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Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Ezekiel
Chapter 1
001:001 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year,
in the fourth
month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I was among
the
captives by the river of
Chebar, that the heavens were
opened,
and I saw visions of
God.
001:002 In the fifth day of the month, which was the
fifth year of
king Jehoiachin's
captivity,
001:003 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel
the priest,
the son of Buzi, in
the land of the Chaldeans by the
river
Chebar; and the hand of the
LORD was there upon him.
001:004 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out
of the north,
a great cloud, and a
fire infolding itself, and a
brightness
was about it, and out
of the midst thereof as the colour
of
amber, out of the midst of the
fire.
001:005 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness
of four living
creatures. And this
was their appearance; they had the
likeness of a man.
001:006 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
001:007 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole
of their feet
was like the sole of
a calf's foot: and they sparkled like
the
colour of burnished brass.
001:008 And they had the hands of a man under their
wings on their
four sides; and
they four had their faces and their wings.
001:009 Their wings were joined one to another; they
turned not when
they went; they
went every one straight forward.
001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they four
had the face of
a man, and the
face of a lion, on the right side: and
they
four had the face of an ox on
the left side; they four also
had
the face of an eagle.
001:011 Thus were their faces: and their wings were
stretched upward;
two wings of
every one were joined one to another, and
two
covered their bodies.
001:012 And they went every one straight forward:
whither the spirit
was to go, they
went; and they turned not when they went.
001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures,
their appearance
was like burning
coals of fire, and like the appearance
of
lamps: it went up and down
among the living creatures; and
the
fire was bright, and out of
the fire went forth lightning.
001:014 And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of
a flash of
lightning.
001:015 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one
wheel upon
the earth by the living
creatures, with his four faces.
001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was
like unto the
colour of a beryl:
and they four had one likeness: and
their
appearance and their work
was as it were a wheel in the
middle
of a wheel.
001:017 When they went, they went upon their four sides:
and they
turned not when they
went.
001:018 As for their rings, they were so high that they
were dreadful;
and their rings
were full of eyes round about them four.
001:019 And when the living creatures went, the wheels
went by them:
and when the living
creatures were lifted up from the
earth,
the wheels were lifted
up.
001:020 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went,
thither was
their spirit to go;
and the wheels were lifted up over
against
them: for the spirit of
the living creature was in the wheels.
001:021 When those went, these went; and when those
stood, these
stood; and when those
were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of
the
living creature was in the
wheels.
001:022 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads
of the living
creature was as the
colour of the terrible crystal,
stretched
forth over their heads
above.
001:023 And under the firmament were their wings
straight, the one
toward the
other: every one had two, which covered on
this
side, and every one had two,
which covered on that side, their
bodies.
001:024 And when they went, I heard the noise of their
wings, like the
noise of great
waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the
voice
of speech, as the noise of
an host: when they stood, they let
down their wings.
001:025 And there was a voice from the firmament that
was over their
heads, when they
stood, and had let down their wings.
001:026 And above the firmament that was over their
heads was the
likeness of a
throne, as the appearance of a sapphire
stone:
and upon the likeness of
the throne was the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it.
001:027 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire
round about
within it, from the appearance of his loins
even
upward, and from the
appearance of his loins even downward,
I
saw as it were the appearance of
fire, and it had brightness
round
about.
001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the
cloud in the day
of rain, so was
the appearance of the brightness round
about.
This was the appearance of
the likeness of the glory of the
LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard
a
voice of one that spake.
002:001 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy
feet, and I
will speak unto
thee.
002:002 And the spirit entered into me when he spake
unto me, and set
me upon my feet,
that I heard him that spake unto me.
002:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to
the children
of Israel, to a
rebellious nation that hath rebelled
against
me: they and their fathers
have transgressed against me, even
unto this very day.
002:004 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted.
I do send
thee unto them; and thou
shalt say unto them, Thus saith
the
Lord GOD.
002:005 And they, whether they will hear, or whether
they will
forbear, (for they are a
rebellious house,) yet shall know
that there hath been a prophet among them.
002:006 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them,
neither be afraid
of their words,
though briers and thorns be with thee,
and
thou dost dwell among
scorpions: be not afraid of their
words,
nor be dismayed at their
looks, though they be a rebellious
house.
002:007 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether
they will
hear, or whether they
will forbear: for they are most
rebellious.
002:008 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee;
Be not thou
rebellious like that
rebellious house: open thy mouth, and
eat
that I give thee.
002:009 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto
me; and, lo,
a roll of a book was
therein;
002:010 And he spread it before me; and it was written
within and
without: and there was
written therein lamentations, and
mourning, and woe.
003:001 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that
thou findest;
eat this roll, and
go speak unto the house of Israel.
003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
003:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly
to eat, and
fill thy bowels with
this roll that I give thee. Then did
I
eat it; and it was in my mouth
as honey for sweetness.
003:004 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee
unto the house
of Israel, and
speak with my words unto them.
003:005 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange
speech and of
an hard language,
but to the house of Israel;
003:006 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an
hard
language, whose words thou
canst not understand. Surely, had
I
sent thee to them, they would
have hearkened unto thee.
003:007 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto
thee; for they
will not hearken
unto me: for all the house of Israel
are
impudent and hardhearted.
003:008 Behold, I have made thy face strong against
their faces, and
thy forehead
strong against their foreheads.
003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy
forehead: fear
them not, neither
be dismayed at their looks, though they be
a
rebellious house.
003:010 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my
words that I
shall speak unto thee
receive in thine heart, and hear
with
thine ears.
003:011 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto
the children
of thy people, and
speak unto them, and tell them, Thus
saith
the Lord GOD; whether they
will hear, or whether they will
forbear.
003:012 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind
me a voice of a
great rushing,
saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD
from
his place.
003:013 I heard also the noise of the wings of the
living creatures
that touched one
another, and the noise of the wheels
over
against them, and a noise of
a great rushing.
003:014 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away,
and I went in
bitterness, in the
heat of my spirit; but the hand of the
LORD
was strong upon me.
003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib,
that dwelt by
the river of Chebar,
and I sat where they sat, and
remained
there astonished among
them seven days.
003:016 And it came to pass at the end of seven days,
that the word of
the LORD came
unto me, saying,
003:017 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the
house of
Israel: therefore hear
the word at my mouth, and give
them
warning from me.
003:018 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely
die; and thou
givest him not
warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked
from
his wicked way, to save his
life; the same wicked man shall
die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at
thine
hand.
003:019 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not
from his
wickedness, nor from his
wicked way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
003:020 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness,
and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before
him,
he shall die: because thou
hast not given him warning, he
shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath
done
shall not be remembered; but
his blood will I require at thine
hand.
003:021 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man,
that the
righteous sin not, and he
doth not sin, he shall surely
live,
because he is warned; also
thou hast delivered thy soul.
003:022 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and
he said unto
me, Arise, go forth
into the plain, and I will there talk
with
thee.
003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain:
and, behold, the
glory of the LORD
stood there, as the glory which I saw by
the
river of Chebar: and I fell on
my face.
003:024 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon
my feet, and
spake with me, and
said unto me, Go, shut thyself within
thine
house.
003:025 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put
bands upon
thee, and shall bind
thee with them, and thou shalt not go
out
among them:
003:026 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of
thy mouth,
that thou shalt be
dumb, and shalt not be to them a
reprover:
for they are a
rebellious house.
003:027 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy
mouth, and thou
shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that
heareth,
let him hear; and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for
they are a rebellious house.
004:001 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay
it before
thee, and pourtray upon
it the city, even Jerusalem:
004:002 And lay siege against it, and build a fort
against it, and
cast a mount
against it; set the camp also against it, and
set
battering rams against it
round about.
004:003 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and
set it for a
wall of iron between
thee and the city: and set thy
face
against it, and it shall be
besieged, and thou shalt lay siege
against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
004:004 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the
iniquity of the
house of Israel
upon it: according to the number of the
days
that thou shalt lie upon it
thou shalt bear their iniquity.
004:005 For I have laid upon thee the years of their
iniquity,
according to the number
of the days, three hundred and
ninety
days: so shalt thou bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel.
004:006 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again
on thy right
side, and thou shalt
bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah
forty days: I have appointed
thee each day for a year.
004:007 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the
siege of
Jerusalem, and thine arm
shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it.
004:008 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and
thou shalt not
turn thee from one
side to another, till thou hast ended
the
days of thy siege.
004:009 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and
beans, and
lentiles, and millet,
and fitches, and put them in one
vessel,
and make thee bread
thereof, according to the number of
the
days that thou shalt lie upon
thy side, three hundred and
ninety
days shalt thou eat thereof.
004:010 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by
weight, twenty
shekels a day: from
time to time shalt thou eat it.
004:011 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the
sixth part of an
hin: from time to
time shalt thou drink.
004:012 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou
shalt bake it
with dung that
cometh out of man, in their sight.
004:013 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children
of Israel eat
their defiled bread
among the Gentiles, whither I will
drive
them.
004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath
not been
polluted: for from my
youth up even till now have I not
eaten
of that which dieth of
itself, or is torn in pieces;
neither
came there abominable
flesh into my mouth.
004:015 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee
cow's dung for
man's dung, and
thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
004:016 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I
will break the
staff of bread in
Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread
by
weight, and with care; and they
shall drink water by measure,
and
with astonishment:
004:017 That they may want bread and water, and be
astonied one with
another, and
consume away for their iniquity.
005:001 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife,
take thee a
barber's razor, and
cause it to pass upon thine head and
upon
thy beard: then take thee
balances to weigh, and divide the
hair.
005:002 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the
midst of the
city, when the days
of the siege are fulfilled: and thou
shalt
take a third part, and smite
about it with a knife: and a
third
part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw
out
a sword after them.
005:003 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number,
and bind them in
thy skirts.
005:004 Then take of them again, and cast them into the
midst of the
fire, and burn them
in the fire; for thereof shall a fire
come
forth into all the house of
Israel.
005:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I
have set it in
the midst of the
nations and countries that are round
about
her.
005:006 And she hath changed my judgments into
wickedness more than
the nations,
and my statutes more than the countries that
are
round about her: for they have
refused my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them.
005:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
multiplied more
than the nations
that are round about you, and have not
walked
in my statutes, neither
have kept my judgments, neither
have
done according to the
judgments of the nations that are
round
about you;
005:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I,
even I, am
against thee, and will
execute judgments in the midst of
thee
in the sight of the
nations.
005:009 And I will do in thee that which I have not
done, and
whereunto I will not do
any more the like, because of all
thine abominations.
005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the
midst of thee,
and the sons shall
eat their fathers; and I will
execute
judgments in thee, and the
whole remnant of thee will I
scatter into all the winds.
005:011 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD;
Surely, because thou
hast defiled
my sanctuary with all thy detestable things,
and
with all thine abominations,
therefore will I also diminish
thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have
any
pity.
005:012 A third part of thee shall die with the
pestilence, and with
famine shall
they be consumed in the midst of thee: and
a
third part shall fall by the
sword round about thee; and I
will
scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will
draw
out a sword after them.
005:013 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I
will cause my
fury to rest upon
them, and I will be comforted: and
they
shall know that I the LORD
have spoken it in my zeal, when I
have accomplished my fury in them.
005:014 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach
among the
nations that are round
about thee, in the sight of all
that
pass by.
005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an
instruction and an
astonishment
unto the nations that are round about thee,
when
I shall execute judgments in
thee in anger and in fury and in
furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
005:016 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of
famine, which
shall be for their
destruction, and which I will send
to
destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and
will
break your staff of
bread:
005:017 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,
and they shall
bereave thee: and
pestilence and blood shall pass
through
thee; and I will bring the
sword upon thee. I the LORD have
spoken it.
006:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
006:002 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of
Israel, and
prophesy against
them,
006:003 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word
of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD to the mountains, and to
the
hills, to the rivers, and to
the valleys; Behold, I, even I,
will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your
high
places.
006:004 And your altars shall be desolate, and your
images shall be
broken: and I will
cast down your slain men before your idols.
006:005 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children
of Israel
before their idols; and
I will scatter your bones round
about
your altars.
006:006 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be
laid waste, and
the high places
shall be desolate; that your altars may
be
laid waste and made desolate,
and your idols may be broken and
cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may
be
abolished.
006:007 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you,
and ye shall
know that I am the
LORD.
006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have
some that shall
escape the sword
among the nations, when ye shall be
scattered
through the
countries.
006:009 And they that escape of you shall remember me
among the
nations whither they
shall be carried captives, because I
am
broken with their whorish
heart, which hath departed from
me,
and with their eyes, which go
a whoring after their idols: and
they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they
have
committed in all their
abominations.
006:010 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that
I have not
said in vain that I
would do this evil unto them.
006:011 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand,
and stamp with
thy foot, and say,
Alas for all the evil abominations of
the
house of Israel! for they
shall fall by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence.
006:012 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence;
and he that is
near shall fall by
the sword; and he that remaineth and
is
besieged shall die by the
famine: thus will I accomplish my
fury upon them.
006:013 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when
their slain men
shall be among
their idols round about their altars,
upon
every high hill, in all the
tops of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place
where
they did offer sweet savour
to all their idols.
006:014 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and
make the land
desolate, yea, more
desolate than the wilderness
toward
Diblath, in all their
habitations: and they shall know that
I
am the LORD.
007:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
007:002 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD
unto the land
of Israel; An end,
the end is come upon the four corners
of
the land.
007:003 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send
mine anger upon
thee, and will
judge thee according to thy ways, and
will
recompense upon thee all
thine abominations.
007:004 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will
I have pity:
but I will recompense
thy ways upon thee, and thine
abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall
know
that I am the LORD.
007:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil,
behold, is
come.
