Eze 5:1-4 | NASB2020 | STEP | “As for you, son of man , take a sharp sword ; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard . Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

‏ Ezekiel 5:1-4

Jerusalem’s Desolation Foretold

1 “As for you, son of man, take a ^asharp sword; take and ^{▼▼Lit pass it over your head}use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take ^cscales for weighing and divide ^{▼▼Lit them}the hair. 2 A third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the ^edays of the siege are completed. Then you shall take a third and strike it with the sword all around ^{▼▼Lit it}the city, and a third you shall scatter to the wind; for I will ^gunsheathe a sword behind them. 3 Take also a few hairs in number from ^{▼▼Lit there}them and bind them in the hems of your robes. 4 Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will ^{▼▼Lit go out}spread to all the house of Israel.