A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.<n id="1" /> A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,<n id="2" /> and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you.<n id="1" /> Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you,<n id="2" /> and I will bring a sword against you. I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!&#8221;p>

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<n id="1" /> will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

<p class="poetry">I will send a plague into the city<n id="1" /> and bloodshed into its streets;p> <p class="poetry">the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it<n id="2" /> from every side.p> <p class="poetry">Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not!p> <p class="poetry">O Death, bring on your plagues!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">O Sheol, bring on your destruction!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">My eyes will not show any compassion!<n id="4" />p>

And they said, &#8220;The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey<n id="1" /> into the desert so that we may sacrifice<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

&#8216;If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack,<n id="1" /> judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple.<n id="2" /> We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will<n id="3" /> hear and deliver us.&#8217;

Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them.<n id="1" /> Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, &#8216;I will bring war,<n id="2" /> starvation, and disease on them. I will treat them like figs that are so rotten<n id="3" /> they cannot be eaten.

I will chase after them with war,<n id="1" /> starvation, and disease. I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to them. I will make them examples of those who are cursed, objects of horror, hissing scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I exile them.

Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city<n id="1" /> in order to capture it. War,<n id="2" /> starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians<n id="3" /> who are attacking it.<n id="4" /> <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="5" /> you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You and your people<n id="1" /> are right in saying, &#8216;War,<n id="2" /> starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.&#8217;<n id="3" /> But now I, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, have something further to say about this city:<n id="4" />

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease.<n id="1" /> Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians<n id="2" /> will live. They will escape with their lives.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />

All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, &#8220;Ah!&#8221; because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence.<n id="1" />

But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments &#8211; sword, famine, wild animals, and plague &#8211; to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to kill both people and animals!