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Ezekiel 5:16

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5:16I will shoot against them deadly,28 destructive29 arrows of famine,30 which I will shoot to destroy you.31 I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.32

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Footnotes

  1. 28 The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).
  2. 29 Heb “which are/were to destroy.”
  3. 30 The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.
  4. 31 Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. ).
  5. 32 Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.

NIVNew 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.

NLTNew Living Translation

“I will shower you with the deadly arrows of famine to destroy you. The famine will become more and more severe until every crumb of food is gone.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

When I send my arrows of deadly famine against them, which will be as destruction that I will send in order to destroy you, I will increase famine against you, and I will break the supply of food for you.

KJV 1900King James Version

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: