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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But take a few strands of hair from those and tie them in the ends of your garment. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"This is what the sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: Because you are more arrogant than the nations around you, you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even carried out the regulations of the nations around you! |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: I--even I--am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign LORD, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my jealousy when I have fully vented my rage against them. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken! |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken!" |
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