(KJV) Ezekiel 5¹

⥃The Razor of Judgment

[1] And thou, son² of man, take³ thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then⁴ take thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair]. [2] Thou shalt burn⁵ with fire a third part in the midst of the city⁶, 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 draw⁷ out a sword after them. [3] Thou shalt also take thereof a few⁸ in number, and bind them in thy skirts⁹. [4] Then take¹⁰ of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire¹¹ come forth into all the house of Israel.

[5] Thus saith the Lord God; This¹² [is] Jerusalem: I have¹³ set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her. [6] And she hath¹⁴ changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her: for they¹⁵ 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 done¹⁶ according to the judgments of the nations that [are] round about you; [8] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I¹⁷, [am] against thee, and will execute judgments in the¹⁸ midst of thee in the sight of the nations. [9] And I will do in thee that which¹⁹ I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. [10] Therefore the fathers²⁰ 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 whole²¹ remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

⥃Famine, Sword, and Dispersion

[11] Wherefore, [as] I live²², saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast²³ defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable²⁴ things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I²⁵ also diminish [thee]; neither shall²⁶ mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

[12] [¶]A third part of²⁷ 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 scatter²⁸ a third part into all the winds, and I will draw²⁹ out a sword after them. [13] Thus shall mine³⁰ anger be accomplished, and I will cause³¹ my fury to rest upon them, and I will be³² comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken³³ [it] in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. [14] Moreover I will³⁴ make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations³⁵ that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. [15] So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction³⁶ and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee, when³⁷ 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 evil³⁸ 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 will³⁹ break your staff of bread: [17] So will I send upon you famine and evil⁴⁰ beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence⁴¹ and blood shall pass through thee; and I⁴² will bring the sword upon thee. I the⁴³ Lord have spoken [it].