1:1 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.
1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's
captivity,
1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly to 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 on him.
1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great
cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and
out of the middle thereof as the color of amber, out of the middle of the
fire.
1:5 Also out of the middle thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like
the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnished
brass.
1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
and they four had their faces and their wings.
1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went;
they went every one straight forward.
1:10 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.
1:11 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.
1:12 And they went every one straight forward: where the spirit was to
go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
1:13 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.
1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash
of lightning.
1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel on the earth
by the living creatures, with his four faces.
1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like to the color
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.
1:17 When they went, they went on their four sides: and they turned not
when they went.
1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and
their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
1:19 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.
1:20 Wherever 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.
1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and
when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over
against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
1:22 And the likeness of the firmament on the heads of the living creature
was as the color of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads
above.
1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward
the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one
had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
1:24 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.
1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads,
when they stood, and had let down their wings.
1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness
of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and on the likeness
of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above on it.
1:27 And I saw as the color 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.
1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain,
so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on
my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
2:1 And he said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak
to you.
2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my
feet, that I heard him that spoke to me.
2:3 And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel,
to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers
have transgressed against me, even to this very day.
2:4 For they are impudent children and stiff hearted. I do send you to
them; and you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD.
2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for
they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet
among them.
2:6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns be with you, and you do dwell among scorpions:
be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they
be a rebellious house.
2:7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
2:8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Be not you rebellious
like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that I give you.
2:9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent to me; and, see, a roll
of a book was therein;
2:10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without:
and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
3:1 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat that you find; eat this roll,
and go speak to the house of Israel.
3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3:3 And he said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your
bowels with this roll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in
my mouth as honey for sweetness.
3:4 And he said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel,
and speak with my words to them.
3:5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, but to the house of Israel;
3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose
words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would
have listened to you.
3:7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen
to me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
3:8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your
forehead strong against their foreheads.
3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them
not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
3:10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak
to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
3:11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your
people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus said the Lord GOD; whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
3:12 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.
3:13 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.
3:14 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 on me.
3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelled by the
river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished
among them seven days.
3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the
LORD came to me, saying,
3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore
hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
3:18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not
warning, nor speak 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 your hand.
3:19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor
from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered
your soul.
3:20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and
commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die:
because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood
will I require at your hand.
3:21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin
not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also
you have delivered your soul.
3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there on me; and he said to me, Arise,
go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
3:23 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.
3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet, and spoke
with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
3:25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands on you, and shall
bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
3:26 And I will make your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth, that
you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a
rebellious house.
3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say
to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; He that hears, let him hear; and he that
declines, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
4:1 You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray
on it the city, even Jerusalem:
4:2 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.
4:3 Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel.
4:4 Lie you also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of
Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie on
it you shall bear their iniquity.
4:5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the
number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:6 And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side,
and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have
appointed you each day for a year.
4:7 Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and
your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.
4:8 And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from
one side to another, till you have ended the days of your siege.
4:9 Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and
millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof,
according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three
hundred and ninety days shall you eat thereof.
4:10 And your meat which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
4:11 You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from
time to time shall you drink.
4:12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung
that comes out of man, in their sight.
4:13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.
4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for
from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself,
or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
4:15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung,
and you shall prepare your bread therewith.
4:16 Moreover he said to 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:
4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another,
and consume away for their iniquity.
5:1 And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber's razor,
and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take you balances
to weigh, and divide the hair.
5:2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when
the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and
smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the
wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
5:3 You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your
skirts.
5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the middle of the fire,
and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all
the house of Israel.
5:5 Thus said the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the middle
of the nations and countries that are round about her.
5:6 And she has 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.
5:7 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you 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;
5:8 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against you,
and will execute judgments in the middle of you in the sight of the nations.
5:9 And I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will
not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and
the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you,
and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.
5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled
my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations,
therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, neither
will I have any pity.
5:12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine
shall they be consumed in the middle of you: and a third part shall fall
by the sword round about you; and I will scatter a third part into all
the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest
on 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.
5:14 Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that
are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment
to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments
in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken
it.
5:16 When I shall send on 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 on you, and will break your staff of bread:
5:17 So will I send on you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave
you: and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring
the sword on you. I the LORD have spoken it.
6:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6:2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy
against them,
6:3 And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
said 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 on you, and I will
destroy your high places.
6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken:
and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
6:5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the
high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made
desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be
cut down, and your works may be abolished.
6:7 And the slain shall fall in the middle of you, and you shall know that
I am the LORD.
6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that you may have some that shall escape
the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where
they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish
heart, which has 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.
6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in
vain that I would do this evil to them.
6:11 Thus said the Lord GOD; Smite with your hand, and stamp with your
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.
6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near
shall fall by the sword; and he that remains and is besieged shall die
by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury on them.
6:13 Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall
be among their idols round about their altars, on 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 smell to all their idols.
6:14 So will I stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate,
yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations:
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
7:2 Also, you son of man, thus said the Lord GOD to the land of Israel;
An end, the end is come on the four corners of the land.
7:3 Now is the end come on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will
judge you according to your ways, and will recompense on you all your abominations.
7:4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will
recompense your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the middle
of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
7:5 Thus said the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
7:6 An end is come, the end is come: it watches for you; behold, it is
come.
7:7 The morning is come to you, O you that dwell in the land: the time
is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the
mountains.
7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger
on you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense
you for all your abominations.
7:9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense
you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the middle
of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites.
7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the
rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall
remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there
be wailing for them.
7:12 The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor
the seller mourn: for wrath is on all the multitude thereof.
7:13 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.
7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes
to the battle: for my wrath is on all the multitude thereof.
7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he
that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
7:16 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.
7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
7:19 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 stumbling block of their iniquity.
7:20 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.
7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and
to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
7:22 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.
7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city
is full of violence.
7:24 Why 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.
7:25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
7:26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; then
shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from
the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to
them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before
me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there on me.
8:2 Then I beheld, and see 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 color of amber.
8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my 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
looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provokes to jealousy.
8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the vision that I saw in the plain.
8:5 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward
the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold
northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
8:6 He said furthermore to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the
great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should
go far off from my sanctuary? but turn you yet again, and you shall see
greater abominations.
8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold
a hole in the wall.
8:8 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had
dig in the wall, behold a door.
8:9 And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they
do here.
8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed
on the wall round about.
8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house
of Israel, and in the middle of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went
up.
8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you 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 sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the earth.
8:13 He said also to me, Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater
abominations that they do.
8:14 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.
8:15 Then said he to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you yet
again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.
8:16 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.
8:17 Then he said to me, Have you 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, see, they put the branch to their nose.
8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither
will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet
will I not hear them.
9:1 He cried also in my 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.
9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lies
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.
9:3 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;
9:4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through
the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that
sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the middle thereof.
9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through the
city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity:
9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women:
but come not near any man on whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.
Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
9:7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the
slain: go you forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left,
that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you destroy
all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your fury on Jerusalem?
9:9 Then said he to 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 has forsaken the earth, and the LORD sees not.
9:10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
but I will recompense their way on their head.
9:11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by
his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded
me.
10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head
of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as
the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
10:2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between
the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire
from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went
in in my sight.
10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man
went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
10:4 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.
10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer
court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.
10:6 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 cherubim;
then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
10:7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim
to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it
into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went
out.
10:8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under
their wings.
10:9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel
by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance
of the wheels was as the color of a beryl stone.
10:10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a
wheel had been in the middle of a wheel.
10:11 When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not as
they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they
turned not as they went.
10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their
wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that
they four had.
10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel.
10:14 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.
10:15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that
I saw by the river of Chebar.
10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them: and when the
cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels
also turned not from beside them.
10:17 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.
10:18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the
house, and stood over the cherubim.
10:19 And the cherubim 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.
10:20 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 cherubim.
10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the
likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
10:22 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.
11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate
of the LORD's house, which looks 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.
11:2 Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief,
and give wicked counsel in this city:
11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron,
and we be the flesh.
11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and said to me, Speak; Thus
said the LORD; Thus have you said, O house of Israel: for I know the things
that come into your mind, every one of them.
11:6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the
streets thereof with the slain.
11:7 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Your slain whom you have laid in
the middle of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but
I will bring you forth out of the middle of it.
