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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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11 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year in the fourth

month in the fifth day of the month as I was among the captives

by the river of Chebar that the heavens were opened and I saw

visions of God .

12 In the fifth day of the month which was the fifth year of

king Jehoiachin's captivity .

13 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest

the son of Buzi in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar

and the hand of the LORD was there upon him .

14 And I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north a

great cloud and a fire infolding itself and a brightness was

about it and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber out

of the midst of the fire .

15 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four

living creatures And this was their appearance they had the

likeness of a man .

16 And every one had four faces and every one had four wings .

17 And their feet were straight feet and the sole of their

feet was like the sole of a calf's foot and they sparkled like

the colour of burnished brass .

18 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their

four sides and they four had their faces and their wings .

19 Their wings were joined one to another they turned not when

they went they went every one straight forward .

110 As for the likeness of their faces they four had the face

of a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they four

had the face of an ox on the left side they four also had the

face of an eagle .

111 Thus were their faces and their wings were stretched

upward two wings of every one were joined one to another and two

covered their bodies .

112 And they went every one straight forward whither the

spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went .

113 As for the likeness of the living creatures their

appearance was like burning coals of fire and like the

appearance of lamps it went up and down among the living

creatures and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth

lightning .

114 And the living creatures ran and returned as the

appearance of a flash of lightning .

115 Now as I beheld the living creatures behold one wheel upon

the earth by the living creatures with his four faces .

116 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto

the colour of a beryl and they four had one likeness and their

appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle

of a wheel .

117 When they went they went upon their four sides and they

turned not when they went .

118 As for their rings they were so high that they were

dreadful and their rings were full of eyes round about them four

119 And when the living creatures went the wheels went by them

and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth the

wheels were lifted up .

120 Whithersoever the spirit was to go they went thither was

their spirit to go and the wheels were lifted up over against

them for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels .

121 When those went these went and when those stood these

stood and when those were lifted up from the earth the wheels

were lifted up over against them for the spirit of the living

creature was in the wheels .

122 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the

living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal

stretched forth over their heads above .

123 And under the firmament were their wings straight the one

toward the other every one had two which covered on this side

and every one had two which covered on that side their bodies .

124 And when they went I heard the noise of their wings like

the noise of great waters as the voice of the Almighty the voice

of speech as the noise of an host when they stood they let down

their wings .

125 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over

their heads when they stood and had let down their wings .

126 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the

likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone and

upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the

appearance of a man above upon it .

127 And I saw as the colour of amber as the appearance of fire

round about within it from the appearance of his loins even

upward and from the appearance of his loins even downward I saw

as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness round

about .

128 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the

day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about

This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD

And when I saw it I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one

that spake .

* 21 And he said unto me Son of man stand upon thy feet and I

will speak unto thee .

22 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me and

set me upon my feet that I heard him that spake unto me .

23 And he said unto me Son of man I send thee to the children

of Israel to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me

they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto

this very day .

24 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted I do send

thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord

GOD .

25 And they whether they will hear or whether they will

forbear (for they are a rebellious house yet shall know that

there hath been a prophet among them .

26 And thou son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid

of their words though briers and thorns be with thee and thou

dost dwell among scorpions be not afraid of their words nor be

dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house .

27 And thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will

hear or whether they will forbear for they are most rebellious .

28 But thou son of man hear what I say unto thee Be not thou

rebellious like that rebellious house open thy mouth and eat

that I give thee .

29 And when I looked behold an hand was sent unto me and lo a

roll of a book was therein .

210 And he spread it before me and it was written within and

without and there was written therein lamentations and mourning

and woe .

* 31 Moreover he said unto me Son of man eat that thou findest

eat this roll and go speak unto the house of Israel .

32 So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat that roll .

33 And he said unto me Son of man cause thy belly to eat and

fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee Then did I eat

it and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness .

34 And he said unto me Son of man go get thee unto the house

of Israel and speak with my words unto them .

35 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and

of an hard language but to the house of Israel .

36 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard

language whose words thou canst not understand Surely had I sent

thee to them they would have hearkened unto thee .

37 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee for they

will not hearken unto me for all the house of Israel are

impudent and hardhearted .

38 Behold I have made thy face strong against their faces and

thy forehead strong against their foreheads .

39 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead

fear them not neither be dismayed at their looks though they be

a rebellious house .

310 Moreover he said unto me Son of man all my words that I

shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart and hear with thine

ears .

311 And go get thee to them of the captivity unto the children

of thy people and speak unto them and tell them Thus saith the

Lord GOD whether they will hear or whether they will forbear .

312 Then the spirit took me up and I heard behind me a voice

of a great rushing saying Blessed be the glory of the LORD from

his place .

313 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living

creatures that touched one another and the noise of the wheels

over against them and a noise of a great rushing .

314 So the spirit lifted me up and took me away and I went in

bitterness in the heat of my spirit but the hand of the LORD was

strong upon me .

315 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib that dwelt

by the river of Chebar and I sat where they sat and remained

there astonished among them seven days .

316 And it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word

of the LORD came unto me saying .

317 Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of

Israel therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning

from me .

318 When I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die and thou

givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his

wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his

iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand .

319 Yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his

wickedness nor from his wicked way he shall die in his iniquity

but thou hast delivered thy soul .

320 Again When a righteous man doth turn from his

righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumblingblock

before him he shall die because thou hast not given him warning

he shall die in his sin and his righteousness which he hath done

shall not be remembered but his blood will I require at thine

hand .

321 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man that the

righteous sin not and he doth not sin he shall surely live

because he is warned also thou hast delivered thy soul .

322 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me and he said

unto me Arise go forth into the plain and I will there talk with

thee .

323 Then I arose and went forth into the plain and behold the

glory of the LORD stood there as the glory which I saw by the

river of Chebar and I fell on my face .

324 Then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet

and spake with me and said unto me Go shut thyself within thine

house .

325 But thou O son of man behold they shall put bands upon

thee and shall bind thee with them and thou shalt not go out

among them .

326 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth

that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be to them a reprover for

they are a rebellious house .

327 But when I speak with thee I will open thy mouth and thou

shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD He that heareth let

him hear and he that forbeareth let him forbear for they are a

rebellious house .

* 41 Thou also son of man take thee a tile and lay it before

thee and portray upon it the city even Jerusalem .

42 And lay siege against it and build a fort against it and

cast a mount against it set the camp also against it and set

battering rams against it round about .

43 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan and set it for a

wall of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against

it and it shall be besieged and thou shalt lay siege against it

This shall be a sign to the house of Israel .

44 Lie thou also upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of

the house of Israel upon it according to the number of the days

that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity .

45 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity

according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety

days so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel .

46 And when thou hast accomplished them lie again on thy right

side and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah

forty days I have appointed thee each day for a year .

47 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of

Jerusalem and thine arm shall be uncovered and thou shalt

prophesy against it .

48 And behold I will lay bands upon thee and thou shalt not

turn thee from one side to another till thou hast ended the days

of thy siege .

49 Take thou also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and

lentiles and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and

make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days that

thou shalt lie upon thy side three hundred and ninety days shalt

thou eat thereof .

410 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight

twenty shekels a day from time to time shalt thou eat it .

411 Thou shalt drink also water by measure the sixth part of

an hin from time to time shalt thou drink .

412 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes and thou shalt bake

it with dung that cometh out of man in their sight .

413 And the LORD said Even thus shall the children of Israel

eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles whither I will drive

them .

414 Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold my soul hath not been

polluted for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of

that which dieth of itself or is torn in pieces neither came

there abominable flesh into my mouth .

415 Then he said unto me Lo I have given thee cow's dung for

man's dung and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereJith .

416 Moreover he said unto me Son of man behold I will break

the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by

weight and with care and they shall drink water by measure and

with astonishment .

417 That they may want bread and water and be astonied one

with another and consume away for their iniquity .

* 51 And thou son of man take thee a sharp knife take thee a

barber's razor and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy

beard then take thee balances to weigh and divide the hair .

52 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the

city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and thou shalt

take a third part and smite about it with a knife and a third

part thou shalt scatter in the wind and I will draw out a sword

after them .

53 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number and bind them

in thy skirts .

54 Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the

fire and burn them in the fire for thereof shall a fire come

forth into all the house of Israel .

55 Thus saith the Lord GOD This is Jerusalem I have set it in

the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her .

56 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than

the nations and my statutes more than the countries that are

round about her for they have refused my judgments and my

statutes they have not walked in them .

57 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye multiplied

more than the nations that are round about you and have not

walked in my statutes neither have kept my judgments neither

have done according to the judgments of the nations that are

round about you .

58 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I even I am

against thee and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in

the sight of the nations .

59 And I will do in thee that which I have not done and

whereunto I will not do any more the like because of all thine

abominations .

510 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of

thee and the sons shall eat their fathers and I will execute

judgments in thee and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter

into all the winds .

511 Wherefore as I live saith the Lord GOD Surely because thou

hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things and

with all thine abominations therefore will I also diminish thee

neither shall mine eye spare neither will I have any pity .

512 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence and

with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee and a

third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will

scatter a third part into all the winds and I will draw out a

sword after them .

513 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished and I will cause my

fury to rest upon them and I will be comforted and they shall

know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal when I have

accomplished my fury in them .

514 Moreover I will make thee waste and a reproach among the

nations that are round about thee in the sight of all that pass

by .

515 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt an instruction and

an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee when

I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in

furious rebukes I the LORD have spoken it .

516 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine

which shall be for their destruction and which I will send to

destroy you and I will increase the famine upon you and will

break your staff of bread .

517 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts and they

shall bereave thee and pestilence and blood shall pass through

thee and I will bring the sword upon thee I the LORD have spoken

it .

* 61 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

62 Son of man set thy face toward the mountains of Israel and

prophesy against them .

63 And say Ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord

GOD Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills to

the rivers and to the valleys Behold I even I will bring a sword

upon you and I will destroy your high places .

64 And your altars shall be desolate and your images shall be

broken and I will cast down your slain men before your idols .

65 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel

before their idols and I will scatter your bones round about

your altars .

66 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste

and the high places shall be desolate that your altars may be

laid waste and made desolate and your idols may be broken and

cease and your images may be cut down and your works may be

abolished .

67 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you and ye shall

know that I am the LORD .

68 Yet will I leave a remnant that ye may have some that shall

escape the sword among the nations when ye shall be scattered

through the countries .

69 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the

nations whither they shall be carried captives because I am

broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me and

with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols and they

shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed

in all their abominations .

610 And they shall know that I am the LORD and that I have not

said in vain that I would do this evil unto them .

611 Thus saith the Lord GOD Smite with thine hand and stamp

with thy foot and say Alas for all the evil abominations of the

house of Israel for they shall fall by the sword by the famine

and by the pestilence .

612 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence and he that

is near shall fall by the sword and he that remaineth and is

besieged shall die by the famine thus will I accomplish my fury

upon them .

613 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD when their slain men

shall be among their idols round about their altars upon every

high hill in all the tops of the mountains and under every green

tree and under every thick oak the place where they did offer

sweet savour to all their idols .

614 So will I stretch out my hand upon them and make the land

desolate yea more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath in

all their habitations and they shall know that I am the LORD .

* 71 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

72 Also thou son of man thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land

of Israel An end the end is come upon the four corners of the

land .

73 Now is the end come upon thee and I will send mine anger

upon thee and will judge thee according to thy ways and will

recompense upon thee all thine abominations .

74 And mine eye shall not spare thee neither will I have pity

but I will recompense thy ways upon thee and thine abominations

shall be in the midst of thee and ye shall know that I am the

LORD .

75 Thus saith the Lord GOD An evil an only evil behold is come

76 An end is come the end is come it watcheth for thee behold

it is come .

77 The morning is come unto thee O thou that dwellest in the

land the time is come the day of trouble is near and not the

sounding again of the mountains .

78 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee and

accomplish mine anger upon thee and I will judge thee according

to thy ways and will recompense thee for all thine abominations .

79 And mine eye shall not spare neither will I have pity I

will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine

abominations that are in the midst of thee and ye shall know

that I am the LORD that smiteth .

710 Behold the day behold it is come the morning is gone forth

the rod hath blossomed pride hath budded .

711 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness none of them

shall remain nor of their multitude nor of any of theirs neither

shall there be wailing for them .

712 The time is come the day draweth near let not the buyer

rejoice nor the seller mourn for wrath is upon all the multitude

thereof .

713 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold

although they were yet alive for the vision is touching the

whole multitude thereof which shall not return neither shall any

strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life .

714 They have blown the trumpet even to make all ready but

none goeth to the battle for my wrath is upon all the multitude

thereof .

715 The sword is without and the pestilence and the famine

within he that is in the field shall die with the sword and he

that is in the city famine and pestilence shall devour him .

716 But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on

the mountains like doves of the valleys all of them mourning

every one for his iniquity .

717 All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak as

water .

718 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth and horror

shall cover them and shame shall be upon all faces and baldness

upon all their heads .

719 They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold

shall be removed their silver and their gold shall not be able

to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD they shall

not satisfy their souls neither fill their bowels because it is

the stumblingblock of their iniquity .

720 As for the beauty of his ornament he set it in majesty but

they made the images of their abominations and of their

detestable things therein therefore have I set it far from them .

721 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a

prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil and they shall

pollute it .

722 My face will I turn also from them and they shall pollute

my secret place for the robbers shall enter into it and defile

it .

723 Make a chain for the land is full of bloody crimes and the

city is full of violence .

724 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen and they

shall possess their houses I will also make the pomp of the

strong to cease and their holy places shall be defiled .

725 Destruction cometh and they shall seek peace and there

shall be none .

726 Mischief shall come upon mischief and rumour shall be upon

rumour then shall they seek a vision of the prophet but the law

shall perish from the priest and counsel from the ancients .

727 The king shall mourn and the prince shall be clothed with

desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall be

troubled I will do unto them after their way and according to

their deserts will I judge them and they shall know that I am

the LORD .

* 81 And it came to pass in the sixth year in the sixth month

in the fifth day of the month as I sat in mine house and the

elders of Judah sat before me that the hand of the Lord GOD fell

there upon me .

82 Then I beheld and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire

from the appearance of his loins even downward fire and from his

loins even upward as the appearance of brightness as the colour

of amber .

83 And he put forth the form of an hand and took me by a lock

of mine head and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and

the heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem to

the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north where

was the seat of the image of jealousy which provoketh to

jealousy .

84 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there

according to the vision that I saw in the plain .

85 Then said he unto me Son of man lift up thine eyes now the

way toward the north So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the

north and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image

of jealousy in the entry .

86 He said furthermore unto me Son of man seest thou what they

do even the great abominations that the house of Israel

committeth here that I should go far off from my sanctuary but

turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations .

87 And he brought me to the door of the court and when I

looked behold a hole in the wall .

88 Then said he unto me Son of man dig now in the wall and

when I had digged in the wall behold a door .

89 And he said unto me Go in and behold the wicked

abominations that they do here .

810 So I went in and saw and behold every form of creeping

things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of

Israel portrayed upon the wall round about .

811 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of

the house of Israel and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the

son of Shaphan with every man his censer in his hand and a thick

cloud of incense went up .

812 Then said he unto me Son of man hast thou seen what the

ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the

chambers of his imagery for they say The LORD seeth us not the

LORD hath forsaken the earth .

813 He said also unto me Turn thee yet again and thou shalt

see greater abominations that they do .

814 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S

house which was toward the north and behold there sat women

weeping for Tammuz .

815 Then said he unto me Hast thou seen this O son of man turn

thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations than

these .

816 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house

and behold at the door of the temple of the LORD between the

porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their

backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the

east and they worshipped the sun toward the east .

817 Then he said unto me Hast thou seen this O son of man Is

it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the

abominations which they commit here for they have filled the

land with violence and have returned to provoke me to anger and

lo they put the branch to their nose .

818 Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eye shall not

spare neither will I have pity and though they cry in mine ears

with a loud voice yet will I not hear them .

