Ezekiel 5:10–17

10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.q I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.r 11 Therefore as surely as I live,s declares the Sovereignt Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuaryu with all your vile imagesv and detestable practices,w I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.x 12 A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the windsy and pursue with drawn sword.z

13 “Then my anger will cease and my wratha against them will subside, and I will be avenged.b And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.c

14 “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.d 15 You will be a reproache and a taunt, a warningf and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.g I the Lord have spoken.h 16 When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.i 17 I will send famine and wild beastsj against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshedk will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.l”