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Ezekiel 5:17
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15 ‘So1 it shall be a areproach, a taunt, a blesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in cfurious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.  
16 When I asend against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your bsupply of bread.  
17 So I will send against you famine and awild beasts, and they will bereave you. bPestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ” 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 5:17

beasts—perhaps meaning destructive conquerors (Daniel 7:4). Rather, literal "beasts," which infest desolated regions such as Judea was to become (compare Ezekiel 34:28; Exodus 23:29; Deuteronomy 32:24; II Kings 17:25). The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless.

sword—civil war.


 
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