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. Ezk 44:20Isa 7:20Lev 21:5Dan 5:27 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. Ezk 5:12Lev 26:33Ezk 12:14Ezk 4:1-8Jer 15:2Jer 9:16Amo 9:2-3Jer 24:10
But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment. Jer 40:6Jer 52:16Jer 39:101Pe 4:182Ki 25:12Luk 13:23-24Mat 7:14 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. 2Ki 25:25Jer 4:4Jer 41:1-18Jer 48:45Jer 52:30
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. Ezk 4:1Deu 4:6Jer 6:6Ezk 16:14Mat 5:14Mic 5:71Co 10:4Luk 22:19-20 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.’ Jer 11:10Ezk 16:47-482Ki 17:8-20Neh 9:16-17Zec 7:11Ezk 16:51Jer 5:3Jer 8:5
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 1to the ordinances of the nations around you.’ Jer 2:10-112Ch 33:92Ki 21:9-11Ezk 16:47-48Ezk 16:54Ezk 5:11
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. Ezk 15:7Jer 24:9Ezk 21:3Jer 21:13Jer 21:51Ki 9:8-9Deu 29:20Deu 29:23-28 Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. Dan 9:12Mat 24:21Amo 3:2Lam 4:6Lam 4:9 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.’ Zec 2:6Deu 28:64Ezk 12:14Jer 19:9Lev 26:29Ezk 36:19Ezk 5:2Psa 44:11
Famine, Sword, and Dispersion
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you. Ezk 7:202Ch 36:14Ezk 11:18Ezk 7:4Ezk 7:9Ezk 8:5-6Jer 7:9-11Ezk 11:21
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them. Ezk 5:2Jer 15:2Jer 43:10-11Ezk 12:14Jer 21:9Ezk 5:10Ezk 6:11-12Jer 44:27
And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken. Ezk 20:21Ezk 20:8Ezk 36:5-6Ezk 6:12Ezk 7:8Isa 1:24Lam 4:11Ezk 21:17
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. Ezk 22:4Neh 2:17Psa 74:3-10Psa 79:1-42Ch 7:20-21Deu 28:37Isa 64:10-11Jer 19:8 So you will be 2a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken. Ezk 25:17Jer 22:8-91Co 10:111Ki 9:7Isa 26:9Isa 66:15-16Deu 29:24-28Nam 1:2
When I shower you 3 with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply 4of food. Ezk 4:16Deu 32:23-242Ki 6:25Ezk 14:13Isa 3:1Lam 3:12Lev 26:26Psa 7:13 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.” Ezk 38:222Ki 17:25Deu 32:24Ezk 14:15Ezk 14:21Ezk 33:27Lev 26:22Exo 23:29