Ezekiel 5:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and strike around it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    A third of it you shall burn in the fire within the city when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take another third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And the final third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe a sword to chase after them.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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 sword after them.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    A third part{H7992} shalt thou burn{H1197} in the fire{H217} in the midst{H8432} of the city,{H5892} when the days{H3117} of the siege{H4692} are fulfilled;{H4390} and thou shalt take{H3947} a third part,{H7992} and smite{H5221} with the sword{H2719} round about{H5439} it; and a third part{H7992} thou shalt scatter{H2219} to the wind,{H7307} and I will draw out{H7324} a sword{H2719} after{H310} them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt burn{H1197}{(H8686)} with fire{H217} a third part{H7992} in the midst{H8432} of the city{H5892}, when the days{H3117} of the siege{H4692} are fulfilled{H4390}{(H8800)}: and thou shalt take{H3947}{(H8804)} a third part{H7992}, and smite{H5221}{(H8686)} about{H5439} it with a knife{H2719}: and a third part{H7992} thou shalt scatter{H2219}{(H8799)} in the wind{H7307}; and I will draw out{H7324}{(H8686)} a sword{H2719} after{H310} them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And burne the thirde parte therof in the fyre in the myddest off the cite, and cut the other thirde parte in peces with a knyfe. As for the thirde parte that remayneth, cast it in the wynde, and then shewe the bare knyfe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thou shalt burne with fire the thirde part in the middes of the citie, when the dayes of the siege are fulfilled, and thou shalt take the other thirde part, and smite about it with a knife, and the last thirde part thou shalt scatter in the winde, and I will drawe out a sworde after them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thou shalt burne with fire the thirde part in the middest of the citie when the dayes of the siege are fulfylled, and thou shalt take the other thirde part and smite about it with a knife, and the last thirde part thou shalt scatter in the wynde, and I wyll drawe out a sworde after them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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 sword after them.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    A third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third part of you shall die with pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in your midst: and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
  • Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
  • Jer 9:16 : 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
  • Ezek 12:14 : 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
  • Ezek 4:1-8 : 1 You also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around. 3 Moreover, take an iron pan and set it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie also upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year. 7 Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 Behold, I will put bands upon you, and you shall not turn from one side to another, till you have completed the days of your siege.
  • Amos 9:2-3 : 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
  • Jer 9:21-22 : 21 For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, 'Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester, and no one shall gather them.'
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.
  • Jer 24:10 : 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
  • Jer 38:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life as a prize, and shall live.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 5:10-14
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    87%

    10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds.

    11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.

    12 A third part of you shall die with pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in your midst: and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

    13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal when I have accomplished my fury in them.

    14 Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • 1 And you, son of man, take a sharp knife, take a barber's razor, and cause it to pass over your head and your beard: then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.

  • Ezek 5:3-4
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    3 You shall also take a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

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

  • 8 And it shall come to pass that in all the land, says the LORD, two-thirds shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it.

  • 12 He who is far off shall die of pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

  • 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

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    14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their private chambers.

    15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

  • 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

  • Ezek 39:9-10
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    9 And those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, the javelins and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire for seven years.

    10 They shall not take wood out of the field, nor cut down any from the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall take spoil from those who spoiled them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD.

  • 31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • 3 Moreover, take an iron pan and set it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  • Ezek 11:7-9
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    7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron: but I will bring you forth out of its midst.

    8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord GOD.

    9 And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

  • 25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

  • 18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who behold you.

  • 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.

  • Ezek 4:7-8
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    72%

    7 Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.

    8 Behold, I will put bands upon you, and you shall not turn from one side to another, till you have completed the days of your siege.

  • 7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Sword, pass through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

  • 2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take one of their borders, and set him as their watchman:

  • Ezek 9:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in it.

    5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity:

  • 15 You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

  • 25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

  • 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

  • 15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

  • 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • 7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

  • 15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will purge your filthiness out of you.

  • 1 He also cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Bring near those who have charge over the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • 3 For thus says the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth by a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

  • 8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast from you.

  • 2 And I will turn you back, and leave but a sixth part of you, and will cause you to come up from the far north, and bring you upon the mountains of Israel.

  • 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

  • 15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within; he who is in the field shall die by the sword, and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • 2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in, in my sight.

  • 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

  • 5 You shall fall upon the open field, for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.