5:1  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].
 5:2  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.
 5:3  Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind
them in thy skirts.
 5:4  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.
 5:5  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.
 5:6  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.
 5:7  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;
 5:8  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.
 5:9  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.
 5:10  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.
 5:11  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.
 5:12  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.
 5:13  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.
 5:14  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.
 5:15  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].
 5:16  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:
 5:17  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].