* 91 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice saying Cause

them that have charge over the city to draw near even every man

with his destroying weapon in his hand .

92 And behold six men came from the way of the higher gate

which lieth toward the north and every man a slaughter weapon in

his hand and one man among them was clothed with linen with a

writer's inkhorn by his side and they went in and stood beside

the brazen altar .

93 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the

cherub whereupon he was to the threshold of the house And he

called to the man clothed with linen which had the writer's

inkhorn by his side .

94 And the LORD said unto him Go through the midst of the city

through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads

of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that

be done in the midst thereof .

95 And to the others he said in mine hearing Go ye after him

through the city and smite let not your eye spare neither have

ye pity .

96 Slay utterly old and young both maids and little children

and women but come not near any man upon whom is the mark and

begin at my sanctuary Then they began at the ancient men which

were before the house .

97 And he said unto them Defile the house and fill the courts

with the slain go ye forth And they went forth and slew in the

city .

98 And it came to pass while they were slaying them and I was

left that I fell upon my face and cried and said Ah Lord GOD

wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out

of thy fury upon Jerusalem .

99 Then said he unto me The iniquity of the house of Israel

and Judah is exceeding great and the land is full of blood and

the city full of perverseness for they say The LORD hath

forsaken the earth and the LORD seeth not .

910 And as for me also mine eye shall not spare neither will I

have pity but I will recompense their way upon their head .

911 And behold the man clothed with linen which had the

inkhorn by his side reported the matter saying I have done as

thou hast commanded me .

* 101 Then I looked and behold in the firmament that was above

the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a

sapphire stone as the appearance of the likeness of a throne .

102 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen and said Go

in between the wheels even under the cherub and fill thine hand

with coals of fire from between the cherubims and scatter them

over the city And he went in in my sight .

103 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house

when the man went in and the cloud filled the inner court .

104 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub and

stood over the threshold of the house and the house was filled

with the cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the

LORD'S glory .

105 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to

the outer court as the voice of the Almighty God when he

speaketh .

106 And it came to pass that when he had commanded the man

clothed with linen saying Take fire from between the wheels from

between the cherubims then he went in and stood beside the

wheels .

107 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the

cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims and took

thereof and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with

linen who took it and went out .

108 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's

hand under their wings .

109 And when I looked behold the four wheels by the cherubims

one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by another cherub and

the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone .

1010 And as for their appearances they four had one likeness

as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel .

1011 When they went they went upon their four sides they

turned not as they went but to the place whither the head looked

they followed it they turned not as they went .

1012 And their whole body and their backs and their hands and

their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about even

the wheels that they four had .

1013 As for the wheels it was cried unto them in my hearing O

wheel .

1014 And every one had four faces the first face was the face

of a cherub and the second face was the face of a man and the

third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle .

1015 And the cherubims were lifted up This is the living

creature that I saw by the river of Chebar .

1016 And when the cherubims went the wheels went by them and

when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the

earth the same wheels also turned not from beside them .

1017 When they stood these stood and when they were lifted up

these lifted up themselves also for the spirit of the living

creature was in them .

1018 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the

threshold of the house and stood over the cherubims .

1019 And the cherubims lifted up their wings and mounted up

from the earth in my sight when they went out the wheels also

were beside them and every one stood at the door of the east

gate of the LORD'S house and the glory of the God of Israel was

over them above .

1020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of

Israel by the river of Chebar and I knew that they were the

cherubims .

1021 Every one had four faces apiece and every one four wings

and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings .

1022 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which

I saw by the river of Chebar their appearances and themselves

they went every one straight forward .

* 111 Moreover the spirit lifted me up and brought me unto the

east gate of the LORD'S house which looketh eastward and behold

at the door of the gate five and twenty men among whom I saw

Jaazaniah the son of Azur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah

princes of the people .

112 Then said he unto me Son of man these are the men that

devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city .

113 Which say It is not near let us build houses this city is

the caldron and we be the flesh .

114 Therefore prophesy against them prophesy O son of man .

115 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and said unto me

Speak Thus saith the LORD Thus have ye said O house of Israel

for I know the things that come into your mind every one of them

116 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city and ye have

filled the streets thereof with the slain .

117 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Your slain whom ye have

laid in the midst of it they are the flesh and this city is the

caldron but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it .

118 Ye have feared the sword and I will bring a sword upon you

saith the Lord GOD .

119 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof and deliver

you into the hands of strangers and will execute judgments among

you .

1110 Ye shall fall by the sword I will judge you in the border

of Israel and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

1111 This city shall not be your caldron neither shall ye be

the flesh in the midst thereof but I will judge you in the

border of Israel .

1112 And ye shall know that I am the LORD for ye have not

walked in my statutes neither executed my judgments but have

done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you .

1113 And it came to pass when I prophesied that Pelatiah the

son of Benaiah died Then fell I down upon my face and cried with

a loud voice and said Ah Lord GOD wilt thou make a full end of

the remnant of Israel .

1114 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

1115 Son of man thy brethren even thy brethren the men of thy

kindred and all the house of Israel wholly are they unto whom

the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said Get you far from the LORD

unto us is this land given in possession .

1116 Therefore say Thus saith the Lord GOD Although I have

cast them far off among the heathen and although I have

scattered them among the countries yet will I be to them as a

little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come .

1117 Therefore say Thus saith the Lord GOD I will even gather

you from the people and assemble you out of the countries where

ye have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel .

1118 And they shall come thither and they shall take away all

the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof

from thence .

1119 And I will give them one heart and I will put a new

spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their

flesh and will give them an heart of flesh .

1120 That they may walk in my statutes and keep mine

ordinances and do them and they shall be my people and I will be

their God .

1121 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of

their detestable things and their abominations I will recompense

their way upon their own heads saith the Lord GOD .

1122 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings and the wheels

beside them and the glory of the God of Israel was over them

above .

1123 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the

city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of

the city .

1124 Afterwards the spirit took me up and brought me in a

vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea to them of the

captivity So the vision that I had seen went up from me .

1125 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things

that the LORD had showed me .

* 121 The word of the LORD also came unto me saying .

122 Son of man thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious

house which have eyes to see and see not they have ears to hear

and hear not for they are a rebellious house .

123 Therefore thou son of man prepare thee stuff for removing

and remove by day in their sight and thou shalt remove from thy

place to another place in their sight it may be they will

consider though they be a rebellious house .

124 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their

sight as stuff for removing and thou shalt go forth at even in

their sight as they that go forth into captivity .

125 Dig thou through the wall in their sight and carry out

thereby .

126 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders and

carry it forth in the twilight thou shalt cover thy face that

thou see not the ground for I have set thee for a sign unto the

house of Israel .

127 And I did so as I was commanded I brought forth my stuff

by day as stuff for captivity and in the even I digged through

the wall with mine hand I brought it forth in the twilight and I

bare it upon my shoulder in their sight .

128 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me

saying .

129 Son of man hath not the house of Israel the rebellious

house said unto thee What doest thou .

1210 Say thou unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD This burden

concerneth the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel

that are among them .

1211 Say I am your sign like as I have done so shall it be

done unto them they shall remove and go into captivity .

1212 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his

shoulder in the twilight and shall go forth they shall dig

through the wall to carry out thereby he shall cover his face

that he see not the ground with his eyes .

1213 My net also will I spread upon him and he shall be taken

in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the

Chaldeans yet shall he not see it though he shall die there .

1214 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about

him to help him and all his bands and I will draw out the sword

after them .

1215 And they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall

scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the

countries .

1216 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword from

the famine and from the pestilence that they may declare all

their abominations among the heathen whither they come and they

shall know that I am the LORD .

1217 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying .

1218 Son of man eat thy bread with quaking and drink thy water

with trembling and with carefulness .

1219 And say unto the people of the land Thus saith the Lord

GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel

They shall eat their bread with carefulness and drink their

water with astonishment that her land may be desolate from all

that is therein because of the violence of all them that dwell

therein .

1220 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste and

the land shall be desolate and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

1221 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

1222 Son of man what is that proverb that ye have in the land

of Israel saying The days are prolonged and every vision faileth

1223 Tell them therefore Thus saith the Lord GOD I will make

this proverb to cease and they shall no more use it as a proverb

in Israel but say unto them The days are at hand and the effect

of every vision .

1224 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering

divination within the house of Israel .

1225 For I am the LORD I will speak and the word that I shall

speak shall come to pass it shall be no more prolonged for in

your days O rebellious house will I say the word and will

perform it saith the Lord GOD .

1226 Again the word of the LORD came to me saying .

1227 Son of man behold they of the house of Israel say The

vision that he seeth is for many days to come and he prophesieth

of the times that are far off .

1228 Therefore say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD There

shall none of my words be prolonged any more but the word which

I have spoken shall be done saith the Lord GOD .

* 131 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

132 Son of man prophesy against the prophets of Israel that

prophesy and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own

hearts Hear ye the word of the LORD .

133 Thus saith the Lord GOD Woe unto the foolish prophets that

follow their own spirit and have seen nothing .

134 O Israel thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts .

135 Ye have not gone up into the gaps neither made up the

hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day

of the LORD .

136 They have seen vanity and lying divination saying The LORD

saith and the LORD hath not sent them and they have made others

to hope that they would confirm the word .

137 Have ye not seen a vain vision and have ye not spoken a

lying divination whereas ye say The LORD saith it albeit I have

not spoken .

138 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye have spoken

vanity and seen lies therefore behold I am against you saith the

Lord GOD .

139 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity

and that divine lies they shall not be in the assembly of my

people neither shall they be written in the writing of the house

of Israel neither shall they enter into the land of Israel and

ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD .

1310 Because even because they have seduced my people saying

Peace and there was no peace and one built up a wall and lo

others daubed it with untempered mortar .

1311 Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar that

it shall fall there shall be an overflowing shower and ye O

great hailstones shall fall and a stormy wind shall rend it .

1312 Lo when the wall is fallen shall it not be said unto you

Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it .

1313 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I will even rend it

with a stormy wind in my fury and there shall be an overflowing

shower in mine anger and great hailstones in my fury to consume

it .

1314 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with

untempered mortar and bring it down to the ground so that the

foundation thereof shall be discovered and it shall fall and ye

shall be consumed in the midst thereof and ye shall know that I

am the LORD .

1315 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon

them that have daubed it with untempered mortar and will say

unto you The wall is no more neither they that daubed it .

1316 To wit the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning

Jerusalem and which see visions of peace for her and there is no

peace saith the Lord GOD .

1317 Likewise thou son of man set thy face against the

daughters of thy people which prophesy out of their own heart

and prophesy thou against them .

1318 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the women that sew

pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of

every stature to hunt souls Will ye hunt the souls of my people

and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you .

1319 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of

barley and for pieces of bread to slay the souls that should not

die and to save the souls alive that should not live by your

lying to my people that hear your lies .

1320 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against

your pillows wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly

and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go

even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly .

1321 Your kerchiefs also will I tear and deliver my people out

of your hand and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted

and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

1322 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous

sad whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the

wicked that he should not return from his wicked way by

promising him life .

1323 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity nor divine

divinations for I will deliver my people out of your hand and ye

shall know that I am the LORD .

* 141 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me and sat

before me .

142 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

143 Son of man these men have set up their idols in their

heart and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their

face should I be inquired of at all by them .

144 Therefore speak unto them and say unto them Thus saith the

Lord GOD Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his

idols in his heart and putteth the stumblingblock of his

iniquity before his face and cometh to the prophet I the LORD

will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his

idols .

145 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart

because they are all estranged from me through their idols .

146 Therefore say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord

GOD Repent and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away

your faces from all your abominations .

147 For every one of the house of Israel or of the stranger

that sojourneth in Israel which separateth himself from me and

setteth up his idols in his heart and putteth the stumblingblock

of his iniquity before his face and cometh to a prophet to

inquire of him concerning me I the LORD will answer him by

myself .

148 And I will set my face against that man and will make him

a sign and a proverb and I will cut him off from the midst of my

people and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

149 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing

I the LORD have deceived that prophet and I will stretch out my

hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people

Israel .

1410 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity the

punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him

that seeketh unto him .

1411 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me

neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions but

that they may be my people and I may be their God saith the Lord

GOD .

1412 The word of the LORD came again to me saying .

1413 Son of man when the land sinneth against me by

trespassing grievously then will I stretch out mine hand upon it

and will break the staff of the bread thereof and will send

famine upon it and will cut off man and beast from it .

1414 Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it

they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness

saith the Lord GOD .

1415 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land and

they spoil it so that it be desolate that no man may pass

through because of the beasts .

1416 Though these three men were in it as I live saith the

Lord GOD they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters they only

shall be delivered but the land shall be desolate .

1417 Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say Sword go

through the land so that I cut off man and beast from it .

1418 Though these three men were in it as I live saith the

Lord GOD they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters but they

only shall be delivered themselves .

1419 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my

fury upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast .

1420 Though Noah Daniel and Job were in it as I live saith the

Lord GOD they shall deliver neither son nor daughter they shall

but deliver their own souls by their righteousness .

1421 For thus saith the Lord GOD How much more when I send my

four sore judgments upon Jerusalem the sword and the famine and

the noisome beast and the pestilence to cut off from it man and

beast .

1422 Yet behold therein shall be left a remnant that shall be

brought forth both sons and daughters behold they shall come

forth unto you and ye shall see their way and their doings and

ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought

upon Jerusalem even concerning all that I have brought upon it .

1423 And they shall comfort you when ye see their ways and

their doings and ye shall know that I have not done without

cause all that I have done in it saith the Lord GOD .

* 151 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

152 Son of man What is the vine tree more than any tree or

than a branch which is among the trees of the forest .

153 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work or will men

take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon .

154 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel the fire

devoureth both the ends of it and the midst of it is burned Is

it meet for any work .

155 Behold when it was whole it was meet for no work how much

less shall it be meet yet for any work when the fire hath

devoured it and it is burned .

156 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD As the vine tree among

the trees of the forest which I have given to the fire for fuel

so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

157 And I will set my face against them they shall go out from

one fire and another fire shall devour them and ye shall know

that I am the LORD when I set my face against them .

158 And I will make the land desolate because they have

committed a trespass saith the Lord GOD .

* 161 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

162 Son of man cause Jerusalem to know her abominations .

163 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem Thy birth

and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan thy father was an

Amorite and thy mother an Hittite .

164 And as for thy nativity in the day thou wast born thy

navel was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to supple

thee thou wast not salted at all nor swaddled at all .

165 None eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee to have

compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to

the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born .

166 And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine

own blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood Live yea

I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood Live .

167 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field and

thou hast increased and waxen great and thou art come to

excellent ornaments thy breasts are fashioned and thine hair is

grown whereas thou wast naked and bare .

168 Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy

time was the time of love and I spread my skirt over thee and

covered thy nakedness yea I sware unto thee and entered into a

covenant with thee saith the Lord GOD and thou becamest mine .

169 Then washed I thee with water yea I thoroughly washed away

thy blood from thee and I anointed thee with oil .

1610 I clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee

with badgers' skin and I girded thee about with fine linen and I

covered thee with silk .

1611 I decked thee also with ornaments and I put bracelets

upon thy hands and a chain on thy neck .

1612 And I put a jewel on thy forehead and earrings in thine

ears and a beautiful crown upon thine head .

1613 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver and thy

raiment was of fine linen and silk and broidered work thou didst

eat fine flour and honey and oil and thou wast exceeding

beautiful and thou didst prosper into a kingdom .

1614 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy

beauty for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put

upon thee saith the Lord GOD .

1615 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and playedst the

harlot because of thy renown and pouredst out thy fornications

on every one that passed by his it was .

1616 And of thy garments thou didst take and deckedst thy high

places with divers colours and playedst the harlot thereupon the

like things shall not come neither shall it be so .

1617 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my

silver which I had given thee and madest to thyself images of

men and didst commit whoredom with them .

1618 And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them and

thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them .

