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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 5

Jerusalem’s Desolation Foretold

1“As for you, son of man, take a 1sharp sword; take and 2use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take 3scales for weighing and divide 4the hair. 2One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the 5days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around 6the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will 7unsheathe a sword behind them. 3Take also a few in number from 8them and bind them in the edges of your robes. 4Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will 9spread to all the house of Israel.

5“Thus says the Lord 10God, ‘This is 11Jerusalem; I have set her at the 12center of the nations, with lands around her. 6But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes 13more than the lands which surround her; for they have 14rejected My ordinances and have not walked 15in My statutes.’ 7Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have 16more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,’ 8therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I, even I, am 17against you, and I will 18execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have 19not done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10Therefore, 20fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and 21scatter all your remnant to every wind. 11So as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have 22defiled My sanctuary with all your 23detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare. 12One third of you will die by 24plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will 25scatter to every wind, and I will 26unsheathe a sword behind them.

13‘Thus My anger will be spent and I will 27satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be 2829appeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have 30spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a 31reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15So 32it will be a reproach, a reviling, a 33warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I 34execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16When I send against them the 35deadly arrows of famine which 36were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread. 17Moreover, 37I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; 38plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Notes

  1. 1. Ezekiel 5:1 Lev 21:5; Is 7:20; Ezek 44:20 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 5:1 Lit make it pass over your head ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 5:1 Dan 5:27 ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 5:1 Lit them ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 5:2 Jer 39:1, 2; Ezek 4:2-8 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 5:2 Lit it ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 5:2 Lev 26:33 ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 5:3 Lit there ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 5:4 Lit go out ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 5:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 5:5 Jer 6:6; Ezek 4:1 ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 5:5 Deut 4:6; Lam 1:1; Ezek 16:14 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 5:6 2 Kin 17:8-20; Ezek 16:47, 48, 51 ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 5:6 Neh 9:16, 17; Ps 78:10; Jer 11:10; Zech 7:11 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 5:6 Lit in them, My statutes ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 5:7 2 Kin 21:9-11; 2 Chr 33:9; Jer 2:10, 11 ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 5:8 Jer 21:5, 13; Ezek 15:7; 21:3; Zech 14:2 ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 5:8 Jer 24:9; Ezek 5:15; 11:9 ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 5:9 Dan 9:12; Amos 3:2; Matt 24:21 ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 5:10 Lev 26:29; Jer 19:9; Lam 4:10 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 5:10 Ps 44:11; Ezek 5:2, 12; 6:8; 12:14; Amos 9:9; Zech 2:6; 7:14 ↩
  22. 22. Ezekiel 5:11 Jer 7:9-11; Ezek 8:5, 6, 16 ↩
  23. 23. Ezekiel 5:11 Jer 16:18; Ezek 7:20 ↩
  24. 24. Ezekiel 5:12 Jer 15:2; 21:9; Ezek 5:17; 6:11, 12 ↩
  25. 25. Ezekiel 5:12 Ezek 5:2, 10; Amos 9:9; Zech 2:6 ↩
  26. 26. Ezekiel 5:12 Jer 43:10, 11; 44:27; Ezek 5:2; 12:14 ↩
  27. 27. Ezekiel 5:13 Lit cause to rest ↩
  28. 28. Ezekiel 5:13 Lit comforted ↩
  29. 29. Ezekiel 5:13 Is 1:24 ↩
  30. 30. Ezekiel 5:13 Is 59:17; Ezek 36:5, 6; 38:19 ↩
  31. 31. Ezekiel 5:14 Ps 74:3-10; 79:1-4; Ezek 22:4 ↩
  32. 32. Ezekiel 5:15 Ancient versions read you ↩
  33. 33. Ezekiel 5:15 Is 26:9; Jer 22:8, 9; 1 Cor 10:11 ↩
  34. 34. Ezekiel 5:15 Is 66:15, 16; Ezek 5:8; 25:17 ↩
  35. 35. Ezekiel 5:16 Lit evil ↩
  36. 36. Ezekiel 5:16 Or are for destruction, which I will send ↩
  37. 37. Ezekiel 5:17 Lev 26:22; Rev 6:8 ↩
  38. 38. Ezekiel 5:17 Ezek 38:22 ↩

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