007:006 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for
thee; behold,
it is come.
007:007 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that
dwellest in the
land: the time is
come, the day of trouble is near, and
not
the sounding again of the
mountains.
007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee,
and accomplish
mine anger upon
thee: and I will judge thee according to
thy
ways, and will recompense thee
for all thine abominations.
007:009 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity: I will
recompense thee
according to thy ways and thine
abominations
that are in the midst
of thee; and ye shall know that I am
the
LORD that smiteth.
007:010 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning
is gone forth;
the rod hath
blossomed, pride hath budded.
007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness:
none of them
shall remain, nor of
their multitude, nor of any of
their's:
neither shall there be
wailing for them.
007:012 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not
the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller
mourn: for wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof.
007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is
sold,
although they were yet
alive: for the vision is touching
the
whole multitude thereof, which
shall not return; neither shall
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
007:014 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all
ready; but none
goeth to the
battle: for my wrath is upon all the
multitude
thereof.
007:015 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the
famine
within: he that is in the
field shall die with the sword;
and
he that is in the city, famine
and pestilence shall devour
him.
007:016 But they that escape of them shall escape, and
shall be on the
mountains like
doves of the valleys, all of them
mourning,
every one for his
iniquity.
007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall
be weak as
water.
007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth,
and horror
shall cover them; and
shame shall be upon all faces, and
baldness upon all their heads.
007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and
their gold
shall be removed: their
silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD:
they
shall not satisfy their
souls, neither fill their bowels:
because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in
majesty: but
they made the images
of their abominations and of their
detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far
from
them.
007:021 And I will give it into the hands of the
strangers for a prey,
and to the
wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
shall
pollute it.
007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they
shall pollute my
secret place: for
the robbers shall enter into it, and
defile
it.
007:023 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody
crimes, and the
city is full of
violence.
007:024 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen,
and they
shall possess their
houses: I will also make the pomp of
the
strong to cease; and their
holy places shall be defiled.
007:025 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace,
and there shall
be none.
007:026 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour
shall be upon
rumour; then shall
they seek a vision of the prophet; but
the
law shall perish from the
priest, and counsel from the
ancients.
007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be
clothed with
desolation, and the
hands of the people of the land shall
be
troubled: I will do unto them
after their way, and according
to
their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that
I
am the LORD.
008:001 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the
sixth month, in
the fifth day of
the month, as I sat in mine house, and
the
elders of Judah sat before me,
that the hand of the Lord GOD
fell
there upon me.
008:002 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the
appearance of fire:
from the
appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and
from
his loins even upward, as the
appearance of brightness, as the
colour of amber.
008:003 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took
me by a lock of
mine head; and the
spirit lifted me up between the earth
and
the heaven, and brought me in
the visions of God to Jerusalem,
to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the
north;
where was the seat of the
image of jealousy, which provoketh
to jealousy.
008:004 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there,
according to the vision
that I saw in the plain.
008:005 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine
eyes now the
way toward the north.
So I lifted up mine eyes the way
toward
the north, and behold
northward at the gate of the altar
this
image of jealousy in the
entry.
008:006 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest
thou what they
do? even the great
abominations that the house of
Israel
committeth here, that I
should go far off from my
sanctuary?
but turn thee yet
again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations.
008:007 And he brought me to the door of the court; and
when I looked,
behold a hole in
the wall.
008:008 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the
wall: and
when I had digged in the
wall, behold a door.
008:009 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the
wicked abominations
that they do
here.
008:010 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of
creeping
things, and abominable
beasts, and all the idols of the
house
of Israel, pourtrayed upon
the wall round about.
008:011 And there stood before them seventy men of the
ancients of the
house of Israel,
and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah
the
son of Shaphan, with every man
his censer in his hand; and a
thick cloud of incense went up.
008:012 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen
what the
ancients of the house of
Israel do in the dark, every man
in
the chambers of his imagery?
for they say, the LORD seeth us
not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
008:013 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see
greater
abominations that they do.
008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of
the LORD's house
which was toward
the north; and, behold, there sat
women
weeping for Tammuz.
008:015 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son
of man? turn
thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations
than
these.
008:016 And he brought me into the inner court of the
LORD's house,
and, behold, at the
door of the temple of the LORD,
between
the porch and the altar,
were about five and twenty men,
with
their backs toward the temple
of the LORD, and their faces
toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
008:017 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son
of man? Is it
a light thing to the
house of Judah that they commit
the
abominations which they commit
here? for they have filled the
land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to
anger:
and, lo, they put the
branch to their nose.
008:018 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye
shall not spare,
neither will I
have pity: and though they cry in mine
ears
with a loud voice, yet will I
not hear them.
009:001 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice,
saying, Cause
them that have
charge over the city to draw near, even
every
man with his destroying
weapon in his hand.
009:002 And, behold, six men came from the way of the
higher gate,
which lieth toward
the north, and every man a slaughter
weapon
in his hand; and one man
among them was clothed with linen,
with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in,
and
stood beside the brasen
altar.
009:003 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up
from the
cherub, whereupon he was,
to the threshold of the house. And
he called to the man clothed with linen, which had
the
writer's inkhorn by his
side;
009:004 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst
of the city,
through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all
the
abominations that be done in
the midst thereof.
009:005 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye
after him
through the city, and
smite: let not your eye spare,
neither
have ye pity:
009:006 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and
little children,
and women: but
come not near any man upon whom is the
mark;
and begin at my sanctuary.
Then they began at the ancient men
which were before the house.
009:007 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and
fill the courts
with the slain: go
ye forth. And they went forth, and slew
in
the city.
009:008 And it came to pass, while they were slaying
them, and I was
left, that I fell
upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah
Lord
GOD! wilt thou destroy all
the residue of Israel in thy
pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
009:009 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house
of Israel and
Judah is exceeding
great, and the land is full of blood,
and
the city full of perverseness:
for they say, The LORD hath
forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
009:010 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I
have pity, but I
will recompense their way upon their head.
009:011 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which
had the inkhorn
by his side,
reported the matter, saying, I have done as
thou
hast commanded me.
010:001 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament
that was above
the head of the
cherubims there appeared over them as it
were
a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a
throne.
010:002 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and
said, Go in
between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand
with coals of
fire from between the cherubims, and scatter
them over the
city. And he went in in my sight.
010:003 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the
house, when
the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
010:004 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the
cherub, and stood
over the
threshold of the house; and the house was filled with
the cloud, and
the court was full of the brightness of the
LORD's glory.
010:005 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard
even to the
outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he
speaketh.
010:006 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded
the man
clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels,
from between the
cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside
the wheels.
010:007 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from
between the
cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and
took thereof, and
put it into the hands of him that was
clothed with
linen: who took it, and went out.
010:008 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a
man's hand
under their wings.
010:009 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the
cherubims,
one
wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub:
and the
appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl
stone.
010:010 And as for their appearances, they four had one
likeness, as
if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
010:011 When they went, they went upon their four sides;
they turned
not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked
they followed it;
they turned not as they went.
010:012 And their whole body, and their backs, and their
hands, and
their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
even the wheels
that they four had.
010:013 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my
hearing, O
wheel.
010:014 And every one had four faces: the first face was
the face of a
cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the
third the face of
a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
010:015 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the
living creature
that I saw by the
river of Chebar.
010:016 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by
them: and when
the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the
earth, the same
wheels also turned not from beside them.
010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they were
lifted up,
these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living
creature was in
them.
010:018 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the
threshold of
the house, and stood over the cherubims.
010:019 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and
mounted up from
the earth in my
sight: when they went out, the wheels also
were beside them,
and every one stood at the door of the east
gate of the
LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel
was over them
above.
010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the
God of Israel
by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the
cherubims.
010:021 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one
four wings; and
the likeness of
the hands of a man was under their wings.
010:022 And the likeness of their faces was the same
faces which I saw
by the river of
Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they
went every one
straight forward.
011:001 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me
unto the east
gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold
at the door of
the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw
Jaazaniah the son
of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah,
princes of the
people.
011:002 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the
men that
devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
011:003 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses:
this city is
the caldron, and we be the flesh.
011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
011:005 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said
unto me,
Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of
Israel: for I
know the things that come into your mind, every
one of them.
011:006 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and
ye have filled
the streets thereof with the slain.
011:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain
whom ye have
laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is
the caldron: but
I will bring you forth out of the midst of
it.
011:008 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a
sword upon you,
saith the Lord
GOD.
011:009 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof,
and deliver you
into the hands of
strangers, and will execute judgments among
you.
011:010 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in
the border of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
011:011 This city shall not be your caldron, neither
shall ye be the
flesh in the
midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border
of Israel:
011:012 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have
not walked
in
my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done
after the manners
of the heathen that are round about you.
011:013 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that
Pelatiah the son
of Benaiah died.
Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with
a loud voice, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end
of the remnant of
Israel?
011:014 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
011:015 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the
men of thy
kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto
whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from
the LORD: unto us
is this land given in possession.
011:016 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although
I have cast
them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered
them among the
countries, yet will I be to them as a little
sanctuary in the
countries where they shall come.
011:017 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
even gather you
from the people,
and assemble you out of the countries where
ye have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of
Israel.
011:018 And they shall come thither, and they shall take
away all the
detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof
from thence.
011:019 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a
new spirit
within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their
flesh, and will
give them an heart of flesh:
011:020 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances,
and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God.
011:021 But as for them whose heart walketh after the
heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense
their way upon
their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
011:022 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and
the wheels
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them
above.
011:023 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst
of the city,
and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the
city.
011:024 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me
in a vision
by
the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.
So the vision
that I had seen went up from me.
011:025 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the
things that
the LORD had shewed me.
012:001 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
012:002 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a
rebellious house,
which have eyes
to see, and see not; they have ears to hear,
and hear not: for
they are a rebellious house.
012:003 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff
for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from
thy place to
another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though
they be a rebellious house.
012:004 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in
their sight,
as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in
their sight, as
they that go forth into captivity.
012:005 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and
carry out
thereby.
012:006 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy
shoulders, and
carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face,
that thou see not
the ground: for I have set thee for a sign
unto the house of
Israel.
012:007 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth
my stuff by
day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through
the wall with
mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight,
and I bare it
upon my shoulder in their sight.
012:008 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
012:009 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the
rebellious
house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
012:010 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This
burden
concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
Israel that are
among them.
012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so
shall it be done
unto them: they
shall remove and go into captivity.
012:012 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon
his shoulder
in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through
the wall to carry
out thereby: he shall cover his face, that
he see not the
ground with his eyes.
012:013 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall
be taken in
my
snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the
Chaldeans; yet
shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
012:014 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are
about him to
help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword
after them.
012:015 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall scatter
them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the
sword, from the
famine, and from
the pestilence; that they may declare all
their
abominations among the heathen whither they come; and
they shall know
that I am the LORD.
012:017 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
012:018 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink
thy water
with
trembling and with carefulness;
012:019 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith
the Lord GOD
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel;
They shall eat
their bread with carefulness, and drink their
water with
astonishment, that her land may be desolate from
all that is
therein, because of the violence of all them that
dwell
therein.
012:020 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid
waste, and the
land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
012:021 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
012:022 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in
the land of
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision
faileth?
012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will make this
proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb
in Israel; but
say unto them, The days are at hand, and the
effect of every
vision.
012:024 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor
flattering
divination within the house of Israel.
012:025 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word
that I shall
speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for
in your days, O
rebellious house, will I say the word, and
will perform it,
saith the Lord GOD.
012:026 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel
say, The
vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he
prophesieth of
the times that are far off.
012:028 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
There shall
none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I
have spoken shall
be done, saith the Lord GOD.
013:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of
Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their
own hearts, Hear
ye the word of the LORD;
013:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish
prophets, that
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
013:004 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
013:005 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made
up the hedge
for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of
the LORD.
013:006 They have seen vanity and lying divination,
saying, The LORD
saith: and the
LORD hath not sent them: and they have made
others to hope
that they would confirm the word.
013:007 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not
spoken a lying
divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have
not spoken?
013:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
have spoken
vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
saith the Lord
GOD.
013:009 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see
vanity, and
that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
people, neither
shall they be written in the writing of the
house of Israel,
neither shall they enter into the land of
Israel; and ye
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my
people, saying,
Peace; and there
was no peace; and one built up a wall, and,
lo, others daubed
it with untempered morter:
013:011 Say unto them which daub it with untempered
morter, that it
shall fall: there
shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O
great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
013:012 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said
unto you,
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
013:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even
rend it with a
stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in mine
anger, and great hailstones in my fury to
consume it.
013:014 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed
with
untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that
the foundation
thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall,
and ye shall be
consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall
know that I am
the LORD.
013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall,
and upon them
that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto
you, The wall is
no more, neither they that daubed it;
013:016 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy
concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there
is no peace,
saith the Lord GOD.
013:017 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against
the daughters
of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and
prophesy thou
against them,
013:018 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
women that sew
pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of
every stature to
hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my
people, and will
ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
013:019 And will ye pollute me among my people for
handfuls of barley
and for pieces of
bread, to slay the souls that should not
die, and to save
the souls alive that should not live, by your
lying to my
people that hear your lies?
013:020 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against your
pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly,
and I will tear
them from your arms, and will let the souls
go, even the
souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my
people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be
hunted; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
013:022 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the
righteous sad,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the
wicked, that he
should not return from his wicked way, by
promising him
life:
013:023 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations:
for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall
know that I am
the LORD.
014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto
me, and sat
before me.
014:002 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
014:003 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in
their heart,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their
face: should I be
enquired of at all by them?
014:004 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them,
Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before
his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the
LORD will answer
him that cometh according to the multitude of
his idols;
014:005 That I may take the house of Israel in their own
heart,
because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.
