“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.
Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.
Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.
Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.” 1
32:36 “You and your people 12 are right in saying, ‘War, 13 starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.’ 14 But now I, the Lord God of Israel, have something further to say about this city: 15
47:6 How long will you cry out, 16 ‘Oh, sword of the Lord,
how long will it be before you stop killing? 17
Go back into your sheath!
Stay there and rest!’ 18
47:7 But how can it rest 19
when I, the Lord, have 20 given it orders?
I have ordered it to attack
the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast. 21
14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals. 14:18 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters – they would save only their own lives.
14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals. 14:20 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.
14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 22 to kill both people and animals!