11:8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword on you, said the
Lord GOD.
11:9 And I will bring you out of the middle thereof, and deliver you into
the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
and you shall know that I am the LORD.
11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh
in the middle thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
11:12 And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in
my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners
of the heathen that are round about you.
11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice,
and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
11:14 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
11:15 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your kindred,
and all the house of Israel wholly, are they to whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: to us is this land given
in possession.
11:16 Therefore say, Thus said 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.
11:17 Therefore say, Thus said the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from
the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered,
and I will give you the land of Israel.
11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable
things thereof and all the abominations thereof from there.
11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within
you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give
them an heart of flesh:
11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do
them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
11:21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable
things and their abominations, I will recompense their way on their own
heads, said the Lord GOD.
11:22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels beside
them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the middle of the city, and
stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
11:24 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.
11:25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that the LORD
had showed me.
12:1 The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,
12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the middle 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.
12:3 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove
by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another
place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious
house.
12:4 Then shall you bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff
for removing: and you shall go forth at even in their sight, as they that
go forth into captivity.
12:5 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
12:6 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulders, and carry it forth
in the twilight: you shall cover your face, that you see not the ground:
for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.
12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day,
as stuff for captivity, and in the even I dig through the wall with my
hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bore it on my shoulder
in their sight.
12:8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD to me, saying,
12:9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said
to you, What do you?
12:10 Say you to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; This burden concerns the
prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to
them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear on 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.
12:13 My net also will I spread on 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.
12:14 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.
12:15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them
among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine,
and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among
the heathen where they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
12:17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with
trembling and with carefulness;
12:19 And say to the people of the land, Thus said 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.
12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
12:21 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
12:22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel,
saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus said the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb
to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say
to them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Israel.
12:25 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, said the Lord
GOD.
12:26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that
he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are
far off.
12:28 Therefore say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; There shall none of
my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall
be done, said the Lord GOD.
13:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy,
and say you to them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear you the
word of the LORD;
13:3 Thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their
own spirit, and have seen nothing!
13:4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
13:5 You 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.
13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD said:
and the LORD has not sent them: and they have made others to hope that
they would confirm the word.
13:7 Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination,
whereas you say, The LORD said it; albeit I have not spoken?
13:8 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have spoken vanity,
and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, said the Lord GOD.
13:9 And my hand shall be on 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 you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, see, others daubed
it with untempered mortar:
13:11 Say to them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall:
there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall
fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
13:12 See, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where
is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
13:13 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy
wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger,
and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
13:14 So will I break down the wall that you 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 you shall be consumed in the
middle thereof: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on them that have
daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, The wall is no more,
neither they that daubed it;
13:16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, said the
Lord GOD.
13:17 Likewise, you son of man, set your face against the daughters of
your people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against
them,
13:18 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows
to all armholes, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to hunt
souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save the souls
alive that come to you?
13:19 And will you 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?
13:20 Why thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, with
which you 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 you hunt to make
them fly.
13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your
hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall
know that I am the LORD.
13:22 Because with lies you 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:
13:23 Therefore you shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for
I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall know that I am
the LORD.
14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.
14:2 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and
put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be
inquired of at all by them?
14:4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD;
Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and
puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to
the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that comes according to the multitude
of his idols;
14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they
are all estranged from me through their idols.
14:6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Repent,
and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all
your abominations.
14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojournes
in Israel, which separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his
heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and
comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer
him by myself:
14:8 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 middle of my people; and
you shall know that I am the LORD.
14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD
have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and
will destroy him from the middle of my people Israel.
14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment
of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeks to him;
14:11 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, said the Lord GOD.
14:12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
14:13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously,
then will I stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the
bread thereof, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast
from it:
14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should
deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord GOD.
14:15 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:
14:16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, said the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered,
but the land shall be desolate.
14:17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the
land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
14:18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, said the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered
themselves.
14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on
it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, said the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver
their own souls by their righteousness.
14:21 For thus said the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore
judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast,
and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought
forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and
you shall see their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning
the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought on it.
14:23 And they shall comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings:
and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done
in it, said the Lord GOD.
15:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
15:2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch
which is among the trees of the forest?