014:006 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn
away your faces
from all your abominations.
014:007 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the
stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and
setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the
stumblingblock of
his iniquity before his face, and cometh to
a prophet to
enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will
answer him by
myself:
014:008 And I will set my face against that man, and will
make him a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of
my people; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
014:009 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath
spoken a thing, I
the LORD have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my
hand upon him,
and will destroy him from the midst of my
people
Israel.
014:010 And they shall bear the punishment of their
iniquity: the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of
him that seeketh
unto him;
014:011 That the house of Israel may go no more astray
from me,
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions;
but that they may
be my people, and I may be their God, saith
the Lord GOD.
014:012 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
014:013 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by
trespassing
grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and
will break the
staff of the bread thereof, and will send
famine upon it,
and will cut off man and beast from it:
014:014 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job,
were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their
righteousness,
saith the Lord GOD.
014:015 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the
land, and they
spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through
because of the
beasts:
014:016 Though these three men were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
shall be
delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
014:017 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say,
Sword, go
through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
014:018 Though these three men were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they
only shall be
delivered themselves.
014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and
pour out my fury
upon it in blood,
to cut off from it man and beast:
014:020 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I
live, saith the
Lord GOD, they
shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they
shall but deliver
their own souls by their righteousness.
014:021 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I
send my four
sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and
the noisome
beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man
and beast?
014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that
shall be
brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall
come forth unto
you, and ye shall see their way and their
doings: and ye
shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
have brought upon
Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought upon
it.
014:023 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their
ways and their
doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause
all that I have
done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
015:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any
tree, or than
a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
015:003 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or
will men take a
pin of it to hang
any vessel thereon?
015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the
fire devoureth
both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet
for any work?
015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no
work: how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath
devoured it, and
it is burned?
015:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine
tree among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel,
so will I give
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
015:007 And I will set my face against them; they shall
go out from
one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall
know that I am
the LORD, when I set my face against them.
015:008 And I will make the land desolate, because they
have committed
a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
016:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
016:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem;
Thy birth and
thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an
Amorite, and thy
mother an Hittite.
016:004 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast
born thy navel
was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee;
thou wast not
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
016:005 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto
thee, to have
compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open
field, to the
lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast
born.
016:006 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted
in thine own
blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live;
yea, I said unto
thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
016:007 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the
field, and
thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to
excellent
ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair
is grown, whereas
thou wast naked and bare.
016:008 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,
behold, thy
time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee,
and covered thy
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant
with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
becamest
mine.
016:009 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away
thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
016:010 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod
thee with
badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I
covered thee with
silk.
016:011 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put
bracelets upon
thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
016:012 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings
in thine ears,
and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
016:013 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and
thy raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst
eat fine flour,
and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding
beautiful, and
thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
016:014 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for
thy beauty:
for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the
Lord GOD.
016:015 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and
playedst the
harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
fornications on
every one that passed by; his it was.
016:016 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst
thy high
places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon:
the like things
shall not come, neither shall it be so.
016:017 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold
and of my
silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images
of men, and didst
commit whoredom with them,
016:018 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst
them: and
thou
hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
016:019 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and
oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them
for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
016:020 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy
daughters, whom thou
hast borne unto
me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them
to be devoured.
Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
016:021 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered
them to cause
them to pass through the fire for them?
016:022 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms
thou hast not
remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and
bare, and wast
polluted in thy blood.
016:023 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness,
(woe, woe unto
thee! saith the LORD GOD;)
016:024 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place, and hast
made thee an high
place in every street.
016:025 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of
the way, and
hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet
to every one that
passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
016:026 Thou hast also committed fornication with the
Egyptians thy
neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms,
to provoke me to
anger.
016:027 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand
over thee, and
have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto
the will of them
that hate thee, the daughters of the
Philistines,
which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
016:028 Thou hast played the whore also with the
Assyrians, because
thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with
them, and yet
couldest not be satisfied.
016:029 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in
the land of
Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied
therewith.
016:030 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD,
seeing thou doest
all these things,
the work of an imperious whorish woman;
016:031 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the
head of every
way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not
been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
016:032 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which
taketh strangers
instead of her
husband!
016:033 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest
thy gifts to
all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee
on every side for
thy whoredom.
016:034 And the contrary is in thee from other women in
thy whoredoms,
whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that
thou givest a
reward, and no reward is given unto thee,
therefore thou
art contrary.
016:035 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
016:036 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness
was poured
out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with
thy lovers, and
with all the idols of thy abominations, and by
the blood of thy
children, which thou didst give unto them;
016:037 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers,
with whom thou
hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with
all them that
thou hast hated; I will even gather them round
about against
thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them,
that they may see
all thy nakedness.
016:038 And I will judge thee, as women that break
wedlock and shed
blood are judged;
and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy.
016:039 And I will also give thee into their hand, and
they shall
throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high
places: they
shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall
take thy fair
jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
016:040 They shall also bring up a company against thee,
and they
shall
stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with
their swords.
016:041 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and
execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will
cause thee to
cease from playing the harlot, and thou also
shalt give no
hire any more.
016:042 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and
my jealousy
shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no
more angry.
016:043 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, but
hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also
will recompense
thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD:
and thou shalt
not commit this lewdness above all thine
abominations.
016:044 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use
this proverb
against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
016:045 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her
husband and
her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which
lothed their
husbands and their children: your mother was an
Hittite, and your
father an Amorite.
016:046 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her
daughters that
dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth
at thy right
hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
016:047 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor
done after
their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing,
thou wast
corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
016:048 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister
hath not done,
she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy
daughters.
016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister
Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in
her daughters,
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
and needy.
016:050 And they were haughty, and committed abomination
before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.
016:051 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins;
but thou hast
multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
justified thy
sisters in all thine abominations which thou
hast done.
016:052 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear
thine own shame
for thy sins that
thou hast committed more abominable than
they: they are
more righteous than thou: yea, be thou
confounded also,
and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
justified thy
sisters.
016:053 When I shall bring again their captivity, the
captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters, then
will I bring again the captivity of thy
captives in the
midst of them:
016:054 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest
be
confounded
in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a
comfort unto
them.
016:055 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall
return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their
former estate, then thou and thy daughters
shall return to
your former estate.
016:056 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy
mouth in the day
of thy pride,
016:057 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the
time of thy
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round
about her, the
daughters of the Philistines, which despise
thee round
about.
016:058 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine
abominations, saith the
LORD.
016:059 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal
with thee as
thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the
covenant.
016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with
thee in the days
of thy youth, and
I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant.
016:061 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be
ashamed, when thou
shalt receive thy
sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I
will give them
unto thee for daughters, but not by thy
covenant.
016:062 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and
thou shalt
know that I am the LORD:
016:063 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and
never open
thy
mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified
toward thee for
all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
017:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a
parable unto the
house of
Israel;
017:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle
with great
wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours,
came unto
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
017:004 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and
carried it into
a land of
traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted
it in a
fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a
willow tree.
017:006 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low
stature, whose
branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under
him: so it became
a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot
forth sprigs.
017:007 There was also another great eagle with great
wings and many
feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward
him, and shot
forth her branches toward him, that he might
water it by the
furrows of her plantation.
017:008 It was planted in a good soil by great waters,
that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it
might be a goodly
vine.
017:009 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it
prosper? shall he
not pull up the
roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof,
that it wither?
it shall wither in all the leaves of her
spring, even
without great power or many people to pluck it up
by the roots
thereof.
017:010 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper?
shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall
wither in the
furrows where it grew.
017:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what
these things
mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to
Jerusalem, and
hath taken the king thereof, and the princes
thereof, and led
them with him to Babylon;
017:013 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a
covenant with
him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the
mighty of the
land:
017:014 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not
lift itself
up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his
ambassadors into
Egypt, that they
might give him horses and much people. Shall
he prosper? shall
he escape that doeth such things? or shall
he break the
covenant, and be delivered?
017:016 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the
place where the
king dwelleth
that made him king, whose oath he despised, and
whose covenant he
brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon
he shall die.
017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and
great company
make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building
forts, to cut off
many persons:
017:018 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the
covenant, when,
lo, he had given
his hand, and hath done all these things, he
shall not
escape.
017:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,
surely mine oath
that he hath
despised, and my covenant that he hath broken,
even it will I
recompense upon his own head.
017:020 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall
be taken in my
snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with
him there for his
trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
017:021 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall
fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all
winds: and ye
shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
017:022 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the
highest
branch
of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off
from the top of
his young twigs a tender one, and will plant
it upon an high
mountain and eminent:
017:023 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I
plant it: and
it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly
cedar: and under
it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
shadow of the
branches thereof shall they dwell.
017:024 And all the trees of the field shall know that I
the LORD have
brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have
dried up the
green tree, and have made the dry tree to
flourish: I the
LORD have spoken and have done it.
018:001 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
018:002 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning
the land of
Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth
are set on edge?
018:003 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have
occasion any
more to use this proverb in Israel.
018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the
father, so also
the soul of the
son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall
die.
018:005 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
018:006 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither
hath lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath
defiled his
neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a
menstruous
woman,
018:007 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to
the debtor
his
pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his
bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a
garment;
018:008 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither
hath taken
any
increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
executed true
judgment between man and man,
018:009 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my
judgments, to
deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord
GOD.
018:010 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of
blood, and
that doeth the like to any one of these things,
018:011 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even
hath eaten
upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
018:012 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled
by violence,
hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols, hath
committed abomination,
018:013 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken
increase: shall he
then live? he
shall not live: he hath done all these
abominations; he
shall surely die; his blood shall be upon
him.
018:014 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his
father's sins
which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
018:015 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither
hath lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled
his neighbour's
wife,
018:016 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden
the pledge,
neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to
the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with a garment,
018:017 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that
hath not
received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath
walked in my
statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of
his father, he
shall surely live.
018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed,
spoiled his
brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his
people, lo, even
he shall die in his iniquity.
018:019 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the
iniquity of the
father? When the
son hath done that which is lawful and right,
and hath kept all
my statutes, and hath done them, he shall
surely live.
018:020 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son
shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the
son: the righteousness of the righteous shall
be upon him, and
the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him.
018:021 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins
that he hath
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is
lawful and right,
he shall surely live, he shall not die.
018:022 All his transgressions that he hath committed,
they shall not
be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done
he shall
live.
018:023 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should
die? saith
the
Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and
live?
018:024 But when the righteous turneth away from his
righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the
abominations that
the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his
righteousness
that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his
trespass that he
hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them
shall he die.
018:025 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal.
Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways
unequal?
018:026 When a righteous man turneth away from his
righteousness, and
committeth
iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that
he hath done
shall he die.
018:027 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his
wickedness
that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and
right, he shall
save his soul alive.
018:028 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all
his
transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live,
he shall not
die.
018:029 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the
LORD is not
equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your
ways unequal?
018:030 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel,
every one
according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
yourselves from
all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not
be your ruin.
018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions,
whereby ye have
transgressed; and
make you a new heart and a new spirit: for
why will ye die,
O house of Israel?
018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that
dieth, saith
the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
019:001 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
019:002 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay
down among
lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
019:003 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a
young lion,
and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in
their pit, and
they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her
hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young
lion.
019:006 And he went up and down among the lions, he
became a young
lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
019:007 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid
waste their
cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by
the noise of his
roaring.
019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side
from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in
their pit.
019:009 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought
him to the
king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice
should no more be
heard upon the mountains of Israel.
019:010 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted
by the waters:
she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
waters.
019:011 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them
that bare
rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches,
and she appeared
in her height with the multitude of her
branches.
019:012 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down
to the
ground,
and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods
were broken and
withered; the fire consumed them.
019:013 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a
dry and thirsty
ground.
019:014 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath
devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a
sceptre to rule.
This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation.
020:001 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the
fifth month,
the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of
Israel came to
enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
020:002 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
020:003 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and
say unto
them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me?
As I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by
you.
020:004 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge
them? cause
them to know the abominations of their fathers:
020:005 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In
the day when I
chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the
house of Jacob,
and made myself known unto them in the land of
Egypt, when I
lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the
LORD your
God;
020:006 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them,
to bring them
forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands:
020:007 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the
abominations
of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I am the
LORD your God.
020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not
hearken unto me:
they did not
every man cast away the abominations of their
eyes, neither did
they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I
said, I will pour
out my fury upon them, to accomplish my
anger against
them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
020:009 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should
not be
polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose
sight I made
myself known unto them, in bringing them forth
out of the land
of Egypt.
020:010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the
land of Egypt,
and brought them into the wilderness.
020:011 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my
judgments,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
020:012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a
sign between me
and them, that
they might know that I am the LORD that
sanctify
them.
020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in
the wilderness:
they walked not
in my statutes, and they despised my
judgments, which
if a man do, he shall even live in them; and
my sabbaths they
greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour
out my fury upon
them in the wilderness, to consume them.
020:014 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should
not be
polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them
out.
020:015 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the
wilderness, that
I would not bring
them into the land which I had given them,
flowing with milk
and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
020:016 Because they despised my judgments, and walked
not in my
statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after
their idols.
020:017 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying
them,
neither
did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
020:018 But I said unto their children in the wilderness,
Walk ye not
in
the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their
judgments, nor
defile yourselves with their idols:
020:019 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and
keep my
judgments, and do them;
020:020 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign
between me
and
you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
020:021 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me:
they walked
not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them,
which if a man
do, he shall even live in them; they polluted
my sabbaths: then
I said, I would pour out my fury upon them,
to accomplish my
anger against them in the wilderness.
