Ezekiel 5:12–17

¹²‘One third of you will die by ^aplague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will ^bscatter to every wind, and I will ^cunsheathe a sword behind them.

¹³‘Thus My anger will be spent and I will ¹satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be ^2aappeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have ^bspoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.

¹⁴‘Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a ^areproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

¹⁵‘So ¹it will be a reproach, a reviling, a ^awarning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I ^bexecute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

¹⁶‘When I send against them the ¹deadly arrows of famine which ²were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.

¹⁷‘Moreover, ^aI will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; ^bplague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”