1619 My meat also which I gave thee fine flour and oil and

honey wherewith I fed thee thou hast even set it before them for

a sweet savour and thus it was saith the Lord GOD .

1620 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters whom

thou hast borne unto me and these hast thou sacrificed unto them

to be devoured Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter .

1621 That thou hast slain my children and delivered them to

cause them to pass through the fire for them .

1622 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast

not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and

bare and wast polluted in thy blood .

1623 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe woe

unto thee saith the Lord GOD .

1624 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place and

hast made thee an high place in every street .

1625 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way

and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred and hast opened thy feet

to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms .

1626 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians

thy neighbours great of flesh and hast increased thy whoredoms

to provoke me to anger .

1627 Behold therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee

and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto

the will of them that hate thee the daughters of the Philistines

which are ashamed of thy lewd way .

1628 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians

because thou wast unsatiable yea thou hast played the harlot

with them and yet couldest not be satisfied .

1629 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land

of Canaan unto Chaldea and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith .

1630 How weak is thine heart saith the Lord GOD seeing thou

doest all these things the work of an imperious whorish woman .

1631 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of

every way and makest thine high place in every street and hast

not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire .

1632 But as a wife that committeth adultery which taketh

strangers instead of her husband .

1633 They give gifts to all whores but thou givest thy gifts

to all thy lovers and hirest them that they may come unto thee

on every side for thy whoredom .

1634 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy

whoredoms whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in

that thou givest a reward and no reward is given unto thee

therefore thou art contrary .

1635 Wherefore O harlot hear the word of the LORD .

1636 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thy filthiness was poured

out and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy

lovers and with all the idols of thy abominations and by the

blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them .

1637 Behold therefore I will gather all thy lovers with whom

thou hast taken pleasure and all them that thou hast loved with

all them that thou hast hated I will even gather them round

about against thee and will discover thy nakedness unto them

that they may see all thy nakedness .

1638 And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and

shed blood are judged and I will give thee blood in fury and

jealousy .

1639 And I will also give thee into their hand and they shall

throw down thine eminent place and shall break down thy high

places they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take

thy fair jewels and leave thee naked and bare .

1640 They shall also bring up a company against thee and they

shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with their

swords .

1641 And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute

judgments upon thee in the sight of many women and I will cause

thee to cease from playing the harlot and thou also shalt give

no hire any more .

1642 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest and my

jealousy shall depart from thee and I will be quiet and will be

no more angry .

1643 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth

but hast fretted me in all these things behold therefore I also

will recompense thy way upon thine head saith the Lord GOD and

thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine

abominations .

1644 Behold every one that useth proverbs shall use this

proverb against thee saying As is the mother so is her daughter .

1645 Thou art thy mother's daughter that loatheth her husband

and her children and thou art the sister of thy sisters which

loathed their husbands and their children your mother was an

Hittite and your father an Amorite .

1646 And thine elder sister is Samaria she and her daughters

that dwell at thy left hand and thy younger sister that dwelleth

at thy right hand is Sodom and her daughters .

1647 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways nor done after

their abominations but as if that were a very little thing thou

wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways .

1648 As I live saith the Lord GOD Sodom thy sister hath not

done she nor her daughters as thou hast done thou and thy

daughters .

1649 Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride

fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her

daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and

needy .

1650 And they were haughty and committed abomination before me

therefore I took them away as I saw good .

1651 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins but thou

hast multiplied thine abominations more than they and hast

justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast

done .

1652 Thou also which hast judged thy sisters bear thine own

shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than

they they are more righteous than thou yea be thou confounded

also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters .

1653 When I shall bring again their captivity the captivity of

Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her

daughters then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives

in the midst of them .

1654 That thou mayest bear thine own shame and mayest be

confounded in all that thou hast done in that thou art a comfort

unto them .

1655 When thy sisters Sodom and her daughters shall return to

their former estate and Samaria and her daughters shall return

to their former estate then thou and thy daughters shall return

to your former estate .

1656 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in

the day of thy pride .

1657 Before thy wickedness was discovered as at the time of

thy reproach of the daughters of Syria and all that are round

about her the daughters of the Philistines which despise thee

round about .

1658 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations saith

the LORD .

1659 For thus saith the Lord GOD I will even deal with thee as

thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the

covenant .

1660 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the

days of thy youth and I will establish unto thee an everlasting

covenant .

1661 Then thou shalt remember thy ways and be ashamed when

thou shalt receive thy sisters thine elder and thy younger and I

will give them unto thee for daughters but not by thy covenant .

1662 And I will establish my covenant with thee and thou shalt

know that I am the LORD .

1663 That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never

open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified

toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord GOD .

* 171 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

172 Son of man put forth a riddle and speak a parable unto the

house of Israel .

173 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD A great eagle with great

wings longwinged full of feathers which had divers colours came

unto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar .

174 He cropped off the top of his young twigs and carried it

into a land of traffic he set it in a city of merchants .

175 He took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a

fruitful field he placed it by great waters and set it as a

willow tree .

176 And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature

whose branches turned toward him and the roots thereof were

under him so it became a vine and brought forth branches and

shot forth sprigs .

177 There was also another great eagle with great wings and

many feathers and behold this vine did bend her roots toward him

and shot forth her branches toward him that he might water it by

the furrows of her plantation .

178 It was planted in a good soil by great waters that it

might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit that it

might be a goodly vine .

179 Say thou Thus saith the Lord GOD Shall it prosper shall he

not pull up the roots thereof and cut off the fruit thereof that

it wither it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring even

without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots

thereof .

1710 Yea behold being planted shall it prosper shall it not

utterly wither when the east wind toucheth it it shall wither in

the furrows where it grew .

1711 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

1712 Say now to the rebellious house Know ye not what these

things mean tell them Behold the king of Babylon is come to

Jerusalem and hath taken the king thereof and the princes

thereof and led them with him to Babylon .

1713 And hath taken of the king's seed and made a covenant

with him and hath taken an oath of him he hath also taken the

mighty of the land .

1714 That the kingdom might be base that it might not lift

itself up but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand .

1715 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors

into Egypt that they might give him horses and much people Shall

he prosper shall he escape that doeth such things or shall he

break the covenant and be delivered .

1716 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely in the place where

the king dwelleth that made him king whose oath he despised and

whose covenant he brake even with him in the midst of Babylon he

shall die .

1717 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great

company make for him in the war by casting up mounts and

building forts to cut off many persons .

1718 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant when

lo he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall

not escape .

1719 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD As I live surely mine

oath that he hath despised and my covenant that he hath broken

even it will I recompense upon his own head .

1720 And I will spread my net upon him and he shall be taken

in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with

him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me .

1721 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by

the sword and they that remain shall be scattered toward all

winds and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it .

1722 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also take of the highest

branch of the high cedar and will set it I will crop off from

the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon

an high mountain and eminent .

1723 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it

and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly

cedar and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing in the

shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell .

1724 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD

have brought down the high tree have exalted the low tree have

dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish I

the LORD have spoken and have done it .

* 181 The word of the LORD came unto me again saying .

182 What mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land

of Israel saying The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the

children's teeth are set on edge .

183 As I live saith the Lord GOD ye shall not have occasion

any more to use this proverb in Israel .

184 Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so

also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth it shall

die .

185 But if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right

186 And hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lifted

up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel neither hath

defiled his neighbour's wife neither hath come near to a

menstruous woman .

187 And hath not oppressed any but hath restored to the debtor

his pledge hath spoiled none by violence hath given his bread to

the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment .

188 He that hath not given forth upon usury neither hath taken

any increase that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath

executed true judgment between man and man .

189 Hath walked in my statutes and hath kept my judgments to

deal truly he is just he shall surely live saith the Lord GOD .

1810 If he beget a son that is a robber a shedder of blood and

that doeth the like to any one of these things .

1811 And that doeth not any of those duties but even hath

eaten upon the mountains and defiled his neighbour's wife .

1812 Hath oppressed the poor and needy hath spoiled by

violence hath not restored the pledge and hath lifted up his

eyes to the idols hath committed abomination .

1813 Hath given forth upon usury and hath taken increase shall

he then live he shall not live he hath done all these

abominations he shall surely die his blood shall be upon him .

1814 Now lo if he beget a son that seeth all his father's sins

which he hath done and considereth and doeth not such like .

1815 That hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath

lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel hath not

defiled his neighbour's wife .

1816 Neither hath oppressed any hath not withholden the pledge

neither hath spoiled by violence but hath given his bread to the

hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment .

1817 That hath taken off his hand from the poor that hath not

received usury nor increase hath executed my judgments hath

walked in my statutes he shall not die for the iniquity of his

father he shall surely live .

1818 As for his father because he cruelly oppressed spoiled

his brother by violence and did that which is not good among his

people lo even he shall die in his iniquity .

1819 Yet say ye Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the

father When the son hath done that which is lawful and right and

hath kept all my statutes and hath done them he shall surely

live .

1820 The soul that sinneth it shall die The son shall not bear

the iniquity of the father neither shall the father bear the

iniquity of the son the righteousness of the righteous shall be

upon him and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him .

1821 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he

hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is

lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not die .

1822 All his transgressions that he hath committed they shall

not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done

he shall live .

1823 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die

saith the Lord GOD and not that he should return from his ways

and live .

1824 But when the righteous turneth away from his

righteousness and committeth iniquity and doeth according to all

the abominations that the wicked man doeth shall he live All his

righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his

trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath

sinned in them shall he die .

1825 Yet ye say The way of the Lord is not equal Hear now O

house of Israel Is not my way equal are not your ways unequal .

1826 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness

and committeth iniquity and dieth in them for his iniquity that

he hath done shall he die .

1827 Again when the wicked man turneth away from his

wickedness that he hath committed and doeth that which is lawful

and right he shall save his soul alive .

1828 Because he considereth and turneth away from all his

transgressions that he hath committed he shall surely live he

shall not die .

1829 Yet saith the house of Israel The way of the Lord is not

equal O house of Israel are not my ways equal are not your ways

unequal .

1830 Therefore I will judge you O house of Israel every one

according to his ways saith the Lord GOD Repent and turn

yourselves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be

your ruin .

1831 Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye

have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for

why will ye die O house of Israel .

1832 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth

saith the Lord GOD wherefore turn yourselves and live ye .

* 191 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of

Israel .

192 And say What is thy mother A lioness she lay down among

lions she nourished her whelps among young lions .

193 And she brought up one of her whelps it became a young

lion and it learned to catch the prey it devoured men .

194 The nations also heard of him he was taken in their pit

and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt .

195 Now when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost

then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion .

196 And he went up and down among the lions he became a young

lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men .

197 And he knew their desolate palaces and he laid waste their

cities and the land was desolate and the fulness thereof by the

noise of his roaring .

198 Then the nations set against him on every side from the

provinces and spread their net over him he was taken in their

pit .

199 And they put him in ward in chains and brought him to the

king of Babylon they brought him into holds that his voice

should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel .

1910 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the

waters she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many

waters .

1911 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that

bare rule and her stature was exalted among the thick branches

and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her

branches .

1912 But she was plucked up in fury she was cast down to the

ground and the east wind dried up her fruit her strong rods were

broken and withered the fire consumed them .

1913 And now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and

thirsty ground .

1914 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches which hath

devoured her fruit so that she hath no strong rod to be a

sceptre to rule This is a lamentation and shall be for a

lamentation .

* 201 And it came to pass in the seventh year in the fifth

month the tenth day of the month that certain of the elders of

Israel came to inquire of the LORD and sat before me .

202 Then came the word of the LORD unto me saying .

203 Son of man speak unto the elders of Israel and say unto

them Thus saith the Lord GOD Are ye come to inquire of me As I

live saith the Lord GOD I will not be inquired of by you .

204 Wilt thou judge them son of man wilt thou judge them cause

them to know the abominations of their fathers .

205 And say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day when

I chose Israel and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the

house of Jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of

Egypt when I lifted up mine hand unto them saying I am the LORD

your God .

206 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them to bring

them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied

for them flowing with milk and honey which is the glory of all

lands .

207 Then said I unto them Cast ye away every man the

abominations of his eyes and defile not yourselves with the

idols of Egypt I am the LORD your God .

208 But they rebelled against me and would not hearken unto me

they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes

neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt then I said I will

pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them

in the midst of the land of Egypt .

209 But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be

polluted before the heathen among whom they were in whose sight

I made myself known unto them in bringing them forth out of the

land of Egypt .

2010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of

Egypt and brought them into the wilderness .

2011 And I gave them my statutes and showed them my judgments

which if a man do he shall even live in them .

2012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign

between me and them that they might know that I am the LORD that

sanctify them .

2013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the

wilderness they walked not in my statutes and they despised my

judgments which if a man do he shall even live in them and my

sabbaths they greatly polluted then I said I would pour out my

fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them .

2014 But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be

polluted before the heathen in whose sight I brought them out .

2015 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness

that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them

flowing with milk and honey which is the glory of all lands .

2016 Because they despised my judgments and walked not in my

statutes but polluted my sabbaths for their heart went after

their idols .

2017 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them

neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness .

2018 But I said unto their children in the wilderness Walk ye

not in the statutes of your fathers neither observe their

judgments nor defile yourselves with their idols .

2019 I am the LORD your God walk in my statutes and keep my

judgments and do them .

2020 And hallow my sabbaths and they shall be a sign between

me and you that ye may know that I am the LORD your God .

2021 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me they

walked not in my statutes neither kept my judgments to do them

which if a man do he shall even live in them they polluted my

sabbaths then I said I would pour out my fury upon them to

accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness .

2022 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand and wrought for my

name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the

heathen in whose sight I brought them forth .

2023 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness

that I would scatter them among the heathen and disperse them

through the countries .

2024 Because they had not executed my judgments but had

despised my statutes and had polluted my sabbaths and their eyes

were after their fathers' idols .

2025 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good

and judgments whereby they should not live .

2026 And I polluted them in their own gifts in that they

caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb that I

might make them desolate to the end that they might know that I

am the LORD .

2027 Therefore son of man speak unto the house of Israel and

say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Yet in this your fathers

have blasphemed me in that they have committed a trespass

against me .

2028 For when I had brought them into the land for the which I

lifted up mine hand to give it to them then they saw every high

hill and all the thick trees and they offered there their

sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their

offering there also they made their sweet savour and poured out

there their drink offerings .

2029 Then I said unto them What is the high place whereunto ye

go And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day .

2030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the

Lord GOD Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers and

commit ye whoredom after their abominations .

2031 For when ye offer your gifts when ye make your sons to

pass through the fire ye pollute yourselves with all your idols

even unto this day and shall I be inquired of by you O house of

Israel As I live saith the Lord GOD I will not be inquired of

by you .

2032 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all

that ye say We will be as the heathen as the families of the

countries to serve wood and stone .

2033 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely with a mighty hand

and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out will I

rule over you .

2034 And I will bring you out from the people and will gather

you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered with a mighty

hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out .

2035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people

and there will I plead with you face to face .

2036 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of

the land of Egypt so will I plead with you saith the Lord GOD .

2037 And I will cause you to pass under the rod and I will

bring you into the bond of the covenant .

2038 And I will purge out from among you the rebels and them

that transgress against me I will bring them forth out of the

country where they sojourn and they shall not enter into the

land of Israel and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

2039 As for you O house of Israel thus saith the Lord GOD Go ye

serve ye every one his idols and hereafter also if ye will not

hearken unto me but pollute ye my holy name no more with your

gifts and with your idols .

2040 For in mine holy mountain in the mountain of the height

of Israel saith the Lord GOD there shall all the house of Israel

all of them in the land serve me there will I accept them and

there will I require your offerings and the firstfruits of your

oblations with all your holy things .

2041 I will accept you with your sweet savour when I bring you

out from the people and gather you out of the countries wherein

ye have been scattered and I will be sanctified in you before

the heathen .

