1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth

[month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the

captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were

opened, and I saw visions of God.

1:2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year

of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,

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

Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the

north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a

brightness [was] about it, and out of the midst thereof as the

colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

1:5 Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four

living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the

likeness of a man.

1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

1:7 And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their

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

like the colour of burnished brass.

1:8 And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their

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

1:9 Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not

when they went; they went every one straight forward.

1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face

of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they

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

the face of an eagle.

1:11 Thus [were] their faces: and their wings [were] stretched

upward; two [wings] of every one [were] joined one to another,

and two covered their bodies.

1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the

spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they

went.

1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their

appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, [and] like the

appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living

creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went

forth lightning.

1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance

of a flash of lightning.

1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon

the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto

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

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

middle of a wheel.

1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they

turned not when they went.

1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were

dreadful; and their rings [were] full of eyes round about them

four.

1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by

them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the

earth, the wheels were lifted up.

1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither [was

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

them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the

wheels.

1:21 When those went, [these] went; and when those stood,

[these] stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth,

the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of

the living creature [was] in the wheels.

1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the

living creature [was] as the colour of the terrible crystal,

stretched forth over their heads above.

1:23 And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the

one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this

side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their

bodies.

1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like

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

voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they

let down their wings.

1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over

their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings.

1:26 And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was]

the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire

stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness

as the appearance of a man above upon it.

1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire

round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even

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

saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness

round about.

1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the

day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round

about. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory

of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I

heard a voice of one that spake.

2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I

will speak unto thee.

2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and

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

2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children

of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against

me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, [even]

unto this very day.

2:4 For [they are] impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send

thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the

Lord GOD.

2:5 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.

2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be

afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [be] with thee,

and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their

words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a

rebellious house.

2:7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will

hear, or whether they will forbear: for they [are] most

rebellious.

2:8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou

rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat

that I give thee.

2:9 And when I looked, behold, an hand [was] sent unto me; and,

lo, a roll of a book [was] therein;

2:10 And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and

without: and [there was] written therein lamentations, and

mourning, and woe.

3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;

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

3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

3:3 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.

3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house

of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

3:5 For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech and

of an hard language, [but] to the house of Israel;

3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard

language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I

sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they

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

impudent and hardhearted.

3:8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and

thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead:

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

[be] a rebellious house.

3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I

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

thine ears.

3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the

children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them,

Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether

they will forbear.

3:12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice

of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the

LORD from his place.

3:13 [I heard] also the noise of the wings of the living

creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels

over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in

bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD

was strong upon me.

3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt

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

there astonished among them seven days.

3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word

of the LORD came unto me, saying,

3:17 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.

3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou

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

his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall

die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine

hand.

3:19 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.

3:20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his

righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock

before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him

warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which

he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I

require at thine hand.

3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man], that the

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

because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said

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

with thee.

3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold,

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

the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,

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

thine house.

3:25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon

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

among them:

3:26 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.

3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou

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

let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they

[are] a rebellious house.

4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before

thee, and pourtray upon it the city, [even] Jerusalem:

4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and

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

[battering] rams against it round about.

4:3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it [for] a

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

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

against it. This [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel.

4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of

the house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the

days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their

iniquity.

4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,

according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety

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

4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right

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

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

4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of

Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt

prophesy against it.

4:8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not

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

days of thy siege.

4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and

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

and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the

days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and

ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

4:10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight,

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

4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of

an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

4:12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt

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

4:13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel

eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will

drive them.

4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been

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

of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither

came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

4:15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for

man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break

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

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

and with astonishment:

4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one

with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a

barber's razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon

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

[hair].

5:2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the

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

take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife: and a

third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out

a sword after them.

5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them

in thy skirts.

5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the

fire, and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire

come forth into all the house of Israel.

5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it

in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round

about her.

5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than

the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are]

round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my

statutes, they have not walked in them.

5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied

more than the nations that [are] round about you, [and] have

not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments,

neither have done according to the judgments of the nations

that [are] round about you;

5:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, [am]

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

in the sight of the nations.

5:9 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.

5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of

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

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

into all the winds.

5:11 Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because

thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things,

and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish

[thee]; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any

pity.

5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and

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

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

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

sword after them.

5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my

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

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

accomplished my fury in them.

5:14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the

nations that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that

pass by.

5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and

an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee,

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

in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken [it].

5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine,

which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send

to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and

will break your staff of bread:

5:17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they

shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through

thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have

spoken [it].

6:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and

prophesy against them,

6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord

GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the

hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I,

will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high

places.

6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be

broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your

idols.

6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel

before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about

your altars.

6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste,

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

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

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

abolished.

6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall

know that I [am] the LORD.

6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have [some] that

shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be

scattered through the countries.

6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the

nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am

broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,

and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and

they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have

committed in all their abominations.

6:10 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have

not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

6:11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp

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

the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the

famine, and by the pestilence.

6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that

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

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

fury upon them.

6:13 Then shall ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain

[men] shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon

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

every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where

they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

6:14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land

desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward

Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I

[am] the LORD.

7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

7:2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land

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

land.

7:3 Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send mine

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

will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:

but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine

abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know

that I [am] the LORD.

7:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is

come.

7:6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee;

behold, it is come.

7:7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the

land: the time is come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not

the sounding again of the mountains.

7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and

accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee

according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine

abominations.

7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I

will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine

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

that I [am] the LORD that smiteth.

7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone

forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them

[shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs:

neither [shall there be] wailing for them.

7:12 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.

7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,

although they were yet alive: for the vision [is] touching the

whole multitude thereof, [which] shall not return; neither

shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but

none goeth to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the

multitude thereof.

7:15 The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine

within: he that [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and

he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour

him.

7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on

the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning,

every one for his iniquity.

7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as]

water.

7:18 They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and

horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces,

and baldness upon all their heads.

7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold

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

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

not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it

is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty:

but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their

detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from

them.

7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a

prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they

shall pollute it.

7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute

my secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and

defile it.

7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and

the city is full of violence.

