5Thus says the LORD God: “This is Jerusalem; I have set it in the center of the nations and the countries that are all around her. 6And she has changed (perverted) My ordinances into wickedness more than all other nations, and My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My ordinances and My statutes, they have not abided by them. 7Therefore, thus says the LORD God: ‘Because you sinned more than the nations that are all around you, and have not abided by My statutes, nor have kept My ordinances, nor have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you’; 8Therefore, thus says the LORD God: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will impose punishments upon you in the sight of those nations. 9And because of all your abominable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before, and will never do again. 10Therefore, parents among you shall eat their children; and children shall eat their parents; and I will inflict punishments upon you, and I will scatter your survivors to the four winds. 11Therefore, as sure as I live”, says the LORD God: “Because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable images and practices, I will also remove My favor from you; My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12A third part of those among you shall die of pestilence and starvation; a third part shall die by the swords that surround you; and I will scatter a third part to the winds, and the sword will pursue them. 13Then shall I be avenged and My anger will subside, after I have spent My wrath upon them, and they shall know that I, the LORD, have fulfilled in them what I have said in My fury. 14Moreover, I will make you a wasteland, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, visible to all that pass by. 15So shall you be a reproach and a taunt, a warning, and an object of horror (astonishment) to all the nations that are around you, when I shall impose these judgments upon you in anger and in stinging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16When I shall shoot My deadly arrows of famine, sent to destroy you; as the famine increases as your food supply is cut off; 17I will send famine and wild animals among you, that shall bereave you of your children; and plague and bloodshed shall sweep through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the LORD, have spoken it.