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EZEKIEL
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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 Chebar, that the
heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth `day' of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's
captivity,
3 the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,
in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was
there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud,
with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the
midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
5 And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And
this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
7 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 burnished brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and
they four had their faces and their wings `thus':
9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they
went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four
had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on
the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.
11 And their faces and their wings were separate above; two `wings' of every one
were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they
went; they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like
burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: `the fire' went up and
down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire
went forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of
lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside
the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they
four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a
wheel within a wheel.
17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they
went.
18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims
full of eyes round about.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the
living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit to go:
and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature
was in the wheels.
21 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 beside them: for
the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22 And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a
firmament, like the terrible crystal to look upon, stretched forth over their
heads above.
23 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.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great
waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a
host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads: when
they stood, they let down their wings.
26 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 a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above.
27 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round
about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of
his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was
brightness round about him.
28 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 Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spake.
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2
1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak with
thee.
2 And the Spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet;
and I heard him that spake unto me.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to
nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their
fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day.
4 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent thee unto them; and
thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
5 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.
6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,
though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be
not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a
rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
8 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 which I give thee.
9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of a
book was therein;
10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there
were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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1 And he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which thou findest; eat this roll,
and go, speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
3 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.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and
speak with my words unto them.
5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language,
but to the house of Israel;
6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words
thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken
unto thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken
unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
8 Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard
against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not,
neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto
thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears.
11 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 Jehovah; whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great
rushing, `saying', Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place.
13 And `I heard' the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched
one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great
rushing.
14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in
the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river
Chebar, and to where they dwelt; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven
days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came
unto me, saying,
17 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.
18 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
thy hand.
19 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.
20 Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast
not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he
hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and
he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and thou hast
delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go
forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of
Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on
my face.
24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake with
me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.
25 But thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon thee, and shall bind
thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
26 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.
27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him hear; and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
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1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray
upon it a city, even Jerusalem:
2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound
against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round
about.
3 And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between
thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and
thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Moreover lie thou 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.
5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of
days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the
house of Israel.
6 And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right
side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day
for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
7 And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm
uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side
to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and
millet, and spelt, 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, even
three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day:
from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to
time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight
with dung that cometh out of man.
13 And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread
unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! 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 of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and
thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.
16 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 fearfulness; and they
shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and
pine away in their iniquity.
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1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; `as' a barber's razor shalt
thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy
beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the
days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite
with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind,
and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4 And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the fire,
and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house
of Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of
the nations, and countries are round about her.
6 And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than
the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round
about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they
have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are turbulent more than the
nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither
have kept mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations
that are round about you;
8 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and
I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
9 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.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons
shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole
remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.
11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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, and I also will have no pity.
12 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 a third part I will scatter unto all the winds, and will
draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them
to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have
spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
14 Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that
are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 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 on
thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken
it;)
16 when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for
destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine
upon you, and will break your staff of bread;
17 and I will 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, Jehovah, have spoken it.
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1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy unto
them,
3 and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to
the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy
your high places.
4 And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken;
and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols;
and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6 In all your dwelling-places 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 sun-images may be hewn down,
and your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some that escape the sword
among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they
shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart,
which hath departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the harlot after
their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I would
do this evil unto them.
11 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot,
and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for
they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
12 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 wrath upon them.
13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among
their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of
the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places
where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.
14 And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and
waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and
they shall know that I am Jehovah.
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1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel, An
end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge
thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring
thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye
shall know that I am Jehovah.
5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
6 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee; behold, it cometh.
7 Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the
day is near, `a day of' tumult, and not `of' joyful shouting, upon the
mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine anger
against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon
thee all thine abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon thee
according to thy ways; and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and
ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.
10 Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath
blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them `shall remain',
nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency
among them.
12 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.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet
alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall
return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goeth to the
battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 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.
16 But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 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.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an
unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in
the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither
fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the
images of their abominations `and' their detestable things therein: therefore
have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.
21 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 profane it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret `place';
and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
23 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full
of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their
houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places
shall be profaned.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and they
shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest,
and counsel from the elders.
27 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 Jehovah.
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1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth `month', in the fifth
`day' of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me,
that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the
appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as
the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the
Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of
God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner `court' that looketh
toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh
to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the
appearance that I saw in the plain.
5 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
of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off
from my sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet other great abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole
in the wall.
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged
in the wall, behold, a door.
9 And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 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, portrayed upon the
wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel;
and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his
censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house
of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say,
Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land.
13 He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which
they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Jehovah's house which was
toward the north; and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen `this', O son of man? thou shalt again
see yet greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house; and behold, at the
door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five
and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces
toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
17 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 turned again to
provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; 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.
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1 Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have
charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his
hand.
2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth toward
the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the
midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they
went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it
was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen,
who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.
4 And Jehovah 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 over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and
smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;
6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, 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 old men that were before the house.
7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain:
go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.
8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon
my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the residue
of Israel in thy pouring out of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?
9 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 wrestling
`of judgment': for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth
not.
10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I
will bring their way upon their head.
11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side,
reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
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10
1 Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was over the head of the
cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne.
2 And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the
whirling `wheels', even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of
fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in
in my sight.
3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in;
and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 And the glory of Jehovah mounted 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 Jehovah's glory.
5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court,
as the voice of God Almighty when he speaketh.
6 And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take
fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went
in, and stood beside a wheel.
7 And the cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the
fire that was between the cherubim, and took `thereof', and put it into the
hands of him that was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.
9 And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside
one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the
wheels was like unto a beryl stone.
10 And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have
been within a wheel.
11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not as they
went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not
as they went.
