1And you, son of man, take a sharp sword; like a barber’s razor you shall take it for yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 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 all around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 3And you shall take from it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. 4And of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel. 5Thus says the Lord Yehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are all around her. 6And she 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. 7Therefore thus says the Lord Yehovah: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, nor have kept my ordinances, nor have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you; 8therefore thus says the Lord Yehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. 9And I will do in you what I have not done, and the like of which I will not do any more, because of all your abominations. 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 I will scatter to all the winds. 11Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yehovah, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; my eye shall not spare, and I also will have no pity. 12A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. 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, Yehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. 14Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes (I, Yehovah, have spoken it); 16when I send against 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; 17and I will send on you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yehovah, have spoken it.