7:24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they

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

strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there

shall be] none.

7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon

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

law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the

ancients.

7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with

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

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

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

[am] the LORD.

8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month],

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

the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord

GOD fell there upon me.

8:2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:

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

his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the

colour of amber.

8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock

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

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

to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north;

where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh

to jealousy.

8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there,

according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the

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

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

image of jealousy in the entry.

8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what

they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel

committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary?

but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater

abominations.

8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I

looked, behold a hole in the wall.

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

when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked

abominations that they do here.

8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping

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

of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of

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

the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and

a thick cloud of incense went up.

8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the

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

the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us

not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

8:13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt

see greater abominations that they do.

8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S

house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat

women weeping for Tammuz.

8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man?

turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations

than these.

8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house,

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

porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with

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

toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man?

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

abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the

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

and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not

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

ears with a loud voice, [yet] will I not hear them.

9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause

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

man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.

9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,

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

in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen,

with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and

stood beside the brasen altar.

9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the

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

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

inkhorn by his side;

9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the

city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the

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

abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him

through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither

have ye pity:

9:6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little

children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is]

the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the

ancient men which [were] before the house.

9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts

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

the city.

9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was

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

GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring

out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel

and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood,

and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath

forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will

I have pity, [but] I will recompense their way upon their head.

9:11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which [had] the

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

as thou hast commanded me.

10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above

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

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

10:2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go

in between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thine

hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter

[them] over the city. And he went in in my sight.

10:3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house,

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

10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, [and

stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was

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

of the LORD'S glory.

10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard [even] to

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

speaketh.

10:6 And it came to pass, [that] when he had commanded the man

clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels,

from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside

the wheels.

10:7 And [one] cherub stretched forth his hand from between the

cherubims unto the fire that [was] between the cherubims, and

took [thereof], and put [it] into the hands of [him that was]

clothed with linen: who took [it], and went out.

10:8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's

hand under their wings.

10:9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims,

one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub:

and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of a beryl

stone.

10:10 And [as for] their appearances, they four had one

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

10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they

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

looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands,

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

about, [even] the wheels that they four had.

10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O

wheel.

10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face [was] the

face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man,

and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an

eagle.

10:15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living

creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

10:16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and

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

earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

10:17 When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted

up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the spirit of the

living creature [was] in them.

10:18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold

of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

10:19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up

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

[were] beside them, and [every one] stood at the door of the

east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of

Israel [was] over them above.

10:20 This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of

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

cherubims.

10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings;

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

10:22 And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which

I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves:

they went every one straight forward.

11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the

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

behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom

I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of

Benaiah, princes of the people.

11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men that

devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

11:3 Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this

[city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh.

11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,

Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of

Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, [every

one of] them.

11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have

filled the streets thereof with the slain.

11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have

laid in the midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and this [city

is] the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of

it.

11:8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon

you, saith the Lord GOD.

11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver

you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments

among you.

11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border

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

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

the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the

border of Israel:

11:12 And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD: for ye have not

walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have

done after the manners of the heathen that [are] round about

you.

11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the

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

with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full

end of the remnant of Israel?

11:14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of

thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, [are] they

unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far

from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have

cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have

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

little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather

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

where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of

Israel.

11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all

the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof

from thence.

11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new

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

flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine

ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I

will be their God.

11:21 But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of

their detestable things and their abominations, I will

recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

11:22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels

beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them

above.

11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the

city, and stood upon the mountain which [is] on the east side

of the city.

11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a

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

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

11:25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things

that the LORD had shewed me.

12:1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,

12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious

house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to

hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious house.

12:3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for

removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt

remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may

be they will consider, though they [be] a rebellious house.

12:4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their

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

in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

12:5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out

thereby.

12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear [it] upon [thy] shoulders,

[and] carry [it] forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy

face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee [for] a

sign unto the house of Israel.

12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff

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

through the wall with mine hand; I brought [it] forth in the

twilight, [and] I bare [it] upon [my] shoulder in their sight.

12:8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me,

saying,

12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious

house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

12:10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden

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

Israel that [are] among them.

12:11 Say, I [am] your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be

done unto them: they shall remove [and] go into captivity.

12:12 And the prince that [is] among them shall bear upon [his]

shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig

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

that he see not the ground with [his] eyes.

12:13 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.

12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that [are] about

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

sword after them.

12:15 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall

scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the

countries.

12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from

the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all

their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and

they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

12:17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy

water with trembling and with carefulness;

12:19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord

GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [and] of the land of

Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink

their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate

from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them

that dwell therein.

12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and

the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I [am] the

LORD.

12:21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

12:22 Son of man, what [is] that proverb [that] ye have in the

land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every

vision faileth?

12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make

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

proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and

the effect of every vision.

12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering

divination within the house of Israel.

12:25 For I [am] the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I

shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged:

for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and

will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

12:26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

12:27 Son of man, behold, [they of] the house of Israel say, The

vision that he seeth [is] for many days [to come], and he

prophesieth of the times [that are] far off.

12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There

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

which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.

13:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that

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

hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets,

that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the

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

of the LORD.

13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The

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

[others] to hope that they would confirm the word.

13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a

lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I

have not spoken?

13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken

vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you,

saith the Lord GOD.

13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity,

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

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

house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of

Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,

Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a wall, and,

lo, others daubed it with untempered [morter]:

13:11 Say unto them which daub [it] with untempered [morter],

that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and

ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall

rend [it].

13:12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto

you, Where [is] the daubing wherewith ye have daubed [it]?

13:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend [it]

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

overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in [my]

fury to consume [it].

13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with

untempered [morter], and bring it down to the ground, so that

the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall,

and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall

know that I [am] the LORD.

13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon

them that have daubed it with untempered [morter], and will say

unto you, The wall [is] no [more], neither they that daubed it;

13:16 [To wit], the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning

Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and [there

is] no peace, saith the Lord GOD.

13:17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the

daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart;

and prophesy thou against them,

13:18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that

sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head

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

people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] unto you?