020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought
for my name's
sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the
heathen, in whose
sight I brought them forth.
020:023 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the
wilderness, that I
would scatter
them among the heathen, and disperse them
through the
countries;
020:024 Because they had not executed my judgments, but
had despised
my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were
after their
fathers' idols.
020:025 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not
good, and
judgments whereby they should not live;
020:026 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that
they caused to
pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might
make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am
the LORD.
020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of
Israel, and say
unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers
have blasphemed
me, in that they have committed a trespass
against me.
020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, for
the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every
high hill, and
all the thick trees, and they offered there
their sacrifices,
and there they presented the provocation of
their offering:
there also they made their sweet savour, and
poured out there
their drink offerings.
020:029 Then I said unto them, What is the high place
whereunto ye go?
And the name
whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
020:030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord
GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and
commit ye
whoredom after their abominations?
020:031 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your
sons to pass
through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols,
even unto this
day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house
of Israel? As I
live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be
enquired of by
you.
020:032 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be
at all, that
ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the
countries, to
serve wood and stone.
020:033 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a
mighty hand, and
with a stretched
out arm, and with fury poured out, will I
rule over
you:
020:034 And I will bring you out from the people, and
will gather you
out of the
countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty
hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
020:035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.
020:036 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the
wilderness of the
land of Egypt, so
will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
020:037 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I
will bring
you
into the bond of the covenant:
020:038 And I will purge out from among you the rebels,
and them that
transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the
country where
they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel:
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
020:039 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the
Lord GOD; Go ye,
serve ye every
one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will
not hearken unto
me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with
your gifts, and
with your idols.
020:040 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the
height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of
Israel, all of
them in the land, serve me: there will I accept
them, and there
will I require your offerings, and the
firstfruits of
your oblations, with all your holy things.
020:041 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I
bring you out
from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein
ye have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before
the heathen.
020:042 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall bring you
into the land of
Israel, into the country for the which I
lifted up mine
hand to give it to your fathers.
020:043 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all
your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight
for all your evils that ye have committed.
020:044 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have
wrought with
you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor
according to your
corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD.
020:045 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
020:046 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and
drop thy word
toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south
field;
020:047 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word
of the LORD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee,
and it shall
devour every green tree in thee, and every dry
tree: the flaming
flame shall not be quenched, and all faces
from the south to
the north shall be burned therein.
020:048 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have
kindled it: it
shall not be quenched.
020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he
not speak
parables?
021:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
021:002 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and
drop thy word
toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of
Israel,
021:003 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I
am against thee,
and will draw forth my sword out of his
sheath, and will
cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked.
021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the
righteous and
the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his
sheath against
all flesh from the south to the north:
021:005 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have
drawn forth my
sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
021:006 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the
breaking of thy
loins; and with
bitterness sigh before their eyes.
021:007 And it shall be, when they say unto thee,
Wherefore sighest
thou? that thou
shalt answer, For the tidings; because it
cometh: and every
heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every
spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be
weak as water:
behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to
pass, saith the
Lord GOD.
021:008 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
LORD; Say, A
sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
021:010 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is
furbished that
it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the
rod of my son, as
every tree.
021:011 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may
be handled:
this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into
the hand of the
slayer.
021:012 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my
people, it
shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of
the sword shall
be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy
thigh.
021:013 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword
contemn even the
rod? it shall be
no more, saith the Lord GOD.
021:014 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite
thine hands
together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the
sword of the
slain: it is the sword of the great men that are
slain, which
entereth into their privy chambers.
021:015 I have set the point of the sword against all
their gates,
that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah!
it is made
bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
021:016 Go thee one way or other, either on the right
hand, or on the
left,
whithersoever thy face is set.
021:017 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will
cause my
fury
to rest: I the LORD have said it.
021:018 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
021:019 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways,
that the sword
of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth
out of one land:
and choose thou a place, choose it at the
head of the way
to the city.
021:020 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath
of the
Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of
the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his
arrows bright, he
consulted with images, he looked in the
liver.
021:022 At his right hand was the divination for
Jerusalem, to appoint
captains, to open
the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the
voice with
shouting, to appoint battering rams against the
gates, to cast a
mount, and to build a fort.
021:023 And it shall be unto them as a false divination
in their
sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to
remembrance the
iniquity, that they may be taken.
021:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
have made your
iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are
discovered, so
that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because, I say,
that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be
taken with the
hand.
021:025 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose
day is come,
when iniquity shall have an end,
021:026 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and
take off the
crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and
abase him that is
high.
021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it
shall be no
more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
021:028 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus
saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach;
even say thou,
The sword, the sword is drawn: for the
slaughter it is
furbished, to consume because of the
glittering:
021:029 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they
divine a lie
unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are
slain, of the
wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity
shall have an
end.
021:030 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I
will judge thee
in the place
where thou wast created, in the land of thy
nativity.
021:031 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I
will blow
against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into
the hand of
brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
021:032 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood
shall be in the
midst of the
land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the
LORD have spoken
it.
022:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
022:002 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou
judge the
bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
022:003 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city
sheddeth
blood
in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh
idols against
herself to defile herself.
022:004 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou
hast shed; and
hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and
thou hast caused
thy days to draw near, and art come even unto
thy years:
therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the
heathen, and a
mocking to all countries.
022:005 Those that be near, and those that be far from
thee, shall
mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in
thee to their
power to shed blood.
022:007 In thee have they set light by father and mother:
in the midst
of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in
thee have they
vexed the fatherless and the widow.
022:008 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast
profaned my
sabbaths.
022:009 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood:
and in thee
they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit
lewdness.
022:010 In thee have they discovered their fathers'
nakedness: in thee
have they humbled
her that was set apart for pollution.
022:011 And one hath committed abomination with his
neighbour's wife;
and another hath
lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and
another in thee
hath humbled his sister, his father's
daughter.
022:012 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou
hast taken
usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy
neighbours by
extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
GOD.
022:013 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy
dishonest
gain
which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in
the midst of
thee.
022:014 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be
strong, in the
days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it,
and will do
it.
022:015 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and
disperse thee
in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
022:016 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself
in the sight
of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
022:017 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become
dross: all
they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of
the furnace; they
are even the dross of silver.
022:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are
all become
dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of
Jerusalem.
022:020 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and
lead, and tin,
into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to
melt it; so will
I gather you in mine anger and in my fury,
and I will leave
you there, and melt you.
022:021 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the
fire of my
wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace,
so shall ye
be
melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the
LORD have poured
out my fury upon you.
022:023 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
022:024 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that
is not
cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the
midst thereof,
like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured
souls; they have
taken the treasure and precious things; they
have made her
many widows in the midst thereof.
022:026 Her priests have violated my law, and have
profaned mine holy
things: they have
put no difference between the holy and
profane, neither
have they shewed difference between the
unclean and the
clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I
am profaned among them.
022:027 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves
ravening the
prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest
gain.
022:028 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered
morter,
seeing
vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith
the Lord GOD,
when the LORD hath not spoken.
022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and
exercised
robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have
oppressed the
stranger wrongfully.
022:030 And I sought for a man among them, that should
make up the
hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I
should not
destroy it: but I found none.
022:031 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon
them; I have
consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I
recompensed upon
their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
023:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
023:003 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they
committed
whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed,
and there they
bruised the teats of their virginity.
023:004 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and
Aholibah her
sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.
Thus were their
names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem
Aholibah.
023:005 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine;
and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
023:006 Which were clothed with blue, captains and
rulers, all of them
desirable young
men, horsemen riding upon horses.
023:007 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with
all them that
were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she
doted: with all
their idols she defiled herself.
023:008 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from
Egypt: for in her
youth they lay
with her, and they bruised the breasts of her
virginity, and
poured their whoredom upon her.
023:009 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of
her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
023:010 These discovered her nakedness: they took her
sons and her
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous
among women; for
they had executed judgment upon her.
023:011 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was
more corrupt in
her inordinate
love than she, and in her whoredoms more than
her sister in her
whoredoms.
023:012 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours,
captains and
rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses,
all of them
desirable young men.
023:013 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
023:014 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when
she saw men
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
pourtrayed with
vermilion,
023:015 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding
in dyed attire
upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the
manner of the
Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their
nativity:
023:016 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she
doted upon
them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
023:017 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of
love, and they
defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with
them, and her
mind was alienated from them.
023:018 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered
her nakedness:
then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was
alienated from
her sister.
023:019 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to
remembrance
the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in
the land of
Egypt.
023:020 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh
is as the
flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
023:021 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of
thy youth,
in
bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy
youth.
023:022 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will
raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is
alienated, and I
will bring them against thee on every side;
023:023 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod,
and Shoa, and
Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable
young men,
captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all
of them riding
upon horses.
023:024 And they shall come against thee with chariots,
wagons, and
wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set
against thee
buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I
will set judgment
before them, and they shall judge thee
according to
their judgments.
023:025 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they
shall deal
furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine
ears; and thy
remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take
thy sons and thy
daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured
by the fire.
023:026 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes,
and take away
thy fair jewels.
023:027 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee,
and thy
whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt
not lift up thine
eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
023:028 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
deliver thee into
the hand of them
whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from
whom thy mind is
alienated:
023:029 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and
shall take away
all thy labour,
and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the
nakedness of thy
whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy
lewdness and thy
whoredoms.
023:030 I will do these things unto thee, because thou
hast gone a
whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with
their idols.
023:031 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister;
therefore will I
give her cup into
thine hand.
023:032 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy
sister's cup
deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in
derision; it
containeth much.
023:033 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup
of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria.
023:034 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and
thou shalt break
the sherds
thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I
have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
023:035 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou
hast forgotten
me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy
lewdness and thy
whoredoms.
023:036 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt
thou judge
Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their
abominations;
023:037 That they have committed adultery, and blood is
in their
hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and
have also caused
their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass
for them through
the fire, to devour them.
023:038 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have
defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
023:039 For when they had slain their children to their
idols, then
they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and,
lo, thus have
they done in the midst of mine house.
023:040 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to
come from far,
unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom
thou didst wash
thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst
thyself with
ornaments,
023:041 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table
prepared before it,
whereupon thou
hast set mine incense and mine oil.
023:042 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with
her: and
with
the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the
wilderness, which
put bracelets upon their hands, and
beautiful crowns
upon their heads.
023:043 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries,
Will they now
commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
023:044 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a
woman that
playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto
Aholibah, the
lewd women.
023:045 And the righteous men, they shall judge them
after the manner
of adulteresses,
and after the manner of women that shed
blood; because
they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
hands.
023:046 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a
company upon
them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
023:047 And the company shall stone them with stones, and
dispatch
them
with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their
daughters, and
burn up their houses with fire.
023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the
land, that all
women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
023:049 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,
and ye shall
bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the
Lord GOD.
024:001 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day
of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
024:002 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even
of this same
day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this
same day.
024:003 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house,
and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and
also pour water
into it:
024:004 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every
good piece, the
thigh, and the
shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the
bones under
it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it
therein.
024:006 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
bloody city, to
the pot whose
scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out
of it! bring it
out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it
upon the top
of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with
dust;
024:008 That it might cause fury to come up to take
vengeance; I have
set her blood
upon the top of a rock, that it should not be
covered.
024:009 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
bloody city! I
will even make the pile for fire great.
024:010 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh,
and spice it
well, and let the bones be burned.
024:011 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that
the brass of it
may be hot, and
may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be
molten in it,
that the scum of it may be consumed.
024:012 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great
scum went
not
forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
024:013 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have
purged thee, and
thou wast not
purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy
filthiness any
more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon
thee.
024:014 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass,
and I will
do
it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will
I repent;
according to thy ways, and according to thy doings,
shall they judge
thee, saith the Lord GOD.
024:015 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the
desire of thine
eyes with a
stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,
neither shall thy
tears run down.
024:017 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead,
bind the tire
of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet,
and cover not thy
lips, and eat not the bread of men.
024:018 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at
even my wife
died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
024:019 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell
us what these
things are to us, that thou doest so?
024:020 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came
unto me,
saying,
024:021 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord GOD;
Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your
strength, the
desire of your eyes, and that which your soul
pitieth; and your
sons and your daughters whom ye have left
shall fall by the
sword.
024:022 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not
cover your lips,
nor eat the bread
of men.
024:023 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your
shoes upon
your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away
for your
iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
024:024 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all
that he hath
done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I
am the Lord
GOD.
024:025 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day
when I take
from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
of their eyes,
and that whereupon they set their minds, their
sons and their
daughters,
024:026 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto
thee, to
cause
thee to hear it with thine ears?
024:027 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him
which is escaped,
and thou shalt
speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a
sign unto them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
025:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
025:002 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,
and prophesy
against them;
025:003 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the
Lord GOD;
Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when
it was profaned; and against the land of
Israel, when it
was desolate; and against the house of Judah,
when they went
into captivity;
025:004 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men
of the east
for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee,
and make their
dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit,
and they shall
drink thy milk.
025:005 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and
the Ammonites
a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
025:006 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
clapped thine
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with
all thy despite
against the land of Israel;
025:007 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand
upon thee, and
will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut
thee off from the
people, and I will cause thee to perish out
of the countries:
I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know
that I am the
LORD.
025:008 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and
Seir do say,
Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
025:009 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab
from the
cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory
of the country,
Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
025:010 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and
will give
them
in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered
among the
nations.
025:011 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they
shall know
that I am the LORD.
025:012 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath
dealt against
the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly
offended, and
revenged himself upon them;
025:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also
stretch out
mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it;
and I will make
it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan
shall fall by the
sword.
