Ezekiel 5
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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.
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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.
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Thou shalt also take thereof a few in
number, and bind them in thy skirts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons 4.10 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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. Rev.
6.8 I the LORD have spoken it.
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