13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of

barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should

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

your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?

13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against

your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them]

fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the

souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.

13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out

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

hunted; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous

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

the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by

promising him life:

13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine

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

ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat

before me.

14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their

heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before

their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith

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

his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his

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

will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his

idols;

14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,

because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord

GOD; Repent, and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn

away your faces from all your abominations.

14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger

that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me,

and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the

stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a

prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer

him by myself:

14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him

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

my people; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing,

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

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

people Israel.

14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the

punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of

him that seeketh [unto him];

14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,

neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but

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

Lord GOD.

14:12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

14:13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by

trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon

it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will

send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,

they should deliver [but] their own souls by their

righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and

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

through because of the beasts:

14:16 [Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith

the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters;

they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

14:17 Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go

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

14:18 Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith

the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters,

but they only shall be delivered themselves.

14:19 Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out

my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live,

saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor

daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their

righteousness.

14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my

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

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

man and beast?

14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be

brought forth, [both] sons and daughters: behold, they shall

come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their

doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I

have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] concerning all that I have

brought upon it.

14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and

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

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

15:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

15:2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or

than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men]

take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire

devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned.

Is it meet for [any] work?

15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how

much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire

hath devoured it, and it is burned?

15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among

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

fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from

[one] fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall

know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against them.

15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have

committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth

and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was]

an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

16:4 And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy

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

[thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have

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

to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine

own blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood,

Live; yea, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood,

Live.

16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and

thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to

excellent ornaments: [thy] breasts are fashioned, and thine

hair is grown, whereas thou [wast] naked and bare.

16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold,

thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over

thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and

entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou

becamest mine.

16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away

thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee

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

and I covered thee with silk.

16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets

upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine

ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy

raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou

didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast

exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy

beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had

put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the

harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications

on every one that passed by; his it was.

16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high

places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon:

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

16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my

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

men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them:

and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and

honey, [wherewith] I fed thee, thou hast even set it before

them for a sweet savour: and [thus] it was, saith the Lord GOD.

16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom

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

them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter,

16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to

cause them to pass through [the fire] for them?

16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast

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

bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood.

16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe

unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)

16:24 [That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,

and hast made thee an high place in every street.

16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way,

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

feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians

thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy

whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,

and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee

unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the

Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

16:28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians,

because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot

with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land

of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied

herewith.

16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou

doest all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish

woman;

16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of

every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and

hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

16:32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh

strangers instead of her husband!

16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts

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

thee on every side for thy whoredom.

16:34 And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy

whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and

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

therefore thou art contrary.

16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured

out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with

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

the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom

thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved,

with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them

round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto

them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and

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

jealousy.

16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall

throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high

places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall

take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they

shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with

their swords.

16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute

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

cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also

shalt give no hire any more.

16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my

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

be no more angry.

16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,

but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I

also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord

GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine

abominations.

16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this]

proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her

daughter.

16:45 Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband

and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters,

which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother

[was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

16:46 And thine elder sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters

that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that

dwelleth at thy right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.

16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after

their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little

[thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

16:48 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not

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

daughters.

16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,

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

her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor

and needy.

16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before

me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].

16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou

hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast

justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast

done.

16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own

shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable

than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou

confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast

justified thy sisters.

16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of

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

daughters, then [will I bring again] the captivity of thy

captives in the midst of them:

16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be

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

comfort unto them.

16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to

their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return

to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall

return to your former estate.

16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the

day of thy pride,

16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of

[thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are]

round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which

despise thee round about.

16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith

the LORD.

16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as

thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the

covenant.

16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the

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

everlasting covenant.

16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when

thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger:

and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy

covenant.

16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt

know that I [am] the LORD:

16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never

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

pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the

Lord GOD.

17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto

the house of Israel;

17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great

wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours,

came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

17:4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it

into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a

fruitful field; he placed [it] by great waters, [and] set it

[as] a willow tree.

17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,

whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were

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

shot forth sprigs.

17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and

many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward

him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might

water it by the furrows of her plantation.

17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it

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

it might be a goodly vine.

17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall

he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit

thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of

her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it

up by the roots thereof.

17:10 Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it

not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall

wither in the furrows where it grew.

17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these

[things mean]? tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon is come

to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes

thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

17:13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant

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

mighty of the land:

17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift

itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it might

stand.

17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors

into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.

Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such [things]? or

shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

17:16 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place

[where] the king [dwelleth] that made him king, whose oath he

despised, and whose covenant he brake, [even] with him in the

midst of Babylon he shall die.

17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great

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

building forts, to cut off many persons:

17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant,

when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these

[things], he shall not escape.

17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; [As] I live, surely

mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath

broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken

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

with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against

me.

17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the

sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all

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

17:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest

branch of the high cedar, and will set [it]; I will crop off

from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant

[it] upon an high mountain and eminent:

17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it:

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

goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing;

in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD

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

have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to

flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done [it].

18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

18:2 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?

18:3 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have

[occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.

18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so

also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it

shall die.

18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and

right,

18:6 [And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath

lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither

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

menstruous woman,

18:7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the

debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given

his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a

garment;

18:8 He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath

taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from

iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

18:9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to

deal truly; he [is] just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord

GOD.

18:10 If he beget a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood,

and [that] doeth the like to [any] one of these [things],

18:11 And that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath

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

18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by

violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his

eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase:

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

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

18:14 Now, lo, [if] he beget a son, that seeth all his father's

sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such

like,

18:15 [That] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath

lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath

not defiled his neighbour's wife,

18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the

pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his

bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

18:17 [That] hath taken off his hand from the poor, [that] hath

not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments,

hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity

of his father, he shall surely live.

18:18 [As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled

his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good

among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

18:19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the

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

[and] hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall

surely live.

18:20 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.

18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath

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

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

18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall

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

done he shall live.

18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?

saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his

ways, and live?

18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his

righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according

to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he

live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be

mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his

sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

18:25 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?

