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The type of a siege.

EZEKIEL, V. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, B. C. 595. and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their miquity.

c Beginning 975, 1Ki. 12.23. ending 585.

5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hun- d Nu. 14.3,4. dred and ninety c days: so shalt

thou beard the iniquity of the 3 a day for a

house of Israel.

6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right! side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty 4 days: I have appointed thee 3 each day for a year.

year, a day for a year.

e ch.33.25.

thy side to
thy side.

7 Therefore thou shalt set thy 5 or, spelt. face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be un-f Ho.9.3. covered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

g Ac. 10.14.

h Ex.22.31. Le. 17.15.

8 And, behold, I will lay bands e upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from 4 one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy De. 14.3. siege.

Is.65.4.

14.13. Le.26.26. Ps. 105.16. Is.3.1.

9 T Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and k ch.5.16. lentiles, and millet, and 5 fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

I ch.12.19.

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The type of hair. water by measure, and with astonishment:

17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume m away for their iniquity. CHAPTER V.

The judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion.

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.

2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege a 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.

3 Thou shalt also take thereof a b few in number, and bind them in thy 1 skirts.

4 Then take c 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 inte all the house of Israel.

5 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.

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

7 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;

8 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.

9 And I will do in thee that g 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 h 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 i into all the winds.

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou

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