| 1 | And you, son of man [Ezekiel], take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor and shave your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair into three parts. |
| 2 | You shall burn one part with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a second part and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. |
| 3 | You shall also take from these a small number of hairs and bind them in the skirts of your robe. |
| 4 | And of these again take some hairs and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire; from there a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel. |
| 5 | Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; in the center of the nations I have set her, and countries are round about her. |
| 6 | And she has changed
and
rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the [heathen] nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for [Israel] rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they have not walked in them. |
| 7 | Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you were more turbulent
and
raged [against Me] more than the nations that are round about you and have not walked in My statutes, neither have kept My ordinances, nor have done according to the ordinances [concerning] the nations that are round about you; |
| 8 | Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. |
| 9 | And because of all your abominations, I will do in you that which I have not done and the like of which I will never do again. |
| 10 | Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you and all who are left of you I will scatter to all the winds. |
| 11 | Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you
and
withdraw My eye that it shall not spare you. And I also will have no pity. |
| 12 | And a third of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed by famine in the midst of you; a third shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter a third to all the winds and will draw out a sword after them. |
| 13 | Thus shall My anger be spent and I will cause My wrath toward them to rest and I will be eased
and
comforted. And they shall know, understand,
and
realize that I the Lord have spoken in My zeal, when I have accomplished My wrath upon them. |
| 14 | Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you and in the sight of all who pass by. |
| 15 | So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror
and
an astonishment to the [heathen] nations around you when I shall execute judgments upon you in anger and in wrath and in furious chastisements
and
rebukes—I the Lord have spoken it. |
| 16 | When I shall loose against them the evil arrows of hunger that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread. |
| 17 | And I will send upon you hunger and wild beasts, and they shall bereave you [of your loved ones]; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I the Lord have spoken it. |
Cross references:
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Ezekiel 5:6 : Rom. 2:14, 15.
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Ezekiel 5:7 : Deut. 7:2-6; Josh. 23:7; Judg. 2:2.
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Ezekiel 5:9 : Lam. 4:6; Dan. 9:12; Amos 3:2.
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Ezekiel 5:10 : Lev. 26:33; Deut. 28:64; Ezek. 12:14; Zech. 2:6.
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Ezekiel 5:13 : Ezek. 36:6; 38:19.
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Ezekiel 5:14 : Lev. 26:31, 32; Neh. 2:17.
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Ezekiel 5:15 : Deut. 28:37; Ps. 79:4; Jer. 24:9.
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