15 `If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast--
16 these three men in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation.
17 `Or--a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast--
18 and these three men in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered.
19 `Or--pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast--
20 and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah-- neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.
21 `For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Although My four sore judgments--sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence--I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast,