Ezekiel 5:17

so will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, Leviticus 26:22, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence, in various severe epidemics, and blood shall pass through thee, in slaughter by the Chaldean invaders; and I will bring the sword upon thee, here chiefly in civil war. I, the Lord, have spoken it. There is special emphasis in the repetition of this statement and in the heaping of terms denoting the severity of the Lord's punishment, also in the change from the second to the third person, as though the Lord were becoming increasingly estranged from His own people. His avenging fury strikes men with deadly effect, no matter in what form He sends it.