The Book of Ezekiel
5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; as a barber's razor shalt thou
take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then
take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 5:2A third part shalt thou burn in
the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou
shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part
thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 5:3And thou
shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. 5:4And of these
again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in
the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5:5Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations,
and countries are round about her. 5:6And she hath rebelled against mine
ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes
more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine
ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them. 5:7Therefore thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are
round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine
ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round
about you; 5:8therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against
thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
5:9And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do
any more the like, because of all thine abominations. 5:10Therefore the fathers shall
eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will
execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all
the winds. 5:11Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, because thou
hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare,
and I also will have no pity. 5:12A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence,
and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall
fall by the sword round about thee; and a third part I will scatter unto all the
winds, and will draw out a sword after them. 5:13Thus shall mine anger be
accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be
comforted; and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I
have accomplished my wrath upon them. 5:14Moreover I will make thee a
desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the
sight of all that pass by. 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute
judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah,
have spoken it;) 5:16when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are
for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine
upon you, and will break your staff of bread; 5:17and I will send upon you famine
and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.