Ezekiel 5:5-17
English Standard Version
5 “Thus says the Lord God: (A)This is Jerusalem. I have set her (B)in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness (C)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than (D)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are (E)more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, (F)and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, (G)and have not[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, 8 therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, (H)am against you. (I)And I will execute judgments[b] in your midst (J)in the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you (K)what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore (L)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. (M)And I will execute judgments on you, (N)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, (O)as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, (P)because you have defiled my sanctuary (Q)with all your detestable things and with all your (R)abominations, (S)therefore I will withdraw.[c] (T)My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 (U)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; (V)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; (W)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
13 (X)“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that (Y)I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—(Z)when I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you (AA)a desolation and (AB)an object of reproach among (AC)the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be[d] a reproach and a taunt, a warning (AD)and a horror, to (AE)the nations all around you, (AF)when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and (AG)with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— 16 when I send against you[e] (AH)the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon (AI)you and break your supply[f] of bread. 17 I will send famine and (AJ)wild beasts against you, (AK)and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and (AL)blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”
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- Ezekiel 5:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not
- Ezekiel 5:8 The same Hebrew expression can mean obey rules, or execute judgments, depending on the context
- Ezekiel 5:11 Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down
- Ezekiel 5:15 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be
- Ezekiel 5:16 Hebrew them
- Ezekiel 5:16 Hebrew staff
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