11 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year in the fourth
month in the fifth day of the month as I was among the captives
by the river of Chebar that the heavens were opened and I saw
visions of God .
12 In the fifth day of the month which was the fifth year of
king Jehoiachin's captivity .
13 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest
the son of Buzi in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar
and the hand of the LORD was there upon him .
14 And I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north a
great cloud and a fire infolding itself and a brightness was
about it and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber out
of the midst of the fire .
15 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four
living creatures And this was their appearance they had the
likeness of a man .
16 And every one had four faces and every one had four wings .
17 And their feet were straight feet and the sole of their
feet was like the sole of a calf's foot and they sparkled like
the colour of burnished brass .
18 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides and they four had their faces and their wings .
19 Their wings were joined one to another they turned not when
they went they went every one straight forward .
110 As for the likeness of their faces they four had the face
of a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side they four also had the
face of an eagle .
111 Thus were their faces and their wings were stretched
upward two wings of every one were joined one to another and two
covered their bodies .
112 And they went every one straight forward whither the
spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went .
113 As for the likeness of the living creatures their
appearance was like burning coals of fire and like the
appearance of lamps it went up and down among the living
creatures and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth
lightning .
114 And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of a flash of lightning .
115 Now as I beheld the living creatures behold one wheel upon
the earth by the living creatures with his four faces .
116 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto
the colour of a beryl and they four had one likeness and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle
of a wheel .
117 When they went they went upon their four sides and they
turned not when they went .
118 As for their rings they were so high that they were
dreadful and their rings were full of eyes round about them four
.
119 And when the living creatures went the wheels went by them
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth the
wheels were lifted up .
120 Whithersoever the spirit was to go they went thither was
their spirit to go and the wheels were lifted up over against
them for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels .
121 When those went these went and when those stood these
stood and when those were lifted up from the earth the wheels
were lifted up over against them for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels .
122 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the
living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal
stretched forth over their heads above .
123 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 .
124 And when they went I heard the noise of their wings like
the noise of great waters as the voice of the Almighty the voice
of speech as the noise of an host when they stood they let down
their wings .
125 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over
their heads when they stood and had let down their wings .
126 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone and
upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it .
127 And I saw as the colour of amber as the appearance of fire
round about within it from the appearance of his loins even
upward and from the appearance of his loins even downward I saw
as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness round
about .
128 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the
day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD
And when I saw it I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one
that spake .
* 21 And he said unto me Son of man stand upon thy feet and I
will speak unto thee .
22 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me and
set me upon my feet that I heard him that spake unto me .
23 And he said unto me Son of man I send thee to the children
of Israel to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me
they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto
this very day .
24 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted I do send
thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord
GOD .
25 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 .
26 And thou son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid
of their words though briers and thorns be with thee and thou
dost dwell among scorpions be not afraid of their words nor be
dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house .
27 And thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will
hear or whether they will forbear for they are most rebellious .
28 But thou son of man hear what I say unto thee Be not thou
rebellious like that rebellious house open thy mouth and eat
that I give thee .
29 And when I looked behold an hand was sent unto me and lo a
roll of a book was therein .
210 And he spread it before me and it was written within and
without and there was written therein lamentations and mourning
and woe .
* 31 Moreover he said unto me Son of man eat that thou findest
eat this roll and go speak unto the house of Israel .
32 So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat that roll .
33 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 .
34 And he said unto me Son of man go get thee unto the house
of Israel and speak with my words unto them .
35 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and
of an hard language but to the house of Israel .
36 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard
language whose words thou canst not understand Surely had I sent
thee to them they would have hearkened unto thee .
37 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee for they
will not hearken unto me for all the house of Israel are
impudent and hardhearted .
38 Behold I have made thy face strong against their faces and
thy forehead strong against their foreheads .
39 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead
fear them not neither be dismayed at their looks though they be
a rebellious house .
310 Moreover he said unto me Son of man all my words that I
shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart and hear with thine
ears .
311 And go get thee to them of the captivity unto the children
of thy people and speak unto them and tell them Thus saith the
Lord GOD whether they will hear or whether they will forbear .
312 Then the spirit took me up and I heard behind me a voice
of a great rushing saying Blessed be the glory of the LORD from
his place .
313 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living
creatures that touched one another and the noise of the wheels
over against them and a noise of a great rushing .
314 So the spirit lifted me up and took me away and I went in
bitterness in the heat of my spirit but the hand of the LORD was
strong upon me .
315 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib that dwelt
by the river of Chebar and I sat where they sat and remained
there astonished among them seven days .
316 And it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word
of the LORD came unto me saying .
317 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 .
318 When I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die and thou
givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his
wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his
iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand .
319 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 .
320 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 righteousness which he hath done
shall not be remembered but his blood will I require at thine
hand .
321 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man that the
righteous sin not and he doth not sin he shall surely live
because he is warned also thou hast delivered thy soul .
322 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me and he said
unto me Arise go forth into the plain and I will there talk with
thee .
323 Then I arose and went forth into the plain and behold the
glory of the LORD stood there as the glory which I saw by the
river of Chebar and I fell on my face .
324 Then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet
and spake with me and said unto me Go shut thyself within thine
house .
325 But thou O son of man behold they shall put bands upon
thee and shall bind thee with them and thou shalt not go out
among them .
326 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 .
327 But when I speak with thee I will open thy mouth and thou
shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD He that heareth let
him hear and he that forbeareth let him forbear for they are a
rebellious house .
* 41 Thou also son of man take thee a tile and lay it before
thee and portray upon it the city even Jerusalem .
42 And lay siege against it and build a fort against it and
cast a mount against it set the camp also against it and set
battering rams against it round about .
43 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan and set it for a
wall of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against
it and it shall be besieged and thou shalt lay siege against it
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel .
44 Lie thou also upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of
the house of Israel upon it according to the number of the days
that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity .
45 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity
according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety
days so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel .
46 And when thou hast accomplished them lie again on thy right
side and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah
forty days I have appointed thee each day for a year .
47 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
Jerusalem and thine arm shall be uncovered and thou shalt
prophesy against it .
48 And behold I will lay bands upon thee and thou shalt not
turn thee from one side to another till thou hast ended the days
of thy siege .
49 Take thou also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and
lentiles and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and
make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon thy side three hundred and ninety days shalt
thou eat thereof .
410 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight
twenty shekels a day from time to time shalt thou eat it .
411 Thou shalt drink also water by measure the sixth part of
an hin from time to time shalt thou drink .
412 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes and thou shalt bake
it with dung that cometh out of man in their sight .
413 And the LORD said Even thus shall the children of Israel
eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles whither I will drive
them .
414 Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold my soul hath not been
polluted for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of
that which dieth of itself or is torn in pieces neither came
there abominable flesh into my mouth .
415 Then he said unto me Lo I have given thee cow's dung for
man's dung and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereJith .
416 Moreover he said unto me Son of man behold I will break
the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by
weight and with care and they shall drink water by measure and
with astonishment .
417 That they may want bread and water and be astonied one
with another and consume away for their iniquity .
* 51 And thou son of man take thee a sharp knife take thee a
barber's razor and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy
beard then take thee balances to weigh and divide the hair .
52 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the
city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and thou shalt
take a third part and smite about it with a knife and a third
part thou shalt scatter in the wind and I will draw out a sword
after them .
53 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number and bind them
in thy skirts .
54 Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the
fire and burn them in the fire for thereof shall a fire come
forth into all the house of Israel .
55 Thus saith the Lord GOD This is Jerusalem I have set it in
the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her .
56 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than
the nations and my statutes more than the countries that are
round about her for they have refused my judgments and my
statutes they have not walked in them .
57 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye multiplied
more than the nations that are round about you and have not
walked in my statutes neither have kept my judgments neither
have done according to the judgments of the nations that are
round about you .
58 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I even I am
against thee and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in
the sight of the nations .
59 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 .
510 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee and the sons shall eat their fathers and I will execute
judgments in thee and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter
into all the winds .
511 Wherefore as I live saith the Lord GOD Surely because thou
hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things and
with all thine abominations therefore will I also diminish thee
neither shall mine eye spare neither will I have any pity .
512 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence and
with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee and a
third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will
scatter a third part into all the winds and I will draw out a
sword after them .
513 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished and I will cause my
fury to rest upon them and I will be comforted and they shall
know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal when I have
accomplished my fury in them .
514 Moreover I will make thee waste and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee in the sight of all that pass
by .
515 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt an instruction and
an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee when
I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in
furious rebukes I the LORD have spoken it .
516 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine
which shall be for their destruction and which I will send to
destroy you and I will increase the famine upon you and will
break your staff of bread .
517 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts and they
shall bereave thee and pestilence and blood shall pass through
thee and I will bring the sword upon thee I the LORD have spoken
it .
* 61 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
62 Son of man set thy face toward the mountains of Israel and
prophesy against them .
63 And say Ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord
GOD Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills to
the rivers and to the valleys Behold I even I will bring a sword
upon you and I will destroy your high places .
64 And your altars shall be desolate and your images shall be
broken and I will cast down your slain men before your idols .
65 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel
before their idols and I will scatter your bones round about
your altars .
66 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste
and the high places shall be desolate that your altars may be
laid waste and made desolate and your idols may be broken and
cease and your images may be cut down and your works may be
abolished .
67 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you and ye shall
know that I am the LORD .
68 Yet will I leave a remnant that ye may have some that shall
escape the sword among the nations when ye shall be scattered
through the countries .
69 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
nations whither they shall be carried captives because I am
broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me and
with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols and they
shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed
in all their abominations .
610 And they shall know that I am the LORD and that I have not
said in vain that I would do this evil unto them .
611 Thus saith the Lord GOD Smite with thine hand and stamp
with thy foot and say Alas for all the evil abominations of the
house of Israel for they shall fall by the sword by the famine
and by the pestilence .
612 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence and he that
is near shall fall by the sword and he that remaineth and is
besieged shall die by the famine thus will I accomplish my fury
upon them .
613 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD when their slain men
shall be among their idols round about their altars upon every
high hill in all the tops of the mountains and under every green
tree and under every thick oak the place where they did offer
sweet savour to all their idols .
614 So will I stretch out my hand upon them and make the land
desolate yea more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath in
all their habitations and they shall know that I am the LORD .
* 71 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
72 Also thou son of man thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land
of Israel An end the end is come upon the four corners of the
land .
73 Now is the end come upon thee and I will send mine anger
upon thee and will judge thee according to thy ways and will
recompense upon thee all thine abominations .
74 And mine eye shall not spare thee neither will I have pity
but I will recompense thy ways upon thee and thine abominations
shall be in the midst of thee and ye shall know that I am the
LORD .
75 Thus saith the Lord GOD An evil an only evil behold is come
.
76 An end is come the end is come it watcheth for thee behold
it is come .
77 The morning is come unto thee O thou that dwellest in the
land the time is come the day of trouble is near and not the
sounding again of the mountains .
78 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee and
accomplish mine anger upon thee and I will judge thee according
to thy ways and will recompense thee for all thine abominations .
79 And mine eye shall not spare neither will I have pity I
will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine
abominations that are in the midst of thee and ye shall know
that I am the LORD that smiteth .
710 Behold the day behold it is come the morning is gone forth
the rod hath blossomed pride hath budded .
711 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness none of them
shall remain nor of their multitude nor of any of theirs neither
shall there be wailing for them .
712 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 .
713 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold
although they were yet alive for the vision is touching the
whole multitude thereof which shall not return neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life .
714 They have blown the trumpet even to make all ready but
none goeth to the battle for my wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof .
715 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 .
716 But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on
the mountains like doves of the valleys all of them mourning
every one for his iniquity .
717 All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak as
water .
718 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 .
719 They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold
shall be removed their silver and their gold shall not be able
to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD they shall
not satisfy their souls neither fill their bowels because it is
the stumblingblock of their iniquity .
720 As for the beauty of his ornament he set it in majesty but
they made the images of their abominations and of their
detestable things therein therefore have I set it far from them .
721 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a
prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil and they shall
pollute it .
722 My face will I turn also from them and they shall pollute
my secret place for the robbers shall enter into it and defile
it .
723 Make a chain for the land is full of bloody crimes and the
city is full of violence .
724 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen and they
shall possess their houses I will also make the pomp of the
strong to cease and their holy places shall be defiled .
725 Destruction cometh and they shall seek peace and there
shall be none .
726 Mischief shall come upon mischief and rumour shall be upon
rumour then shall they seek a vision of the prophet but the law
shall perish from the priest and counsel from the ancients .
727 The king shall mourn and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled I will do unto them after their way and according to
their deserts will I judge them and they shall know that I am
the LORD .
* 81 And it came to pass in the sixth year in the sixth month
in the fifth day of the month as I sat in mine house and the
elders of Judah sat before me that the hand of the Lord GOD fell
there upon me .
82 Then I beheld and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire
from the appearance of his loins even downward fire and from his
loins even upward as the appearance of brightness as the colour
of amber .
83 And he put forth the form of an hand and took me by a lock
of mine head and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and
the heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem to
the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north where
was the seat of the image of jealousy which provoketh to
jealousy .
84 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there
according to the vision that I saw in the plain .
85 Then said he unto me Son of man lift up thine eyes now the
way toward the north So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the
north and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image
of jealousy in the entry .
86 He said furthermore unto me Son of man seest thou what they
do even the great abominations that the house of Israel
committeth here that I should go far off from my sanctuary but
turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations .
87 And he brought me to the door of the court and when I
looked behold a hole in the wall .
88 Then said he unto me Son of man dig now in the wall and
when I had digged in the wall behold a door .
89 And he said unto me Go in and behold the wicked
abominations that they do here .
810 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 .
811 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the
son of Shaphan with every man his censer in his hand and a thick
cloud of incense went up .
812 Then said he unto me Son of man hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the
chambers of his imagery for they say The LORD seeth us not the
LORD hath forsaken the earth .
813 He said also unto me Turn thee yet again and thou shalt
see greater abominations that they do .
814 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S
house which was toward the north and behold there sat women
weeping for Tammuz .
815 Then said he unto me Hast thou seen this O son of man turn
thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations than
these .
816 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house
and behold at the door of the temple of the LORD between the
porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their
backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the
east and they worshipped the sun toward the east .
817 Then he said unto me Hast thou seen this O son of man Is
it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
abominations which they commit here for they have filled the
land with violence and have returned to provoke me to anger and
lo they put the branch to their nose .
818 Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eye shall not
spare neither will I have pity and though they cry in mine ears
with a loud voice yet will I not hear them .
* 91 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice saying Cause
them that have charge over the city to draw near even every man
with his destroying weapon in his hand .
92 And behold six men came from the way of the higher gate
which lieth toward the north and every man a slaughter weapon in
his hand and one man among them was clothed with linen with a
writer's inkhorn by his side and they went in and stood beside
the brazen altar .
93 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
cherub whereupon he was to the threshold of the house And he
called to the man clothed with linen which had the writer's
inkhorn by his side .
94 And the LORD said unto him Go through the midst of the city
through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that
be done in the midst thereof .
