Ezekiel 5:8-12

International Standard Version

⁸ “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. ⁹ 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.