Ezekiel 14:19

THE MESSAGE

"Or, if I visit a deadly disease on that country, pouring out my lethal anger, killing both people and animals, and Noah, Daniel, and Job happened to be alive at the time, as sure as I am the living God, not a son, not a daughter, would be rescued. Only these three would be delivered because of their righteousness.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Or suppose 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.

Hebrew Names Version
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

King James Version
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:

English Standard Version
"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,

New American Standard Bible
"Or if I were to send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath on it in blood to eliminate man and animal from it,

New Century Version
"Or I might cause a disease to spread in that country. I might pour out my anger against it, destroying and killing people and animals.

Amplified Bible
"Or if I should send a virulent disease into that land and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and animal from it,

World English Bible
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it,

Legacy Standard Bible
Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it,

Berean Standard Bible
Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,

Contemporary English Version
And suppose I am so angry that I send a deadly disease to wipe out the people and livestock of a sinful nation.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Or if I bring a plague into that land and pour out my fury on it in bloodshed, so that I eliminate both its humans and its animals;

Darby Translation
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,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Or I might send a disease against that country. I will pour my anger down on the people. I will remove all the people and animals from that country.

George Lamsa Translation
Or if I should send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, and destroy from it man and beast;

Good News Translation
"If I send an epidemic on that country and in my anger take many lives, killing people and animals,

Lexham English Bible
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,

Literal Translation
Or if I send a plague into the land and pour out My fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf I sende a pestilence in to the londe, and poure out my sore indignacion vpon it in bloude, so that I rote out of it both man and beest,

American Standard Version
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

Bible in Basic English
Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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;

King James Version (1611)
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and powre out my fury vpon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I sende a pestilence into this lande, and powre out my sore indignation vppon it in blood, so that I roote out of it both man and beast,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast:

English Revised Version
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:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe if Y brynge in also pestilence on that lond, and Y schede out myn indignacioun on it in blood, that Y do awei fro it man and beeste,

Update Bible Version
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

New English Translation
"Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

New King James Version
"Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast,

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

New Life Bible
Or if I send a disease against that country and show My anger by killing, to take away man and animal from it,

New Revised Standard
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off humans and animals from it;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Or pestilence, I, should send into that land, - and should pour out mine indignation thereon in blood, to cut off therefrom man and beast

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

Revised Standard Version
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;

Young's Literal Translation
`Or -- pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast --

Contextual Overview

¹² God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, when a country sins against me by living faithlessly and I reach out and destroy its food supply by bringing on a famine, wiping out humans and animals alike, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job—the Big Three—were alive at the time, it wouldn't do the population any good. Their righteousness would only save their own lives." Decree of God , the Master. ¹⁵"Or, if I make wild animals go through the country so that everyone has to leave and the country becomes wilderness and no one dares enter it anymore because of the wild animals, even if these three men were living there, as sure as I am the living God, neither their sons nor daughters would be rescued, but only those three, and the country would revert to wilderness. ¹⁷"Or, if I bring war on that country and give the order, ‘Let the killing begin!' leaving both people and animals dead, even if those three men were alive at the time, as sure as I am the living God, neither sons nor daughters would be rescued, but only these three. ¹⁹"Or, if I visit a deadly disease on that country, pouring out my lethal anger, killing both people and animals, and Noah, Daniel, and Job happened to be alive at the time, as sure as I am the living God, not a son, not a daughter, would be rescued. Only these three would be delivered because of their righteousness. ²¹"Now then, that's the picture," says God , the Master, "once I've sent my four catastrophic judgments on Jerusalem—war, famine, wild animals, disease—to kill off people and animals alike. But look! Believe it or not, there'll be survivors. Some of their sons and daughters will be brought out. When they come out to you and their salvation is right in your face, you'll see for yourself the life they've been saved from. You'll know that this severe judgment I brought on Jerusalem was worth it, that it had to be. Yes, when you see in detail the kind of lives they've been living, you'll feel much better. You'll see the reason behind all that I've done in Jerusalem." Decree of God , the Master.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if I: Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 38:22, Numbers 14:12, Numbers 16:46-50, Deuteronomy 28:21, Deuteronomy 28:22, Deuteronomy 28:59-61, 2 Samuel 24:13, 2 Samuel 24:15, 1 Kings 8:37, 2 Chronicles 6:28, 2 Chronicles 7:13, 2 Chronicles 20:9, Psalms 91:3, Psalms 91:6, Isaiah 37:36, Jeremiah 14:12, Jeremiah 21:6, Jeremiah 21:9, Jeremiah 24:10, Amos 4:10, Matthew 24:7