12 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.
13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling `wheels'.
14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and
the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion,
and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the
river Chebar.
16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the
cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also
turned not from beside them.
17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with
them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
18 And the glory of Jehovah went forth from over the threshold of the house, and
stood over the cherubim.
19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my
sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the
door of the east gate of Jehovah's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above.
20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river
Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the
hands of a man was under their wings.
22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by
the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight
forward.
CHAPTER
11
1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of
Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward: and behold, at the door of the gate
five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur,
and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and
that give wicked counsel in this city;
3 that say, `The time' is not near to build houses: this `city' is the caldron,
and we are the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the Spirit of Jehovah fell upon me, and he said unto me, Speak, Thus saith
Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come
into your mind.
6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets
thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the
midst of it, they are the flesh, and this `city' is the caldron; but ye shall be
brought forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
9 And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the
hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye
shall know that I am Jehovah.
11 This `city' shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the
midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
12 and ye shall know that I am Jehovah: for ye have not walked in my statutes,
neither have ye executed mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of
the nations that are round about you.
13 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 Jehovah! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all
the house of Israel, all of them, `are they' unto whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Jehovah; unto us is this land given for a
possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Whereas I have removed them far
off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries,
yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they
are come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will gather you from the
peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and
I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable
things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 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 a heart of
flesh;
20 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.
21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable
things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
23 And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon
the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
24 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of
God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went
up from me.
25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had
showed me.
CHAPTER
12
1 The word of Jehovah also came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes
to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a
rebellious house.
3 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 are a rebellious house.
4 And thou shalt bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for
removing; and thou shalt go forth thyself at even in their sight, as when men go
forth into exile.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the
dark; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the land: for I have set thee
for a sign unto the house of Israel.
7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for
removing, and in the even I digged through the wall with my hand; I brought it
forth in the dark, and bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
8 And in the morning came the word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto
thee, What doest thou?
10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This burden `concerneth' the
prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.
11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them; they
shall go into exile, into captivity.
12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark,
and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he
shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
13 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.
14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to help
him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall disperse them among the
nations, and scatter them through the countries.
16 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 nations
whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
17 Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling
and with fearfulness;
19 and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread
with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be
desolate, `and despoiled' of all that is therein, because of the violence of all
them that dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be
a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
21 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying,
The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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 fulfilment of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within
the house of Israel.
25 For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be
performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house,
will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
26 Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth
is for many day to come, and he prophesieth of times that are far off.
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of my
words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
CHAPTER
13
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of
Jehovah:
3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their
own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of
Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith; but
Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would
be confirmed.
7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in
that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and
seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that
divine lies: they shall not be in the council 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 Jehovah.
10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there
is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with
untempered `mortar':
11 say unto them that daub it with untempered `mortar', that it shall fall:
there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall;
and a stormy wind shall rend it.
12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the
daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even rend it with a stormy wind
in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great
hailstones in wrath to consume it.
14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered `mortar',
and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be
uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and
ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed
it with untempered `mortar'; and I will say unto you, The wall is no more,
neither they that daubed it;
16 `to wit', the prophets of Israel that prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and that
see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah.
17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, that
prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
18 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon
all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of `persons of' every stature to
hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for
yourselves?
19 And ye have profaned 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 hearken unto lies.
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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 I will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make
`them' fly.
21 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
Jehovah.
22 Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not
made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return
from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
23 Therefore ye shall no more see false visions, nor divine divinations: and I
will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
CHAPTER
14
1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at
all by them?
4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and
putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the
prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the multitude of his
idols;
5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all
estranged from me through their idols.
6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return
ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your
abominations.
7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in
Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart,
and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to
the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself:
8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment,
for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people;
and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived
that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from
the midst of my people Israel.
10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even
as the iniquity of him that seeketh `unto him';
11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile
themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my
people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
12 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I
stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send
famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;
14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should
deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it
be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;
16 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they
should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but
the land should be desolate.
17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so
that I cut off from it man and beast;
18 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they
should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered
themselves.
19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in
blood, to cut off from it man and beast;
20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah,
they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own
souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore
judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and
the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried 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.
23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings; and ye
shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith
the Lord Jehovah.
CHAPTER
15
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is
among the trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to
hang any vessel thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the
ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the
fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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.
7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but
the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my
face against them.
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
CHAPTER
16
1 Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy
nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy
mother was a Hittite.
4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut,
neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all,
nor swaddled at all.
5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion
upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was
abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.
6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said unto
thee, `Though thou art' in thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee, `Though thou
art' in thy blood, live.
7 I caused thee to multiply as that which groweth in the field, and thou didst
increase and wax great, and thou attainedst to excellent ornament; thy breasts
were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare.
8 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 Jehovah,
and thou becamest mine.
9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from
thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I
girded thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.
11 And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a
chain on thy neck.
12 And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful
crown upon thy head.
13 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 unto royal
estate.
14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was
perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
15 But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy
renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked
with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: `the like things' shall
not come, neither shall it be `so'.
17 Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had
given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with
them;
18 and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set
mine oil and mine incense before them.
19 My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I
fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and `thus' it
was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
20 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. Were thy
whoredoms a small matter,
21 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to
pass through `the fire' unto them?
22 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 weltering in thy
blood.
23 And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith
the Lord Jehovah,)
24 that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty
place in every street.
25 Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy
beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and
multiplied thy whoredom.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great
of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.
27 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, that are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet thou wast not
satisfied.
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto
Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these
things, the work of an impudent harlot;
31 in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest
thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou
scornest hire.
32 A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her
husband!
33 They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers,
and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
34 And thou art different from `other' women in thy whoredoms, in that none
followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is
given unto thee, therefore thou art different.
