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.[ † ]Leviticus 21:5Isaiah 7:20Ezekiel 44:20 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.[ † ]Ezekiel 5:12Ezekiel 4:1Ezekiel 4:8-9Leviticus 26:25Lamentations 1:20
3But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.[ † ]Jeremiah 40:6Jeremiah 52:16 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 41:1-2Jeremiah 44:14
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. 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.’
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.’[ † ]2 Kings 21:9-112 Chronicles 33:9Jeremiah 2:10-11Ezekiel 16:47
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. 9Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.[ † ]Lamentations 4:6Daniel 9:12Amos 3:2Matthew 24:21 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.’[ † ]Leviticus 26:29Deuteronomy 28:532 Kings 6:29Jeremiah 19:9Lamentations 2:20Lamentations 4:10Leviticus 26:33Deuteronomy 28:64Psalms 44:11Ezekiel 5:2-12Ezekiel 6:8Ezekiel 12:14Amos 9:9Zechariah 2:6Zechariah 7:14
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.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:14Jeremiah 7:9-11Ezekiel 8:5-6, 16Ezekiel 11:21Ezekiel 7:4-9Ezekiel 8:18Ezekiel 9:10
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.[ † ]Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 21:9Ezekiel 6:12Jeremiah 9:16Ezekiel 6:8Jeremiah 43:10-11Jeremiah 44:27Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 12:14
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.[ † ]Lamentations 4:11Ezekiel 6:12Ezekiel 7:8Ezekiel 21:17Deuteronomy 32:36Isaiah 1:24Isaiah 59:17Ezekiel 36:6Ezekiel 38:19
14I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.[ † ]Leviticus 26:31Nehemiah 2:17 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:371 Kings 9:7Psalms 79:4Jeremiah 24:9Lamentations 2:15Isaiah 26:9Jeremiah 22:8-91 Corinthians 10:11Isaiah 66:15-16Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 25:17
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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:23Leviticus 26:26Ezekiel 4:16Ezekiel 14:13 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.”[ † ]Leviticus 26:22Deuteronomy 32:24Ezekiel 14:21Ezekiel 33:27Ezekiel 34:25Revelation 6:8Ezekiel 38:22