Ezekiel:5

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* And you , son of man , take a sharp sword to yourself , take a barber 's razor also , and cause [it ] to pass on your head and on your beard . Then take scales to weigh , and divide the [hair ]. * You shall burn a third part with fire in the middle of the city , when the days of the siege are fulfilled ; and you shall take a third part [and ] beat around it with a sword ; and you shall scatter a third part in the wind , and I will draw out a sword after them . * Also you shall take a few of them in number , and tie them up in your skirts . * Then take of them again , and throw them into the middle of the fire , and burn them in the fire ; for a fire shall come forth from them into all the house of Israel . * So says the Lord Jehovah : This [is ] Jerusalem . I have set it in the middle of the nations , and all around her [are ] the lands . * And she has changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations , and [defiled ] My laws more than the countries that [are ] all around her ; for they have rejected My judgments and My laws ; they have not walked in them . * Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah : Because you multiplied more than the nations that [are ] all around you , [and ] have not walked in My laws , neither have kept My judgments , nor have done according to the judgments of the nations all around you ; * therefore so says the Lord Jehovah ; Behold , I , even I , [am ] against you , and will carry out judgments in your midst before the nations . * And I will do in you that which I have not done , and the like of which I will never do again , because of all your abominations . * So the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst , and the sons shall eat their fathers . And I will execute judgments in you , and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds . * Therefore , [as ] I live , says the Lord Jehovah , surely , because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things , and with all your abominations , therefore I will also withdraw ; nor shall My eye spare you , nor will I have any pity . * A third part of you shall die with the plague , and shall be consumed with the famine in your midst . And a third part shall fall by the sword all around you ; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds , and I will draw out a sword after them . * So My anger shall be fulfilled , and I will cause My fury to rest on them , and I will be comforted . And they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it ] in My zeal , when I have fulfilled My fury in them . * And I will make you a waste and a curse among the nations that [are ] all around you , in the sight of all who pass by . * So it shall be a reproach and a taunt , an chastening and a horror to the nations which [are ] all around you , when I shall execute judgments against you in anger and in fury and in rebukes [among them ]. I the LORD have spoken it . * When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine , which shall be for [their ] ruin , which I will send to destroy you ; even I will increase the famine on you , and break your staff of bread ; * yea , I will send on you famine and evil beasts , and you will be bereaved . And pestilence and blood shall pass among you ; and I shall bring a sword on you . I the LORD have spoken .

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