The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.(在田野的，必遭刀劍而死。在城中的，必有饑荒，瘟疫吞滅他。)

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.(他們禁食的時候，我不聽他們的呼求。他們獻燔祭和素祭，我也不悅納。)

Although ancient people held sacrificial ceremony and beat drums to drive out pestilence on Laba it is Buddhism that really takes it as a festival.(盡管古人在臘八當天舉行祭祀活動，敲鑼打鼓以驅邪消災，然而，是佛教把臘八變成了真正的節日。)

Fire is the root cause of pestilence.(“火”是疫病的根本動因。)

As early as Neijing, the occurrence, the acupuncture and the preventive thought of pestilence was detailed discussed.(早在二千多年前的《內經》就對疫病的發病機制、針刺治療、預防措施等有詳細論述。)

The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.(從古以來，在你我以前的先知，向多國和大邦說預言，論到爭戰，災禍，瘟疫的事。)

She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence - the scarlet fever, or some such half - fledged angel of judgment - whose mission was to punish the SINS of the rising generation.(她怒氣沖沖地追著他們，簡直象個小瘟神——猩紅熱或某個羽毛未豐的專司懲罰的這類小天使，其使命就是懲處正在成長的一代人的罪孽。)

That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence;(羅沃德所在的林間山谷，是大霧的搖籃，是霧氣誘發的病疫的滋生地。)

In the ancient time, people viewed La day as the time for sacrifice and exorcism of disaster and pestilence to ensure peace and safety in the coming year.(在古代，人們把“臘日”視為祭祀之日，驅邪免災之日，以求來年安寧。)

In recent months the city has revived its efforts to curb honking, smoking and the pestilence of plastic bags.(最近幾個月來，這個城市重振旗鼓，再次禁止鳴笛，禁煙，以及禁止到處都是的塑料袋。)