And thou, son of man, takethee a sharpknife, takethee a barber’srazor, and cause it to passuponthinehead and upon thy beard: thentaketheebalances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Thoushaltburnwithfire a thirdpart in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thoushalttake a thirdpart, and smiteabout it with a knife: and a thirdpartthoushaltscatter in the wind; and I willdraw out a swordafterthem.
And she hathchanged my judgmentsintowickednessmorethan the nations, and my statutesmorethan the countriesthat are roundabout her: for theyhaverefused my judgments and my statutes, theyhave not walked in them.
Thereforethussaith the Lord GOD; Because ye multipliedmorethan the nationsthat are roundabout you, and have not walked in my statutes, neitherhavekept my judgments, neitherhavedoneaccording to the judgments of the nationsthat are roundabout you;
Therefore the fathersshall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sonsshall eat theirfathers; and I willexecutejudgments in thee, and the wholeremnant of theewill I scatterinto all the winds.
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, becausethouhastdefiled my sanctuarywith all thy detestablethings, and with all thineabominations, thereforewill I alsodiminishthee; neithershallmine eye spare, neitherwill I have any pity.
A thirdpart of theeshall die with the pestilence, and withfamineshallthey be consumed in the midst of thee: and a thirdpartshallfall by the swordroundaboutthee; and I willscatter a thirdpartinto all the winds, and I willdraw out a swordafterthem.
Thusshallmineanger be accomplished, and I willcause my fury to restuponthem, and I will be comforted: and theyshallknowthat I the LORDhavespoken it in my zeal, when I haveaccomplished my fury in them.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishmentunto the nationsthat are roundaboutthee, when I shallexecutejudgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furiousrebukes. I the LORDhavespoken it.
When I shallsenduponthem the evilarrows of famine, whichshall be for theirdestruction, and which I willsend to destroy you: and I willincrease the famineupon you, and willbreakyourstaff of bread:
So will I sendupon you famine and evilbeasts, and theyshallbereavethee; and pestilence and bloodshallpassthroughthee; and I willbring the sworduponthee. I the LORDhavespoken it.