The judgment of Jerusalem shall include famine, pestilence, war, and the scattering of her inhabitants.

 AND thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weight, and divide the hair.

 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a ^asword^• after them.

 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the ^amidst^• of the nations and countries that are round about her.

 And she hath changed my judgments into ^awickedness^• more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have ^brefused^• my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ^ajudgments^•, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the ^asight^• of the nations.

 And I will do in thee that which I have not ^adone^•, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine ^babominations^•.

 Therefore the fathers shall ^aeat^• the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I ^bscatter into all the winds.

 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast ^adefiled my sanctuary with all thy ^bdetestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also ^cdiminish^• thee; neither shall mine eye ^dspare^•, neither will I have any pity.

 ¶ A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and ^aI^• will cause my ^bfury^• to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have ^cspoken^• it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

 Moreover I will make thee ^awaste^•, and a ^breproach^• among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that ^cpass^• by.

 So it shall be a ^areproach^• and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall ^abereave^• thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the ^bsword^• upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.