Ezekiel 5:6 - Prayer Tents

Jerusalem’s Desolation Foretold

5"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it [as] a barber's razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.H1121H120H3947H2299H2719H3947H1532H8593H5674H7218H2206H3947H3976H4948H2505 2"One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike [it] with the sword all around the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.H1197H217H7992H8432H5892H3117H4692H4390H3947H7992H5221H5439H2719H7992H2219H7307H7324H2719H310 3"Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your [robes.]H3947H4592H4557H6696H3671 4"And take again some of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.H3947H7993H8432H784H8313H784H784H3318H1004H3478 5"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.H559H136H3069H3389H7760H8432H1471H776H5439 6'But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.'H4784H4941H7564H1471H2708H776H5439H3988H4941H2708H1980 7"Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have more turmoil than the nations which surround you, and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,'H559H136H3069H1995H1471H5439H1980H2708H6213H4941H6213H4941H1471H5439 8therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.H559H136H3069H6213H4941H8432H5869H1471 9'And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again.H6213H6213H6213H3282H8441 10'Therefore, fathers will eat [their] sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you, and scatter all your remnant to every wind.H1H398H1121H8432H1121H398H1H6213H8201H7611H2219H7307 11'So as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye shall have no pity and I will not spare.H2416H5002H136H3069H2930H4720H8251H8441H1639H5869H2347H2550 12'One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.H7992H4191H1698H7458H3615H8432H7992H5307H2719H5439H2219H7992H7307H7324H2719H310 13'Thus My anger will be spent, and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I shall be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.H639H3615H2534H5117H5162H3045H3068H1696H7068H3615H2534 14'Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.H5414H2723H2781H1471H5439H5869H5674 15'So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.H2781H1422H4148H4923H1471H5439H6213H8201H639H2534H2534H8433H3068H1696 16'When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I shall send to destroy you, then I shall also intensify the famine upon you, and break the staff of bread.H7971H7451H2671H7458H4889H7971H7843H3254H7458H7665H4294H3899 17'Moreover, I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.' "H7971H7458H7451H2416H7921H1698H1818H5674H935H2719H3068H1696