18:26 When a righteous [man] turneth away from his

righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for

his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

18:27 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.

18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his

transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he

shall not die.

18:29 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?

18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one

according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn

[yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall

not be your ruin.

18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye

have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:

for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,

saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye.

19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of

Israel,

19:2 And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down

among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young

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

19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit,

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

19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was

lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a

young lion.

19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young

lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.

19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their

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

the noise of his roaring.

19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the

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

pit.

19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the

king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice

should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

19:10 Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the

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

waters.

19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare

rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and

she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the

ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods

were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

19:13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and

thirsty ground.

19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, [which]

hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be]

a sceptre to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a

lamentation.

20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth

[month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the

elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before

me.

20:2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto

them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me?

[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by

you.

20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]?

cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when

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

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

Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I [am] the

LORD your God;

20:6 In the day [that] I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring

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

for them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of

all lands:

20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the

abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the

idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto

me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their

eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said,

I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger

against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be

polluted before the heathen, among whom they [were], in whose

sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out

of the land of Egypt.

20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of

Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,

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

20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign

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

that sanctify them.

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the

wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised

my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them;

and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would

pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be

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

20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness,

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

[them], flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of

all lands;

20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my

statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after

their idols.

20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,

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

20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye

not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their

judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

20:19 I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my

judgments, and do them;

20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between

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

20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they

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

them, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they

polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury

upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the

wilderness.

20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my

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

heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness,

that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them

through the countries;

20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had

despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their

eyes were after their fathers' idols.

20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good,

and judgments whereby they should not live;

20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they

caused to pass through [the fire] all that openeth the womb,

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

know that I [am] the LORD.

20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and

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

fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a

trespass against me.

20:28 [For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the

which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw

every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered

there their sacrifices, and there they presented the

provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet

savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

20:29 Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto

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

20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the

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

commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to

pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your

idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O

house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be

enquired of by you.

20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,

that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the

countries, to serve wood and stone.

20:33 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty

hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out,

will I rule over you:

20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather

you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a

mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured

out.

20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people,

and there will I plead with you face to face.

20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of

the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord

GOD.

20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will

bring you into the bond of the covenant:

20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them

that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the

country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the

land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go

ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter [also], if ye

will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more

with your gifts, and with your idols.

20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height

of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of

Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept

them, and there will I require your offerings, and the

firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you

out from the people, and gather you out of the countries

wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you

before the heathen.

20:42 And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall bring

you into the land of Israel, into the country [for] the which I

lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.

20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your

doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe

yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have

committed.

20:44 And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have

wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your

wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house

of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy

word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the

south field;

20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the

LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in

thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every

dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all

faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it:

it shall not be quenched.

20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not

speak parables?

21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy

word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of

Israel,

21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,

I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his

sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the

wicked.

21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and

the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath

against all flesh from the south to the north:

21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my

sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy]

loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest

thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it

cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be

feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be

weak [as] water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to

pass, saith the Lord GOD.

21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A

sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished

that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth

the rod of my son, [as] every tree.

21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be

handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give

it into the hand of the slayer.

21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people,

it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason

of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon

[thy] thigh.

21:13 Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn

even the rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.

21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine]

hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time,

the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men

that are] slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,

that [their] heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied:

ah! [it is] made bright, [it is] wrapped up for the slaughter.

21:16 Go thee one way or other, [either] on the right hand, [or]

on the left, whithersoever thy face [is] set.

21:17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my

fury to rest: I the LORD have said [it].

21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the

sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come

forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose [it] at

the head of the way to the city.

21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the

Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way,

at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his]

arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the

liver.

21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to

appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift

up the voice with shouting, to appoint [battering] rams against

the gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build a fort.

21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their

sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to

remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made

your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are

discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;

because, [I say], that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be

taken with the hand.

21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is

come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,

21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off

the crown: this [shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is]

low, and abase [him that is] high.

21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be

no [more], until he come whose right it is; and I will give it

[him].

21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the

Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their

reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword [is] drawn: for

the slaughter [it is] furbished, to consume because of the

glittering:

21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie

unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are]

slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity

[shall have] an end.

21:30 Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge

thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy

nativity.

21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will

blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee

into the hand of brutish men, [and] skilful to destroy.

21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in

the midst of the land; thou shalt be no [more] remembered: for

I the LORD have spoken [it].

22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the

bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth

blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh

idols against herself to defile herself.

22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed;

and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made;

and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even]

unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the

heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

22:5 [Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee,

shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed.

22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to

their power to shed blood.

22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the

midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger:

in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my

sabbaths.

22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee

they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit

lewdness.

22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in

thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's

wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and

another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast

taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy

neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord

GOD.

22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy

dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which

hath been in the midst of thee.

22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in

the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken

[it], and will do [it].

22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse

thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of

thee.

22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the

sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.

22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all

they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of

the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.

22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all

become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the

midst of Jerusalem.

22:20 [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead,

and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon

it, to melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in mine anger and in

my fury, and I will leave [you there], and melt you.

22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of

my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall

ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the

LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not

cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

22:25 [There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst

thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have

devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious

things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine

holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and

profane, neither have they shewed [difference] between the

unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my

sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves

ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to

get dishonest gain.

22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered

[morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying,

Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised

robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have

oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the

hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I

should not destroy it: but I found none.

22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I

have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way

have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one

mother:

23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed

whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and

there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

23:4 And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah

her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and

daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and

Jerusalem Aholibah.

23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she

doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,

23:6 [Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of

them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them

[that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she

doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in

her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of

her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,

into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

23:10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her

daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous

among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw [this], she was more

corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms

more than her sister in [her] whoredoms.

23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians [her] neighbours, captains

and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon

horses, all of them desirable young men.

23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both

one way,

23:14 And [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw

men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans

pourtrayed with vermilion,

23:15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed

attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after

the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their

nativity:

23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon

them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and

they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with

them, and her mind was alienated from them.