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:
36 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers; and because of all
the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy children, that thou
didst give unto them;
37 therefore behold, 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 against thee on every side, and will uncover thy
nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged;
and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted
place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy
clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee
with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
41 And they shall burn thy 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 shalt also give no hire any more.
42 So will I cause my wrath toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart
from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged
against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way
upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness
with all thine abominations.
44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use `this' proverb against thee,
saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her
children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and
their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and
her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom
and her daughters.
47 Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations;
but, as `if that were' a very little `thing', thou wast more corrupt than they
in all thy ways.
48 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor
her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread,
and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen
the hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took
them away as I saw `good'.
51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied
thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine
abominations which thou hast done.
52 Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou hast given judgment for
thy sisters; through thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than
they, they are more righteous that thou: yea, be thou also confounded, and bear
thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
53 And I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of
thy captives in the midst of them;
54 that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all
that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former
estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and
thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
57 before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the
daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the
Philistines, that do despite unto thee round about.
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith Jehovah.
59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast
done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth,
and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
61 Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thine elder `sisters' and thy younger; and I will give them unto
thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am
Jehovah;
63 that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any
more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
CHAPTER
17
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings and long
pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took
the top of the cedar:
4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a
land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he
placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.
6 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.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and,
behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches
toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up
the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all
its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people
can it be raised from the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither,
when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell
them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof,
and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon:
13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought
him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by
keeping his covenant it might stand.
15 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? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
16 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the
war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.
18 For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had
given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine oath that he
hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, I will even bring it upon
his own head.
20 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 enter into judgment with him there for his
trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that
remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah,
have spoken it.
22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar,
and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender
one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:
23 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 birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, 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, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.
CHAPTER
18
1 The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,
2 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?
3 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have `occasion' any more to
use this proverb in Israel.
4 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.
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6 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 neighbor's wife, neither
hath come near to a woman in her impurity,
7 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath
taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered
the naked with a garment;
8 he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any increase,
that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true justice between
man and man,
9 hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept mine ordinances, to deal truly; he
is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Jehovah.
10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth any
one of these things,
11 and that doeth not any of those `duties', but even hath eaten upon the
mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
12 hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the
pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
13 hath given forth upon interest, 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.
14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath
done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;
15 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 neighbor's wife,
16 neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken
by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked
with a garment;
17 that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest
nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my statutes; he
shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did
that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say ye, Wherefore 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.
20 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.
21 But if the wicked 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.
22 None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against
him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; and
not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
24 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? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be
remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them shall he die.
25 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?
26 When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
27 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.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he
hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29 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?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his
ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and
make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.
CHAPTER
19
1 Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst
of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned
to catch the prey; he devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him
with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
5 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.
6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he
learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was
desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they
spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
9 And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon
the mountains of Israel.
10 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was
fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their
stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height
with the multitude of their branches.
12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east
wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire
consumed them.
13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit,
so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a
lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
CHAPTER
20
1 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 inquire of Jehovah,
and sat before me.
2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Is it to inquire of me that ye are come? As I live, saith the Lord
Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? Cause them to know the
abominations of their fathers;
5 and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when I chose
Israel, and sware unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known
unto them in the land of Egypt, when I sware unto them, saying, I am Jehovah
your God;
6 in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt
into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which
is the glory of all lands.
7 And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and
defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
8 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 would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish
my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight
of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto
them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into
the wilderness.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man
do, he shall live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that
they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked
not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he
shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would
pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight
of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Moreover also I sware 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;
16 because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and
profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I
make a full end of them in the wilderness.
18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes
of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with
their idols.
19 I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do
them;
20 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye
may know that I am Jehovah your God.
21 But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither
kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they
profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it
should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought
them forth.
23 Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among
the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
24 because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes,
and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein
they should not live;
26 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 Jehovah.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me,
in that they have committed a trespass against me.
28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them,
then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there
their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering;
there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their
drink-offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the
name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Do ye
pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the harlot
after their abominations?
31 and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the
fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day? and shall I be
inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will
not be inquired of by you;
32 and that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye say, We
will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and
stone.
33 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you:
34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the
countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched
arm, and with wrath poured out;
35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I
enter into judgment with you face to face.
36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the
land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the
bond of the covenant;
38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress
against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they
shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve
every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my
holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the
Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the
land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the
first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
41 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples,
and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will
be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
42 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall bring you into the land of
Israel, into the country which I sware to give unto your fathers.
43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have
polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all
your evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt with you for my name's
sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O
ye house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
45 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop `thy word' toward the
south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah, 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 burnt thereby.
48 And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be
quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of
parables?
CHAPTER
21
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop `thy word' toward the
sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee,
and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the
righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked,
therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the
south to the north:
5 and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its
sheath; it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with
bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou
shalt say, Because of the tidings, for 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 it shall be done, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
8 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it
is sharpened, and also furbished;
10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be
as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every
tree.
11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is
sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the
princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite
therefore upon thy thigh.
13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no
more? saith the Lord Jehovah.
14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let
the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the
sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their
chambers.
15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart
may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is
pointed for slaughter.
16 Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left,
whithersoever thy face is set.
17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I,
Jehovah, have spoken it.
18 The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of
Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a
place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
20 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of
Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the
two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the
teraphim, he looked in the liver.
22 In his right hand was the divination `for' Jerusalem, to set battering rams,
to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set
battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have
sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be
taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have made your iniquity to
be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your
doings your sins do appear; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be
taken with the hand.
