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Conclusions
- It is God who usually ‘sends’ the disease – Lev 26:25, 2Ch 7:13, Jer 24:10
- It is seems that pestilence is never said as originating from a source other than God.
- The Hebrew word דֶּבֶר \ deber \ deh’-ber [H1698] is the one that most often refers to the plague as we understand it
- God sends the pestilence:
- for punishment – Jer 27:8, Jer 44:13,
- to deliver His people from their enemies through pestilience – Exo 11:1
- that the recipients might know God – Eze 12:16
- because He is angry – Psa 78:50
- to make the recipients a spectacle to other nations – Jer 34:17
- Children were killed in the plagues God sent – 2 Chr 21:14
Original Language
דֶּבֶר \ deber \ deh’-ber [H1698] (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence: – murrain, pestilence, plague. Total KJV occurrences: 49
נֶגַע \ nega‛ \ neh’-gah [H5061]; a blow (figuratively infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely a leprous person or dress): – plague, sore, stricken, stripe, stroke, wound. Total KJV occurrences: 78
נֶגֶף \ negeph \ neh’-ghef [5063] a trip (of the foot); figuratively an infliction (of disease): – plague, stumbling. Total KJV occurrences: 7
מַגֵּפָה \ maggêphâh \ mag-gay-faw’ [4046] a pestilence; by analogy defeat: – (X be) plague (-d), slaughter, stroke. Total KJV occurrences: 26
מַכֶּה מַכָּה \ makkâh makkeh \mak-kaw’, mak-keh’ [4347] blow (in 2Ch_2:10, of the flail); by implication a wound; figuratively carnage, also pestilence: – beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound ([-ed]). Total KJV occurrences: 48
Bible References
Key: Green indicates it was the Lord caused the plague. Orange indicates the reason for the action.
דֶּבֶר \ deber \ deh’-ber [H1698]
(in the sense of destroying); a pestilence: – murrain, pestilence, plague. Total KJV occurrences: 49
Exo 5:3 ESV Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
Exo 9:3 ESV behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
Exo 9:15 ESV For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
Lev 26:25 ESV And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Num 14:12 ESV I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Deu 28:21 ESV The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
2Sa 24:13 ESV So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
2Sa 24:15 ESV So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
1Ki 8:37 ESV “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
1Ch 21:12 ESV 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 angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
1Ch 21:14 ESV So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.
2Ch 6:28 ESV “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
2Ch 7:13 ESV When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
2Ch 20:9 ESV ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
Psa 78:50 ESV He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
Psa 91:3 ESV For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
Psa 91:6 ESV nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
Jer 14:12 ESV Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Jer 21:6 ESV And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.
Jer 21:7 ESV Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’
Jer 21:9 ESV He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.
Jer 24:10 ESV And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”
Jer 27:8 ESV “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 27:13 ESV Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 28:8 ESV The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.
Jer 29:17 ESV ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.
Jer 29:18 ESV I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 32:24 ESV Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.
Jer 32:36 ESV “Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’:
Jer 34:17 ESV “Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jer 38:2 ESV “Thus says the LORD: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.
Jer 42:17 ESV All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.
Jer 42:22 ESV Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”
Jer 44:13 ESV I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,
Eze 5:12 ESV A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
Eze 5:17 ESV I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken.”
Eze 6:11 ESV Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
Eze 6:12 ESV He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.
Eze 7:15 ESV The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
Eze 12:16 ESV But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD.”
Eze 14:19 ESV “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Eze 14:21 ESV “For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Eze 28:23 ESV for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 33:27 ESV Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.
Eze 38:22 ESV With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Hos 13:14 ESV I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Amo 4:10 ESV “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.
Hab 3:5 ESV Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.
נֶגַע \ nega‛ \ neh’-gah [H5061]
a blow (figuratively infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely a leprous person or dress): – plague, sore, stricken, stripe, stroke, wound. Total KJV occurrences: 78
Gen 12:17 ESV But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
Exo 11:1 ESV The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
All the references in Leviticus 13 and 14 are similar to the next two shown here:
Lev 13:2 ESV “When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,
Lev 13:3 ESV and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean.
Deu 17:8 ESV “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deu 21:5 ESV Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.