95 And to the others he said in mine hearing Go ye after him
through the city and smite let not your eye spare neither have
ye pity .
96 Slay utterly old and young both maids and little children
and women but come not near any man upon whom is the mark and
begin at my sanctuary Then they began at the ancient men which
were before the house .
97 And he said unto them Defile the house and fill the courts
with the slain go ye forth And they went forth and slew in the
city .
98 And it came to pass while they were slaying them and I was
left that I fell upon my face and cried and said Ah Lord GOD
wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out
of thy fury upon Jerusalem .
99 Then said he unto me The iniquity of the house of Israel
and Judah is exceeding great and the land is full of blood and
the city full of perverseness for they say The LORD hath
forsaken the earth and the LORD seeth not .
910 And as for me also mine eye shall not spare neither will I
have pity but I will recompense their way upon their head .
911 And behold the man clothed with linen which had the
inkhorn by his side reported the matter saying I have done as
thou hast commanded me .
* 101 Then I looked and behold in the firmament that was above
the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a
sapphire stone as the appearance of the likeness of a throne .
102 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen and said Go
in between the wheels even under the cherub and fill thine hand
with coals of fire from between the cherubims and scatter them
over the city And he went in in my sight .
103 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house
when the man went in and the cloud filled the inner court .
104 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub and
stood over the threshold of the house and the house was filled
with the cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the
LORD'S glory .
105 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to
the outer court as the voice of the Almighty God when he
speaketh .
106 And it came to pass that when he had commanded the man
clothed with linen saying Take fire from between the wheels from
between the cherubims then he went in and stood beside the
wheels .
107 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims and took
thereof and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with
linen who took it and went out .
108 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's
hand under their wings .
109 And when I looked behold the four wheels by the cherubims
one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by another cherub and
the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone .
1010 And as for their appearances they four had one likeness
as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel .
1011 When they went they went upon their four sides they
turned not as they went but to the place whither the head looked
they followed it they turned not as they went .
1012 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 .
1013 As for the wheels it was cried unto them in my hearing O
wheel .
1014 And every one had four faces the first face was the face
of a cherub and the second face was the face of a man and the
third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle .
1015 And the cherubims were lifted up This is the living
creature that I saw by the river of Chebar .
1016 And when the cherubims went the wheels went by them and
when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the
earth the same wheels also turned not from beside them .
1017 When they stood these stood and when they were lifted up
these lifted up themselves also for the spirit of the living
creature was in them .
1018 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the
threshold of the house and stood over the cherubims .
1019 And the cherubims lifted up their wings and mounted up
from the earth in my sight when they went out the wheels also
were beside them and every one stood at the door of the east
gate of the LORD'S house and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above .
1020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of
Israel by the river of Chebar and I knew that they were the
cherubims .
1021 Every one had four faces apiece and every one four wings
and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings .
1022 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which
I saw by the river of Chebar their appearances and themselves
they went every one straight forward .
* 111 Moreover the spirit lifted me up and brought me unto the
east gate of the LORD'S house which looketh eastward and behold
at the door of the gate five and twenty men among whom I saw
Jaazaniah the son of Azur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah
princes of the people .
112 Then said he unto me Son of man these are the men that
devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city .
113 Which say It is not near let us build houses this city is
the caldron and we be the flesh .
114 Therefore prophesy against them prophesy O son of man .
115 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and said unto me
Speak Thus saith the LORD Thus have ye said O house of Israel
for I know the things that come into your mind every one of them
.
116 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city and ye have
filled the streets thereof with the slain .
117 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Your slain whom ye have
laid in the midst of it they are the flesh and this city is the
caldron but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it .
118 Ye have feared the sword and I will bring a sword upon you
saith the Lord GOD .
119 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof and deliver
you into the hands of strangers and will execute judgments among
you .
1110 Ye shall fall by the sword I will judge you in the border
of Israel and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
1111 This city shall not be your caldron neither shall ye be
the flesh in the midst thereof but I will judge you in the
border of Israel .
1112 And ye shall know that I am the LORD for ye have not
walked in my statutes neither executed my judgments but have
done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you .
1113 And it came to pass when I prophesied that Pelatiah the
son of Benaiah died Then fell I down upon my face and cried with
a loud voice and said Ah Lord GOD wilt thou make a full end of
the remnant of Israel .
1114 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
1115 Son of man thy brethren even thy brethren the men of thy
kindred and all the house of Israel wholly are they unto whom
the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said Get you far from the LORD
unto us is this land given in possession .
1116 Therefore say Thus saith the Lord GOD Although I have
cast them far off among the heathen and although I have
scattered them among the countries yet will I be to them as a
little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come .
1117 Therefore say Thus saith the Lord GOD I will even gather
you from the people and assemble you out of the countries where
ye have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel .
1118 And they shall come thither and they shall take away all
the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof
from thence .
1119 And I will give them one heart and I will put a new
spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their
flesh and will give them an heart of flesh .
1120 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 .
1121 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of
their detestable things and their abominations I will recompense
their way upon their own heads saith the Lord GOD .
1122 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings and the wheels
beside them and the glory of the God of Israel was over them
above .
1123 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the
city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of
the city .
1124 Afterwards the spirit took me up and brought me in a
vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea to them of the
captivity So the vision that I had seen went up from me .
1125 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things
that the LORD had showed me .
* 121 The word of the LORD also came unto me saying .
122 Son of man thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious
house which have eyes to see and see not they have ears to hear
and hear not for they are a rebellious house .
123 Therefore thou son of man prepare thee stuff for removing
and remove by day in their sight and thou shalt remove from thy
place to another place in their sight it may be they will
consider though they be a rebellious house .
124 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their
sight as stuff for removing and thou shalt go forth at even in
their sight as they that go forth into captivity .
125 Dig thou through the wall in their sight and carry out
thereby .
126 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders and
carry it forth in the twilight thou shalt cover thy face that
thou see not the ground for I have set thee for a sign unto the
house of Israel .
127 And I did so as I was commanded I brought forth my stuff
by day as stuff for captivity and in the even I digged through
the wall with mine hand I brought it forth in the twilight and I
bare it upon my shoulder in their sight .
128 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me
saying .
129 Son of man hath not the house of Israel the rebellious
house said unto thee What doest thou .
1210 Say thou unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD This burden
concerneth the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel
that are among them .
1211 Say I am your sign like as I have done so shall it be
done unto them they shall remove and go into captivity .
1212 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his
shoulder in the twilight and shall go forth they shall dig
through the wall to carry out thereby he shall cover his face
that he see not the ground with his eyes .
1213 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 .
1214 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about
him to help him and all his bands and I will draw out the sword
after them .
1215 And they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall
scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the
countries .
1216 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword from
the famine and from the pestilence that they may declare all
their abominations among the heathen whither they come and they
shall know that I am the LORD .
1217 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying .
1218 Son of man eat thy bread with quaking and drink thy water
with trembling and with carefulness .
1219 And say unto the people of the land Thus saith the Lord
GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel
They shall eat their bread with carefulness and drink their
water with astonishment that her land may be desolate from all
that is therein because of the violence of all them that dwell
therein .
1220 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste and
the land shall be desolate and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
1221 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
1222 Son of man what is that proverb that ye have in the land
of Israel saying The days are prolonged and every vision faileth
.
1223 Tell them therefore Thus saith the Lord GOD I will make
this proverb to cease and they shall no more use it as a proverb
in Israel but say unto them The days are at hand and the effect
of every vision .
1224 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel .
1225 For I am the LORD I will speak and the word that I shall
speak shall come to pass it shall be no more prolonged for in
your days O rebellious house will I say the word and will
perform it saith the Lord GOD .
1226 Again the word of the LORD came to me saying .
1227 Son of man behold they of the house of Israel say The
vision that he seeth is for many days to come and he prophesieth
of the times that are far off .
1228 Therefore say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD There
shall none of my words be prolonged any more but the word which
I have spoken shall be done saith the Lord GOD .
* 131 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
132 Son of man prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own
hearts Hear ye the word of the LORD .
133 Thus saith the Lord GOD Woe unto the foolish prophets that
follow their own spirit and have seen nothing .
134 O Israel thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts .
135 Ye have not gone up into the gaps neither made up the
hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day
of the LORD .
136 They have seen vanity and lying divination saying The LORD
saith and the LORD hath not sent them and they have made others
to hope that they would confirm the word .
137 Have ye not seen a vain vision and have ye not spoken a
lying divination whereas ye say The LORD saith it albeit I have
not spoken .
138 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye have spoken
vanity and seen lies therefore behold I am against you saith the
Lord GOD .
139 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity
and that divine lies they shall not be in the assembly of my
people neither shall they be written in the writing of the house
of Israel neither shall they enter into the land of Israel and
ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD .
1310 Because even because they have seduced my people saying
Peace and there was no peace and one built up a wall and lo
others daubed it with untempered mortar .
1311 Say unto them which 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 .
1312 Lo when the wall is fallen shall it not be said unto you
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it .
1313 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I will even rend it
with a stormy wind in my fury and there shall be an overflowing
shower in mine anger and great hailstones in my fury to consume
it .
1314 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 discovered and it shall fall and ye
shall be consumed in the midst thereof and ye shall know that I
am the LORD .
1315 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon
them that have daubed it with untempered mortar and will say
unto you The wall is no more neither they that daubed it .
1316 To wit the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem and which see visions of peace for her and there is no
peace saith the Lord GOD .
1317 Likewise thou son of man set thy face against the
daughters of thy people which prophesy out of their own heart
and prophesy thou against them .
1318 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the women that sew
pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of
every stature to hunt souls Will ye hunt the souls of my people
and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you .
1319 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of
barley and for pieces of bread to slay the souls that should not
die and to save the souls alive that should not live by your
lying to my people that hear your lies .
1320 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against
your pillows wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly
and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go
even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly .
1321 Your kerchiefs also will I tear and deliver my people out
of your hand and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
1322 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous
sad whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the
wicked that he should not return from his wicked way by
promising him life .
1323 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity nor divine
divinations for I will deliver my people out of your hand and ye
shall know that I am the LORD .
* 141 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me and sat
before me .
142 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
143 Son of man these men have set up their idols in their
heart and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their
face should I be inquired of at all by them .
144 Therefore speak unto them and say unto them Thus saith the
Lord GOD Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
idols in his heart and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face and cometh to the prophet I the LORD
will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his
idols .
145 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart
because they are all estranged from me through their idols .
146 Therefore say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord
GOD Repent and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away
your faces from all your abominations .
147 For every one of the house of Israel or of the stranger
that sojourneth in Israel which separateth himself from me and
setteth up his idols in his heart and putteth the stumblingblock
of his iniquity before his face and cometh to a prophet to
inquire of him concerning me I the LORD will answer him by
myself .
148 And I will set my face against that man and will make him
a sign and a proverb and I will cut him off from the midst of my
people and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
149 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing
I the LORD have deceived that prophet and I will stretch out my
hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people
Israel .
1410 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him
that seeketh unto him .
1411 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions but
that they may be my people and I may be their God saith the Lord
GOD .
1412 The word of the LORD came again to me saying .
1413 Son of man when the land sinneth against me by
trespassing grievously then will I stretch out mine hand upon it
and will break the staff of the bread thereof and will send
famine upon it and will cut off man and beast from it .
1414 Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness
saith the Lord GOD .
1415 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land and
they spoil it so that it be desolate that no man may pass
through because of the beasts .
1416 Though these three men were in it as I live saith the
Lord GOD they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters they only
shall be delivered but the land shall be desolate .
1417 Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say Sword go
through the land so that I cut off man and beast from it .
1418 Though these three men were in it as I live saith the
Lord GOD they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters but they
only shall be delivered themselves .
1419 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my
fury upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast .
1420 Though Noah Daniel and Job were in it as I live saith the
Lord GOD they shall deliver neither son nor daughter they shall
but deliver their own souls by their righteousness .
1421 For thus saith the Lord GOD How much more when I send my
four sore judgments upon Jerusalem the sword and the famine and
the noisome beast and the pestilence to cut off from it man and
beast .
1422 Yet behold therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
brought forth both sons and daughters behold they shall come
forth unto you and ye shall see their way and their doings and
ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought
upon Jerusalem even concerning all that I have brought upon it .
1423 And they shall comfort you when ye see their ways and
their doings and ye shall know that I have not done without
cause all that I have done in it saith the Lord GOD .
* 151 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
152 Son of man What is the vine tree more than any tree or
than a branch which is among the trees of the forest .
153 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work or will men
take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon .
154 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel the fire
devoureth both the ends of it and the midst of it is burned Is
it meet for any work .
155 Behold when it was whole it was meet for no work how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work when the fire hath
devoured it and it is burned .
156 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD As the vine tree among
the trees of the forest which I have given to the fire for fuel
so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
157 And I will set my face against them they shall go out from
one fire and another fire shall devour them and ye shall know
that I am the LORD when I set my face against them .
158 And I will make the land desolate because they have
committed a trespass saith the Lord GOD .
* 161 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
162 Son of man cause Jerusalem to know her abominations .
163 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem Thy birth
and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan thy father was an
Amorite and thy mother an Hittite .
164 And as for thy nativity in the day thou wast born thy
navel was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to supple
thee thou wast not salted at all nor swaddled at all .
165 None eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee to have
compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to
the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born .
166 And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine
own blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood Live yea
I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood Live .
167 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field and
thou hast increased and waxen great and thou art come to
excellent ornaments thy breasts are fashioned and thine hair is
grown whereas thou wast naked and bare .
168 Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy
time was the time of love and I spread my skirt over thee and
covered thy nakedness yea I sware unto thee and entered into a
covenant with thee saith the Lord GOD and thou becamest mine .
169 Then washed I thee with water yea I thoroughly washed away
thy blood from thee and I anointed thee with oil .
1610 I clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee
with badgers' skin and I girded thee about with fine linen and I
covered thee with silk .
1611 I decked thee also with ornaments and I put bracelets
upon thy hands and a chain on thy neck .
1612 And I put a jewel on thy forehead and earrings in thine
ears and a beautiful crown upon thine head .
1613 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver and thy
raiment was of fine linen and silk and broidered work thou didst
eat fine flour and honey and oil and thou wast exceeding
beautiful and thou didst prosper into a kingdom .
1614 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy
beauty for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put
upon thee saith the Lord GOD .
1615 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and playedst the
harlot because of thy renown and pouredst out thy fornications
on every one that passed by his it was .
1616 And of thy garments thou didst take and deckedst thy high
places with divers colours and playedst the harlot thereupon the
like things shall not come neither shall it be so .
1617 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
silver which I had given thee and madest to thyself images of
men and didst commit whoredom with them .
1618 And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them and
thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them .
1619 My meat also which I gave thee fine flour and oil and
honey wherewith I fed thee thou hast even set it before them for
a sweet savour and thus it was saith the Lord GOD .
1620 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters whom
thou hast borne unto me and these hast thou sacrificed unto them
to be devoured Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter .
1621 That thou hast slain my children and delivered them to
cause them to pass through the fire for them .
