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EzekielChapter 5

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Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor: shave your head and your beard. Then take scales and weigh out the hair, and divide it.
Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are ended. Take another third and strike it with the sword all around the city. Scatter the last third to the wind, and I will draw the sword after them.
But take a few strands from it and bind them into the folds of your garment.
And from these take some again, throw them into the fire, and burn them there. From it a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.
This is what the Lord GOD says: This is Jerusalem. I set her in the midst of the nations, with countries all around her.
But she rebelled against my judgments more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries around her. They rejected my judgments and did not walk in my statutes.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have been more turbulent than the nations around you, and have not walked in my statutes or kept my judgments—you have not even lived by the standards of the nations around you—
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I myself am against you, and I will execute judgments in your midst before the eyes of the nations.
Because of all your abominations I will do among you what I have never done before and will never do again.
Therefore fathers will eat their children among you, and children will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all who remain of you to every wind.
Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and all your abominations, I myself will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will show no pity.
A third of your people will die of plague or waste away from famine within you; a third will fall by the sword around you; and a third I will scatter to every wind, and I will draw the sword after them.
Then my anger will be spent, I will vent my wrath on them and be satisfied. And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my zeal.
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
You will be an object of scorn and mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and wrath and furious rebuke. I, the LORD, have spoken.
When I send the deadly arrows of famine against you—arrows that bring ruin, which I send to destroy you—I will heap famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.
I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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