Deu 24:8 ESV “Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
2Sa 7:14 ESV I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
1Ki 8:37 ESV “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
1Ki 8:38 ESV whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
2Ch 6:28 ESV “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
2Ch 6:29 ESV whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,
Psa 38:11 ESV My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
Psa 39:10 ESV Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
Psa 89:32 ESV then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
Psa 91:10 ESV no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
Pro 6:33 ESV He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
Isa 53:8 ESV By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
נֶגֶף \ negeph \ neh’-ghef [5063]
a trip (of the foot); figuratively an infliction (of disease): – plague, stumbling. Total KJV occurrences: 7
Exo 12:13 ESV The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo 30:12 ESV “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.
Num 8:19 ESV And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”
Num 16:46 ESV And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
Num 16:47 ESV So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
Jos 22:17 ESV Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,
Isa 8:14 ESV And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
מַגֵּפָה \ maggêphâh \ mag-gay-faw’ [4046]
a pestilence; by analogy defeat: – (X be) plague (-d), slaughter, stroke. Total KJV occurrences: 26
Exo 9:14 ESV For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Num 14:37 ESV the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the LORD.
Num 16:48 ESV And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
Num 16:49 ESV Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
Num 16:50 ESV And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.
Num 25:8 ESV and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.
Num 25:9 ESV Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Num 25:18 ESV for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”
Num 26:1 ESV After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest,
Num 31:16 ESV Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.
1Sa 4:17 ESV He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
1Sa 6:4 ESV And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.
2Sa 17:9 ESV Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’
2Sa 18:7 ESV And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.
2Sa 24:21 ESV And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people.”
2Sa 24:25 ESV And David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.
1Ch 21:17 ESV And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house. But do not let the plague be on your people.”
1Ch 21:22 ESV And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”
2Ch 21:14 ESV behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,
Psa 106:29 ESV they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Psa 106:30 ESV Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.
Eze 24:16 ESV “Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.
Zec 14:12 ESV And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Zec 14:15 ESV And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
Zec 14:18 ESV And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
מַכֶּה מַכָּה \ makkâh makkeh \mak-kaw’, mak-keh’ [4347]
blow (in 2Ch_2:10, of the flail); by implication a wound; figuratively carnage, also pestilence: – beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound ([-ed]). Total KJV occurrences: 48
Lev 26:21 ESV “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
Num 11:33 ESV While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.
Deu 25:3 ESV Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.
Deu 28:59 ESV then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.
Deu 28:61 ESV Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.
Deu 29:22 ESV And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick—
Jos 10:10 ESV And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
Jos 10:20 ESV When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
Jdg 11:33 ESV And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.
Jdg 15:8 ESV And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
1Sa 4:8 ESV Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.
1Sa 4:10 ESV So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
1Sa 6:19 ESV And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the LORD. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great blow.
1Sa 14:14 ESV And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
1Sa 14:30 ESV How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.”
1Sa 19:8 ESV And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.
1Sa 23:5 ESV And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1Ki 20:21 ESV And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow.
1Ki 22:35 ESV And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.
2Ki 8:29 ESV And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2Ki 9:15 ESV but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”
2Ch 2:10 ESV I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”
2Ch 13:17 ESV Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.
2Ch 22:6 ESV and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.
2Ch 28:5 ESV Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.
Est 9:5 ESV The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
Psa 64:7 ESV But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.
Pro 20:30 ESV Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
Isa 1:6 ESV From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
Isa 10:26 ESV And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
Isa 14:6 ESV that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Isa 27:7 ESV Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
Isa 30:26 ESV Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
Jer 6:7 ESV As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
Jer 10:19 ESV Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, “Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it.”
Jer 14:17 ESV “You shall say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
Jer 15:18 ESV Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Jer 19:8 ESV And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
Jer 30:12 ESV “For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
Jer 30:14 ESV All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.
Jer 30:17 ESV For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’
Jer 49:17 ESV “Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
Jer 50:13 ESV Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.
Mic 1:9 ESV For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
Nah 3:19 ESV There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
Zec 13:6 ESV And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’
Greek Words
Luk 7:21 ESV In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.
Rev 9:18 ESV By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
Rev 9:20 ESV The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
Rev 11:6 ESV They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.
Rev 15:1 ESV Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
Rev 15:6 ESV and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.
Rev 15:8 ESV and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
Rev 16:9 ESV They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.
Rev 16:21 ESV And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.
Rev 18:4 ESV Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
Rev 18:8 ESV For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Rev 21:9 ESV Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Rev 22:18 ESV I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