25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is
come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
26 thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this
`shall be' no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is
high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he
come whose right it is; and I will give it `him'.
28 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah
concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A
sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to
devour, that it may be as lightning;
29 while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to
lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come
in the time of the iniquity of the end.
30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in
the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with
the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men,
skilful to destroy.
32 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, Jehovah, have spoken it.
CHAPTER
22
1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then
cause her to know all her abominations.
3 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in
the midst of her, that her time may come, and that maketh idols against herself
to defile her!
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled 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
nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou
infamous one `and' full of tumult.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in
thee to shed blood.
7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have
they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the
fatherless and the widow.
8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
9 Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten
upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
10 In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they
humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.
11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another hath
lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister,
his father's daughter.
12 In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and
increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast
forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
13 Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou
hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall
deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.
15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the
countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
16 And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations; and thou
shalt know that I am Jehovah.
17 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are
brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross
of silver.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross,
therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20 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 wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye
shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22 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, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon
you.
23 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained
upon in the day of indignation.
25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring
lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and
precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things:
they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they
caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed
blood, `and' to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered `mortar', seeing false
visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when
Jehovah hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they
have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand
in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found
none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them
with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith
the Lord Jehovah.
CHAPTER
23
1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth;
there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their
virginity.
4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they
became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria
is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers,
on the Assyrians `her' neighbors,
6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of
them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since `the days of' Egypt; for in her
youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they
poured out their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the
Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her
they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed
judgments upon her.
11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than
she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, `her' neighbors, clothed
most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
14 And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads,
all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in
Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
16 And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto
them into Chaldea.
17 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 soul was alienated
from them.
18 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was
alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein
she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and
whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling
of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.
22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up
thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them
against thee on every side:
23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, `and' all the
Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them,
princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.
24 And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with
a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and
shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and
they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in
fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall
by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall
be devoured by the fire.
26 They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
27 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.
28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of
them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated;
29 and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor,
and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be
uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30 These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot
after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into
thy hand.
32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, which is
deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it
containeth much.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34 Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds
thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and
cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
36 Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and
Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.
37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their
idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom
they bare unto me, to pass through `the fire' unto them to be devoured.
38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the
same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39 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 my house.
40 And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a
messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint
thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,
41 and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou
didst set mine incense and mine oil.
42 And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the
common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets
upon the hands of them `twain', and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43 Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot
with her, and she `with them'.
44 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto
Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses,
and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses,
and blood is in their hands.
46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and
will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.
47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their
swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses
with fire.
48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be
taught not to do after your lewdness.
49 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 Jehovah.
CHAPTER
24
1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth `day' of the month,
the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, `even' of this selfsame day: the
king of Babylon drew close unto Jerusalem this selfsame day.
3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
4 gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the
shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile `of wood' for the bones under
`the caldron'; make it boil well; yea, let the bones thereof be boiled in the
midst of it.
6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron
whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it
piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she
poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood
upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will
make the pile great.
10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the
broth, and let the bones be burned.
11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass
thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the
rust of it may be consumed.
12 She hath wearied `herself' with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out
of her; her rust `goeth not forth' by fire.
13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not
cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have
caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
14 I, Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
15 Also the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a
stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire upon
thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the
bread of men.
18 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.
19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to
us, that thou doest so?
20 Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will
profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that
which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left
behind shall fall by the sword.
22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the
bread of men.
23 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 in your iniquities, and moan
one toward another.
24 Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he hath done
shall ye do: when this cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
25 And 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 heart, their sons and their daughters,
26 that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear
it with thine ears?
27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and thou shalt
speak, and be no more dumb: so shalt thou be a sign unto them; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
CHAPTER
25
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against
them:
3 and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it
was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and
against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
4 therefore, behold, I will deliver thee to the children of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their
dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a
couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
6 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and
stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of thy soul against the
land of Israel;
7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will deliver
thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I
will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou
shalt know that I am Jehovah.
8 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the
house of Judah is like unto all the nations;
9 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, Beth-jeshimoth,
Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
10 unto the children of the east, `to go' against the children of Ammon; and I
will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be
remembered among the nations.
11 and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am
Jehovah.
12 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house
of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself
upon them;
13 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom,
and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman;
even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
14 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 wrath; and
they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah.
15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge,
and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;
16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my hand
upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
CHAPTER
26
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first `day' of the month,
that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken
`that was' the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be
replenished, now that she is laid waste:
3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and
will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to
come up.
4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will
also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the
nations.
6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and
they shall know that I am Jehovah.
7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots,
and with horsemen, and a company, and much people.
8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make
forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler
against thee.
9 And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he
shall break down thy towers.
10 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 wagons, and of the
chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein
is made a breach.
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall
slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to
the ground.
12 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 waters.
13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps
shall be no more heard.
14 And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of
nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound
of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of
thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay
aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe
themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble
every moment, and be astonished at thee.
17 And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou
destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was
strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on
all that dwelt there!
18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are
in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.
19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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
the great waters shall cover thee;
20 then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the
people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the
earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the
pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt no more have any being; though thou
be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord Jehovah.
CHAPTER
27
1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
3 and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art the
merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O
Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.
4 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy
beauty.
5 They have made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar
from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; they have made thy benches of
ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.
7 Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to
thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were
in thee, they were thy pilots.
9 The old men 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 deal in thy
merchandise.
10 Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the
shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and
valorous men were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round
about; they have perfected thy beauty.
12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches;
with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons
of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and war-horses
and mules.
15 The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand:
they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they
traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen,
and coral, and rubies.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers: they traded for thy
merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18 Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of
the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and
calamus, were among thy merchandise.
