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New American Standard Bible 2020

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. 2A 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 a third and strike it with the sword all around 6the city, and a third you shall scatter to the wind; for I will 7unsheathe a sword behind them. 3Take also a few hairs in number from 8them and bind them in the hems 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“This is what the Lord 10God says: ‘This is 11Jerusalem; I have placed 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, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have 16more turmoil than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor executed My ordinances, nor acted in accordance with the ordinances of the nations around you,’ 8therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘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. 11Therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘Because you have 22defiled My sanctuary with all your 23detestable idols and with all your abominations, I definitely will also withdraw and My eye will have no pity, and I also will not spare. 12A third of you will die by 24plague or perish by famine among you, a third will fall by the sword around you, and a third I will 25scatter to every wind, and I will 26unsheathe a sword behind them.

13‘Then My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be 27appeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have 28spoken in My zeal, when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14Moreover, I will make you a site of ruins and a 29disgrace among the nations that surround you, in the sight of everyone who passes by. 15So 30it will be a disgrace, an object of abuse, a 31warning, and an object of horror to the nations that surround you when I 32execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging reprimands. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16When I send against them the 33deadly arrows of famine which 34were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break off your 35provision of bread. 1736I will send on you famine and vicious animals, and they will bereave you of children; 37plague 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 pass it 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 Is 1:24 ↩
  28. 28. Ezekiel 5:13 Is 59:17; Ezek 36:5, 6; 38:19 ↩
  29. 29. Ezekiel 5:14 Ps 74:3-10; 79:1-4; Ezek 22:4 ↩
  30. 30. Ezekiel 5:15 Ancient versions you ↩
  31. 31. Ezekiel 5:15 Is 26:9; Jer 22:8, 9; 1 Cor 10:11 ↩
  32. 32. Ezekiel 5:15 Is 66:15, 16; Ezek 5:8; 25:17 ↩
  33. 33. Ezekiel 5:16 Lit evil ↩
  34. 34. Ezekiel 5:16 Or are for destruction, which I will send ↩
  35. 35. Ezekiel 5:16 Lit staff ↩
  36. 36. Ezekiel 5:17 Lev 26:22; Rev 6:8 ↩
  37. 37. Ezekiel 5:17 Ezek 38:22 ↩

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