025:014 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand
of my people
Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and
according to my
fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith
the Lord GOD.
025:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines
have dealt by
revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to
destroy it for
the old hatred;
025:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
stretch out
mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
Cherethims, and
destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
025:017 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with
furious
rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
lay my vengeance
upon them.
026:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
first day of
the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
026:002 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against
Jerusalem,
Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is
turned unto me: I
shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
026:003 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee,
O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee,
as the sea
causeth his waves to come up.
026:004 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and
break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her
like the top of a
rock.
026:005 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in
the midst of
the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it
shall become a
spoil to the nations.
026:006 And her daughters which are in the field shall be
slain by the
sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
026:007 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring
upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the
north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and
companies, and
much people.
026:008 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the
field: and
he
shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against
thee, and lift up
the buckler against thee.
026:009 And he shall set engines of war against thy
walls, and with
his axes he shall
break down thy towers.
026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their
dust shall
cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and of
the wheels, and of the chariots, when he
shall enter into
thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein
is made a
breach.
026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down
all thy
streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
garrisons shall
go down to the ground.
026:012 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and
make a prey of
thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and
destroy thy
pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and
thy timber and
thy dust in the midst of the water.
026:013 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease;
and the
sound
of thy harps shall be no more heard.
026:014 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou
shalt be a
place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I
the LORD have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
026:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the
isles shake at
the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the
slaughter is made
in the midst of thee?
026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down
from their
thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered
garments: they
shall clothe themselves with trembling; they
shall sit upon
the ground, and shall tremble at every moment,
and be astonished
at thee.
026:017 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,
and say to
thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring
men, the renowned
city, which wast strong in the sea, she and
her inhabitants,
which cause their terror to be on all that
haunt it!
026:018 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy
fall; yea, the
isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
026:019 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make
thee a desolate
city, like the
cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep
upon thee, and great waters shall cover
thee;
026:020 When I shall bring thee down with them that
descend into the
pit, with the
people of old time, and shall set thee in the
low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them
that go down to
the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I
shall set glory
in the land of the living;
026:021 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no
more: though
thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith
the Lord GOD.
027:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
027:002 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
027:003 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at
the entry of
the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles,
Thus saith the
Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of
perfect
beauty.
027:004 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy
builders have
perfected thy beauty.
027:005 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees
of Senir: they
have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars;
the company
of
the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out
of the isles of
Chittim.
027:007 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was
that which thou
spreadest forth
to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles
of Elishah was
that which covered thee.
027:008 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy
mariners: thy wise
men, O Tyrus,
that were in thee, were thy pilots.
027:009 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof
were in thee
thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were
in thee to occupy
thy merchandise.
027:010 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in
thine army, thy
men of war: they
hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they
set forth thy
comeliness.
027:011 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy
walls round
about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their
shields upon thy
walls round about; they have made thy beauty
perfect.
027:012 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the
multitude of all
kind of riches;
with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded
in thy fairs.
027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy
merchants: they
traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs
with horses
and horsemen and mules.
027:015 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles
were the
merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present
horns of ivory
and ebony.
027:016 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude
of the wares
of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds,
purple, and
broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and
agate.
027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy
merchants: they
traded in thy
market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey,
and oil, and
balm.
027:018 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the
wares of thy
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of
Helbon, and white
wool.
027:019 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in
thy fairs:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
027:020 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they
occupied with thee
in lambs, and
rams, and goats: in these were they thy
merchants.
027:022 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy
merchants:
they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with
all precious
stones, and gold.
027:023 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of
Sheba, Asshur,
and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
027:024 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things,
in blue
clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel,
bound with cords,
and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
027:025 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy
market: and thou
wast replenished,
and made very glorious in the midst of the
seas.
027:026 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters:
the east wind
hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
027:027 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy
mariners, and
thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise,
and all thy men
of war, that are in thee, and in all thy
company which is
in the midst of thee, shall fall into the
midst of the seas
in the day of thy ruin.
027:028 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
027:029 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and
all the pilots
of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand
upon the
land;
027:030 And shall cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and
shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads,
they shall wallow
themselves in the ashes:
027:031 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for
thee, and gird
them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with
bitterness of
heart and bitter wailing.
027:032 And in their wailing they shall take up a
lamentation for
thee, and lament
over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus,
like the
destroyed in the midst of the sea?
027:033 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou
filledst many
people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
multitude of thy
riches and of thy merchandise.
027:034 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas
in the
depths
of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in
the midst of thee
shall fall.
027:035 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be
astonished at thee,
and their kings
shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled
in their
countenance.
027:036 The merchants among the people shall hiss at
thee; thou shalt
be a terror, and
never shalt be any more.
028:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
028:002 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus
saith the Lord
GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I
am a God, I sit
in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet thou art a
man, and not God, though thou set thine heart
as the heart of
God:
028:003 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no
secret that
they can hide from thee:
028:004 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou
hast gotten
thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures:
028:005 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou
increased
thy
riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy
riches:
028:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou
hast set thine
heart as the heart of God;
028:007 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon
thee, the
terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the
beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
brightness.
028:008 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou
shalt die the
deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
028:009 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I
am God? but
thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that
slayeth thee.
028:010 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by
the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
028:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king
of Tyrus, and
say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the
sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
028:013 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone
was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the
beryl, the onyx,
and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets
and of thy pipes
was prepared in thee in the day that thou
wast created.
028:014 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I
have set
thee
so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire.
028:015 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that
thou wast
created, till iniquity was found in thee.
028:016 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst
of thee with
violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will
cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will
destroy thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones
of fire.
028:017 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast
thee to the
ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they
may behold
thee.
028:018 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the
multitude of thine
iniquities, by
the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I
bring forth a
fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour
thee, and I will
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the
sight of all them
that behold thee.
028:019 All they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished
at
thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any
more.
028:020 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
028:021 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and
prophesy against
it,
028:022 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O
Zidon; and I will
be glorified in the midst of thee: and they
shall know that I
am the LORD, when I shall have executed
judgments in her,
and shall be sanctified in her.
028:023 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood
into her
streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her
by the sword upon
her on every side; and they shall know that
I am the
LORD.
028:024 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto
the house of
Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about
them, that
despised them; and they shall know that I am the
Lord GOD.
028:025 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have
gathered the house
of Israel from
the people among whom they are scattered, and
shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then
shall they dwell
in their land that I have given to my servant
Jacob.
028:026 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall
build houses,
and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence,
when I have
executed judgments upon all those that despise
them round about
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD
their God.
029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the
twelfth day of
the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
029:002 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and
prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
029:003 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against
thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in
the midst of his
rivers, which hath said, My river is mine
own, and I have
made it for myself.
029:004 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will
cause the fish of
thy rivers to
stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up
out of the midst
of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers
shall stick unto
thy scales.
029:005 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness,
thee and all
the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields;
thou shalt not be
brought together, nor gathered: I have given
thee for meat to
the beasts of the field and to the fowls of
the heaven.
029:006 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that
I am the
LORD,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel.
029:007 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou
didst break, and
rend all their
shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou
brakest, and
madest all their loins to be at a stand.
029:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
bring a
sword
upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
029:009 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and
waste; and they
shall know that I
am the LORD: because he hath said, The river
is mine, and I
have made it.
029:010 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against
thy rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate,
from the tower of
Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of
beast shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
029:012 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the
midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities
that are laid
waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will
scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the
countries.
029:013 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty
years will I
gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
scattered:
029:014 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt,
and will cause
them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of
their habitation;
and they shall be there a base kingdom.
029:015 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither
shall it exalt
itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them,
that they shall
no more rule over the nations.
029:016 And it shall be no more the confidence of the
house of Israel,
which bringeth
their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall
look after them:
but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
029:017 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth
year, in the
first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the
LORD came unto
me, saying,
029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused
his army to
serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald,
and every
shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his
army, for Tyrus,
for the service that he had served against
it:
029:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
give the
land
of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall take her
multitude, and take her spoil, and take her
prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army.
029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
wherewith he
served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord
GOD.
029:021 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of
Israel to
bud
forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in
the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
030:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
030:002 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Howl
ye,
Woe worth the day!
030:003 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is
near, a
cloudy
day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
030:004 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great
pain shall be
in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they
shall take away
her multitude, and her foundations shall be
broken down.
030:005 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the
mingled people,
and Chub, and the
men of the land that is in league, shall
fall with them by
the sword.
030:006 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt
shall fall;
and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
Syene shall they
fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
030:007 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the
countries that
are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the
cities that are
wasted.
030:008 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have set a fire
in Egypt, and
when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in
ships to make
the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon
them, as in the
day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
030:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the
multitude of
Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the
nations, shall
be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their
swords against
Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
030:012 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land
into the
hand
of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all
that is therein,
by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have
spoken it.
030:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the
idols, and I
will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall
be no more a
prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a
fear in the land
of Egypt.
030:014 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set
fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments in No.
030:015 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of
Egypt; and I
will cut off the multitude of No.
030:016 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have
great pain, and
No shall be rent
asunder, and Noph shall have distresses
daily.
030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall
by the sword:
and these cities shall go into captivity.
030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened,
when I shall
break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength
shall cease in
her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and
her daughters
shall go into captivity.
030:019 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they
shall know
that I am the LORD.
030:020 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
first month,
in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king
of Egypt;
and,
lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a
roller to bind
it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
030:022 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong,
and that which
was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
out of his
hand.
030:023 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will
disperse them
through the countries.
030:024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon, and put
my sword in his
hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he
shall groan
before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded
man.
030:025 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon, and the
arms of Pharaoh
shall fall down; and they shall know that I am
the LORD, when I
shall put my sword into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and
he shall stretch it out upon the land of
Egypt.
030:026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and
disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I
am the LORD.
031:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
third month,
in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came
unto me,
saying,
031:002 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
to his
multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with
fair
branches,
and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;
and his top was
among the thick boughs.
031:004 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on
high with
her
rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little
rivers unto all
the trees of the field.
031:005 Therefore his height was exalted above all the
trees of the
field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became
long because of
the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
031:006 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his
boughs, and
under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth
their young, and
under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
031:007 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length
of his
branches: for his root was by great waters.
031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide
him: the fir
trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were
not like his
branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was
like unto him in
his beauty.
031:009 I have made him fair by the multitude of his
branches: so that
all the trees of
Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied
him.
031:010 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou
hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick
boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
031:011 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of
the mighty one
of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven
him out for his
wickedness.
031:012 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have
cut him off,
and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are
fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the
rivers of the
land; and all the people of the earth are gone
down from his
shadow, and have left him.
031:013 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven
remain, and
all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
031:014 To the end that none of all the trees by the
waters exalt
themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among
the thick boughs,
neither their trees stand up in their
height, all that
drink water: for they are all delivered unto
death, to the
nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the
children of men,
with them that go down to the pit.
031:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went
down to the
grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the
floods thereof, and the great waters were
stayed: and I
caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
trees of the
field fainted for him.
031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his
fall, when I
cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and
all the trees of
Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all
that drink water,
shall be comforted in the nether parts of
the earth.
031:017 They also went down into hell with him unto them
that be slain
with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under
his shadow in the
midst of the heathen.
031:018 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in
greatness among the
trees of Eden?
yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees
of Eden unto the
nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in
the midst of the
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the
sword. This is
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
GOD.
032:001 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the
twelfth month,
in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came
unto me,
saying,
032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh
king of Egypt,
and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations,
and thou art as a
whale in the seas: and thou camest forth
with thy rivers,
and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and
fouledst their
rivers.
032:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread
out my net
over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring
thee up in my
net.
032:004 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast
thee forth
upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the
heaven to remain
upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the
whole earth with
thee.
032:005 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and
fill the
valleys with thy height.
032:006 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein
thou
swimmest,
even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full
of thee.
032:007 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the
heaven, and
make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a
cloud, and the
moon shall not give her light.
032:008 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark
over thee,
and
set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I
shall bring
thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which
thou hast not
known.
032:010 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and
their kings
shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my
sword before
them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
every man for his
own life, in the day of thy fall.
032:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the
king of Babylon
shall come upon
thee.
032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy
multitude to
fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall
spoil the pomp of
Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall
be destroyed.
032:013 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from
beside the
great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any
more, nor the
hoofs of beasts trouble them.
032:014 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause
their rivers to
run like oil,
saith the Lord GOD.
032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and
the country
shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall
smite all them
that dwell therein, then shall they know that I
am the LORD.
032:016 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall
lament her: the
daughters of the
nations shall lament her: they shall lament
for her, even for
Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the
Lord GOD.
032:017 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the
fifteenth day
of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and
cast them
down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto
the nether parts
of the earth, with them that go down into the
pit.
032:019 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be
thou laid with
the uncircumcised.
032:020 They shall fall in the midst of them that are
slain by the
sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her
multitudes.
032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him
out of the
midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down,
they lie
uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
032:022 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves
are about him:
all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
032:023 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and
her company
is
round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, which
caused terror in the land of the living.
032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about
her grave, all
of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down
uncircumcised
into the nether parts of the earth, which caused
their terror in
the land of the living; yet have they borne
their shame with
them that go down to the pit.
032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain
with all her
multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them
uncircumcised,
slain by the sword: though their terror was
caused in the
land of the living, yet have they borne their
shame with them
that go down to the pit: he is put in the
midst of them
that be slain.
032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude:
her graves are
round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword, though
they caused their terror in the land of the
living.
032:027 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are
fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons
of war: and they
have laid their swords under their heads, but
their iniquities
shall be upon their bones, though they were
the terror of the
mighty in the land of the living.