20 Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand; in
lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants.
22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers; they traded
for thy wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and
gold.
23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur `and' Chilmad,
were thy traffickers.
24 These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and
broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of
cedar, among thy merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken
thee in the heart of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy
calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in
thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the
heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake.
29 And all that handled the oar, the mariners, `and' all the pilots of the sea,
shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,
30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly,
and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the
ashes:
31 and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth,
and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament
over thee, `saying', Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence
in the midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou
didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy
merchandise.
34 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters,
thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are
horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and
thou shalt nevermore have any being.
CHAPTER
28
1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because
thy 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 man, and not God, though thou didst
set thy heart as the heart of God;-
3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from
thee;
4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and
hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
5 by thy great wisdom `and' by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and
thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;-
6 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the
heart of God,
7 therefore, behold, 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.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them
that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man,
and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
perfect in beauty.
13 Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering,
the sardius, the 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 in thee; in the day that thou wast created they
were prepared.
14 Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, `so that' thou
wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of
the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
unrighteousness was found in thee.
16 By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence,
and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain
of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the
stones of fire.
17 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom
by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee
before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic,
thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from
the midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon
the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the peoples shall be astonished at thee: thou
art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.
20 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
22 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and
I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah,
when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the
wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side;
and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a
hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite unto them; and
they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
25 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel
from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them
in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I
gave to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell securely therein; yea, they shall build houses, and
plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon
all those that do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am
Jehovah their God.
CHAPTER
29
1 In the tenth year, in the tenth `month', in the twelfth `day' of the month,
the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against
him, and against all Egypt;
3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers,
that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
4 And 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,
with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto thy scales.
5 And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy
rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together,
nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the
birds of the heavens.
6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they
have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all
their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all
their loins to be at a stand.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee,
and will cut off from thee man and beast.
9 And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it;
10 therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make
the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even
unto the border of Ethiopia.
11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through
it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
12 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries
that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be
a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations,
and will disperse them through the countries.
13 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years will I gather the
Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered;
14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return
into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there
a base kingdom.
15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself
up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule
over the nations.
16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing
iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know
that I am the Lord Jehovah.
17 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 Jehovah came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great
service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet
had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served
against it.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt
unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and
take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served,
because they wrought for me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
21 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth unto the house of Israel, and I
will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
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1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Wail ye, Alas for
the day!
3 For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of
clouds, a time of the nations.
4 And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish 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.
5 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the
children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of
her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by
the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah.
7 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.
8 And they shall know at I am Jehovah, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all
her helpers are destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the
careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day
of Egypt; for, lo, it cometh.
10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to
cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in
to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill
the land with the slain.
12 And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil
men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of
strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause
the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the
land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will
execute judgments upon No.
15 And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut
off the multitude of No.
16 And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall
be broken up; and Memphis `shall have' adversaries in the day-time.
17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these
`cities' shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there
the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a
cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments upon Egypt; and they shall know that I am
Jehovah.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first `month', in the
seventh `day' of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it hath
not been bound up, to apply `healing' medicines, to put a bandage to bind it,
that it be strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong `arm', and that which was broken; and
I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in
his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him
with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
25 And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh
shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, 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.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through
the countries; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
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1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third `month', in the first
`day' of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art
thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a
forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran
round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of
the field.
5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its
boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it shot `them' forth.
6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its
shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root
was by many waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like
its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in
the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.
9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of
Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
10 Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature,
and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in
his height;
11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he
shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 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 watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of
the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of
the field shall be upon his branches;
14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their
stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty
ones stand up on their height, `even' 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.
15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a
mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers 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.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to
Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice
and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of
the earth.
17 They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the
sword; yea, they that were his arm, `that' dwelt under his shadow in the midst
of the nations.
18 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 are
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
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1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first
`day' of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto
him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a
monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers, and troubledst
the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company
of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
4 And I will leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open
field, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon thee, and I
will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy
height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the
mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its
light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness
upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy destruction
among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
10 Yea, I will make many peoples 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.
11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come
upon thee.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible
of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt,
and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither
shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble
them.
14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of
that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then
shall they know that I am Jehovah.
16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the
nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall
they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah.
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth `day' of the
month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
18 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.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the
uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is
delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with
them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised,
slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of
them slain, fallen by the sword;
23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is
round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror
in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of
the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne
their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her
graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for
their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their
shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are
slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round
about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their
terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised,
that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their
swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for `they
were' the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie
with them that are slain by the sword.
29 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid
with them that are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised,
and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who
are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might
they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by
the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 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 Jehovah.
32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in
the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I
bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among
them, and set him for their watchman;
3 if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn
the people;
4 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.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be
upon him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the
people be not warned, and 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.
7 So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel;
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and 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 thy hand.
9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn
not from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy
soul.
10 And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye speak, saying,
Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then
can we live?
11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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?
12 And 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; and as
for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he
turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live
thereby in the day that he sinneth.
13 When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be
remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath committed, therein shall he die.
14 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;
15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by
robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be remembered against him: he
hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as
for them, their way is not equal.
18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die therein.
19 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is
lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I will judge
you every one after his ways.
21 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.
22 Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he that was
escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning;
and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in 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.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood,
and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the
land?
26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
27 Thus shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely
they that are in the waste places 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 are in
the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
28 And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of
her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that
none shall pass through.
29 Then shall they know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a
desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they
have committed.
30 And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people talk of 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 Jehovah.
31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my
people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show
much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
32 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.
33 And when this cometh to pass, (behold, it cometh,) then shall they know that
a prophet hath been among them.
