Ezekiel · Unlocked Literal Bible
Ezekiel 5 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 “Then you, son of man, take a sharp sword as a barber's razor for yourself, and pass the razor over your head and your beard, then take scales to weigh and divide your 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 Burn a third of it with fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are completed, and take a third of the hair and strike it with the sword all around the city. Then scatter a third of it to the wind, and I will draw out a sword to chase after the people.
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 But take a small number of hairs from them and tie them into the folds of your robe.
3 You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
4 Then take more of the hair and throw it into the midst of the fire; and burn it in the fire; from there a fire will go out to all the 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 The Lord Yahweh says this, “This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations, where I have placed her, and where I have surrounded her with other lands.
5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.
6 But she has in wickedness rejected my decrees more than the nations have, and my statutes more than the countries that surround her. The people have rejected my judgments and have not walked in my statutes.”
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 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this, “Because you are more troublesome than the nations that surround you and have not walked in my statutes or acted according to my decrees, or even acted according to the decrees of the nations that surround 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 the Lord Yahweh says this, “Behold! I myself will act against you. I will execute judgments within your midst for the nations to see.
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 I will do to you what I have not done and the like of which I will not do again, because of all your disgusting actions.
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 fathers will eat the children in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers, since I will execute judgment on you and scatter to every direction all of you who are left.
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 live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—it is certainly because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your hateful things and with all your disgusting deeds, that I myself will reduce you in number; my eye will not have pity on you, and I will not spare you.
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 A third of you will die by plague, and they will be consumed by famine in your midst. A third will fall by the sword surrounding you. Then I will scatter a third in every direction, and draw out a sword to chase after them as well.
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 Then my wrath will be completed, and I will cause my fury toward them to rest. I will be satisfied, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my wrath when I have completed my fury against 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 I will make you a desolation and a reproach to the nations that surround you in the sight of everyone who passes 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 So Jerusalem will become something for other people to condemn and to mock, a warning and a horror to the nations that surround you. I will execute judgments against you in wrath and fury, and with a furious rebuke—I, Yahweh have declared this!
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 will send out harsh arrows of famine against you that will become the means with which I will destroy you. For I will increase the famine on you and break your staff of bread.
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 I will send a famine and disasters against you so you will be childless. Plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring a sword against you—I, Yahweh, have declared this.”
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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