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"As for you, son of man, take a sharpsword; take and use it as a barber'srazor on your head and beard. Then takescales for weighing and divide the hair.
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"Onethird you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall takeonethird and strike it with the swordallaround the city, and onethird you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a swordbehind them.
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'But she has rebelledagainst My ordinancesmorewickedlythan the nations and against My statutesmorethan the landswhichsurround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.'
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"Therefore, thussays the LordGOD, 'Because you have moreturmoilthan the nationswhichsurround you and have not walked in My statutes, norobserved My ordinances, norobserved the ordinances of the nationswhichsurround you,'
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'Therefore, fathers will eat their sonsamong you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will executejudgments on you and scatterall your remnant to everywind.
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'So as I live,' declares the LordGOD, 'surely*, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestableidols and with all your abominations, therefore I will alsowithdraw, and My eye will havenopity and I will not spare.
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'Onethird of you will die by plague or be consumed by famineamong you, onethird will fall by the swordaround you, and onethird I will scatter to everywind, and I will unsheathe a swordbehind them.
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'Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.
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'So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nationswhosurround you when I executejudgments against you in anger, wrath and ragingrebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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'When I send against them the deadlyarrows of faminewhich were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.
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'Moreover, I will send on you famine and wildbeasts, 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.' "