2042 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I shall bring

you into the land of Israel into the country for the which I

lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers .

2043 And there shall ye remember your ways and all your doings

wherein ye have been defiled and ye shall loathe yourselves in

your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed .

2044 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought

with you for my name's sake not according to your wicked ways

nor according to your corrupt doings O ye house of Israel saith

the Lord GOD .

2045 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

2046 Son of man set thy face toward the south and drop thy

word toward the south and prophesy against the forest of the

south field .

2047 And say to the forest of the south Hear the word of the

LORD Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will kindle a fire in thee

and it shall devour every green tree in thee and every dry tree

the flaming flame shall not be quenched and all faces from the

south to the north shall be burned therein .

2048 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it

it shall not be quenched .

2049 Then said I Ah Lord GOD they say of me Doth he not speak

parables .

* 211 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

212 Son of man set thy face toward Jerusalem and drop thy word

toward the holy places and prophesy against the land of Israel .

213 And say to the land of Israel Thus saith the LORD Behold I

am against thee and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath

and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked .

214 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous

and the wicked therefore shall my sword go forth out of his

sheath against all flesh from the south to the north .

215 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth

my sword out of his sheath it shall not return any more .

216 Sigh therefore thou son of man with the breaking of thy

loins and with bitterness sigh before their eyes .

217 And it shall be when they say unto thee Wherefore sighest

thou that thou shalt answer For the tidings because it cometh

and every heart shall melt and all hands shall be feeble and

every spirit shall faint and all knees shall be weak as water

behold it cometh and shall be brought to pass saith the Lord GOD

218 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

219 Son of man prophesy and say Thus saith the LORD Say A

sword a sword is sharpened and also furbished .

2110 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter it is furbished

that it may glitter should we then make mirth it contemneth the

rod of my son as every tree .

2111 And he hath given it to be furbished that it may be

handled this sword is sharpened and it is furbished to give it

into the hand of the slayer .

2112 Cry and howl son of man for it shall be upon my people it

shall be upon all the princes of Israel terrors by reason of the

sword shall be upon my people smite therefore upon thy thigh .

2113 Because it is a trial and what if the sword contemn even

the rod it shall be no more saith the Lord GOD .

2114 Thou therefore son of man prophesy and smite thine hands

together and let the sword be doubled the third time the sword

of the slain it is the sword of the great men that are slain

which entereth into their privy chambers .

2115 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates

that their heart may faint and their ruins be multiplied ah it

is made bright it is wrapped up for the slaughter .

2116 Go thee one way or other either on the right hand or on

the left whithersoever thy face is set .

2117 I will also smite mine hands together and I will cause my

fury to rest I the LORD have said it .

2118 The word of the LORD came unto me again saying .

2119 Also thou son of man appoint thee two ways that the sword

of the king of Babylon may come both twain shall come forth out

of one land and choose thou a place choose it at the head of the

way to the city .

2120 Appoint a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the

Ammonites and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced .

2121 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way

at the head of the two ways to use divination he made his arrows

bright he consulted with images he looked in the liver .

2122 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem to

appoint captains to open the mouth in the slaughter to lift up

the voice with shouting to appoint battering rams against the

gates to cast a mount and to build a fort .

2123 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their

sight to them that have sworn oaths but he will call to

remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken .

2124 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye have made

your iniquity to be remembered in that your transgressions are

discovered so that in all your doings your sins do appear

because I say that ye are come to remembrance ye shall be taken

with the hand .

2125 And thou profane wicked prince of Israel whose day is

come when iniquity shall have an end .

2126 Thus saith the Lord GOD Remove the diadem and take off

the crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and

abase him that is high .

2127 I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no

more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him .

2128 And thou son of man prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord

GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach even

say thou The sword the sword is drawn for the slaughter it is

furbished to consume because of the glittering .

2129 Whiles they see vanity unto thee whiles they divine a lie

unto thee to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain of

the wicked whose day is come when their iniquity shall have an

end .

2130 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath I will judge

thee in the place where thou wast created in the land of thy

nativity .

2131 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee I will

blow against thee in the fire of my wrath and deliver thee into

the hand of brutish men and skilful to destroy .

2132 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire thy blood shall be in

the midst of the land thou shalt be no more remembered for I the

LORD have spoken it .

* 221 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

222 Now thou son of man wilt thou judge wilt thou judge the

bloody city yea thou shalt show her all her abominations .

223 Then say thou Thus saith the Lord GOD The city sheddeth

blood in the midst of it that her time may come and maketh idols

against herself to defile herself .

224 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed

and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made and

thou hast caused thy days to draw near and art come even unto

thy years therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen

and a mocking to all countries .

225 Those that be near and those that be far from thee shall

mock thee which art infamous and much vexed .

226 Behold the princes of Israel every one were in thee to

their power to shed blood .

227 In thee have they set light by father and mother in the

midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger in

thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow .

228 Thou hast despised mine holy things and hast profaned my

sabbaths .

229 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood and in thee

they eat upon the mountains in the midst of thee they commit

lewdness .

2210 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness in

thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution .

2211 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's

wife and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law and

another in thee hath humbled his sister his father's daughter .

2212 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood thou hast

taken usury and increase and thou hast greedily gained of thy

neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me saith the Lord GOD

2213 Behold therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy

dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which hath

been in the midst of thee .

2214 Can thine heart endure or can thine hands be strong in

the days that I shall deal with thee I the LORD have spoken it

and will do it .

2215 And I will scatter thee among the heathen and disperse

thee in the countries and will consume thy filthiness out of

thee .

2216 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the

sight of the heathen and thou shalt know that I am the LORD .

2217 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

2218 Son of man the house of Israel is to me become dross all

they are brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the

furnace they are even the dross of silver .

2219 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because ye are all

become dross behold therefore I will gather you into the midst

of Jerusalem .

2220 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin

into the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it to melt

it so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury and I will

leave you there and melt you .

2221 Yea I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my

wrath and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof .

2222 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace so shall

ye be melted in the midst thereof and ye shall know that I the

LORD have poured out my fury upon you .

2223 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

2224 Son of man say unto her Thou art the land that is not

cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation .

2225 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst

thereof like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured

souls they have taken the treasure and precious things they have

made her many widows in the midst thereof .

2226 Her priests have violated my law and have profaned mine

holy things they have put no difference between the holy and

profane neither have they showed difference between the unclean

and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths and I am

profaned among them .

2227 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening

the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest

gain .

2228 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar

seeing vanity and divining lies unto them saying Thus saith the

Lord GOD when the LORD hath not spoken .

2229 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised

robbery and have vexed the poor and needy yea they have

oppressed the stranger wrongfully .

2230 And I sought for a man among them that should make up the

hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should

not destroy it but I found none .

2231 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them I

have consumed them with the fire of my wrath their own way have

I recompensed upon their heads saith the Lord GOD .

* 231 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .

232 Son of man there were two women the daughters of one

mother .

233 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt they committed

whoredoms in their youth there were their breasts pressed and

there they bruised the teats of their virginity .

234 And the names of them were Aholah the elder and Aholibah

her sister and they were mine and they bare sons and daughters

Thus were their names Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah .

235 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine and she

doted on her lovers on the Assyrians her neighbours .

236 Which were clothed with blue captains and rulers all of

them desirable young men horsemen riding upon horses .

237 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them with all them

that were the chosen men of Assyria and with all on whom she

doted with all their idols she defiled herself .

238 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt for in

her youth they lay with her and they bruised the breasts of her

virginity and poured their whoredom upon her .

239 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers

into the hand of the Assyrians upon whom she doted .

2310 These discovered her nakedness they took her sons and her

daughters and slew her with the sword and she became famous

among women for they had executed judgment upon her .

2311 And when her sister Aholibah saw this she was more

corrupt in her inordinate love than she and in her whoredoms

more than her sister in her whoredoms .

2312 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours captains and

rulers clothed most gorgeously horsemen riding upon horses all

of them desirable young men .

2313 Then I saw that she was defiled that they took both one

way .

2314 And that she increased her whoredoms for when she saw men

portrayed upon the wall the images of the Chaldeans portrayed

with vermilion .

2315 Girded with girdles upon their loins exceeding in dyed

attire upon their heads all of them princes to look to after the

manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea the land of their nativity .

2316 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon

them and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea .

2317 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love and

they defiled her with their whoredom and she was polluted with

them and her mind was alienated from them .

2318 So she discovered her whoredoms and discovered her

nakedness then my mind was alienated from her like as my mind

was alienated from her sister .

2319 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to

remembrance the days of her youth wherein she had played the

harlot in the land of Egypt .

2320 For she doted upon their paramours whose flesh is as the

flesh of asses and whose issue is like the issue of horses .

2321 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy

youth in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy

youth .

2322 Therefore O Aholibah thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I

will raise up thy lovers against thee from whom thy mind is

alienated and I will bring them against thee on every side .

2323 The Babylonians and all the Chaldeans Pekod and Shoa and

Koa and all the Assyrians with them all of them desirable young

men captains and rulers great lords and renowned all of them

riding upon horses .

2324 And they shall come against thee with chariots wagons and

wheels and with an assembly of people which shall set against

thee buckler and shield and helmet round about and I will set

judgment before them and they shall judge thee according to

their judgments .

2325 And I will set my jealousy against thee and they shall

deal furiously with thee they shall take away thy nose and thine

ears and thy remnant shall fall by the sword they shall take thy

sons and thy daughters and thy residue shall be devoured by the

fire .

2326 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes and take

away thy fair jewels .

2327 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee and thy

whoredom brought from the land of Egypt so that thou shalt not

lift up thine eyes unto them nor remember Egypt any more .

2328 For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will deliver thee

into the hand of them whom thou hatest into the hand of them

from whom thy mind is alienated .

2329 And they shall deal with thee hatefully and shall take

away all thy labour and shall leave thee naked and bare and the

nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered both thy lewdness

and thy whoredoms .

2330 I will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a

whoring after the heathen and because thou art polluted with

their idols .

2331 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister therefore will

I give her cup into thine hand .

2332 Thus saith the Lord GOD Thou shalt drink of thy sister's

cup deep and large thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in

derision it containeth much .

2333 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow with the

cup of astonishment and desolation with the cup of thy sister

Samaria .

2334 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out and thou shalt

break the sherds thereof and pluck off thine own breasts for I

have spoken it saith the Lord GOD .

2335 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast

forgotten me and cast me behind thy back therefore bear thou

also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms .

2336 The LORD said moreover unto me Son of man wilt thou judge

Aholah and Aholibah yea declare unto them their abominations .

2337 That they have committed adultery and blood is in their

hands and with their idols have they committed adultery and have

also caused their sons whom they bare unto me to pass for them

through the fire to devour them .

2338 Moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my

sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths .

2339 For when they had slain their children to their idols

then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it and

lo thus have they done in the midst of mine house .

2340 And furthermore that ye have sent for men to come from

far unto whom a messenger was sent and lo they came for whom

thou didst wash thyself paintedst thy eyes and deckedst thyself

with ornaments .

2341 And satest upon a stately bed and a table prepared before

it whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil .

2342 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her and

with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the

wilderness which put bracelets upon their hands and beautiful

crowns upon their heads .

2343 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries Will they

now commit whoredoms with her and she with them .

2344 Yet they went in unto her as they go in unto a woman that

playeth the harlot so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah

the lewd women .

2345 And the righteous men they shall judge them after the

manner of adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed

blood because they are adulteresses and blood is in their hands .

2346 For thus saith the Lord GOD I will bring up a company

upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled .

2347 And the company shall stone them with stones and dispatch

them with their swords they shall slay their sons and their

daughters and burn up their houses with fire .

2348 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land that

all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness .

2349 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you and ye

shall bear the sins of your idols and ye shall know that I am

the Lord GOD .

* 241 Again in the ninth year in the tenth month in the tenth

day of the month the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

242 Son of man write thee the name of the day even of this

same day the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this

same day .

243 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house and say unto

them Thus saith the Lord GOD Set on a pot set it on and also

pour water into it .

244 Gather the pieces thereof into it even every good piece

the thigh and the shoulder fill it with the choice bones .

245 Take the choice of the flock and burn also the bones under

it and make it boil well and let them seethe the bones of it

therein .

246 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the bloody city

to the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out

of it bring it out piece by piece let no lot fall upon it .

247 For her blood is in the midst of her she set it upon the

top of a rock she poured it not upon the ground to cover it with

dust .

248 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance I

have set her blood upon the top of a rock that it should not be

covered .

249 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the bloody city I

will even make the pile for fire great .

2410 Heap on wood kindle the fire consume the flesh and spice

it well and let the bones be burned .

2411 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof that the brass

of it may be hot and may burn and that the filthiness of it may

be molten in it that the scum of it may be consumed .

2412 She hath wearied herself with lies and her great scum

went not forth out of her her scum shall be in the fire .

2413 In thy filthiness is lewdness because I have purged thee

and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy

filthiness any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee

2414 I the LORD have spoken it it shall come to pass and I

will do it I will not go back neither will I spare neither will

I repent according to thy ways and according to thy doings shall

they judge thee saith the Lord GOD .

2415 Also the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

2416 Son of man behold I take away from thee the desire of

thine eyes with a stroke yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep

neither shall thy tears run down .

2417 Forbear to cry make no mourning for the dead bind the

tire of thine head upon thee and put on thy shoes upon thy feet

and cover not thy lips and eat not the bread of men .

2418 So I spake unto the people in the morning and at even my

wife died and I did in the morning as I was commanded .

2419 And the people said unto me Wilt thou not tell us what

these things are to us that thou doest so .

2420 Then I answered them The word of the LORD came unto me

saying .

2421 Speak unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD

Behold I will profane my sanctuary the excellency of your

strength the desire of your eyes and that which your soul

pitieth and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall

fall by the sword .

2422 And ye shall do as I have done ye shall not cover your

lips nor eat the bread of men .

2423 And your tires shall be upon your heads and your shoes

upon your feet ye shall not mourn nor weep but ye shall pine

away for your iniquities and mourn one toward another .

2424 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign according to all that he

hath done shall ye do and when this cometh ye shall know that I

am the Lord GOD .

2425 Also thou son of man shall it not be in the day when I

take from them their strength the joy of their glory the desire

of their eyes and that whereupon they set their minds their sons

and their daughters .

2426 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee to

cause thee to hear it with thine ears .

2427 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is

escaped and thou shalt speak and be no more dumb and thou shalt

be a sign unto them and they shall know that I am the LORD .

* 251 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .

252 Son of man set thy face against the Ammonites and prophesy

against them .

253 And say unto the Ammonites Hear the word of the Lord GOD

Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou saidst Aha against my

sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of Israel

when it was desolate and against the house of Judah when they

went into captivity .

254 Behold therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the

east for a possession and they shall set their palaces in thee

and make their dwellings in thee they shall eat thy fruit and

they shall drink thy milk .

255 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the

Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks and ye shall know that I am

the LORD .

256 For thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast clapped

thine hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced in heart with

all thy despite against the land of Israel .

257 Behold therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee

and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen and I will cut

thee off from the people and I will cause thee to perish out of

the countries I will destroy thee and thou shalt know that I am

the LORD .

258 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because that Moab and Seir do say

Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen .

259 Therefore behold I will open the side of Moab from the

cities from his cities which are on his frontiers the glory of

the country Bethjeshimoth Baalmeon and Kiriathaim .

2510 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites and will give

them in possession that the Ammonites may not be remembered

among the nations .

2511 And I will execute judgments upon Moab and they shall

know that I am the LORD .

2512 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because that Edom hath dealt

against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and hath greatly

offended and revenged himself upon them .

2513 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I will also stretch out

mine hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I

will make it desolate from Teman and they of Dedan shall fall by

the sword .

2514 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my

people Israel and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger

and according to my fury and they shall know my vengeance saith

the Lord GOD .

2515 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the Philistines have

dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a despiteful

heart to destroy it for the old hatred .

