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Ezekiel 5:11“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 44:20Isa 7:20Lev 21:5Dan 5:27
Ezekiel 5:22Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 5:12Lev 26:33Ezek 12:14Ezek 4:1-8Jer 15:2Jer 9:16Amos 9:2-3Jer 24:10Jer 38:2Jer 9:21-22
Ezekiel 5:33But take a few strands of hair from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 40:6Jer 52:16Jer 39:101 Pet 4:182 Kgs 25:12Luke 13:23-24Matt 7:14
Ezekiel 5:44Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:25Jer 4:4Jer 41:1-18Jer 48:45Jer 52:30
Ezekiel 5:55“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 4:1Deut 4:6Jer 6:6Ezek 16:14Matt 5:14Mic 5:71 Cor 10:4Luke 22:19-20
Ezekiel 5:66Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 11:10Ezek 16:47-482 Kgs 17:8-20Neh 9:16-17Zech 7:11Ezek 16:51Jer 5:3Jer 8:5Ps 78:101 Cor 5:1
Ezekiel 5:77“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant than the nations around you, you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even carried out the regulations of the nations around you!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:10-112 Chr 33:92 Kgs 21:9-11Ezek 16:47-48Ezek 16:54Ezek 5:11
Ezekiel 5:88“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I—even I—am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 15:7Jer 24:9Ezek 21:3Jer 21:13Jer 21:51 Kgs 9:8-9Deut 29:20Deut 29:23-28Ezek 11:9Ezek 25:2-6
Ezekiel 5:99I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:12Matt 24:21Amos 3:2Lam 4:6Lam 4:9
Ezekiel 5:1010Therefore, fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 2:6Deut 28:64Ezek 12:14Jer 19:9Lev 26:29Ezek 36:19Ezek 5:2Ps 44:11Amos 9:9Ezek 22:15
Ezekiel 5:1111“Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 7:202 Chr 36:14Ezek 11:18Ezek 7:4Ezek 7:9Ezek 8:5-6Jer 7:9-11Ezek 11:21Ezek 24:14Ezek 8:16
Ezekiel 5:1212A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 5:2Jer 15:2Jer 43:10-11Ezek 12:14Jer 21:9Ezek 5:10Ezek 6:11-12Jer 44:27Amos 9:4Deut 28:65
Ezekiel 5:1313Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I have fully vented my rage against them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:21Ezek 20:8Ezek 36:5-6Ezek 6:12Ezek 7:8Isa 1:24Lam 4:11Ezek 21:17Isa 59:17Dan 11:36
Ezekiel 5:1414“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 22:4Neh 2:17Ps 74:3-10Ps 79:1-42 Chr 7:20-21Deut 28:37Isa 64:10-11Jer 19:8Jer 24:9-10Jer 42:18
Ezekiel 5:1515You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the Lord, have spoken!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 25:17Jer 22:8-91 Cor 10:111 Kgs 9:7Isa 26:9Isa 66:15-16Deut 29:24-28Nah 1:2Ps 79:4
Ezekiel 5:1616I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 4:16Deut 32:23-242 Kgs 6:25Ezek 14:13Isa 3:1Lam 3:12Lev 26:26Ps 7:13Ps 91:5-7
Ezekiel 5:1717I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will take your children from you. Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 38:222 Kgs 17:25Deut 32:24Ezek 14:15Ezek 14:21Ezek 33:27Lev 26:22Exod 23:29Ezek 14:19Ezek 17:21
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