Ezekiel 5

Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed

1 "And you, *See ch. 2:1O son of man, take a *Ps. 57:4;Isa. 49:2sharp sword. Use it as *[Isa. 7:20] a barber’s razor and *[ch. 1:3;44:20;Lev. 21:5]pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2 *See ver. 12A third part you shall burn in the fire *[ver. 5; ch. 4:1] in the midst of the city, *See ch. 4:8when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. *[ver. 10] And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and *ver. 12;ch. 12:14;[Jer. 9:16]I will unsheathe the sword after them. 3 *[Jer. 40:6;52:16]And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 4 *[Jer. 42:18;44:14]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: *[ver. 2; ch. 4:1] This is Jerusalem. I have set her *[ch. 38:12]in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness *See ch. 16:47,48more than the nations, and against my statutes more than *[See ver. 5above]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 *Ps. 2:1;46:6more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, *ch. 16:47and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, *[ch. 11:12]and have not*5:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not 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, *See ch. 13:8am against you. *ch. 11:9;16:41;23:10And I will execute judgments*5:8 The same Hebrew expression can mean obey rules, or execute judgments, depending on the context in your midst *ch. 22:16in the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you *[2 Kgs. 21:12,13;Lam. 1:12;Dan. 9:12]what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore *See Jer. 19:9fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. *[See ver. 8above] And I will execute judgments on you, *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]and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, *See ch. 16:48as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, *ch. 8:3,5,6;23:39;2 Chr. 36:14;Jer. 7:30because you have defiled my sanctuary *ch. 11:18with all your detestable things and with all your *ch. 7:20;11:18,21abominations, *ch. 16:27therefore I will withdraw.*5:11 Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down*ch. 7:4,9;8:18;9:5,10;[Jer. 21:7]My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 *[ver. 2; ch. 6:11,12;Jer. 15:2]A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; *[ver. 2; ch. 6:11,12;Jer. 15:2]a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; *[ver. 2; ch. 6:11,12;Jer. 15:2]and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

13 *ch. 6:12;7:8;20:8,21;Lam. 4:11;[ch. 39:25] "Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that *ch. 36:5,6;38:19I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—*ch. 6:12;7:8;20:8,21;Lam. 4:11;[ch. 39:25] when I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you *ch. 6:6;See Jer. 22:5a desolation and *ch. 22:4;Neh. 2:17;Ps. 79:4;Jer. 24:9an object of reproach among *ver. 5, 6the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be*5:15 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning *ch. 14:8;Deut. 28:37and a horror, to *[See ver. 14above] the nations all around you, *[ch. 14:21] when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and *ch. 25:17with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— 16 when I send against you*5:16 Hebrew them*Deut. 32:23,24the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon *See ch. 4:16you and break your supply*5:16 Hebrew staff of bread. 17 I will send famine and *ch. 14:15;33:27;34:25;Deut. 32:24;[2 Kgs. 17:25] wild beasts against you, *[ch. 36:12] and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and *ch. 38:22blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken."