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[1]
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in
the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river
of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
God.
[2] In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth
year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
[3] The word of the
LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the
land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD
was there upon him.
[4] And I looked, and, behold, a
whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding
itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof
as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
[5]
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a
man.
[6] And every one had four faces, and every one had
four wings.
[7] And their feet were straight feet; and the
sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they
sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
[8] And they
had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and
they four had their faces and their wings.
[9] Their wings
were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went
every one straight forward.
[10] As for the likeness of
their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion,
on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left
side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
[11] Thus
were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of
every one were joined one to another, and two covered their
bodies.
[12] And they went every one straight forward:
whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when
they went.
[13] As for the likeness of the living
creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like
the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth
lightning.
[14] And the living creatures ran and returned
as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
[15] Now as I
beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the
living creatures, with his four faces.
[16] The appearance
of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and
they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was
as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
[17] When they
went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they
went.
[18] As for their rings, they were so high that they
were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them
four.
[19] And when the living creatures went, the wheels
went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up.
[20] Whithersoever the
spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the
wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.
[21] When those went, these
went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted
up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for
the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
[22]
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth
over their heads above.
[23] And under the firmament were
their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two,
which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on
that side, their bodies.
[24] And when they went, I heard
the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the
voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host:
when they stood, they let down their wings.
[25] And there
was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they
stood, and had let down their wings.
[26] And above the
firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as
the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the
throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon
it.
[27] And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his
loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even
downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
brightness round about.
[28] As the appearance of the bow
that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the
brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of
the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spake.
[1]
And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will
speak unto thee.
[2] And the spirit entered into me when he
spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake
unto me.
[3] And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee
to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled
against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even
unto this very day.
[4] For they are impudent children and
stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD.
[5] And they, whether they will
hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious
house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
[6]
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of
their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost
dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed
at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
[7] And
thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
[8]
But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I
give thee.
[9] And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent
unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
[10] And he
spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there
was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
[1]
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this
roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
[2] So I
opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
[3] And
he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy
bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was
in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
[4] And he said unto
me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with
my words unto them.
[5] For thou art not sent to a people
of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of
Israel;
[6] Not to many people of a strange speech and of
an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had
I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
[7]
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not
hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and
hardhearted.
[8] Behold, I have made thy face strong
against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their
foreheads.
[9] As an adamant harder than flint have I made
thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house.
[10] Moreover he said
unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee
receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
[11] And
go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy
people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
[12]
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his
place.
[13] I heard also the noise of the wings of the
living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the
wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
[14]
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was
strong upon me.
[15] Then I came to them of the captivity
at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they
sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
[16]
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
[17] Son of man, I have made
thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at
my mouth, and give them warning from me.
[18] When I say
unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not
warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save
his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
blood will I require at thine hand.
[19] Yet if thou warn
the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked
way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy
soul.
[20] Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before
him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall
die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be
remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
[21]
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin
not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned;
also thou hast delivered thy soul.
[22] And the hand of the
LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the
plain, and I will there talk with thee.
[23] Then I arose,
and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD
stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I
fell on my face.
[24] Then the spirit entered into me, and
set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut
thyself within thine house.
[25] But thou, O son of man,
behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with
them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
[26] And I will
make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be
dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious
house.
[27] But when I speak with thee, I will open thy
mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that
heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for
they are a rebellious house.
[1]
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and
pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
[2] And lay
siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount
against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams
against it round about.
[3] Moreover take thou unto thee an
iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city:
and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt
lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of
Israel.
[4] Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the
iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of
the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their
iniquity.
[5] For I have laid upon thee the years of their
iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and
ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of
Israel.
[6] And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again
on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
[7]
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and
thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
[8]
And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee
from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy
siege.
[9] Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and
beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one
vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the
days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days
shalt thou eat thereof.
[10] And thy meat which thou shalt
eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt
thou eat it.
[11] Thou shalt drink also water by measure,
the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
[12]
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with
dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
[13] And the
LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled
bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
[14]
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for
from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth
of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh
into my mouth.
[15] Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given
thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread
therewith.
[16] Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall
eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by
measure, and with astonishment:
[17] That they may want
bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away
for their iniquity.
[1]
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's
rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then
take thee balances to weight, and divide the hair.
[2] Thou
shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the
days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part,
and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter
in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
[3]
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy
skirts.
[4] Then take of them again, and cast them into the
midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a
fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
[5] Thus
saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of
the nations and countries that are round about her.
[6] And
she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations,
and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for
they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked
in them.
[7] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have
not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither
have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round
about you;
[8] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst
of thee in the sight of the nations.
[9] And I will do in
thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more
the like, because of all thine abominations.
[10] Therefore
the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons
shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and
the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
[11]
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast
defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all
thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither
shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
[12] A
third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine
shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall
fall by the sword round about thee and I will scatter a third part
into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
[13]
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to
rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I
the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury
in them.
[14] Moreover I will make thee waste, and a
reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of
all that pass by.
[15] So it shall be a reproach and a
taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are
round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and
in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
[16]
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be
for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I
will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of
bread:
[17] So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,
and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have
spoken it.
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy
against them,
[3] And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the
word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and
to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I,
will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
[4]
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken:
and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
[5]
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your
altars.
[6] In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be
laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars
may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and
cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
abolished.
[7] And the slain shall fall in the midst of
you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
[8] Yet will I
leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword
among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the
countries.
[9] And they that escape of you shall remember
me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because
I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,
and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they
shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.
[10] And they shall know that I am the
LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto
them.
[11] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand,
and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations
of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence.
[12] He that is far off
shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the
sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine:
thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
[13] Then shall
ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their
idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops
of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick
oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their
idols.
[14] So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and
make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward
Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
[1]
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2]
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of
Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the
land.
[3] Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send
mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and
will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
[4] And
mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will
recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the
midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
[5]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
[6]
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is
come.
[7] The morning is come unto thee, O thou that
dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near,
and not the sounding again of the mountains.
[8] Now will I
shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon
thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense thee for all thine abominations.
[9] And mine
eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee
according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of
thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
[10]
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the
rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
[11] Violence is
risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of
their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing
for them.
[12] The time is come, the day draweth near: let
not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all
the multitude thereof.
[13] For the seller shall not return
to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision
is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return;
neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life.
[14] They have blown the trumpet, even to make all
ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof.
[15] The sword is without, and the
pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die
with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence
shall devour him.
[16] But they that escape of them shall
escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all
of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
[17] All
hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
[18]
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all
their heads.
[19] They shall cast their silver in the
streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold
shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the
LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels:
because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
[20] As
for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made
the images of their abominations and of their detestable things
therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
[21] And I
will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the
wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
[22]
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret
place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
[23]
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is
full of violence.
[24] Wherefore I will bring the worst of
the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make
the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be
defiled.
[25] Destruction cometh; and they shall seek
peace, and there shall be none.
[26] Mischief shall come
upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek
a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest,
and counsel from the ancients.
[27] The king shall mourn,
and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the
people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their
way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
[1]
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the
fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of
Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon
me.
[2] Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance
of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and
from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the
colour of amber.
[3] And he put forth the form of an hand,
and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up
between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of
God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward
the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy.
[4] And, behold, the glory of the
God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the
plain.
[5] Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine
eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way
toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry.
[6] He said furthermore
unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should
go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations.
[7] And he brought me to the door
of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
[8]
Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had
digged in the wall, behold a door.
[9] And he said unto me,
Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
[10]
So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
[11] And there stood
before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and
in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every
man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went
up.
[12] Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen
what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in
the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the
LORD hath forsaken the earth.
[13] He said also unto me,
Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that
they do.
[14] Then he brought me to the door of the gate of
the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat
women weeping for Tammuz.
[15] Then said he unto me, Hast
thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
greater abominations than these.
[16] And he brought me
into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of
the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about
five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD,
and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward
the east.
[17] Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O
son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they
commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled
the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger:
and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
[18] Therefore
will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet
will I not hear them.
[1]
He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that
have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand.
[2] And, behold, six men
came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north,
and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them
was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they
went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
[3] And the
glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he
was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed
with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
[4]
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through
the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the
midst thereof.
[5] And to the others he said in mine
hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your
eye spare, neither have ye pity:
[6] Slay utterly old and
young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near
any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they
began at the ancient men which were before the house.
[7]
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the
slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
[8]
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left,
that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon
Jerusalem?
[9] Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the
house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of
blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath
forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
[10] And as for
me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I
will recompense their way upon their head.
[11] And,
behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his
side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded
me.
[1]
Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head
of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire
stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
[2]
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between
the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of
fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And
he went in in my sight.
[3] Now the cherubims stood on the
right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled
the inner court.
[4] Then the glory of the LORD went up
from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the
house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the
brightness of the LORD's glory.
[5] And the sound of the
cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of
the Almighty God when he speaketh.
[6] And it came to pass,
that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take
fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he
went in, and stood beside the wheels.
[7] And one cherub
stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire
that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the
hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went
out.
[8] And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a
man's hand under their wings.
[9] And when I looked, behold
the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and
another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was
as the colour of a beryl stone.
[10] And as for their
appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in
the midst of a wheel.
[11] When they went, they went upon
their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place
whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they
went.
[12] And their whole body, and their backs, and their
hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round
about, even the wheels that they four had.
[13] As for the
wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
[14]
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the
face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
[15]
And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I
saw by the river of Chebar.
[16] And when the cherubims
went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their
wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not
from beside them.
[17] When they stood, these stood; and
when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the
spirit of the living creature was in them.
[18] Then the
glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and
stood over the cherubims.
[19] And the cherubims lifted up
their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they
went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at
the door of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the
God of Israel was over them above.
[20] This is the living
creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar;
and I knew that they were the cherubims.
[21] Every one had
four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the
hands of a man was under their wings.
[22] And the likeness
of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar,
their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight
forward.
[1]
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate
of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door
of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son
of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the
people.
[2] Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the
men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
[3]
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the
caldron, and we be the flesh.
[4] Therefore prophesy
against them, prophesy, O son of man.
[5] And the Spirit of
the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD;
Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come
into your mind, every one of them.
[6] Ye have multiplied
your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with
the slain.
[7] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your
slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and
this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst
of it.
[8] Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a
sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
[9] And I will bring
you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of
strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
[10] Ye
shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
[11] This city shall
not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst
thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
[12]
And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my
statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the
manners of the heathen that are round about you.
[13] And
it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah
died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of
Israel?
[14] Again the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[15] Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren,
the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they
unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from
the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
[16]
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far
off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the
countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the
countries where they shall come.
[17] Therefore say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and
assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I
will give you the land of Israel.
[18] And they shall come
thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof
and all the abominations thereof from thence.
[19] And I
will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and
I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an
heart of flesh:
[20] That they may walk in my statutes, and
keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I
will be their God.
[21] But as for them whose heart walketh
after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I
will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord
GOD.
[22] Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and
the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over
them above.
[23] And the glory of the LORD went up from the
midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east
side of the city.
[24] Afterwards the spirit took me up,
and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them
of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
[25]
Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD
had shewed me.
[1]
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have
eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for
they are a rebellious house.
[3] Therefore, thou son of
man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their
sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their
sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious
house.
[4] Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in
their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even
in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
[5]
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
[6]
In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it
forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not
the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of
Israel.
[7] And I did so as I was commanded: I brought
forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I
digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the
twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
[8]
And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
[9]
Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said
unto thee, What doest thou?
[10] Say thou unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem,
and all the house of Israel that are among them.
[11] Say,
I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them:
they shall remove and go into captivity.
[12] And the
prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the
twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to
carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the
ground with his eyes.
[13] My net also will I spread upon
him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to
Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though
he shall die there.
[14] And I will scatter toward every
wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I
will draw out the sword after them.
[15] And they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations,
and disperse them in the countries.
[16] But I will leave a
few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the
pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the
heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
[17] Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying,
[18] Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and
drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
[19]
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat
their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with
astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein,
because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
[20]
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
[21]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[22] Son of
man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying,
The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
[23] Tell
them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to
cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say
unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
[24]
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Israel.
[25] For I am the LORD: I will
speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall
be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I
say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
[26]
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
[27] Son of
man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he
seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that
are far off.
[28] Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the
word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the
word of the LORD;
[3] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the
foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing!
[4] O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in
the deserts.
[5] Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither
made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in
the day of the LORD.
[6] They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them:
and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the
word.
[7] Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not
spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit
I have not spoken?
[8] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am
against you, saith the Lord GOD.
[9] And mine hand shall be
upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall
not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in
the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the
land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
[10]
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed
it with untempered morter:
[11] Say unto them which daub it
with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an
overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a
stormy wind shall rend it.
[12] Lo, when the wall is
fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith
ye have daubed it?
[13] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be
an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury
to consume it.
[14] So will I break down the wall that ye
have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground,
so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall
fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
[15] Thus will I accomplish my
wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with
untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more,
neither they that daubed it;
[16] To wit, the prophets of
Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of
peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
[17]
Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy
people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou
against them,
[18] And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to
the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon
the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my
people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
[19]
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for
pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save
the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that
hear your lies?
[20] Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls
to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let
the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
[21]
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your
hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
[22] Because with lies ye
have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad;
and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return
from his wicked way, by promising him life:
[23] Therefore
ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will
deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
[1]
Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before
me.
[2] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[3]
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put
the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be
inquired of at all by them?
[4] Therefore speak unto them,
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of
Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the
prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the
multitude of his idols;
[5] That I may take the house of
Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me
through their idols.
[6] Therefore say unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from
your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
[7]
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth
up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him
concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
[8]
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and
a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
[9] And if the prophet be
deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that
prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy
him from the midst of my people Israel.
[10] And they shall
bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet
shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
[11]
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be
polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be
my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
[12]
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
[13] Son of
man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then
will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the
bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and
beast from it:
[14] Though these three men, Noah, Daniel,
and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their
righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
[15] If I cause noisome
beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be
desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
[16]
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be
delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
[17] Or if I
bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so
that I cut off man and beast from it:
[18] Though these
three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall
deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered
themselves.
[19] Or if I send a pestilence into that land,
and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and
beast:
[20] Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I
live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor
daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their
righteousness.
[21] For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much
more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword,
and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off
from it man and beast?
[22] Yet, behold, therein shall be
left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters:
behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way
and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that
I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought upon it.
[23] And they shall comfort you, when ye
see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not
done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which
is among the trees of the forest?
[3] Shall wood be taken
thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any
vessel thereon?
[4] Behold, it is cast into the fire for
fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is
burned. Is it meet for any work?
[5] Behold, when it was
whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet
for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
[6]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees
of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I
give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[7] And I will set my
face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire
shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set
my face against them.
[8] And I will make the land
desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
[3] And say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is
of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an
Hittite.
[4] And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast
born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to
supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
[5]
None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to
the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
[6]
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood,
I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto
thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
[7] I have caused
thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and
waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts
are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and
bare.
[8] Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,
behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over
thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest
mine.
[9] Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
[10]
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers'
skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee
with silk.
[11] I decked thee also with ornaments, and I
put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
[12]
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
beautiful crown upon thine head.
[13] Thus wast thou decked
with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk,
and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil:
and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a
kingdom.
[14] And thy renown went forth among the heathen
for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had
put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
[15] But thou didst
trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy
renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed
by; his it was.
[16] And of thy garments thou didst take,
and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the
harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be
so.
[17] Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold
and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself
images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
[18]
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast
set mine oil and mine incense before them.
[19] My meat
also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I
fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and
thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
[20] Moreover thou hast
taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and
these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy
whoredoms a small matter,
[21] That thou hast slain my
children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire
for them?
