Ezekiel 14:19

19 And if I [were to] send a plague to that land, and I pour out my rage on it with blood to cut it off, [both] human and animal,

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 over that land, and I say, 'Sword, let it cross over into the land!' And I will cut off from it [both] human and animal.

18 And [if] these three men [were] in the midst of it, {as surely as I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "they will not save sons and daughters, but {they alone} will be saved.

19 And if I [were to] send a plague to that land, and I pour out my rage on it with blood to cut it off, [both] human and animal,

20 and [if] Noah, Daniel, and Job [were] in the midst of her, {as surely as I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "surely not [a] son, surely not [a] daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save {themselves}."

21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments--the evil sword, and famine, and [a] fierce animal, and a plague--to Jerusalem to cut it off, [both] human and animal!