Ezekiel 5:1-17 `And you, son of man, take to you a sharp weapon, the barber's razor you do take to you, and you have caused it to pass over your head, and over your beard, and you have taken to you weighing scales, and apportioned them."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ `And you, son of man, take to you a sharp weapon, the barber's razor you do take to you, and you have caused [it] to pass over your head, and over your beard, and you have taken to you weighing scales, and apportioned them." ² A third part with fire you do burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and you have taken the third part, you do smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part you do scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them." ³ And you have taken thence a few in number--and have bound them in your skirts; ⁴ and of them you do take again, and have cast them unto the midst of the fire, and have burned them in the fire--out of it comes forth a fire unto all the house of Israel." ⁵ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:this [is] Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her [are] the lands." ⁶ And she changes My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that [are] round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes--they have not walked in them." ⁷ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because of your multiplying above the nations that [are] around you, In My statutes you have not walked, And My judgments you have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That [are] round about you you have not done." ⁸ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I [am] against you, even I, And I have done in your midst judgments, Before the eyes of the nations." ⁹ And I have done in you that which I have not done, And that which I do not its like again, Because of all your abominations." ¹⁰ Therefore fathers do eat sons in your midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in you judgments, And have scattered all your remnant to every wind." ¹¹ Therefore, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh:Because My sanctuary you have defiled, With all your detestable things, And with all your abominations, Mine eye pities not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish? ¹² Your third part--by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in your midst, And the third part, by sword they fall round about you, And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out after them." ¹³ And completed has been Mine anger, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, Yahweh, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them." ¹⁴ And I give you for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that [are] round about you, Before the eyes of every passer by." ¹⁵ And it has been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that [are] round about you, In My doing in you judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Yahweh, have spoken." ¹⁶ In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread." ¹⁷ And I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, And they have bereaved you, And pestilence and blood pass over on you, And a sword I do bring in against you, I, Yahweh, have spoken!'"