Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Parallel translations
- WEB “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
- BSB Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
- NKJV “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast,
- NASB Or if I were to send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath on it in blood to eliminate man and animal from it,
- NLT “Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike.
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Quick answer
Pestilence is the third judgment, poured out in 'blood' (deadly violence and death). God's wrath touches both people and beasts.
Overview
Plague joins beasts and sword as a covenant curse. The phrase 'pour out my wrath in blood' stresses the lethal seriousness of God's anger against sin. As elsewhere, the judgment is total, reaching man and animal alike.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 38:22And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
- Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
- Ezek 7:8Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
- Ezek 5:12A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Matt 24:7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
- Rev 16:3–6And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
- 1 Kgs 8:37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
- Num 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
- Ezek 36:18Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
- Ps 91:3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
- 2 Chr 6:28If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
- Jer 21:6And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
- Amos 4:10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
- 2 Chr 20:9If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
- Jer 24:10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
- 2 Chr 7:13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- Deut 28:21–22The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
- Ps 91:6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- Num 16:46–50And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
- Deut 28:59–61Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- 2 Sam 24:13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
- Isa 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Jer 21:9He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
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