032:028 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised,
and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
032:029 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes,
which with
their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword:
they shall lie
with the uncircumcised, and with them that go
down to the
pit.
032:030 There be the princes of the north, all of them,
and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their
terror they are
ashamed of their might; and they lie
uncircumcised
with them that be slain by the sword, and bear
their shame with
them that go down to the pit.
032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted
over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword,
saith the Lord
GOD.
032:032 For I have caused my terror in the land of the
living: and he
shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that
are slain with
the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord
GOD.
033:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people,
and say unto
them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the
land take a man
of their coasts, and set him for their
watchman:
033:003 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he
blow the
trumpet, and warn the people;
033:004 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet,
and taketh
not
warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
shall be upon his
own head.
033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not
warning; his
blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall
deliver his
soul.
033:006 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow
not the
trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and
take any person
from among them, he is taken away in his
iniquity; but his
blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
033:007 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman
unto the
house
of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my
mouth, and warn
them from me.
033:008 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou
shalt surely
die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way,
that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will
I require at
thine hand.
033:009 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way
to turn from
it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but
thou hast delivered thy soul.
033:010 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the
house of Israel;
Thus ye speak,
saying, If our transgressions and our sins be
upon us, and we
pine away in them, how should we then live?
033:011 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn
from his way and
live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways;
for why will ye
die, O house of Israel?
033:012 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children
of thy
people,
The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver
him in the day of
his transgression: as for the wickedness of
the wicked, he
shall not fall thereby in the day that he
turneth from his
wickedness; neither shall the righteous be
able to live for
his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
033:013 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall
surely live;
if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all
his
righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his
iniquity that he
hath committed, he shall die for it.
033:014 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt
surely die; if
he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
033:015 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that
he had
robbed,
walk in the statutes of life, without committing
iniquity; he
shall surely live, he shall not die.
033:016 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be
mentioned
unto
him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he
shall surely
live.
033:017 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of
the Lord is not
equal: but as for
them, their way is not equal.
033:018 When the righteous turneth from his
righteousness, and
committeth
iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
033:019 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and
do that which
is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
033:020 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O
ye house of
Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
033:021 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our
captivity, in
the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that
had escaped out
of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is
smitten.
033:022 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the
evening, afore he
that was escaped
came; and had opened my mouth, until he came
to me in the
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no
more dumb.
033:023 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
033:024 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the
land of
Israel
speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the
land: but we are
many; the land is given us for inheritance.
033:025 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Ye eat with
the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed
blood: and shall
ye possess the land?
033:026 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination,
and ye defile
every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
033:027 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
As I live,
surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword,
and him that is
in the open field will I give to the beasts to
be devoured, and
they that be in the forts and in the caves
shall die of the
pestilence.
033:028 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the
pomp of her
strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, that
none shall pass through.
033:029 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I
have laid the
land most desolate because of all their abominations which
they have
committed.
033:030 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people
still are
talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the
houses, and speak
one to another, every one to his brother,
saying, Come, I
pray you, and hear what is the word that
cometh forth from
the LORD.
033:031 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and
they sit
before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they
will not do them:
for with their mouth they shew much love,
but their heart
goeth after their covetousness.
033:032 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song
of one that
hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for
they hear thy
words, but they do them not.
033:033 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
then shall
they know that a prophet hath been among them.
034:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of
Israel,
prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the
shepherds; Woe be
to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves!
should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
034:003 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool,
ye kill them
that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
034:004 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither
have ye healed
that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was
broken, neither
have ye brought again that which was driven
away, neither
have ye sought that which was lost; but with
force and with
cruelty have ye ruled them.
034:005 And they were scattered, because there is no
shepherd: and
they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they
were
scattered.
034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and
upon every
high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of
the earth, and
none did search or seek after them.
034:007 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
034:008 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my
flock became
a
prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,
because there was
no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search
for my flock, but
the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my
flock;
034:009 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
034:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the
shepherds;
and
I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to
cease from
feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any
more; for I will deliver my flock from their
mouth, that they
may not be meat for them.
034:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I,
will both
search my sheep, and seek them out.
034:012 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day
that he is
among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my
sheep, and will
deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in
the cloudy and dark day.
034:013 And I will bring them out from the people, and
gather them
from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and
feed them upon
the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in
all the inhabited
places of the country.
034:014 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the
high
mountains
of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie
in a good fold,
and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of
Israel.
034:015 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to
lie down, saith
the Lord GOD.
034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again
that which
was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and
will strengthen
that which was sick: but I will destroy the
fat and the
strong; I will feed them with judgment.
034:017 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I
judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he
goats.
034:018 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten
up the good
pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of
your pastures?
and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye
must foul the
residue with your feet?
034:019 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have
trodden with
your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your
feet.
034:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them;
Behold, I, even
I, will judge
between the fat cattle and between the lean
cattle.
034:021 Because ye have thrust with side and with
shoulder, and pushed
all the diseased
with your horns, till ye have scattered them
abroad;
034:022 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no
more be a
prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
034:023 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he
shall feed
them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall
be their
shepherd.
034:024 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant
David a
prince
among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
034:025 And I will make with them a covenant of peace,
and will cause
the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell
safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
034:026 And I will make them and the places round about
my hill a
blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his
season; there
shall be showers of blessing.
034:027 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit,
and the earth
shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their
land, and shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have broken
the bands of
their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of
those that served
themselves of them.
034:028 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,
neither shall
the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell
safely, and none
shall make them afraid.
034:029 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall
be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the
shame of the
heathen any more.
034:030 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am
with them,
and
that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith
the Lord GOD.
034:031 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are
men, and I am
your God, saith the Lord GOD.
035:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
035:002 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and
prophesy
against it,
035:003 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
O mount
Seir,
I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand
against thee, and
I will make thee most desolate.
035:004 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be
desolate, and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
035:005 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and
hast shed the
blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in
the time of their
calamity, in the time that their iniquity
had an end:
035:006 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will
prepare thee
unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not
hated blood, even
blood shall pursue thee.
035:007 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and
cut off from it
him that passeth
out and him that returneth.
035:008 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men:
in thy
hills,
and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they
fall that are
slain with the sword.
035:009 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy
cities shall
not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
035:010 Because thou hast said, These two nations and
these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the
LORD was
there:
035:011 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will
even do
according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which
thou hast used
out of thy hatred against them; and I will make
myself known
among them, when I have judged thee.
035:012 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that
I have heard
all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the
mountains of
Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are
given us to
consume.
035:013 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me,
and have
multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
035:014 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth
rejoiceth, I
will make thee desolate.
035:015 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the
house of
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou
shalt be
desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of
it: and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
036:001 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the
mountains of Israel,
and say, Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
036:002 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath
said against
you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
036:003 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every
side, that ye
might be a possession unto the residue of the
heathen, and ye
are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are
an infamy of the
people:
036:004 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word
of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the
hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate
wastes, and to
the cities that are forsaken, which became a
prey and derision
to the residue of the heathen that are round
about;
036:005 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the
fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and
against all
Idumea, which have appointed my land into their
possession with
the joy of all their heart, with despiteful
minds, to cast it
out for a prey.
036:006 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel,
and say unto
the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the
valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my
jealousy and in
my fury, because ye have borne the shame of
the heathen:
036:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted
up mine hand,
Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their
shame.
036:008 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot
forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for
they are at hand
to come.
036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto
you, and ye
shall be tilled and sown:
036:010 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house
of Israel,
even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the
wastes shall be
builded:
036:011 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and
they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old
estates, and will
do better unto you than at your beginnings:
and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
036:012 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my
people Israel;
and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their
inheritance, and
thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of
men.
036:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto
you, Thou land
devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:
036:014 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither
bereave thy
nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
036:015 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the
shame of the
heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the
people any more,
neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall
any more, saith
the Lord GOD.
036:016 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in
their own land,
they defiled it
by their own way and by their doings: their
way was before me
as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
036:018 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the
blood that they
had shed upon the
land, and for their idols wherewith they had
polluted it:
036:019 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they
were
dispersed
through the countries: according to their way and
according to
their doings I judged them.
036:020 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither
they went,
they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are
the people of the
LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
036:021 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the
house of Israel
had profaned
among the heathen, whither they went.
036:022 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus
saith the Lord
GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for
mine holy name's
sake, which ye have profaned among the
heathen, whither
ye went.
036:023 And I will sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among
the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and
the heathen shall
know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD,
when I shall be
sanctified in you before their eyes.
036:024 For I will take you from among the heathen, and
gather you out
of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
036:025 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye
shall be
clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will
I cleanse
you.
036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put
within you: and I
will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will
give you an heart of flesh.
036:027 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause
you to walk in
my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
036:028 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to
your fathers;
and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
036:029 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:
and I will
call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine
upon you.
036:030 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and
the increase of
the field, that
ye shall receive no more reproach of famine
among the
heathen.
036:031 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and
your doings
that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own
sight for your
iniquities and for your abominations.
036:032 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD,
be it known
unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house
of Israel.
036:033 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall
have cleansed
you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in
the cities, and
the wastes shall be builded.
036:034 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it
lay desolate
in the sight of all that passed by.
036:035 And they shall say, This land that was desolate
is become like
the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
cities are become
fenced, and are inhabited.
036:036 Then the heathen that are left round about you
shall know that
I the LORD build
the ruined places, and plant that that was
desolate: I the
LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
036:037 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be
enquired of by
the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them
with men like a
flock.
036:038 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in
her solemn
feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
men: and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
037:001 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me
out in the
spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley
which was full of
bones,
037:002 And caused me to pass by them round about: and,
behold, there
were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very
dry.
037:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones
live? And I
answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
037:004 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones,
and say unto
them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
037:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold,
I will cause
breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
037:006 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up
flesh upon
you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye
shall live; and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.
037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
prophesied, there
was a noise, and
behold a shaking, and the bones came
together, bone to
his bone.
037:008 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh
came up upon
them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath
in them.
037:009 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind,
prophesy, son of
man, and say to
the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from
the four winds, O
breath, and breathe upon these slain, that
they may
live.
037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the
breath came into
them, and they
lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
exceeding great
army.
037:011 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are
the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and
our hope is lost:
we are cut off for our parts.
037:012 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to
come up out of
your graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel.
037:013 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
opened your
graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
037:014 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall
live, and I shall
place you in your
own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD
have spoken it,
and performed it, saith the LORD.
037:015 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
037:016 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick,
and write upon
it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions:
then take another
stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the
stick of Ephraim
and for all the house of Israel his
companions:
037:017 And join them one to another into one stick; and
they shall
become one in thine hand.
037:018 And when the children of thy people shall speak
unto thee,
saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
037:019 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
will take
the
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the
tribes of Israel
his fellows, and will put them with him, even
with the stick of
Judah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in
mine hand.
037:020 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in
thine hand
before their eyes.
037:021 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will
take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither
they be gone, and
will gather them on every side, and bring
them into their
own land:
037:022 And I will make them one nation in the land upon
the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they
shall be no more
two nations, neither shall they be divided
into two kingdoms
any more at all.
037:023 Neither shall they defile themselves any more
with their
idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions:
but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces,
wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse
them: so shall
they be my people, and I will be their God.
037:024 And David my servant shall be king over them; and
they all
shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments,
and observe my
statutes, and do them.
037:025 And they shall dwell in the land that I have
given unto Jacob
my servant,
wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall
dwell therein,
even they, and their children, and their
children's
children for ever: and my servant David shall be
their prince for
ever.
037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall
be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them,
and multiply
them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of
them for
evermore.
037:027 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I
will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
037:028 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do
sanctify Israel,
when my sanctuary
shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
038:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
038:002 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of
Magog, the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
038:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O
Gog, the chief
prince of Meshech and Tubal:
038:004 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy
jaws, and I
will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
horsemen, all of
them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a
great company
with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords:
038:005 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of
them with shield
and helmet:
038:006 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah
of the north
quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
038:007 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou,
and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto
them.
038:008 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the
latter years
thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the
sword, and is
gathered out of many people, against the
mountains of
Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out
of the nations, and they shall dwell safely
all of them.
038:009 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou
shalt be like a
cloud to cover
the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many
people with
thee.
038:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to
pass, that at
the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt
think an evil
thought:
038:011 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of
unwalled
villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell
safely, all of
them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor
gates,
038:012 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn
thine hand upon
the desolate
places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are
gathered out of the nations, which have gotten
cattle and goods,
that dwell in the midst of the land.
038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the
young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to
take a spoil?
hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey?
to carry away
silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods,
to take a great
spoil?
038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog,
Thus saith
the
Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
safely, shalt
thou not know it?
038:015 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the
north parts,
thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great
company, and a mighty army:
038:016 And thou shalt come up against my people of
Israel, as a cloud
to cover the
land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will
bring thee
against my land, that the heathen may know me, when
I shall be
sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
038:017 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I
have spoken in
old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in
those days many years that I would bring thee
against them?
038:018 And it shall come to pass at the same time when
Gog shall come
against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury
shall come up in
my face.
038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken,
Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land
of Israel;
038:020 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of
the heaven,
and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that
creep upon the
earth, and all the men that are upon the face
of the earth,
shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown
down, and the steep places shall fall, and
every wall shall
fall to the ground.
038:021 And I will call for a sword against him
throughout all my
mountains, saith
the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be
against his
brother.
038:022 And I will plead against him with pestilence and
with blood;
and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the
many people that
are with him, an overflowing rain, and great
hailstones, fire,
and brimstone.
038:023 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself;
and I will be
known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I
am the LORD.
