Ezekiel 14:19

19 “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,

Ezekiel 14:19 in Other Translations

19 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:

19 "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,

19 “Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike.

19 "Or, if I visit a deadly disease on that country, pouring out my lethal anger, killing both people and animals,

19 "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,

Ezekiel 14:19 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 14:19

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" ^F25; 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" ^F26; 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (Mdb) "per sanguinem", Piscator.
F26 "Propter sanguinem", Vatablus.

Ezekiel 14:19 In-Context

17 “Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,

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.

19 “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,

20 as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.

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!

Cross References

• 1. S Ezekiel 7:8
• 2. S Isaiah 34:3
• 3. Jeremiah 14:12; Ezekiel 38:22