Ezekiel 14:19
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New International Version (©2011)
"Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out both man and animal from it,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it,

NET Bible (©2006)
"Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Suppose I send a plague into that country or pour out my fury on it by killing people and destroying animals.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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:

American King James Version
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

American Standard Version
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

Darby Bible Translation
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,

English Revised Version
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:

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

World English Bible
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;

Young's Literal Translation
'Or -- pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast --

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:12-23 National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God's professing people rebel against him, they may justly expect all his judgments. The faith, obedience, and prayers of Noah prevailed to the saving of his house, but not of the old world. Job's sacrifice and prayer in behalf of his friends were accepted, and Daniel had prevailed for the saving his companions and the wise men of Babylon. But a people that had filled the measure of their sins, was not to expect to escape for the sake of any righteous men living among them; not even of the most eminent saints, who could be accepted in their own case only through the sufferings and righteousness of Christ. Yet even when God makes the greatest desolations by his judgments, he saves some to be monuments of his mercy. In firm belief that we shall approve the whole of God's dealings with ourselves, and with all mankind, let us silence all rebellious murmurs and objections.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - Pestilence is joined with blood, as in Ezekiel 5:17; Ezekiel 38:22, as indicating its death-bearing character.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Or if I send a pestilence into that land,.... Or the plague, which is the destruction that wastes at noon day; this is from the Lord, and a sore judgment it is:

and pour out my fury upon it in blood; or, "by blood" (y); by corrupting the blood, which is done when a man is seized with the pestilence. The Targum renders it, "with slaughter"; by slaying a great number of persons by that disease, as a token of fury and wrath, because of their transgressions. It may be rendered, "because of blood" (z); and so express the cause and reason of the judgment, the shedding of innocent blood:

to cut off from it man and beast; man by the pestilence, and beast by some contagious distemper or another.

(y) "per sanguinem", Piscator. (z) "Propter sanguinem", Vatablus.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. in blood—not literally. In Hebrew, "blood" expresses every premature kind of death.

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God's Irrevocable Sentence
…18Though these three men were in it, as I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. …

Isaiah 34:3 Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
Jeremiah 14:12 Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague."
Ezekiel 5:12 A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.
Ezekiel 7:8 I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.
Ezekiel 14:18 as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.
Ezekiel 14:20 as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel and Jobwere in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.
Ezekiel 14:21 "For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments--sword and famine and wild beasts and plague--to kill its men and their animals!
Ezekiel 21:31 I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled in destruction.