Ezekiel 5

ve'attah ven-adam qakh-lekha kherev khaddah ta'ar haggallavim tiqqakhennah lakh veha'avarta al-roshekha ve'al-zeqanekha velaqakhta lekha mozene mishqal vekhillaqtam

“And you, O mortal, take a sharp knife; use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and beard. Then take scales and divide the hair.

shelishit ba'ur tavir betokh ha'ir kimlot yeme hammatsor velaqakhta et-hashelishit takkeh vakherev sevivoteha vehashelishit tizreh laruakh vekherev ariq akharehem

When the days of siege are completed, destroy a third part in fire in the city, take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and scatter a third to the wind and unsheathe a sword after them.

velaqakhta misham me'at bemispar vetsarta otam bikhnafekha

“Take also a few [hairs] from there and tie them up in your skirts.

umehem od tiqqakh vehishlakhta otam el-tokh ha'esh vesarafta otam ba'esh mimmennu tetse-esh el-kol-bet yisra'el

And take some more of them and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire. From this a fire shall go out upon the whole House of Israel.”

koh amar adonay Elohim zot yerushalai͏m betokh haggoyim samtiha usevivoteha aratsot

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: I set this Jerusalem in the midst of nations, with countries round about her.

vattemer et-mishpatay lerishah min-haggoyim ve'et-khuqqotay min-ha'aratsot asher sevivoteha ki vemishpatay ma'asu vekhuqqotay lo-halekhu vahem

But she rebelled against My rules and My laws, acting more wickedly than the nations and the countries round about her; she rejected My rules and disobeyed My laws.

lakhen koh-amar adonay Elohim ya'an hamonkhem min-haggoyim asher sevivotekhem bekhuqqotay lo halakhtem ve'et-mishpatay lo asitem ukhemishpete haggoyim asher sevivotekhem lo asitem

Assuredly, thus said the Sovereign GOD: Because you have outdone the nations that are round about you—you have not obeyed My laws or followed My rules, nor have you even observed the rules of the nations round about you—

lakhen koh amar adonay Elohim hinni alayikh gam-ani ve'asiti vetokhekh mishpatim le'ene haggoyim

assuredly, thus said the Sovereign GOD: I, in turn, am going to deal with you, and I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

ve'asiti vakh et asher lo-asiti ve'et asher-lo-e'eseh khamohu od ya'an kol-to'avotayikh

On account of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again.

lakhen avot yokhelu vanim betokhekh uvanim yokhelu avotam ve'asiti vakh shefatim vezeriti et-kol-she'eritekh lekhol-ruakh

Assuredly, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents. I will execute judgments against you, and I will scatter all your survivors in every direction.

lakhen khay-ani ne'um adonay Elohim im-lo ya'an et-miqdashi timmet bekhol-shiqqutsayikh uvekhol-to'avotayikh vegam-ani egra velo-takhos eni vegam-ani lo ekhmol

Assuredly, as I live—said the Sovereign GOD—because you defiled My Sanctuary with all your detestable things and all your abominations, I in turn will shear [you] away and show no pity. I in turn will show no compassion:

shelishitekh baddever yamutu uvara'av yikhlu vetokhekh vehashelishit bakherev yippelu sevivotayikh vehashelishit lekhol-ruakh ezareh vekherev ariq akharehem

One-third of you shall die of pestilence or perish in your midst by famine, one-third shall fall by the sword around you, and I will scatter one-third in every direction and will unsheathe the sword after them.

vekhalah appi vahanikhoti khamati bam vehinnekhameti veyade'u ki-ani Adonai dibbarti beqinati bekhalloti khamati bam

I will vent all My anger and satisfy My fury upon them; and when I vent all My fury upon them, they shall know that I, GOD, have spoken in My passion.

ve'ettenekh lekhorbah ulekherpah baggoyim asher sevivotayikh le'ene kol-over

I will make you a ruin and a mockery among the nations round about you, in the sight of every passerby.

vehayetah kherpah ugedufah musar umeshammah laggoyim asher sevivotayikh ba'asoti vakh shefatim be'af uvekhemah uvetokhekhot khemah ani Adonai dibbarti

And when I execute judgment upon you in anger and rage and furious chastisement, you shall be a mockery and a derision, a warning and a horror, to the nations round about you: I, GOD, have spoken.

beshallekhi et-khitse hara'av hara'im bahem asher hayu lemashkhit asher-ashallakh otam leshakhetkhem vera'av osef alekhem veshavarti lakhem matteh-lakhem

When I loose the deadly arrows of famine against those doomed to destruction, when I loose them against you to destroy you, I will heap more famine upon you and break your staff of bread.

veshillakhti alekhem ra'av vekhayyah ra'ah veshikkelukh vedever vadam ya'avor-bakh vekherev avi alayikh ani Adonai dibbarti

I will let loose against you famine and wild beasts and they shall bereave you; pestilence and bloodshed shall sweep through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, GOD, have spoken.