Ezekiel 14:20-22

Expanded Bible

²⁰ As surely as I live, says the Lord God, even if Noah, Daniel [v. 14], and Job were in the land, they could not save their son or daughter. They could save only themselves ·because they did what was right [by their righteousness].

²¹ “This is what the Lord God says: ·My plans for Jerusalem are much worse [^LHow much more for Jerusalem]! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—·war [^Lsword], ·hunger [famine], wild animals, and ·disease [pestilence; plague]—to destroy its people and animals. ²² But [^Llook; ^Tbehold] some ·people will escape [survivors will be left]; some sons and daughters will be led out. They will come out to you, and you will see ·what happens to people who live as they did [^Ltheir ways and deeds]. Then you will be ·comforted [consoled] after the disasters I have brought against Jerusalem, after all the things I have brought against it.