15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin
of it to hang any vessel thereon?
15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both the
ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
15:5 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 has devoured it, and it
is burned?
15:6 Therefore thus said 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.
15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire,
and another fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am the LORD,
when I set my face against them.
15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
said the Lord GOD.
16:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
16:3 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your
nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your
mother an Hittite.
16:4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was
not cut, neither were you washed in water to supple you; you were not salted
at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5 None eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion
on you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your
person, in the day that you were born.
16:6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood,
I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when
you were in your blood, Live.
16:7 I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have
increased and waxen great, and you are come to excellent ornaments: your
breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you were naked and
bore.
16:8 Now when I passed by you, and looked on you, behold, your time was
the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness:
yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, said the Lord
GOD, and you became mine.
16:9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood
from you, and I anointed you with oil.
16:10 I clothed you also with broidered work, and shod you with badgers'
skin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
16:11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands,
and a chain on your neck.
16:12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and
a beautiful crown on your head.
16:13 Thus were you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of
fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey,
and oil: and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.
16:14 And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for
it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put on you, said the
Lord GOD.
16:15 But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because
of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one that passed
by; his it was.
16:16 And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places with
divers colors, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not
come, neither shall it be so.
16:17 You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit
prostitution with them,
16:18 And took your broidered garments, and covered them: and you have
set my oil and my incense before them.
16:19 My meat also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with
which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet smell: and
thus it was, said the Lord GOD.
16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have
borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this
of your prostitutions a small matter,
16:21 That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them
to pass through the fire for them?
16:22 And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you have not
remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bore, and were
polluted in your blood.
16:23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you!
said the LORD GOD;)
16:24 That you have also built to you an eminent place, and have made you
an high place in every street.
16:25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have
made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one
that passed by, and multiplied your prostitutions.
16:26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors,
great of flesh; and have increased your prostitutions, to provoke me to
anger.
16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have
diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of them that
hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd
way.
16:28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were
insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not
be satisfied.
16:29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan
to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied therewith.
16:30 How weak is your heart, said the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these
things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
16:31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and
make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in
that you scorn hire;
16:32 But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead
of her husband!
16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your
lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your
prostitution.
16:34 And the contrary is in you from other women in your prostitutions,
whereas none follows you to commit prostitutions: and in that you give
a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary.
16:35 Why, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
16:36 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and
your nakedness discovered through your prostitutions with your lovers,
and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children,
which you did give to them;
16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have
taken pleasure, and all them that you have loved, with all them that you
have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will discover
your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
16:38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood
are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.
16:39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down
your eminent place, and shall break down your high places: they shall strip
you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you
naked and bore.
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone
you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments
on you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing
the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more.
16:42 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall
depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have
fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense
your way on your head, said the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this
lewdness above all your abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against
you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45 You are your mother's daughter, that lothes her husband and her children;
and you are the sister of your sisters, which loathed their husbands and
their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell
at your left hand: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand,
is Sodom and her daughters.
16:47 Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations:
but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than
they in all your ways.
16:48 As I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom your sister has not done, she
nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness
of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither
did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore
I took them away as I saw good.
16:51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied
your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all
your abominations which you have done.
16:52 You also, which have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for
your sins that you have committed more abominable than they: they are more
righteous than you: yes, be you confounded also, and bear your shame, in
that you have justified your sisters.
16:53 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 your captives in the middle of them:
16:54 That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that
you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
16:55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former
estate, then you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
16:56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day
of your pride,
16:57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach
of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters
of the Philistines, which despise you round about.
16:58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, said the LORD.
16:59 For thus said the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have
done, which have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of
your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
16:61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall
receive your sisters, your elder and your younger: and I will give them
to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that
I am the LORD:
16:63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth
any more because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that
you have done, said the Lord GOD.
17:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of
Israel;
17:3 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long
winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and
took the highest branch of the cedar:
17:4 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.
17:5 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.
17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a
vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
17:7 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.
17:8 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.
17:9 Say you, Thus said 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.
17:10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly
wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the furrows where
it grew.
17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean?
tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and has taken
the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
17:13 And has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and
has taken an oath of him: he has also taken the mighty of the land:
17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up,
but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt,
that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall
he escape that does such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?