2516 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will stretch

out mine hand upon the Philistines and I will cut off the

Cherethims and destroy the remnant of the sea coast .

2517 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious

rebukes and they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall lay

my vengeance upon them .

* 261 And it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first day

of the month that the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

262 Son of man because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem

Aha she is broken that was the gates of the people she is turned

unto me I shall be replenished now she is laid waste .

263 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee

O Tyrus and will cause many nations to come up against thee as

the sea causeth his waves to come up .

264 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus and break down

her towers I will also scrape her dust from her and make her

like the top of a rock .

265 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst

of the sea for I have spoken it saith the Lord GOD and it shall

become a spoil to the nations .

266 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by

the sword and they shall know that I am the LORD .

267 For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will bring upon Tyrus

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon a king of kings from the north

with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and companies

and much people .

268 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field

and he shall make a fort against thee and cast a mount against

thee and lift up the buckler against thee .

269 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls and with

his axes he shall break down thy towers .

2610 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall

cover thee thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen

and of the wheels and of the chariots when he shall enter into

thy gates as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach .

2611 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy

streets he shall slay thy people by the sword and thy strong

garrisons shall go down to the ground .

2612 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches and make a prey

of thy merchandise and they shall break down thy walls and

destroy thy pleasant houses and they shall lay thy stones and

thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water .

2613 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease and the

sound of thy harps shall be no more heard .

2614 And I will make thee like the top of a rock thou shalt be

a place to spread nets upon thou shalt be built no more for I

the LORD have spoken it saith the Lord GOD .

2615 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus Shall not the isles

shake at the sound of thy fall when the wounded cry when the

slaughter is made in the midst of thee .

2616 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from

their thrones and lay away their robes and put off their

broidered garments they shall clothe themselves with trembling

they shall sit upon the ground and shall tremble at every moment

and be astonished at thee .

2617 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee and say to

thee How art thou destroyed that wast inhabited of seafaring men

the renowned city which wast strong in the sea she and her

inhabitants which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it .

2618 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall yea

the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure

2619 For thus saith the Lord GOD When I shall make thee a

desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited when I

shall bring up the deep upon thee and great waters shall cover

thee .

2620 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into

the pit with the people of old time and shall set thee in the

low parts of the earth in places desolate of old with them that

go down to the pit that thou be not inhabited and I shall set

glory in the land of the living .

2621 I will make thee a terror and thou shalt be no more

though thou be sought for yet shalt thou never be found again

saith the Lord GOD .

* 271 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .

272 Now thou son of man take up a lamentation for Tyrus .

273 And say unto Tyrus O thou that art situate at the entry of

the sea which art a merchant of the people for many isles Thus

saith the Lord GOD O Tyrus thou hast said I am of perfect beauty

274 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas thy builders have

perfected thy beauty .

275 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir

they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee .

276 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars the

company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory brought

out of the isles of Chittim .

277 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which

thou spreadest forth to be thy sail blue and purple from the

isles of Elishah was that which covered thee .

278 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners thy

wise men O Tyrus that were in thee were thy pilots .

279 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in

thee thy calkers all the ships of the sea with their mariners

were in thee to occupy thy merchandise .

2710 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army

thy men of war they hanged the shield and helmet in thee they

set forth thy comeliness .

2711 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls

round about and the Gammadims were in thy towers they hanged

their shields upon thy walls round about they have made thy

beauty perfect .

2712 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of

all kind of riches with silver iron tin and lead they traded in

thy fairs .

2713 Javan Tubal and Meshech they were thy merchants they

traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market .

2714 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with

horses and horsemen and mules .

2715 The men of Dedan were thy merchants many isles were the

merchandise of thine hand they brought thee for a present horns

of ivory and ebony .

2716 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the

wares of thy making they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds

purple and broidered work and fine linen and coral and agate .

2717 Judah and the land of Israel they were thy merchants they

traded in thy market wheat of Minnith and Pannag and honey and

oil and balm .

2718 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares

of thy making for the multitude of all riches in the wine of

Helbon and white wool .

2719 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs

bright iron cassia and calamus were in thy market .

2720 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots .

2721 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar they occupied with

thee in lambs and rams and goats in these were they thy

merchants .

2722 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah they were thy merchants

they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices and with all

precious stones and gold .

2723 Haran and Canneh and Eden the merchants of Sheba Asshur

and Chilmad were thy merchants .

2724 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things in blue

clothes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel bound

with cords and made of cedar among thy merchandise .

2725 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market and

thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the

seas .

2726 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters the east

wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas .

2727 Thy riches and thy fairs thy merchandise thy mariners and

thy pilots thy calkers and the occupiers of thy merchandise and

all thy men of war that are in thee and in all thy company which

is in the midst of thee shall fall into the midst of the seas in

the day of thy ruin .

2728 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy

pilots .

2729 And all that handle the oar the mariners and all the

pilots of the sea shall come down from their ships they shall

stand upon the land .

2730 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee and

shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads they

shall wallow themselves in the ashes .

2731 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee and

gird them with sackcloth and they shall weep for thee with

bitterness of heart and bitter wailing .

2732 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for

thee and lament over thee saying What city is like Tyrus like

the destroyed in the midst of the sea .

2733 When thy wares went forth out of the seas thou filledst

many people thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the

multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise .

2734 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the

depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the

midst of thee shall fall .

2735 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at

thee and their kings shall be sore afraid they shall be troubled

in their countenance .

2736 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee thou

shalt be a terror and never shalt be any more .

* 281 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .

282 Son of man say unto the prince of Tyrus Thus saith the

Lord GOD Because thine heart is lifted up and thou hast said I

am a God I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas yet

thou art a man and not God though thou set thine heart as the

heart of God .

283 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel there is no secret that

they can hide from thee .

284 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast

gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy

treasures .

285 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased

thy riches and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches .

286 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast set

thine heart as the heart of God .

287 Behold therefore I will bring strangers upon thee the

terrible of the nations and they shall draw their swords against

the beauty of thy wisdom and they shall defile thy brightness .

288 They shall bring thee down to the pit and thou shalt die

the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas .

289 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee I am God

but thou shalt be a man and no God in the hand of him that

slayeth thee .

2810 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the

hand of strangers for I have spoken it saith the Lord GOD .

2811 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

2812 Son of man take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus

and say unto him Thus saith the Lord GOD Thou sealest up the sum

full of wisdom and perfect in beauty .

2813 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God every precious

stone was thy covering the sardius topaz and the diamond the

beryl the onyx and the jasper the sapphire the emerald and the

carbuncle and gold the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy

pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created .

2814 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth and I have set

thee so thou wast upon the holy mountain of God thou hast walked

up and down in the midst of the stones of fire .

2815 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast

created till iniquity was found in thee .

2816 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the

midst of thee with violence and thou hast sinned therefore I

will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God and I will

destroy thee O covering cherub from the midst of the stones of

fire .

2817 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty thou hast

corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness I will cast

thee to the ground I will lay thee before kings that they may

behold thee .

2818 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of

thine iniquities by the iniquity of thy traffic therefore will I

bring forth a fire from the midst of thee it shall devour thee

and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of

all them that behold thee .

2819 All they that know thee among the people shall be

astonished at thee thou shalt be a terror and never shalt thou

be any more .

2820 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

2821 Son of man set thy face against Zidon and prophesy

against it .

2822 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee

O Zidon and I will be glorified in the midst of thee and they

shall know that I am the LORD when I shall have executed

judgments in her and shall be sanctified in her .

2823 For I will send into her pestilence and blood into her

streets and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by

the sword upon her on every side and they shall know that I am

the LORD .

2824 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the

house of Israel nor any grieving thorn of all that are round

about them that despised them and they shall know that I am the

Lord GOD .

2825 Thus saith the Lord GOD When I shall have gathered the

house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered

and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen then

shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant

Jacob .

2826 And they shall dwell safely therein and shall build

houses and plant vineyards yea they shall dwell with confidence

when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them

round about them and they shall know that I am the LORD their

God .

* 291 In the tenth year in the tenth month in the twelfth day

of the month the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

292 Son of man set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and

prophesy against him and against all Egypt .

293 Speak and say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against

thee Pharaoh king of Egypt the great dragon that lieth in the

midst of his rivers which hath said My river is mine own and I

have made it for myself .

294 But I will put hooks in thy jaws and I will cause the fish

of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales and I will bring thee up

out of the midst of thy rivers and all the fish of thy rivers

shall stick unto thy scales .

295 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness thee and

all the fish of thy rivers thou shalt fall upon the open fields

thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered I have given

thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the

heaven .

296 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the

LORD because they have been a staff of reed to the house of

Israel .

297 When they took hold of thee by thy hand thou didst break

and rend all their shoulder and when they leaned upon thee thou

brakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand .

298 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will bring a

sword upon thee and cut off man and beast out of thee .

299 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste and they

shall know that I am the LORD because he hath said The river is

mine and I have made it .

2910 Behold therefore I am against thee and against thy rivers

and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate

from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia .

2911 No foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast

shall pass through it neither shall it be inhabited forty years .

2912 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst

of the countries that are desolate and her cities among the

cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years and I

will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse

them through the countries .

2913 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD At the end of forty years

will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were

scattered .

2914 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt and will

cause them to return into the land of Pathros into the land of

their habitation and they shall be there a base kingdom .

2915 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms neither shall it

exalt itself any more above the nations for I will diminish them

that they shall no more rule over the nations .

2916 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of

Israel which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance when they

shall look after them but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD

2917 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year in

the first month in the first day of the month the word of the

LORD came unto me saying .

2918 Son of man Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army

to serve a great service against Tyrus every head was made bald

and every shoulder was peeled yet had he no wages nor his army

for Tyrus for the service that he had served against it .

2919 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will give the

land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he shall

take her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey and it

shall be the wages for his army .

2920 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour

wherewith he served against it because they wrought for me saith

the Lord GOD .

2921 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel

to bud forth and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in

the midst of them and they shall know that I am the LORD .

* 301 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .

302 Son of man prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord GOD Howl

ye Woe worth the day .

303 For the day is near even the day of the LORD is near a

cloudy day it shall be the time of the heathen .

304 And the sword shall come upon Egypt and great pain shall

be in Ethiopia when the slain shall fall in Egypt and they shall

take away her multitude and her foundations shall be broken down

305 Ethiopia and Libya and Lydia and all the mingled people

and Chub and the men of the land that is in league shall fall

with them by the sword .

306 Thus saith the LORD They also that uphold Egypt shall fall

and the pride of her power shall come down from the tower of

Syene shall they fall in it by the sword saith the Lord GOD .

307 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries

that are desolate and her cities shall be in the midst of the

cities that are wasted .

308 And they shall know that I am the LORD when I have set a

fire in Egypt and when all her helpers shall be destroyed .

309 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to

make the careless Ethiopians afraid and great pain shall come

upon them as in the day of Egypt for lo it cometh .

3010 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also make the multitude of

Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon .

3011 He and his people with him the terrible of the nations

shall be brought to destroy the land and they shall draw their

swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain .

3012 And I will make the rivers dry and sell the land into the

hand of the wicked and I will make the land waste and all that

is therein by the hand of strangers I the LORD have spoken it .

3013 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also destroy the idols and

I will cause their images to cease out of Noph and there shall

be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will put a fear

in the land of Egypt .

3014 And I will make Pathros desolate and will set fire in

Zoan and will execute judgments in No .

3015 And I will pour my fury upon Sin the strength of Egypt

and I will cut off the multitude of No .

3016 And I will set fire in Egypt Sin shall have great pain

and No shall be rent asunder and Noph shall have distresses

daily .

3017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the

sword and these cities shall go into captivity .

3018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened when I

shall break there the yokes of Egypt and the pomp of her

strength shall cease in her as for her a cloud shall cover her

and her daughters shall go into captivity .

3019 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt and they shall

know that I am the LORD .

3020 And it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first

month in the seventh day of the month that the word of the LORD

came unto me saying .

3021 Son of man I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt

and lo it shall not be bound up to be healed to put a roller to

bind it to make it strong to hold the sword .

3022 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against

Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms the strong and

that which was broken and I will cause the sword to fall out of

his hand .

3023 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and

will disperse them through the countries .

3024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and

put my sword in his hand but I will break Pharaoh's arms and he

shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded

man .

3025 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and

the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down and they shall know that I

am the LORD when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king

of Babylon and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt .

3026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and

disperse them among the countries and they shall know that I am

the LORD .

* 311 And it came to pass in the eleventh year in the third

month in the first day of the month that the word of the LORD

came unto me saying .

312 Son of man speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his

multitude Whom art thou like in thy greatness .

313 Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair

branches and with a shadowing shroud and of an high stature and

his top was among the thick boughs .

314 The waters made him great the deep set him up on high with

her rivers running round about his plants and sent out her

little rivers unto all the trees of the field .

315 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of

the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became

long because of the multitude of waters when he shot forth .

316 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs and

under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth

their young and under his shadow dwelt all great nations .

317 Thus was he fair in his greatness in the length of his

branches for his root was by great waters .

318 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him the fir

trees were not like his boughs and the chestnut trees were not

like his branches nor any tree in the garden of God was like

unto him in his beauty .

319 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches so

that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied

him .

3110 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast

lifted up thyself in height and he hath shot up his top among

the thick boughs and his heart is lifted up in his height .

3111 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the

mighty one of the heathen he shall surely deal with him I have

driven him out for his wickedness .

3112 And strangers the terrible of the nations have cut him

off and have left him upon the mountains and in all the valleys

his branches are fallen and his boughs are broken by all the

rivers of the land and all the people of the earth are gone down

from his shadow and have left him .

3113 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain

and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches .

3114 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt

themselves for their height neither shoot up their top among the

thick boughs neither their trees stand up in their height all

that drink water for they are all delivered unto death to the

nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men

with them that go down to the pit .

3115 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day when he went down to

the grave I caused a mourning I covered the deep for him and I

restrained the floods thereof and the great waters were stayed

and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the

field fainted for him .

3116 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when

I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit and

all the trees of Eden the choice and best of Lebanon all that

drink water shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth

3117 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be

slain with the sword and they that were his arm that dwelt under

his shadow in the midst of the heathen .

3118 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness

among the trees of Eden yet shalt thou be brought down with the

trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth thou shalt lie

in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the

sword This is Pharaoh and all his multitude saith the Lord GOD .

* 321 And it came to pass in the twelfth year in the twelfth

month in the first day of the month that the word of the LORD

came unto me saying .

322 Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt

and say unto him Thou art like a young lion of the nations and

thou art as a whale in the seas and thou camest forth with thy

rivers and troubledst the waters with thy feet and fouledst

their rivers .

323 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will therefore spread out my net

over thee with a company of many people and they shall bring

thee up in my net .

324 Then will I leave thee upon the land I will cast thee

forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the

heaven to remain upon thee and I will fill the beasts of the

whole earth with thee .

325 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains and fill the

valleys with thy height .

326 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou

swimmest even to the mountains and the rivers shall be full of

thee .

327 And when I shall put thee out I will cover the heaven and

make the stars thereof dark I will cover the sun with a cloud

and the moon shall not give her light .

328 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee

and set darkness upon thy land saith the Lord GOD .

329 I will also vex the hearts of many people when I shall

bring thy destruction among the nations into the countries which

thou hast not known .

3210 Yea I will make many people amazed at thee and their

kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when I shall brandish my

sword before them and they shall tremble at every moment every

man for his own life in the day of thy fall .

3211 For thus saith the Lord GOD The sword of the king of

Babylon shall come upon thee .

3212 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to

fall the terrible of the nations all of them and they shall

spoil the pomp of Egypt and all the multitude thereof shall be

destroyed .

3213 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside

the great waters neither shall the foot of man trouble them any

more nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them .

3214 Then will I make their waters deep and cause their rivers

to run like oil saith the Lord GOD .

