Ezekiel:5

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* And you , son of man , take you a sharp knife , take you a barber 's razor , and cause it to pass upon yours head and upon your beard : then take you balances to weigh , and divide the hair . * You shall burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city , when the days of the siege are fulfilled : and you shall take a third part , and strike about it with a knife : and a third part you shall scatter in the wind ; and I will draw out a sword after them . * You shall also take thereof a few in number , and bind them in your skirts . * 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 says the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her . * 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 . * Therefore thus says the Lord GOD ; Because all of 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 ; * Therefore thus says the Lord GOD ; Behold , I , even I , am against you , and will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations . * And I will do in you that which I have not done , and unto which I will not do any more the like , because of all yours abominations . * Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you , 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 . * Wherefore , as I live , says the Lord GOD ; Surely , because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things , and with all yours abominations , therefore will I also diminish you ; neither shall mine eye spare , neither will I have any pity . * 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 . * Thus shall mine anger be accomplished , and I will cause my fury to rest upon 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 . * Moreover I will make you waste , and a reproach among the nations that are round about you , in the sight of all that pass by . * 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 the LORD have spoken it . * 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 : * So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts , and they shall bereave you : and pestilence and blood shall pass through you ; and I will bring the sword upon you . I the LORD have spoken it .

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