Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 5:1 (show verse)
"And you, son of man, take for yourself a sword, sharp [as] {a barber's razor}. Take it for yourself, and you must cause [it] to pass over your head and over your beard, and you must take for yourself a set of scales for weighing, and you must divide them.
Art » Primitive » Of the barber
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Barbers
Balances » Used for weighing
Beard » David
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Shaves himself
Hair » Symbolical dividing of
Prophecy » Respecting individuals, see under their names » Exemplified in pantomime
Razor » Figurative
Symbols and similitudes » Ezekiel's beard
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Barbers
Balances » Used for weighing
Beard » David
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Shaves himself
Hair » Symbolical dividing of
Prophecy » Respecting individuals, see under their names » Exemplified in pantomime
Razor » Figurative
Symbols and similitudes » Ezekiel's beard
Ezekiel 5:2 (show verse)
A third you must burn with fire in the midst of the city at {the completion} of the days of the siege, and you must take a third, and you must strike [it] with the sword around it, and a third you must scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 5:3 (show verse)
And you must take from these a few in number, and you must tuck them in your hem.
Ezekiel 5:4 (show verse)
And from them again you shall take [some], and you must throw them in the middle of the fire, and you must burn them with fire; from it a fire will go out to all of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 5:5 (show verse)
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This [is] Jerusalem in the midst of the nations [where] I have put her, and countries [are] around her.
Ezekiel 5:6 (show verse)
But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her; for they rejected my regulations, and [as for] my statutes, they did not walk in them.
Ezekiel 5:7 (show verse)
Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of your commotion more than the nations that [are] around you--you did not walk in my statutes, and you did not do my regulations, and according to the regulations of the nations that [are] around you, you did not do.
Ezekiel 5:8 (show verse)
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look! I, {even I}, am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you before the eyes of the nations,
Ezekiel 5:9 (show verse)
and I will do with you [that] which I have not done, and which I will not do again, because of all of your detestable things.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:10 (show verse)
Therefore parents will eat children in the midst of you, and children will eat their parents, and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind.
Ezekiel 5:11 (show verse)
Therefore {as surely as I live}, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, {Surely} because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, {now indeed I} will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion.
Ezekiel 5:12 (show verse)
A third of you will die because of the plague, and because of the famine they will perish in the midst of you, and a third will fall through the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every direction of the wind, and I will draw [the] sword behind them.
Ezekiel 5:13 (show verse)
And my anger will come to an end, and I will place my rage on them, and I will relent, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my passion {when I fully vent my rage against them}.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:14 (show verse)
And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of {every one who passes by}.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:15 (show verse)
And it will be [an] object of taunting and [an] object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that [are] around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken!
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:16 (show verse)
When I send my arrows of deadly famine against them, which will be as destruction that I will send [in order] to destroy you, I will increase famine against you, and I will break {the supply of food} for you.
Ezekiel 5:17 (show verse)
And I will send against you famine and fierce animals, and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring [the] sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!"