039:001 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,
and say,
Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal:
039:002 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the
sixth part of
thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and
will bring thee
upon the mountains of Israel:
039:003 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand,
and will cause
thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
039:004 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel,
thou, and all
thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee
unto the ravenous
birds of every sort, and to the beasts of
the field to be
devoured.
039:005 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have
spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
039:006 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them
that dwell
carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
039:007 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of
my people
Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more:
and the heathen
shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in
Israel.
039:008 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the
Lord GOD; this
is the day whereof I have spoken.
039:009 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall
go forth,
and
shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields
and the bucklers,
the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves,
and the spears,
and they shall burn them with fire seven
years:
039:010 So that they shall take no wood out of the field,
neither cut
down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons
with fire: and
they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and
rob those that
robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
039:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will give unto
Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the
passengers on the
east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses
of the
passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his
multitude: and
they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
039:012 And seven months shall the house of Israel be
burying of them,
that they may
cleanse the land.
039:013 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them;
and it shall
be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith
the Lord GOD.
039:014 And they shall sever out men of continual
employment, passing
through the land
to bury with the passengers those that remain
upon the face of
the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of
seven months
shall they search.
039:015 And the passengers that pass through the land,
when any seeth
a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the
buriers have
buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
039:016 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah.
Thus shall
they cleanse the land.
039:017 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Speak unto
every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field,
Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice
that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
sacrifice upon
the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh,
and drink
blood.
039:018 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink
the blood of
the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bullocks, all of
them fatlings of Bashan.
039:019 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink
blood till ye
be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
039:020 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses
and chariots,
with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
039:021 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and
all the heathen
shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid upon
them.
039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the
LORD their God
from that day and forward.
039:023 And the heathen shall know that the house of
Israel went into
captivity for
their iniquity: because they trespassed against
me, therefore hid
I my face from them, and gave them into the
hand of their
enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to
their
transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from
them.
039:025 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I
bring again the
captivity of
Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of
Israel, and will
be jealous for my holy name;
039:026 After that they have borne their shame, and all
their
trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they
dwelt safely in
their land, and none made them afraid.
039:027 When I have brought them again from the people,
and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in
the sight of many
nations;
039:028 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their
God, which
caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I
have gathered
them unto their own land, and have left none of
them any more
there.
039:029 Neither will I hide my face any more from them:
for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD.
040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity,
in the
beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the
fourteenth year
after that the city was smitten, in the
selfsame day the
hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me
thither.
040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land
of Israel,
and
set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the
frame of a city
on the south.
040:003 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was
a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of
flax in his hand,
and a measuring reed; and he stood in the
gate.
040:004 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with
thine eyes,
and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I
shall shew thee;
for to the intent that I might shew them unto
thee art thou
brought hither: declare all that thou seest to
the house of
Israel.
040:005 And behold a wall on the outside of the house
round about, and
in the man's hand
a measuring reed of six cubits long by the
cubit and an hand
breadth: so he measured the breadth of the
building, one
reed; and the height, one reed.
040:006 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward
the east, and
went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the
gate, which was
one reed broad; and the other threshold of the
gate, which was
one reed broad.
040:007 And every little chamber was one reed long, and
one reed
broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and
the threshold of
the gate by the porch of the gate within was
one reed.
040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight
cubits; and the
posts thereof,
two cubits; and the porch of the gate was
inward.
040:010 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were
three on
this
side, and three on that side; they three were of one
measure: and the
posts had one measure on this side and on
that side.
040:011 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the
gate, ten
cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
040:012 The space also before the little chambers was one
cubit on
this
side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the
little chambers
were six cubits on this side, and six cubits
on that side.
040:013 He measured then the gate from the roof of one
little chamber
to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty
cubits, door
against door.
040:014 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even
unto the post of
the court round
about the gate.
040:015 And from the face of the gate of the entrance
unto the face of
the porch of the
inner gate were fifty cubits.
040:016 And there were narrow windows to the little
chambers, and to
their posts
within the gate round about, and likewise to the
arches: and
windows were round about inward: and upon each
post were palm
trees.
040:017 Then brought he me into the outward court, and,
lo, there were
chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about:
thirty chambers
were upon the pavement.
040:018 And the pavement by the side of the gates over
against the
length of the gates was the lower pavement.
040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront
of the lower
gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred
cubits eastward
and northward.
040:020 And the gate of the outward court that looked
toward the
north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth
thereof.
040:021 And the little chambers thereof were three on
this side and
three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches
thereof were
after the measure of the first gate: the length
thereof was fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
040:022 And their windows, and their arches, and their
palm trees,
were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the
east; and they
went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches
thereof were
before them.
040:023 And the gate of the inner court was over against
the gate
toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from
gate to gate an
hundred cubits.
040:024 After that he brought me toward the south, and
behold a gate
toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the
arches thereof
according to these measures.
040:025 And there were windows in it and in the arches
thereof round
about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth five
and twenty cubits.
040:026 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and
the arches
thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this
side, and another
on that side, upon the posts thereof.
040:027 And there was a gate in the inner court toward
the south: and
he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred
cubits.
040:028 And he brought me to the inner court by the south
gate: and he
measured the south gate according to these measures;
040:029 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and
the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there
were windows in
it and in the arches thereof round about: it
was fifty cubits
long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
040:030 And the arches round about were five and twenty
cubits long,
and five cubits broad.
040:031 And the arches thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm
trees were upon
the posts thereof: and the going up to it had
eight steps.
040:032 And he brought me into the inner court toward the
east: and he
measured the gate according to these measures.
040:033 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and
the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and
there were
windows therein and in the arches thereof round
about: it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
broad.
040:034 And the arches thereof were toward the outward
court; and palm
trees were upon
the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
side: and the
going up to it had eight steps.
040:035 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured
it according
to these measures;
040:036 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof,
and the arches
thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was
fifty cubits, and
the breadth five and twenty cubits.
040:037 And the posts thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm
trees were upon
the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
side: and the
going up to it had eight steps.
040:038 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by
the posts of
the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
040:039 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on
this side, and
two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering
and the sin
offering and the trespass offering.
040:040 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the
entry of the
north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was
at the porch of
the gate, were two tables.
040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on
that side,
by
the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew
their
sacrifices.
040:042 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the
burnt offering,
of a cubit and an
half long, and a cubit and an half broad,
and one cubit
high: whereupon also they laid the instruments
wherewith they
slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
040:043 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened
round about:
and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
040:044 And without the inner gate were the chambers of
the singers in
the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and
their prospect
was toward the south: one at the side of the
east gate having
the prospect toward the north.
040:045 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect
is toward
the
south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of
the house.
040:046 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the
north is for the
priests, the
keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the
sons of Zadok
among the sons of Levi, which come near to the
LORD to minister
unto him.
040:047 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long,
and an
hundred
cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was
before the
house.
040:048 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and
measured each
post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits
on that side: and
the breadth of the gate was three cubits on
this side, and
three cubits on that side.
040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and
the breadth
eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they
went up to it:
and there were pillars by the posts, one on
this side, and
another on that side.
041:001 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and
measured the posts,
six cubits broad
on the one side, and six cubits broad on the
other side, which
was the breadth of the tabernacle.
041:002 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and
the sides of
the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on
the other side:
and he measured the length thereof, forty
cubits: and the
breadth, twenty cubits.
041:003 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the
door, two
cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door,
seven cubits.
041:004 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits;
and the
breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto
me, This is the
most holy place.
041:005 After he measured the wall of the house, six
cubits; and the
breadth of every
side chamber, four cubits, round about the
house on every
side.
041:006 And the side chambers were three, one over
another, and thirty
in order; and
they entered into the wall which was of the
house for the
side chambers round about, that they might have
hold, but they
had not hold in the wall of the house.
041:007 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about
still upward
to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went
still upward
round about the house: therefore the breadth of
the house was
still upward, and so increased from the lowest
chamber to the
highest by the midst.
041:008 I saw also the height of the house round about:
the
foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits.
041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side
chamber
without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the
place of the side
chambers that were within.
041:010 And between the chambers was the wideness of
twenty cubits
round about the house on every side.
041:011 And the doors of the side chambers were toward
the place that
was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward
the south: and
the breadth of the place that was left was five
cubits round
about.
041:012 Now the building that was before the separate
place at the end
toward the west
was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the
building was five
cubits thick round about, and the length
thereof ninety
cubits.
041:013 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long;
and the
separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an
hundred cubits
long;
041:014 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of
the separate
place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
041:015 And he measured the length of the building over
against the
separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof
on the one side
and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with
the inner temple,
and the porches of the court;
041:016 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the
galleries
round about on their three stories, over against the door,
cieled with wood
round about, and from the ground up to the
windows, and the
windows were covered;
041:017 To that above the door, even unto the inner
house, and
without, and by all the wall round about within and without,
by measure.
041:018 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so
that a palm
tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had
two faces;
041:019 So that the face of a man was toward the palm
tree on the one
side, and the
face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the
other side: it
was made through all the house round about.
041:020 From the ground unto above the door were
cherubims and palm
trees made, and
on the wall of the temple.
041:021 The posts of the temple were squared, and the
face of the
sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the
other.
041:022 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the
length
thereof
two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length
thereof, and the
walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto
me, This is the
table that is before the LORD.
041:023 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
041:024 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning
leaves; two
leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
041:025 And there were made on them, on the doors of the
temple,
cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls;
and there were
thick planks upon the face of the porch
without.
041:026 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on
the one side
and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the
side chambers of
the house, and thick planks.
042:001 Then he brought me forth into the utter court,
the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over
against the
separate place, and which was before the building
toward the
north.
042:002 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the
north door, and
the breadth was
fifty cubits.
042:003 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the
inner court,
and over against the pavement which was for the utter court,
was gallery
against gallery in three stories.
042:004 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits
breadth
inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the
galleries were
higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of
the building.
042:006 For they were in three stories, but had not
pillars as the
pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened
more than the
lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
042:007 And the wall that was without over against the
chambers,
toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the
length thereof
was fifty cubits.
042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the
utter court
was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred
cubits.
042:009 And from under these chambers was the entry on
the east side,
as one goeth into them from the utter court.
042:010 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of
the court
toward the east, over against the separate place, and over
against the
building.
042:011 And the way before them was like the appearance
of the
chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as
broad as they:
and all their goings out were both according to
their fashions,
and according to their doors.
042:012 And according to the doors of the chambers that
were toward
the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way
directly before
the wall toward the east, as one entereth into
them.
042:013 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the
south
chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy
chambers, where
the priests that approach unto the LORD shall
eat the most holy
things: there shall they lay the most holy
things, and the
meat offering, and the sin offering, and the
trespass
offering; for the place is holy.
042:014 When the priests enter therein, then shall they
not go out of
the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay
their garments
wherein they minister; for they are holy; and
shall put on
other garments, and shall approach to those
things which are
for the people.
042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the
inner house, he
brought me forth
toward the gate whose prospect is toward the
east, and
measured it round about.
042:016 He measured the east side with the measuring
reed, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
042:017 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds,
with the
measuring reed round about.
042:018 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds,
with the
measuring reed.
042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured
five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed.
042:020 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall
round about,
five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a
separation
between the sanctuary and the profane place.
043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the
gate that
looketh toward the east:
043:002 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way
of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters:
and the earth
shined with his glory.
043:003 And it was according to the appearance of the
vision which I
saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to
destroy the city:
and the visions were like the vision that I
saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
043:004 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by
the way of
the
gate whose prospect is toward the east.
043:005 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the
inner court;
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
043:006 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the
house; and the man
stood by me.
043:007 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my
throne, and
the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the
midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name,
shall the house
of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor
their kings, by
their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their
kings in their
high places.
043:008 In their setting of their threshold by my
thresholds, and
their post by my
posts, and the wall between me and them, they
have even defiled
my holy name by their abominations that they
have committed:
wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
043:009 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the
carcases of
their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
them for
ever.
043:010 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of
Israel, that
they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure
the pattern.
043:011 And if they be ashamed of all that they have
done, shew them
the form of the
house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings
out thereof, and
the comings in thereof, and all the forms
thereof, and all
the ordinances thereof, and all the forms
thereof, and all
the laws thereof: and write it in their
sight, that they
may keep the whole form thereof, and all the
ordinances
thereof, and do them.
043:012 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the
mountain the
whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold,
this is the law
of the house.
043:013 And these are the measures of the altar after the
cubits: The
cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be
a cubit, and the
breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by
the edge thereof
round about shall be a span: and this shall
be the higher
place of the altar.
043:014 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the
lower settle
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the
lesser settle
even to the greater settle shall be four cubits,
and the breadth
one cubit.
043:015 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the
altar and
upward shall be four horns.
043:016 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve
broad,
square
in the four squares thereof.
043:017 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and
fourteen
broad
in the four squares thereof; and the border about it
shall be half a
cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit
about; and his
stairs shall look toward the east.
043:018 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the
Lord GOD;
These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they
shall make it, to
offer burnt offerings thereon, and to
sprinkle blood
thereon.
043:019 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites
that be of the
seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me,
saith the Lord
GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
043:020 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put
it on the
four
horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and
upon the border
round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge
it.
043:021 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin
offering, and he
shall burn it in
the appointed place of the house, without the
sanctuary.
043:022 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of
the goats
without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the
altar, as they
did cleanse it with the bullock.
043:023 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou
shalt offer a
young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock
without
blemish.
043:024 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and
the priests
shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a
burnt offering
unto the LORD.
043:025 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat
for a sin
offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram
out of the flock,
without blemish.
043:026 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify
it; and they
shall consecrate themselves.
043:027 And when these days are expired, it shall be,
that upon the
eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt
offerings upon
the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will
accept you, saith
the Lord GOD.
