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📚✭“And, son of man, take a sharp knife; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and on your beard. Then take scales for weighing, and divide the hair. 2 📚✭You shall burn a third of it with fire inside the city, when the days of the siege are ended. And you shall take a third of it, and strike it with the knife all around the city, and you shall scatter a third in the wind. For I will draw out a sword after them. 3 📚✭You shall also take a few hairs from it, and tie them in your garment. 4 📚Again, take some of them and throw them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. For from there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel. God’s words concerning Jerusalem
5 📚✭“Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst✭ of the nations and countries that surround her. 6 📚✭And she has rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances and my statutes. They have not walked in them.
7 📚“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have multiplied rebellion more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, or kept my ordinances, or even acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you,
8 📚“Therefore thus says the Lord God: See, I, I myself, am against you and will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9 📚✭And, because of all your abominations, I will do in you what I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again. 10 📚Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and the sons will eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter all the rest of you to all the winds. 11 📚Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore surely I will also withdraw and my eye will have no pity✭, and I will not spare. 12 📚✭A third of you will die from the plague, and will be consumed by famine in your midst; and a third part will fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part to all the winds, and draw out a sword after them.
13 📚✭“Thus my anger will be spent, and I will cause my fury to rest on them, and I will be appeased; and when my fury against them is spent, they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken✭ it in my zeal.
14 📚“Moreover I will make you a wasteland, and an object of reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15 📚So it will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of astonishment to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it. 16 📚✭When I send on them the disastrous arrows of famine, which will destroy them, I will send them to destroy you (then I will increase the famine among you, and will break your staff of bread). 17 📚So I will send on you famine and evil beasts, and they will bereave you; and plague and bloodshed will pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken it”.