Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
“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.
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.
When
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.
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.
But
you
are
to
take a few strands
of
hair
and secure
them in the
folds
of
your
garment
.
Thou
shalt
also
take thereof
a few in
number,
and bind
them in thy
skirts
.
Again,
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.
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.
This
is
what
the Lord GOD says:
‘
This is Jerusalem ,
which
I have set in the center
of the nations ,
with
countries all
around
her.
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.
But
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
. ’
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
.
Therefore 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 .’
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 ;
Therefore 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.
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.
Because
of
all
your
abominations,
I will do to
you
what
I have never
done before
and will never
do again
.
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
.
As
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
. ’
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
.
Therefore
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
.
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
.
A 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.
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.
And
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
.
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
.
I will make you
a
ruin
and a disgrace
among the nations around
you
, in the sight of all who
pass by.
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.
So 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.
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
.
When 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.
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:
I
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. ”
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
.
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