Lamentationes 14:21

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quoniam hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Quod etsi quatuor judicia mea pessima,
gladium, et famem, ac bestias malas, et pestilentiam,
immisero in Jerusalem,
ut interficiam de ea hominem et pecus,

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Quoniam h�c dicit Dominus Deus : Quod etsi quatuor judicia mea pessima, gladium, et famem, ac bestias malas, et pestilentiam, immisero in Jerusalem, ut interficiam de ea hominem et pecus,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quoniam haec dicit Dominus Deus: Quod si et quattuor iudicia mea pessima, gladium et famem et bestias malas et pestilentiam misero in Ierusalem, ut interficiam de ea hominem et pecus,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How much more when: or, Also when

my four: Ezekiel 14:13, Ezekiel 14:15, Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 14:19, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 6:11, Ezekiel 6:12, Ezekiel 33:27, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:3, Amos 4:6-12, Revelation 6:4-8

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:4 - by great Leviticus 26:6 - rid Leviticus 26:22 - wild Deuteronomy 28:45 - Moreover Deuteronomy 32:23 - heap mischiefs Deuteronomy 32:24 - the teeth Ruth 1:1 - a famine 2 Samuel 24:13 - seven 1 Kings 8:37 - in the land famine 2 Kings 17:25 - the Lord sent 2 Kings 25:3 - the famine Isaiah 24:17 - and the pit Isaiah 51:19 - two things Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 14:12 - but Jeremiah 15:1 - Though Jeremiah 21:6 - I will Jeremiah 25:29 - I will Jeremiah 27:8 - with the sword Jeremiah 27:13 - by the sword Jeremiah 32:24 - because Jeremiah 38:2 - He Jeremiah 52:6 - the famine Ezekiel 12:14 - I will draw Ezekiel 21:3 - will draw Matthew 24:7 - famines

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord God, how much more,.... If the Lord would not be entreated by such good men as those mentioned, for a land that had sinned against him, to whom he only sends some one of the above judgments, either famine, or noisome beasts, or the sword, or the pestilence, how much more inexorable and deaf to all entreaties must he be; or if anyone of those judgments makes so great a desolation in the land, then how much greater must that detraction be,

when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem: or "evil" a ones; as they are to men, though righteously inflicted by the Lord; when all these four are sent together, what a devastation must they make! namely,

the sword, and the famine, and the, noisome beast, and the pestilence,

to cut off from it man and beast; three of them, it is evident, were sent upon Jerusalem at the time of its siege by Nebuchadnezzar, the sword, famine, and pestilence; and no doubt the other, even the noisome beasts; and if not literally, yet figuratively, for Nebuchadnezzar himself is compared to a lion, Jeremiah 4:7.

a הרעים "mala", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius; "pessima", Junius & Tremellius, 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 14:21. My four sore judgments — SWORD, war. FAMINE, occasioned by drought. PESTILENCE, epidemic diseases which sweep off a great part of the inhabitants of a land. The NOISOME BEAST, the multiplication of wild beasts in consequence of the general destruction of the inhabitants.