Ezekiel 5:17 meaning and explanation

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 5:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Ezekiel 5:17 closes a sign-act in which the prophet shaved his head and divided the hair to picture Jerusalem's fate. Speaking as the Lord GOD to the exiles in Babylon, Ezekiel lists the covenant curses of Leviticus 26: famine, wild beasts, plague and sword.

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