Ezekiel 5:5-17
Lexham English Bible
5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations where I have put her, and countries are around her. 6 But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they rejected my regulations, and as for my statutes, they did not walk in them. 7 Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of your commotion more than the nations that are around you—you did not walk in my statutes, and you did not do my regulations, and according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you did not do. 8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look! I, even I,[a] am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you before the eyes of the nations, 9 and I will do with you that which I have not done, and which I will not do again, because of all of your detestable things. 10 Therefore[b] parents[c] will eat children[d] in the midst of you, and children[e] will eat their parents,[f] and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind. 11 Therefore as surely as I live,[g] declares[h] the Lord Yahweh, Surely[i] because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, now indeed I[j] will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion. 12 A third of you will die because of the plague, and because of the famine they will perish in the midst of you, and a third will fall through the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every direction of the wind, and I will draw the sword behind them. 13 And my anger will come to an end, and I will place my rage on them, and I will relent, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my passion when I fully vent my rage against them.[k] 14 And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of every one who passes by.[l] 15 And it will be[m] an object of taunting[n] and an object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that are around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken! 16 When I send my arrows of deadly famine against them, which will be as destruction that I will send in order to destroy you, I will increase famine against you, and I will break the supply of food[o] for you. 17 And I will send against you famine and fierce animals,[p] and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!”
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- Ezekiel 5:8 Literally “surely I”
- Ezekiel 5:10 Literally “to thus”
- Ezekiel 5:10 Or “fathers”
- Ezekiel 5:10 Or “sons”
- Ezekiel 5:10 Or “sons”
- Ezekiel 5:10 Or “fathers”
- Ezekiel 5:11 Literally “alive I am”
- Ezekiel 5:11 Literally “declaration of”
- Ezekiel 5:11 Literally “If not”
- Ezekiel 5:11 Literally “and also I”
- Ezekiel 5:13 Literally “at my finishing my anger against them”
- Ezekiel 5:14 Literally “every one of passing by”
- Ezekiel 5:15 Or “and you will be”
- Ezekiel 5:15 Hebrew “taunt”
- Ezekiel 5:16 Literally “staff of bread”
- Ezekiel 5:17 Hebrew “animal”
Ezekiel 5:5-17
New Living Translation
5 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is an illustration of what will happen to Jerusalem. I placed her at the center of the nations, 6 but she has rebelled against my regulations and decrees and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the regulations and decrees I gave her to follow.
7 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You people have behaved worse than your neighbors and have refused to obey my decrees and regulations. You have not even lived up to the standards of the nations around you. 8 Therefore, I myself, the Sovereign Lord, am now your enemy. I will punish you publicly while all the nations watch. 9 Because of your detestable idols, I will punish you like I have never punished anyone before or ever will again. 10 Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive.
11 “As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I will cut you off completely. I will show you no pity at all because you have defiled my Temple with your vile images and detestable sins. 12 A third of your people will die in the city from disease and famine. A third of them will be slaughtered by the enemy outside the city walls. And I will scatter a third to the winds, chasing them with my sword. 13 Then at last my anger will be spent, and I will be satisfied. And when my fury against them has subsided, all Israel will know that I, the Lord, have spoken to them in my jealous anger.
14 “So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by. 15 You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the Lord punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the Lord.
16 “I will shower you with the deadly arrows of famine to destroy you. The famine will become more and more severe until every crumb of food is gone. 17 And along with the famine, wild animals will attack you and rob you of your children. Disease and war will stalk your land, and I will bring the sword of the enemy against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
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