The Koine Bible

And you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp sword, sharper than a barber’s razor; you shall acquire it for yourself, and you shall bring it upon your head and upon your beard, and you shall take a balance of weights and divide them.

The fourth you shall burn in fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take the fourth and burn it in its midst, and the fourth you shall cut with the sword round about it, and the fourth you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

And you shall take from there a few in number, and you shall wrap them up in the fold of your cloak.

And from these you shall still take and throw them into the midst of the fire, and you shall burn them up in fire; from it a fire shall go forth, and you shall say to all the house of Israel:

Thus says the Lord: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the lands round about her.

And you shall say, My ordinances, to the lawless one from among the nations, and my statutes from among the countries round about her: because they rejected my ordinances, and in my statutes they did not walk; in them.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Because your disobedience was from the nations around you, and you have not walked in my statutes, and you have not done my ordinances, but neither have you done according to the ordinances of the nations around you.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgments in your midst before the nations.

And I will do in you what I have not done, and what I will not do anything like them again, according to all your abominations.

Therefore fathers shall eat children in your midst, and children shall eat fathers, and I will do judgments in you, and I will scatter all your survivors to every wind

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord, surely because you defiled my holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; my eye will not spare, and I will not have mercy.

A quarter of you shall be consumed by death, and a quarter of you shall be finished off by famine in your midst, and a quarter of you I will scatter to every wind, and a quarter of you shall fall by the sword all around you, and I will draw out a sword after them.

And my fury and my wrath shall be completed upon them, and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy, when I finish my wrath upon them

And I will make you into a wilderness, and your daughters around you, before everyone passing by

And you shall be a sighing and a cause of derision among the nations round about you, when I do in you judgments in vengeance of my wrath; I, the Lord, have spoken.

When I send against them my bolts of famine, and they shall be for destruction, and I will crush your support of bread

And I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and I will punish you; and death and blood shall pass through upon you, and I will bring a sword upon you all around. I, the Lord, have spoken.