| Chapter
5 |
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 |
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. |
|
3 | Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in
thy skirts. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 |
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. |
| 7 | 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; |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
|
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. |
