The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

 1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a ^asword after them.

 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

 4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

 5 ¶Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the ^amidst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

 6 And she hath changed my judgments into ^awickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have ^brefused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ^ajudgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the ^asight of the nations.

 9 And I will do in thee that which I have not ^adone, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine ^babominations.

 10 Therefore the fathers shall ^aeat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I ^bscatter into all the winds.

 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast ^adefiled my sanctuary with all thy ^bdetestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also ^cdiminish thee; neither shall mine eye ^dspare, neither will I have any pity.

 12 ¶A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and ^aI will cause my ^bfury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have ^cspoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

 14 Moreover I will make thee ^awaste, and a ^breproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that ^cpass by.

 15 So it shall be a ^areproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.

 16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall ^abereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the ^bsword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.