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    Ezekiel · 17 verses

    Ezekiel 5

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    A sword becomes a barber’s razor, the hair is weighed into thirds, and then even the rescued strands are reduced by fire: Ezekiel’s haircut has a remnant within a remnant within the destruction.

    The measured hairvv. 1–4

    Ezekiel is told to shave his head and beard with a sword, then weigh the hair and divide it. One third is burned inside the city, one third is slashed around it, and one third is scattered to the wind, with a sword unleashed behind them. Yet a few strands are tucked into the folds of his garment; a few of those are taken out and thrown into the fire, from which fire spreads to the whole house of Israel.

    Jerusalem against the nationsvv. 5–17

    The sign is explained: Jerusalem stands at the center of the nations, yet has rebelled against the Lord GOD’s ordinances more wickedly than the countries around her. The judgment answers her in three parts again—plague or famine within, the sword outside the walls, and scattering to every wind—with fathers eating sons and sons eating fathers, a grim symmetry in the middle of catastrophe. Jerusalem is made a ruin, disgrace, reproach, taunt, warning, and horror among the nations; famine, wild beasts, plague, bloodshed, and the sword complete the dreadful catalogue.

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    1. Ezek 5:1“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

    2. Ezek 5:2When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

    3. Ezek 5:3But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

    4. Ezek 5:4Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

    5. Ezek 5:5This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

    6. Ezek 5:6But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

    7. Ezek 5:7Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’

    8. Ezek 5:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

    9. Ezek 5:9Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

    10. Ezek 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

    11. Ezek 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

    12. Ezek 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

    13. Ezek 5:13And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.

    14. Ezek 5:14I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

    15. Ezek 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

    16. Ezek 5:16When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

    17. Ezek 5:17I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

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    • 12Ezekiel 5:2When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
    • 2Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
    • 9Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unseen from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
    • 9Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
    • 5Ezekiel 4:1“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
    • 6Jeremiah 11:10They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
    • 2Leviticus 26:33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
    • 5Jeremiah 6:6For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
    • 5Deuteronomy 4:6Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
    • 6Ezekiel 16:47–48And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
    • 10Zechariah 2:6“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.
    • 12Jeremiah 15:2If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
    • 17Ezekiel 38:22I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
    • 1Ezekiel 44:20They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.
    • 1Leviticus 21:5Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
    • 1Isaiah 7:20On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.

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