Ezekiel 5

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1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. 4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments , neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done , and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations . 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God ; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare , neither will I have any pity. 12 ¶ A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. 14 Moreover I will make thee waste , and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it. 16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee ; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it. Ezek. 12:14 . 1 Ne. 21:6 ; Alma 4:11 ; 39:11 ; D&C 103:9 (8–9) . Alma 24:30 . 1 Ne. 1:19 (18–20) ; 2:13 ; 7:14 . Ezek. 11:12 . D&C 42:91 . Dan. 9:12 . D&C 29:21 . Jer. 19:9 ; Lam. 2:20 . TG Israel, Scattering of . TG Sacrilege . TG Idolatry . Deut. 8:19 (18–20) . Ezek. 7:4 ; 20:17 . Ezek. 24:13 (13–14) . Ezek. 21:17 ; 38:18 . D&C 20:36 . Lev. 26:31 ; Neh. 2:17 . Ezek. 22:4 . Lam. 2:15 . Jer. 24:9 . IE deprive of children. Ezek. 36:13 (8–15) . Ezek. 14:21 ; 33:27 ; Rev. 6:8 .