1622 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast
not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and
bare and wast polluted in thy blood .
1623 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe woe
unto thee saith the Lord GOD .
1624 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place and
hast made thee an high place in every street .
1625 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way
and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred and hast opened thy feet
to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms .
1626 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians
thy neighbours great of flesh and hast increased thy whoredoms
to provoke me to anger .
1627 Behold therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee
and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto
the will of them that hate thee the daughters of the Philistines
which are ashamed of thy lewd way .
1628 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians
because thou wast unsatiable yea thou hast played the harlot
with them and yet couldest not be satisfied .
1629 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land
of Canaan unto Chaldea and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith .
1630 How weak is thine heart saith the Lord GOD seeing thou
doest all these things the work of an imperious whorish woman .
1631 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of
every way and makest thine high place in every street and hast
not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire .
1632 But as a wife that committeth adultery which taketh
strangers instead of her husband .
1633 They give gifts to all whores but thou givest thy gifts
to all thy lovers and hirest them that they may come unto thee
on every side for thy whoredom .
1634 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy
whoredoms whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in
that thou givest a reward and no reward is given unto thee
therefore thou art contrary .
1635 Wherefore O harlot hear the word of the LORD .
1636 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thy filthiness was poured
out and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy
lovers and with all the idols of thy abominations and by the
blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them .
1637 Behold therefore I will gather all thy lovers with whom
thou hast taken pleasure and all them that thou hast loved with
all them that thou hast hated I will even gather them round
about against thee and will discover thy nakedness unto them
that they may see all thy nakedness .
1638 And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and
shed blood are judged and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy .
1639 And I will also give thee into their hand and they shall
throw down thine eminent place and shall break down thy high
places they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take
thy fair jewels and leave thee naked and bare .
1640 They shall also bring up a company against thee and they
shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with their
swords .
1641 And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women and I will cause
thee to cease from playing the harlot and thou also shalt give
no hire any more .
1642 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest and my
jealousy shall depart from thee and I will be quiet and will be
no more angry .
1643 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth
but hast fretted me in all these things behold therefore I also
will recompense thy way upon thine head saith the Lord GOD and
thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine
abominations .
1644 Behold every one that useth proverbs shall use this
proverb against thee saying As is the mother so is her daughter .
1645 Thou art thy mother's daughter that loatheth her husband
and her children and thou art the sister of thy sisters which
loathed their husbands and their children your mother was an
Hittite and your father an Amorite .
1646 And thine elder sister is Samaria she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand and thy younger sister that dwelleth
at thy right hand is Sodom and her daughters .
1647 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways nor done after
their abominations but as if that were a very little thing thou
wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways .
1648 As I live saith the Lord GOD Sodom thy sister hath not
done she nor her daughters as thou hast done thou and thy
daughters .
1649 Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride
fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and
needy .
1650 And they were haughty and committed abomination before me
therefore I took them away as I saw good .
1651 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins but thou
hast multiplied thine abominations more than they and hast
justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast
done .
1652 Thou also which hast judged thy sisters bear thine own
shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than
they they are more righteous than thou yea be thou confounded
also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters .
1653 When I shall bring again their captivity the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives
in the midst of them .
1654 That thou mayest bear thine own shame and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done in that thou art a comfort
unto them .
1655 When thy sisters Sodom and her daughters shall return to
their former estate and Samaria and her daughters shall return
to their former estate then thou and thy daughters shall return
to your former estate .
1656 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in
the day of thy pride .
1657 Before thy wickedness was discovered as at the time of
thy reproach of the daughters of Syria and all that are round
about her the daughters of the Philistines which despise thee
round about .
1658 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations saith
the LORD .
1659 For thus saith the Lord GOD I will even deal with thee as
thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the
covenant .
1660 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the
days of thy youth and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant .
1661 Then thou shalt remember thy ways and be ashamed when
thou shalt receive thy sisters thine elder and thy younger and I
will give them unto thee for daughters but not by thy covenant .
1662 And I will establish my covenant with thee and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD .
1663 That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never
open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified
toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord GOD .
* 171 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
172 Son of man put forth a riddle and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel .
173 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD A great eagle with great
wings longwinged full of feathers which had divers colours came
unto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar .
174 He cropped off the top of his young twigs and carried it
into a land of traffic he set it in a city of merchants .
175 He took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a
fruitful field he placed it by great waters and set it as a
willow tree .
176 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 .
177 There was also another great eagle with great wings and
many feathers and behold this vine did bend her roots toward him
and shot forth her branches toward him that he might water it by
the furrows of her plantation .
178 It was planted in a good soil by great waters that it
might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit that it
might be a goodly vine .
179 Say thou Thus saith the Lord GOD Shall it prosper shall he
not pull up the roots thereof and cut off the fruit thereof that
it wither it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring even
without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots
thereof .
1710 Yea behold being planted shall it prosper shall it not
utterly wither when the east wind toucheth it it shall wither in
the furrows where it grew .
1711 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
1712 Say now to the rebellious house Know ye not what these
things mean tell them Behold the king of Babylon is come to
Jerusalem and hath taken the king thereof and the princes
thereof and led them with him to Babylon .
1713 And hath taken of the king's seed and made a covenant
with him and hath taken an oath of him he hath also taken the
mighty of the land .
1714 That the kingdom might be base that it might not lift
itself up but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand .
1715 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors
into Egypt that they might give him horses and much people Shall
he prosper shall he escape that doeth such things or shall he
break the covenant and be delivered .
1716 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely in the place where
the king dwelleth that made him king whose oath he despised and
whose covenant he brake even with him in the midst of Babylon he
shall die .
1717 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company make for him in the war by casting up mounts and
building forts to cut off many persons .
1718 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant when
lo he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall
not escape .
1719 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD As I live surely mine
oath that he hath despised and my covenant that he hath broken
even it will I recompense upon his own head .
1720 And I will spread my net upon him and he shall be taken
in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with
him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me .
1721 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by
the sword and they that remain shall be scattered toward all
winds and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it .
1722 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also take of the highest
branch of the high cedar and will set it I will crop off from
the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon
an high mountain and eminent .
1723 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it
and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly
cedar and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing in the
shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell .
1724 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD
have brought down the high tree have exalted the low tree have
dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish I
the LORD have spoken and have done it .
* 181 The word of the LORD came unto me again saying .
182 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 .
183 As I live saith the Lord GOD ye shall not have occasion
any more to use this proverb in Israel .
184 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 .
185 But if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right
.
186 And hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lifted
up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel neither hath
defiled his neighbour's wife neither hath come near to a
menstruous woman .
187 And hath not oppressed any but hath restored to the debtor
his pledge hath spoiled none by violence hath given his bread to
the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment .
188 He that hath not given forth upon usury neither hath taken
any increase that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath
executed true judgment between man and man .
189 Hath walked in my statutes and hath kept my judgments to
deal truly he is just he shall surely live saith the Lord GOD .
1810 If he beget a son that is a robber a shedder of blood and
that doeth the like to any one of these things .
1811 And that doeth not any of those duties but even hath
eaten upon the mountains and defiled his neighbour's wife .
1812 Hath oppressed the poor and needy hath spoiled by
violence hath not restored the pledge and hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols hath committed abomination .
1813 Hath given forth upon usury and hath taken increase shall
he then live he shall not live he hath done all these
abominations he shall surely die his blood shall be upon him .
1814 Now lo if he beget a son that seeth all his father's sins
which he hath done and considereth and doeth not such like .
1815 That hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath
lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife .
1816 Neither hath oppressed any hath not withholden the pledge
neither hath spoiled by violence but hath given his bread to the
hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment .
1817 That hath taken off his hand from the poor that hath not
received usury nor increase hath executed my judgments hath
walked in my statutes he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father he shall surely live .
1818 As for his father because he cruelly oppressed spoiled
his brother by violence and did that which is not good among his
people lo even he shall die in his iniquity .
1819 Yet say ye Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
father When the son hath done that which is lawful and right and
hath kept all my statutes and hath done them he shall surely
live .
1820 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 .
1821 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he
hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is
lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not die .
1822 All his transgressions that he hath committed they shall
not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done
he shall live .
1823 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die
saith the Lord GOD and not that he should return from his ways
and live .
1824 But when the righteous turneth away from his
righteousness and committeth iniquity and doeth according to all
the abominations that the wicked man doeth shall he live All his
righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his
trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath
sinned in them shall he die .
1825 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 .
1826 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness
and committeth iniquity and dieth in them for his iniquity that
he hath done shall he die .
1827 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 .
1828 Because he considereth and turneth away from all his
transgressions that he hath committed he shall surely live he
shall not die .
1829 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 .
1830 Therefore I will judge you O house of Israel every one
according to his ways saith the Lord GOD Repent and turn
yourselves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be
your ruin .
1831 Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye
have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for
why will ye die O house of Israel .
1832 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth
saith the Lord GOD wherefore turn yourselves and live ye .
* 191 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel .
192 And say What is thy mother A lioness she lay down among
lions she nourished her whelps among young lions .
193 And she brought up one of her whelps it became a young
lion and it learned to catch the prey it devoured men .
194 The nations also heard of him he was taken in their pit
and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt .
195 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 .
196 And he went up and down among the lions he became a young
lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men .
197 And he knew their desolate palaces and he laid waste their
cities and the land was desolate and the fulness thereof by the
noise of his roaring .
198 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces and spread their net over him he was taken in their
pit .
199 And they put him in ward in chains and brought him to the
king of Babylon they brought him into holds that his voice
should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel .
1910 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the
waters she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
waters .
1911 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that
bare rule and her stature was exalted among the thick branches
and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her
branches .
1912 But she was plucked up in fury she was cast down to the
ground and the east wind dried up her fruit her strong rods were
broken and withered the fire consumed them .
1913 And now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and
thirsty ground .
1914 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches which hath
devoured her fruit so that she hath no strong rod to be a
sceptre to rule This is a lamentation and shall be for a
lamentation .
* 201 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 the LORD and sat before me .
202 Then came the word of the LORD unto me saying .
203 Son of man speak unto the elders of Israel and say unto
them Thus saith the Lord GOD Are ye come to inquire of me As I
live saith the Lord GOD I will not be inquired of by you .
204 Wilt thou judge them son of man wilt thou judge them cause
them to know the abominations of their fathers .
205 And say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day when
I chose Israel and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the
house of Jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of
Egypt when I lifted up mine hand unto them saying I am the LORD
your God .
206 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them to bring
them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied
for them flowing with milk and honey which is the glory of all
lands .
207 Then said I unto them Cast ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes and defile not yourselves with the
idols of Egypt I am the LORD your God .
208 But they rebelled against me and would not hearken unto me
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes
neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt then I said I will
pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them
in the midst of the land of Egypt .
209 But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be
polluted before the heathen among whom they were in whose sight
I made myself known unto them in bringing them forth out of the
land of Egypt .
2010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of
Egypt and brought them into the wilderness .
2011 And I gave them my statutes and showed them my judgments
which if a man do he shall even live in them .
2012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign
between me and them that they might know that I am the LORD that
sanctify them .
2013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the
wilderness they walked not in my statutes and they despised my
judgments which if a man do he shall even live in them and my
sabbaths they greatly polluted then I said I would pour out my
fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them .
2014 But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be
polluted before the heathen in whose sight I brought them out .
2015 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness
that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them
flowing with milk and honey which is the glory of all lands .
2016 Because they despised my judgments and walked not in my
statutes but polluted my sabbaths for their heart went after
their idols .
2017 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them
neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness .
2018 But I said unto their children in the wilderness Walk ye
not in the statutes of your fathers neither observe their
judgments nor defile yourselves with their idols .
2019 I am the LORD your God walk in my statutes and keep my
judgments and do them .
2020 And hallow my sabbaths and they shall be a sign between
me and you that ye may know that I am the LORD your God .
2021 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me they
walked not in my statutes neither kept my judgments to do them
which if a man do he shall even live in them they polluted my
sabbaths then I said I would pour out my fury upon them to
accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness .
2022 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand and wrought for my
name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the
heathen in whose sight I brought them forth .
2023 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness
that I would scatter them among the heathen and disperse them
through the countries .
2024 Because they had not executed my judgments but had
despised my statutes and had polluted my sabbaths and their eyes
were after their fathers' idols .
2025 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good
and judgments whereby they should not live .
2026 And I polluted them in their own gifts in that they
caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb that I
might make them desolate to the end that they might know that I
am the LORD .
2027 Therefore son of man speak unto the house of Israel and
say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Yet in this your fathers
have blasphemed me in that they have committed a trespass
against me .
2028 For when I had brought them into the land for the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to them then they saw every high
hill and all the thick trees and they offered there their
sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their
offering there also they made their sweet savour and poured out
there their drink offerings .
2029 Then I said unto them What is the high place whereunto ye
go And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day .
2030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the
Lord GOD Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers and
commit ye whoredom after their abominations .
2031 For when ye offer your gifts when ye make your sons to
pass through the fire ye pollute yourselves with all your idols
even unto this day and shall I be inquired of by you O house of
Israel As I live saith the Lord GOD I will not be inquired of
by you .
2032 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all
that ye say We will be as the heathen as the families of the
countries to serve wood and stone .
2033 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely with a mighty hand
and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out will I
rule over you .
2034 And I will bring you out from the people and will gather
you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered with a mighty
hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out .
2035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people
and there will I plead with you face to face .
2036 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of
the land of Egypt so will I plead with you saith the Lord GOD .
2037 And I will cause you to pass under the rod and I will
bring you into the bond of the covenant .
2038 And I will purge out from among you the rebels and them
that transgress against me I will bring them forth out of the
country where they sojourn and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
2039 As for you O house of Israel thus saith the Lord GOD Go ye
serve ye every one his idols and hereafter also if ye will not
hearken unto me but pollute ye my holy name no more with your
gifts and with your idols .
2040 For in mine holy mountain in the mountain of the height
of Israel saith the Lord GOD there shall all the house of Israel
all of them in the land serve me there will I accept them and
there will I require your offerings and the firstfruits of your
oblations with all your holy things .
2041 I will accept you with your sweet savour when I bring you
out from the people and gather you out of the countries wherein
ye have been scattered and I will be sanctified in you before
the heathen .
2042 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I shall bring
you into the land of Israel into the country for the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers .
2043 And there shall ye remember your ways and all your doings
wherein ye have been defiled and ye shall loathe yourselves in
your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed .
2044 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought
with you for my name's sake not according to your wicked ways
nor according to your corrupt doings O ye house of Israel saith
the Lord GOD .
2045 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
2046 Son of man set thy face toward the south and drop thy
word toward the south and prophesy against the forest of the
south field .
2047 And say to the forest of the south Hear the word of the
LORD Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will kindle a fire in thee
and it shall devour every green tree in thee and every dry tree
the flaming flame shall not be quenched and all faces from the
south to the north shall be burned therein .
2048 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it
it shall not be quenched .
2049 Then said I Ah Lord GOD they say of me Doth he not speak
parables .
