Ezekiel 5

And thou, son of man, ^atake thee ^ba sharp knife, take thee ^ca barber’s rasor, and ^dcause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. ²Thou shalt burn with fire ^ea third part in the midst of ^fthe city, when ^gthe days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part ^hthou shalt scatter in the wind; and ⁱI will draw out a sword after them. ^3kThou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. ^4lThen take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

⁵Thus saith the Lord God; ^fThis is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and ^mcountries that are round about her. ⁶And she ⁿhath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than ^mthe countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments, and ^omy statutes, they have not walked in them. ⁷Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye ^pmultiplied more than the nations ^mthat are round about you, and ^ohave not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, ^qneither have done according to the judgments of the nations ^mthat are round about you; ⁸therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and ^qqwill execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. ⁹And I will do in thee ^rthat which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. ¹⁰Therefore ^sthe fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and ^sthe sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I ^tscatter into all the winds. ¹¹Wherefore, ^uas I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because ^vthou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy ^wdetestable things, and with all thine ^wabominations, therefore will I also ^xdiminish thee; ^yneither ^zshall mine eye spare, ^yneither will I have any pity. ¹²A ^athird part of thee shall die with ^bthe pestilence, and with ^bfamine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by ^bthe sword round about thee; and ^cI will scatter a third part into all the winds, and ^dI will draw out a sword after them. ¹³Thus ^eshall ^jmine anger be accomplished, and ^fI will cause ^jmy fury to rest upon them, and ^gI will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord ^hhave spoken it in ^ijmy zeal, ^ewhen I have accomplished my fury in them. ¹⁴Moreover ^kI will make thee waste, and ^la reproach among the nations ^mthat are round about thee, ⁿin the sight of all that pass by. ¹⁵So it shall be ^la reproach and ^opa taunt, ^qan instruction and ^oran astonishment unto the nations ^mthat are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and ^sin furious ^qrebukes. I the Lord have spoken it. ¹⁶When I shall send upon them ^tthe evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and ^uwill break your staff of bread: ¹⁷so will I send upon you ^vfamine and ^vwevil beasts, and they shall ^xbereave thee; and ^vypestilence and ^yblood shall pass through thee; and I will bring ^vthe sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

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