Ezekiel 5:14-16

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¹⁴ Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.^{(A) 15} You shall be^[a] a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken^(B)— ¹⁶ when I loose against you^[b] my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.^[c](C)