Ezekiel 14:16-18

Modern English Version

¹⁶ though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they could deliver neither their sons nor their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, “Let the sword go through the land and cut off man and beast from it,” ¹⁸ though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would deliver neither their sons nor their daughters, but they alone would deliver themselves.