Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed
5 “And you, (A)O son of man, take a (B)sharp sword. Use it as (C)a barber's razor and (D)pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2 (E)A third part you shall burn in the fire (F)in the midst of the city, (G)when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. (H)And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and (I)I will unsheathe the sword after them. 3 (J)And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 4 (K)And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
5 “Thus says the Lord God: (L)This is Jerusalem. I have set her (M)in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness (N)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than (O)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are (P)more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, (Q)and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, (R)and have not[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, 8 therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, (S)am against you. (T)And I will execute judgments[b] in your midst (U)in the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you (V)what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore (W)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. (X)And I will execute judgments on you, (Y)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, (Z)as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, (AA)because you have defiled my sanctuary (AB)with all your detestable things and with all your (AC)abominations, (AD)therefore I will withdraw.[c] (AE)My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 (AF)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; (AG)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; (AH)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
13 (AI)“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that (AJ)I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—(AK)when I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you (AL)a desolation and (AM)an object of reproach among (AN)the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be[d] a reproach and a taunt, a warning (AO)and a horror, to (AP)the nations all around you, (AQ)when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and (AR)with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— 16 when I send against you[e] (AS)the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon (AT)you and break your supply[f] of bread. 17 I will send famine and (AU)wild beasts against you, (AV)and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and (AW)blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 5:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not
- Ezekiel 5:8 The same Hebrew expression can mean obey rules, or execute judgments, depending on the context
- Ezekiel 5:11 Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down
- Ezekiel 5:15 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be
- Ezekiel 5:16 Hebrew them
- Ezekiel 5:16 Hebrew staff
Cross references
- Ezekiel 5:1 : See ch. 2:1
- Ezekiel 5:1 : Ps. 57:4; Isa. 49:2
- Ezekiel 5:1 : [Isa. 7:20]
- Ezekiel 5:1 : [ch. 1:3; 44:20; Lev. 21:5]
- Ezekiel 5:2 : See ver. 12
- Ezekiel 5:2 : [ver. 5; ch. 4:1]
- Ezekiel 5:2 : See ch. 4:8
- Ezekiel 5:2 : [ver. 10]
- Ezekiel 5:2 : ver. 12; ch. 12:14; [Jer. 9:16]
- Ezekiel 5:3 : [Jer. 40:6; 52:16]
- Ezekiel 5:4 : [Jer. 42:18; 44:14]
- Ezekiel 5:5 : [ver. 2; ch. 4:1]
- Ezekiel 5:5 : [ch. 38:12]
- Ezekiel 5:6 : See ch. 16:47, 48
- Ezekiel 5:6 : [See ver. 5 above]; [ch. 38:12]
- Ezekiel 5:7 : Ps. 2:1; 46:6
- Ezekiel 5:7 : ch. 16:47
- Ezekiel 5:7 : [ch. 11:12]
- Ezekiel 5:8 : See ch. 13:8
- Ezekiel 5:8 : ch. 11:9; 16:41; 23:10
- Ezekiel 5:8 : ch. 22:16
- Ezekiel 5:9 : [2 Kgs. 21:12, 13; Lam. 1:12; Dan. 9:12]
- Ezekiel 5:10 : See Jer. 19:9
- Ezekiel 5:10 : [See ver. 8 above]; ch. 11:9; 16:41; 23:10
- Ezekiel 5:10 : ch. 12:14; 17:21; 22:15; 36:19; Deut. 28:64; Jer. 9:16; 15:4; Zech. 2:6; [ver. 2; ch. 36:19]
- Ezekiel 5:11 : See ch. 16:48
- Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 8:3, 5, 6; 23:39; 2 Chr. 36:14; Jer. 7:30
- Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 11:18
- Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 7:20; 11:18, 21
- Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 16:27
- Ezekiel 5:11 : ch. 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10; [Jer. 21:7]
- Ezekiel 5:12 : [ver. 2; ch. 6:11, 12; Jer. 15:2]
- Ezekiel 5:12 : [ver. 2; ch. 6:11, 12; Jer. 15:2]
- Ezekiel 5:12 : [ver. 2; ch. 6:11, 12; Jer. 15:2]
- Ezekiel 5:13 : ch. 6:12; 7:8; 20:8, 21; Lam. 4:11; [ch. 39:25]
- Ezekiel 5:13 : ch. 36:5, 6; 38:19
- Ezekiel 5:13 : ch. 6:12; 7:8; 20:8, 21; Lam. 4:11; [ch. 39:25]
- Ezekiel 5:14 : ch. 6:6; See Jer. 22:5
- Ezekiel 5:14 : ch. 22:4; Neh. 2:17; Ps. 79:4; Jer. 24:9
- Ezekiel 5:14 : ver. 5, 6
- Ezekiel 5:15 : ch. 14:8; Deut. 28:37
- Ezekiel 5:15 : [See ver. 14 above]; ver. 5, 6
- Ezekiel 5:15 : [ch. 14:21]
- Ezekiel 5:15 : ch. 25:17
- Ezekiel 5:16 : Deut. 32:23, 24
- Ezekiel 5:16 : See ch. 4:16
- Ezekiel 5:17 : ch. 14:15; 33:27; 34:25; Deut. 32:24; [2 Kgs. 17:25]
- Ezekiel 5:17 : [ch. 36:12]
- Ezekiel 5:17 : ch. 38:22