Ezekiel 5:5-17
New King James Version
5 “Thus says the Lord God: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her. 6 She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’ 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have [a]multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes (A)nor kept My judgments, [b]nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’— 8 therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. 9 (B)And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore fathers (C)shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will (D)scatter to all the winds.
11 ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have (E)defiled My sanctuary with all your (F)detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; (G)My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 (H)One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and (I)I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after (J)them.
13 ‘Thus shall My anger (K)be spent, and I will (L)cause My fury to rest upon them, (M)and I will be avenged; (N)and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. 14 Moreover (O)I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
15 ‘So [c]it shall be a (P)reproach, a taunt, a (Q)lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in (R)furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16 When I (S)send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your (T)supply of bread. 17 So I will send against you famine and (U)wild beasts, and they will bereave you. (V)Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”
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- Ezekiel 5:7 Or raged
- Ezekiel 5:7 So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; many Heb. mss., Syr. but have done (cf. 11:12)
- Ezekiel 5:15 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. you
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