1   And thou sonne of man take thee a sharpe knife, shauing the heares: and thou shalt take it and draw it ouer thy head, and ouer thy beard: and thou shalt take thee a ballance of weight, and shalt diuide them.

2   The third part thou shalt burne with fire in the middes of the citie, according to the accomplishing of the dayes of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it with the knife in ^note the circuite therof: but the other third part thou shalt scatter into the wind, and I wil draw the sword after them.

3   And thou shalt take therof a smal number: and shalt binde them in the skirt of thy cloke.

4   And of them againe thou shalt take, and shalt cast them forth in the middes of the fire, and shalt burne them with fire: and out of it shal come forth a fire into al the house of Israel.

5   Thus saith our Lord God: This is Ierusalem, I placed her in the middes of the Gentils, and countries round about her.

6   And she hath contemned my iudgements, so that she was more impious then the Gentils: and my precepts more then the landes, that are round about her. For they haue cast away my iudgements, and in my precepts they haue not walked.

7   Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Because you haue passed the Gentils, that are round about you, & haue not walked in my precepts, & haue not done my iudgements, and according to the iudgements of the nations, which are round about you, you haue not wrought.

8   Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Behold I to thee, and I myself wil do iudgements, in the middes of thee in the eyes of the Gentils.

9   And I wil doe in thee that which I haue not done: and the like wherof I wil doe no more for al thine abominations.

10   Therfore ^note the fathers shal eate the sonnes in the middes of thee, and the sonnes shal eate their fathers: and I wil doe iudgements in thee, and I wil scatter al thy remnant into euerie winde.

11   Therfore I liue, saith our Lord God: Vnles for that thou hast violated my sanctuarie in al thine offences, and in al thine abominations: I also doe breake thee, and mine eye shal not spare, and I wil not haue mercie.

12   The third part of thee shal dye with the pestilence, & shal be consumed with famine

in the middes of thee: and a third part of thee shal fal by the sword round about thee: and thy third part I wil scatter into euerie wind, and I wil draw a sword after them.

13   And I wil accomplish my furie, & wil make mine indignation rest in them, and wil be comforted: & they shal know that I the Lord haue spoken in my zele, when I shal haue accomplished mine indignation in them.

14   And I wil make thee a desert, and a reproch to the nations, that are round about thee, in the sight of euerie one that passeth by.

15   And thou shalt be a reproch, and ^noteblaspemie, an example, and astonishment amongst the nations, that are round about thee, when I shal haue done iudgements in thee in furie, and in indignation, and in the rebukes of anger.

16   I the Lord haue spoken: When I shal send verie sore arrowes of famine vpon them: which shal be mortiferous, and which I shal send to destroy you: and I wil gather famine vpon you, and wil breake among you the staffe of bread.

17   And I wil send in vpon you famine, and very sore beastes euen to destruction: and pestilence, and bloud shal passe through thee, and the sword I wil bring in vpon thee. I the Lord haue spoken.

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