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.
Jeremiah 9:21-22
9:21 ‘Death has climbed in through our windows.
It has entered into our fortified houses.
It has taken away our children who play in the streets.
It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’
9:22 Tell your daughters and neighbors, ‘The Lord says,
“The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere
like manure scattered on a field.
They will lie scattered on the ground
like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”
Jeremiah 15:2
15:2 If they ask you, ‘Where should we go?’ tell them the
Lord says this:
“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.
Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.
Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.
Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.”
Jeremiah 24:10
24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease
on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’”
Jeremiah 38:2
38:2 “The
Lord says, ‘Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease.
Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians
will live. They will escape with their lives.’”