Ezekiel 5:10-6:8

English Standard Version

¹⁰ Therefore ^(A)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. ^(B)And I will execute judgments on you, ^(C)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. ¹¹ Therefore, ^(D)as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, ^(E)because you have defiled my sanctuary ^(F)with all your detestable things and with all your ^(G)abominations, ^(H)therefore I will withdraw.^{[a] (I)}My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. ^12 (J)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; ^(K)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; ^(L)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

^13 (M)“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that ^(N)I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—^(O)when I spend my fury upon them. ¹⁴ Moreover, I will make you ^(P)a desolation and ^(Q)an object of reproach among ^(R)the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. ¹⁵ You shall be^[b] a reproach and a taunt, a warning ^(S)and a horror, to ^(T)the nations all around you, ^(U)when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and ^(V)with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— ¹⁶ when I send against you^{[c] (W)}the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon ^(X)you and break your supply^[d] of bread. ¹⁷ I will send famine and ^(Y)wild beasts against you, ^(Z)and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and ^(AA)blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”

Judgment Against Idolatry

6 The word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (AB)“Son of man, ^(AC)set your face toward ^(AD)the mountains of Israel, and ^(AE)prophesy against them, ³ and say, ^(AF)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to ^(AG)the mountains and ^(AH)the hills, to ^(AI)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, ^(AJ)and I will destroy your high places. ^4 (AK)Your altars shall become desolate, and your ^(AL)incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. ^5 (AM)And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, ^(AN)and I will scatter your bones around your altars. ⁶ Wherever you dwell, ^(AO)the cities shall be waste and ^(AP)the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,^[e] your idols broken and destroyed, your ^(AQ)incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. ⁷ And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

^8 (AR)“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations ^(AS)some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,