Ezekiel 5

Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed

1 "And you, a O son of man, take a b sharp sword. Use it as c a barber's razor and d pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2 e A third part you shall burn in the fire f in the midst of the city, g when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. h And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and i I will unsheathe the sword after them. 3 j And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 4 k And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

5 "Thus says the Lord God: l This is Jerusalem. I have set her m in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness n more than the nations, and against my statutes more than m 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 o more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, p and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, q and have not 1 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, r am against you. s And I will execute judgments 2 in your midst t in the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you u what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore v fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. s And I will execute judgments on you, w and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, x as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, y because you have defiled my sanctuary z with all your detestable things and with all your a abominations, b therefore I will withdraw. 3 c My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 d A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; d a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; d and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

13 e "Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that f I am the Lord - that I have spoken in my jealousy - e when I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you g a desolation and h an object of reproach among i the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be 4 a reproach and a taunt, a warning j and a horror, to i the nations all around you, k when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and l with furious rebukes - I am the Lord; I have spoken - 16 when I send against you 5 m the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon n you and break your supply 6 of bread. 17 I will send famine and o wild beasts against you, p and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and q blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken."

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 2:1
    And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 57:4
    My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts - the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
    Isaiah 49:2
    He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me away.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:20
    In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 1:3
    The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.
    Ezekiel 44:20
    They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.
    Leviticus 21:5
    They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:12
    A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:5
    Thus says the Lord God : This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
    Ezekiel 4:1
    And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 4:8
    And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:10
    Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
  9. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:12
    A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
    Ezekiel 12:14
    And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
    Jeremiah 9:16
    I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 40:6
    Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
    Jeremiah 52:16
    But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 42:18
    For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.
    Jeremiah 44:14
    So that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives.
  12. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:2
    A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
    Ezekiel 4:1
    And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.
  13. Cross References
    Ezekiel 38:12
    To seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:47 - 48
    Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
  15. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:5
    Thus says the Lord God : This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
  16. Cross References
    Psalms 2:1
    Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
    Psalms 46:6
    The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
  17. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:47
    Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
  18. Cross References
    Ezekiel 11:12
    And you shall know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.
  19. Cross References
    Ezekiel 13:8
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : "Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God.
  20. Cross References
    Ezekiel 11:9
    And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.
    Ezekiel 16:41
    And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
    Ezekiel 23:10
    These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
  21. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:16
    And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  22. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:12 - 13
    Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
    Lamentations 1:12
    Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
    Daniel 9:12
    He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
  23. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:9
    And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.
  24. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:8
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
  25. Cross References
    Ezekiel 12:14
    And I will scatter toward every wind all who ar...
    Ezekiel 17:21
    And all the pick of his troops shall fall by th...
    Ezekiel 22:15
    I will scatter you among the nations and disper...
    Ezekiel 36:19
    I scattered them among the nations, and they we...
    Deuteronomy 28:64
    And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples...
    Jeremiah 9:16
    I will scatter them among the nations whom neit...
    Jeremiah 15:4
    And I will make them a horror to all the kingdo...
    Zechariah 2:6
    Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declar...
    Ezekiel 5:2
    A third part you shall burn in the fire in the ...
    Ezekiel 36:19
    I scattered them among the nations, and they we...
  26. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:48
    As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
  27. Cross References
    Ezekiel 8:3
    He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
    Ezekiel 8:5 - 6
    Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.
    Ezekiel 23:39
    For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
    2 Chronicles 36:14
    All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
    Jeremiah 7:30
    For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
  28. Cross References
    Ezekiel 11:18
    And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
  29. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:20
    His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
    Ezekiel 11:18
    And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
    Ezekiel 11:21
    But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.
  30. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:27
    Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
  31. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:4
    And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have ...
    Ezekiel 7:9
    And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity...
    Ezekiel 8:18
    Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not ...
    Ezekiel 9:5
    And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass ...
    Ezekiel 9:10
    As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I ha...
    Jeremiah 21:7
    Afterward, declares the Lord, I will give Zedek...
  32. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:2
    A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
    Ezekiel 6:11 - 12
    Thus says the Lord God : "Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
    Jeremiah 15:2
    And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.
  33. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:2
    A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
    Ezekiel 6:11 - 12
    Thus says the Lord God : "Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
    Jeremiah 15:2
    And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.
  34. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:2
    A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
    Ezekiel 6:11 - 12
    Thus says the Lord God : "Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
    Jeremiah 15:2
    And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.
  35. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:12
    He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and ...
    Ezekiel 7:8
    Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and...
    Ezekiel 20:8
    But they rebelled against me and were not willi...
    Ezekiel 20:21
    But the children rebelled against me. They did ...
    Lamentations 4:11
    The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured...
    Ezekiel 39:25
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Now I will r...
  36. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:12
    He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and ...
    Ezekiel 7:8
    Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and...
    Ezekiel 20:8
    But they rebelled against me and were not willi...
    Ezekiel 20:21
    But the children rebelled against me. They did ...
    Lamentations 4:11
    The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured...
    Ezekiel 39:25
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Now I will r...
  37. Cross References
    Ezekiel 36:5 - 6
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
    Ezekiel 38:19
    For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
  38. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:6
    Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
    Jeremiah 22:5
    But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
  39. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:4
    You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
    Nehemiah 2:17
    Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.
    Psalms 79:4
    We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
    Jeremiah 24:9
    I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
  40. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:5 - 6
    Thus says the Lord God : This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
  41. Cross References
    Ezekiel 14:8
    And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
    Deuteronomy 28:37
    And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
  42. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:14
    Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
  43. Cross References
    Ezekiel 14:21
    For thus says the Lord God : How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
  44. Cross References
    Ezekiel 25:17
    I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.
  45. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:23 - 24
    'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them.
  46. Cross References
    Ezekiel 4:16
    Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
  47. Cross References
    Ezekiel 14:15
    If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts.
    Ezekiel 33:27
    Say this to them, Thus says the Lord God : As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.
    Ezekiel 34:25
    I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
    Deuteronomy 32:24
    They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
    2 Kings 17:25
    And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
  48. Cross References
    Ezekiel 36:12
    I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
  49. Cross References
    Ezekiel 38:22
    With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
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