Ezekiel 5:1-4

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

A third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and a third you shall scatter to the wind; for I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

Take also a few hairs in number from them and bind them in the hems of your robes.

Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.