Eze 5 | ABEn | STEP | And you, O son of man, take to yourself [ 2 broadsword 1 a sharp] for a razor of a barber! You shall acquire it to yourself, and you shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard. And you shall take a yoke balance scale of weights, and you shall part them.

‏ Ezekiel 5

CHAPTER 5 The Siege Portrayed

1 And you, O son of man, take to yourself [²broadsword ¹a sharp] for a razor of a barber! You shall acquire it to yourself, and you shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard. And you shall take a yoke balance scale of weights, and you shall part them. 2 A fourth part [²in ³fire ¹you shall kindle] in the middle of the city, according to the fullness of the days of the siege. And you shall take a fourth part and shall incinerate it in the midst of it. and a fourth part you shall cut in pieces with the broadsword round about it. And a fourth part you shall disperse to the wind; for [²a sword ¹I shall empty out] after them. 3 And you shall take from there a few in number, and shall wrap them in your wrapping. 4 And from out of these you shall take still more, and shall toss them into the midst of the fire, and shall incinerate them by fire; [³from ⁴it ²shall come forth ¹and fire], and you shall say to all the house of Israel, 5 Thus says Adonai the lord; This is Jerusalem; [³in ⁴the midst ⁵of the ⁶nations ¹I have placed ²her], and the ones round about her place. 6 And you shall tell of my ordinances to the lawless one of the nations, and my laws to the lawless of the places round about her; because [²my ordinances ¹they thrust away], and in my laws they did not go by them. 7 On account of this, thus says Adonai the lord; Because your opportunity for lawlessness is from the nations round about you, and in my laws you did not go, and my ordinances you did not observe, but not even according to the ordinances of the nations round about you did you observe; 8 on account of this, Thus says Adonai the lord; Behold, I am against you, and I shall execute [²in ³the midst ⁴of you ¹judgment] before the nations. 9 And I shall do among you what I have not done, and I shall not do likened to them again against all your abominations. 10 On account of this, fathers shall eat the children in your midst, and children shall eat fathers. And I shall execute [²among ³you ¹judgments]; and I shall scatter all the rest of you unto every wind. 11 On account of this, as I live, says Adonai the lord; Assuredly, because [²my holy things ¹you defiled] in all your loathsome things, and in all your abominations, I also thrust you away; [³will not ⁴spare ¹my ²eye], and I shall not show mercy.

Famine, Plague, Dispersion and the Sword

12 The fourth part of you [²by ³plague ¹shall be consumed]; and a fourth part of you [²by ³famine ¹shall be finished off] in your midst; and a fourth part of you [²unto ³every ⁴wind ¹will be dispersed]; and a fourth part of you [²by ³the broadsword ¹shall fall] round about you; and a sword I shall empty out after them. 13 And [²shall be exhausted ¹my rage], and my anger against them. And I shall enjoin, and you shall know, because I the lord have spoken in my zeal in my exhausting my anger against them. 14 And I shall make you into a wilderness, even your daughters round about you, in the presence of all traveling through. 15 And you will be bemoaned and wretched among the nations round about you, in my executing among you judgments in anger and in rage, and in vengeance of rage. I the lord have spoken. 16 In my sending the arrows of famine upon them, then they will be in want, and I shall send them to ruin you. And [²famine ¹I shall gather] unto you, and I shall break the reliance of your bread. 17 And I shall send out against you famine and [²wild beasts ¹ferocious], and I shall punish you; and plague and blood shall go through upon you; and a sword I shall bring upon you. I the lord have spoken.