044:001 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of
the outward
sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
044:002 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be
shut, it shall
not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the
LORD, the God of
Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it
shall be
shut.
044:003 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in
it to eat
bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch
of that gate, and
shall go out by the way of the same.
044:004 Then brought he me the way of the north gate
before the house:
and I looked,
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
house of the
LORD: and I fell upon my face.
044:005 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well,
and behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto
thee concerning
all the ordinances of the house of the LORD,
and all the laws
thereof; and mark well the entering in of the
house, with every
going forth of the sanctuary.
044:006 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the
house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it
suffice you of
all your abominations,
044:007 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary
strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in
my sanctuary, to
pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my
bread, the fat
and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
because of all
your abominations.
044:008 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy
things: but ye
have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
044:009 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger,
uncircumcised in heart,
nor uncircumcised
in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of
any stranger that
is among the children of Israel.
044:010 And the Levites that are gone away far from me,
when Israel
went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols;
they shall even
bear their iniquity.
044:011 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having charge at
the gates of the
house, and ministering to the house: they
shall slay the
burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they
shall stand before them to minister unto
them.
044:012 Because they ministered unto them before their
idols, and
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up
mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD,
and they shall
bear their iniquity.
044:013 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the
office of a
priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in
the most holy
place: but they shall bear their shame, and
their
abominations which they have committed.
044:014 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for
all
the service thereof, and for all that shall be done
therein.
044:015 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok,
that kept the
charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray
from me, they
shall come near to me to minister unto me, and
they shall stand
before me to offer unto me the fat and the
blood, saith the
Lord GOD:
044:016 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near
to my table, to
minister unto me, and they shall keep my
charge.
044:017 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter
in at the
gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen
garments; and no
wool shall come upon them, whiles they
minister in the
gates of the inner court, and within.
044:018 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads,
and shall have
linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
themselves with
any thing that causeth sweat.
044:019 And when they go forth into the utter court, even
into the
utter
court to the people, they shall put off their garments
wherein they
ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers,
and they shall
put on other garments; and they shall not
sanctify the
people with their garments.
044:020 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer
their locks
to
grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
044:021 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they
enter into the
inner court.
044:022 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow,
nor her that
is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the
house of Israel,
or a widow that had a priest before.
044:023 And they shall teach my people the difference
between the holy
and profane, and
cause them to discern between the unclean and
the clean.
044:024 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment;
and they
shall
judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep
my laws and my
statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall
hallow my
sabbaths.
044:025 And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves:
but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter,
for brother, or
for sister that hath had no husband, they may
defile
themselves.
044:026 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto
him seven
days.
044:027 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary,
unto the
inner
court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his
sin offering,
saith the Lord GOD.
044:028 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I
am their
inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I
am their
possession.
044:029 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin
offering, and
the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel
shall be
theirs.
044:030 And the first of all the firstfruits of all
things, and every
oblation of all,
of every sort of your oblations, shall be the
priest's: ye
shall also give unto the priest the first of your
dough, that he
may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
044:031 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is
dead of itself,
or torn, whether
it be fowl or beast.
045:001 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land
for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy
portion of the
land: the length shall be the length of five
and twenty
thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten
thousand. This
shall be holy in all the borders thereof round
about.
045:002 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five
hundred in
length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and
fifty cubits
round about for the suburbs thereof.
045:003 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length
of five and
twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it
shall be the
sanctuary and the most holy place.
045:004 The holy portion of the land shall be for the
priests the
ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister
unto the LORD:
and it shall be a place for their houses, and
an holy place for
the sanctuary.
045:005 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and
the ten
thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of
the house, have
for themselves, for a possession for twenty
chambers.
045:006 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city
five thousand
broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the
oblation of the
holy portion: it shall be for the whole house
of Israel.
045:007 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one
side and on
the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the
possession of the
city, before the oblation of the holy
portion, and
before the possession of the city, from the west
side westward,
and from the east side eastward: and the length
shall be over
against one of the portions, from the west
border unto the
east border.
045:008 In the land shall be his possession in Israel:
and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land
shall they give
to the house of Israel according to their
tribes.
045:009 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O
princes of
Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and
justice, take
away your exactions from my people, saith the
Lord GOD.
045:010 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah,
and a just
bath.
045:011 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,
that the bath
may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the
tenth part of an
homer: the measure thereof shall be after the
homer.
045:012 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty
shekels, five
and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
045:013 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the
sixth part of an
ephah of an homer
of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part
of an ephah of an
homer of barley:
045:014 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil,
ye shall
offer
the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an
homer of ten
baths; for ten baths are an homer:
045:015 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two
hundred, out of the
fat pastures of
Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt
offering, and for
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for
them, saith the
Lord GOD.
045:016 All the people of the land shall give this
oblation for the
prince in
Israel.
045:017 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt
offerings, and
meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the
new moons, and in
the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the
house of Israel:
he shall prepare the sin offering, and the
meat offering,
and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings, to
make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
045:018 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in
the first day
of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish,
and cleanse the
sanctuary:
045:019 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering,
and
put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four
corners of the
settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the
gate of the inner
court.
045:020 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month
for every
one
that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye
reconcile the
house.
045:021 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the
month, ye
shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened
bread shall be
eaten.
045:022 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for
himself and for
all the people of
the land a bullock for a sin offering.
045:023 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering
to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish
daily the seven
days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin
offering.
045:024 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah
for a
bullock,
and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an
ephah.
045:025 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the
month, shall
he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to
the sin offering,
according to the burnt offering, and
according to the
meat offering, and according to the oil.
046:001 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner
court that
looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days;
but on the
sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the
new moon it shall
be opened.
046:002 And the prince shall enter by the way
of the porch of that
gate without, and
shall stand by the post of the gate, and the
priests shall
prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, and he
shall worship at the threshold of the gate:
then he shall go
forth; but the gate shall not be shut until
the evening.
046:003 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at
the door of
this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new
moons.
046:004 And the burnt offering that the prince shall
offer unto the
LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish,
and a ram without
blemish.
046:005 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a
ram, and the
meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and
an hin of oil to
an ephah.
046:006 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a
young bullock
without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be
without
blemish.
046:007 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah
for a bullock,
and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his
hand shall attain
unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
046:008 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in
by the way of
the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way
thereof.
046:009 But when the people of the land shall come before
the LORD in
the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north
gate to worship
shall go out by the way of the south gate; and
he that entereth
by the way of the south gate shall go forth
by the way of the
north gate: he shall not return by the way
of the gate
whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
against it.
046:010 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go
in, shall go
in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
046:011 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat
offering
shall
be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to
the lambs as he
is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah.
046:012 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
burnt offering
or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then
open him the gate
that looketh toward the east, and he shall
prepare his burnt
offering and his peace offerings, as he did
on the sabbath
day: then he shall go forth; and after his
going forth one
shall shut the gate.
046:013 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto
the LORD of a
lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
every
morning.
046:014 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it
every morning,
the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of
oil, to temper
with the fine flour; a meat offering
continually by a
perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
046:015 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat
offering, and
the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
046:016 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a
gift unto any of
his sons, the
inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall
be their
possession by inheritance.
046:017 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one
of his
servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after
it shall return
to the prince: but his inheritance shall be
his sons' for
them.
046:018 Moreover the prince shall not take of the
people's inheritance
by oppression, to
thrust them out of their possession; but he
shall give his
sons inheritance out of his own possession:
that my people be
not scattered every man from his possession.
046:019 After he brought me through the entry, which was
at the side
of
the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which
looked toward the
north: and, behold, there was a place on the
two sides
westward.
046:020 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the
priests
shall
boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where
they shall bake
the meat offering; that they bear them not out
into the utter
court, to sanctify the people.
046:021 Then he brought me forth into the utter court,
and caused me
to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in
every corner of
the court there was a court.
046:022 In the four corners of the court there were
courts joined of
forty cubits long
and thirty broad: these four corners were of
one measure.
046:023 And there was a row of building round about in
them, round
about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the
rows round
about.
046:024 Then said he unto me, These are the places of
them that boil,
where the
ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of
the people.
047:001 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of
the house; and,
behold, waters
issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward:
for the forefront of the house stood toward
the east, and the
waters came down from under from the right
side of the
house, at the south side of the altar.
047:002 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate
northward, and
led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way
that looketh
eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on
the right
side.
047:003 And when the man that had the line in his hand
went forth
eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me
through the
waters; the waters were to the ankles.
047:004 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me
through the
waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a
thousand, and
brought me through; the waters were to the
loins.
047:005 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a
river that I
could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim
in, a river that
could not be passed over.
047:006 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen
this? Then he
brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
047:007 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of
the river were
very many trees on the one side and on the other.
047:008 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out
toward the east
country, and go
down into the desert, and go into the sea:
which being
brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be
healed.
047:009 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that
liveth, which
moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and
there shall be a
very great multitude of fish, because these
waters shall come
thither: for they shall be healed; and every
thing shall live
whither the river cometh.
047:010 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall
stand upon
it
from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to
spread forth
nets; their fish shall be according to their
kinds, as the
fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
047:011 But the miry places thereof and the marishes
thereof shall not
be healed; they
shall be given to salt.
047:012 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this
side and on
that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not
fade, neither
shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall
bring forth new
fruit according to his months, because their
waters they
issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof
shall be for
meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
047:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the
border, whereby ye
shall inherit the
land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel: Joseph
shall have two portions.
047:014 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:
concerning
the
which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers:
and this land
shall fall unto you for inheritance.
047:015 And this shall be the border of the land toward
the north
side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to
Zedad;
047:016 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the
border of
Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by
the coast of
Hauran.
047:017 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan,
the border of
Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath.
And this is the
north side.
047:018 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran,
and from
Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by
Jordan, from the
border unto the east sea. And this is the
east side.
047:019 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to
the waters of
strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the
south side
southward.
047:020 The west side also shall be the great sea from
the border,
till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
047:021 So shall ye divide this land unto you according
to the tribes
of Israel.
047:022 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide
it by lot for
an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn
among you, which
shall beget children among you: and they
shall be unto you
as born in the country among the children of
Israel; they
shall have inheritance with you among the tribes
of Israel.
047:023 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the
stranger
sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the
Lord GOD.
048:001 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the
north end to
the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
Hazarenan, the
border of Damascus northward, to the coast of
Hamath; for these
are his sides east and west; a portion for
Dan.
048:002 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto
the west
side,
a portion for Asher.
048:003 And by the border of Asher, from the east side
even unto the
west side, a portion for Naphtali.
048:004 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side
unto the
west
side, a portion for Manasseh.
048:005 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side
unto the
west
side, a portion for Ephraim.
048:006 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side
even unto the
west side, a portion for Reuben.
048:007 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side
unto the west
side, a portion for Judah.
048:008 And by the border of Judah, from the east side
unto the west
side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and
twenty thousand
reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the
other parts, from
the east side unto the west side: and the
sanctuary shall
be in the midst of it.
048:009 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD
shall be of
five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in
breadth.
048:010 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this
holy
oblation;
toward the north five and twenty thousand in length,
and toward the
west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the
east ten thousand
in breadth, and toward the south five and
twenty thousand
in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall
be in the midst
thereof.
048:011 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified
of the sons of
Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when
the children of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went
astray.
048:012 And this oblation of the land that is offered
shall be unto
them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
048:013 And over against the border of the priests the
Levites shall
have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
breadth: all the
length shall be five and twenty thousand, and
the breadth ten
thousand.
048:014 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange,
nor alienate
the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
048:015 And the five thousand, that are left in the
breadth over
against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place
for the city, for
dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city
shall be in the
midst thereof.
048:016 And these shall be the measures thereof; the
north side four
thousand and five
hundred, and the south side four thousand
and five hundred,
and on the east side four thousand and five
hundred, and the
west side four thousand and five hundred.
048:017 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the
north two
hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty,
and toward the
east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west
two hundred and
fifty.
048:018 And the residue in length over against the
oblation of the
holy portion
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand
westward: and it
shall be over against the oblation of the
holy portion; and
the increase thereof shall be for food unto
them that serve
the city.
048:019 And they that serve the city shall serve it out
of all the
tribes of Israel.
048:020 All the oblation shall be five and twenty
thousand by five and
twenty thousand:
ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare,
with the
possession of the city.
048:021 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the
one side and
on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of
the city, over
against the five and twenty thousand of the
oblation toward
the east border, and westward over against the
five and twenty
thousand toward the west border, over against
the portions for
the prince: and it shall be the holy
oblation; and the
sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst
thereof.
048:022 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and
from the
possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is
the prince's,
between the border of Judah and the border of
Benjamin, shall
be for the prince.
048:023 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side
unto the
west
side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
048:024 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side
unto the
west
side, Simeon shall have a portion.
048:025 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side
unto the west
side, Issachar a portion.
048:026 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side
unto the
west
side, Zebulun a portion.
048:027 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side
unto the west
side, Gad a portion.
048:028 And by the border of Gad, at the south side
southward, the
border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in
Kadesh, and to
the river toward the great sea.
048:029 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot
unto the tribes
of Israel for
inheritance, and these are their portions, saith
the Lord GOD.
048:030 And these are the goings out of the city on the
north side,
four thousand and five hundred measures.
048:031 And the gates of the city shall be after the
names of the
tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben,
one gate of
Judah, one gate of Levi.
048:032 And at the east side four thousand and five
hundred: and three
gates; and one
gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate
of Dan.
048:033 And at the south side four thousand and five
hundred measures:
and three gates;
one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one
gate of
Zebulun.
048:034 At the west side four thousand and five hundred,
with their
three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of
Naphtali.
048:035 It was round about eighteen thousand measures:
and the name of
the city from
that day shall be, The LORD is there.