23:18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her

nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind

was alienated from her sister.

23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to

remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the

harlot in the land of Egypt.

23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh [is as]

the flesh of asses, and whose issue [is like] the issue of

horses.

23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy

youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of

thy youth.

23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I

will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is

alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

23:23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa,

and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them

desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and

renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

23:24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons,

and wheels, and with an assembly of people, [which] shall set

against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I

will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee

according to their judgments.

23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall

deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and

thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall

take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be

devoured by the fire.

23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take

away thy fair jewels.

23:27 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.

23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee

into the hand [of them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of

them] from whom thy mind is alienated:

23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take

away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and

the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy

lewdness and thy whoredoms.

23:30 I will do these [things] unto thee, because thou hast gone

a whoring after the heathen, [and] because thou art polluted

with their idols.

23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will

I give her cup into thine hand.

23:32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's

cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in

derision; it containeth much.

23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the

cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister

Samaria.

23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck [it] out, and thou shalt

break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for

I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast

forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou

also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou

judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their

abominations;

23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their

hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and

have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass

for them through [the fire], to devour [them].

23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my

sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols,

then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;

and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

23:40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from

far, unto whom a messenger [was] sent; and, lo, they came: for

whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst

thyself with ornaments,

23:41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before

it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

23:42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease [was] with her:

and with the men of the common sort [were] brought Sabeans from

the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and

beautiful crowns upon their heads.

23:43 Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Will

they now commit whoredoms with her, and she [with them]?

23:44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that

playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto

Aholibah, the lewd women.

23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the

manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed

blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their

hands.

23:46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company

upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch

them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their

daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that

all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye

shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I

[am] the Lord GOD.

24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth

[day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this

same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem

this same day.

24:3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto

them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set [it] on, and

also pour water into it:

24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, [even] every good piece,

the thigh, and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones.

24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under

it, [and] make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of

it therein.

24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city,

to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone

out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon

it.

24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the

top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it

with dust;

24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I

have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not

be covered.

24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city!

I will even make the pile for fire great.

24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and

spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass

of it may be hot, and may burn, and [that] the filthiness of it

may be molten in it, [that] the scum of it may be consumed.

24:12 She hath wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum

went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be] in the fire.

24:13 In thy filthiness [is] lewdness: because I have purged

thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from

thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest

upon thee.

24:14 I the LORD have spoken [it]: it shall come to pass, and I

will do [it]; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither

will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy

doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

24:15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of

thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor

weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the

tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy

feet, and cover not [thy] lips, and eat not the bread of men.

24:18 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.

24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what

these [things are] to us, that thou doest [so]?

24:20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me,

saying,

24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your

strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul

pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left

shall fall by the sword.

24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover [your]

lips, nor eat the bread of men.

24:23 And your tires [shall be] upon your heads, and your shoes

upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine

away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he

hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that

I [am] the Lord GOD.

24:25 Also, thou son of man, [shall it] not [be] in the day when

I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the

desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds,

their sons and their daughters,

24:26 [That] he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee,

to cause [thee] to hear [it] with [thine] ears?

24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is

escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou

shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I [am] the

LORD.

25:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and

prophesy against them;

25:3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD;

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my

sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of

Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah,

when they went into captivity;

25:4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the

east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in

thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy

fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the

Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I

[am] the LORD.

25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped

[thine] hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart

with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

25:7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,

and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will

cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish

out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know

that I [am] the LORD.

25:8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,

Behold, the house of Judah [is] like unto all the heathen;

25:9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the

cities, from his cities [which are] on his frontiers, the glory

of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

25:10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give

them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered

among the nations.

25:11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall

know that I [am] the LORD.

25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt

against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath

greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out

mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it;

and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall

fall by the sword.

25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my

people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine

anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my

vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.

25:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have

dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful

heart, to destroy [it] for the old hatred;

25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch

out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the

Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious

rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall

lay my vengeance upon them.

26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first

[day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me,

saying,

26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,

Aha, she is broken [that was] the gates of the people: she is

turned unto me: I shall be replenished, [now] she is laid

waste:

26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against

thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against

thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down

her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her

like the top of a rock.

26:5 It shall be [a place for] the spreading of nets in the

midst of the sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD:

and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

26:6 And her daughters which [are] in the field shall be slain

by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

26:7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon

Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the

north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and

companies, and much people.

26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field:

and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against

thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

26:9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with

his axes he shall break down thy towers.

26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall

cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,

and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter

into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a

breach.

26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy

streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong

garrisons shall go down to the ground.

26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey

of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and

destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and

thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the

sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

26:14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be

[a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for

I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

26:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles

shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the

slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their

thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered

garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they

shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at [every] moment,

and be astonished at thee.

26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to

thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited of

seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror [to be] on

all that haunt it!

26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea,

the isles that [are] in the sea shall be troubled at thy

departure.

26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a

desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I

shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover

thee;

26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into

the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the

low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them

that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I

shall set glory in the land of the living;

26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou [shalt be] no [more]:

though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again,

saith the Lord GOD.

27:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

27:3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of

the sea, [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles,

Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I [am] of

perfect beauty.

27:4 Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders

have perfected thy beauty.

27:5 They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir:

they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

27:6 [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the

company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory,

[brought] out of the isles of Chittim.

27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which

thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the

isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy

wise [men], O Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.

27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in

thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners

were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army,

thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they

set forth thy comeliness.

27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls

round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged

their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy

beauty perfect.

27:12 Tarshish [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of

all [kind of] riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they

traded in thy fairs.

27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they

traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with

horses and horsemen and mules.

27:15 The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were]

the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee [for] a

present horns of ivory and ebony.

27:16 Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the

wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds,

purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and

agate.

27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants:

they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and

honey, and oil, and balm.

27:18 Damascus [was] thy merchant in the multitude of the wares

of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of

Helbon, and white wool.

27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:

bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

27:20 Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with

thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these [were they] thy

merchants.

27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they [were] thy

merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices,

and with all precious stones, and gold.

