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Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

Thus shall mine 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.

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

Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

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

And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

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

Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

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.

And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber"s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.