Ezechiel 5:16

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Căci la nenorocirile voastre voi mai adăuga şi foametea, şi vă voi sfărîma toiagul pînii.

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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.