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One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city, when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
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Then you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
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From these, again, you shall take some, throw them into the fire and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against all the house of Israel.
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Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
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But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes.
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Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not followed my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you;
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therefore thus says the Lord God: I, I myself, am coming against you; I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
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And because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
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Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.
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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 I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
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One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.