Ezekiel 5:16-17 New English Translation
16 I will shoot against them deadly,[a] destructive[b] arrows of famine,[c] which I will shoot to destroy you.[d] I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.[e] 17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will take your children from you.[f] Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you,[g] and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
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- Ezekiel 5:16 tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious” but has the nuance “deadly” when used of weapons (see Ps 144:10).
- Ezekiel 5:16 tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”
- Ezekiel 5:16 tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.
- Ezekiel 5:16 tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).
- Ezekiel 5:16 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.
- Ezekiel 5:17 tn Heb “will bereave you.”
- Ezekiel 5:17 tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.
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