27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba,

Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.

27:24 These [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of things], in

blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich

apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy

merchandise.

27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and

thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of

the seas.

27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east

wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

27:27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners,

and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy

merchandise, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, and in

all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall

into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy

pilots.

27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, [and] all the

pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall

stand upon the land;

27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and

shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads,

they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and

gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with

bitterness of heart [and] bitter wailing.

27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for

thee, and lament over thee, [saying], What [city is] like

Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

27:33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst

many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the

multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

27:34 In the time [when] thou shalt be broken by the seas in the

depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the

midst of thee shall fall.

27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at

thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be

troubled in [their] countenance.

27:36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou

shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] any more.

28:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the

Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast

said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of

the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set

thine heart as the heart of God:

28:3 Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret

that they can hide from thee:

28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast

gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy

treasures:

28:5 By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou

increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of

thy riches:

28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set

thine heart as the heart of God;

28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the

terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords

against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy

brightness.

28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die

the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas.

28:9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am] God?

but thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him that

slayeth thee.

28:10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand

of strangers: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus,

and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the

sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious

stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,

the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,

and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and

of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast

created.

28:14 Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have

set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou

hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

28:15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou

wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the

midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I

will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I

will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the

stones of fire.

28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast

corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast

thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may

behold thee.

28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of

thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore

will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall

devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in

the sight of all them that behold thee.

28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be

astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt]

thou [be] any more.

28:20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

28:21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy

against it,

28:22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against

thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee:

and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have

executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her

streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by

the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I

[am] the LORD.

28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house

of Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all [that are] round

about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I [am]

the Lord GOD.

28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the

house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,

and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen,

then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my

servant Jacob.

28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build

houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with

confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that

despise them round about them; and they shall know that I [am]

the LORD their God.

29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth

[day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

29:2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and

prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am]

against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that

lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river

[is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.

29:4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish

of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee

up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy

rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

29:5 And I will leave thee [thrown] into the wilderness, thee

and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open

fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I

have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the

fowls of the heaven.

29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am] the

LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of

Israel.

29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break,

and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee,

thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a

sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they

shall know that I [am] the LORD: because he hath said, The

river [is] mine, and I have made [it].

29:10 Behold, therefore I [am] against thee, and against thy

rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste [and]

desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of

Ethiopia.

29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast

shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty

years.

29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of

the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities among the

cities [that are] laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will

disperse them through the countries.

29:13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years

will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were

scattered:

29:14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will

cause them to return [into] the land of Pathros, into the land

of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it

exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish

them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

29:16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of

Israel, which bringeth [their] iniquity to remembrance, when

they shall look after them: but they shall know that I [am] the

Lord GOD.

29:17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in

the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of

the LORD came unto me, saying,

29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army

to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head [was] made

bald, and every shoulder [was] peeled: yet had he no wages, nor

his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against

it:

29:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the

land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall

take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and

it shall be the wages for his army.

29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labour

wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me,

saith the Lord GOD.

29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel

to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in

the midst of them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

30:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl

ye, Woe worth the day!

30:3 For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near,

a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

30:4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall

be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they

shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be

broken down.

30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people,

and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall

with them by the sword.

30:6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall

fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the

tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the

Lord GOD.

30:7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries

[that are] desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of

the cities [that are] wasted.

30:8 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have set a

fire in Egypt, and [when] all her helpers shall be destroyed.

30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to

make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come

upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

30:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of

Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,

shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their

swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the

hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all

that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have

spoken [it].

30:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols,

and I will cause [their] images to cease out of Noph; and there

shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put

a fear in the land of Egypt.

30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in

Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt;

and I will cut off the multitude of No.

30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain,

and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses

daily.

30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the

sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I

shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her

strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover

her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

30:19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall

know that I [am] the LORD.

30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first

[month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of

the LORD came unto me, saying,

30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of

Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a

roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and

that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out

of his hand.

30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and

will disperse them through the countries.

30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and

put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and

he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly

wounded [man].

30:25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and

the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I

[am] the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the

king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of

Egypt.

30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and

disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I

[am] the LORD.

31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third

[month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of

the LORD came unto me, saying,

31:2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his

multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

31:3 Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair

branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;

and his top was among the thick boughs.

31:4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with

her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her

little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

31:5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the

field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became

long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

31:6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and

under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth

their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

31:7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his

branches: for his root was by great waters.

31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir

trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not

like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like

unto him in his beauty.

31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so

that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God,

envied him.

31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast

lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among

the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty

one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have

driven him out for his wickedness.

31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him

off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the

valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by

all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are

gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain,

and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt

themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among

the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height,

all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to

the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of

men, with them that go down to the pit.

31:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to

the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and

I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were

stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the

trees of the field fainted for him.

31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when

I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit:

and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all

that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the

earth.

31:17 They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be]

slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that]

dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among

the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the

trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt

lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain

by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith

the Lord GOD.

32:1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth

month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the

LORD came unto me, saying,

32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of

Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the

nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and thou camest

forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet,

and fouledst their rivers.

32:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net

over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring

thee up in my net.

32:4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee

forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the

heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the

whole earth with thee.

32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the

valleys with thy height.

32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou

swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full

of thee.

32:7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and

make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon shall not give her light.

32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,

and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

32:9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall

bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries

which thou hast not known.

32:10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their

kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish

my sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment,

every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

32:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of

Babylon shall come upon thee.

32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to

fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall

spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be

destroyed.

32:13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the

great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any

more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

32:14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers

to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the

country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I

shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know

that I [am] the LORD.

32:16 This [is] the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her:

the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall

lament for her, [even] for Egypt, and for all her multitude,

saith the Lord GOD.

32:17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth

[day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me,

saying,

32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them

down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto

the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the

pit.

32:19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid

with the uncircumcised.

32:20 They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by

the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her

multitudes.

