Ezek 5
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And you, son of man, take you a sharp sword; [as] a barber`s razor shall you take
it to you, and shall cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard: then take
you balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
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A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of
the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and smite with the sword
round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out
a sword after them.
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And you shall take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
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And of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn
them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
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Thus says the Lord YHWH: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations,
and countries are round about her.
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And she has rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations,
and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they
have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
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Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: Because you are turbulent more than the nations
that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine
ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about
you;
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therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute
judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
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And I will do in you that which I have not done, and to which I will not do any more
the like, because of all your abominations.
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Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat
their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will
I scatter to all the winds.
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Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord YHWH, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary
with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I
also diminish [you]; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
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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
a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
13
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my anger toward them to rest,
and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, YHWH, have spoken in my zeal,
when I have accomplished my anger upon them.
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Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round
about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
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So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the
nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and
in anger, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, YHWH, have spoken it;)
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when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which
I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break
your staff of bread;
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and I will 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, YHWH, have
spoken it.