Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 14:19

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 12, 13 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting treacherously, I will stretch out my hand (some versions add 'upon it') and break its staff of bread, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast. And if these three men, Noah, Dan…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

19Or 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:

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17Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast:

18though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves.

— Ezekiel 14:19 —

20and should Noah, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.

21Thus saith the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore judgments, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;

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