32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the

midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they

lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

32:22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are]

about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

32:23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her

company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by

the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

32:24 There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her

grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone

down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which

caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they

borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all

her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them

uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was

caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their

shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst

of [them that be] slain.

32:26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her

graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain

by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of

the living.

32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen

of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their

weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their

heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though

[they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

32:28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the

uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with

the sword.

32:29 There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which

with their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the

sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them

that go down to the pit.

32:30 There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all

the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their

terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie

uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword, and bear

their shame with them that go down to the pit.

32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all

his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the

sword, saith the Lord GOD.

32:32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and

he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them

that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his

multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

33:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say

unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of

the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their

watchman:

33:3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the

trumpet, and warn the people;

33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh

not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood

shall be upon his own head.

33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning;

his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall

deliver his soul.

33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the

trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and

take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his

iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

33:7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the

house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my

mouth, and warn them from me.

33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt

surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his

way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood

will I require at thine hand.

33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn

from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his

iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

33:10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of

Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our

sins [be] upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then

live?

33:11 Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no

pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn

from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways;

for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy

people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver

him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of

the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he

turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be

able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he

sinneth.

33:13 When I shall say to the righteous, [that] he shall surely

live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit

iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but

for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die;

if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

33:15 [If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had

robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing

iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

33:16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned

unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall

surely live.

33:17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is

not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and

committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that

which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house

of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity,

in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [that]

one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The

city is smitten.

33:22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore

he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he

came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was

no more dumb.

33:23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of

Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the

land: but we [are] many; the land is given us for inheritance.

33:25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat

with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and

shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

33:26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye

defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the

land?

33:27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; [As] I

live, surely they that [are] in the wastes shall fall by the

sword, and him that [is] in the open field will I give to the

beasts to be devoured, and they that [be] in the forts and in

the caves shall die of the pestilence.

33:28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her

strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be

desolate, that none shall pass through.

33:29 Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD, when I have

laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations

which they have committed.

33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still

are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the

houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother,

saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh

forth from the LORD.

33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit

before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they

will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love,

[but] their heart goeth after their covetousness.

33:32 And, lo, thou [art] unto them as a very lovely song of one

that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument:

for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then

shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,

prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the

shepherds; Woe [be] to the shepherds of Israel that do feed

themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

34:3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill

them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.

34:4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye

healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that

which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was

driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but

with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

34:5 And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd:

and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they

were scattered.

34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every

high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the

earth, and none did search or seek [after them].

34:7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

34:8 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock

became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the

field, because [there was] no shepherd, neither did my

shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed

themselves, and fed not my flock;

34:9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

34:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against the

shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause

them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the

shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock

from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will

both search my sheep, and seek them out.

34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is

among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my

sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have

been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them

from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and

feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in

all the inhabited places of the country.

34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high

mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie

in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture shall they feed upon the

mountains of Israel.

34:15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down,

saith the Lord GOD.

34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that

which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was]

broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will

destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

34:17 And [as for] you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD;

Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and

the he goats.

34:18 [Seemeth it] a small thing unto you to have eaten up the

good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue

of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye

must foul the residue with your feet?

34:19 And [as for] my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden

with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with

your feet.

34:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I,

[even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the

lean cattle.

34:21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and

pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered

them abroad;

34:22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be

a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall

feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he

shall be their shepherd.

34:24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a

prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it].

34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will

cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall

dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a

blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his

season; there shall be showers of blessing.

34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the

earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their

land, and shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken

the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of

those that served themselves of them.

34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither

shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell

safely, and none shall make [them] afraid.

34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they

shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear

the shame of the heathen any more.

34:30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God [am] with

them, and [that] they, [even] the house of Israel, [are] my

people, saith the Lord GOD.

34:31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men, [and]

I [am] your God, saith the Lord GOD.

35:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

35:2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy

against it,

35:3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount

Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand

against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

35:4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate,

and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.

35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed

[the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword

in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their]

iniquity [had] an end:

35:6 Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare

thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast

not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

35:7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from

it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

35:8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain [men]: in thy

hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they

fall that are slain with the sword.

35:9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities

shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

35:10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two

countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the

LORD was there:

35:11 Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do

according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which

thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make

myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

35:12 And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I

have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against

the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they

are given us to consume.

35:13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have

multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].

35:14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I

will make thee desolate.

35:15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of

Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou

shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all of

it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

36:1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of

Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the

LORD:

36:2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said

against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in

possession:

36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

Because they have made [you] desolate, and swallowed you up on

every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of

the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and

[are] an infamy of the people:

36:4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the

Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the

hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate

wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a

prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that [are]

round about;

36:5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my

jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and

against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their

possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful

minds, to cast it out for a prey.

36:6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say

unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the

valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my

jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the

heathen:

36:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine

hand, Surely the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear

their shame.

36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your

branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they

are at hand to come.

36:9 For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto you, and

ye shall be tilled and sown:

36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,

[even] all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the

wastes shall be builded:

36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall

increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old

estates, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings:

and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

36:12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, [even] my people

Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their

inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them [of

men].

36:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou

[land] devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

36:14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave

thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

36:15 Neither will I cause [men] to hear in thee the shame of

the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of

the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to

fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.

36:16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own

land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings:

their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

36:18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that

they had shed upon the land, and for their idols [wherewith]

they had polluted it:

36:19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were

dispersed through the countries: according to their way and

according to their doings I judged them.

36:20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went,

they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These [are]

the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of

Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the

Lord GOD; I do not [this] for your sakes, O house of Israel,

but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the

heathen, whither ye went.

36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned

among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them;

and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, saith the Lord

GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you

out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be

clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will

I cleanse you.

36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I

put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of

your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk

in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].

36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your

fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I

will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine

upon you.

36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the

increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach

of famine among the heathen.

36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings

that [were] not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own

sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

36:32 Not for your sakes do I [this], saith the Lord GOD, be it

known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O

house of Israel.

36:33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have

cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause [you]

to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay

desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become

like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined

cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited.

