The Death of People

¹ [To Ezekiel] Son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber’s razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and divide the [hair.]

² Burn 1/3 in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

³ Take thereof 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; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the Israelites.

⁵ This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her.

⁶ She has 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.

⁷ Because you 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

⁸ Behold, I, even I, [am] against you, and will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

⁹ I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

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

¹¹ You have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and abominations.

So I will diminish you. I will not spare you nor have any pity.

¹² A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you.

A third part shall fall by the sword around you.

I will:

• scatter a third part into all the winds
• draw out a sword after them

¹³ Thus shall my anger be accomplished.

I will cause my fury to rest on them and I will be comforted.

They shall know that I Enki have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

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

¹⁵ So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes.

I Enki have spoken it.

¹⁶ When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you.

I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread:

¹⁷ So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you and I will bring the sword upon you.

I Enki have spoken it.