17:16 As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king
dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he
broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he shall die.
17:17 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:
17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see,
he had given his hand, and has done all these things, he shall not escape.
17:19 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; As I live, surely my oath that
he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, even it will I recompense
on his own head.
17:20 And I will spread my net on 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 has trespassed against me.
17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword,
and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and you shall
know that I the LORD have spoken it.
17:22 Thus said 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 on an high mountain and eminent:
17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall
bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it
shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof
shall they dwell.
17:24 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.
18:1 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,
18:2 What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are
set on edge?
18:3 As I live, said the Lord GOD, you shall not have occasion any more
to use this proverb in Israel.
18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
18:6 And has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes
to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's
wife, neither has come near to a menstruous woman,
18:7 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge,
has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has
covered the naked with a garment;
18:8 He that has not given forth on usury, neither has taken any increase,
that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between
man and man,
18:9 Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, to deal truly;
he is just, he shall surely live, said the Lord GOD.
18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that
does the like to any one of these things,
18:11 And that does not any of those duties, but even has eaten on the
mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
18:12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not
restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed
abomination,
18:13 Has given forth on usury, and has taken increase: shall he then live?
he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely
die; his blood shall be on him.
18:14 Now, see, if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins which
he has done, and considers, and does not such like,
18:15 That has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes
to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
18:16 Neither has oppressed any, has not withheld the pledge, neither has
spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered
the naked with a garment,
18:17 That has taken off his hand from the poor, that has not received
usury nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes;
he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother
by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, see, even
he shall die in his iniquity.
18:19 Yet say you, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?
When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all
my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
18:20 The soul that sins, 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 on him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be on him.
18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed,
and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall
surely live, he shall not die.
18:22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned
to him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? said the Lord
GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man
does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be
mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that
he has sinned, in them shall he die.
18:25 Yet you 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?
18:26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he
die.
18:27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he
has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his
soul alive.
18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions
that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
18:29 Yet said 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?
18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according
to his ways, said the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed;
and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house
of Israel?
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, said the Lord
GOD: why turn yourselves, and live you.
19:1 Moreover take you up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
19:2 And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions,
she nourished her whelps among young lions.
19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and
it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they
brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then
she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and
learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities;
and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his
roaring.
19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces,
and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
19:9 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 on the mountains of Israel.
19:10 Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters:
she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
19:11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule,
and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared
in her height with the multitude of her branches.
19:12 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.
19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured
her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This
is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth
day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire
of the LORD, and sat before me.
20:2 Then came the word of the LORD to me, saying,
20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus said
the Lord GOD; Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, said the Lord GOD,
I will not be inquired of by you.
20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? cause them to
know the abominations of their fathers:
20:5 And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel,
and lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying,
I am the LORD your God;
20:6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to 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:
20:7 Then said I to them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his
eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD
your God.
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to 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 on them,
to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.
20:9 But I worked 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 to
them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
20:10 Why I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought
them into the wilderness.
20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which
if a man do, he shall even live in them.
20:12 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.
20:13 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 on them in the wilderness, to consume
them.
20:14 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to 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;
20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes,
but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did
I make an end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the
statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves
with their idols:
20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments,
and do them;
20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,
that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
20:21 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 on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that
it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I
brought them forth.
20:23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would
scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
20:24 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.
20:25 Why I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby
they should not live;
20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate,
to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them,
Thus said the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in
that they have committed a trespass against me.
20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted
up my 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 smell,
and poured out there their drink offerings.
20:29 Then I said to them, What is the high place whereunto you go? And
the name whereof is called Bamah to this day.
20:30 Why say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Are you polluted
after the manner of your fathers? and commit you prostitution after their
abominations?
20:31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through
the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day:
and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, said the
Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
20:32 And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, that you
say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve
wood and stone.
20:33 As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with
a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out
of the countries wherein you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with
a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there
will I plead with you face to face.
20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land
of Egypt, so will I plead with you, said the Lord GOD.
20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you
into the bond of the covenant:
20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress
against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn,
and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that
I am the LORD.
20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord GOD; Go you, serve
you every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to
me: but pollute you my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your
idols.
