Ezekiel
Chapter 5
1
"And you, son of man,
take
you a sharp knife,
take
you a barber's razor,
and
cause it to pass upon your head
and
upon your beard.
Then take you balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 2
You
shall burn with fire
a
third part in the middle of the city,
when
the days of the siege are fulfilled.
And
you shall take a third part,
and
smite/cut about it with a knife.
And a third part you shall scatter in the wind.
And I will draw out a sword after them. 3
You
shall also take thereof a few in number,
and
bind them in your skirts.
4
Then take of them again,
and
cast them into the middle of the fire,
and
burn them in the fire . . .
for
thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel."
5``
Thus said the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah,
"This
is Jerusalem.
I
have set it in the midst of the nations
and
countries that are round about her. 6
And
she has changed My judgments into wickedness
more
than the nations,
and
My statutes
more
than the countries that are round about her . . .
for
they have refused My judgments and My statutes,
they
have not Walked in them."
7``
Therefore thus said the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah,
"Because
you multiplied
more
than the nations that are round about you,
and
have not Walked in My statutes,
neither
have kept My judgments,
neither
have done
according
to the judgments of the nations
that
are round about you . . ."
8``
Therefore thus said the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah,
"Behold,
I, even I,
am
against you,
and
will execute judgments
in
the midst of you
in
the sight of the nations. 9
And
I will do in you
that
which I have not done,
and
whereunto I will not do any more the like,
because
of all your abominations. 10
Therefore
the fathers
shall
eat the sons
in
the midst of you,
{cannibalism in an attempt to survive a siege of Jerusalem}
and
the sons shall eat their fathers.
And
I will execute judgments in you,
and
the whole remnant of you
will
I scatter into all the winds."
11``
"Therefore, as I live,"
said
the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah,
"Surely,
because you have defiled My sanctuary
with
all your detestable things,
and
with all your abominations,
therefore
will I also diminish you all . . .
neither
shall My eye spare,
neither
will I have any pity. 12
A
third part of you
shall
die with the pestilence,
and
with famine shall they be consumed
in
the midst of you.
And
a third part shall fall by the sword
round
about you.
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 rest upon them,
and
I will be comforted.
And
they shall know that I Jehovah/God have spoken it in My zeal,
when
I have accomplished My fury in them. 14
Moreover
I will make you waste,
and
a reproach among the nations
that
are round about you,
in
the sight of all who pass by. 15
So
it shall be a reproach and a taunt,
an
instruction and an astonishment
unto
the nations that are round about you,
when
I shall execute judgments in you in anger
and
in fury and in furious rebukes.
I Jehovah/God have spoken it. 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
and
I will increase the famine upon you,
and
will break your staff of bread. 17
So
will I send upon you famine and evil animals/beasts,
and
they shall bereave you.
And pestilence and blood shall pass through you.
And I will bring the sword upon you.
I Jehovah/God have spoken it."
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