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Ezekiel 5
New International Version

### God’s Razor of Judgment

5 “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor(A) to shave(B) your head and your beard.(C) Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair. 2 When the days of your siege come to an end, burn(D) a third(E) of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind.(F) For I will pursue them with drawn sword.(G) 3 But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.(H) 4 Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire(I) and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.

5 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.(J) 6 Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.(K)

7 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.(L)

8 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.(M) 9 Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.(N) 10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.(O) I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.(P) 11 Therefore as surely as I live,(Q) declares the Sovereign(R) Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary(S) with all your vile images(T) and detestable practices,(U) I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.(V) 12 A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds(W) and pursue with drawn sword.(X)

13 “Then my anger will cease and my wrath(Y) against them will subside, and I will be avenged.(Z) And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.(AA)

14 “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(AB) 15 You will be a reproach(AC) and a taunt, a warning(AD) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.(AE) I the Lord have spoken.(AF) 16 When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.(AG) 17 I will send famine and wild beasts(AH) against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed(AI) will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.(AJ)”

#### Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 5:7 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac You have

#### Cross references

1. Ezekiel 5:1 : S Nu 6:5
2. Ezekiel 5:1 : Eze 44:20
3. Ezekiel 5:1 : S Lev 21:5; S 2Sa 10:4
4. Ezekiel 5:2 : Jer 21:10; Eze 15:7
5. Ezekiel 5:2 : Zec 13:8
6. Ezekiel 5:2 : ver 10; Jer 13:24
7. Ezekiel 5:2 : ver 12; S Lev 26:33; S Jer 9:16; S 39:1-2
8. Ezekiel 5:3 : 2Ki 25:12; S Ps 74:11; Jer 39:10
9. Ezekiel 5:4 : Eze 10:7; 15:7
10. Ezekiel 5:5 : S Dt 4:6; S La 1:1; Eze 16:14
11. Ezekiel 5:6 : S 2Ki 17:15; Ne 9:17; Jer 11:10; S Eze 2:3; 16:47-51; Zec 7:11
12. Ezekiel 5:7 : S 2Ki 21:9; S 2Ch 33:9; Jer 2:10-11; Eze 16:47
13. Ezekiel 5:8 : S Jer 21:5, 13; 24:9; Eze 11:9; 15:7; Zec 14:2
14. Ezekiel 5:9 : Da 9:12; S Mt 24:21
15. Ezekiel 5:10 : S Lev 26:29; S La 2:20
16. Ezekiel 5:10 : S Lev 26:33; S Ps 44:11; S Jer 13:14; Eze 12:14
17. Ezekiel 5:11 : S Nu 14:21
18. Ezekiel 5:11 : S Ge 15:2
19. Ezekiel 5:11 : S Lev 15:31
20. Ezekiel 5:11 : Eze 7:20; 11:18
21. Ezekiel 5:11 : 2Ch 36:14; Eze 8:6
22. Ezekiel 5:11 : S Job 27:22; S Jer 16:18; S La 2:17; Eze 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5
23. Ezekiel 5:12 : ver 10; Jer 13:24
24. Ezekiel 5:12 : S ver 2, 17; S Ps 107:39; S Jer 15:2; S 21:9; Eze 6:11-12; 7:15; 12:14; Am 9:4; Zec 13:8; Rev 6:8
25. Ezekiel 5:13 : S 2Ch 12:7; S Job 20:23; Eze 21:17; 24:13
26. Ezekiel 5:13 : S Isa 1:24
27. Ezekiel 5:13 : S Isa 59:17; Eze 16:42; 38:19; Hos 10:10; Zec 6:8
28. Ezekiel 5:14 : S Lev 26:32; Ne 2:17; Ps 74:3-10; 79:1-4; Isa 64:11; Eze 6:6; 22:4; Da 9:16; Mic 3:12
29. Ezekiel 5:15 : S Isa 43:28
30. Ezekiel 5:15 : S Dt 28:46
31. Ezekiel 5:15 : S Dt 28:20; S 1Ki 9:7; S Jer 22:8-9; 24:9; Eze 14:8
32. Ezekiel 5:15 : S Jer 23:40
33. Ezekiel 5:16 : S Lev 26:26; S Dt 32:24
34. Ezekiel 5:17 : Eze 14:15
35. Ezekiel 5:17 : Eze 38:22
36. Ezekiel 5:17 : S ver 12; S Lev 26:25; Eze 14:21; 28:23

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