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Ezekiel 5:12
New English Translation
Ezekiel 5:12
New English Translation
12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.[a] A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,[b] and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
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- Ezekiel 5:12 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.
- Ezekiel 5:12 sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.
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