[22] And in all thine abominations and thy
whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou
wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
[23]
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee!
saith the Lord GOD;)
[24] That thou hast also built unto
thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every
street.
[25] Thou hast built thy high place at every head
of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened
thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy
whoredoms.
[26] Thou hast also committed fornication with
the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
[27] Behold, therefore I
have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine
ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate
thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd
way.
[28] Thou hast played the whore also with the
Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the
harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
[29]
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan
unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
[30]
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all
these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
[31]
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way,
and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
[32] But as a wife that
committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her
husband!
[33] They give gifts to all whores: but thou
givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may
come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
[34] And the
contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none
followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward,
and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
[35]
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
[36] Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with
all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children,
which thou didst give unto them;
[37] Behold, therefore I
will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and
all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I
will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy
nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
[38]
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
[39]
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down
thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall
strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and
leave thee naked and bare.
[40] They shall also bring up a
company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and
thrust thee through with their swords.
[41] And they shall
burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the
sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the
harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
[42] So
will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart
from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
[43]
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast
fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will
recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou
shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
[44]
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
[45]
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her
children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their
husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your
father an Amorite.
[46] And thine elder sister is Samaria,
she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger
sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her
daughters.
[47] Yet hast thou not walked after their ways,
nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little
thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
[48]
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she
nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
[49]
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of
bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters,
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
[50]
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore
I took them away as I saw good.
[51] Neither hath Samaria
committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine
abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all
thine abominations which thou hast done.
[52] Thou also,
which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that
thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more
righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy
shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
[53] When I
shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will
I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of
them:
[54] That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and
mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a
comfort unto them.
[55] When thy sisters, Sodom and her
daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her
daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy
daughters shall return to your former estate.
[56] For thy
sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
pride,
[57] Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the
time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are
round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee
round about.
[58] Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine
abominations, saith the LORD.
[59] For thus saith the Lord
GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast
despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
[60]
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
[61]
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give
them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
[62]
And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that
I am the LORD:
[63] That thou mayest remember, and be
confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame,
when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the
Lord GOD.
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of
Israel;
[3] And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle
with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers
colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the
cedar:
[4] He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and
carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of
merchants.
[5] He took also of the seed of the land, and
planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set
it as a willow tree.
[6] And it grew, and became a
spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and
the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought
forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
[7] There was also
another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold,
this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches
toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
plantation.
[8] It was planted in a good soil by great
waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear
fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
[9] Say thou, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots
thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall
wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or
many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
[10] Yea,
behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither,
when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where
it grew.
[11] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[12] Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not
what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is
come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes
thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
[13] And hath
taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath
taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
[14]
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but
that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
[15] But he
rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they
might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he
escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?
[16] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in
the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he
despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of
Babylon he shall die.
[17] Neither shall Pharaoh with his
mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up
mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
[18]
Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he
had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not
escape.
[19] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,
surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath
broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
[20]
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare,
and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for
his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
[21] And
all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and
they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall
know that I the LORD have spoken it.
[22] Thus saith the
Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar,
and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
[23]
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall
bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under
it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches
thereof shall they dwell.
[24] And all the trees of the
field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree,
have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have
made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have brought down the high
tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and
have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have
done it.
[1]
The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
[2] What
mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth
are set on edge?
[3] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye
shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
[4]
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
[5]
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
[6]
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his
neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
[7]
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his
pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
[8] He
that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any
increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed
true judgment between man and man,
[9] Hath walked in my
statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he
shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
[10] If he beget a
son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to
any one of these things,
[11] And that doeth not any of
those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his
neighbour's wife,
[12] Hath oppressed the poor and needy,
hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath
lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
[13]
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then
live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he
shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
[14] Now,
lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath
done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
[15] That
hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's
wife,
[16] Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden
the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his
bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
[17]
That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received
usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my
statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall
surely live.
[18] As for his father, because he cruelly
oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not
good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
[19]
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?
When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept
all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
[20]
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and
the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
[21] But if
the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and
keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall
surely live, he shall not die.
[22] All his transgressions
that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his
righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
[23] Have I
any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:
and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
[24]
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that
the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he
hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath
trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he
die.
[25] Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways
unequal?
[26] When a righteous man turneth away from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his
iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
[27] Again, when
the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath
committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save
his soul alive.
[28] Because he considereth, and turneth
away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall
surely live, he shall not die.
[29] Yet saith the house of
Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not
my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
[30] Therefore I
will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,
saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
[31]
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will
ye die, O house of Israel?
[32] For I have no pleasure in
the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn
yourselves, and live ye.
[1]
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
[2]
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she
nourished her whelps among young lions.
[3] And she brought
up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch
the prey; it devoured men.
[4] The nations also heard of
him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto
the land of Egypt.
[5] Now when she saw that she had
waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps,
and made him a young lion.
[6] And he went up and down
among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the
prey, and devoured men.
[7] And he knew their desolate
palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate,
and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
[8]
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces,
and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
[9]
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of
Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more
be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
[10] Thy mother is
like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and
full of branches by reason of many waters.
[11] And she had
strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature
was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height
with the multitude of her branches.
[12] But she was
plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east
wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered;
the fire consumed them.
[13] And now she is planted in the
wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
[14] And fire is
gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so
that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a
lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
[1]
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the
tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to
inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
[2] Then came the
word of the LORD unto me, saying,
[3] Son of man, speak
unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
will not be inquired of by you.
[4] Wilt thou judge them,
son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations
of their fathers:
[5] And say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand
unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them
in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I
am the LORD your God;
[6] In the day that I lifted up mine
hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land
that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the
glory of all lands:
[7] Then said I unto them, Cast ye away
every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves
with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
[8] But
they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not
every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they
forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon
them to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.
[9] But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should
not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose
sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of
the land of Egypt.
[10] Wherefore I caused them to go forth
out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
[11]
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a
man do, he shall even live in them.
[12] Moreover also I
gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they
might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
[13] But
the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they
walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a
man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly
polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the
wilderness, to consume them.
[14] But I wrought for my
name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in
whose sight I brought them out.
[15] Yet also I lifted up
my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into
the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which
is the glory of all lands;
[16] Because they despised my
judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths:
for their heart went after their idols.
[17] Nevertheless
mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end
of them in the wilderness.
[18] But I said unto their
children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your
fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with
their idols:
[19] I am the LORD your God; walk in my
statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
[20] And
hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that
ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
[21]
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in
my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do,
he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I
would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them
in the wilderness.
[22] Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand,
and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the
sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
[23]
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would
scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the
countries;
[24] Because they had not executed my judgments,
but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their
eyes were after their fathers' idols.
[25] Wherefore I gave
them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they
should not live;
[26] And I polluted them in their own
gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth
the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might
know that I am the LORD.
[27] Therefore, son of man, speak
unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have
committed a trespass against me.
[28] For when I had
brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to
give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick
trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made
their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
[29]
Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And
the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
[30]
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are
ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom
after their abominations?
[31] For when ye offer your
gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute
yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be
inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD,
I will not be inquired of by you.
[32] And that which
cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as
the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and
stone.
[33] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a
mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out,
will I rule over you:
[34] And I will bring you out from
the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are
scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with
fury poured out.
[35] And I will bring you into the
wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to
face.
[36] Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the
Lord GOD.
[37] And I will cause you to pass under the rod,
and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
[38]
And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that
transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country
where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
[39] As for you, O
house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one
his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but
pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your
idols.
[40] For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of
the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house
of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept
them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of
your oblations, with all your holy things.
[41] I will
accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the
people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
[42]
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the
land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand
to give it to your fathers.
[43] And there shall ye
remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been
defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your
evils that ye have committed.
[44] And ye shall know that I
am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not
according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings,
O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
[45] Moreover the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[46] Son of man, set
thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and
prophesy against the forest of the south field;
[47] And
say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming
flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the
north shall be burned therein.
