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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 5 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Ezekiel 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/4.htm" title="Ezekiel 4">◄</a> Ezekiel 5 <a href="../ezekiel/6.htm" title="Ezekiel 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezekiel/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">God’s Razor of Judgment</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Therefore this is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac You have">a</a></sup></span> conformed to the standards of the nations around you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Therefore this is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the <span class="name">Lord</span> have spoken in my zeal.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the <span class="name">Lord</span> have spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the <span class="name">Lord</span> have spoken.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac <i>You have</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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