* 211 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
212 Son of man set thy face toward Jerusalem and drop thy word
toward the holy places and prophesy against the land of Israel .
213 And say to the land of Israel Thus saith the LORD Behold I
am against thee and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath
and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked .
214 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous
and the wicked therefore shall my sword go forth out of his
sheath against all flesh from the south to the north .
215 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth
my sword out of his sheath it shall not return any more .
216 Sigh therefore thou son of man with the breaking of thy
loins and with bitterness sigh before their eyes .
217 And it shall be when they say unto thee Wherefore sighest
thou that thou shalt answer For the tidings because it cometh
and every heart shall melt and all hands shall be feeble and
every spirit shall faint and all knees shall be weak as water
behold it cometh and shall be brought to pass saith the Lord GOD
.
218 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
219 Son of man prophesy and say Thus saith the LORD Say A
sword a sword is sharpened and also furbished .
2110 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter it is furbished
that it may glitter should we then make mirth it contemneth the
rod of my son as every tree .
2111 And he hath given it to be furbished that it may be
handled this sword is sharpened and it is furbished to give it
into the hand of the slayer .
2112 Cry and howl son of man for it shall be upon my people it
shall be upon all the princes of Israel terrors by reason of the
sword shall be upon my people smite therefore upon thy thigh .
2113 Because it is a trial and what if the sword contemn even
the rod it shall be no more saith the Lord GOD .
2114 Thou therefore son of man prophesy and smite thine hands
together and let the sword be doubled the third time the sword
of the slain it is the sword of the great men that are slain
which entereth into their privy chambers .
2115 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates
that their heart may faint and their ruins be multiplied ah it
is made bright it is wrapped up for the slaughter .
2116 Go thee one way or other either on the right hand or on
the left whithersoever thy face is set .
2117 I will also smite mine hands together and I will cause my
fury to rest I the LORD have said it .
2118 The word of the LORD came unto me again saying .
2119 Also thou son of man appoint thee two ways that the sword
of the king of Babylon may come both twain shall come forth out
of one land and choose thou a place choose it at the head of the
way to the city .
2120 Appoint a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
Ammonites and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced .
2121 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way
at the head of the two ways to use divination he made his arrows
bright he consulted with images he looked in the liver .
2122 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem to
appoint captains to open the mouth in the slaughter to lift up
the voice with shouting to appoint battering rams against the
gates to cast a mount and to build a fort .
2123 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
sight to them that have sworn oaths but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken .
2124 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye have made
your iniquity to be remembered in that your transgressions are
discovered so that in all your doings your sins do appear
because I say that ye are come to remembrance ye shall be taken
with the hand .
2125 And thou profane wicked prince of Israel whose day is
come when iniquity shall have an end .
2126 Thus saith the Lord GOD Remove the diadem and take off
the crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and
abase him that is high .
2127 I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no
more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him .
2128 And thou son of man prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach even
say thou The sword the sword is drawn for the slaughter it is
furbished to consume because of the glittering .
2129 Whiles they see vanity unto thee whiles they divine a lie
unto thee to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain of
the wicked whose day is come when their iniquity shall have an
end .
2130 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath I will judge
thee in the place where thou wast created in the land of thy
nativity .
2131 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee I will
blow against thee in the fire of my wrath and deliver thee into
the hand of brutish men and skilful to destroy .
2132 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire thy blood shall be in
the midst of the land thou shalt be no more remembered for I the
LORD have spoken it .
* 221 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
222 Now thou son of man wilt thou judge wilt thou judge the
bloody city yea thou shalt show her all her abominations .
223 Then say thou Thus saith the Lord GOD The city sheddeth
blood in the midst of it that her time may come and maketh idols
against herself to defile herself .
224 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed
and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made and
thou hast caused thy days to draw near and art come even unto
thy years therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen
and a mocking to all countries .
225 Those that be near and those that be far from thee shall
mock thee which art infamous and much vexed .
226 Behold the princes of Israel every one were in thee to
their power to shed blood .
227 In thee have they set light by father and mother in the
midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger in
thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow .
228 Thou hast despised mine holy things and hast profaned my
sabbaths .
229 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood and in thee
they eat upon the mountains in the midst of thee they commit
lewdness .
2210 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness in
thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution .
2211 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's
wife and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law and
another in thee hath humbled his sister his father's daughter .
2212 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood thou hast
taken usury and increase and thou hast greedily gained of thy
neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me saith the Lord GOD
.
2213 Behold therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy
dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which hath
been in the midst of thee .
2214 Can thine heart endure or can thine hands be strong in
the days that I shall deal with thee I the LORD have spoken it
and will do it .
2215 And I will scatter thee among the heathen and disperse
thee in the countries and will consume thy filthiness out of
thee .
2216 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the
sight of the heathen and thou shalt know that I am the LORD .
2217 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
2218 Son of man the house of Israel is to me become dross all
they are brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the
furnace they are even the dross of silver .
2219 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye are all
become dross behold therefore I will gather you into the midst
of Jerusalem .
2220 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin
into the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it to melt
it so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury and I will
leave you there and melt you .
2221 Yea I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my
wrath and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof .
2222 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace so shall
ye be melted in the midst thereof and ye shall know that I the
LORD have poured out my fury upon you .
2223 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
2224 Son of man say unto her Thou art the land that is not
cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation .
2225 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst
thereof like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured
souls they have taken the treasure and precious things they have
made her many widows in the midst thereof .
2226 Her priests have violated my law and have profaned mine
holy things they have put no difference between the holy and
profane neither have they showed difference between the unclean
and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths and I am
profaned among them .
2227 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening
the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest
gain .
2228 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar
seeing vanity and divining lies unto them saying Thus saith the
Lord GOD when the LORD hath not spoken .
2229 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised
robbery and have vexed the poor and needy yea they have
oppressed the stranger wrongfully .
2230 And I sought for a man among them that should make up the
hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should
not destroy it but I found none .
2231 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them I
have consumed them with the fire of my wrath their own way have
I recompensed upon their heads saith the Lord GOD .
* 231 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .
232 Son of man there were two women the daughters of one
mother .
233 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt they committed
whoredoms in their youth there were their breasts pressed and
there they bruised the teats of their virginity .
234 And the names of them were Aholah the elder and Aholibah
her sister and they were mine and they bare sons and daughters
Thus were their names Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah .
235 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine and she
doted on her lovers on the Assyrians her neighbours .
236 Which were clothed with blue captains and rulers all of
them desirable young men horsemen riding upon horses .
237 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them with all them
that were the chosen men of Assyria and with all on whom she
doted with all their idols she defiled herself .
238 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt for in
her youth they lay with her and they bruised the breasts of her
virginity and poured their whoredom upon her .
239 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers
into the hand of the Assyrians upon whom she doted .
2310 These discovered her nakedness they took her sons and her
daughters and slew her with the sword and she became famous
among women for they had executed judgment upon her .
2311 And when her sister Aholibah saw this she was more
corrupt in her inordinate love than she and in her whoredoms
more than her sister in her whoredoms .
2312 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours captains and
rulers clothed most gorgeously horsemen riding upon horses all
of them desirable young men .
2313 Then I saw that she was defiled that they took both one
way .
2314 And that she increased her whoredoms for when she saw men
portrayed upon the wall the images of the Chaldeans portrayed
with vermilion .
2315 Girded with girdles upon their loins exceeding in dyed
attire upon their heads all of them princes to look to after the
manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea the land of their nativity .
2316 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon
them and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea .
2317 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love and
they defiled her with their whoredom and she was polluted with
them and her mind was alienated from them .
2318 So she discovered her whoredoms and discovered her
nakedness then my mind was alienated from her like as my mind
was alienated from her sister .
2319 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to
remembrance the days of her youth wherein she had played the
harlot in the land of Egypt .
2320 For she doted upon their paramours whose flesh is as the
flesh of asses and whose issue is like the issue of horses .
2321 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy
youth in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy
youth .
2322 Therefore O Aholibah thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I
will raise up thy lovers against thee from whom thy mind is
alienated and I will bring them against thee on every side .
2323 The Babylonians and all the Chaldeans Pekod and Shoa and
Koa and all the Assyrians with them all of them desirable young
men captains and rulers great lords and renowned all of them
riding upon horses .
2324 And they shall come against thee with chariots wagons and
wheels and with an assembly of people which shall set against
thee buckler and shield and helmet round about and I will set
judgment before them and they shall judge thee according to
their judgments .
2325 And I will set my jealousy against thee and they shall
deal furiously with thee they shall take away thy nose and thine
ears and thy remnant shall fall by the sword they shall take thy
sons and thy daughters and thy residue shall be devoured by the
fire .
2326 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes and take
away thy fair jewels .
2327 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 .
2328 For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will deliver thee
into the hand of them whom thou hatest into the hand of them
from whom thy mind is alienated .
2329 And they shall deal with thee hatefully and shall take
away all thy labour and shall leave thee naked and bare and the
nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered both thy lewdness
and thy whoredoms .
2330 I will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a
whoring after the heathen and because thou art polluted with
their idols .
2331 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister therefore will
I give her cup into thine hand .
2332 Thus saith the Lord GOD Thou shalt drink of thy sister's
cup deep and large thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in
derision it containeth much .
2333 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow with the
cup of astonishment and desolation with the cup of thy sister
Samaria .
2334 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out and thou shalt
break the sherds thereof and pluck off thine own breasts for I
have spoken it saith the Lord GOD .
2335 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast
forgotten me and cast me behind thy back therefore bear thou
also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms .
2336 The LORD said moreover unto me Son of man wilt thou judge
Aholah and Aholibah yea declare unto them their abominations .
2337 That they have committed adultery and blood is in their
hands and with their idols have they committed adultery and have
also caused their sons whom they bare unto me to pass for them
through the fire to devour them .
2338 Moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths .
2339 For when they had slain their children to their idols
then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it and
lo thus have they done in the midst of mine house .
2340 And furthermore that ye have sent for men to come from
far unto whom a messenger was sent and lo they came for whom
thou didst wash thyself paintedst thy eyes and deckedst thyself
with ornaments .
2341 And satest upon a stately bed and a table prepared before
it whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil .
2342 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her and
with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the
wilderness which put bracelets upon their hands and beautiful
crowns upon their heads .
2343 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries Will they
now commit whoredoms with her and she with them .
2344 Yet they went in unto her as they go in unto a woman that
playeth the harlot so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah
the lewd women .
2345 And the righteous men they shall judge them after the
manner of adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed
blood because they are adulteresses and blood is in their hands .
2346 For thus saith the Lord GOD I will bring up a company
upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled .
2347 And the company shall stone them with stones and dispatch
them with their swords they shall slay their sons and their
daughters and burn up their houses with fire .
2348 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land that
all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness .
2349 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you and ye
shall bear the sins of your idols and ye shall know that I am
the Lord GOD .
* 241 Again in the ninth year in the tenth month in the tenth
day of the month the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
242 Son of man write thee the name of the day even of this
same day the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this
same day .
243 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house and say unto
them Thus saith the Lord GOD Set on a pot set it on and also
pour water into it .
244 Gather the pieces thereof into it even every good piece
the thigh and the shoulder fill it with the choice bones .
245 Take the choice of the flock and burn also the bones under
it and make it boil well and let them seethe the bones of it
therein .
246 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the bloody city
to the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out
of it bring it out piece by piece let no lot fall upon it .
247 For her blood is in the midst of her she set it upon the
top of a rock she poured it not upon the ground to cover it with
dust .
248 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance I
have set her blood upon the top of a rock that it should not be
covered .
249 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the bloody city I
will even make the pile for fire great .
2410 Heap on wood kindle the fire consume the flesh and spice
it well and let the bones be burned .
2411 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof that the brass
of it may be hot and may burn and that the filthiness of it may
be molten in it that the scum of it may be consumed .
2412 She hath wearied herself with lies and her great scum
went not forth out of her her scum shall be in the fire .
2413 In thy filthiness is lewdness because I have purged thee
and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy
filthiness any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee
.
2414 I the LORD have spoken it it shall come to pass and I
will do it I will not go back neither will I spare neither will
I repent according to thy ways and according to thy doings shall
they judge thee saith the Lord GOD .
2415 Also the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
2416 Son of man behold I take away from thee the desire of
thine eyes with a stroke yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep
neither shall thy tears run down .
2417 Forbear to cry make no mourning for the dead bind the
tire of thine head upon thee and put on thy shoes upon thy feet
and cover not thy lips and eat not the bread of men .
2418 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 .
2419 And the people said unto me Wilt thou not tell us what
these things are to us that thou doest so .
2420 Then I answered them The word of the LORD came unto me
saying .
2421 Speak unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD
Behold I will profane my sanctuary the excellency of your
strength the desire of your eyes and that which your soul
pitieth and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall
fall by the sword .
2422 And ye shall do as I have done ye shall not cover your
lips nor eat the bread of men .
2423 And your tires shall be upon your heads and your shoes
upon your feet ye shall not mourn nor weep but ye shall pine
away for your iniquities and mourn one toward another .
2424 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign according to all that he
hath done shall ye do and when this cometh ye shall know that I
am the Lord GOD .
2425 Also thou son of man shall it not be in the day when I
take from them their strength the joy of their glory the desire
of their eyes and that whereupon they set their minds their sons
and their daughters .
2426 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee to
cause thee to hear it with thine ears .
2427 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is
escaped and thou shalt speak and be no more dumb and thou shalt
be a sign unto them and they shall know that I am the LORD .
* 251 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .
252 Son of man set thy face against the Ammonites and prophesy
against them .
253 And say unto the Ammonites Hear the word of the Lord GOD
Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou saidst Aha against my
sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of Israel
when it was desolate and against the house of Judah when they
went into captivity .
254 Behold therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the
east for a possession and they shall set their palaces in thee
and make their dwellings in thee they shall eat thy fruit and
they shall drink thy milk .
255 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the
Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks and ye shall know that I am
the LORD .
256 For thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast clapped
thine hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced in heart with
all thy despite against the land of Israel .
257 Behold therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee
and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen and I will cut
thee off from the people and I will cause thee to perish out of
the countries I will destroy thee and thou shalt know that I am
the LORD .
258 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because that Moab and Seir do say
Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen .
259 Therefore behold I will open the side of Moab from the
cities from his cities which are on his frontiers the glory of
the country Bethjeshimoth Baalmeon and Kiriathaim .
2510 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites and will give
them in possession that the Ammonites may not be remembered
among the nations .
2511 And I will execute judgments upon Moab and they shall
know that I am the LORD .
2512 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because that Edom hath dealt
against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and hath greatly
offended and revenged himself upon them .
2513 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I will also stretch out
mine hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I
will make it desolate from Teman and they of Dedan shall fall by
the sword .
2514 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my
people Israel and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger
and according to my fury and they shall know my vengeance saith
the Lord GOD .
2515 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the Philistines have
dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a despiteful
heart to destroy it for the old hatred .
2516 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will stretch
out mine hand upon the Philistines and I will cut off the
Cherethims and destroy the remnant of the sea coast .
