Ezekiel 14:15-17

New English Translation

¹⁵ “Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals. ¹⁶ Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.

¹⁷ “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.