[48] And all flesh shall see
that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
[49]
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy
places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
[3] And
say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against
thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut
off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
[4] Seeing then
that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore
shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the
south to the north:
[5] That all flesh may know that I the
LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return
any more.
[6] Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the
breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their
eyes.
[7] And it shall be, when they say unto thee,
Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings;
because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as
water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the
Lord GOD.
[8] Again the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[9] Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
[10]
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son,
as every tree.
[11] And he hath give it to be furbished,
that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished,
to give it into the hand of the slayer.
[12] Cry and howl,
son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the
princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my
people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
[13] Because it is
a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no
more, saith the Lord GOD.
[14] Thou therefore, son of man,
prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be
doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of
the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy
chambers.
[15] I have set the point of the sword against
all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be
multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the
slaughter.
[16] Go thee one way or other, either on the
right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
[17]
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to
rest: I the LORD have said it.
[18] The word of the LORD
came unto me again, saying,
[19] Also, thou son of man,
appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may
come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a
place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
[20]
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
[21] For the king
of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two
ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with
images, he looked in the liver.
[22] At his right hand was
the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth
in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint
battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a
fort.
[23] And it shall be unto them as a false divination
in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
[24]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity
to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that
in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are
come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
[25]
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when
iniquity shall have an end,
[26] Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the
same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
[27]
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more,
until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
[28]
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD
concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say
thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is
furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
[29]
Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee,
to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked,
whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
[30]
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the
place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
[31]
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against
thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of
brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
[32] Thou shalt be for
fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou
shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
[1]
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2]
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody
city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
[3]
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in
the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against
herself to defile herself.
[4] Thou art become guilty in
thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine
idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw
near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a
reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
[5]
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee,
which art infamous and much vexed.
[6] Behold, the princes
of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
[7]
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of
thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have
they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
[8] Thou hast
despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
[9]
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat
upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
[10]
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have
they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
[11] And
one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another
hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath
humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
[12] In thee
have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and
increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by
extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
[13]
Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain
which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst
of thee.
[14] Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be
strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have
spoken it, and will do it.
[15] And I will scatter thee
among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will
consume thy filthiness out of thee.
[16] And thou shalt
take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
[17] And the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
[18] Son of man, the house
of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and
iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross
of silver.
[19] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the
midst of Jerusalem.
[20] As they gather silver, and brass,
and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow
the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and
in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
[21]
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath,
and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
[22] As silver
is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the
midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my
fury upon you.
[23] And the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[24] Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land
that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
[25]
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have
taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many
widows in the midst thereof.
[26] Her priests have violated
my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no
difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed
difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
[27] Her
princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to
shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
[28]
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing
vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD,
when the LORD hath not spoken.
[29] The people of the land
have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor
and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
[30]
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and
stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy
it: but I found none.
[31] Therefore have I poured out mine
indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my
wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the
Lord GOD.
[1]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
[3]
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in
their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised
the teats of their virginity.
[4] And the names of them
were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine,
and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is
Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
[5] And Aholah played the
harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians her neighbours,
[6] Which were clothed with blue,
captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding
upon horses.
[7] Thus she committed her whoredoms with
them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all
on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
[8]
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth
they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and
poured their whoredom upon her.
[9] Wherefore I have
delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the
Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
[10] These discovered her
nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with
the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed
judgment upon her.
[11] And when her sister Aholibah saw
this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in
her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
[12]
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
desirable young men.
[13] Then I saw that she was defiled,
that they took both one way,
[14] And that she increased
her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
[15]
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon
their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the
Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
[16]
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and
sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
[17] And the
Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her
with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was
alienated from them.
[18] So she discovered her whoredoms,
and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her,
like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
[19] Yet she
multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her
youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
[20]
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
[21]
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in
bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
[22]
There, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up
thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will
bring them against thee on every side;
[23] The
Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all
the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains
and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon
horses.
[24] And they shall come against thee with
chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which
shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and
I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according
to their judgments.
[25] And I will set my jealousy against
thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away
thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword:
they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be
devoured by the fire.
[26] They shall also strip thee out
of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
[27] Thus
will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought
from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes
unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
[28] For thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom
thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is
alienated:
[29] And they shall deal with thee hatefully,
and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and
bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both
thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
[30] I will do these things
unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and
because thou art polluted with their idols.
[31] Thou hast
walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into
thine hand.
[32] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink
of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn
and had in derision; it containeth much.
[33] Thou shalt be
filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
[34] Thou
shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds
thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith
the Lord GOD.
[35] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back,
therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
[36]
The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah
and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
[37]
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and
with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused
their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the
fire, to devour them.
[38] Moreover this they have done
unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have
profaned my sabbaths.
[39] For when they had slain their
children to their idols, then they came the same day into my
sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of
mine house.
[40] And furthermore, that ye have sent for men
to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came:
for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst
thyself with ornaments,
[41] And satest upon a stately bed,
and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense
and mine oil.
[42] And a voice of a multitude being at ease
was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought
Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands,
and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
[43] Then said I
unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms
with her, and she with them?
[44] Yet they went in unto
her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they
in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
[45] And
the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of
adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because
they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
[46]
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and
will give them to be removed and spoiled.
[47] And the
company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their
swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up
their houses with fire.
[48] Thus will I cause lewdness to
cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after
your lewdness.
[49] And they shall recompense your lewdness
upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know
that I am the Lord GOD.
[1]
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son
of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the
king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
[3]
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water
into it:
[4] Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every
good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice
bones.
[5] Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the
bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones
of it therein.
[6] Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe
to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum
is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall
up on it.
[7] For her blood is in the midst of her; she set
it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to
cover it with dust;
[8] That it might cause fury to come up
to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that
it should not be covered.
[9] Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire
great.
[10] Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the
flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
[11]
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be
hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it,
that the scum of it may be consumed.
[12] She hath wearied
herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her
scum shall be in the fire.
[13] In thy filthiness is
lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou
shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused
my fury to rest upon thee.
[14] I the LORD have spoken it:
it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither
will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and
according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord
GOD.
[15] Also the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[16] Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the
desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor
weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
[17] Forbear to
cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon
thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and
eat not the bread of men.
[18] So I spake unto the people
in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as
I was commanded.
[19] And the people said unto me, Wilt
thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest
so?
[20] Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
[21] Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the
excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which
your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left
shall fall by the sword.
[22] And ye shall do as I have
done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
[23]
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your
feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your
iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
[24] Thus Ezekiel
is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do:
and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
[25]
Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their
eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their
daughters,
[26] That he that escapeth in that day shall
come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
[27]
In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and
thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
[1]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against
them;
[3] And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the
Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against
my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel,
when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went
into captivity;
[4] Behold, therefore I will deliver thee
to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their
palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy
fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
[5] And I will make
Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for
flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
[6] For thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and
stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite
against the land of Israel;
[7] Behold, therefore I will
stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to
the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will
cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
[8] Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is
like unto all the heathen;
[9] Therefore, behold, I will
open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on
his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon,
and Kiriathaim,
[10] Unto the men of the east with the
Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may
not be remembered among the nations.
[11] And I will
execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
[12] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath
dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
[13]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand
upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it
desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
[14]
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people
Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and
according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the
Lord GOD.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the
Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a
despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
[16]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine
hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and
destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
[17] And I will
execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they
shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon
them.
[1]
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2]
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she
is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I
shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
[3] Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will
cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his
waves to come up.
[4] And they shall destroy the walls of
Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from
her, and make her like the top of a rock.
[5] It shall be a
place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the
nations.
[6] And her daughters which are in the field shall
be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
[7]
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
people.
[8] He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in
the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount
against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
[9] And
he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he
shall break down thy towers.
[10] By reason of the
abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall
shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the
chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a
city wherein is made a breach.
[11] With the hoofs of his
horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people
by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the
ground.
[12] And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and
make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls,
and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and
thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
[13] And
I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard.
