Ezek. 5
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And you,
ason of man, take a sharp sword; take it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and over your beard; then take scales to weigh with, and divide
1the hair.
Ezek. 5
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One third you shall burn in the middle of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third and strike
it with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword after them.
Ezek. 5
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And you shall take from there a
afew in number and bind them in the edges of your garment.
Ezek. 5
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And you shall take again from them and cast them into the midst of the fire; and you shall burn them in the fire; from them fire will go forth against all the house of Israel.
Ezek. 5
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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and around her are countries.
Ezek. 5
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But she has rebelled against My
1ordinances in wickedness more than the nations and against My
1statutes more than the countries that surround her, for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.
Ezek. 5
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have been more turbulent than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes and have not kept My ordinances and have not even kept the ordinances of the nations that surround you;
Ezek. 5
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek. 5
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And I will do among you that which I have not done and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.
Ezek. 5
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Therefore fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments upon you, and I will
ascatter all your remnant toward all the winds.
Ezek. 5
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Therefore aas I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and all your abominations, therefore I will also
1withdraw My
beye that it not pity
you, nor will I spare.
Ezek. 5
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One third of you will die by
apestilence, and they will be consumed by famine in the midst of you; and one third will fall by the sword surrounding you; and one third I will
bscatter toward all the winds, and I will draw a sword after them.
Ezek. 5
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Thus My anger will be spent, and I will cause My wrath to rest upon them, and I will be comforted; and they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal when I spend My wrath upon them.
Ezek. 5
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Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek. 5
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Thus 1you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations that surround you, when I execute judgments upon you in anger and wrath and furious rebukes. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezek. 5
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When I send against them the evil arrows of famine, which are for destruction and which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you
and will break your staff of bread.
Ezek. 5
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Thus I will send upon you
afamine and evil beasts, and they will make you childless; and pestilence and blood will pass through you, and I will bring a sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