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1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto
them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the shepherds
of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye
feed not the sheep.
4 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
back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but
with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.
5 And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food
to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my
sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did
search or seek `after them'.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
8 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey,
and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no
shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and fed not my sheep;
9 therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will
require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep;
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my
sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my
sheep, and will seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep
that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them
out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the
countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon
the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of
the country.
14 I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of
Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat
pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was
sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge
between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.
18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye
must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of
the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
19 And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and
they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even I, will
judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with
your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will
judge between sheep and sheep.
23 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.
24 And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I,
Jehovah, have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to
cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and
sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I
will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of
blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield
its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I
am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them
out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of
the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them
afraid.
29 And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any
more.
30 And they shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them, and that they,
the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.
31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith
the Lord Jehovah.
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1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O
mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a
desolation and an astonishment.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know
that I am Jehovah.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of
Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of
the iniquity of the end;
6 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood,
and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood
shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut
off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.
8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills and in thy valleys
and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9 I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be
inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be
mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
11 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do according to thine
anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast showed out of thy hatred
against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings which thou
hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate,
they are given us to devour.
13 And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have
multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
14 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee
desolate.
15 As thou didst rejoice over 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 Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
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36
1 And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.
2 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha!
and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, even
because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye
might be a possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in
the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses
and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken,
which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are
round about;
5 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have
I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have
appointed my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their
heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have
borne the shame of the nations:
7 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn, `saying', Surely the
nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield
your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and ye shall be tilled
and sown;
10 and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it;
and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded;
11 and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be
fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and
will do better `unto you' than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah.
12 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 children.
13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because they say unto you, Thou `land' art a
devourer of men, and hast been a bereaver of thy nation;
14 therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nation any more,
saith the Lord Jehovah;
15 neither will I let thee hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shalt
thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy
nation to stumble any more, saith the Lord Jehovah.
16 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it
by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of
a woman in her impurity.
18 Wherefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had poured
out upon the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the
countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20 And when they came unto the nations, whither they went, they profaned my holy
name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Jehovah, and are gone
forth out of his land.
21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned
among the nations, whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I do not
`this' for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have
profaned among the nations, whither ye went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the
nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know
that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you
before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the
countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all
your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 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 a heart
of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
28 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.
29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the
grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field,
that ye may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
31 Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good;
and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for
your abominations.
32 Nor for your sake do I `this', saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known unto you:
be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your
iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall
be builded.
34 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation
in the sight of all that passed by.
35 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 fortified and inhabited.
36 Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Jehovah,
have builded the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Jehovah,
have spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the
house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed
feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
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1 The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of
Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
2 And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very
many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord
Jehovah, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry
bones, hear the word of Jehovah.
5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to
enter into you, and ye shall live.
6 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 Jehovah.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise,
and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and
skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to
the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and
breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 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.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut
off.
12 Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I
will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people;
and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and
caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.
14 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in
your own land: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed
it, saith Jehovah.
15 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
16 And 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:
17 and join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they may become
one in thy hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou
not show us what thou meanest by these?
19 say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
companions; and I will put them with it, `even' with the stick of Judah, and
make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the
children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will
gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 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;
23 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 dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will
cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my statutes, and
do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant,
wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their
children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be
their prince for ever.
26 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.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
28 And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
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38
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince
of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
4 and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee
forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full
armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the
north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are
assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come
into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many
peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it
is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
9 And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things
shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
11 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 securely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste
places that are `now' inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of
the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the
earth.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions
thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take the spoil? hast thou
assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take
away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: In that day when my people Israel dwelleth securely, shalt thou not
know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of the north,
thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great
company and a mighty army;
16 and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the
land: it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against
my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog,
before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in old time by my
servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for `many' years
that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall come against the land
of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
19 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;
20 so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, 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.
21 And I will call for a sword against him unto all my mountains, saith the Lord
Jehovah: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
22 And with pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I
will rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with
him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known
in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
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1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
2 and I will turn thee about, and will lead thee on, and will cause thee to come
up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring thee upon the
mountains of Israel;
3 and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to
fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and
the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of
every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell securely in the isles;
and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
7 And my holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither
will I suffer my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know
that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah; this is the
day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make
fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows
and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of
them seven years;
10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of
the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder
those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place for
burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea;
and it shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all
his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may
cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a
renown in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord Jehovah.
14 And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through
the land, and, with them that pass through, those that bury them that remain
upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall
they search.
15 And they that pass through the land shall pass through; and 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 Hamon-gog.
16 And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the
land.
17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak unto the birds of
every sort, 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.
18 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.
19 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.
20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men,
and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah.
21 And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day
and forward.
23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for
their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them:
so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by
the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I
unto them; and I hid my face from them.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Now will I bring back the captivity of
Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for
my holy name.
26 And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have
trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none
shall make them afraid;
27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of
their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.
28 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused them to go
into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them unto their own land;
and I will leave none of them any more there;
29 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 Jehovah.
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40
1 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 Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me
thither.
2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down
upon a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the
south.
3 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.
4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with
thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee; for, to the
intent that I may show them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that
thou seest to the house of Israel.
5 And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's
hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he
measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the
steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and
the other threshold, one reed broad.
7 And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and `the space' between
the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the
gate toward the house was one reed.
8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof,
two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
10 And the lodges 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.
11 And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the
length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit `on this side', and a border, one
cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side.
13 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the
other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door.
14 He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court `reached' unto the
posts, round about the gate.
15 And `from' the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of
the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
16 And there were closed windows to the lodges, 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.
17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and, lo, there were chambers and a
pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the
pavement.
