Ezekiel
Chapter Five
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.
2 A 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.
3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4 And 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 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst
of the nations, and countries are round about her.
6 And 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.
7 Therefore 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;
8 therefore 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.
9 And 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.
10 Therefore 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.
11 Wherefore, 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.
12 A 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.
13 Thus 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.
14 Moreover 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.
15 So 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;)
16 when 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;
17 and 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.
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