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Ezekiel
Chapter 1

1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in

the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river

Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king

Jehoiachin's captivity,

3 the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of

Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of

Jehovah was there upon him.

4. And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great

cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and

out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the

fire.

5 And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living

creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like

the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;

and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:

9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went;

they went every one straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and

they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the

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

11 And their faces and their wings were separate above; two [wings] of

every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to

go, they went; they turned not when they went.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like

burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up

and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of

the fire went forth lightning.

14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash

of lightning.

15. Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth

beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and

they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it

were a wheel within a wheel.

17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not

when they went.

18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had

their rims full of eyes round about.

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and

when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were

lifted up.

20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit

to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the

living creature was in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and

when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside

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

22 And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a

firmament, like the terrible crystal to look upon, stretched forth over

their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the

other: every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two

which covered on that side, their bodies.

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

great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the

noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

25 And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads:

when they stood, they let down their wings.

26. And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of

a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of

the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above.

27 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within

it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the

appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of

fire, and there was brightness round about him.

28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain,

so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the

appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I

fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

1. And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak

with thee.

2 And the Spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon

my feet; and I heard him that spake unto me.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel,

to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and

their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day.

4 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent thee unto

them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for

they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet

among them.

6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their

words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among

scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks,

though they are a rebellious house.

7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or

whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not thou rebellious

like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.

9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a

roll of a book was therein;

10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and

there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

1. And he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which thou findest; eat this

roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.

2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy

bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my

mouth as honey for sweetness.

4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel,

and speak with my words unto them.

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

language, but to the house of Israel;

6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose

words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would

hearken unto thee.

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

hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a

stiff heart.

8 Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead

hard against their foreheads.

9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them

not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious

house.

10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak

unto thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears.

11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy

people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah;

whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a

great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place.

13 And [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they

touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the

noise of a great rushing.

14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in

bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong

upon me.

15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the

river Chebar, and to where they dwelt; and I sat there overwhelmed among

them seven days.

16. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah

came unto me, saying,

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel:

therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him

not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save

his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will

I require at thy hand.

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor

from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered

thy soul.

20 Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and

commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die:

because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his

righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood

will I require at thy hand.

21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin

not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning;

and thou hast delivered thy soul.

22. And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise,

go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of

Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I

fell on my face.

24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake

with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.

25 But thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon thee, and

shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

26 and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou

shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a

rebellious house.

27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say

unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him hear; and

he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

1. Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and

portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:

2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a

mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams

against it round about.

3 And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron

between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be

besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the

house of Israel.

4 Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house

of Israel upon it; [according to] the number of the days that thou shalt

lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a

number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the

iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy

right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days,

each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.

7 And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine

arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.

8 And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from

one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.

9. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and

millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof;

[according to] the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side,

even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a

day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from

time to time shalt thou drink.

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their

sight with dung that cometh out of man.

13 And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their

bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.

14 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted;

for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of

itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my

mouth.

15 Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's

dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.

16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff

of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with

fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another,

and pine away in their iniquity.

1. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor

shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and

upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

2 A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when

the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and

smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to

the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy

skirts.

4 And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the

fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all

the house of Israel.

5. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the

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

6 And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more

than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are

round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my

statutes, they have not walked in them.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are turbulent more

than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my

statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, neither have done after the

ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

8 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against

thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the

nations.

9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will

not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the

sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the

whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, because thou

hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all

thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither shall

mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine

shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by

the sword round about thee; and a third part I will scatter unto all the

winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath

toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I,

Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon

them.

14 Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the

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

15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an

astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall

execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes;

(I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)

16 when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for

destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the

famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;

17 and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall

bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will

bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

1. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy

unto them,

3 and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah:

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the

watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon

you, and I will destroy your high places.

4 And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be

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

5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their

idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the

high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made

desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may

be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I

am Jehovah.

8. Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some that escape the

sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations

whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with

their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with they eyes, which

play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in

their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their

abominations.

10 And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I

would do this evil unto them.

11. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy

foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of

Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the

pestilence.

12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near

shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by

the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them.

13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be

among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all

the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every

thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.

14 And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate

and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their

habitations: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

1. Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of

Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

3 Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and

will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine

abominations.

4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will

bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of

thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.

6 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee; behold, it

cometh.

7 Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come,

the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, upon the

mountains.

8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine

anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will

bring upon thee all thine abominations.

9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring

upon thee according to thy ways; and thine abominations shall be in the

midst of thee; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.

10 Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod

hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall

remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there

be eminency among them.

12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor

the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they

be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none

shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his

life.

14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goeth

to the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he

that is in the field shall die with the sword: and he that is in the city,

famine and pestilence shall devour him.

16. But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the

mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his

iniquity.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover

them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be

as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to

deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy

their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the

stumblingblock of their iniquity.

20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made

the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein:

therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to

the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret

[place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

23. Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is

full of violence.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall

possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease;

and their holy places shall be profaned.

25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be

none.

26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and

they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the

priest, and counsel from the elders.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,

and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto

them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and

they shall know that I am Jehovah.

1. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the

fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat

before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.

2 Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the

appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward,

as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;

and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the

visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court]

that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,

which provoketh to jealousy.

4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the

appearance that I saw in the plain.

5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward

the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold,

northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

6 And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the

great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should

go far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet other great

abominations.

7. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold,

a hole in the wall.

8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had

digged in the wall, behold, a door.

9 And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they

do here.

10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and

abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon

the wall round about.

11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of

Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every

man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went

up.

12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of

the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery?

for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land.

13. He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great

abominations which they do.

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Jehovah's house which

was toward the north; and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? thou shalt

again see yet greater abominations than these.

16 And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house; and behold,

at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were

about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah,

and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward

the east.

17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a

light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which

they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have

turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their

nose.

18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither

will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet

will I not hear them.

1. Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them

that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying

weapon in his hand.

2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth

toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one

man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his

side. And they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.

3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,

whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man

clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.

4 And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through

the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that

sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst

thereof.

5. And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after

him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;

6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little

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

begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the

house.

7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the

slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.

8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I

fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy

all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?

9 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

wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and

Jehovah seeth not.

10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have

pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side,

reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

1. Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was over the head of

the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the

appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the

whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with

coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.

And he went in in my sight.

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man

went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 And the glory of Jehovah mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over

the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and

the court was full of the brightness of Jehovah's glory.

5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer

court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaketh.

6 And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen,

saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the

cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

7 And the cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto

the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [thereof], and put it into

the hands of him that was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8. And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their

wings.

9 And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel

beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the

appearance of the wheels was like unto a beryl stone.

10 And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel

have been within a wheel.

11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not as

they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they

turned not as they went.

12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their

wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels

that they four had.

13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling

[wheels].

14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the

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

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

15 And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by

the river Chebar.

16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the

cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also

turned not from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted

up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 And the glory of Jehovah went forth from over the threshold of the

house, and stood over the cherubim.

19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth

in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they

stood at the door of the east gate of Jehovah's house; and the glory of the

God of Israel was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the

river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness

of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I

saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every

one straight forward.

1. Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of

Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward: and behold, at the door of the

gate five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son

of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

2 And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise

iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

3 that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the

caldron, and we are the flesh.

4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

5 And the Spirit of Jehovah fell upon me, and he said unto me, Speak,

Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the

things that come into your mind.

6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the

streets thereof with the slain.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in

the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but ye

shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.

8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith

the Lord Jehovah.

9 And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you

into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel;

and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh

in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of Israel;

12 and ye shall know that I am Jehovah: for ye have not walked in my

statutes, neither have ye executed mine ordinances, but have done after the

ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of

Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice,

and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of

Israel?

14. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred,

and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] unto whom the

inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Jehovah; unto us is

this land given for a possession.

16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Whereas I have removed

them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the

countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the

countries where they are come.

