New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 5:5-17

5“This is what the Lord 1God says: ‘This is 2Jerusalem; I have placed her at the 3center of the nations, with lands around her. 6But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes 4more than the lands which surround her; for they have 5rejected My ordinances and have not walked 6in My statutes.’ 7Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have 7more 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 8against you, and I will 9execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9And because of all your abominations I will do among you what I have 10not done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10Therefore, 11fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and 12scatter all your remnant to every wind. 11Therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘Because you have 13defiled My sanctuary with all your 14detestable 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 15plague or perish by famine among you, a third will fall by the sword around you, and a third I will 16scatter to every wind, and I will 17unsheathe a sword behind them.

13‘Then My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be 18appeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have 19spoken in My zeal, when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14Moreover, I will make you a site of ruins and a 20disgrace among the nations that surround you, in the sight of everyone who passes by. 15So 21it will be a disgrace, an object of abuse, a 22warning, and an object of horror to the nations that surround you when I 23execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging reprimands. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16When I send against them the 24deadly arrows of famine which 25were 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 26provision of bread. 17 27I will send on you famine and vicious animals, and they will bereave you of children; 28plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

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Notes

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

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