1“And as for you, son of man, obtain for yourself a sharp knife for shaving hair, and you shall take it and draw it across your head and across your beard. And you shall obtain for yourself a balance for weighing, and you shall divide the hair.

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Ezekiel 44:20, Leviticus 21:5, Isaiah 7:20, Ezekiel 44:20, Leviticus 21:5

2A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the completion of the days of the siege. And you shall take a third part, and you shall cut it with the knife all around. Yet truly, the other third, you shall scatter to the wind, for I will unsheathe the sword after them.

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Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 5:12, Leviticus 26:33, Leviticus 26:33, Ezekiel 4:1

3And you shall take from there a small number. And you shall bind them in the end of your cloak.

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Jeremiah 40:6, Jeremiah 52:16, Jeremiah 40:6, Jeremiah 52:16, Jeremiah 39:10

4And again, you shall take from them, and you shall throw them into the midst of the fire, and you shall burn them with fire. And from it, there shall go forth a fire to the entire house of Israel.”

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Jeremiah 48:45, Jeremiah 4:4, 2 Kings 25:25, Jeremiah 41:1, Jeremiah 41:18

5Thus says the Lord God: “This is Jerusalem. I have placed her in the midst of the Gentiles and of the lands all around her.

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Ezekiel 4:1, Ezekiel 4:1, Jeremiah 6:6, Deuteronomy 4:6, Jeremiah 6:6

6And she has despised my judgments, so as to be more impious than the Gentiles, and my precepts, more so than the lands that are all around her. For they have cast aside my judgments, and they have not walked in my precepts.”

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Jeremiah 11:10, Jeremiah 11:10, Ezekiel 16:47, Ezekiel 16:48, Ezekiel 16:47

7For this reason, thus says the Lord God: “Since you have surpassed the Gentiles who are all around you, and have not walked in my precepts, and have not accomplished my judgments, and have not even acted in accord with the judgments of the Gentiles who are all around you:

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Jeremiah 2:10, Jeremiah 2:11, Jeremiah 2:10, Jeremiah 2:11, 2 Chronicles 33:9

8therefore, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, and I myself will accomplish judgments in your midst, in the sight of the Gentiles.

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Jeremiah 24:9, Ezekiel 15:7, Jeremiah 24:9, Ezekiel 15:7, Jeremiah 21:13

9And I will do in you what I have not done before, and the likes of which I will not do again, because of all your abominations.

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Daniel 9:12, Matthew 24:21, Daniel 9:12, Matthew 24:21, Amos 3:2

10Therefore, the fathers shall consume the sons in your midst, and the sons shall consume their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will winnow your entire remnant in every wind.

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Zechariah 2:6, Zechariah 2:6, Leviticus 26:29, Jeremiah 19:9, Deuteronomy 28:64

11Therefore, as I myself live says the Lord God, because you have violated my sanctuary with all your offenses and with all your abominations, I also will break into pieces, and my eye will not be lenient, and I will not take pity.

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Ezekiel 7:20, Ezekiel 7:20, Ezekiel 11:18, Jeremiah 7:9, Jeremiah 7:11

12One third part of you will die by pestilence or be consumed by famine in your midst. And one third part of you will fall by the sword all around you. Yet truly, one third part of you I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.

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Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 5:2, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 43:10

13And I will fulfill my fury, and I will cause my indignation to rest upon them, and I will be consoled. And they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I will have fulfilled my indignation in them.

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Ezekiel 36:5, Ezekiel 36:6, Isaiah 1:24, Ezekiel 36:5, Ezekiel 36:6

14And I will make you desolate, and a disgrace among the Gentiles, who are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

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Nehemiah 2:17, Psalms 74:3, Psalms 74:10, Psalms 79:1, Psalms 79:4

15And you shall be a disgrace and a blasphemy, an example and an astonishment, among the Gentiles, who are all around you, when I will have executed judgments in you, in fury and in indignation and with rebukes of wrath.

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Ezekiel 25:17, Ezekiel 25:17, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Jeremiah 22:8

16I, the Lord, have spoken. At that time, I will send among them the most grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send so that I may destroy you. And I will gather a famine over you, and I will crush the staff of bread among you.

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Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:16, Deuteronomy 32:23, Deuteronomy 32:24, Deuteronomy 32:23

17And I will send among you famine and very harmful beasts, even unto utter ruin. And pestilence and blood shall pass through you. And I will bring the sword over you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

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Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 14:21, Leviticus 26:22