17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will gather you from the

peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been

scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the

detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within

you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them

a heart of flesh;

20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do

them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their

detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their

own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

22. Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside

them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

23 And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood

upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

24 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the

Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I

had seen went up from me.

25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah

had showed me.

Ezekiel 12

1. The word of Jehovah also came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that

have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for

they are a rebellious house.

3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove

by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another

place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a

rebellious house.

4 And thou shalt bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff

for removing; and thou shalt go forth thyself at even in their sight, as

when men go forth into exile.

5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth

in the dark; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the land: for I

have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.

7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as

stuff for removing, and in the even I digged through the wall with my hand;

I brought it forth in the dark, and bare it upon my shoulder in their

sight.

8 And in the morning came the word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said

unto thee, What doest thou?

10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This burden

[concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among

whom they are.

11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto

them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.

12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the

dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out

thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with

his eyes.

13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare;

and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he

not see it, though he shall die there.

14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to

help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

15 And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall disperse them

among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine,

and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among

the nations whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

17. Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with

trembling and with fearfulness;

19 and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah

concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall

eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her

land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of

the violence of all them that dwell therein.

20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land

shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

21. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

22 Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel,

saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will make this

proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but

say unto them, The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision.

24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination

within the house of Israel.

25 For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall

be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious

house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

26 Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that

he seeth is for many day to come, and he prophesieth of times that are far

off.

28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: There shall none

of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be

performed, saith the Lord Jehovah.

1. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and

say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word

of Jehovah:

3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow

their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

4 O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the

house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith;

but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the

word would be confirmed.

7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying

divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken

falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the

Lord Jehovah.

9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and

that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither

shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall

they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord

Jehovah.

10. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and

there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it

with untempered [mortar]:

11 say unto them that daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall

fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones,

shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is

the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even rend it with a

stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine

anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

14 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 uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the

midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have

daubed it with untempered [mortar]; and I will say unto you, The wall is no

more, neither they that daubed it;

16 [to wit], the prophets of Israel that prophesy concerning Jerusalem,

and that see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the

Lord Jehovah.

17. And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy

people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against

them,

18 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew

pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of]

every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save

souls alive for yourselves?

19 And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for

pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the

souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hearken

unto lies.

20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against your

pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will

tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls that

ye hunt to make [them] fly.

21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your

hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall

know that I am Jehovah.

22 Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I

have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should

not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:

23 Therefore ye shall no more see false visions, nor divine divinations:

and I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am

Jehovah.

1. Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.

2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put

the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be

inquired of at all by them?

4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord

Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his

heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and

cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the

multitude of his idols;

5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they

are all estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:

Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces

from all your abominations.

7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn

in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his

heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and

cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer

him by myself:

8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an

astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the

midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have

deceived that prophet, and I will stetch out my hand upon him, and will

destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall

be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh [unto him];

11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile

themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my

people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

12. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass,

and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread

thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;

14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should

deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.

15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it,

and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the

beasts;

16 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah,

they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be

delivered, but the land should be desolate.

17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the

land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;

18 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah,

they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be

delivered themselves.

19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon

it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord

Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but

deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four

sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil

beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried

forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and

ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye shall be comforted

concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all

that I have brought upon it.

23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings;

and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done

in it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

1. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the vine-branch

which is among the trees of the forest?

3 Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of

it to hang any vessel thereon?

4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both

the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any

work?

5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when

the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any

work!

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the vine-tree among the trees

of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the

inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire,

but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I

set my face against them.

8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a

trespass, saith the Lord Jehovah.

1. Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy

nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and

thy mother was a Hittite.

4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not

cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not

salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have

compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that

thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said

unto thee, [Though thou art] in thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee,

[Though thou art] in thy blood, live.

7 I caused thee to multiply as that which groweth in the field, and thou

didst increase and wax great, and thou attainedst to excellent ornament;

thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and

bare.

8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was

the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy

nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee,

saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.

9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood

from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with sealskin,

and I girded thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.

11 And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands,

and a chain on thy neck.

