Ezekiel 5

1“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.Cross-references: Lev 21:5 · Isa 7:20 · Ezek 44:20 · Dan 5:27

2A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Jer 9:16 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 15:2 · Jer 24:10 · Jer 38:2 · +4 more

3You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:12 · Jer 39:10 · Jer 40:6 · Jer 52:16 · Matt 7:14 · Luke 13:23 · +1 more

4Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:25 · Jer 4:4 · Jer 41:1 · Jer 48:45 · Jer 52:30

5“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · Jer 6:6 · Ezek 4:1 · Ezek 16:14 · Mic 5:7 · Matt 5:14 · +2 more

6She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · 2Ki 17:8 · Neh 9:16 · Ps 78:10 · Ps 106:20 · Jer 5:3 · +9 more

7“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;Cross-references: 2Ki 21:9 · 2Chr 33:9 · Jer 2:10 · Ezek 5:11 · Ezek 16:47 · Ezek 16:54

8therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 29:23 · 1Ki 9:8 · Jer 21:5 · Jer 21:13 · +18 more

9I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.Cross-references: Lam 4:6 · Lam 4:9 · Dan 9:12 · Amos 3:2 · Matt 24:21

10Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:53 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:26 · +22 more

11Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.Cross-references: Num 14:28 · Deut 7:25 · Deut 29:20 · 2Ki 21:4 · 2Ki 21:7 · 2Ki 23:12 · +33 more

12A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 28:65 · Jer 9:16 · Jer 15:2 · Jer 21:9 · Jer 42:16 · +12 more

13“‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.Cross-references: Deut 32:36 · Isa 1:21 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 59:17 · Jer 25:12 · +18 more

14“‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.Cross-references: Lev 26:31 · Deut 28:37 · 2Chr 7:20 · Neh 2:17 · Ps 74:3 · Ps 79:1 · +10 more

15So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · 1Ki 9:7 · Ps 79:4 · Isa 26:9 · Isa 66:15 · Jer 22:8 · +3 more

16when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread.Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Deut 32:23 · 2Ki 6:25 · Ps 7:13 · Ps 91:5 · Isa 3:1 · +3 more

17I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’”Cross-references: Ex 23:29 · Lev 26:22 · Deut 32:24 · 2Ki 17:25 · Jer 15:3 · Ezek 5:12 · +18 more