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