Catholic Public Domain Version
"And you shall take from there a small number. And you shall bind them in the end of your cloak. "
— Ezekiel 5:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.”
“And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. ”
“You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.”
“But take a few strands of hair from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.”
“And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.”
“And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.”
“Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.”
“And as for you, son of man, obtain for yourself a sharp knife for shaving hair, and you shall take it and draw it across your head and across your beard. And you shall obtain for yourself a balance for weighing, and you shall divide the hair.
A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the completion of the days of the siege. And you shall take a third part, and you shall cut it with the knife all around. Yet truly, the other third, you shall scatter to the wind, for I will unsheathe the sword after them.
And you shall take from there a small number. And you shall bind them in the end of your cloak.
And again, you shall take from them, and you shall throw them into the midst of the fire, and you shall burn them with fire. And from it, there shall go forth a fire to the entire house of Israel.”
Thus says the Lord God: “This is Jerusalem. I have placed her in the midst of the Gentiles and of the lands all around her.
And she has despised my judgments, so as to be more impious than the Gentiles, and my precepts, more so than the lands that are all around her. For they have cast aside my judgments, and they have not walked in my precepts.”