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