3215 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and the

country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full when I

shall smite all them that dwell therein then shall they know

that I am the LORD .

3216 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her

the daughters of the nations shall lament her they shall lament

for her even for Egypt and for all her multitude saith the Lord

GOD .

3217 It came to pass also in the twelfth year in the fifteenth

day of the month that the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

3218 Son of man wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast them

down even her and the daughters of the famous nations unto the

nether parts of the earth with them that go down into the pit .

3219 Whom dost thou pass in beauty go down and be thou laid

with the uncircumcised .

3220 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by

the sword she is delivered to the sword draw her and all her

multitudes .

3221 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the

midst of hell with them that help him they are gone down they

lie uncircumcised slain by the sword .

3222 Asshur is there and all her company his graves are about

him all of them slain fallen by the sword .

3223 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit and her

company is round about her grave all of them slain fallen by the

sword which caused terror in the land of the living .

3224 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave

all of them slain fallen by the sword which are gone down

uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth which caused

their terror in the land of the living yet have they borne their

shame with them that go down to the pit .

3225 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with

all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them

uncircumcised slain by the sword though their terror was caused

in the land of the living yet have they borne their shame with

them that go down to the pit he is put in the midst of them that

be slain .

3226 There is Meshech Tubal and all her multitude her graves

are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword

though they caused their terror in the land of the living .

3227 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of

the uncircumcised which are gone down to hell with their weapons

of war and they have laid their swords under their heads but

their iniquities shall be upon their bones though they were the

terror of the mighty in the land of the living .

3228 Yea thou shalt be broken in the midst of the

uncircumcised and shalt lie with them that are slain with the

sword .

3229 There is Edom her kings and all her princes which with

their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword they

shall lie with the uncircumcised and with them that go down to

the pit .

3230 There be the princes of the north all of them and all the

Zidonians which are gone down with the slain with their terror

they are ashamed of their might and they lie uncircumcised with

them that be slain by the sword and bear their shame with them

that go down to the pit .

3231 Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all

his multitude even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword

saith the Lord GOD .

3232 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living and

he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them

that are slain with the sword even Pharaoh and all his multitude

saith the Lord GOD .

* 331 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

332 Son of man speak to the children of thy people and say

unto them When I bring the sword upon a land if the people of

the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their

watchman .

333 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the

trumpet and warn the people .

334 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh

not warning if the sword come and take him away his blood shall

be upon his own head .

335 He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his

blood shall be upon him But he that taketh warning shall deliver

his soul .

336 But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the

trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take

any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but

his blood will I require at the watchman's hand .

337 So thou O son of man I have set thee a watchman unto the

house of Israel therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth

and warn them from me .

338 When I say unto the wicked O wicked man thou shalt surely

die if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that

wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I

require at thine hand .

339 Nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn

from it if he do not turn from his way he shall die in his

iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul .

3310 Therefore O thou son of man speak unto the house of

Israel Thus ye speak saying If our transgressions and our sins

be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live .

3311 Say unto them As I live saith the Lord GOD I have no

pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn

from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for

why will ye die O house of Israel .

3312 Therefore thou son of man say unto the children of thy

people The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him

in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the

wicked he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from

his wickedness neither shall the righteous be able to live for

his righteousness in the day that he sinneth .

3313 When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely

live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity

all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered but for his

iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it .

3314 Again when I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die if

he turn from his sin and do that which is lawful and right .

3315 If the wicked restore the pledge give again that he had

robbed walk in the statutes of life without committing iniquity

he shall surely live he shall not die .

3316 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be

mentioned unto him he hath done that which is lawful and right

he shall surely live .

3317 Yet the children of thy people say The way of the Lord is

not equal but as for them their way is not equal .

3318 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness and

committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby .

3319 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness and do that

which is lawful and right he shall live thereby .

3320 Yet ye say The way of the Lord is not equal O ye house of

Israel I will judge you every one after his ways .

3321 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity

in the tenth month in the fifth day of the month that one that

had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me saying The city is

smitten .

3322 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening afore

he that was escaped came and had opened my mouth until he came

to me in the morning and my mouth was opened and I was no more

dumb .

3323 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

3324 Son of man they that inhabit those wastes of the land of

Israel speak saying Abraham was one and he inherited the land

but we are many the land is given us for inheritance .

3325 Wherefore say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Ye eat

with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and shed

blood and shall ye possess the land .

3326 Ye stand upon your sword ye work abomination and ye

defile every one his neighbour's wife and shall ye possess the

land .

3327 Say thou thus unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD As I live

surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword and

him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be

devoured and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall

die of the pestilence .

3328 For I will lay the land most desolate and the pomp of her

strength shall cease and the mountains of Israel shall be

desolate that none shall pass through .

3329 Then shall they know that I am the LORD when I have laid

the land most desolate because of all their abominations which

they have committed .

3330 Also thou son of man the children of thy people still are

talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses

and speak one to another every one to his brother saying Come I

pray you and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the

LORD .

3331 And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit

before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will

not do them for with their mouth they show much love but their

heart goeth after their covetousness .

3332 And lo thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one

that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument

for they hear thy words but they do them not .

3333 And when this cometh to pass (lo it will come then shall

they know that a prophet hath been among them .

* 341 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

342 Son of man prophesy against the shepherds of Israel

prophesy and say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the

shepherds Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed

themselves should not the shepherds feed the flocks .

343 Ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the wool ye kill

them that are fed but ye feed not the flock .

344 The diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye

healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which

was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven

away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force

and with cruelty have ye ruled them .

345 And they were scattered because there is no shepherd and

they became meat to all the beasts of the field when they were

scattered .

346 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every

high hill yea my flock was scattered upon all the face of the

earth and none did search or seek after them .

347 Therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the LORD .

348 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely because my flock

became a prey and my flock became meat to every beast of the

field because there was no shepherd neither did my shepherds

search for my flock but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not

my flock .

349 Therefore O ye shepherds hear the word of the LORD .

3410 Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against the shepherds

and I will require my flock at their hand and cause them to

cease from feeding the flock neither shall the shepherds feed

themselves any more for I will deliver my flock from their mouth

that they may not be meat for them .

3411 For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I even I will both

search my sheep and seek them out .

3412 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is

among his sheep that are scattered so will I seek out my sheep

and will deliver them out of all places where they have been

scattered in the cloudy and dark day .

3413 And I will bring them out from the people and gather them

from the countries and will bring them to their own land and

feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers and in all

the inhabited places of the country .

3414 I will feed them in a good pasture and upon the high

mountains of Israel shall their fold be there shall they lie in

a good fold and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the

mountains of Israel .

3415 I will feed my flock and I will cause them to lie down

saith the Lord GOD .

3416 I will seek that which was lost and bring again that

which was driven away and will bind up that which was broken and

will strengthen that which was sick but I will destroy the fat

and the strong I will feed them with judgment .

3417 And as for you O my flock thus saith the Lord GOD Behold

I judge between cattle and cattle between the rams and the he

goats .

3418 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the

good pasture but ye must tread down with your feet the residue

of your pastures and to have drunk of the deep waters but ye

must foul the residue with your feet .

3419 And as for my flock they eat that which ye have trodden

with your feet and they drink that which ye have fouled with

your feet .

3420 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them Behold I even

I will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle .

3421 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder and

pushed all the diseased with your horns till ye have scattered

them abroad .

3422 Therefore will I save my flock and they shall no more be

a prey and I will judge between cattle and cattle .

3423 And I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall

feed them even my servant David he shall feed them and he shall

be their shepherd .

3424 And I the LORD will be their God and my servant David a

prince among them I the LORD have spoken it .

3425 And I will make with them a covenant of peace and will

cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land and they shall

dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods .

3426 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a

blessing and I will cause the shower to come down in his season

there shall be showers of blessing .

3427 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit and the

earth shall yield her increase and they shall be safe in their

land and shall know that I am the LORD when I have broken the

bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those

that served themselves of them .

3428 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen neither

shall the beast of the land devour them but they shall dwell

safely and none shall make them afraid .

3429 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown and they

shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land neither bear

the shame of the heathen any more .

3430 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with

them and that they even the house of Israel are my people saith

the Lord GOD .

3431 And ye my flock the flock of my pasture are men and I am

your God saith the Lord GOD .

* 351 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

352 Son of man set thy face against mount Seir and prophesy

against it .

353 And say unto it Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold O mount

Seir I am against thee and I will stretch out mine hand against

thee and I will make thee most desolate .

354 I will lay thy cities waste and thou shalt be desolate and

thou shalt know that I am the LORD .

355 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast shed the

blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the

time of their calamity in the time that their iniquity had an

end .

356 Therefore as I live saith the Lord GOD I will prepare thee

unto blood and blood shall pursue thee sith thou hast not hated

blood even blood shall pursue thee .

357 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate and cut off from

it him that passeth out and him that returneth .

358 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men in thy

hills and in thy valleys and in all thy rivers shall they fall

that are slain with the sword .

359 I will make thee perpetual desolations and thy cities

shall not return and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

3510 Because thou hast said These two nations and these two

countries shall be mine and we will possess it whereas the LORD

was there .

3511 Therefore as I live saith the Lord GOD I will even do

according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou

hast used out of thy hatred against them and I will make myself

known among them when I have judged thee .

3512 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD and that I have

heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the

mountains of Israel saying They are laid desolate they are given

us to consume .

3513 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me and have

multiplied your words against me I have heard them .

3514 Thus saith the Lord GOD When the whole earth rejoiceth I

will make thee desolate .

3515 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of

Israel because it was desolate so will I do unto thee thou shalt

be desolate O mount Seir and all Idumea even all of it and they

shall know that I am the LORD .

* 361 Also thou son of man prophesy unto the mountains of

Israel and say Ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the LORD .

362 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the enemy hath said

against you Aha even the ancient high places are ours in

possession .

363 Therefore prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord GOD Because

they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side

that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen

and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of

the people .

364 Therefore ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord

GOD Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills to

the rivers and to the valleys to the desolate wastes and to the

cities that are forsaken which became a prey and derision to the

residue of the heathen that are round about .

365 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Surely in the fire of my

jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and

against all Idumea which have appointed my land into their

possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds

to cast it out for a prey .

366 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel and say

unto the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the

valleys Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I have spoken in my

jealousy and in my fury because ye have borne the shame of the

heathen .

367 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I have lifted up mine

hand Surely the heathen that are about you they shall bear their

shame .

368 But ye O mountains of Israel ye shall shoot forth your

branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel for they

are at hand to come .

369 For behold I am for you and I will turn unto you and ye

shall be tilled and sown .

3610 And I will multiply men upon you all the house of Israel

even all of it and the cities shall be inhabited and the wastes

shall be builded .

3611 And I will multiply upon you man and beast and they shall

increase and bring fruit and I will settle you after your old

estates and will do better unto you than at your beginnings and

ye shall know that I am the LORD .

3612 Yea I will cause men to walk upon you even my people

Israel and they shall possess thee and thou shalt be their

inheritance and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of

men .

3613 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because they say unto you Thou

land devourest up men and hast bereaved thy nations .

3614 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more neither bereave

thy nations any more saith the Lord GOD .

3615 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the

heathen any more neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the

people any more neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any

more saith the Lord GOD .

3616 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

3617 Son of man when the house of Israel dwelt in their own

land they defiled it by their own way and by their doings their

way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman .

3618 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that

they had shed upon the land and for their idols wherewith they

had polluted it .

3619 And I scattered them among the heathen and they were

dispersed through the countries according to their way and

according to their doings I judged them .

3620 And when they entered unto the heathen whither they went

they profaned my holy name when they said to them These are the

people of the LORD and are gone forth out of his land .

3621 But I had pity for mine holy name which the house of

Israel had profaned among the heathen whither they went .

3622 Therefore say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the

Lord GOD I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel but for

mine holy name's sake which ye have profaned among the heathen

whither ye went .

3623 And I will sanctify my great name which was profaned

among the heathen which ye have profaned in the midst of them

and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD saith the Lord GOD

when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes .

3624 For I will take you from among the heathen and gather you

out of all countries and will bring you into your own land .

3625 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be

clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I

cleanse you .

3626 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I

put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your

flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh .

3627 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk

in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them .

3628 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your

fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God .

3629 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses and I

will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine

upon you .

3630 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the

increase of the field that ye shall receive no more reproach of

famine among the heathen .

3631 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings

that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight

for your iniquities and for your abominations .

3632 Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord GOD be it

known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways O

house of Israel .

3633 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day that I shall have

cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to

dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be builded .

3634 And the desolate land shall be tilled whereas it lay

desolate in the sight of all that passed by .

3635 And they shall say This land that was desolate is become

like the garden of Eden and the waste and desolate and ruined

cities are become fenced and are inhabited .

3636 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know

that I the LORD build the ruined places and plant that that was

desolate I the LORD have spoken it and I will do it .

3637 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will yet for this be inquired

of by the house of Israel to do it for them I will increase them

with men like a flock .

3638 As the holy flock as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn

feasts so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men

and they shall know that I am the LORD .

* 371 The hand of the LORD was upon me and carried me out in

the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the midst of the

valley which was full of bones .

372 And caused me to pass by them round about and behold there

were very many in the open valley and lo they were very dry .

373 And he said unto me Son of man can these bones live And I

answered O Lord GOD thou knowest .

374 Again he said unto me Prophesy upon these bones and say

unto them O ye dry bones hear the word of the LORD .

375 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones Behold I will

cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live .

376 And I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh

upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and ye

shall live and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

377 So I prophesied as I was commanded and as I prophesied

there was a noise and behold a shaking and the bones came

together bone to his bone .

378 And when I beheld lo the sinews and the flesh came up upon

them and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in

them .

379 Then said he unto me Prophesy unto the wind prophesy son

of man and say to the wind Thus saith the Lord GOD Come from the

four winds O breath and breathe upon these slain that they may

live .

3710 So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came

into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet an

exceeding great army .

3711 Then he said unto me Son of man these bones are the whole

house of Israel behold they say Our bones are dried and our hope

is lost we are cut off for our parts .

3712 Therefore prophesy and say unto them Thus saith the Lord

GOD Behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to

come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel

3713 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have opened

your graves O my people and brought you up out of your graves .

3714 And shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I

shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I the

LORD have spoken it and performed it saith the LORD .

3715 The word of the LORD came again unto me saying .

3716 Moreover thou son of man take thee one stick and write

upon it For Judah and for the children of Israel his companions

then take another stick and write upon it For Joseph the stick

of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions .

3717 And join them one to another into one stick and they

shall become one in thine hand .

3718 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee

saying Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these .

3719 Say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will take

the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the

tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him even

with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they shall

be one in mine hand .

3720 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine

hand before their eyes .

3721 And say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will

take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they

be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into

their own land .

3722 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the

mountains of Israel and one king shall be king to them all and

they shall be no more two nations neither shall they be divided

into two kingdoms any more at all .

3723 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their

idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their

transgressions but I will save them out of all their

dwellingplaces wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so

shall they be my people and I will be their God .

3724 And David my servant shall be king over them and they all

shall have one shepherd they shall also walk in my judgments and

observe my statutes and do them .

3725 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto

Jacob my servant wherein your fathers have dwelt and they shall

dwell therein even they and their children and their children's

children for ever and my servant David shall be their prince for

ever .

3726 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them it

shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them

and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them

for evermore .

3727 My tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be their

God and they shall be my people .

3728 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify

Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for

evermore .

* 381 And the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

382 Son of man set thy face against Gog the land of Magog the

chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesy against him .

383 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O

Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal .

384 And I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and

I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen

all of them clothed with all sorts of armour even a great

company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords .

385 Persia Ethiopia and Libya with them all of them with

shield and helmet .

386 Gomer and all his bands the house of Togarmah of the north

quarters and all his bands and many people with thee .

387 Be thou prepared and prepare for thyself thou and all thy

company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto

them .

