Ezekiel 5 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

A Sword against Jerusalem

5 “And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.(A)2 One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city;[a] and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.(B)3 Then you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the hem of your robe.(C)4 From these, again, you shall take some, throw them into the fire and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against all the house of Israel.(D)

5 “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.(E)6 But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes.(F)7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you and have not followed my statutes or kept my ordinances and have not even acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you,(G)8 therefore thus says the Lord God: I, I myself, am coming against you; I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.(H)9 And because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never yet done and the like of which I will never do again.(I)10 Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.(J)11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.(K)12 One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.(L)

13 “My anger shall spend itself, and I will vent my fury on them and satisfy myself, and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I spend my fury on them.(M)14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(N)15 You shall be[b] a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken(O)—16 when I loose against you[c] my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.[d](P)17 I will send famine and wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and bloodshed shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”(Q)

Footnotes

  1. 5.2Heb it
  2. 5.15Q ms Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT It shall be
  3. 5.16Heb them
  4. 5.16Heb staff of bread

Cross references

  1. 5.1 : Lev 21.5; Isa 7.20; Ezek 44.20
  2. 5.2 : v 12; Lev 26.33; Ezek 4.2–8
  3. 5.3 : Jer 39.10
  4. 5.4 : Jer 41.1, 2; 44.14
  5. 5.5 : Lam 1.1; Ezek 4.1
  6. 5.6 : Jer 11.10; Ezek 16.47, 48, 51; Zech 7.11
  7. 5.7 : 2 Chr 33.9; Ezek 16.47
  8. 5.8 : Ezek 15.7
  9. 5.9 : Dan 9.12; Mt 24.21
  10. 5.10 : Lev 26.29; Ezek 12.14; Zech 2.6
  11. 5.11 : 2 Chr 36.14; Ezek 7.4, 9; 8.18
  12. 5.12 : Jer 43.10, 11; Ezek 12.14
  13. 5.13 : Lam 4.11; Ezek 21.17; 36.6
  14. 5.14 : Lev 26.31, 32; Neh 2.17
  15. 5.15 : Deut 28.37; 1 Kings 9.7; Jer 24.9; Ezek 25.17
  16. 5.16 : Deut 32.23, 24; Ezek 4.16
  17. 5.17 : Ezek 14.21; 38.22

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