For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem My four severe judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence—to cut off from it human and animal! The enumeration of the four agents of judgment—sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence—represents the comprehensive arsenal of God's judgment against Jerusalem. The phrase "how much more" indicates that if individual righteousness cannot save even one's family under a single judgment, how much less can it avail when God sends all four judgments simultaneously. This verse escalates the principle from abstract formulation to the specific historical reality of Jerusalem's judgment.

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