1"You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and 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 in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

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

3You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

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

4Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel."

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

5"Thus says the Lord God: 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.

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

6She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.'

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

7"Therefore thus says the Lord God: 'Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are 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, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

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

9I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, 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 eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.'

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

11"'Therefore as I live,' says the Lord God, 'surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

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

12A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

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

13Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

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

14Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

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

15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, the Lord, have spoken it;)

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

16when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

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

17and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, the Lord, have spoken it.'"

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