3. But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.
4. Take some more of them, throw them into the fire, and burn them in it. A fire will spread from it to the whole house of Israel.
5. “This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
6. But she has rebelled against My ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.
7. “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have been more insubordinate than the nations around you — you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances; you have not even kept the ordinances of the nations around you —
8. therefore, this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments within you in the sight of the nations.
9. Because of all your detestable practices, I will do to you what I have never done before and what I will never do again.