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Chapter 5
1 And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife that shaves the hair: and cause it to pass over your head, and over your beard: and take you a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair.
2 A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and you shall take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part you shall scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them.
3 And you shall take thereof a small number: and shall bind them in the skirt of your cloak.
4 And you shall take of them again, and shall cast them in the midst of the fire, and shall burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.
5 Thus said the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her.
6 And she has despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.
7 Therefore thus said the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:
8 Therefore thus said the Lord God: Behold I come against you, and I myself will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the Gentiles.
9 And I will do in you that which I have not done: and the like to which I will do no more, because of all your abominations.
10 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 I will scatter your whole remnant into every wind.
11 Therefore as I live, said the Lord God: Because you have violated my sanctuary with all your offences, and with ail your abominations: I will also break you in pieces, and my eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity.
12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and shall be consumed with famine in the midst of you: and a third part of you shall fall by the sword round about you: and a third part of you will I scatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my indignation 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 shall have accomplished my indignation in them.
14 And I will make you desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of every one that passes by.
15 And you shall be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about you, when I shall have executed judgments in you in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.
16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread.
17 And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto utter destruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring in the sword upon you. I the Lord have spoken it.