New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 5:2-12

2One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the 1days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around 2the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will 3unsheathe a sword behind them. 3Take also a few in number from 4them 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 5spread to all the house of Israel.

5“Thus says the Lord 6God, ‘This is 7Jerusalem; I have set her at the 8center of the nations, with lands around her. 6But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes 9more than the lands which surround her; for they have 10rejected My ordinances and have not walked 11in My statutes.’ 7Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have 12more 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 13against you, and I will 14execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have 15not done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10Therefore, 16fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and 17scatter all your remnant to every wind. 11So as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have 18defiled My sanctuary with all your 19detestable 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 20plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will 21scatter to every wind, and I will 22unsheathe a sword behind them.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 5:2 Jer 39:1, 2; Ezek 4:2-8 ↩
2. Ezekiel 5:2 Lit it ↩
3. Ezekiel 5:2 Lev 26:33 ↩
4. Ezekiel 5:3 Lit there ↩
5. Ezekiel 5:4 Lit go out ↩
6. Ezekiel 5:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
7. Ezekiel 5:5 Jer 6:6; Ezek 4:1 ↩
8. Ezekiel 5:5 Deut 4:6; Lam 1:1; Ezek 16:14 ↩
9. Ezekiel 5:6 2 Kin 17:8-20; Ezek 16:47, 48, 51 ↩
10. Ezekiel 5:6 Neh 9:16, 17; Ps 78:10; Jer 11:10; Zech 7:11 ↩
11. Ezekiel 5:6 Lit in them, My statutes ↩
12. Ezekiel 5:7 2 Kin 21:9-11; 2 Chr 33:9; Jer 2:10, 11 ↩
13. Ezekiel 5:8 Jer 21:5, 13; Ezek 15:7; 21:3; Zech 14:2 ↩
14. Ezekiel 5:8 Jer 24:9; Ezek 5:15; 11:9 ↩
15. Ezekiel 5:9 Dan 9:12; Amos 3:2; Matt 24:21 ↩
16. Ezekiel 5:10 Lev 26:29; Jer 19:9; Lam 4:10 ↩
17. Ezekiel 5:10 Ps 44:11; Ezek 5:2, 12; 6:8; 12:14; Amos 9:9; Zech 2:6; 7:14 ↩
18. Ezekiel 5:11 Jer 7:9-11; Ezek 8:5, 6, 16 ↩
19. Ezekiel 5:11 Jer 16:18; Ezek 7:20 ↩
20. Ezekiel 5:12 Jer 15:2; 21:9; Ezek 5:17; 6:11, 12 ↩
21. Ezekiel 5:12 Ezek 5:2, 10; Amos 9:9; Zech 2:6 ↩
22. Ezekiel 5:12 Jer 43:10, 11; 44:27; Ezek 5:2; 12:14 ↩

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