Lamentationes 5:16

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Ego Dominus locutus sum: quando misero sagittas famis pessimas in eos, quæ erunt mortiferæ, et quas mittam ut disperdam vos: et famem congregabo super vos, et conteram in vobis baculum panis:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Cecidit corona capitis nostri : v� nobis, quia peccavimus !

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ego Dominus locutus sum. Quando misero sagittas famis pessimas in vos, quae erunt mortiferae, et quas mittam, ut destruam vos, et famem congregabo super vos et conteram vobis baculum panis;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the evil: Deuteronomy 32:23, Deuteronomy 32:24, Psalms 7:13, Psalms 91:5-7, Lamentations 3:12

and will: Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 14:13, Leviticus 26:26, 2 Kings 6:25, Isaiah 3:1

Reciprocal: Psalms 104:15 - bread Lamentations 1:11 - seek Lamentations 2:19 - that faint

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famines,.... Either famine itself, which is as an arrow; it is taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts, and is shot by him; and moves swiftly when it has a commission; and is very destructive: or arrows which bring on a famine, such as drought, excessive rains, blasting, mildew, locusts, c. or arrows which the famine brings, as leanness, faintness, blackness, and death and, in either sense, are evil ones; and are sent of God for the following end:

which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you; God's design in sending them was to destroy, and that was answered; and a very destroying arrow famine is, and therefore called evil:

and I will increase the famine upon you; or "gather y [it] upon", or "against you"; as if it was an army with bows and arrows:

and will break your staff of bread: take away the virtue from the little they had, that that should not nourish and satisfy;

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y אסף עליכם "famen congregabo, super vos", V. L. Pagninus; "famen colligam super vos", Montanus, Polanus, Starckius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 5:16. The evil arrows of famine — Famine and pestilence are represented as poisoned arrows, inflicting death wherever they wound. The ancients represented them in the same way.