18 And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of
the gates, even the lower pavement.
19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the
forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, `both' on the east and
on the north.
20 And the gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he
measured the length thereof and the breadth thereof.
21 And the lodges 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.
22 And the windows thereof, and the arches thereof, and the palm-trees thereof,
were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they
went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
23 And there was a gate to the inner court over against the `other' gate, `both'
on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred
cubits.
24 And he led 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the
south gate according to these measures;
29 and the lodges 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.
30 And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five
cubits broad.
31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon
the posts thereof: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the
gate according to these measures;
33 and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof,
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.
34 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon
the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had
eight steps.
35 And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured `it' according to these
measures;
36 the lodges thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof: and there were
windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five
and twenty cubits.
37 And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon
the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had
eight steps.
38 And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they
washed the burnt-offering.
39 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.
40 And on the `one' side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the gate
toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the
porch of the gate, were two tables.
41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of
the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew `the sacrifices'.
42 And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and
a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they
laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.
43 And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon
the tables was the flesh of the oblation.
44 And without the inner gate were chambers for 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.
45 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;
46 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, who from among
the sons of Levi come near to Jehovah to minister unto him.
47 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad,
foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
48 Then 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.
49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits;
even 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.
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1 And 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.
2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance
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.
3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and
the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
4 And 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.
5 Then 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.
6 And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in
order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the
side-chambers round about, that they might have hold `therein', and not have
hold in the wall of the house.
7 And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed `the house' higher and
higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the
house: therefore the breadth of the house `continued' upward; and so one went up
`from' the lowest `chamber' to the highest by the middle `chamber'.
8 I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations
of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside,
was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that
belonged to the house.
10 And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house
on every side.
11 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.
12 And the building that was before the separate place at the side 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.
13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and
the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long;
14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward
the east, a hundred cubits.
15 And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which
was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the
other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the
court;
16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on
their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about,
and `from' the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
17 to `the space' above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by
all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between
cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and
the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side. `thus was it'
made through all the house round about:
20 from the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made: thus
was the wall of the temple.
21 As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the
sanctuary, the appearance `thereof' was as the appearance `of the temple'.
22 The altar was of wood, 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 Jehovah.
23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
24 And the doors had two leaves `apiece', two turning leaves: two `leaves' for
the one door, and two leaves for the other.
25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and
palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood
upon the face of the porch without.
26 And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other
side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and
the thresholds.
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1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and
he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and
which was over against the building toward the north.
2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was
fifty cubits.
3 Over against the twenty `cubits' which belonged to the inner court, and over
against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against
gallery in the third story.
4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one
cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these,
more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
6 For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the
courts: therefore `the uppermost' was straitened more than the lowest and the
middlemost from the ground.
7 And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer
court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
8 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits:
and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth
into them from the outer court.
10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the
separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
11 And the way before them was like the appearance of `the way of' the chambers
which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and
all their egresses were both according to their fashions, and according to their
doors.
12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a
door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the
east, as one entereth into them.
13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are
before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that
are near unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the
most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the
trespass-offering; for the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into
the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister;
for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to
that which pertaineth to the people.
15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth
by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round
about.
16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed round about.
17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed
round about.
18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed.
20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five
hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which
was holy and that which was common.
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1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the
east.
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and
his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his
glory.
3 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.
4 And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east.
5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
6 And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, `this is' 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 the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name,
neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of
their kings `in' their high places;
8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post
beside my door-post, and there was `but' the wall between me and them; and they
have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed:
wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings, far
from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10 Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be
ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the
form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the
entrances 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.
12 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.
13 And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a
handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the
border thereof by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the
base of the altar.
14 And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits,
and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall
be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.
15 And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and
upward there shall be four horns.
16 And the altar hearth shall be twelve `cubits' long by twelve broad, square in
the four sides thereof.
17 And the ledge shall be fourteen `cubits' long by fourteen broad in the four
sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom
thereof shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof shall look toward
the east.
18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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.
19 Thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who
are near unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord Jehovah, a young bullock
for a sin-offering.
20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it,
and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the border round about: thus
shalt thou cleanse it and make atonement for it.
21 Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt
in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a he-goat without blemish for a
sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the
bullock.
23 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.
24 And thou shalt bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests shall cast
salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.
25 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.
26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall
they consecrate it.
27 And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth
day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar,
and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which
looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2 And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened,
neither shall any man enter in by it; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath
entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.
3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Jehovah;
he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way
of the same.
4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I
looked, and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah: and I
fell upon my face.
5 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entrance of
the house, with every egress of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah: O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your
abominations,
7 in that ye have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and
uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house,
when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant,
`to add' unto all your abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of
my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that
are among the children of Israel.
10 But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went
astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of
the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and
the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto
them.
12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a
stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up
my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their
iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto me, to execute the office of priest unto
me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, unto the things that are most
holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have
committed.
14 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service
thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 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 Jehovah:
16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to
minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 And it shall be 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,
while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches
upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with `anything that causeth'
sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the
people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in
the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not
the people with their garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long;
they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner
court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away;
but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that
is the widow of a priest.
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the
common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances
shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my
appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall go in to 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.
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to
minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
28 And they shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and ye shall give
them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the
trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of
everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give
unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy
house.
31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn,
whether it be bird or beast.
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1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer
an oblation unto Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the
length of five and twenty thousand `reeds', and the breadth shall be ten
thousand: it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about.
2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred `in length' by five
hundred `in breadth', square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs
thereof round about.
3 And of this measure shalt thou measure a length of five and twenty thousand,
and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most
holy.
4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers
of the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall be a
place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.
