Verse 12

Ezekiel 5:12

Bible in Basic English

12 A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
שְׁלִשִׁתֵ֞/יךְ בַּ/דֶּ֣בֶר יָמ֗וּתוּ וּ/בָֽ/רָעָב֙ יִכְל֣וּ בְ/תוֹכֵ֔/ךְ וְ/הַ֨/שְּׁלִשִׁ֔ית בַּ/חֶ֖רֶב יִפְּל֣וּ סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִ/ךְ וְ/הַ/שְּׁלִישִׁית֙ לְ/כָל ר֣וּחַ אֱזָרֶ֔ה וְ/חֶ֖רֶב אָרִ֥יק אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם
English Translation
A third of your people will die by pestilence, and a third will be consumed in your midst by famine, and a third will fall by the sword around you, and a third will be scattered to every wind, and the sword will pursue them.
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Chapter 5 Context
1 And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over y... Focus ↗
2 You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended... Focus ↗
3 And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts. Focus ↗
4 And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all t... Focus ↗
5 This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries a... Focus ↗
6 And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more th... Focus ↗
7 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round abo... Focus ↗
8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you be... Focus ↗
9 And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways... Focus ↗
10 For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their f... Focus ↗
11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your... Focus ↗
12 A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third...
13 So my wrath will be complete and my passion will come to rest on them; and they will be certain that... Focus ↗
14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of ev... Focus ↗
15 And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations... Focus ↗
16 When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end... Focus ↗
17 And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts, and they will be a cause of loss to you; and di... Focus ↗
Verse Information
Book
Ezekiel
Chapter
Chapter 5 (17 verses)
Version
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