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“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: ‘Watch out! I—that’s right, even I—am against you. I’ll carry out my sentence among you right in front of the nations. In fact, I’m going to do what I’ve never done before and what I’ll never again do, because of all of your loathsome behavior: 10 Fathers will eat their children in your midst. After this, your sons will eat their fathers as I carry out my sentence against you and scatter your survivors to the winds!’

11 “Therefore, as sure as I live,” declares the Lord God, “because you’ve defiled my sanctuary with every loathsome thing and every abomination, I’ll restrain myself, and I’ll show neither pity nor compassion.[a] 12 A third of you will die by pestilence, starving because of the famine in your midst. Another third will die violently by the violence of war[b] around you. The final third I’ll scatter to the wind as I unsheathe my sword to pursue them.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:11 Lit. and my eyes won’t show pity and I won’t have compassion
  2. Ezekiel 5:12 Lit. will fall by the sword