Ezekiel:5

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

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