[14] And I will make thee
like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon;
thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the
Lord GOD.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not
the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when
the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
[16] Then all
the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay
away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall
clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and
shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
[17]
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How
art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the
renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants,
which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
[18]
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles
that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
[19]
For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city,
like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the
deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
[20]
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit,
with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of
the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the
pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of
the living;
[21] I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt
be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found
again, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
[2] Now,
thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
[3] And
say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
[4]
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected
thy beauty.
[5] They have made all thy ship boards of fir
trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for
thee.
[6] Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars;
the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought
out of the isles of Chittim.
[7] Fine linen with broidered
work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail;
blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered
thee.
[8] The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy
mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy
pilots.
[9] The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof
were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
[10] They
of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness.
[11] The men of Arvad with thine army were upon
thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they
hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy
beauty perfect.
[12] Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of
the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and
lead, they traded in thy fairs.
[13] Javan, Tubal, and
Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and
vessels of brass in thy market.
[14] They of the house of
Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
[15]
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise
of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and
ebony.
[16] Syria was thy merchant by reason of the
multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with
emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and
agate.
[17] Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy
merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag,
and honey, and oil, and balm.
[18] Damascus was thy
merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the
multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
[19]
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
[20] Dedan
was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
[21]
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in
lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
[22]
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they
occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious
stones, and gold.
[23] Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the
merchants of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
[24]
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and
broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and
made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
[25] The ships of
Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished,
and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
[26] Thy
rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken
thee in the midst of the seas.
[27] Thy riches, and thy
fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers,
and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that
are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee,
shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
[28]
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
[29]
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the
sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the
land;
[30] And shall cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their
heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
[31] And
they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with
sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and
bitter wailing.
[32] And in their wailing they shall take
up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is
like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
[33]
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people;
thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy
riches and of thy merchandise.
[34] In the time when thou
shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy
merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
[35]
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance.
[36] The merchants among the people shall hiss
at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
[1]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in
the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and
not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
[3]
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
hide from thee:
[4] With thy wisdom and with thine
understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and
silver into thy treasures:
[5] By thy great wisdom and by
thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is
lifted up because of thy riches:
[6] Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of
God;
[7] Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon
thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
brightness.
[8] They shall bring thee down to the pit, and
thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the
seas.
[9] Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I
am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that
slayeth thee.
[10] Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith
the Lord GOD.
[11] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
[12] Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the
king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou
sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
[13]
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
[14]
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down
in the midst of the stones of fire.
[15] Thou wast perfect
in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee.
[16] By the multitude of thy merchandise
they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast
sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of
God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of
the stones of fire.
[17] Thine heart was lifted up because
of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before
kings, that they may behold thee.
[18] Thou hast defiled
thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity
of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst
of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon
the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
[19]
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
[20]
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[21] Son
of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
[22]
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon;
and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know
that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and
shall be sanctified in her.
[23] For I will send into her
pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be
judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
[24] And there shall be
no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving
thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
[25] Thus saith the Lord
GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people
among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the
sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have
given to my servant Jacob.
[26] And they shall dwell safely
therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall
dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those
that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD their God.
[1]
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son
of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
against him, and against all Egypt:
[3] Speak, and say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of
Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which
hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
[4]
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the
midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto
thy scales.
[5] And I will leave thee thrown into the
wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon
the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I
have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls
of the heaven.
[6] And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall
know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to
the house of Israel.
[7] When they took hold of thee by thy
hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they
leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a
stand.
[8] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of
thee.
[9] And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and
waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said,
The river is mine, and I have made it.
[10] Behold,
therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make
the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene
even unto the border of Ethiopia.
[11] No foot of man shall
pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither
shall it be inhabited forty years.
[12] And I will make the
land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall
be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
[13]
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather
the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
[14]
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to
return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation;
and they shall be there a base kingdom.
[15] It shall be
the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more
above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more
rule over the nations.
[16] And it shall be no more the
confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to
remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know
that I am the Lord GOD.
[17] And it came to pass in the
seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[18] Son
of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a
great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every
shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus,
for the service that he had served against it:
[19]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her
multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the
wages for his army.
[20] I have given him the land of Egypt
for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought
for me, saith the Lord GOD.
[21] In that day will I cause
the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee
the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.
[1]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth
the day
[3] For the day is near, even the day of the LORD
is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
[4]
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in
Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take
away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
[5]
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub,
and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by
the sword.
[6] Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold
Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from
the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord
GOD.
[7] And they shall be desolate in the midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of
the cities that are wasted.
[8] And they shall know that I
am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her
helpers shall be destroyed.
[9] In that day shall
messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians
afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt:
for, lo, it cometh.
[10] Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
[11] He and his people with
him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the
land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the
land with the slain.
[12] And I will make the rivers dry,
and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the
land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the
LORD have spoken it.
[13] Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of
Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I
will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
[14] And I will make
Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute
judgments in No.
[15] And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the
strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
[16]
And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall
be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
[17]
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and
these cities shall go into captivity.
[18] At Tehaphnehes
also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of
Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a
cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into
captivity.
[19] Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
[20] And it came to
pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of
the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[21]
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo,
it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to
make it strong to hold the sword.
[22] Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will
break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will
cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
[23] And I will
scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.
[24] And I will strengthen the arms
of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will
break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the
groanings of a deadly wounded man.
[25] But I will
strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh
shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
[26] And I will
scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the
countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
[1]
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the
first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[2] Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
[3]
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and
with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was
among the thick boughs.
[4] The waters made him great, the
deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his
plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the
field.
[5] Therefore his height was exalted above all the
trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches
became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot
forth.
[6] All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his
boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring
forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
[7]
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for
his root was by great waters.
[8] The cedars in the garden
of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs,
and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in
the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
[9] I
have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the
trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
[10]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick
boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
[11] I
have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
[12] And strangers, the terrible of the
nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and
in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken
by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are
gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
[13] Upon his
ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of
the field shall be upon his branches:
[14] To the end that
none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their
height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they
are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in
the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the
pit.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went
down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him,
and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were
stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of
the field fainted for him.
[16] I made the nations to shake
at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that
descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best
of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether
parts of the earth.
[17] They also went down into hell with
him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his
arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
[18]
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees
of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto
the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh
and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[2] Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the
nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth
with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and
fouledst their rivers.
[3] Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people;
and they shall bring thee up in my net.
[4] Then will I
leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field,
and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I
will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
[5] And
I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with
thy height.
[6] I will also water with thy blood the land
wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be
full of thee.
[7] And when I shall put thee out, I will
cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the
sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
[8]
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set
darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
[9] I will also
vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction
among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
[10]
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be
horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them;
and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life,
in the day of thy fall.
[11] For thus saith the Lord GOD;
The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
[12]
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the
terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp
of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
[13]
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great
waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the
hoofs of beasts trouble them.
[14] Then will I make their
waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord
GOD.
[15] When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and
the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I
shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I
am the LORD.
[16] This is the lamentation wherewith they
shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they
shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
[17] It came to pass also in the
twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
[18] Son of man, wail for the
multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters
of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them
that go down into the pit.
[19] Whom dost thou pass in
beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
[20]
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she
is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
[21]
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of
hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie
uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
[22] Asshur is there and
all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen
by the sword:
[23] Whose graves are set in the sides of the
pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the
living.
[24] There is Elam and all her multitude round
about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are
gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which
caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne
their shame with them that go down to the pit.
[25] They
have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by
the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living,
yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he
is put in the midst of them that be slain.
[26] There is
Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about
him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they
caused their terror in the land of the living.
[27] And
they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their
iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of
the mighty in the land of the living.
[28] Yea, thou shalt
be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them
that are slain with the sword.
[29] There is Edom, her
kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them
that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised,
and with them that go down to the pit.
[30] There be the
princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are
gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their
might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the
sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
[31]
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD.
[32] For I have caused my terror in the land
of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I
bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of
their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
[3] If when
he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn
the people;
[4] Then whosoever heareth the sound of the
trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him
away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
[5] He heard
the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be
upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
[6]
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and
the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from
among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at the watchman's hand.
