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16 I will cut off your supply of food and let you starve. You[a] will feel the pains of hunger like sharp arrows sent to destroy you. 17 (A)I will send hunger and wild animals to kill your children, and will send sickness, violence, and war to kill you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

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  1. Ezekiel 5:16 Probable text You; Hebrew They.

16 When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.(A) 17 I will send famine and wild beasts(B) against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed(C) will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.(D)

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16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

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