Ezequiel 5

¹ And thou, son of man, take a sharp knife, take a barber's razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard; then take balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].

² Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part [and] smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

³ Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number and bind them in the skirt of thy garment.

⁴ Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

⁵ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: This [is] Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the Gentiles and of the lands [that are] round about her.

⁶ And she has changed my judgments and my statutes into wickedness more than the Gentiles and more than the lands that [are] round about her; for they have disregarded my judgments and my commandments and have not walked in them.

⁷ Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because [I] multiplied you more than the Gentiles that [are] round about you, ye have not walked in my commandments, neither have ye kept my judgments. Ye have not even acted according to the judgments of the Gentiles that [are] round about you.

⁸ Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Gentiles.

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 For the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all the winds.

¹¹ Therefore, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy contaminations and with all thine abominations, therefore I will also destroy [thee]; neither shall my eye forgive, neither will I have mercy.

¹² A third part of thee shall die of pestilence, and shall be consumed with famine in the midst of thee, and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee, and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

¹³ Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to cease in them, and I will be comforted; and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal when I have accomplished my fury in them.

¹⁴ And I will make thee a desert and a reproach among the Gentiles that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

¹⁵ And thou shalt be a reproach and a dishonour, and a chastisement and a terror unto the Gentiles that [are] round about thee when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

¹⁶ When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction [and] which I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and will destroy your sustenance of bread.

¹⁷ So I will send upon you famine and evil beasts that will destroy thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I, the LORD, have spoken.: