New International Version (© 2011) 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.King James Bible 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:American Standard Version when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;Young's Literal Translation In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread.Ezekiel 5:16 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThe evil arrows of famine - Famine and pestilence are represented as poisoned arrows, inflicting death wherever they wound. The ancients represented them in the same way. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge the evil Deuteronomy 32:23,24 I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them... Psalm 7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. Psalm 91:5-7 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day... Lamentations 3:12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. and will Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight... Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand on it... Leviticus 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven... 2 Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver... Isaiah 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread... Ezekiel 5:16 Parallel Commentaries
Adding Arrows Bread Break Broken Causing Cut Deadly Destroy Destruction Destructive Disease End Evil Famine Food Further Increase Loose Necessary Sending Shoot Staff SupplyAdding Arrows Bread Break Broken Causing Cut Deadly Destroy Destruction Destructive Disease End Evil Famine Food Further Increase Loose Necessary Sending Shoot Staff SupplyTHE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®.Ezekiel 5:16 Mobile Bible Ezekiel 5:16 Bible Suite Ezekiel 5:16 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 5:16 Chinese Bible
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Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied. Jeremiah 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. Ezekiel 4:16 He then said to me: "Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair, Ezekiel 5:15 You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken. Ezekiel 5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the LORD have spoken."
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