Ezekiel · Catholic Public Domain Version
Ezekiel 5 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 “And as for you, son of man, obtain for yourself a sharp knife for shaving hair, and you shall take it and draw it across your head and across your beard. And you shall obtain for yourself a balance for weighing, and you shall divide the hair.
1 “You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
2 A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the completion of the days of the siege. And you shall take a third part, and you shall cut it with the knife all around. Yet truly, the other third, you shall scatter to the wind, for I will unsheathe the sword after them.
2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 And you shall take from there a small number. And you shall bind them in the end of your cloak.
3 You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
4 And again, you shall take from them, and you shall throw them into the midst of the fire, and you shall burn them with fire. And from it, there shall go forth a fire to the entire house of Israel.”
4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
5 Thus says the Lord God: “This is Jerusalem. I have placed her in the midst of the Gentiles and of the lands all around her.
5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.
6 And she has despised my judgments, so as to be more impious than the Gentiles, and my precepts, more so than the lands that are all around her. For they have cast aside my judgments, and they have not walked in my precepts.”
6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’
7 For this reason, thus says the Lord God: “Since you have surpassed the Gentiles who are all around you, and have not walked in my precepts, and have not accomplished my judgments, and have not even acted in accord with the judgments of the Gentiles who are all around you:
7 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
8 therefore, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, and I myself will accomplish judgments in your midst, in the sight of the Gentiles.
8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in you what I have not done before, and the likes of which I will not do again, because of all your abominations.
9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.
10 Therefore, the fathers shall consume the sons in your midst, and the sons shall consume their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will winnow your entire remnant in every wind.
10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
11 Therefore, as I myself live says the Lord God, because you have violated my sanctuary with all your offenses and with all your abominations, I also will break into pieces, and my eye will not be lenient, and I will not take pity.
11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
12 One third part of you will die by pestilence or be consumed by famine in your midst. And one third part of you will fall by the sword all around you. Yet truly, one third part of you I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
13 And I will fulfill my fury, and I will cause my indignation to rest upon them, and I will be consoled. And they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I will have fulfilled my indignation in them.
13 “‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
14 And I will make you desolate, and a disgrace among the Gentiles, who are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
14 “‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 And you shall be a disgrace and a blasphemy, an example and an astonishment, among the Gentiles, who are all around you, when I will have executed judgments in you, in fury and in indignation and with rebukes of wrath.
15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—
16 I, the Lord, have spoken. At that time, I will send among them the most grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send so that I may destroy you. And I will gather a famine over you, and I will crush the staff of bread among you.
16 when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread.
17 And I will send among you famine and very harmful beasts, even unto utter ruin. And pestilence and blood shall pass through you. And I will bring the sword over you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
17 I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’”
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 7:20; Leviticus 21:5; Ezekiel 44:20; Daniel 5:27
- 2 Ezekiel 5:12; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 12:14; Ezekiel 4:1–8; Jeremiah 9:16
- 3 Jeremiah 52:16; Jeremiah 40:6; Jeremiah 39:10; 1 Peter 4:18; Matthew 7:14
- 4 Jeremiah 48:45; Jeremiah 41:1–18; 2 Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 52:30
- 5 Ezekiel 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:6; Jeremiah 6:6; Ezekiel 16:14; Micah 5:7
- 6 Jeremiah 11:10; Ezekiel 16:47–48; Zechariah 7:11; 2 Kings 17:8–20; Nehemiah 9:16–17
- 7 Jeremiah 2:10–11; 2 Kings 21:9–11; 2 Chronicles 33:9; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 16:47–48
- 8 Ezekiel 15:7; Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 21:13; Ezekiel 21:3
- 9 Daniel 9:12; Matthew 24:21; Amos 3:2; Lamentations 4:9; Lamentations 4:6
- 10 Zechariah 2:6; Deuteronomy 28:64; Jeremiah 19:9; Ezekiel 12:14; Leviticus 26:29
- 11 Ezekiel 7:20; 2 Chronicles 36:14; Ezekiel 7:4; Ezekiel 8:5–6; Ezekiel 11:18
- 12 Ezekiel 5:2; Jeremiah 15:2; Jeremiah 43:10–11; Jeremiah 21:9; Ezekiel 12:14
- 13 Ezekiel 36:5–6; Ezekiel 6:12; Isaiah 1:24; Ezekiel 7:8; Ezekiel 20:21
- 14 Psalm 79:1–4; Psalm 74:3–10; Ezekiel 22:4; Nehemiah 2:17; Lamentations 1:4
- 15 Jeremiah 22:8–9; Ezekiel 25:17; Psalm 79:4; Isaiah 26:9; 1 Kings 9:7
- 16 Ezekiel 4:16; Deuteronomy 32:23–24; Psalm 7:13; Leviticus 26:26; Isaiah 3:1
- 17 Ezekiel 38:22; Leviticus 26:22; 2 Kings 17:25; Ezekiel 14:15; Ezekiel 33:27
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