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13 “Son of Man, when a nation[a] sins against me by a treacherous act,[b] I’ll reach out to oppose it, destroying its source of food,[c] by sending famine against it, and by destroying both people and beast within it. 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel,[d] and Job lived in that land, they would only save their own lives on account of their righteousness,” declares the Lord God.

15 “If I were to make wild animals pass throughout the land, so that they kill its residents[e] and it were to become desolate because no one will travel through it due to those wild animals,[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 14:13 Lit. land
  2. Ezekiel 14:13 Lit. nation acts treacherously by a treacherous act
  3. Ezekiel 14:13 Lit. will break in pieces its staff of bread.
  4. Ezekiel 14:14 cf. Eze 28:3
  5. Ezekiel 14:15 Lit. children
  6. Ezekiel 14:15 Lit. in the face of living beings