12 And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a

beautiful crown upon thy head.

13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of

fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and

honey, and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper

unto royal estate.

14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was

perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord

Jehovah.

15. But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of

thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his

it was.

16 And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places

decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: [the like

things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

17 Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,

which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play

the harlot with them;

18 and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst

set mine oil and mine incense before them.

19 My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,

wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor;

and [thus] it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.

20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast

borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured.

Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

21 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing

them to pass through [the fire] unto them?

22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not

remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast

weltering in thy blood.

23 And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee!

saith the Lord Jehovah,)

24 that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a

lofty place in every street.

25 Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast

made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that

passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy

neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me

to anger.

27 Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have

diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee unto the will of them

that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of thy

lewd way.

28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou wast

insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet thou wast

not satisfied.

29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic,

unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all

these things, the work of an impudent harlot;

31 in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and

makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in

that thou scornest hire.

32 A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her

husband!

33 They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy

lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for

thy whoredoms.

34 And thou art different from [other] women in thy whoredoms, in that

none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and

no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

35. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

36 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness was poured out,

and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers; and

because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy

children, that thou didst give unto them;

37 therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast

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

hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will

uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are

judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

39 I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy

vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee

of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked

and bare.

40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone

thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon

thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from

playing the harlot, and thou shalt also give no hire any more.

42 So will I cause my wrath toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall

depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged

against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy

way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this

lewdness with all thine abominations.

44. Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against

thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her

children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their

husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an

Amorite.

46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, that dwelleth at thy left hand, she

and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand,

is Sodom and her daughters.

47 Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their

abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast more

corrupt than they in all thy ways.

48 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she

nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of

bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she

strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore

I took them away as I saw [good].

51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast

multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy

sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.

52 Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou hast given judgment

for thy sisters; through thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable

than they, they are more righteous that thou: yea, be thou also confounded,

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

53 And I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her

daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the

captivity of thy captives in the midst of them;

54 that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because

of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former

estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate;

and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy

pride,

57 before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of

the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters

of the Philistines, that do despite unto thee round about.

58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith Jehovah.

59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou

hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy

youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

61 Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt

receive thy sisters, thine elder [sisters] and thy younger; and I will give

them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I

am Jehovah;

63 that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth

any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou

hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

1. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of

Israel;

3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings

and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto

Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it

unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful

soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.

6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches

turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a

vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers:

and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its

branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water

it.

8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth

branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? shall he not

pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may

wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong

arm or much people can it be raised from the roots thereof.

10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly

wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the beds where

it grew.

11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean?

tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king

thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon:

13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also

brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but

that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt,

that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he

escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?

16 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king

dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he

brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him

in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many

persons.

18 For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he

had given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not

escape.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine oath

that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, I will even

bring it upon his own head.

20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare,

and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him

there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

21 And all his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and

they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and ye shall know

that I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

22. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the lofty top of the

cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs

a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:

23 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall

bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it

shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches thereof

shall they dwell.

24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have

brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the

green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Jehovah, have spoken

and have done it.

1. The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,

2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,

saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are

set on edge?

3 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have [occasion] any

more to use this proverb in Israel.

4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul

of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

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

6 and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes

to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's

wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,

7 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge,

hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath

covered the naked with a garment;

8 he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any

increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true

justice between man and man,

9 hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept mine ordinances, to deal

truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Jehovah.

10. If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth

any one of these things,

11 and that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the

mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

12 hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not

restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath

committed abomination,

13 hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase; shall he then

live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall

surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he

hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;

15 that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his

eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's

wife,

16 neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath

taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered

the naked with a garment;

17 that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received

interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my

statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely

live.

18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother,

and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in

his iniquity.

19 Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the

father? when the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath

kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the

iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the

son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the

wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

21. But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and

keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall

surely live, he shall not die.

22 None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered

against him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord

Jehovah; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and

committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the

wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath

done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in

his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of

Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

26 When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and

committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done

shall he die.

