Ezekiel 5:1-17
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.
Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.
Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practises, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.
They watch him shave his head, sharing Jerusalem's disgrace. They see him burn the hair and toss it away, till only a tiny hair handful - representing the exiles themselves - remains. It is an awesome lesson.
Why?
Because of Israelite rebelled against God's laws and decrees more than other nations, therefore there were many disgrace and disaster come upon them.
God's punishment are terrible and awesome lesson.
How?
Fear the Lord and aware the way I am walking is on the word of the Lord.
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