Ezekiel 5
Jerusalem’s Desolation Foretold
1“As for you, son of man, take a asharp sword; take and ▼▼ Lit make it pass over your head
use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take cscales for weighing and divide ▼▼ Lit them
the hair. 2“One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the edays of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around ▼▼ Lit it
the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will gunsheathe a sword behind them. 3“Take also a few in number from ▼▼ Lit there
them and bind them in the edges of your robes. 4“Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will ▼▼ Lit go out
spread to all the house of Israel. 5“Thus says the Lord ▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord , and so throughout the ch
God, ‘This is kJerusalem; I have set her at the lcenter of the nations, with lands around her. 6‘But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes mmore than the lands which surround her; for they have nrejected My ordinances and have not walked ▼▼ Lit in them, My statutes
in My statutes.’ 7“Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have pmore turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,’ 8therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I, even I, am qagainst you, and I will rexecute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9‘And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have snot done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10‘Therefore, tfathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and uscatter all your remnant to every wind. 11‘So as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have vdefiled My sanctuary with all your wdetestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare. 12‘One third of you will die by xplague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will yscatter to every wind, and I will zunsheathe a sword behind them. 13‘Thus My anger will be spent and I will ▼▼ Lit cause to rest
satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be ▼▼ Lit comforted
,
acappeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have adspoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14‘Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a aereproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15‘So ▼▼ Ancient versions read you
it will be a reproach, a reviling, a agwarning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I ahexecute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16‘When I send against them the ▼▼ Lit evil
deadly arrows of famine which ▼▼ Or are for destruction, which I will send
were 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, akI will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; alplague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
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