Ezekiel 5:10

5:10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, ¹  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors ²  to the winds. ³ 

Ezekiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ⁴  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ⁵  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 20:23

20:23 I also swore ⁶  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ⁷ 

¹ tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”

² tn Heb “all of your survivors.”

³ tn Heb “to every wind.”

⁴ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

⁵ sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

⁸ sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.