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Jerusalem's
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Ezekiel 5:1
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"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword;
take and use it as a barber's razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for
weighing and divide the hair. |
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Ezekiel 5:2
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"One third you shall burn in the fire at the
center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take
one third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and one third you
shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them. |
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Ezekiel 5:3
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"Take also a few in number from them and bind
them in the edges of your robes. |
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Ezekiel 5:4
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"Take again some of them and throw them into
the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house
of Israel. |
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Ezekiel 5:5
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"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem;
I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her. |
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Ezekiel 5:6
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'But she has rebelled against My ordinances
more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which
surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.'
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Ezekiel 5:7
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"Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because
you have more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked
in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the
nations which surround you,' |
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Ezekiel 5:8
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therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold,
I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight
of the nations. |
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Ezekiel 5:9
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'And because of all your abominations, I will
do among you what I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again.
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Ezekiel 5:10
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'Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among
you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and
scatter all your remnant to every wind. |
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Ezekiel 5:11
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'So as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'surely,
because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with
all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no
pity and I will not spare. |
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Ezekiel 5:12
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'One third of you will die by plague or be consumed
by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third
I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them. |
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Ezekiel 5:13
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'Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy
My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD,
have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them. |
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Ezekiel 5:14
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'Moreover, I will make you a desolation and
a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass
by. |
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Ezekiel 5:15
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'So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning
and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments
against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. |
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Ezekiel 5:16
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'When I send against them the deadly arrows
of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy
you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread. |
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Ezekiel 5:17
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'Moreover, I will send on you famine and wild
beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will
pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.'" |
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