Ezekiel 5:2-6

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.

“This is what the Lord God says: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have placed her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’