Ezekiel 5:7-17 ▼

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!

10 Therefore fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute on you judgments, and I will scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

11 Therefore, by the life of Me—a declaration of the Lord YHWH—surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, My eye will not at all show pity, and I also will not have pity, and I—I will diminish you!

12 A third of you—they will die by pestilence and they will be consumed by famine in your midst; and a third will fall by the sword all around you; and a third I will scatter to all the winds and I will unsheath a sword after them!

13 And My nose shall be completed and My fury I will cause to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they will know that I, YHWH, have spoken it in My zeal, in my completing My fury against them!

14 And I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, before the eyes of everyone passing by.

15 And you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations that are around you, in my making against you judgments in anger and in fury and with rebukes of fury—I, YHWH, have spoken—

16 in my sending against them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you⁺; and the famine I am adding upon you⁺, and I will cut off unto you⁺ the staff of bread.

17 And I will send against you⁺ famine and evil beasts, and they will bereave you; and pestilence and blood will pass through you, and the sword I will bring upon you!—I, YHWH, have spoken.”