2517 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious
rebukes and they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall lay
my vengeance upon them .
* 261 And it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first day
of the month that the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
262 Son of man because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem
Aha she is broken that was the gates of the people she is turned
unto me I shall be replenished now she is laid waste .
263 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee
O Tyrus and will cause many nations to come up against thee as
the sea causeth his waves to come up .
264 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus and break down
her towers I will also scrape her dust from her and make her
like the top of a rock .
265 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst
of the sea for I have spoken it saith the Lord GOD and it shall
become a spoil to the nations .
266 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by
the sword and they shall know that I am the LORD .
267 For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon a king of kings from the north
with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and companies
and much people .
268 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field
and he shall make a fort against thee and cast a mount against
thee and lift up the buckler against thee .
269 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls and with
his axes he shall break down thy towers .
2610 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover thee thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen
and of the wheels and of the chariots when he shall enter into
thy gates as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach .
2611 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy
streets he shall slay thy people by the sword and thy strong
garrisons shall go down to the ground .
2612 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches and make a prey
of thy merchandise and they shall break down thy walls and
destroy thy pleasant houses and they shall lay thy stones and
thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water .
2613 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease and the
sound of thy harps shall be no more heard .
2614 And I will make thee like the top of a rock thou shalt be
a place to spread nets upon thou shalt be built no more for I
the LORD have spoken it saith the Lord GOD .
2615 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus Shall not the isles
shake at the sound of thy fall when the wounded cry when the
slaughter is made in the midst of thee .
2616 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from
their thrones and lay away their robes and put off their
broidered garments they shall clothe themselves with trembling
they shall sit upon the ground and shall tremble at every moment
and be astonished at thee .
2617 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee and say to
thee How art thou destroyed that wast inhabited of seafaring men
the renowned city which wast strong in the sea she and her
inhabitants which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it .
2618 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall yea
the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure
.
2619 For thus saith the Lord GOD When I shall make thee a
desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited when I
shall bring up the deep upon thee and great waters shall cover
thee .
2620 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into
the pit with the people of old time and shall set thee in the
low parts of the earth in places desolate of old with them that
go down to the pit that thou be not inhabited and I shall set
glory in the land of the living .
2621 I will make thee a terror and thou shalt be no more
though thou be sought for yet shalt thou never be found again
saith the Lord GOD .
* 271 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .
272 Now thou son of man take up a lamentation for Tyrus .
273 And say unto Tyrus O thou that art situate at the entry of
the sea which art a merchant of the people for many isles Thus
saith the Lord GOD O Tyrus thou hast said I am of perfect beauty
.
274 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas thy builders have
perfected thy beauty .
275 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir
they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee .
276 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars the
company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory brought
out of the isles of Chittim .
277 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which
thou spreadest forth to be thy sail blue and purple from the
isles of Elishah was that which covered thee .
278 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners thy
wise men O Tyrus that were in thee were thy pilots .
279 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in
thee thy calkers all the ships of the sea with their mariners
were in thee to occupy thy merchandise .
2710 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army
thy men of war they hanged the shield and helmet in thee they
set forth thy comeliness .
2711 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls
round about and the Gammadims were in thy towers they hanged
their shields upon thy walls round about they have made thy
beauty perfect .
2712 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of
all kind of riches with silver iron tin and lead they traded in
thy fairs .
2713 Javan Tubal and Meshech they were thy merchants they
traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market .
2714 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with
horses and horsemen and mules .
2715 The men of Dedan were thy merchants many isles were the
merchandise of thine hand they brought thee for a present horns
of ivory and ebony .
2716 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the
wares of thy making they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds
purple and broidered work and fine linen and coral and agate .
2717 Judah and the land of Israel they were thy merchants they
traded in thy market wheat of Minnith and Pannag and honey and
oil and balm .
2718 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares
of thy making for the multitude of all riches in the wine of
Helbon and white wool .
2719 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs
bright iron cassia and calamus were in thy market .
2720 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots .
2721 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar they occupied with
thee in lambs and rams and goats in these were they thy
merchants .
2722 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah they were thy merchants
they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices and with all
precious stones and gold .
2723 Haran and Canneh and Eden the merchants of Sheba Asshur
and Chilmad were thy merchants .
2724 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things in blue
clothes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel bound
with cords and made of cedar among thy merchandise .
2725 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market and
thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the
seas .
2726 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters the east
wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas .
2727 Thy riches and thy fairs thy merchandise thy mariners and
thy pilots thy calkers and the occupiers of thy merchandise and
all thy men of war that are in thee and in all thy company which
is in the midst of thee shall fall into the midst of the seas in
the day of thy ruin .
2728 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy
pilots .
2729 And all that handle the oar the mariners and all the
pilots of the sea shall come down from their ships they shall
stand upon the land .
2730 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee and
shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads they
shall wallow themselves in the ashes .
2731 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee and
gird them with sackcloth and they shall weep for thee with
bitterness of heart and bitter wailing .
2732 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
thee and lament over thee saying What city is like Tyrus like
the destroyed in the midst of the sea .
2733 When thy wares went forth out of the seas thou filledst
many people thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise .
2734 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the
depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the
midst of thee shall fall .
2735 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at
thee and their kings shall be sore afraid they shall be troubled
in their countenance .
2736 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee thou
shalt be a terror and never shalt be any more .
* 281 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .
282 Son of man say unto the prince of Tyrus Thus saith the
Lord GOD Because thine heart is lifted up and thou hast said I
am a God I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas yet
thou art a man and not God though thou set thine heart as the
heart of God .
283 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel there is no secret that
they can hide from thee .
284 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast
gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures .
285 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased
thy riches and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches .
286 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast set
thine heart as the heart of God .
287 Behold therefore I will bring strangers upon thee the
terrible of the nations and they shall draw their swords against
the beauty of thy wisdom and they shall defile thy brightness .
288 They shall bring thee down to the pit and thou shalt die
the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas .
289 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee I am God
but thou shalt be a man and no God in the hand of him that
slayeth thee .
2810 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the
hand of strangers for I have spoken it saith the Lord GOD .
2811 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
2812 Son of man take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus
and say unto him Thus saith the Lord GOD Thou sealest up the sum
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty .
2813 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God every precious
stone was thy covering the sardius topaz and the diamond the
beryl the onyx and the jasper the sapphire the emerald and the
carbuncle and gold the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created .
2814 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth and I have set
thee so thou wast upon the holy mountain of God thou hast walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire .
2815 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created till iniquity was found in thee .
2816 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the
midst of thee with violence and thou hast sinned therefore I
will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God and I will
destroy thee O covering cherub from the midst of the stones of
fire .
2817 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness I will cast
thee to the ground I will lay thee before kings that they may
behold thee .
2818 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of
thine iniquities by the iniquity of thy traffic therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee it shall devour thee
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of
all them that behold thee .
2819 All they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished at thee thou shalt be a terror and never shalt thou
be any more .
2820 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
2821 Son of man set thy face against Zidon and prophesy
against it .
2822 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee
O Zidon and I will be glorified in the midst of thee and they
shall know that I am the LORD when I shall have executed
judgments in her and shall be sanctified in her .
2823 For I will send into her pestilence and blood into her
streets and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by
the sword upon her on every side and they shall know that I am
the LORD .
2824 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the
house of Israel nor any grieving thorn of all that are round
about them that despised them and they shall know that I am the
Lord GOD .
2825 Thus saith the Lord GOD When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen then
shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant
Jacob .
2826 And they shall dwell safely therein and shall build
houses and plant vineyards yea they shall dwell with confidence
when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them
round about them and they shall know that I am the LORD their
God .
* 291 In the tenth year in the tenth month in the twelfth day
of the month the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
292 Son of man set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and
prophesy against him and against all Egypt .
293 Speak and say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against
thee Pharaoh king of Egypt the great dragon that lieth in the
midst of his rivers which hath said My river is mine own and I
have made it for myself .
294 But I will put hooks in thy jaws and I will cause the fish
of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales and I will bring thee up
out of the midst of thy rivers and all the fish of thy rivers
shall stick unto thy scales .
295 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness thee and
all the fish of thy rivers thou shalt fall upon the open fields
thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered I have given
thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the
heaven .
296 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the
LORD because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel .
297 When they took hold of thee by thy hand thou didst break
and rend all their shoulder and when they leaned upon thee thou
brakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand .
298 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will bring a
sword upon thee and cut off man and beast out of thee .
299 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste and they
shall know that I am the LORD because he hath said The river is
mine and I have made it .
2910 Behold therefore I am against thee and against thy rivers
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate
from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia .
2911 No foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast
shall pass through it neither shall it be inhabited forty years .
2912 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst
of the countries that are desolate and her cities among the
cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years and I
will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse
them through the countries .
2913 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD At the end of forty years
will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
scattered .
2914 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt and will
cause them to return into the land of Pathros into the land of
their habitation and they shall be there a base kingdom .
2915 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms neither shall it
exalt itself any more above the nations for I will diminish them
that they shall no more rule over the nations .
2916 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of
Israel which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance when they
shall look after them but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD
.
2917 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year in
the first month in the first day of the month the word of the
LORD came unto me saying .
2918 Son of man Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army
to serve a great service against Tyrus every head was made bald
and every shoulder was peeled yet had he no wages nor his army
for Tyrus for the service that he had served against it .
2919 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will give the
land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he shall
take her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey and it
shall be the wages for his army .
2920 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
wherewith he served against it because they wrought for me saith
the Lord GOD .
2921 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel
to bud forth and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in
the midst of them and they shall know that I am the LORD .
* 301 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .
302 Son of man prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord GOD Howl
ye Woe worth the day .
303 For the day is near even the day of the LORD is near a
cloudy day it shall be the time of the heathen .
304 And the sword shall come upon Egypt and great pain shall
be in Ethiopia when the slain shall fall in Egypt and they shall
take away her multitude and her foundations shall be broken down
.
305 Ethiopia and Libya and Lydia and all the mingled people
and Chub and the men of the land that is in league shall fall
with them by the sword .
306 Thus saith the LORD They also that uphold Egypt shall fall
and the pride of her power shall come down from the tower of
Syene shall they fall in it by the sword saith the Lord GOD .
307 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 .
308 And they shall know that I am the LORD when I have set a
fire in Egypt and when all her helpers shall be destroyed .
309 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to
make the careless Ethiopians afraid and great pain shall come
upon them as in the day of Egypt for lo it cometh .
3010 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon .
3011 He and his people with him the terrible of the nations
shall be brought to destroy the land and they shall draw their
swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain .
3012 And I will make the rivers dry and sell the land into the
hand of the wicked and I will make the land waste and all that
is therein by the hand of strangers I the LORD have spoken it .
3013 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also destroy the idols and
I will cause their images to cease out of Noph and there shall
be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will put a fear
in the land of Egypt .
3014 And I will make Pathros desolate and will set fire in
Zoan and will execute judgments in No .
3015 And I will pour my fury upon Sin the strength of Egypt
and I will cut off the multitude of No .
3016 And I will set fire in Egypt Sin shall have great pain
and No shall be rent asunder and Noph shall have distresses
daily .
3017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
sword and these cities shall go into captivity .
3018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened when I
shall break there the yokes of Egypt and the pomp of her
strength shall cease in her as for her a cloud shall cover her
and her daughters shall go into captivity .
3019 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt and they shall
know that I am the LORD .
3020 And it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first
month in the seventh day of the month that the word of the LORD
came unto me saying .
3021 Son of man I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt
and lo it shall not be bound up to be healed to put a roller to
bind it to make it strong to hold the sword .
3022 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against
Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms the strong and
that which was broken and I will cause the sword to fall out of
his hand .
3023 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and
will disperse them through the countries .
3024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and
put my sword in his hand but I will break Pharaoh's arms and he
shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded
man .
3025 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and
the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down and they shall know that I
am the LORD when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king
of Babylon and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt .
3026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and
disperse them among the countries and they shall know that I am
the LORD .
* 311 And it came to pass in the eleventh year in the third
month in the first day of the month that the word of the LORD
came unto me saying .
312 Son of man speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his
multitude Whom art thou like in thy greatness .
313 Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair
branches and with a shadowing shroud and of an high stature and
his top was among the thick boughs .
314 The waters made him great the deep set him up on high with
her rivers running round about his plants and sent out her
little rivers unto all the trees of the field .
315 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of
the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became
long because of the multitude of waters when he shot forth .
316 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs and
under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth
their young and under his shadow dwelt all great nations .
317 Thus was he fair in his greatness in the length of his
branches for his root was by great waters .
318 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him the fir
trees were not like his boughs and the chestnut trees were not
like his branches nor any tree in the garden of God was like
unto him in his beauty .
319 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches so
that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied
him .
3110 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast
lifted up thyself in height and he hath shot up his top among
the thick boughs and his heart is lifted up in his height .
3111 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the
mighty one of the heathen he shall surely deal with him I have
driven him out for his wickedness .
3112 And strangers the terrible of the nations have cut him
off and have left him upon the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen and his boughs are broken by all the
rivers of the land and all the people of the earth are gone down
from his shadow and have left him .
3113 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain
and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches .
3114 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves for their height neither shoot up their top among the
thick boughs neither their trees stand up in their height all
that drink water for they are all delivered unto death to the
nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men
with them that go down to the pit .
3115 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day when he went down to
the grave I caused a mourning I covered the deep for him and I
restrained the floods thereof and the great waters were stayed
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the
field fainted for him .
3116 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when
I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit and
all the trees of Eden the choice and best of Lebanon all that
drink water shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth
.
3117 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be
slain with the sword and they that were his arm that dwelt under
his shadow in the midst of the heathen .
3118 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness
among the trees of Eden yet shalt thou be brought down with the
trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth thou shalt lie
in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the
sword This is Pharaoh and all his multitude saith the Lord GOD .
* 321 And it came to pass in the twelfth year in the twelfth
month in the first day of the month that the word of the LORD
came unto me saying .
322 Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt
and say unto him Thou art like a young lion of the nations and
thou art as a whale in the seas and thou camest forth with thy
rivers and troubledst the waters with thy feet and fouledst
their rivers .
323 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will therefore spread out my net
over thee with a company of many people and they shall bring
thee up in my net .
324 Then will I leave thee upon the land I will cast thee
forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the
heaven to remain upon thee and I will fill the beasts of the
whole earth with thee .
325 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains and fill the
valleys with thy height .
326 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou
swimmest even to the mountains and the rivers shall be full of
thee .
327 And when I shall put thee out I will cover the heaven and
make the stars thereof dark I will cover the sun with a cloud
and the moon shall not give her light .
328 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee
and set darkness upon thy land saith the Lord GOD .
329 I will also vex the hearts of many people when I shall
bring thy destruction among the nations into the countries which
thou hast not known .
3210 Yea I will make many people amazed at thee and their
kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when I shall brandish my
sword before them and they shall tremble at every moment every
man for his own life in the day of thy fall .
