Chapter 5 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.
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.
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy 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 saith 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are
round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
So it shall be a reproach, and a taunt, and 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, 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 thee,
and pestilence, and blood shall pass through thee, and I will bring the sword
upon thee.
I the Lord have spoken it.