41 if I sharpen my flashing sword1
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
12 either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the sangel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
12 If a man1 does not repent, God2 will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
16 For by fire will the Lord menter into judgment,
and by his sword, with all flesh;
and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other;
no flesh has peace.
3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: uBehold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.
