Ezekiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ¹  destructive ²  arrows of famine, ³  which I will shoot to destroy you. ⁴  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ⁶  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ⁷ 

Ezekiel 14:13

14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ⁸  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

[5:16]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

[5:16]  ² tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

[5:16]  ³ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

[5:16]  ⁴ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

[9:9]  ⁶ tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

[9:9]  ⁷ sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

[14:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”