3211 For thus saith the Lord GOD The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon thee .
3212 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to
fall the terrible of the nations all of them and they shall
spoil the pomp of Egypt and all the multitude thereof shall be
destroyed .
3213 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside
the great waters neither shall the foot of man trouble them any
more nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them .
3214 Then will I make their waters deep and cause their rivers
to run like oil saith the Lord GOD .
3215 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and the
country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full when I
shall smite all them that dwell therein then shall they know
that I am the LORD .
3216 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her
the daughters of the nations shall lament her they shall lament
for her even for Egypt and for all her multitude saith the Lord
GOD .
3217 It came to pass also in the twelfth year in the fifteenth
day of the month that the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
3218 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 .
3219 Whom dost thou pass in beauty go down and be thou laid
with the uncircumcised .
3220 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by
the sword she is delivered to the sword draw her and all her
multitudes .
3221 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
midst of hell with them that help him they are gone down they
lie uncircumcised slain by the sword .
3222 Asshur is there and all her company his graves are about
him all of them slain fallen by the sword .
3223 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit and her
company is round about her grave all of them slain fallen by the
sword which caused terror in the land of the living .
3224 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave
all of them slain fallen by the sword which are gone down
uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth which caused
their terror in the land of the living yet have they borne their
shame with them that go down to the pit .
3225 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with
all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them
uncircumcised slain by the sword though their terror was caused
in the land of the living yet have they borne their shame with
them that go down to the pit he is put in the midst of them that
be slain .
3226 There is Meshech Tubal and all her multitude her graves
are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword
though they caused their terror in the land of the living .
3227 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of
the uncircumcised which are gone down to hell with their weapons
of war and they have laid their swords under their heads but
their iniquities shall be upon their bones though they were the
terror of the mighty in the land of the living .
3228 Yea thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised and shalt lie with them that are slain with the
sword .
3229 There is Edom her kings and all her princes which with
their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword they
shall lie with the uncircumcised and with them that go down to
the pit .
3230 There be the princes of the north all of them and all the
Zidonians which are gone down with the slain with their terror
they are ashamed of their might and they lie uncircumcised with
them that be slain by the sword and bear their shame with them
that go down to the pit .
3231 Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all
his multitude even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword
saith the Lord GOD .
3232 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living and
he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them
that are slain with the sword even Pharaoh and all his multitude
saith the Lord GOD .
* 331 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
332 Son of man speak to the children of thy people and say
unto them When I bring the sword upon a land if the people of
the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their
watchman .
333 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the
trumpet and warn the people .
334 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 .
335 He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his
blood shall be upon him But he that taketh warning shall deliver
his soul .
336 But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the
trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take
any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but
his blood will I require at the watchman's hand .
337 So thou O son of man I have set thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth
and warn them from me .
338 When I say unto the wicked O wicked man thou shalt surely
die if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that
wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I
require at thine hand .
339 Nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn
from it if he do not turn from his way he shall die in his
iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul .
3310 Therefore O thou son of man speak unto the house of
Israel Thus ye speak saying If our transgressions and our sins
be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live .
3311 Say unto them As I live saith the Lord GOD I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn
from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for
why will ye die O house of Israel .
3312 Therefore thou son of man say unto the children of thy
people The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him
in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the
wicked he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from
his wickedness neither shall the righteous be able to live for
his righteousness in the day that he sinneth .
3313 When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely
live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity
all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered but for his
iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it .
3314 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 .
3315 If the wicked restore the pledge give again that he had
robbed walk in the statutes of life without committing iniquity
he shall surely live he shall not die .
3316 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be
mentioned unto him he hath done that which is lawful and right
he shall surely live .
3317 Yet the children of thy people say The way of the Lord is
not equal but as for them their way is not equal .
3318 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness and
committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby .
3319 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness and do that
which is lawful and right he shall live thereby .
3320 Yet ye say The way of the Lord is not equal O ye house of
Israel I will judge you every one after his ways .
3321 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 .
3322 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening afore
he that was escaped came and had opened my mouth until he came
to me in the morning and my mouth was opened and I was no more
dumb .
3323 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
3324 Son of man they that inhabit those wastes of the land of
Israel speak saying Abraham was one and he inherited the land
but we are many the land is given us for inheritance .
3325 Wherefore say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Ye eat
with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and shed
blood and shall ye possess the land .
3326 Ye stand upon your sword ye work abomination and ye
defile every one his neighbour's wife and shall ye possess the
land .
3327 Say thou thus unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD As I live
surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword and
him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be
devoured and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall
die of the pestilence .
3328 For I will lay the land most desolate and the pomp of her
strength shall cease and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate that none shall pass through .
3329 Then shall they know that I am the LORD when I have laid
the land most desolate because of all their abominations which
they have committed .
3330 Also thou son of man the children of thy people still are
talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses
and speak one to another every one to his brother saying Come I
pray you and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the
LORD .
3331 And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit
before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will
not do them for with their mouth they show much love but their
heart goeth after their covetousness .
3332 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 .
3333 And when this cometh to pass (lo it will come then shall
they know that a prophet hath been among them .
* 341 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
342 Son of man prophesy against the shepherds of Israel
prophesy and say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the
shepherds Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves should not the shepherds feed the flocks .
343 Ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the wool ye kill
them that are fed but ye feed not the flock .
344 The diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye
healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which
was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven
away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force
and with cruelty have ye ruled them .
345 And they were scattered because there is no shepherd and
they became meat to all the beasts of the field when they were
scattered .
346 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every
high hill yea my flock was scattered upon all the face of the
earth and none did search or seek after them .
347 Therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the LORD .
348 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely because my flock
became a prey and my flock became meat to every beast of the
field because there was no shepherd neither did my shepherds
search for my flock but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not
my flock .
349 Therefore O ye shepherds hear the word of the LORD .
3410 Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against the shepherds
and I will require my flock at their hand and cause them to
cease from feeding the flock neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more for I will deliver my flock from their mouth
that they may not be meat for them .
3411 For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I even I will both
search my sheep and seek them out .
3412 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is
among his sheep that are scattered so will I seek out my sheep
and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day .
3413 And I will bring them out from the people and gather them
from the countries and will bring them to their own land and
feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers and in all
the inhabited places of the country .
3414 I will feed them in a good pasture and upon the high
mountains of Israel shall their fold be there shall they lie in
a good fold and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of Israel .
3415 I will feed my flock and I will cause them to lie down
saith the Lord GOD .
3416 I will seek that which was lost and bring again that
which was driven away and will bind up that which was broken and
will strengthen that which was sick but I will destroy the fat
and the strong I will feed them with judgment .
3417 And as for you O my flock thus saith the Lord GOD Behold
I judge between cattle and cattle between the rams and the he
goats .
3418 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the
good pasture but ye must tread down with your feet the residue
of your pastures and to have drunk of the deep waters but ye
must foul the residue with your feet .
3419 And as for my flock they eat that which ye have trodden
with your feet and they drink that which ye have fouled with
your feet .
3420 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them Behold I even
I will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle .
3421 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder and
pushed all the diseased with your horns till ye have scattered
them abroad .
3422 Therefore will I save my flock and they shall no more be
a prey and I will judge between cattle and cattle .
3423 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 .
3424 And I the LORD will be their God and my servant David a
prince among them I the LORD have spoken it .
3425 And I will make with them a covenant of peace and will
cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land and they shall
dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods .
3426 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
blessing and I will cause the shower to come down in his season
there shall be showers of blessing .
3427 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit and the
earth shall yield her increase and they shall be safe in their
land and shall know that I am the LORD when I have broken the
bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those
that served themselves of them .
3428 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen neither
shall the beast of the land devour them but they shall dwell
safely and none shall make them afraid .
3429 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown and they
shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land neither bear
the shame of the heathen any more .
3430 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with
them and that they even the house of Israel are my people saith
the Lord GOD .
3431 And ye my flock the flock of my pasture are men and I am
your God saith the Lord GOD .
* 351 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
352 Son of man set thy face against mount Seir and prophesy
against it .
353 And say unto it Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold O mount
Seir I am against thee and I will stretch out mine hand against
thee and I will make thee most desolate .
354 I will lay thy cities waste and thou shalt be desolate and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD .
355 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast shed the
blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the
time of their calamity in the time that their iniquity had an
end .
356 Therefore as I live saith the Lord GOD I will prepare thee
unto blood and blood shall pursue thee sith thou hast not hated
blood even blood shall pursue thee .
357 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate and cut off from
it him that passeth out and him that returneth .
358 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men in thy
hills and in thy valleys and in all thy rivers shall they fall
that are slain with the sword .
359 I will make thee perpetual desolations and thy cities
shall not return and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
3510 Because thou hast said These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine and we will possess it whereas the LORD
was there .
3511 Therefore as I live saith the Lord GOD I will even do
according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou
hast used out of thy hatred against them and I will make myself
known among them when I have judged thee .
3512 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD and that I have
heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the
mountains of Israel saying They are laid desolate they are given
us to consume .
3513 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me and have
multiplied your words against me I have heard them .
3514 Thus saith the Lord GOD When the whole earth rejoiceth I
will make thee desolate .
3515 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
Israel because it was desolate so will I do unto thee thou shalt
be desolate O mount Seir and all Idumea even all of it and they
shall know that I am the LORD .
* 361 Also thou son of man prophesy unto the mountains of
Israel and say Ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the LORD .
362 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the enemy hath said
against you Aha even the ancient high places are ours in
possession .
363 Therefore prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord GOD Because
they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side
that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen
and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of
the people .
364 Therefore ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord
GOD Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills to
the rivers and to the valleys to the desolate wastes and to the
cities that are forsaken which became a prey and derision to the
residue of the heathen that are round about .
365 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and
against all Idumea which have appointed my land into their
possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds
to cast it out for a prey .
366 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel and say
unto the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the
valleys Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I have spoken in my
jealousy and in my fury because ye have borne the shame of the
heathen .
367 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I have lifted up mine
hand Surely the heathen that are about you they shall bear their
shame .
368 But ye O mountains of Israel ye shall shoot forth your
branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel for they
are at hand to come .
369 For behold I am for you and I will turn unto you and ye
shall be tilled and sown .
3610 And I will multiply men upon you all the house of Israel
even all of it and the cities shall be inhabited and the wastes
shall be builded .
3611 And I will multiply upon you man and beast and they shall
increase and bring fruit and I will settle you after your old
estates and will do better unto you than at your beginnings and
ye shall know that I am the LORD .
3612 Yea I will cause men to walk upon you even my people
Israel and they shall possess thee and thou shalt be their
inheritance and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of
men .
3613 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because they say unto you Thou
land devourest up men and hast bereaved thy nations .
3614 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more neither bereave
thy nations any more saith the Lord GOD .
3615 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
heathen any more neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the
people any more neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any
more saith the Lord GOD .
3616 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
3617 Son of man when the house of Israel dwelt in their own
land they defiled it by their own way and by their doings their
way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman .
3618 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that
they had shed upon the land and for their idols wherewith they
had polluted it .
3619 And I scattered them among the heathen and they were
dispersed through the countries according to their way and
according to their doings I judged them .
3620 And when they entered unto the heathen whither they went
they profaned my holy name when they said to them These are the
people of the LORD and are gone forth out of his land .
3621 But I had pity for mine holy name which the house of
Israel had profaned among the heathen whither they went .
3622 Therefore say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the
Lord GOD I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel but for
mine holy name's sake which ye have profaned among the heathen
whither ye went .
3623 And I will sanctify my great name which was profaned
among the heathen which ye have profaned in the midst of them
and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD saith the Lord GOD
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes .
3624 For I will take you from among the heathen and gather you
out of all countries and will bring you into your own land .
3625 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be
clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I
cleanse you .
3626 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I
put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh .
3627 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk
in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them .
3628 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 .
3629 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses and I
will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine
upon you .
3630 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the
increase of the field that ye shall receive no more reproach of
famine among the heathen .
3631 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings
that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight
for your iniquities and for your abominations .
3632 Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord GOD be it
known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways O
house of Israel .
3633 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day that I shall have
cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to
dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be builded .
3634 And the desolate land shall be tilled whereas it lay
desolate in the sight of all that passed by .
3635 And they shall say This land that was desolate is become
like the garden of Eden and the waste and desolate and ruined
cities are become fenced and are inhabited .
3636 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know
that I the LORD build the ruined places and plant that that was
desolate I the LORD have spoken it and I will do it .
3637 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will yet for this be inquired
of by the house of Israel to do it for them I will increase them
with men like a flock .
3638 As the holy flock as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
feasts so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
* 371 The hand of the LORD was upon me and carried me out in
the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the midst of the
valley which was full of bones .
372 And caused me to pass by them round about and behold there
were very many in the open valley and lo they were very dry .
373 And he said unto me Son of man can these bones live And I
answered O Lord GOD thou knowest .
374 Again he said unto me Prophesy upon these bones and say
unto them O ye dry bones hear the word of the LORD .
375 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones Behold I will
cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live .
376 And I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh
upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and ye
shall live and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
377 So I prophesied as I was commanded and as I prophesied
there was a noise and behold a shaking and the bones came
together bone to his bone .
378 And when I beheld lo the sinews and the flesh came up upon
them and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in
them .
379 Then said he unto me Prophesy unto the wind prophesy son
of man and say to the wind Thus saith the Lord GOD Come from the
four winds O breath and breathe upon these slain that they may
live .
3710 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 .
3711 Then he said unto me Son of man these bones are the whole
house of Israel behold they say Our bones are dried and our hope
is lost we are cut off for our parts .
3712 Therefore prophesy and say unto them Thus saith the Lord
GOD Behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to
come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel
.
3713 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have opened
your graves O my people and brought you up out of your graves .
3714 And shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I
shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I the
LORD have spoken it and performed it saith the LORD .
3715 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .
3716 Moreover thou son of man take thee one stick and write
upon it For Judah and for the children of Israel his companions
then take another stick and write upon it For Joseph the stick
of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions .
3717 And join them one to another into one stick and they
shall become one in thine hand .
3718 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee
saying Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these .
3719 Say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will take
the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the
tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him even
with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they shall
be one in mine hand .
3720 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine
hand before their eyes .
3721 And say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will
take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they
be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into
their own land .
3722 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 .
3723 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their
idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their
transgressions but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so
shall they be my people and I will be their God .
3724 And David my servant shall be king over them and they all
shall have one shepherd they shall also walk in my judgments and
observe my statutes and do them .
3725 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto
Jacob my servant wherein your fathers have dwelt and they shall
dwell therein even they and their children and their children's
children for ever and my servant David shall be their prince for
ever .
3726 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 .
3727 My tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be their
God and they shall be my people .
3728 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify
Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for
evermore .
* 381 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
382 Son of man set thy face against Gog the land of Magog the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesy against him .
383 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O
Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal .
384 And I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and
I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen
all of them clothed with all sorts of armour even a great
company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords .
385 Persia Ethiopia and Libya with them all of them with
shield and helmet .
386 Gomer and all his bands the house of Togarmah of the north
quarters and all his bands and many people with thee .
