For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
⛓ Read Ezekiel 14 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Ezekiel's four 'severe judgments'—sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence—match the fourth seal's quartet (sword, famine, death/pestilence, wild animals of the earth) almost exactly; high verbal volume and thematic coherence make this the clearest source for v. 8.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The intensifying judgments and the universal hatred for the name belong to the prophetic scenario of covenant judgment poured on a faithless world, of which Ezekiel's four deadly acts are emblematic.
Low confidence