1Sa 15:27-28, 1Ki 11:30-31, Isa 20:2-4, Eze 5, 12:3-16 | ESV | STEP | As Samuel turned to go away , Saul seized the skirt of his robe , and it tore .

27 ^aAs Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 28 And Samuel said to him, ^b“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

1 Kings 11:30-31

30 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, ^cand tore it into twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, ^dI am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes

Isaiah 20:2-4

2 at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking ^enaked and barefoot.

3 Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years ^fas a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, ^{▼▼Probably Nubia} 4 so shall the ^hking of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.

Ezekiel 5

Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed

1 “And you, ⁱO son of man, take a ^jsharp sword. Use it as ^ka barber’s razor and ^lpass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2 ^mA third part you shall burn in the fire ⁿin the midst of the city, ^owhen the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. ^pAnd a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and ^qI will unsheathe the sword after them. 3 ^rAnd you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 4 ^sAnd of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

5 “Thus says the Lord God: ^tThis is Jerusalem. I have set her ^uin the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness ^vmore than the nations, and against my statutes more than ^wthe countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are ^xmore turbulent than the nations that are all around you, ^yand have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, ^zand have not ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not} even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, 8 therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, ^abam against you. ^acAnd I will execute judgments ^{▼▼The same Hebrew expression can mean obey rules, or execute judgments, depending on the context} in your midst ^aein the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you ^afwhat I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore ^agfathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. ^ahAnd I will execute judgments on you, ^aiand any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, ^ajas I live, declares the Lord God, surely, ^akbecause you have defiled my sanctuary ^alwith all your detestable things and with all your ^amabominations, ^antherefore I will withdraw. ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down} ^apMy eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 ^aqA third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; ^ara third part shall fall by the sword all around you; ^asand a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

13 ^at“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that ^auI am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy— ^avwhen I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you ^awa desolation and ^axan object of reproach among ^aythe nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be} a reproach and a taunt, a warning ^baand a horror, to ^bbthe nations all around you, ^bcwhen I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and ^bdwith furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— 16 when I send against you ^{▼▼Hebrew them} ^bfthe deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon ^bgyou and break your supply ^{▼▼Hebrew staff} of bread. 17 I will send famine and ^biwild beasts against you, ^bjand they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and ^bkblood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”

Ezekiel 12:3-16

3 As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself ^blan exile’s baggage, and go into exile by day ^bmin their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place ^bnin their sight. ^boPerhaps they will understand, though ^{▼▼Or will see that} they are a rebellious house. 4 You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself ^bqat evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile. 5 In their sight ^brdig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it. 6 In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you ^bsa sign for the house of Israel.”

7 ^btAnd I did as I was commanded. ^buI brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my own hands. I brought out my baggage at dusk, carrying it on my shoulder in their sight.

8 In the morning the word of the Lord came to me: 9 ^bv“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, ^bwthe rebellious house, said to you, ^bx‘What are you doing?’ 10 Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: This oracle concerns ^{▼▼Or This burden is} ^bzthe prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.’ ^{▼▼Hebrew in the midst of them} 11 Say, ^cb‘I am a sign for you: ^ccas I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.’ 12 ^cdAnd the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder at dusk, and shall go out. ^ceThey shall dig through the wall to bring him out through it. ^cfHe shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes. 13 ^cgAnd I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And ^chI will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, ^ciyet he shall not see it, and he shall die there. 14 ^cjAnd I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, ^ckand I will unsheathe the sword after them. 15 ^clAnd they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries. 16 ^cmBut I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, ^cnand may know that I am the Lord.”