The Razor of Judgment

[“] As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. 2 When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third [of the hair] inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

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But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment. 4 Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

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This is what the Lord GOD says:‘This [is] Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For [her people] have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

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Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes [or] kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed[fn] to the ordinances of the nations around you.’

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Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says:‘Behold, I Myself am against you, [Jerusalem], and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9 Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. 10 As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

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