387 Be thou prepared and prepare for thyself thou and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto
them .
388 After many days thou shalt be visited in the latter years
thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the
sword and is gathered out of many people against the mountains
of Israel which have been always waste but it is brought forth
out of the nations and they shall dwell safely all of them .
389 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm thou shalt be like
a cloud to cover the land thou and all thy bands and many people
with thee .
3810 Thus saith the Lord GOD It shall also come to pass that
at the same time shall things come into thy mind and thou shalt
think an evil thought .
3811 And thou shalt say I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages I will go to them that are at rest that dwell safely
all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor
gates .
3812 To take a spoil and to take a prey to turn thine hand
upon the desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations which have gotten
cattle and goods that dwell in the midst of the land .
3813 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all
the young lions thereof shall say unto thee Art thou come to
take a spoil hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to
carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods to take
a great spoil .
3814 Therefore son of man prophesy and say unto Gog Thus saith
the Lord GOD In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
safely shalt thou not know it .
3815 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts
thou and many people with thee all of them riding upon horses a
great company and a mighty army .
3816 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a
cloud to cover the land it shall be in the latter days and I
will bring thee against my land that the heathen may know me
when I shall be sanctified in thee O Gog before their eyes .
3817 Thus saith the Lord GOD Art thou he of whom I have spoken
in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel which
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
against them .
3818 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel saith the Lord GOD that my fury
shall come up in my face .
3819 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 .
3820 So that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven
and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep
upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the
earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be
thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall
fall to the ground .
3821 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my
mountains saith the Lord GOD every man's sword shall be against
his brother .
3822 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with
blood and I will rain upon him and upon his bands and upon the
many people that are with him an overflowing rain and great
hailstones fire and brimstone .
3823 Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will
be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I
am the LORD .
* 391 Therefore thou son of man prophesy against Gog and say
Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O Gog the chief
prince of Meshech and Tubal .
392 And I will turn thee back and leave but the sixth part of
thee and will cause thee to come up from the north parts and
will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel .
393 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and will
cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand .
394 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel thou and all
thy bands and the people that is with thee I will give thee unto
the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field
to be devoured .
395 Thou shalt fall upon the open field for I have spoken it
saith the Lord GOD .
396 And I will send a fire on Magog and among them that dwell
carelessly in the isles and they shall know that I am the LORD .
397 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my
people Israel and I will not let them pollute my holy name any
more and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD the Holy One
in Israel .
398 Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord GOD this
is the day whereof I have spoken .
399 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth
and shall set on fire and burn the weapons both the shields and
the bucklers the bows and the arrows and the handstaves and the
spears and they shall burn them with fire seven years .
3910 So that they shall take no wood out of the field neither
cut down any out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons
with fire and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob
those that robbed them saith the Lord GOD .
3911 And it shall come to pass in that day that I will give
unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel the valley of the
passengers on the east of the sea and it shall stop the noses of
the passengers and there shall they bury Gog and all his
multitude and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog .
3912 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of
them that they may cleanse the land .
3913 Yea all the people of the land shall bury them and it
shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified
saith the Lord GOD .
3914 And they shall sever out men of continual employment
passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that
remain upon the face of the earth to cleanse it after the end of
seven months shall they search .
3915 And the passengers that pass through the land when any
seeth a man's bone then shall he set up a sign by it till the
buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog .
3916 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah Thus shall
they cleanse the land .
3917 And thou son of man thus saith the Lord GOD Speak unto
every feathered fowl and to every beast of the field Assemble
yourselves and come gather yourselves on every side to my
sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice
upon the mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink
blood .
3918 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 .
3919 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 .
3920 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots with mighty men and with all men of war saith the Lord
GOD .
3921 And I will set my glory among the heathen and all the
heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed and my hand
that I have laid upon them .
3922 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD
their God from that day and forward .
3923 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went
into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed
against me therefore hid I my face from them and gave them into
the hand of their enemies so fell they all by the sword .
3924 According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions have I done unto them and hid my face from them .
3925 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Now will I bring again
the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of
Israel and will be jealous for my holy name .
3926 After that they have borne their shame and all their
trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me when they
dwelt safely in their land and none made them afraid .
3927 When I have brought them again from the people and
gathered them out of their enemies' lands and am sanctified in
them in the sight of many nations .
3928 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God which
caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen but I
have gathered them unto their own land and have left none of
them any more there .
3929 Neither will I hide my face any more from them for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord GOD
.
* 401 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity in the
beginning of the year in the tenth day of the month in the
fourteenth year after that the city was smitten in the selfsame
day the hand of the LORD was upon me and brought me thither .
402 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of
Israel and set me upon a very high mountain by which was as the
frame of a city on the south .
403 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 .
404 And the man said unto me Son of man behold with thine eyes
and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that I
shall show thee for to the intent that I might show them unto
thee art thou brought hither declare all that thou seest to the
house of Israel .
405 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about
and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the
cubit and an hand breadth so he measured the breadth of the
building one reed and the height one reed .
406 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east
and went up the stairs thereof and measured the threshold of the
gate which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the
gate which was one reed broad .
407 And every little chamber was one reed long and one reed
broad and between the little chambers were five cubits and the
threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one
reed .
408 He measured also the porch of the gate within one reed .
409 Then measured he the porch of the gate eight cubits and
the posts thereof two cubits and the porch of the gate was
inward .
4010 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three
on this side and three on that side they three were of one
measure and the posts had one measure on this side and on that
side .
4011 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate ten
cubits and the length of the gate thirteen cubits .
4012 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit
on this side and the space was one cubit on that side and the
little chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on
that side .
4013 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little
chamber to the roof of another the breadth was five and twenty
cubits door against door .
4014 He made also posts of threescore cubits even unto the
post of the court round about the gate .
4015 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the
face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits .
4016 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers and
to their posts within the gate round about and likewise to the
arches and windows were round about inward and upon each post
were palm trees .
4017 Then brought he me into the outward court and lo there
were chambers and a pavement made for the court round about
thirty chambers were upon the pavement .
4018 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against
the length of the gates was the lower pavement .
4019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the
lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without an
hundred cubits eastward and northward .
4020 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the
north he measured the length thereof and the breadth thereof .
4021 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side
and three on that side and the posts thereof and the arches
thereof were after the measure of the first gate the length
thereof was fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits .
4022 And their windows and their arches and their palm trees
were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east
and they went up unto it by seven steps and the arches thereof
were before them .
4023 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate
toward the north and toward the east and he measured from gate
to gate an hundred cubits .
4024 After that he brought me toward the south and behold a
gate toward the south and he measured the posts thereof and the
arches thereof according to these measures .
4025 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 .
4026 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 .
4027 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south
and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred
cubits .
4028 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate
and he measured the south gate according to these measures .
4029 And the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof and
the arches thereof according to these measures and there were
windows in it and in the arches thereof round about it was fifty
cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad .
4030 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits
long and five cubits broad .
4031 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court and
palm trees were upon the posts thereof and the going up to it
had eight steps .
4032 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east
and he measured the gate according to these measures .
4033 And the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof and
the arches thereof were according to these measures and there
were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about it
was fifty cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad .
4034 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court and
palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side and on that
side and the going up to it had eight steps .
4035 And he brought me to the north gate and measured it
according to these measures .
4036 The little chambers thereof the posts thereof and the
arches thereof and the windows to it round about the length was
fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits .
4037 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court and
palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side and on that
side and the going up to it had eight steps .
4038 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the
posts of the gates where they washed the burnt offering .
4039 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 .
4040 And at the side without as one goeth up to the entry of
the north gate were two tables and on the other side which was
at the porch of the gate were two tables .
4041 Four tables were on this side and four tables on that
side by the side of the gate eight tables whereupon they slew
their sacrifices .
4042 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt
offering of a cubit and an half long and a cubit and an half
broad and one cubit high whereupon also they laid the
instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the
sacrifice .
4043 And within were hooks an hand broad fastened round about
and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering .
4044 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the
singers in the inner court which was at the side of the north
gate and their prospect was toward the south one at the side of
the east gate having the prospect toward the north .
4045 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 .
4046 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for
the priests the keepers of the charge of the altar these are the
sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi which come near to the LORD
to minister unto him .
4047 So he measured the court an hundred cubits long and an
hundred cubits broad foursquare and the altar that was before
the house .
4048 And he brought me to the porch of the house and measured
each post of the porch five cubits on this side and five cubits
on that side and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on
this side and three cubits on that side .
4049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the breadth
eleven cubits and he brought me by the steps whereby they went
up to it and there were pillars by the posts one on this side
and another on that side .
* 411 Afterward he brought me to the temple and measured the
posts six cubits broad on the one side and six cubits broad on
the other side which was the breadth of the tabernacle .
412 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits and the sides
of the door were five cubits on the one side and five cubits on
the other side and he measured the length thereof forty cubits
and the breadth twenty cubits .
413 Then went he inward and measured the post of the door two
cubits and the door six cubits and the breadth of the door seven
cubits .
414 So he measured the length thereof twenty cubits and the
breadth twenty cubits before the temple and he said unto me This
is the most holy place .
415 After he measured the wall of the house six cubits and the
breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house
on every side .
416 And the side chambers were three one over another and
thirty in order and they entered into the wall which was of the
house for the side chambers round about that they might have
hold but they had not hold in the wall of the house .
417 And there was an enlarging and a winding about still upward
to the side chambers for the winding about of the house went
still upward round about the house therefore the breadth of the
house was still upward and so increased from the lowest chamber
to the highest by the midst .
418 I saw also the height of the house round about the
foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits .
419 The thickness of the wall which was for the side chamber
without was five cubits and that which was left was the place of
the side chambers that were within .
4110 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty
cubits round about the house on every side .
4111 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 .
4112 Now the building that was before the separate place at
the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad and the wall of
the building was five cubits thick round about and the length
thereof ninety cubits .
4113 So he measured the house an hundred cubits long and the
separate place and the building with the walls thereof an
hundred cubits long .
4114 Also the breadth of the face of the house and of the
separate place toward the east an hundred cubits .
4115 And he measured the length of the building over against
the separate place which was behind it and the galleries thereof
on the one side and on the other side an hundred cubits with the
inner temple and the porches of the court .
4116 The door posts and the narrow windows and the galleries
round about on their three stories over against the door ceiled
with wood round about and from the ground up to the windows and
the windows were covered .
4117 To that above the door even unto the inner house and
without and by all the wall round about within and without by
measure .
4118 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees so that a
palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub and every cherub had
two faces .
4119 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the
one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on
the other side it was made through all the house round about .
4120 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and
palm trees made and on the wall of the temple .
4121 The posts of the temple were squared and the face of the
sanctuary the appearance of the one as the appearance of the
other .
4122 The altar of wood was three cubits high and the length
thereof two cubits and the corners thereof and the length
thereof and the walls thereof were of wood and he said unto me
This is the table that is before the LORD .
4123 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors .
4124 And the doors had two leaves apiece two turning leaves
two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other door .
4125 And there were made on them on the doors of the temple
cherubims and palm trees like as were made upon the walls and
there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without .
4126 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one
side and on the other side on the sides of the porch and upon
the side chambers of the house and thick planks .
* 421 Then he brought me forth into the utter court the way
toward the north and he brought me into the chamber that was
over against the separate place and which was before the
building toward the north .
422 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door
and the breadth was fifty cubits .
423 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner
court and over against the pavement which was for the utter
court was gallery against gallery in three stories .
424 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth
inward a way of one cubit and their doors toward the north .
425 Now the upper chambers were shorter for the galleries were
higher than these than the lower and than the middlemost of the
building .
426 For they were in three stories but had not pillars as the
pillars of the courts therefore the building was straitened more
than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground .
427 And the wall that was without over against the chambers
toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers the
length thereof was fifty cubits .
428 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter
court was fifty cubits and lo before the temple were an hundred
cubits .
429 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east
side as one goeth into them from the utter court .
4210 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the
court toward the east over against the separate place and over
against the building .
4211 And the way before them was like the appearance of the
chambers which were toward the north as long as they and as
broad as they and all their goings out were both according to
their fashions and according to their doors .
4212 And according to the doors of the chambers that were
toward the south was a door in the head of the way even the way
directly before the wall toward the east as one entereth into
them .
4213 Then said he unto me The north chambers and the south
chambers which are before the separate place they be holy
chambers where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat
the most holy things there shall they lay the most holy things
and the meat offering and the sin offering and the trespass
offering for the place is holy .
4214 When the priests enter therein then shall they not go out
of the holy place into the utter court but there they shall lay
their garments wherein they minister for they are holy and shall
put on other garments and shall approach to those things which
are for the people .
4215 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house
he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the
east and measured it round about .
4216 He measured the east side with the measuring reed five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about .
4217 He measured the north side five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed round about .
4218 He measured the south side five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed .
4219 He turned about to the west side and measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed .
4220 He measured it by the four sides it had a wall round
about five hundred reeds long and five hundred broad to make a
separation between the sanctuary and the profane place .
* 431 Afterward he brought me to the gate even the gate that
looketh toward the east .
432 And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the
way of the east and his voice was like a noise of many waters
and the earth shined with his glory .
433 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 .
434 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way
of the gate whose prospect is toward the east .
435 So the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner
court and behold the glory of the LORD filled the house .
436 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house and the
man stood by me .
437 And he said unto me Son of man the place of my throne and
the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the
midst of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall
the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings
by their whoredom nor by the carcases of their kings in their
high places .
438 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds and
their post by my posts and the wall between me and them they
have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they
have committed wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger .
439 Now let them put away their whoredom and the carcases of
their kings far from me and I will dwell in the midst of them
for ever .
4310 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 .
4311 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done show
them the form of the house and the fashion thereof and the
goings out thereof and the comings in thereof and all the forms
thereof and all the ordinances thereof and all the forms thereof
and all the laws thereof and write it in their sight that they
may keep the whole form thereof and all the ordinances thereof
and do them .
4312 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 .
4313 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits
The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth even the bottom shall
be a cubit and the breadth a cubit and the border thereof by the
edge thereof round about shall be a span and this shall be the
higher place of the altar .
4314 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower
settle shall be two cubits and the breadth one cubit and from
the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four
cubits and the breadth one cubit .
4315 So the altar shall be four cubits and from the altar and
upward shall be four horns .
4316 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long twelve broad
square in the four squares thereof .
4317 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen
broad in the four squares thereof and the border about it shall
be half a cubit and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about
and his stairs shall look toward the east .
4318 And he said unto me Son of man thus saith the Lord GOD
These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall
make it to offer burnt offerings thereon and to sprinkle blood
thereon .
4319 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of
the seed of Zadok which approach unto me to minister unto me
saith the Lord GOD a young bullock for a sin offering .
4320 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof and put it on
the four horns of it and on the four corners of the settle and
upon the border round about thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it
.
4321 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering and
he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house without the
sanctuary .
4322 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats
without blemish for a sin offering and they shall cleanse the
altar as they did cleanse it with the bullock .
4323 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 .
4324 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD and the priests
shall cast salt upon them and they shall offer them up for a
burnt offering unto the LORD .