27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he

hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his

soul alive.

28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions

that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O

house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

30. Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to

his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all

your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have

transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye

die, O house of Israel?

32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord

Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.

1. Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in

the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

3 And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he

learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they

brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.

5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she

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

6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he

learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land

was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and

they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

9 And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of

Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more

be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10. Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it

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

11 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and

their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in

their height with the multitude of their branches.

12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the

east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered;

the fire consumed them.

13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its

fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This

is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

1. And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the

tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to

inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.

2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus

saith the Lord Jehovah: Is it to inquire of me that ye are come? As I live,

saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.

4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? Cause them to

know the abominations of their fathers;

5. and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when I chose

Israel, and sware unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself

known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I sware unto them, saying, I am

Jehovah your God;

6 in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of the land of

Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and

honey, which is the glory of all lands:

7 and I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his

eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your

God.

8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did

not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they

forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon

them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of

Egypt.

9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the

sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself

known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

10. So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought

them into the wilderness.

11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if

a man do, he shall live in them.

12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and

them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth them.

13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they

walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a

man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned.

Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to

consume them.

14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in

the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

15 Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not

bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and

honey, which is the glory of all lands;

16 because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes,

and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither

did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the

statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile

yourselves with their idols.

19 I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,

and do them;

20 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,

that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

21 But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes,

neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live

in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath

upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that

it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I

brought them forth.

23 Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter

them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

24 because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my

statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their

fathers' idols.

25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances

wherein they should not live;

26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass

through [the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I might make them

desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

27. Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto

them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover have your fathers

blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto

them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered

there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their

offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there

their drink-offerings.

29 Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So

the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:

Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the

harlot after their abominations?

31 and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through

the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day? and

shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord

Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you;

32 and that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye

say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve

wood and stone.

33. As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with

an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you:

34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of

the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an

outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;

35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there

will I enter into judgment with you face to face.

36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of

the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord

Jehovah.

37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into

the bond of the covenant;

38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that

transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they

sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall

know that I am Jehovah.

39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye,

serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto

me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with

your idols.

40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,

saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them,

serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require

your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy

things.

41 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the

peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been

scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

42 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall bring you into the

land of Israel, into the country which I sware to give unto your fathers.

43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye

have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight

for all your evils that ye have committed.

44 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt with you for my

name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt

doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

45. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward

the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;

47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus

saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall

devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame

shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be

burnt thereby.

48 And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not

be quenched.

49 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of

parables?

1. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward

the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against

thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from

thee the righteous and the wicked.

4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked,

therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from

the south to the north:

5 and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out

of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and

with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that

thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart

shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,

and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be

done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

8. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a

sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it

may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it

contemneth every tree.

11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it

is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the

princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people;

smite therefore upon thy thigh.

13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall

be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.

14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together;

and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly

wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which

entereth into their chambers.

15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their

heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as

lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

16 Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the

left, whithersoever thy face is set.

17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to

rest: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

18. The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,

19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the

king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and

mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

20 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the

children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head

of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he

consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering

rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with

shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to

build forts.

23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who

have sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that

they may be taken.

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have made your

iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so

that in all your doings your sins do appear; because that ye are come to

remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day

is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

26 thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown;

this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that

which is high.

27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more,

until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].

28. And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah

concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say

thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to

cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

29 while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto

thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded,

whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast

created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.

31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee

with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish

men, skilful to destroy.

32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of

the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

1. Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?

then cause her to know all her abominations.

3 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth

blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that maketh idols

against herself to defile her!

4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art

defiled in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days

to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee

a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee,

thou infamous one [and] full of tumult.

6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have

been in thee to shed blood.

7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee

have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged

the fatherless and the widow.

8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

9 Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have

eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed

lewdness.

10 In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have

they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and

another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath

humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

12 In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest

and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression,

and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

13 Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which

thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I

shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.

