 5:12
5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.
A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,
and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 5:17
5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you.
Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you,
and I will bring a sword against you. I, the
Lord, have spoken!”
Ezekiel 21:3-4
21:3 and say to them,
‘This is what the
Lord says: Look,
I am against you.
I will draw my sword
from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone
from the south
to the north.
Ezekiel 21:9-15
21:9 “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says:
“‘A sword, a sword is sharpened,
and also polished.
21:10 It is sharpened for slaughter,
it is polished to flash like lightning!
“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!
21:11 “‘He gave it to be polished,
to be grasped in the hand –
the sword is sharpened, it is polished –
giving it into the hand of the executioner.
21:12 Cry out and moan, son of man,
for it is wielded against my people;
against all the princes of Israel.
They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people.
Therefore, strike your thigh.
21:13 “‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the sovereign Lord.’
21:14 “And you, son of man, prophesy,
and clap your hands together.
Let the sword strike twice, even three times!
It is a sword for slaughter,
a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.
21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.
At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.
Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!
Ezekiel 29:8
29:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.
Ezekiel 38:21-22
38:21 I will call for a sword to attack
Gog
on all my mountains, declares the sovereign
Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.
38:22 I will judge him with plague and bloodshed. I will rain down on him, his troops and the many peoples who are with him a torrential downpour, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Leviticus 26:25
26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance.
Although
you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.
Jeremiah 25:9
25:9 So I, the
Lord, affirm that
I will send for all the peoples of the north
and my servant,
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy
this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it
and make them everlasting ruins.
I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
Jeremiah 47:6
47:6 How long will you cry out, ‘Oh, sword of the Lord,
how long will it be before you stop killing?
Go back into your sheath!
Stay there and rest!’