Ezekiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ¹  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²  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. ³  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ⁴  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 6:12

6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these ⁵  will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.

Ezekiel 34:29

34:29 I will prepare for them a healthy ⁶  planting. They will no longer be victims ⁷  of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.

Ezekiel 36:29-30

36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you. 36:30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

[5:12]  ¹ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ² sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[5:17]  ³ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

[5:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

[6:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”

[34:29]  ⁷ tc The MT reads לְשֵׁם (lÿshem, “for a name”), meaning perhaps a renowned planting (place). The translation takes this to be a metathesis of שָׁלֹם (shalom) as was read by the LXX.

[34:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “those gathered” for famine.