A Sword Against Jerusalem
1 “And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, aand pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.
2 aYou shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of bthe city, when cthe days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after dthem.
3 aYou shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.
4 Then take some of them again and athrow them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.
5 “Thus says the Lord God: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.
6 She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’
7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have1 multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes anor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’—
8 therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
9 aAnd I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.
10 Therefore fathers ashall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will bscatter to all the winds.
11 ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have adefiled My sanctuary with all your bdetestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; cMy eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.
12 aOne-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and bI will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after cthem.
13 ‘Thus shall My anger abe spent, and I will bcause My fury to rest upon them, cand I will be avenged; dand they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.
14 Moreover aI will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
15 ‘So1 it shall be a areproach, a taunt, a blesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in cfurious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.
16 When I asend against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your bsupply of bread.
17 So I will send against you famine and awild beasts, and they will bereave you. bPestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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