John Trapp on Ezekiel 5:2

Ver. 2. Thou ſhalt burn with fire a third part] i. e. with famine, peſtilence, and other miſchiefs, during the ſiege of Jeruſalem. Pythagoras gave this precept among others, Ʋnguium, criniumque praeſegmina ne contemnito. But God findeth ſo little worth in wicked people, that he regardeth them not, but caſteth them, as excrements, to the dunghil, yea to hell, Pſal. 9.17.

And ſmite about it with a knife] They ſhall be ſlain with that ſharp knife or ſword, ver. 1. after that the City is taken.

Thou ſhalt ſcatter in the wind] Sundry of them ſhall fly for their lives: but in running from death they ſhall but run to it, Amos 9.1, 2, 3, 4. & 2.13, 14, 15, 16.