20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
said 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 first fruits of your oblations, with all your holy
things.
20:41 I will accept you with your sweet smell, when I bring you out from
the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been scattered;
and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
20:42 And you 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 my hand
to give it to your fathers.
20:43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein
you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight
for all your evils that you have committed.
20:44 And you shall know that I am the LORD when I have worked with you
for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to
your corrupt doings, O you house of Israel, said the Lord GOD.
20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
20:46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your word toward
the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus
said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour
every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not
be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned
therein.
20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall
not be quenched.
20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?
21:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
21:2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward
the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I am against
you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from
you the righteous and the wicked.
21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked,
therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from
the south to the north:
21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword
out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
21:6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and
with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
21:7 And it shall be, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you shall
answer, For the tidings; because it comes: 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 comes, and shall be brought to pass,
said the Lord GOD.
21:8 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus said the LORD; Say, A sword, a
sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it
may glitter: should we then make mirth? it scorns the rod of my son, as
every tree.
21:11 And he has 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.
21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be on my people, it shall
be on all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be
on my people: smite therefore on your thigh.
21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword scorn even the rod?
it shall be no more, said the Lord GOD.
21:14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your 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 enters into their privy
chambers.
21:15 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.
21:16 Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,
wherever your face is set.
21:17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to
rest: I the LORD have said it.
21:18 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,
21:19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the
king of Babylon may come: both two shall come forth out of one land: and
choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
and to Judah in Jerusalem the defended.
21:21 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.
21:22 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.
21:23 And it shall be to 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.
21:24 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you 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 you are come
to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
21:25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when
iniquity shall have an end,
21:26 Thus said 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.
21:27 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.
21:28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD concerning
the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword,
the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because
of the glittering:
21:29 Whiles they see vanity to you, whiles they divine a lie to you, to
bring you on the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day
is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
21:30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the
place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
21:31 And I will pour out my indignation on you, I will blow against you
in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men,
and skillful to destroy.
21:32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the middle
of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken
it.
22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
22:2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city?
yes, you shall show her all her abominations.
22:3 Then say you, Thus said the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the
middle of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to
defile herself.
22:4 You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled
yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days
to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you
a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from you, shall mock you,
which are infamous and much vexed.
22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power
to shed blood.
22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of
you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they vexed
the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
22:9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat
on the mountains: in the middle of you they commit lewdness.
22:10 In you have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in you have
they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
22:11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another
has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in you has humbled
his sister, his father's daughter.
22:12 In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury
and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion,
and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.
22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which
you have made, and at your blood which has been in the middle of you.
22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that
I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the
countries, and will consume your filthiness out of you.
22:16 And you shall take your inheritance in yourself in the sight of the
heathen, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
22:17 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are
brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they
are even the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you are all become dross,
behold, therefore I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into
the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will
I gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and
melt you.
22:21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you in the fire of my wrath,
and you shall be melted in the middle therof.
22:22 As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so shall you be
melted in the middle thereof; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured
out my fury on you.
22:23 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor
rained on in the day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle 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
middle thereof.
22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my 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.
22:27 Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey,
to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing
vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus said the Lord GOD, when
the LORD has not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery,
and have vexed the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger
wrongfully.
22:30 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.
22:31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed
them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed on their
heads, said the Lord GOD.
23:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
23:3 And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions
in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised
the teats of their virginity.
23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister:
and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names;
Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her
lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable
young men, horsemen riding on horses.
23:7 Thus she committed her prostitutions 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.
23:8 Neither left she her prostitutions brought from Egypt: for in her
youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity,
and poured their prostitution on her.
23:9 Why I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand
of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
23:10 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 on her.
23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her prostitutions more than her sister
in her prostitutions.
23:12 She doted on the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed
most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young
men.
23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
23:14 And that she increased her prostitutions: for when she saw men portrayed
on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
23:15 Girded with girdles on their loins, exceeding in dyed attire on their
heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians
of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted on them, and
sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her mind
was alienated from them.
23:18 So she discovered her prostitutions, and discovered her nakedness:
then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from
her sister.
23:19 Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the
days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
23:20 For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
23:21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising
your teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.
23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise
up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will
bring them against you on every side;
23:23 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 on horses.