[7] So thou, O son of man,
I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou
shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
[8]
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if
thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine
hand.
[9] Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way
to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
[10] Therefore,
O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak,
saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine
away in them, how should we then live?
[11] Say unto them,
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn
ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
[12]
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of
his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not
fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither
shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day
that he sinneth.
[13] When I shall say to the righteous,
that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and
commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but
for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
[14]
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn
from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
[15]
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk
in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
[16] None of his sins that he hath
committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is
lawful and right; he shall surely live.
[17] Yet the
children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as
for them, their way is not equal.
[18] When the righteous
turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall
even die thereby.
[19] But if the wicked turn from his
wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live
thereby.
[20] Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
[21]
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped
out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
[22]
Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that
was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
[23]
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[24] Son of
man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak,
saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many;
the land is given us for inheritance.
[25] Wherefore say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift
up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess
the land?
[26] Ye stand upon your sword, ye work
abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall
ye possess the land?
[27] Say thou thus unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes
shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I
give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and
in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
[28] For I will
lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease;
and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass
through.
[29] Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when
I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations
which they have committed.
[30] Also, thou son of man, the
children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls
and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one
to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word
that cometh forth from the LORD.
[31] And they come unto
thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and
they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth
they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their
covetousness.
[32] And, lo, thou art unto them as a very
lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on
an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
[33]
And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they
know that a prophet hath been among them.
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the
shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds
feed the flocks?
[3] Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with
the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
[4]
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that
which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken,
neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither
have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty
have ye ruled them.
[5] And they were scattered, because
there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the
field, when they were scattered.
[6] My sheep wandered
through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock
was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or
seek after them.
[7] Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word
of the LORD;
[8] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely
because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every
beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and
fed not my flock;
[9] Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD;
[10] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand,
and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the
shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from
their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
[11] For
thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out.
[12] As a shepherd seeketh out
his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered;
so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places
where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
[13]
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the
countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon
the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited
places of the country.
[14] I will feed them in a good
pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be:
there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they
feed upon the mountains of Israel.
[15] I will feed my
flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
[16]
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the
strong; I will feed them with judgment.
[17] And as for
you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between
cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
[18]
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,
but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?
and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue
with your feet?
[19] And as for my flock, they eat that
which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye
have fouled with your feet.
[20] Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat
cattle and between the lean cattle.
[21] Because ye have
thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with
your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
[22]
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and
I will judge between cattle and cattle.
[23] And I will set
up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant
David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
[24]
And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among
them; I the LORD have spoken it.
[25] And I will make with
them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out
of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep
in the woods.
[26] And I will make them and the places
round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come
down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
[27]
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall
yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke,
and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of
them.
[28] And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,
neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell
safely, and none shall make them afraid.
[29] And I will
raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more
consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the
heathen any more.
[30] Thus shall they know that I the LORD
their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are
my people, saith the Lord GOD.
[31] And ye my flock, the
flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son
of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
[3]
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am
against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I
will make thee most desolate.
[4] I will lay thy cities
waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the
LORD.
[5] Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and
hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the
sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity
had an end:
[6] Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou
hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
[7]
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him
that passeth out and him that returneth.
[8] And I will
fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy
valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with
the sword.
[9] I will make thee perpetual desolations, and
thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
[10] Because thou hast said, These two nations and
these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas
the LORD was there:
[11] Therefore, as I live, saith the
Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to
thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I
will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
[12]
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy
blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel,
saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
[13]
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard them.
[14] Thus saith
the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee
desolate.
[15] As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of
the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee:
thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it:
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
[1]
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and
say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
[2]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you,
Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
[3]
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they
have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye
might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are
taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
[4]
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities
that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of
the heathen that are round about;
[5] Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against
the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have
appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their
heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
[6]
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the
mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my
fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
[7]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely
the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
[8]
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to
come.
[9] For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto
you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
[10] And I will
multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and
the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
[11]
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase
and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and
will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
[12] Yea, I will cause men to walk upon
you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou
shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave
them of men.
[13] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say
unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy
nations;
[14] Therefore thou shalt devour men no more,
neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
[15]
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any
more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more,
neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord
GOD.
[16] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
[17] Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in
their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings:
their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
[18]
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed
upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted
it:
[19] And I scattered them among the heathen, and they
were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and
according to their doings I judged them.
[20] And when they
entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy
name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and
are gone forth out of his land.
[21] But I had pity for
mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the
heathen, whither they went.
[22] Therefore say unto the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your
sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye
have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
[23] And
I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall
know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be
sanctified in you before their eyes.
[24] For I will take
you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and
will bring you into your own land.
[25] Then will I
sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
[26]
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I
will give you an heart of flesh.
[27] And I will put my
spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall
keep my judgments, and do them.
[28] And ye shall dwell in
the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and
I will be your God.
[29] I will also save you from all your
uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it,
and lay no famine upon you.
[30] And I will multiply the
fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall
receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
[31]
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were
not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your
iniquities and for your abominations.
[32] Not for your
sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed
and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
[33]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you
from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the
cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
[34] And the
desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight
of all that passed by.
[35] And they shall say, This land
that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste
and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are
inhabited.
[36] Then the heathen that are left round about
you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant
that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do
it.
[37] Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be
inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will
increase them with men like a flock.
[38] As the holy
flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the
waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I
am the LORD.
[1]
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of
the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full
of bones,
[2] And caused me to pass by them round about:
and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they
were very dry.
[3] And he said unto me, Son of man, can
these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
[4]
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them,
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
[5] Thus saith
the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter
into you, and ye shall live:
[6] And I will lay sinews upon
you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and
put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
[7] So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones
came together, bone to his bone.
[8] And when I beheld, lo,
the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them
above: but there was no breath in them.
[9] Then said he
unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the
wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath,
and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
[10] So I
prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and
they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great
army.
[11] Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones
are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried,
and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
[12]
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come
up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
[13]
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves,
O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
[14]
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken
it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
[15] The word of the
LORD came again unto me, saying,
[16] Moreover, thou son of
man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the
children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write
upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of
Israel his companions:
[17] And join them one to another
into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
[18]
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying,
Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
[19] Say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah,
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
[20]
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before
their eyes.
[21] And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the
heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land:
[22] And I will make
them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one
king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two
nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at
all:
[23] Neither shall they defile themselves any more
with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of
their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so
shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
[24] And
David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them.
[25] And they shall dwell in the
land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers
have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their
children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant
David shall be their prince for ever.
[26] Moreover I will
make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting
covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and
will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
[27]
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.
[28] And the heathen shall know
that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the
midst of them for evermore.
[1]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of
man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
[3] And say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief
prince of Meshech and Tubal:
[4] And I will turn thee back,
and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all
thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts
of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of
them handling swords:
[5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with
them; all of them with shield and helmet:
[6] Gomer, and
all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all
his bands: and many people with thee.
[7] Be thou prepared,
and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled
unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
[8] After many
days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into
the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of
many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always
waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall
dwell safely all of them.
[9] Thou shalt ascend and come
like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and
all thy bands, and many people with thee.
[10] Thus saith
the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall
things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
[11]
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I
will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them
dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
[12]
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the
desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are
gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that
dwell in the midst of the land.
[13] Sheba, and Dedan, and
the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall
say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy
company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away
cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
[14] Therefore,
son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In
that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not
know it?
[15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the
north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
[16] And thou
shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the
land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against
my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in
thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
[17] Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the
prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I
would bring thee against them?
[18] And it shall come to
pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
[19]
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely
in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of
Israel;
[20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls
of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of
the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be
thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall
fall to the ground.
[21] And I will call for a sword
against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every
man's sword shall be against his brother.
[22] And I will
plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain
upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with
him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone.
