15 The (A)sword is outside the city and the plague and the famine are within. Anyone who is in the field will die by the sword, while famine and the plague will consume those in the city. 16 Even when their survivors (B)escape, they will be on the mountains like (C)doves of the valleys, all of them (D)moaning, each over his own wrongdoing. 17 All (E)hands will hang limp, and all [a]knees will drip with water.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:17 Heb idiom meaning to wet oneself

15 Outside is the sword;
    inside are plague and famine.
Those in the country
    will die by the sword;
those in the city
    will be devoured by famine and plague.(A)
16 The fugitives(B) who escape
    will flee to the mountains.
Like doves(C) of the valleys,
    they will all moan,
    each for their own sins.(D)
17 Every hand will go limp;(E)
    every leg will be wet with urine.(F)

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