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“Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike.
Ezekiel 14:19 · New Living Translation
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;
  • KJV 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:
  • 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,

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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

Cross-references · 24

  • Ezek 38:22With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
  • Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
  • Ezek 7:8Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
  • 2 Sam 24:15So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
  • Ezek 5:12A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
  • Matt 24:7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
  • Rev 16:3–6The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
  • Num 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
  • Ezek 36:18Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
  • Ps 91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
  • 2 Chr 6:28“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;
  • Jer 21:6I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
  • Amos 4:10“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 20:9‘If evil comes on us — the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine — we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
  • Jer 24:10I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”
  • 2 Chr 7:13“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
  • Deut 28:21–22Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
  • Ps 91:6nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
  • Num 16:46–50Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
  • Deut 28:59–61then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
  • 2 Sam 24:13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
  • Isa 37:36Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  • Jer 21:9He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and he will escape with his life.

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