[23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify
myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
[1]
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal:
[2] And I will turn thee back, and leave
but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the
north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
[3]
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine
arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
[4] Thou shalt fall
upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people
that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every
sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
[5]
Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the
Lord GOD.
[6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among
them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I
am the LORD.
[7] So will I make my holy name known in the
midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy
name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the
Holy One in Israel.
[8] Behold, it is come, and it is done,
saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
[9]
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall
set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers,
the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they
shall burn them with fire seven years:
[10] So that they
shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the
forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall
spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord GOD.
[11] And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the
valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop
the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all
his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
[12]
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that
they may cleanse the land.
[13] Yea, all the people of the
land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I
shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
[14] And they shall
sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to
bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the
earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they
search.
[15] And the passengers that pass through the land,
when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till
the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
[16]
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
cleanse the land.
[17] And, thou son of man, thus saith the
Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the
field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice
upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink
blood.
[18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink
the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of
goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
[19]
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
[20]
Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with
mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
[21]
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid
upon them.
[22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am
the LORD their God from that day and forward.
[23] And the
heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for
their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I
my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so
fell they all by the sword.
[24] According to their
uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto
them, and hid my face from them.
[25] Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have
mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy
name;
[26] After that they have borne their shame, and all
their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they
dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
[27]
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out
of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of
many nations;
[28] Then shall they know that I am the LORD
their God, which cause them to be led into captivity among the
heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left
none of them any more there.
[29] Neither will I hide my
face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the
house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of
the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after
that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD
was upon me, and brought me thither.
[2] In the visions of
God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very
high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
[3]
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in
his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
[4]
And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and
hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew
thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou
brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of
Israel.
[5] And behold a wall on the outside of the house
round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits
long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of
the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
[6] Then
came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the
stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one
reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed
broad.
[7] And every little chamber was one reed long, and
one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and
the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one
reed.
[8] He measured also the porch of the gate within,
one reed.
[9] Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight
cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate
was inward.
[10] And the little chambers of the gate
eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three
were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and
on that side.
[11] And he measured the breadth of the entry
of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen
cubits.
[12] The space also before the little chambers was
one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and
the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side.
[13] He measured then the gate from the roof of
one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and
twenty cubits, door against door.
[14] He made also posts
of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the
gate.
[15] And from the face of the gate of the entrance
unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
[16]
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their
posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and
windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm
trees.
[17] Then brought he me into the outward court, and,
lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round
about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
[18] And the
pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the
gates was the lower pavement.
[19] Then he measured the
breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of
the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and
northward.
[20] And the gate of the outward court that
looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the
breadth thereof.
[21] And the little chambers thereof were
three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and
the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the
length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
[22] And their windows, and their arches, and their
palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward
the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches
thereof were before them.
[23] And the gate of the inner
court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the
east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.
[24]
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward
the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof
according to these measures.
[25] And there were windows in
it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the
length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
[26]
And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof
were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and
another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
[27] And
there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
[28]
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
measured the south gate according to these measures;
[29]
And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows
in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits
long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
[30] And the arches
round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits
broad.
[31] And the arches thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up
to it had eight steps.
[32] And he brought me into the
inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to
these measures.
[33] And the little chambers thereof, and
the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these
measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof
round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
broad.
[34] And the arches thereof were toward the outward
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and
on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
[35]
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to
these measures;
[36] The little chambers thereof, the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about:
the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
[37] And the posts thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and
on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
[38]
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the
gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
[39] And in
the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on
that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering
and the trespass offering.
[40] And at the side without, as
one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on
the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two
tables.
[41] Four tables were on this side, and four tables
on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they
slew their sacrifices.
[42] And the four tables were of
hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a
cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid
the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the
sacrifice.
[43] And within were hooks, an hand broad,
fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the
offering.
[44] And without the inner gate were the chambers
of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north
gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the
east gate having the prospect toward the north.
[45] And he
said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is
for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
[46]
And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons
of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to
minister unto him.
[47] So he measured the court, an
hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the
altar that was before the house.
[48] And he brought me to
the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five
cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of
the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that
side.
[49] The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and
the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby
they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this
side, and another on that side.
[1]
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six
cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
[2] And the
breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were
five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and
he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty
cubits.
[3] Then went he inward, and measured the post of
the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of
the door, seven cubits.
[4] So he measured the length
thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the
temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
[5]
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth
of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every
side.
[6] And the side chambers were three, one over
another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which
was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might
have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
[7]
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the
side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward
round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still
upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by
the midst.
[8] I saw also the height of the house round
about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six
great cubits.
[9] The thickness of the wall, which was for
the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left
was the place of the side chambers that were within.
[10]
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round
about the house on every side.
[11] And the doors of the
side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward
the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the
place that was left was five cubits round about.
[12] Now
the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the
west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five
cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
[13]
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate
place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits
long;
[14] Also the breadth of the face of the house, and
of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
[15]
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate
place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side
and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and
the porches of the court;
[16] The door posts, and the
narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories,
over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the
ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
[17]
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and
by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
[18]
And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree
was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two
faces;
[19] So that the face of a man was toward the palm
tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm
tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round
about.
[20] From the ground unto above the door were
cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
[21]
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary;
the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
[22]
The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two
cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the
walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table
that is before the LORD.
[23] And the temple and the
sanctuary had two doors.
[24] And the doors had two leaves
apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two
leaves for the other door.
[25] And there were made on
them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as
were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face
of the porch without.
[26] And there were narrow windows
and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of
the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
[1]
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the
north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the
separate place, and which was before the building toward the
north.
[2] Before the length of an hundred cubits was the
north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
[3] Over
against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over
against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery
against gallery in three stories.
[4] And before the
chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit;
and their doors toward the north.
[5] Now the upper
chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than
the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
[6] For
they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the
courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest
and the middlemost from the ground.
[7] And the wall that
was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the
forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
[8]
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty
cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
[9]
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one
goeth into them from the utter court.
[10] The chambers
were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over
against the separate place, and over against the building.
[11]
And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which
were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all
their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according
to their doors.
[12] And according to the doors of the
chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the
way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one
entereth into them.
[13] Then said he unto me, The north
chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place,
they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD
shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy
things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; for the place is holy.
[14] When the priests
enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the
utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they
minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and
shall approach to those things which are for the people.
[15]
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought
me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and
measured it round about.
[16] He measured the east side
with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed
round about.
[17] He measured the north side, five hundred
reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
[18] He
measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed.
[19] He turned about to the west side, and measured
five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
[20] He
measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five
hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation
between the sanctuary and the profane place.
[1]
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh
toward the east:
[2] And, behold, the glory of the God of
Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise
of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
[3]
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the
city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
[4] And the glory of the
LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east.
[5] So the spirit took me up, and brought
me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled
the house.
[6] And I heard him speaking unto me out of the
house; and the man stood by me.
[7] And he said unto me,
Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my
feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for
ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile,
neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases
of their kings in their high places.
[8] In their setting
of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and
the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by
their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have
consumed them in mine anger.
[9] Now let them put away
their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I
will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
[10] Thou son of
man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed
of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
[11]
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form
of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof,
and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws
thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole
form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
[12]
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole
limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law
of the house.
[13] And these are the measures of the altar
after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the
bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border
thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this
shall be the higher place of the altar.
[14] And from the
bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits,
and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the
greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
[15]
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
shall be four horns.
[16] And the altar shall be twelve
cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
[17]
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in
the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a
cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs
shall look toward the east.
[18] And he said unto me, Son
of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the
altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings
thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
[19] And thou shalt
give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which
approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young
bullock for a sin offering.
[20] And thou shalt take of the
blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four
corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt
thou cleanse and purge it.
[21] Thou shalt take the bullock
also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place
of the house, without the sanctuary.
[22] And on the second
day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it
with the bullock.
[23] When thou hast made an end of
cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a
ram out of the flock without blemish.
[24] And thou shalt
offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon
them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the
LORD.
[25] Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat
for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a
ram out of the flock, without blemish.