388 After many days thou shalt be visited in the latter years

thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the

sword and is gathered out of many people against the mountains

of Israel which have been always waste but it is brought forth

out of the nations and they shall dwell safely all of them .

389 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm thou shalt be like

a cloud to cover the land thou and all thy bands and many people

with thee .

3810 Thus saith the Lord GOD It shall also come to pass that

at the same time shall things come into thy mind and thou shalt

think an evil thought .

3811 And thou shalt say I will go up to the land of unwalled

villages I will go to them that are at rest that dwell safely

all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor

gates .

3812 To take a spoil and to take a prey to turn thine hand

upon the desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the

people that are gathered out of the nations which have gotten

cattle and goods that dwell in the midst of the land .

3813 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all

the young lions thereof shall say unto thee Art thou come to

take a spoil hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to

carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods to take

a great spoil .

3814 Therefore son of man prophesy and say unto Gog Thus saith

the Lord GOD In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth

safely shalt thou not know it .

3815 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts

thou and many people with thee all of them riding upon horses a

great company and a mighty army .

3816 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a

cloud to cover the land it shall be in the latter days and I

will bring thee against my land that the heathen may know me

when I shall be sanctified in thee O Gog before their eyes .

3817 Thus saith the Lord GOD Art thou he of whom I have spoken

in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel which

prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee

against them .

3818 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall

come against the land of Israel saith the Lord GOD that my fury

shall come up in my face .

3819 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I

spoken Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the

land of Israel .

3820 So that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven

and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep

upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the

earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be

thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall

fall to the ground .

3821 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my

mountains saith the Lord GOD every man's sword shall be against

his brother .

3822 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with

blood and I will rain upon him and upon his bands and upon the

many people that are with him an overflowing rain and great

hailstones fire and brimstone .

3823 Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will

be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I

am the LORD .

* 391 Therefore thou son of man prophesy against Gog and say

Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O Gog the chief

prince of Meshech and Tubal .

392 And I will turn thee back and leave but the sixth part of

thee and will cause thee to come up from the north parts and

will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel .

393 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and will

cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand .

394 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel thou and all

thy bands and the people that is with thee I will give thee unto

the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field

to be devoured .

395 Thou shalt fall upon the open field for I have spoken it

saith the Lord GOD .

396 And I will send a fire on Magog and among them that dwell

carelessly in the isles and they shall know that I am the LORD .

397 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my

people Israel and I will not let them pollute my holy name any

more and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD the Holy One

in Israel .

398 Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord GOD this

is the day whereof I have spoken .

399 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth

and shall set on fire and burn the weapons both the shields and

the bucklers the bows and the arrows and the handstaves and the

spears and they shall burn them with fire seven years .

3910 So that they shall take no wood out of the field neither

cut down any out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons

with fire and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob

those that robbed them saith the Lord GOD .

3911 And it shall come to pass in that day that I will give

unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel the valley of the

passengers on the east of the sea and it shall stop the noses of

the passengers and there shall they bury Gog and all his

multitude and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog .

3912 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of

them that they may cleanse the land .

3913 Yea all the people of the land shall bury them and it

shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified

saith the Lord GOD .

3914 And they shall sever out men of continual employment

passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that

remain upon the face of the earth to cleanse it after the end of

seven months shall they search .

3915 And the passengers that pass through the land when any

seeth a man's bone then shall he set up a sign by it till the

buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog .

3916 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah Thus shall

they cleanse the land .

3917 And thou son of man thus saith the Lord GOD Speak unto

every feathered fowl and to every beast of the field Assemble

yourselves and come gather yourselves on every side to my

sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice

upon the mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink

blood .

3918 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood

of the princes of the earth of rams of lambs and of goats of

bullocks all of them fatlings of Bashan .

3919 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full and drink blood till

ye be drunken of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you .

3920 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and

chariots with mighty men and with all men of war saith the Lord

GOD .

3921 And I will set my glory among the heathen and all the

heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed and my hand

that I have laid upon them .

3922 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD

their God from that day and forward .

3923 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went

into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed

against me therefore hid I my face from them and gave them into

the hand of their enemies so fell they all by the sword .

3924 According to their uncleanness and according to their

transgressions have I done unto them and hid my face from them .

3925 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Now will I bring again

the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of

Israel and will be jealous for my holy name .

3926 After that they have borne their shame and all their

trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me when they

dwelt safely in their land and none made them afraid .

3927 When I have brought them again from the people and

gathered them out of their enemies' lands and am sanctified in

them in the sight of many nations .

3928 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God which

caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen but I

have gathered them unto their own land and have left none of

them any more there .

3929 Neither will I hide my face any more from them for I have

poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord GOD

* 401 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity in the

beginning of the year in the tenth day of the month in the

fourteenth year after that the city was smitten in the selfsame

day the hand of the LORD was upon me and brought me thither .

402 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of

Israel and set me upon a very high mountain by which was as the

frame of a city on the south .

403 And he brought me thither and behold there was a man whose

appearance was like the appearance of brass with a line of flax

in his hand and a measuring reed and he stood in the gate .

404 And the man said unto me Son of man behold with thine eyes

and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that I

shall show thee for to the intent that I might show them unto

thee art thou brought hither declare all that thou seest to the

house of Israel .

405 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about

and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the

cubit and an hand breadth so he measured the breadth of the

building one reed and the height one reed .

406 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east

and went up the stairs thereof and measured the threshold of the

gate which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the

gate which was one reed broad .

407 And every little chamber was one reed long and one reed

broad and between the little chambers were five cubits and the

threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one

reed .

408 He measured also the porch of the gate within one reed .

409 Then measured he the porch of the gate eight cubits and

the posts thereof two cubits and the porch of the gate was

inward .

4010 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three

on this side and three on that side they three were of one

measure and the posts had one measure on this side and on that

side .

4011 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate ten

cubits and the length of the gate thirteen cubits .

4012 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit

on this side and the space was one cubit on that side and the

little chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on

that side .

4013 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little

chamber to the roof of another the breadth was five and twenty

cubits door against door .

4014 He made also posts of threescore cubits even unto the

post of the court round about the gate .

4015 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the

face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits .

4016 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers and

to their posts within the gate round about and likewise to the

arches and windows were round about inward and upon each post

were palm trees .

4017 Then brought he me into the outward court and lo there

were chambers and a pavement made for the court round about

thirty chambers were upon the pavement .

4018 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against

the length of the gates was the lower pavement .

4019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the

lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without an

hundred cubits eastward and northward .

4020 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the

north he measured the length thereof and the breadth thereof .

4021 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side

and three on that side and the posts thereof and the arches

thereof were after the measure of the first gate the length

thereof was fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits .

4022 And their windows and their arches and their palm trees

were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east

and they went up unto it by seven steps and the arches thereof

were before them .

4023 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate

toward the north and toward the east and he measured from gate

to gate an hundred cubits .

4024 After that he brought me toward the south and behold a

gate toward the south and he measured the posts thereof and the

arches thereof according to these measures .

4025 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof

round about like those windows the length was fifty cubits and

the breadth five and twenty cubits .

4026 And there were seven steps to go up to it and the arches

thereof were before them and it had palm trees one on this side

and another on that side upon the posts thereof .

4027 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south

and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred

cubits .

4028 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate

and he measured the south gate according to these measures .

4029 And the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof and

the arches thereof according to these measures and there were

windows in it and in the arches thereof round about it was fifty

cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad .

4030 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits

long and five cubits broad .

4031 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court and

palm trees were upon the posts thereof and the going up to it

had eight steps .

4032 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east

and he measured the gate according to these measures .

4033 And the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof and

the arches thereof were according to these measures and there

were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about it

was fifty cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad .

4034 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court and

palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side and on that

side and the going up to it had eight steps .

4035 And he brought me to the north gate and measured it

according to these measures .

4036 The little chambers thereof the posts thereof and the

arches thereof and the windows to it round about the length was

fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits .

4037 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court and

palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side and on that

side and the going up to it had eight steps .

4038 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the

posts of the gates where they washed the burnt offering .

4039 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side

and two tables on that side to slay thereon the burnt offering

and the sin offering and the trespass offering .

4040 And at the side without as one goeth up to the entry of

the north gate were two tables and on the other side which was

at the porch of the gate were two tables .

4041 Four tables were on this side and four tables on that

side by the side of the gate eight tables whereupon they slew

their sacrifices .

4042 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt

offering of a cubit and an half long and a cubit and an half

broad and one cubit high whereupon also they laid the

instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the

sacrifice .

4043 And within were hooks an hand broad fastened round about

and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering .

4044 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the

singers in the inner court which was at the side of the north

gate and their prospect was toward the south one at the side of

the east gate having the prospect toward the north .

4045 And he said unto me This chamber whose prospect is toward

the south is for the priests the keepers of the charge of the

house .

4046 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for

the priests the keepers of the charge of the altar these are the

sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi which come near to the LORD

to minister unto him .

4047 So he measured the court an hundred cubits long and an

hundred cubits broad foursquare and the altar that was before

the house .

4048 And he brought me to the porch of the house and measured

each post of the porch five cubits on this side and five cubits

on that side and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on

this side and three cubits on that side .

4049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the breadth

eleven cubits and he brought me by the steps whereby they went

up to it and there were pillars by the posts one on this side

and another on that side .

* 411 Afterward he brought me to the temple and measured the

posts six cubits broad on the one side and six cubits broad on

the other side which was the breadth of the tabernacle .

412 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits and the sides

of the door were five cubits on the one side and five cubits on

the other side and he measured the length thereof forty cubits

and the breadth twenty cubits .

413 Then went he inward and measured the post of the door two

cubits and the door six cubits and the breadth of the door seven

cubits .

414 So he measured the length thereof twenty cubits and the

breadth twenty cubits before the temple and he said unto me This

is the most holy place .

415 After he measured the wall of the house six cubits and the

breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house

on every side .

416 And the side chambers were three one over another and

thirty in order and they entered into the wall which was of the

house for the side chambers round about that they might have

hold but they had not hold in the wall of the house .

417 And there was an enlarging and a winding about still upward

to the side chambers for the winding about of the house went

still upward round about the house therefore the breadth of the

house was still upward and so increased from the lowest chamber

to the highest by the midst .

418 I saw also the height of the house round about the

foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great

cubits .

419 The thickness of the wall which was for the side chamber

without was five cubits and that which was left was the place of

the side chambers that were within .

4110 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty

cubits round about the house on every side .

4111 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place

that was left one door toward the north and another door toward

the south and the breadth of the place that was left was five

cubits round about .

4112 Now the building that was before the separate place at

the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad and the wall of

the building was five cubits thick round about and the length

thereof ninety cubits .

4113 So he measured the house an hundred cubits long and the

separate place and the building with the walls thereof an

hundred cubits long .

4114 Also the breadth of the face of the house and of the

separate place toward the east an hundred cubits .

4115 And he measured the length of the building over against

the separate place which was behind it and the galleries thereof

on the one side and on the other side an hundred cubits with the

inner temple and the porches of the court .

4116 The door posts and the narrow windows and the galleries

round about on their three stories over against the door ceiled

with wood round about and from the ground up to the windows and

the windows were covered .

4117 To that above the door even unto the inner house and

without and by all the wall round about within and without by

measure .

4118 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees so that a

palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub and every cherub had

two faces .

4119 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the

one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on

the other side it was made through all the house round about .

4120 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and

palm trees made and on the wall of the temple .

4121 The posts of the temple were squared and the face of the

sanctuary the appearance of the one as the appearance of the

other .

4122 The altar of wood was three cubits high and the length

thereof two cubits and the corners thereof and the length

thereof and the walls thereof were of wood and he said unto me

This is the table that is before the LORD .

4123 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors .

4124 And the doors had two leaves apiece two turning leaves

two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other door .

4125 And there were made on them on the doors of the temple

cherubims and palm trees like as were made upon the walls and

there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without .

4126 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one

side and on the other side on the sides of the porch and upon

the side chambers of the house and thick planks .

* 421 Then he brought me forth into the utter court the way

toward the north and he brought me into the chamber that was

over against the separate place and which was before the

building toward the north .

422 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door

and the breadth was fifty cubits .

423 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner

court and over against the pavement which was for the utter

court was gallery against gallery in three stories .

424 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth

inward a way of one cubit and their doors toward the north .

425 Now the upper chambers were shorter for the galleries were

higher than these than the lower and than the middlemost of the

building .

426 For they were in three stories but had not pillars as the

pillars of the courts therefore the building was straitened more

than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground .

427 And the wall that was without over against the chambers

toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers the

length thereof was fifty cubits .

428 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter

court was fifty cubits and lo before the temple were an hundred

cubits .

429 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east

side as one goeth into them from the utter court .

4210 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the

court toward the east over against the separate place and over

against the building .

4211 And the way before them was like the appearance of the

chambers which were toward the north as long as they and as

broad as they and all their goings out were both according to

their fashions and according to their doors .

4212 And according to the doors of the chambers that were

toward the south was a door in the head of the way even the way

directly before the wall toward the east as one entereth into

them .

4213 Then said he unto me The north chambers and the south

chambers which are before the separate place they be holy

chambers where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat

the most holy things there shall they lay the most holy things

and the meat offering and the sin offering and the trespass

offering for the place is holy .

4214 When the priests enter therein then shall they not go out

of the holy place into the utter court but there they shall lay

their garments wherein they minister for they are holy and shall

put on other garments and shall approach to those things which

are for the people .

4215 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house

he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the

east and measured it round about .

4216 He measured the east side with the measuring reed five

hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about .

4217 He measured the north side five hundred reeds with the

measuring reed round about .

4218 He measured the south side five hundred reeds with the

measuring reed .

4219 He turned about to the west side and measured five

hundred reeds with the measuring reed .

4220 He measured it by the four sides it had a wall round

about five hundred reeds long and five hundred broad to make a

separation between the sanctuary and the profane place .

* 431 Afterward he brought me to the gate even the gate that

looketh toward the east .

432 And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the

way of the east and his voice was like a noise of many waters

and the earth shined with his glory .

433 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which

I saw even according to the vision that I saw when I came to

destroy the city and the visions were like the vision that I saw

by the river Chebar and I fell upon my face .

434 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way

of the gate whose prospect is toward the east .

435 So the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner

court and behold the glory of the LORD filled the house .

436 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house and the

man stood by me .

437 And he said unto me Son of man the place of my throne and

the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the

midst of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall

the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings

by their whoredom nor by the carcases of their kings in their

high places .

438 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds and

their post by my posts and the wall between me and them they

have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they

have committed wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger .

439 Now let them put away their whoredom and the carcases of

their kings far from me and I will dwell in the midst of them

for ever .

4310 Thou son of man show the house to the house of Israel

that they may be ashamed of their iniquities and let them

measure the pattern .

4311 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done show

them the form of the house and the fashion thereof and the

goings out thereof and the comings in thereof and all the forms

thereof and all the ordinances thereof and all the forms thereof

and all the laws thereof and write it in their sight that they

may keep the whole form thereof and all the ordinances thereof

and do them .

4312 This is the law of the house Upon the top of the mountain

the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy Behold

this is the law of the house .

4313 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits

The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth even the bottom shall

be a cubit and the breadth a cubit and the border thereof by the

edge thereof round about shall be a span and this shall be the

higher place of the altar .

4314 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower

settle shall be two cubits and the breadth one cubit and from

the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four

cubits and the breadth one cubit .

4315 So the altar shall be four cubits and from the altar and

upward shall be four horns .

4316 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long twelve broad

square in the four squares thereof .

4317 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen

broad in the four squares thereof and the border about it shall

be half a cubit and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about

and his stairs shall look toward the east .

4318 And he said unto me Son of man thus saith the Lord GOD

These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall

make it to offer burnt offerings thereon and to sprinkle blood

thereon .

4319 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of

the seed of Zadok which approach unto me to minister unto me

saith the Lord GOD a young bullock for a sin offering .

