Ezekiel 5:1-4

1“And you [Ezekiel], son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor and shave your head and your beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair [into three parts].

2You shall burn one third with fire in the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

3Also take some of them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

4Again take some hair and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.