5 And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be
unto the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession unto themselves,
`for' twenty chambers.
6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five
and twenty thousand long, side by side with the oblation of the holy portion: it
shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7 And `whatsoever is' for the prince `shall be' on the one side and on the other
side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the
holy oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side
westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable unto one of
the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of
Israel according to their tribes.
9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove
violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your
exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the
tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure
thereof shall be after the homer.
12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty
shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a
homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of
barley;
14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out
of the cor, `which is' ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures
of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for
peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord Jehovah.
16 All the people of the land shall give unto this oblation for the prince in
Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince's part to give the burnt-offerings, and the
meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons,
and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he
shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt-offering,
and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
18 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the first `month', in the first `day' of the
month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish; and thou shalt cleanse
the sanctuary.
19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it upon
the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the
altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
20 And so thou shalt do on the seventh `day' of the month for every one that
erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house.
21 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.
22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people
of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.
23 And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt-offering to Jehovah,
seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a
he-goat daily for a sin-offering.
24 And he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah
for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
25 In the seventh `month', in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast,
shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin-offering, according to
the burnt-offering, and according to the meal-offering, and according to the
oil.
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1 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward
the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be
opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the 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.
3 And the people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before
Jehovah on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto Jehovah shall be on
the sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
5 and the meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering for
the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
6 And on 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:
7 and he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah
for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an
ephah.
8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the
gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
9 But when the people of the land shall come before Jehovah in the appointed
feasts, he that entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth
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 straight before him.
10 And the prince, when they go in, shall go in in the midst of them; and when
they go forth, they shall go forth `together'.
11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah
for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give,
and a hin of oil to an ephah.
12 And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or
peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, one shall open for him the
gate that looketh toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and
his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and
after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
13 And thou shalt prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering
unto Jehovah daily: morning by morning shalt thou prepare it.
14 And thou shalt prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth
part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour;
a meal-offering unto Jehovah continually by a perpetual ordinance.
15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal-offering, and the oil, morning
by morning, for a continual burnt-offering.
16 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons,
it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by
inheritance.
17 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be
his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his
inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust
them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his
own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into
the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold,
there was a place on the hinder part westward.
20 And he said unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the
trespass-offering and the sin-offering, `and' where they shall bake the
meal-offering; that they bring them not forth into the outer court, to sanctify
the people.
21 Then he brought me forth into the outer 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.
22 In the four corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty `cubits'
long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one measure.
23 And there was a wall round about in them, round about the four, and
boiling-places were made under the walls round about.
24 Then said he unto me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of
the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
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1 And he brought me back 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 was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right
side of the house, on the south of the altar.
2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by
the way without unto the outer gate, by the way of `the gate' that looketh
toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
3 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a
thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were
to the ankles.
4 Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters
that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass
through `the waters', waters that were to the loins.
5 Afterward he measured a thousand; `and it was' a river that I could not pass
through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be
passed through.
6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen `this'? Then he brought me,
and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
7 Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the river were very many
trees on the one side and on the other.
8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and
shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea
`shall the waters go' which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be
healed.
9 And it shall come to pass, that every living creature which swarmeth, in every
place whither the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great
multitude of fish; for these waters are come thither, and `the waters of the
sea' shall be healed, and everything shall live whithersoever the river cometh.
10 And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even
unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be
after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
11 But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed;
they shall be given up to salt.
12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall
grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not whither, neither shall the fruit
thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters
thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and
the leaf thereof for healing.
13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This shall be the border, whereby ye shall
divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph
`shall have two' portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I sware to give it unto
your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great
sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the
border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus;
and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
18 And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of
Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the `north' border unto the east sea shall ye
measure. This is the east side.
19 And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of
Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook `of Egypt', unto the great sea. This is the south
side southward.
20 And the west side shall be the great sea, from the `south' border as far as
over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 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, who shall beget children
among you; and they shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of
Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there
shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of
Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus,
northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east `and' west,) Dan,
one `portion'.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher, one
`portion'.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side,
Naphtali, one `portion'.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side,
Manasseh, one `portion'.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim,
one `portion'.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side,
Reuben, one `portion'.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah, one
`portion'.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be
the oblation which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand `reeds' in breadth,
and in length as one of the portions, from the east side unto the west side: and
the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be five and twenty
thousand `reeds' in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for these, even for the priests, shall be the 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 Jehovah shall be in the
midst thereof.
11 `It shall be' for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that
have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children of Israel went
astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And it shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing
most holy, by the border of the Levites.
13 And answerable unto 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.
14 And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits
of the land be alienated; for it is holy unto Jehovah.
15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the five and
twenty thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for
suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 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.
17 And the city shall have suburbs: 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.
18 And the residue in the length, answerable unto the holy oblation, shall be
ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable
unto the holy oblation; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them
that labor in the city.
19 And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till
it.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty
thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation four-square, with the possession of
the city.
21 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; in front of the five and
twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward in front of
the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, answerable unto the
portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary of
the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 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, it shall be for the prince.
23 And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side unto the west side,
Benjamin, one `portion'.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon,
one `portion'.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar,
one `portion'.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun,
one `portion'.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad, one
`portion'.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be
even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook `of Egypt',
unto the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for
inheritance, and these are their several portions, saith the Lord Jehovah.
30 And these are the egresses of the city: On the north side four thousand and
five hundred `reeds' by measure;
31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel,
three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate
of Levi, one.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred `reeds', and three gates:
even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred `reeds' by measure, and
three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of
Zebulun, one.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred `reeds', with their three
gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
35 It shall be eighteen thousand `reeds' round about: and the name of the city
from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.
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