and pour: Ezekiel 7:8, Ezekiel 36:18, Revelation 16:3-6

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 21:12 - even the pestilence Job 9:23 - he will Ezekiel 5:17 - and pestilence Ezekiel 14:13 - and will cut Ezekiel 14:21 - my four Ezekiel 21:31 - pour Ezekiel 25:13 - and will

Cross-References

Genesis 14:22
But Abram told the king of Sodom, "I swear to God , The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, this solemn oath, that I'll take nothing from you, not so much as a thread or a shoestring. I'm not going to have you go around saying, ‘I made Abram rich.' Nothing for me other than what the young men ate and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; they're to get their share of the plunder."

Genesis 47:7
Next Joseph brought his father Jacob in and introduced him to Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Pharaoh asked Jacob, "How old are you?"

Genesis 49:28
All these are the tribes of Israel, the twelve tribes. And this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each one with his own special farewell blessing.

Ruth 3:10
He said, " God bless you, my dear daughter! What a splendid expression of love! And when you could have had your pick of any of the young men around. And now, my dear daughter, don't you worry about a thing; I'll do all you could want or ask. Everybody in town knows what a courageous woman you are—a real prize! You're right, I am a close relative to you, but there is one even closer than I am. So stay the rest of the night. In the morning, if he wants to exercise his customary rights and responsibilities as the closest covenant redeemer, he'll have his chance; but if he isn't interested, as God lives, I'll do it. Now go back to sleep until morning."

Psalms 24:1
A David Psalm God claims Earth and everything in it, God claims World and all who live on it. He built it on Ocean foundations, laid it out on River girders.

Micah 6:6
How can I stand up before God and show proper respect to the high God? Should I bring an armload of offerings topped off with yearling calves? Would God be impressed with thousands of rams, with buckets and barrels of olive oil? Would he be moved if I sacrificed my firstborn child, my precious baby, to cancel my sin?

Matthew 11:25
Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work."

Luke 10:21
At that, Jesus rejoiced, exuberant in the Holy Spirit. "I thank you, Father, Master of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the know-it-alls and showed them to these innocent newcomers. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.

Ephesians 1:3
How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He's the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" y; 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" z; 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.

y בדם "per sanguinem", Piscator. z "Propter sanguinem", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 14:0; Jeremiah 15:0 is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy. Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver to the exiles the same message which Jeremiah conveys to the inhabitants of Judaea. The answer discovers the nature of the questions which had been expressed or implied.

(1) Can God cast out a people who are holy unto Himself?

(2) Is it just to punish them with utter desolation?

The prophet answers:

(1) That when a people is so corrupt as to call down national judgment, individual piety shall save none but the individuals themselves.

(2) The corrupt condition of the people shall be made so manifest, that none will question the justice of God in dealing thus severely with them.

Ezekiel 14:12

Or, “When a land” - the case is first put in a general form, and then ism brought with increased force home to Jerusalem - “sinneth against me by trespassing grievously,” and I stretch out “mine hand upon it,” and break the staff of bread “thereof,” and send famine “upon it and” cut off “man and beast: though these three men” etc.

Ezekiel 14:14

Noah, Daniel, and Job - Three striking instances of men who, for their integrity, were delivered from the ruin which fell upon others. Some have thought it strange that Daniel, a contemporary, and still young, should have been classed with the two ancient worthies. But the account of him Daniel 2:0 shows, that by this time Daniel was a very remarkable man (compare Ezekiel 28:3), and the introduction of the name of a contemporary gives force and life to the illustration. There is in the order in which the names occur a kind of climax. Noah did not rescue the guilty world, but did carry forth with him his wife, sons, and sons’ wives. Daniel raised only a few, but he did raise three of his countrymen with him to honor. To Job was spared neither son nor daughter.

Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23

Ye shall be comforted ... - By a truer estimate of the dispensations of the Almighty. This visitation will be recognized as inevitable and just.