23:24 And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels,
and with an assembly of people, which shall set against you buckler and
shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and
they shall judge you according to their judgments.
23:25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously
with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant
shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters;
and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
23:26 They shall also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your
fair jewels.
23:27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution
brought from the land of Egypt: so that you shall not lift up your eyes
to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
23:28 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand
of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your mind is alienated:
23:29 And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your
labor, and shall leave you naked and bore: and the nakedness of your prostitutions
shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your prostitutions.
23:30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after
the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.
23:31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give
her cup into your hand.
23:32 Thus said the Lord GOD; You shall drink of your sister's cup deep
and large: you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contains
much.
23:33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
23:34 You shall even drink it and suck it out, and you shall break the
shards thereof, and pluck off your own breasts: for I have spoken it, said
the Lord GOD.
23:35 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me,
and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and
your prostitutions.
23:36 The LORD said moreover to me; Son of man, will you judge Aholah and
Aholibah? yes, declare to them their abominations;
23:37 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 bore to me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour
them.
23:38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary
in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they
came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, see, thus have
they done in the middle of my house.
23:40 And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far, to
whom a messenger was sent; and, see, they came: for whom you did wash yourself,
painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,
23:41 And sat on a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon
you have set my incense and my oil.
23:42 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 on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
23:43 Then said I to her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit
prostitutions with her, and she with them?
23:44 Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that plays the
harlot: so went they in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.
23:45 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.
23:46 For thus said the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company on them, and
will give them to be removed and spoiled.
23:47 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.
23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women
may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear
the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:2 Son of man, write you the name of the day, even of this same day:
the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
24:3 And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus
said the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh,
and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
24:5 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.
24:6 Why thus said 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 on it.
24:7 For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the top of a
rock; she poured it not on the ground, to cover it with dust;
24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set
her blood on the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
24:9 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even
make the pile for fire great.
24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well,
and let the bones be burned.
24:11 Then set it empty on 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.
24:12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth
out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you
were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more,
till I have caused my fury to rest on you.
24:14 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 your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, said
the Lord GOD.
24:15 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes
with a stroke: yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, neither shall your
tears run down.
24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your
head on you, and put on your shoes on your feet, and cover not your lips,
and eat not the bread of men.
24:18 So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at even my wife died;
and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
24:19 And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things
are to us, that you do so?
24:20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your
eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters
whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
24:22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor
eat the bread of men.
24:23 And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet:
you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities,
and mourn one toward another.
24:24 Thus Ezekiel is to you a sign: according to all that he has done
shall you do: and when this comes, you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
24:25 Also, you 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,
24:26 That he that escapes in that day shall come to you, to cause you
to hear it with your ears?
24:27 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and
you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign to them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
25:2 Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against
them;
25:3 And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus said
the Lord GOD; Because you said, 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;
25:4 Behold, therefore I will deliver you to the men of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their palaces in you, and make their dwellings
in you: they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching
place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
25:6 For thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, and
stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your despite against
the land of Israel;
25:7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out my hand on you, and will deliver
you for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut you off from the people,
and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you;
and you shall know that I am the LORD.
25:8 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like to all the heathen;
25:9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from
his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth,
Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
25:10 To the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in
possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
25:11 And I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I
am the LORD.
25:12 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Edom has dealt against the house
of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself
on them;
25:13 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand
on 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.
25:14 And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel:
and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury;
and they shall know my vengeance, said the Lord GOD.
25:15 Thus said 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;
25:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out my hand
on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast.
25:17 And I will execute great vengeance on them with furious rebukes;
and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance on
them.
26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she
is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall
be replenished, now she is laid waste:
26:3 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Tyrus,
and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes his
waves to come up.
26:4 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.
26:5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the
sea: for I have spoken it, said the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil
to the nations.
26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:7 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring on 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.
26:8 He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field: and he shall
make a fort against you, and cast a mount against you, and lift up the
buckler against you.
26:9 And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes
he shall break down your towers.
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you:
your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels,
and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter
into a city wherein is made a breach.
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets:
he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall
go down to the ground.
26:12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your
merchandise: and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant
houses: and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in
the middle of the water.
26:13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound
of your harps shall be no more heard.
