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Take scales to weigh your hair and divide it [into three even parts]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When the blockade is over, burn one-third of your hair in a fire in the middle of the city. Take another third, and cut it up with a blade around the city. Then scatter the remaining third to the wind, and I will draw a sword and go after it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Take a few strands of hair, and wrap them in the hem of your clothes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Later, take some of them, and throw them in a fire and burn them up. From there a fire will spread throughout the whole nation of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"This is what the Almighty LORD says: This is Jerusalem! I have placed it in the center of the nations with countries all around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The people of Jerusalem have rebelled against my rules and my laws more than the surrounding nations. They have rejected my rules, and they don't live by my laws. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"So this is what the Almighty LORD says: [People of Jerusalem,] you have caused more trouble than the nations around you. You haven't lived by my laws or obeyed my rules. You haven't even lived up to the standards of the nations around you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"So this is what the Almighty LORD says: I, too, am against you, and I will punish you in front of the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Because of all the detestable things that you do, I will do things to you that I have never done before and will never do again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>That is why parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter whoever is left to the wind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"As I live, declares the Almighty LORD, because you have dishonored my holy worship place with all your disgusting and detestable things, I will have you killed. I will not have compassion for you or feel sorry for you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>One-third of you will die in plagues and be devoured in famines. Another third will die in battles against those around you. I will scatter the remaining third to the wind, and I will pursue them with a sword.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"I will unleash my anger. I will use my fury against you, and I will get revenge. When my fury is unleashed against you, you will know that I, the LORD, spoke to you while I was angry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will turn you into a wasteland and an object of ridicule among the nations around you and in the presence of everyone who passes by you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The nations that are around you will ridicule you and laugh at you. When I punish you because of my anger, fury, and fierce revenge, you will become something ridiculed and something horrible. I, the LORD, have spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When I shoot my destructive arrows of famine at you, I will shoot to kill you. I will bring more and more famines into your land, and I will cut off your food supply. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will send famines and wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children. I will send plagues, violence, and wars to kill you. I, the LORD, have spoken."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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