[26] Seven days
shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate
themselves.
[27] And when these days are expired, it shall
be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make
your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I
will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary
which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
[2] Then
said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be
opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of
Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
[3]
It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread
before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate,
and shall go out by the way of the same.
[4] Then brought
he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I
fell upon my face.
[5] And the LORD said unto me, Son of
man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears
all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house
of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in
of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
[6]
And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of
all your abominations,
[7] In that ye have brought into my
sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye
offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my
covenant because of all your abominations.
[8] And ye have
not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of
my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
[9] Thus saith
the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised
in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is
among the children of Israel.
[10] And the Levites that are
gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray
away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their
iniquity.
[11] Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the
house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
[12]
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the
house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up
mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their
iniquity.
[13] And they shall not come near unto me, to do
the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy
things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and
their abominations which they have committed.
[14] But I
will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the
service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
[15]
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge
of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they
shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand
before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord
GOD:
[16] They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep
my charge.
[17] And it shall come to pass, that when they
enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they
minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
[18]
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen
breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any
thing that causeth sweat.
[19] And when they go forth into
the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall
put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the
holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall
not sanctify the people with their garments.
[20] Neither
shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long;
they shall only poll their heads.
[21] Neither shall any
priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
[22]
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put
away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel,
or a widow that had a priest before.
[23] And they shall
teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and
cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
[24]
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge
it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my
statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my
sabbaths.
[25] And they shall come at no dead person to
defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they
may defile themselves.
[26] And after he is cleansed, they
shall reckon unto him seven days.
[27] And in the day that
he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
[28]
And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance:
and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their
possession.
[29] They shall eat the meat offering, and the
sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in
Israel shall be theirs.
[30] And the first of all the
firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort
of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the
priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to
rest in thine house.
[31] The priests shall not eat of any
thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
[1]
Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye
shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land:
the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and
the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the
borders thereof round about.
[2] Of this there shall be for
the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth,
square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs
thereof.
[3] And of this measure shalt thou measure the
length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand:
and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
[4]
The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers
of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD:
and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the
sanctuary.
[5] And the five and twenty thousand of length,
and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the
ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for
twenty chambers.
[6] And ye shall appoint the possession of
the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over
against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole
house of Israel.
[7] And a portion shall be for the prince
on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy
portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of
the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the
west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length
shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto
the east border.
[8] In the land shall be his possession in
Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest
of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their
tribes.
[9] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O
princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment
and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord
GOD.
[10] Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah,
and a just bath. I
[11] The ephah and the bath shall be of
one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer,
and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall
be after the homer.
[12] And the shekel shall be twenty
gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels,
shall be your manneh.
[13] This is the oblation that ye
shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye
shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
[14]
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the
tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths;
for ten baths are an homer:
[15] And one lamb out of the
flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a
meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to
make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
[16] All
the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in
Israel.
[17] And it shall be the prince's part to give
burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities
of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the
meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to
make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
[18] Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the
month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse
the sanctuary:
[19] And the priest shall take of the blood
of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon
the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of
the gate of the inner court.
[20] And so thou shalt do the
seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that
is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
[21] In the
first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the
passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be
eaten.
[22] And upon that day shall the prince prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin
offering.
[23] And seven days of the feast he shall prepare
a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin
offering.
[24] And he shall prepare a meat offering of an
ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an
ephah.
[25] In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of
the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days,
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and
according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
[1]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh
toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the
sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall
be opened.
[2] And the prince shall enter by the way of the
porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate,
and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he
shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
[3]
Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this
gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
[4]
And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in
the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without
blemish.
[5] And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a
ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give,
and an hin of oil to an ephah.
[6] And in the day of the
new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs,
and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
[7] And he shall
prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a
ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and
an hin of oil to an ephah.
[8] And when the prince shall
enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he
shall go forth by the way thereof.
[9] But when the people
of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that
entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by
the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the
south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not
return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth
over against it.
[10] And the prince in the midst of them,
when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go
forth.
[11] And in the feast and in the solemnities the
meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and ephah to a ram, and
to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah.
[12] Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one
shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he
shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did
on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth
one shall shut the gate.
[13] Thou shalt daily prepare a
burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without
blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
[14] And thou
shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of
an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the
fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto
the LORD.
[15] Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the
meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt
offering.
[16] Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give
a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his
sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
[17]
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then
it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the
prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.
[18]
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by
oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give
his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not
scattered every man from his possession.
[19] After he
brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into
the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and,
behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.
[20]
Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil
the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the
meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to
sanctify the people.
[21] Then he brought me forth into the
utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court;
and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
[22]
In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty
cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one
measure.
[23] And there was a row of building round about
in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places
under the rows round about.
[24] Then said he unto me,
These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the
house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
[1]
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and,
behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and
the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at
the south side of the altar.
[2] Then brought he me out of
the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto
the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there
ran out waters on the right side.
[3] And when the man that
had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand
cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the
ancles.
[4] Again he measured a thousand, and brought me
through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a
thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
[5]
Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not
pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed over.
[6] And he said unto me, Son of
man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return
to the brink of the river.
[7] Now when I had returned,
behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side
and on the other.
[8] Then said he unto me, These waters
issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and
go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters
shall be healed.
[9] And it shall come to pass, that every
thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish,
because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed;
and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
[10]
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from
En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth
nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of
the great sea, exceeding many.
[11] But the miry places
thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be
given to salt.
[12] And by the river upon the bank thereof,
on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose
leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it
shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their
waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall
be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
[13] Thus
saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall
inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph
shall have two portions.
[14] And ye shall inherit it, one
as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to
give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for
inheritance.
[15] And this shall be the border of the land
toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men
go to Zedad;
[16] Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is
between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath;
Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
[17] And
the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus,
and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the
north side.
[18] And the east side ye shall measure from
Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of
Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the
east side.
[19] And the south side southward, from Tamar
even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea.
And this is the south side southward.
[20] The west side
also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over
against Hamath. This is the west side.
[21] So shall ye
divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
[22]
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you,
which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as
born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have
inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
[23] And
it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth,
there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
[1]
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the
coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the
border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are
his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
[2] And by the
border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for
Asher.
[3] And by the border of Asher, from the east side
even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
[4] And by
the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a
portion for Manasseh.
[5] And by the border of Manasseh,
from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
[6]
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west
side, a portion for Reuben.
[7] And by the border of
Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for
Judah.
[8] And by the border of Judah, from the east side
unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of
five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of
the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the
sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
[9] The oblation
that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty
thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
[10]
And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation;
toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the
west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in
breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and
the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
[11]
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok;
which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
[12] And
this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing
most holy by the border of the Levites.
[13] And over
against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and
twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the
length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten
thousand.
[14] And they shall not sell of it, neither
exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy
unto the LORD.
[15] And the five thousand, that are left in
the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a
profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the
city shall be in the midst thereof.
[16] And these shall be
the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred,
and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east
side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand
and five hundred.
[17] And the suburbs of the city shall be
toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two
hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and
toward the west two hundred and fifty.
[18] And the residue
in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten
thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over
against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof
shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
[19] And
they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of
Israel.
[20] All the oblation shall be five and twenty
thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy
oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
[21]
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the
other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over
against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east
border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward
the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it
shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be
in the midst thereof.
[22] Moreover from the possession of
the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst
of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the
border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
[23] As for
the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side,
Benjamin shall have a portion.
[24] And by the border of
Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a
portion.
[25] And by the border of Simeon, from the east
side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
[26] And by
the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side,
Zebulun a portion.
[27] And by the border of Zebulun, from
the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
[28] And
by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall
be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the
river toward the great sea.
[29] This is the land which ye
shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and
these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
[30] And
these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand
and five hundred measures.
[31] And the gates of the city
shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates
northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of
Levi.
[32] And at the east side four thousand and five
hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of
Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
[33] And at the south side four
thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of
Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
[34] At
the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates;
one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
[35]
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the
city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.