26:14 And I will make you like the top of a rock: you shall be a place
to spread nets on; you shall be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken
it, said the Lord GOD.
26:15 Thus said the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the
sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in
the middle of you?
26:16 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 on the ground, and shall
tremble at every moment, and be astonished at you.
26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, How
are you destroyed, that were inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city,
which were strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their
terror to be on all that haunt it!
26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles
that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.
26:19 For thus said the Lord GOD; When I shall make you a desolate city,
like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep
on you, and great waters shall cover you;
26:20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit,
with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that
you be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
26:21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more: though you be
sought for, yet shall you never be found again, said the Lord GOD.
27:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
27:2 Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
27:3 And say to Tyrus, O you that are situate at the entry of the sea,
which are a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus said the Lord GOD;
O Tyrus, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.
27:4 Your borders are in the middle of the seas, your builders have perfected
your beauty.
27:5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have
taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.
27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of the
Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of
Chittim.
27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which you spread
forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that
which covered you.
27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men,
O Tyrus, that were in you, were your pilots.
27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in you your caulkers:
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your
merchandise.
27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army, your men
of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
27:11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about, and
the Gammadims were in your towers: they hanged their shields on your walls
round about; they have made your beauty perfect.
27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind
of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs.
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded
the persons of men and vessels of brass in your market.
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and
horsemen and mules.
27:15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many isles were the merchandise
of your hand: they brought you for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
27:16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of
your making: they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered
work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your merchants: they traded
in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white
wool.
27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.
27:20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs,
and rams, and goats: in these were they your merchants.
27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they
occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious
stones, and gold.
27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and
Chilmad, were your merchants.
27:24 These were your 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 your merchandise.
27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market: and you were
replenished, and made very glorious in the middle of the seas.
27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has
broken you in the middle of the seas.
27:27 Your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and
your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and
all your men of war, that are in you, and in all your company which is
in the middle of you, shall fall into the middle of the seas in the day
of your ruin.
27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of
the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand on the land;
27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry
bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves
in the ashes:
27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and
bitter wailing.
27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and
lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in
the middle of the sea?
27:33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people;
you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches
and of your merchandise.
27:34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of
the waters your merchandise and all your company in the middle of you shall
fall.
27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
27:36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you shall be a
terror, and never shall be any more.
28:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because
your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat
of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though
you set your heart as the heart of God:
28:3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
hide from you:
28:4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten you riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures:
28:5 By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches,
and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
28:6 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart
as the heart of God;
28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,
and they shall defile your brightness.
28:8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths
of them that are slain in the middle of the seas.
28:9 Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am God? but you shall
be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slays you.
28:10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, said the Lord GOD.
28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyrus, and say to
him, Thus said the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect
in beauty.
28:13 You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
your 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 your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in
the day that you were created.
28:14 You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you so: you
were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the middle
of the stones of fire.
28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,
till iniquity was found in you.
28:16 By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the middle
of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering
cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted
your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground,
I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.
28:18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities,
by the iniquity of your traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from
the middle of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes on
the earth in the sight of all them that behold you.
28:19 All they that know you among the people shall be astonished at you:
you shall be a terror, and never shall you be any more.
28:20 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
28:21 Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
28:22 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Zidon;
and I will be glorified in the middle of you: and they shall know that
I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be
sanctified in her.
28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets;
and the wounded shall be judged in the middle of her by the sword on her
on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to 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.
28:25 Thus said 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.
28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and
plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed
judgments on all those that despise them round about them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD their God.
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month,
the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
29:2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
against him, and against all Egypt:
29:3 Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the middle of his
rivers, which has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
29:4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your
rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the middle
of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.
29:5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish
of your rivers: you shall fall on the open fields; you shall not be brought
together, nor gathered: I have given you for meat to the beasts of the
field and to the fowls of the heaven.
29:6 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.
29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and rend all
their shoulder: and when they leaned on you, you brake, and made all their
loins to be at a stand.
29:8 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword on
you, and cut off man and beast out of you.
29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall
know that I am the LORD: because he has said, The river is mine, and I
have made it.
29:10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and
I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower
of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia.
29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the middle of the countries
that are desolate, and her cities amon