15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through

the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

16 And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations;

and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

17. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them

are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are

the dross of silver.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become

dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the

midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I

gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and

melt you.

21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath,

and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted

in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my

wrath upon you.

23. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor

rained upon in the day of indignation.

25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a

roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take

treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst

thereof.

26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy

things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common,

neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean,

and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to

shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing

false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord

Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.

29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery;

yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner

wrongfully.

30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and

stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but

I found none.

31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have

consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon

their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

1. The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

3 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their

youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of

their virginity.

4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister:

and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their

names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her

lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable

young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria

all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled

herself.

8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of] Egypt; for in

her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity;

and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of

the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters;

and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for

they executed judgments upon her.

11. And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her

doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of

her sister.

12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors,

clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable

young men.

13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

14 And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the

wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their

heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the

Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.

16 And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers

unto them into Chaldea.

17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled

her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was

alienated from them.

18 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my

soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth,

wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20 And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of

asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the

handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

22. Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will

raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I

will bring them against thee on every side:

23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and]

all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all

of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.

24 And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons,

and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with

buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment

unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee

in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue

shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and

thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair

jewels.

27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom

[brought] from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes

unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the

hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is

alienated;

29 and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy

labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy

whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

30 These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the

harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her

cup into thy hand.

32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup,

which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in

derision; it containeth much.

33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of

astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

34 Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the

sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the

Lord Jehovah.

35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me,

and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy

whoredoms.

36. Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and

Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.

37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and

with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused

their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through [the fire] unto them to

be devoured.

38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary

in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came

the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done

in the midst of my house.

40 And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a

messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself,

paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,

41 and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon

thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.

42 And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men

of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put

bracelets upon the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns upon their

heads.

43 Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the

harlot with her, and she [with them].

44 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they

in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of

adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they

are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against

them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.

47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with

their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up

their houses with fire.

48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women

may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear

the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

1. Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the

month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this selfsame

day: the king of Babylon drew close unto Jerusalem this selfsame day.

3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus

saith the Lord Jehovah, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water

into it:

4 gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh,

and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones

under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yea, let the bones thereof be

boiled in the midst of it.

6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the

caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take

out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.

7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock;

she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.

8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her

blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also

will make the pile great.

10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make

thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the

brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it,

that the rust of it may be consumed.

12 She hath wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust goeth not

forth out of her; her rust [goeth not forth] by fire.

13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou

wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more,

till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

14 I, Jehovah, have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I

will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to

thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the

Lord Jehovah.

15. Also the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes

with a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, neither shall thy

tears run down.

17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire

upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat

not the bread of men.

18 So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died;

and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things

are to us, that thou doest so?

20 Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I

will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your

eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters

whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat

the bread of men.

23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your

feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your

iniquities, and moan one toward another.

24 Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he hath

done shall ye do: when this cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord

Jehovah.

25 And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them

their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that

whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

26 that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee, to cause thee

to hear it with thine ears?

27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and thou

shalt speak, and be no more dumb: so shalt thou be a sign unto them; and

they shall know that I am Jehovah.

1. And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy

against them:

3 and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah:

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thou saidst, Aha, against my

sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it

was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into

captivity:

4 therefore, behold, I will deliver thee to the children of the east for

a possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their

dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a

couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

6 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped thy hands,

and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of thy soul

against the land of Israel;

7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will

deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the

peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will

detroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

8. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,

the house of Judah is like unto all the nations;

9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from

his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,

Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,

10 unto the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon;

and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not

be remembered among the nations.

11 and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am

Jehovah.

12 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath dealt against the

house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged

himself upon them;

13 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stetch out my hand upon

Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate

from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel;

and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my

wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah.

15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by

revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to detroy with

perpetual enmity;

16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my

hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy

the remnant of the sea coast.

17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes;

and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon

them.

1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the

month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is

broken [that was] the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall

be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O

Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea

causeth its waves to come up.

4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I

will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea;

for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil

to the nations.

6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword:

and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring up