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Ezekiel 5

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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“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 to thee a sharp weapon , the barber's razor thou dost take to thee , and thou hast caused `it' to pass over thy head , and over thy beard , and thou hast taken to thee weighing scales , and apportioned them .
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.
A third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city , at the fulness of the days of the siege ; and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it ; and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind , and a weapon I draw out after them.
But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
And thou hast taken thence a few in number -- and hast bound 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.
and of them thou dost take again , and hast cast them unto the midst of the fire, and hast burned them in the fire -- out of it cometh forth a fire unto 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 said the Lord Jehovah : this ` is ' Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her , And round about her `are' the lands .
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 changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that `are' round about her , For against My judgments they have kicked, 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 said the Lord Jehovah : Because of your multiplying above the nations that `are' around you , In My statutes ye have not walked , And My judgments ye have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That `are' round about you ye have not done .
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 said the Lord Jehovah : Lo , I ` am ' against thee , even I , And I have done in thy midst judgments, Before the eyes 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 have done in thee that which I have not done , And that which I do not its like again , 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 fathers do eat sons in thy midst , And sons eat their fathers , And I have done in thee judgments , And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.
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 .
Therefore , I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not . Do not even I also diminish?
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.
Thy third part -- by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in thy midst , And the third part, by sword they fall round about thee , And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out 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 .
And completed hath been Mine anger , And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted , And they have known that I, Jehovah , have spoken in My zeal , In My completing My fury on them .
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you , in the sight of all who pass by.
And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that `are' round about thee , Before the eyes of every passer 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.
And it hath been a reproach and a reviling , An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that `are' round about thee , In My doing in thee judgments , In anger and fury , and in furious reproofs, I, Jehovah , have spoken.
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 .
In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction , That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you , And I have broken to you the 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 .”
And I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, And they have bereaved thee, And pestilence and blood pass over on thee , And a sword I do bring in against thee, I, Jehovah , have spoken !'

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