Ezekiel 5
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Ezekiel 5
A Sword against Jerusalem
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Lev 21.5; Isa 7.20; Ezek 44.20 “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. 2#v 12; Lev 26.33; Ezek 4.2–8One 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;#5.2 Heb it and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. 3#Jer 39.10Then you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the hem of your robe. 4#Jer 41.1, 2; 44.14From 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.
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Lam 1.1; Ezek 4.1 “Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6#Jer 11.10; Ezek 16.47, 48, 51; Zech 7.11But 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. 7#2 Chr 33.9; Ezek 16.47Therefore 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, 8#Ezek 15.7therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I, I myself, am coming against you; I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9#Dan 9.12; Mt 24.21And 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. 10#Lev 26.29; Ezek 12.14; Zech 2.6Surely, 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. 11#2 Chr 36.14; Ezek 7.4, 9; 8.18Therefore, 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. 12#Jer 43.10, 11; Ezek 12.14One 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.
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Lam 4.11; Ezek 21.17; 36.6 “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. 14#Lev 26.31, 32; Neh 2.17Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15#Deut 28.37; 1 Kings 9.7; Jer 24.9; Ezek 25.17You shall be#5.15 Q ms Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT It shall be 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— 16#Deut 32.23, 24; Ezek 4.16when I loose against you#5.16 Heb them 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.#5.16 Heb staff of bread 17#Ezek 14.21; 38.22I 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.”
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