Ezekiel 14:15-17

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¹⁵ If I send wild animals through the land to ravage it so that it is made desolate and no one may pass through because of the animals,^{(A) 16} even if these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would save neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate. ¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, “Let a sword pass through the land,” and I cut off humans and animals from it,^(B)