Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed

Ezekiel 5

1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, a and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2 b "You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of c the city, when d the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after e them. 3 f "You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. 4 "Then take some of them again and g throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

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 1 multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes h nor kept My judgments, 2 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 i '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 j 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 k scatter to all the winds. 11 'Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have l defiled My sanctuary with all your m detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; n My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 o '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 p I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after q them.

13 'Thus shall My anger r be spent, and I will s cause My fury to rest upon them, t and I will be avenged; u and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. 14 'Moreover v 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 3 it shall be a w reproach, a taunt, a x 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 y furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16 'When I z 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 a supply of bread. 17 'So I will send against you famine and b wild beasts, and they will bereave you. c Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.' "

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 21:5
    They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
    Isaiah 7:20
    In the same day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, With those from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, The head and the hair of the legs, And will also remove the beard.
    Ezekiel 44:20
    They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they shall keep their hair well trimmed.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:12
    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 will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 4:1
    You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 4:8
    And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.
    Ezekiel 4:9
    Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.
  5. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:25
    And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
    Lamentations 1:20
    See, O LORD, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 40:6
    Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt 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 poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 41:1
    Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
    Jeremiah 41:2
    Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
    Jeremiah 44:14
    'so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or survive, lest they return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return and dwell. For none shall return except those who escape.'"
  8. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:9 - 11
    But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
    2 Chronicles 33:9
    So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
    Jeremiah 2:10
    For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, Send to Kedar and consider diligently, And see if there has been such a thing.
    Jeremiah 2:11
    Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit.
    Ezekiel 16:47
    You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
  9. Cross References
    Lamentations 4:6
    The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her!
    Daniel 9:12
    And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
    Amos 3:2
    "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."
    Matthew 24:21
    For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
  10. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:29
    You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you s...
    Deuteronomy 28:53
    You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the f...
    2 Kings 6:29
    "So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said t...
    Jeremiah 19:9
    "And I will cause them to eat the flesh of thei...
    Lamentations 2:20
    See, O LORD, and consider! To whom have You don...
    Lamentations 4:10
    The hands of the compassionate women Have cooke...
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:33
    I will scatter you among the nations and draw o...
    Deuteronomy 28:64
    Then the LORD will scatter you among all people...
    Psalms 44:11
    You have given us up like sheep intended for fo...
    Ezekiel 5:2
    You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst...
    Ezekiel 5:12
    One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, a...
    Ezekiel 6:8
    Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may hav...
    Ezekiel 12:14
    I will scatter to every wind all who are around...
    Amos 9:9
    For surely I will command, And will sift the ho...
    Zechariah 2:6
    Up, up! Flee from the land of the north," says ...
    Zechariah 7:14
    "But I scattered them with a whirlwind among al...
  12. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:14
    Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the LORD which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
    Jeremiah 7:9 - 11
    Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know.
    Ezekiel 8:5
    Then He said to me, "Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.
    Ezekiel 8:6
    Furthermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.
    Ezekiel 8:16
    So He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.
  13. Cross References
    Ezekiel 11:21
    But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:4
    My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!
    Ezekiel 7:9
    My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.
    Ezekiel 8:18
    "Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
    Ezekiel 9:10
    "And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head."
  15. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:2
    "And it shall be, if they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you shall tell them, 'Thus says the LORD: "Such as are for death, to death; And such as are for the sword, to the sword; And such as are for the famine, to the famine; And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity."'
    Jeremiah 21:9
    He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him.
    Ezekiel 6:12
    He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:16
    "I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them."
    Ezekiel 6:8
    Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 43:10
    And say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
    Jeremiah 43:11
    When he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt and deliver to death those appointed for death, and to captivity those appointed for captivity, and to the sword those appointed for the sword.
    Jeremiah 44:27
    Behold, I will watch over them for adversity and not for good. And all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end to them.
    Ezekiel 5:2
    You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.
    Ezekiel 12:14
    I will scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.
  18. Cross References
    Lamentations 4:11
    The LORD has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations.
    Ezekiel 6:12
    He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.
    Ezekiel 7:8
    Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
  19. Cross References
    Ezekiel 21:17
    "I also will beat My fists together, And I will cause My fury to rest; I, the LORD, have spoken."
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:36
    For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.
    Isaiah 1:24
    Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My enemies.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 59:17
    For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
    Ezekiel 36:6
    "Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations."
    Ezekiel 38:19
    For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: 'Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
  22. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:31
    I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
    Nehemiah 2:17
    Then I said to them, "You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.
  23. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:37
    And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you.
    1 Kings 9:7
    Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
    Psalms 79:4
    We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
    Jeremiah 24:9
    I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
    Lamentations 2:15
    All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: " Is this the city that is called 'The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth'?
  24. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:9
    With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
    Jeremiah 22:8
    "And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, 'Why has the LORD done so to this great city?'
    Jeremiah 22:9
    "Then they will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.'"
    1 Corinthians 10:11
    Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
  25. Cross References
    Isaiah 66:15
    For behold, the LORD will come with fire And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.
    Isaiah 66:16
    For by fire and by His sword The LORD will judge all flesh; And the slain of the LORD shall be many.
    Ezekiel 5:8
    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.
    Ezekiel 25:17
    "I will execute great vengeance on them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them." '"
  26. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:23
    I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.
  27. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:26
    When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
    Ezekiel 4:16
    Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread.
    Ezekiel 14:13
    Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.
  28. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:22
    I will also send wild beasts among you, which s...
    Deuteronomy 32:24
    They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by p...
    Ezekiel 14:21
    For thus says the Lord GOD: "How much more it s...
    Ezekiel 33:27
    Say thus to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: " As...
    Ezekiel 34:25
    I will make a covenant of peace with them, and ...
    Revelation 6:8
    So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the ...
  29. Cross References
    Ezekiel 38:22
    And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
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