The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 05
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.
2 A third part you shall burn in the fire
in the middle of the city, when the days of
the siege are fulfilled. You shalltake 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.
3 You shall take a small number of these
and bind them in the folds of your robe.
4 Of 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.
5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is
Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of
the nations, and countries are around her.
6 She 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 inthem.
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;
8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold,
I, even I, am against you; and I will
execute judgments among you in the sight
of the nations.
9 I 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.
10 Therefore 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.
11 Therefore 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.
12 A third part of you will die with the
pestilence, andthey willbe 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.
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.
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.
15 So 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
16 when 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.
17 I 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.