And thou,
son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine
head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances
to weigh, and divide the hair.
02 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.
03 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number,
and bind them in thy skirts.
04 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.
05 Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I
have set it in the midst of the nations and
countries that are round about her.
06 And she hath 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.
07 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye
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;
08 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I,
even I, am against thee, and will execute
judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of
the nations.
09 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.
10 Therefore 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 will I scatter into
all the winds.
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11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God;
Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary
with all thy detestable things, and with all
thine abominations, therefore will I also
diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare,
neither will I have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the
pestilence, and with famine shall they be
consumed 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.
13 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.
14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a
reproach among the nations that are round about
thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an
instruction and an astonishment unto the nations
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 it.
16 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:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil
beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and
pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and
I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have
spoken it.
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