Ezekiel 5:1-5

New King James Version

A Sword Against Jerusalem

5 “And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, ^(A)and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. ^2 (B)You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of ^(C)the city, when ^(D)the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after ^(E)them. ^3 (F)You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. ⁴ Then take some of them again and ^(G)throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.