Ezekiel 5:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am coming against you![a] I will carry out judgments among you while the nations look on.(A) 9 Because of all your abominations I will do to you what I have never done before, the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents.[b] I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.(B)
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- 5:8 I am coming against you: an expression borrowed from the language of warfare in which an enemy attacked another with the sword. “You” in vv. 8–17 is Jerusalem.
- 5:10 Parents will eat their children…parents: the prophet describes the consequences of the prolonged Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 587/586 B.C. See note on Lam 2:20.
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