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1 “ And you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp sword; the razor of a barber take it to yourself and pass it over your head and over your beard; take for yourself scales of weighing, and you shall divide the hair. 2 A third with fire you shall burn in the midst of the city at the completion of the days of the siege; and you shall take a third and strike it with the sword around it; and a third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword after them. 3 And you shall take from them a few in number, and you shall bind them in your skirts. 4 And some of them you shall take again and cast them into the midst of the fire, and you shall burn them in the fire; from there will go out a fire into all the house of Israel! 5 Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘This is Jerusalem; in the midst of the nations I have set her, and all around her the countries. 6 And she has rebelled against My ordinances for wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are around her—for My ordinances they have refused, and My statutes, they have not walked in them!’ 7 Therefore, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Because of your⁺ turbulence above the nations that are around you⁺, in My statutes you⁺ have not walked, and My ordinances you⁺ have not done—nor have you⁺ done’ according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you⁺! 8 Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Behold, I am against you—even I! And I will do in your midst judgments in the eyes of the nations; 9 and I will do among you what I have not done, and that which I will do not like it again, because of all your abominations! Ezekiel 5:1-9, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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