4325 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 .
4326 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it and
they shall consecrate themselves .
4327 And when these days are expired it shall be that upon the
eighth day and so forward the priests shall make your burnt
offerings upon the altar and your peace offerings and I will
accept you saith the Lord GOD .
* 441 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east and it was shut .
442 Then said the LORD unto me This gate shall be shut it
shall not be opened and no man shall enter in by it because the
LORD the God of Israel hath entered in by it therefore it shall
be shut .
443 It is for the prince the prince he shall sit in it to eat
bread before the LORD he shall enter by the way of the porch of
that gate and shall go out by the way of the same .
444 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the
house and I looked and behold the glory of the LORD filled the
house of the LORD and I fell upon my face .
445 And the LORD said unto me Son of man mark well and behold
with thine eyes and hear with thine ears all that I say unto
thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and
all the laws thereof and mark well the entering in of the house
with every going forth of the sanctuary .
446 And thou shalt say to the rebellious even to the house of
Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD O ye house of Israel let it
suffice you of all your abominations .
447 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my
sanctuary to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread the
fat and the blood and they have broken my covenant because of
all your abominations .
448 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things but ye
have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves .
449 Thus saith the Lord GOD No stranger uncircumcised in heart
nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary of any
stranger that is among the children of Israel .
4410 And the Levites that are gone away far from me when
Israel went astray which went astray away from me after their
idols they shall even bear their iniquity .
4411 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary having charge
at the gates of the house and ministering to the house they
shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people
and they shall stand before them to minister unto them . 4412
Because they ministered unto them before their idols and caused
the house of Israel to fall into iniquity therefore have I
lifted up mine hand against them saith the Lord GOD and they
shall bear their iniquity .
4413 And they shall not come near unto me to do the office of
a priest unto me nor to come near to any of my holy things in
the most holy place but they shall bear their shame and their
abominations which they have committed .
4414 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house
for all the service thereof and for all that shall be done
therein .
4415 But the priests the Levites the sons of Zadok that kept
the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went
astray from me they shall come near to me to minister unto me
and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the
blood saith the Lord GOD .
4416 They shall enter into my sanctuary and they shall come
near to my table to minister unto me and they shall keep my
charge .
4417 And it shall come to pass that when they enter in at the
gates of the inner court they shall be clothed with linen
garments and no wool shall come upon them whiles they minister
in the gates of the inner court and within .
4418 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads and shall
have linen breeches upon their loins they shall not gird
themselves with any thing that causeth sweat .
4419 And when they go forth into the utter court even into the
utter court to the people they shall put off their garments
wherein they ministered and lay them in the holy chambers and
they shall put on other garments and they shall not sanctify the
people with their garments .
4420 Neither shall they shave their heads nor suffer their
locks to grow long they shall only poll their heads .
4421 Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into
the inner court .
4422 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow nor her
that is put away but they shall take maidens of the seed of the
house of Israel or a widow that had a priest before .
4423 And they shall teach my people the difference between the
holy and profane and cause them to discern between the unclean
and the clean .
4424 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment and they
shall judge it according to my judgments and they shall keep my
laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies and they shall
hallow my sabbaths .
4425 And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves but for father or for mother or for son or for
daughter for brother or for sister that hath had no husband they
may defile themselves .
4426 And after he is cleansed they shall reckon unto him seven
days .
4427 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary unto the
inner court to minister in the sanctuary he shall offer his sin
offering saith the Lord GOD .
4428 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance I am their
inheritance and ye shall give them no possession in Israel I am
their possession .
4429 They shall eat the meat offering and the sin offering and
the trespass offering and every dedicated thing in Israel shall
be theirs .
4430 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things and
every oblation of all of every sort of your oblations shall be
the priest's ye shall also give unto the priest the first of
your dough that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house
.
4431 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of
itself or torn whether it be fowl or beast .
* 451 Moreover when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD an holy
portion of the land the length shall be the length of five and
twenty thousand reeds and the breadth shall be ten thousand This
shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about .
452 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in
length with five hundred in breadth square round about and fifty
cubits round about for the suburbs thereof .
453 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five
and twenty thousand and the breadth of ten thousand and in it
shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place .
454 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the
ministers of the sanctuary which shall come near to minister
unto the LORD and it shall be a place for their houses and an
holy place for the sanctuary .
455 And the five and twenty thousand of length and the ten
thousand of breadth shall also the Levites the ministers of the
house have for themselves for a possession for twenty chambers .
456 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad and five and twenty thousand long over against
the oblation of the holy portion it shall be for the whole house
of Israel .
457 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and
on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion and of the
possession of the city before the oblation of the holy portion
and before the possession of the city from the west side
westward and from the east side eastward and the length shall be
over against one of the portions from the west border unto the
east border .
458 In the land shall be his possession in Israel and my
princes shall no more oppress my people and the rest of the land
shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes
.
459 Thus saith the Lord GOD Let it suffice you O princes of
Israel remove violence and spoil and execute judgment and
justice take away your exactions from my people saith the Lord
GOD .
4510 Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just
bath .
4511 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure that the
bath may contain the tenth part of an homer and the ephah the
tenth part of an homer the measure thereof shall be after the
homer .
4512 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs twenty shekels five
and twenty shekels fifteen shekels shall be your maneh .
4513 This is the oblation that ye shall offer the sixth part
of an ephah of an homer of wheat and ye shall give the sixth
part of an ephah of an homer of barley .
4514 Concerning the ordinance of oil the bath of oil ye shall
offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor which is an homer
of ten baths for ten baths are an homer .
4515 And one lamb out of the flock out of two hundred out of
the fat pastures of Israel for a meat offering and for a burnt
offering and for peace offerings to make reconciliation for them
saith the Lord GOD .
4516 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for
the prince in Israel .
4517 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings
and meat offerings and drink offerings in the feasts and in the
new moons and in the sabbaths in all solemnities of the house of
Israel he shall prepare the sin offering and the meat offering
and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make
reconciliation for the house of Israel .
4518 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the first month in the first
day of the month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish
and cleanse the sanctuary .
4519 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering and put it upon the posts of the house and upon the
four corners of the settle of the altar and upon the posts of
the gate of the inner court .
4520 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for
every one that erreth and for him that is simple so shall ye
reconcile the house .
4521 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 .
4522 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself
and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering .
4523 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt
offering to the LORD seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days and a kid of the goats daily for a
sin offering .
4524 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a
bullock and an ephah for a ram and an hin of oil for an ephah .
4525 In the seventh month in the fifteenth day of the month
shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days according to
the sin offering according to the burnt offering and according
to the meat offering and according to the oil .
* 461 Thus saith the Lord GOD The gate of the inner court that
looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days but
on the sabbath it shall be opened and in the day of the new moon
it shall be opened .
462 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that
gate without and shall stand by the post of the gate and the
priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings
and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate then he shall
go forth but the gate shall not be shut until the evening .
463 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door
of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new
moons .
464 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto
the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish
and a ram without blemish .
465 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram and the
meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give and an
hin of oil to an ephah .
466 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock
without blemish and six lambs and a ram they shall be without
blemish .
467 And he shall prepare a meat offering an ephah for a
bullock and an ephah for a ram and for the lambs according as
his hand shall attain unto and an hin of oil to an ephah .
468 And when the prince shall enter he shall go in by the way
of the porch of that gate and he shall go forth by the way
thereof .
469 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD
in the solemn feasts he that entereth in by the way of the north
gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate and he
that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the
way of the north gate he shall not return by the way of the gate
whereby he came in but shall go forth over against it .
4610 And the prince in the midst of them when they go in shall
go in and when they go forth shall go forth .
4611 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat
offering shall be an ephah to a bullock and an ephah to a ram
and to the lambs as he is able to give and an hin of oil to an
ephah .
4612 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt
offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD one shall
then open him the gate that looketh toward the east and he shall
prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on
the sabbath day then he shall go forth and after his going forth
one shall shut the gate .
4613 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD
of a lamb of the first year without blemish thou shalt prepare
it every morning .
4614 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every
morning the sixth part of an ephah and the third part of an hin
of oil to temper with the fine flour a meat offering continually
by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD .
4615 Thus shall they prepare the lamb and the meat offering
and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering .
4616 Thus saith the Lord GOD If the prince give a gift unto
any of his sons the inheritance thereof shall be his sons' it
shall be their possession by inheritance .
4617 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
servants then it shall be his to the year of liberty after it
shall return to the prince but his inheritance shall be his
sons' for them .
4618 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance by oppression to thrust them out of their possession
but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession
that my people be not scattered every man from his possession .
4619 After he brought me through the entry which was at the
side of the gate into the holy chambers of the priests which
looked toward the north and behold there was a place on the two
sides westward .
4620 Then said he unto me This is the place where the priests
shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering where they
shall bake the meat offering that they bear them not out into
the utter court to sanctify the people .
4621 Then he brought me forth into the utter court and caused
me to pass by the four corners of the court and behold in every
corner of the court there was a court .
4622 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined
of forty cubits long and thirty broad these four corners were of
one measure .
4623 And there was a row of building round about in them round
about them four and it was made with boiling places under the
rows round about .
4624 Then said he unto me These are the places of them that
boil where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice
of the people .
* 471 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house
and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the
east and the waters came down from under from the right side of
the house at the south side of the altar .
472 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward
and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way
that looketh eastward and behold there ran out waters on the
right side .
473 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth
eastward he measured a thousand cubits and he brought me through
the waters the waters were to the ankles .
474 Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the
waters the waters were to the knees Again he measured a thousand
and brought me through the waters were to the loins .
475 Afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I
could not pass over for the waters were risen waters to swim in
a river that could not be passed over .
476 And he said unto me Son of man hast thou seen this Then he
brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river .
477 Now when I had returned behold at the bank of the river
were very many trees on the one side and on the other .
478 Then said he unto me These waters issue out toward the
east country and go down into the desert and go into the sea
which being brought forth into the sea the waters shall be
healed .
479 And it shall come to pass that every thing that liveth
which moveth whithersoever the rivers shall come shall live and
there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these
waters shall come thither for they shall be healed and every
thing shall live whither the river cometh .
4710 And it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand
upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim they shall be a place to
spread forth nets their fish shall be according to their kinds
as the fish of the great sea exceeding many .
4711 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof
shall not be healed they shall be given to salt .
4712 And by the river upon the bank thereof on this side and
on that side shall grow all trees for meat whose leaf shall not
fade neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed it shall bring
forth new fruit according to his months because their waters
they issued out of the sanctuary and the fruit thereof shall be
for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine .
4713 Thus saith the Lord GOD This shall be the border whereby
ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel Joseph shall have two portions .
4714 And ye shall inherit it one as well as another concerning
the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers and
this land shall fall unto you for inheritance .
4715 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north
side from the great sea the way of Hethlon as men go to Zedad .
4716 Hamath Berothah Sibraim which is between the border of
Damascus and the border of Hamath Hazarhatticon which is by the
coast of Hauran .
4717 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan the border
of Damascus and the north northward and the border of Hamath And
this is the north side .
4718 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran and from
Damascus and from Gilead and from the land of Israel by Jordan
from the border unto the east sea And this is the east side .
4719 And the south side southward from Tamar even to the
waters of strife in Kadesh the river to the great sea And this
is the south side southward .
4720 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border
till a man come over against Hamath This is the west side .
4721 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the
tribes of Israel .
4722 And it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot
for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn
among you which shall beget children among you and they shall be
unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel
they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel .
4723 And it shall come to pass that in what tribe the stranger
sojourneth there shall ye give him his inheritance saith the
Lord GOD .
* 481 Now these are the names of the tribes From the north end
to the coast of the way of Hethlon as one goeth to Hamath
Hazarenan the border of Damascus northward to the coast of
Hamath for these are his sides east and west a portion for Dan .
482 And by the border of Dan from the east side unto the west
side a portion for Asher .
483 And by the border of Asher from the east side even unto
the west side a portion for Naphtali .
484 And by the border of Naphtali from the east side unto the
west side a portion for Manasseh .
485 And by the border of Manasseh from the east side unto the
west side a portion for Ephraim .
486 And by the border of Ephraim from the east side even unto
the west side a portion for Reuben .
487 And by the border of Reuben from the east side unto the
west side a portion for Judah .
488 And by the border of Judah from the east side unto the
west side shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and
twenty thousand reeds in breadth and in length as one of the
other parts from the east side unto the west side and the
sanctuary shall be in the midst of it .
489 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of
five and twenty thousand in length and of ten thousand in
breadth .
4810 And for them even for the priests shall be this holy
oblation toward the north five and twenty thousand in length and
toward the west ten thousand in breadth and toward the east ten
thousand in breadth and toward the south five and twenty
thousand in length and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the
midst thereof .
4811 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the
sons of Zadok which have kept my charge which went not astray
when the children of Israel went astray as the Levites went
astray .
4812 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be
unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites .
4813 And over against the border of the priests the Levites
shall have five and twenty thousand in length and ten thousand
in breadth all the length shall be five and twenty thousand and
the breadth ten thousand .
4814 And they shall not sell of it neither exchange nor
alienate the firstfruits of the land for it is holy unto the
LORD .
4815 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over
against the five and twenty thousand shall be a profane place
for the city for dwelling and for suburbs and the city shall be
in the midst thereof .
4816 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 .
4817 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two
hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and
toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two
hundred and fifty .
4818 And the residue in length over against the oblation of
the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand
westward and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy
portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them
that serve the city .
4819 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all
the tribes of Israel .
4820 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by
five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation
foursquare with the possession of the city .
4821 And the residue shall be for the prince on the one side
and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of
the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the
oblation toward the east border and westward over against the
five and twenty thousand toward the west border over against the
portions for the prince and it shall be the holy oblation and
the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof .
4822 Moreover from the possession of the Levites and from the
possession of the city being in the midst of that which is the
prince's between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin
shall be for the prince .
4823 As for the rest of the tribes from the east side unto the
west side Benjamin shall have a portion .
4824 And by the border of Benjamin from the east side unto the
west side Simeon shall have a portion .
4825 And by the border of Simeon from the east side unto the
west side Issachar a portion .
4826 And by the border of Issachar from the east side unto the
west side Zebulun a portion .
4827 And by the border of Zebulun from the east side unto the
west side Gad a portion .
4828 And by the border of Gad at the south side southward the
border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in
Kadesh and to the river toward the great sea .
4829 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the
tribes of Israel for inheritance and these are their portions
saith the Lord GOD .
4830 And these are the goings out of the city on the north
side four thousand and five hundred measures .
4831 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel three gates northward one gate of Reuben one
gate of Judah one gate of Levi .
4832 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred and
three gates and one gate of Joseph one gate of Benjamin one gate
of Dan .
4833 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred
measures and three gates one gate of Simeon one gate of Issachar
one gate of Zebulun .
4834 At the west side four thousand and five hundred with
their three gates one gate of Gad one gate of Asher one gate of
Naphtali .
4835 It was round about eighteen thousand measures and the
name of the city from that day shall be The LORD is there .
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