4320 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof and put it on

the four horns of it and on the four corners of the settle and

upon the border round about thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it

4321 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering and

he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house without the

sanctuary .

4322 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats

without blemish for a sin offering and they shall cleanse the

altar as they did cleanse it with the bullock .

4323 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it thou shalt

offer a young bullock without blemish and a ram out of the flock

without blemish .

4324 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD and the priests

shall cast salt upon them and they shall offer them up for a

burnt offering unto the LORD .

4325 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin

offering they shall also prepare a young bullock and a ram out

of the flock without blemish .

4326 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it and

they shall consecrate themselves .

4327 And when these days are expired it shall be that upon the

eighth day and so forward the priests shall make your burnt

offerings upon the altar and your peace offerings and I will

accept you saith the Lord GOD .

* 441 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the

outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east and it was shut .

442 Then said the LORD unto me This gate shall be shut it

shall not be opened and no man shall enter in by it because the

LORD the God of Israel hath entered in by it therefore it shall

be shut .

443 It is for the prince the prince he shall sit in it to eat

bread before the LORD he shall enter by the way of the porch of

that gate and shall go out by the way of the same .

444 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the

house and I looked and behold the glory of the LORD filled the

house of the LORD and I fell upon my face .

445 And the LORD said unto me Son of man mark well and behold

with thine eyes and hear with thine ears all that I say unto

thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and

all the laws thereof and mark well the entering in of the house

with every going forth of the sanctuary .

446 And thou shalt say to the rebellious even to the house of

Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD O ye house of Israel let it

suffice you of all your abominations .

447 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers

uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my

sanctuary to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread the

fat and the blood and they have broken my covenant because of

all your abominations .

448 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things but ye

have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves .

449 Thus saith the Lord GOD No stranger uncircumcised in heart

nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary of any

stranger that is among the children of Israel .

4410 And the Levites that are gone away far from me when

Israel went astray which went astray away from me after their

idols they shall even bear their iniquity .

4411 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary having charge

at the gates of the house and ministering to the house they

shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people

and they shall stand before them to minister unto them . 4412

Because they ministered unto them before their idols and caused

the house of Israel to fall into iniquity therefore have I

lifted up mine hand against them saith the Lord GOD and they

shall bear their iniquity .

4413 And they shall not come near unto me to do the office of

a priest unto me nor to come near to any of my holy things in

the most holy place but they shall bear their shame and their

abominations which they have committed .

4414 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house

for all the service thereof and for all that shall be done

therein .

4415 But the priests the Levites the sons of Zadok that kept

the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went

astray from me they shall come near to me to minister unto me

and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the

blood saith the Lord GOD .

4416 They shall enter into my sanctuary and they shall come

near to my table to minister unto me and they shall keep my

charge .

4417 And it shall come to pass that when they enter in at the

gates of the inner court they shall be clothed with linen

garments and no wool shall come upon them whiles they minister

in the gates of the inner court and within .

4418 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads and shall

have linen breeches upon their loins they shall not gird

themselves with any thing that causeth sweat .

4419 And when they go forth into the utter court even into the

utter court to the people they shall put off their garments

wherein they ministered and lay them in the holy chambers and

they shall put on other garments and they shall not sanctify the

people with their garments .

4420 Neither shall they shave their heads nor suffer their

locks to grow long they shall only poll their heads .

4421 Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into

the inner court .

4422 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow nor her

that is put away but they shall take maidens of the seed of the

house of Israel or a widow that had a priest before .

4423 And they shall teach my people the difference between the

holy and profane and cause them to discern between the unclean

and the clean .

4424 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment and they

shall judge it according to my judgments and they shall keep my

laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies and they shall

hallow my sabbaths .

4425 And they shall come at no dead person to defile

themselves but for father or for mother or for son or for

daughter for brother or for sister that hath had no husband they

may defile themselves .

4426 And after he is cleansed they shall reckon unto him seven

days .

4427 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary unto the

inner court to minister in the sanctuary he shall offer his sin

offering saith the Lord GOD .

4428 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance I am their

inheritance and ye shall give them no possession in Israel I am

their possession .

4429 They shall eat the meat offering and the sin offering and

the trespass offering and every dedicated thing in Israel shall

be theirs .

4430 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things and

every oblation of all of every sort of your oblations shall be

the priest's ye shall also give unto the priest the first of

your dough that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house

4431 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of

itself or torn whether it be fowl or beast .

* 451 Moreover when ye shall divide by lot the land for

inheritance ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD an holy

portion of the land the length shall be the length of five and

twenty thousand reeds and the breadth shall be ten thousand This

shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about .

452 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in

length with five hundred in breadth square round about and fifty

cubits round about for the suburbs thereof .

453 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five

and twenty thousand and the breadth of ten thousand and in it

shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place .

454 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the

ministers of the sanctuary which shall come near to minister

unto the LORD and it shall be a place for their houses and an

holy place for the sanctuary .

455 And the five and twenty thousand of length and the ten

thousand of breadth shall also the Levites the ministers of the

house have for themselves for a possession for twenty chambers .

456 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five

thousand broad and five and twenty thousand long over against

the oblation of the holy portion it shall be for the whole house

of Israel .

457 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and

on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion and of the

possession of the city before the oblation of the holy portion

and before the possession of the city from the west side

westward and from the east side eastward and the length shall be

over against one of the portions from the west border unto the

east border .

458 In the land shall be his possession in Israel and my

princes shall no more oppress my people and the rest of the land

shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes

459 Thus saith the Lord GOD Let it suffice you O princes of

Israel remove violence and spoil and execute judgment and

justice take away your exactions from my people saith the Lord

GOD .

4510 Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just

bath .

4511 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure that the

bath may contain the tenth part of an homer and the ephah the

tenth part of an homer the measure thereof shall be after the

homer .

4512 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs twenty shekels five

and twenty shekels fifteen shekels shall be your maneh .

4513 This is the oblation that ye shall offer the sixth part

of an ephah of an homer of wheat and ye shall give the sixth

part of an ephah of an homer of barley .

4514 Concerning the ordinance of oil the bath of oil ye shall

offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor which is an homer

of ten baths for ten baths are an homer .

4515 And one lamb out of the flock out of two hundred out of

the fat pastures of Israel for a meat offering and for a burnt

offering and for peace offerings to make reconciliation for them

saith the Lord GOD .

4516 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for

the prince in Israel .

4517 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings

and meat offerings and drink offerings in the feasts and in the

new moons and in the sabbaths in all solemnities of the house of

Israel he shall prepare the sin offering and the meat offering

and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make

reconciliation for the house of Israel .

4518 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the first month in the first

day of the month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish

and cleanse the sanctuary .

4519 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin

offering and put it upon the posts of the house and upon the

four corners of the settle of the altar and upon the posts of

the gate of the inner court .

4520 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for

every one that erreth and for him that is simple so shall ye

reconcile the house .

4521 In the first month in the fourteenth day of the month ye

shall have the passover a feast of seven days unleavened bread

shall be eaten .

4522 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself

and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering .

4523 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt

offering to the LORD seven bullocks and seven rams without

blemish daily the seven days and a kid of the goats daily for a

sin offering .

4524 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a

bullock and an ephah for a ram and an hin of oil for an ephah .

4525 In the seventh month in the fifteenth day of the month

shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days according to

the sin offering according to the burnt offering and according

to the meat offering and according to the oil .

* 461 Thus saith the Lord GOD The gate of the inner court that

looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days but

on the sabbath it shall be opened and in the day of the new moon

it shall be opened .

462 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that

gate without and shall stand by the post of the gate and the

priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings

and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate then he shall

go forth but the gate shall not be shut until the evening .

463 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door

of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new

moons .

464 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto

the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish

and a ram without blemish .

465 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram and the

meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give and an

hin of oil to an ephah .

466 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock

without blemish and six lambs and a ram they shall be without

blemish .

467 And he shall prepare a meat offering an ephah for a

bullock and an ephah for a ram and for the lambs according as

his hand shall attain unto and an hin of oil to an ephah .

468 And when the prince shall enter he shall go in by the way

of the porch of that gate and he shall go forth by the way

thereof .

469 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD

in the solemn feasts he that entereth in by the way of the north

gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate and he

that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the

way of the north gate he shall not return by the way of the gate

whereby he came in but shall go forth over against it .

4610 And the prince in the midst of them when they go in shall

go in and when they go forth shall go forth .

4611 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat

offering shall be an ephah to a bullock and an ephah to a ram

and to the lambs as he is able to give and an hin of oil to an

ephah .

4612 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt

offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD one shall

then open him the gate that looketh toward the east and he shall

prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on

the sabbath day then he shall go forth and after his going forth

one shall shut the gate .

4613 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD

of a lamb of the first year without blemish thou shalt prepare

it every morning .

4614 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every

morning the sixth part of an ephah and the third part of an hin

of oil to temper with the fine flour a meat offering continually

by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD .

4615 Thus shall they prepare the lamb and the meat offering

and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering .

4616 Thus saith the Lord GOD If the prince give a gift unto

any of his sons the inheritance thereof shall be his sons' it

shall be their possession by inheritance .

4617 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his

servants then it shall be his to the year of liberty after it

shall return to the prince but his inheritance shall be his

sons' for them .

4618 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's

inheritance by oppression to thrust them out of their possession

but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession

that my people be not scattered every man from his possession .

4619 After he brought me through the entry which was at the

side of the gate into the holy chambers of the priests which

looked toward the north and behold there was a place on the two

sides westward .

4620 Then said he unto me This is the place where the priests

shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering where they

shall bake the meat offering that they bear them not out into

the utter court to sanctify the people .

4621 Then he brought me forth into the utter court and caused

me to pass by the four corners of the court and behold in every

corner of the court there was a court .

4622 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined

of forty cubits long and thirty broad these four corners were of

one measure .

4623 And there was a row of building round about in them round

about them four and it was made with boiling places under the

rows round about .

4624 Then said he unto me These are the places of them that

boil where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice

of the people .

* 471 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house

and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the

house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the

east and the waters came down from under from the right side of

the house at the south side of the altar .

472 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward

and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way

that looketh eastward and behold there ran out waters on the

right side .

473 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth

eastward he measured a thousand cubits and he brought me through

the waters the waters were to the ankles .

474 Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the

waters the waters were to the knees Again he measured a thousand

and brought me through the waters were to the loins .

475 Afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I

could not pass over for the waters were risen waters to swim in

a river that could not be passed over .

476 And he said unto me Son of man hast thou seen this Then he

brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river .

477 Now when I had returned behold at the bank of the river

were very many trees on the one side and on the other .

478 Then said he unto me These waters issue out toward the

east country and go down into the desert and go into the sea

which being brought forth into the sea the waters shall be

healed .

479 And it shall come to pass that every thing that liveth

which moveth whithersoever the rivers shall come shall live and

there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these

waters shall come thither for they shall be healed and every

thing shall live whither the river cometh .

4710 And it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand

upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim they shall be a place to

spread forth nets their fish shall be according to their kinds

as the fish of the great sea exceeding many .

4711 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof

shall not be healed they shall be given to salt .

4712 And by the river upon the bank thereof on this side and

on that side shall grow all trees for meat whose leaf shall not

fade neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed it shall bring

forth new fruit according to his months because their waters

they issued out of the sanctuary and the fruit thereof shall be

for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine .

4713 Thus saith the Lord GOD This shall be the border whereby

ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of

Israel Joseph shall have two portions .

4714 And ye shall inherit it one as well as another concerning

the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers and

this land shall fall unto you for inheritance .

4715 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north

side from the great sea the way of Hethlon as men go to Zedad .

4716 Hamath Berothah Sibraim which is between the border of

Damascus and the border of Hamath Hazarhatticon which is by the

coast of Hauran .

4717 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan the border

of Damascus and the north northward and the border of Hamath And

this is the north side .

4718 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran and from

Damascus and from Gilead and from the land of Israel by Jordan

from the border unto the east sea And this is the east side .

4719 And the south side southward from Tamar even to the

waters of strife in Kadesh the river to the great sea And this

is the south side southward .

4720 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border

till a man come over against Hamath This is the west side .

4721 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the

tribes of Israel .

4722 And it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot

for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn

among you which shall beget children among you and they shall be

unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel

they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel .

4723 And it shall come to pass that in what tribe the stranger

sojourneth there shall ye give him his inheritance saith the

Lord GOD .

* 481 Now these are the names of the tribes From the north end

to the coast of the way of Hethlon as one goeth to Hamath

Hazarenan the border of Damascus northward to the coast of

Hamath for these are his sides east and west a portion for Dan .

482 And by the border of Dan from the east side unto the west

side a portion for Asher .

483 And by the border of Asher from the east side even unto

the west side a portion for Naphtali .

484 And by the border of Naphtali from the east side unto the

west side a portion for Manasseh .

485 And by the border of Manasseh from the east side unto the

west side a portion for Ephraim .

486 And by the border of Ephraim from the east side even unto

the west side a portion for Reuben .

487 And by the border of Reuben from the east side unto the

west side a portion for Judah .

488 And by the border of Judah from the east side unto the

west side shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and

twenty thousand reeds in breadth and in length as one of the

other parts from the east side unto the west side and the

sanctuary shall be in the midst of it .

489 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of

five and twenty thousand in length and of ten thousand in

breadth .

4810 And for them even for the priests shall be this holy

oblation toward the north five and twenty thousand in length and

toward the west ten thousand in breadth and toward the east ten

thousand in breadth and toward the south five and twenty

thousand in length and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the

midst thereof .

4811 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the

sons of Zadok which have kept my charge which went not astray

when the children of Israel went astray as the Levites went

astray .

4812 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be

unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites .

4813 And over against the border of the priests the Levites

shall have five and twenty thousand in length and ten thousand

in breadth all the length shall be five and twenty thousand and

the breadth ten thousand .

4814 And they shall not sell of it neither exchange nor

alienate the firstfruits of the land for it is holy unto the

LORD .

4815 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over

against the five and twenty thousand shall be a profane place

for the city for dwelling and for suburbs and the city shall be

in the midst thereof .

4816 And these shall be the measures thereof the north side

four thousand and five hundred and the south side four thousand

and five hundred and on the east side four thousand and five

hundred and the west side four thousand and five hundred .

4817 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two

hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and

toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two

hundred and fifty .

4818 And the residue in length over against the oblation of

the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand

westward and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy

portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them

that serve the city .

4819 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all

the tribes of Israel .

4820 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by

five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation

foursquare with the possession of the city .

4821 And the residue shall be for the prince on the one side

and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of

the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the

oblation toward the east border and westward over against the

five and twenty thousand toward the west border over against the

portions for the prince and it shall be the holy oblation and

the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof .

4822 Moreover from the possession of the Levites and from the

possession of the city being in the midst of that which is the

prince's between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin

shall be for the prince .

4823 As for the rest of the tribes from the east side unto the

west side Benjamin shall have a portion .

4824 And by the border of Benjamin from the east side unto the

west side Simeon shall have a portion .

4825 And by the border of Simeon from the east side unto the

west side Issachar a portion .

4826 And by the border of Issachar from the east side unto the

west side Zebulun a portion .

4827 And by the border of Zebulun from the east side unto the

west side Gad a portion .

4828 And by the border of Gad at the south side southward the

border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in

Kadesh and to the river toward the great sea .

4829 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the

tribes of Israel for inheritance and these are their portions

saith the Lord GOD .

4830 And these are the goings out of the city on the north

side four thousand and five hundred measures .

4831 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the

tribes of Israel three gates northward one gate of Reuben one

gate of Judah one gate of Levi .

4832 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred and

three gates and one gate of Joseph one gate of Benjamin one gate

of Dan .

4833 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred

measures and three gates one gate of Simeon one gate of Issachar

one gate of Zebulun .

4834 At the west side four thousand and five hundred with

their three gates one gate of Gad one gate of Asher one gate of

Naphtali .

4835 It was round about eighteen thousand measures and the

name of the city from that day shall be The LORD is there .