36:36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know

that I the LORD build the ruined [places, and] plant that that

was desolate: I the LORD have spoken [it], and I will do [it].

36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be enquired

of by the house of Israel, to do [it] for them; I will increase

them with men like a flock.

36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn

feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men:

and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the

spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley

which [was] full of bones,

37:2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold,

[there were] very many in the open valley; and, lo, [they were]

very dry.

37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And

I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say

unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will

cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh

upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and

ye shall live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,

there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came

together, bone to his bone.

37:8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up

upon them, and the skin covered them above: but [there was] no

breath in them.

37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son

of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from

the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that

they may live.

37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came

into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an

exceeding great army.

37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the

whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried,

and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord

GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause

you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land

of Israel.

37:13 And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened

your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your

graves,

37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I

shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the

LORD have spoken [it], and performed [it], saith the LORD.

37:15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

37:16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write

upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his

companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For

Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel

his companions:

37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they

shall become one in thine hand.

37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,

saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou [meanest] by these?

37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will

take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim,

and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with

him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,

and they shall be one in mine hand.

37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand

before their eyes.

37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will

take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither

they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring

them into their own land:

37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the

mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:

and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be

divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their

idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their

transgressions: but I will save them out of all their

dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse

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

37:24 And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they

all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my

judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto

Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they

shall dwell therein, [even] they, and their children, and their

children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be]

their prince for ever.

37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it

shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place

them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst

of them for evermore.

37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be

their God, and they shall be my people.

37:28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify

Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for

evermore.

38:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,

the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against

him,

38:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against

thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and

I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and

horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even]

a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them

handling swords:

38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with

shield and helmet:

38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the

north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee.

38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all

thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard

unto them.

38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years

thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the

sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the

mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is

brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely

all of them.

38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like

a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many

people with thee.

38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass,

[that] at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and

thou shalt think an evil thought:

38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled

villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell

safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither

bars nor gates,

38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand

upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the

people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have

gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all

the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to

take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to

carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to

take a great spoil?

38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus

saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel

dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know [it]?

38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,

thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon

horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a

cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I

will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me,

when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; [Art] thou he of whom I have

spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which

prophesied in those days [many] years that I would bring thee

against them?

38:18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall

come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, [that] my

fury shall come up in my face.

38:19 For in my jealousy [and] in the fire of my wrath have I

spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in

the land of Israel;

38:20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the

heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things

that creep upon the earth, and all the men that [are] upon the

face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the

mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall

fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my

mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be

against his brother.

38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with

blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon

the many people that [are] with him, an overflowing rain, and

great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I

will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know

that I [am] the LORD.

39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog,

the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

39:2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of

thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and

will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

39:3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will

cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all

thy bands, and the people that [is] with thee: I will give thee

unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts of

the field to be devoured.

39:5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken

[it], saith the Lord GOD.

39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell

carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I [am] the

LORD.

39:7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people

Israel; and I will not [let them] pollute my holy name any

more: and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, the Holy

One in Israel.

39:8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD;

this [is] the day whereof I have spoken.

39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,

and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields

and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves,

and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither

cut down [any] out of the forests; for they shall burn the

weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled

them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give

unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the

passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the

[noses] of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and

all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of

Hamongog.

39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of

them, that they may cleanse the land.

39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it

shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified,

saith the Lord GOD.

39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,

passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that

remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end

of seven months shall they search.

39:15 And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when

[any] seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,

till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

39:16 And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus

shall they cleanse the land.

39:17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto

every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble

yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my

sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice

upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink

blood.

39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood

of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,

of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till

ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

39:20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and

chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the

Lord GOD.

39:21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the

heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand

that I have laid upon them.

39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I [am] the LORD

their God from that day and forward.

39:23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went

into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed

against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them

into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their

transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from

them.

39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again

the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of

Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their

trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they

dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid.

39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and

gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in

them in the sight of many nations;

39:28 Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD their God, which

caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I

have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of

them any more there.

39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have

poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord

GOD.

40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the

beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the

fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the

selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me

thither.

40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of

Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which [was] as

the frame of a city on the south.

40:3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was] a man,

whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a

line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in

the gate.

40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine

eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all

that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew

[them] unto thee [art] thou brought hither: declare all that

thou seest to the house of Israel.

40:5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about,

and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits [long] by

the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of

the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

40:6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east,

and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of

the gate, [which was] one reed broad; and the other threshold

[of the gate, which was] one reed broad.

40:7 And [every] little chamber [was] one reed long, and one

reed broad; and between the little chambers [were] five cubits;

and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within

[was] one reed.

40:8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and

the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate [was]

inward.

40:10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward [were] three

on this side, and three on that side; they three [were] of one

measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that

side.

40:11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten

cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

40:12 The space also before the little chambers [was] one cubit

[on this side], and the space [was] one cubit on that side: and

the little chambers [were] six cubits on this side, and six

cubits on that side.

40:13 He measured then the gate from the roof of [one] little

chamber to the roof of another: the breadth [was] five and

twenty cubits, door against door.

40:14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the

post of the court round about the gate.

40:15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the

face of the porch of the inner gate [were] fifty cubits.

40:16 And [there were] narrow windows to the little chambers,

and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to

the arches: and windows [were] round about inward: and upon

[each] post [were] palm trees.

40:17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, [there

were] chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about:

thirty chambers [were] upon the pavement.

40:18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the

length of the gates [was] the lower pavement.

40:19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the

lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an

hundred cubits eastward and northward.

40:20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the

north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

40:21 And the little chambers thereof [were] three on this side

and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches

thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length

thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty

cubits.

40:22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees,

[were] after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the

east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches

thereof [were] before them.

40:23 And the gate of the inner court [was] over against the

gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured

from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

40:24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a

gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and

the arches thereof according to these measures.

40:25 And [there were] windows in it and in the arches thereof

round about, like those windows: the length [was] fifty cubits,

and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

40:26 And [there were] seven steps to go up to it, and the

arches thereof [were] before them: and it had palm trees, one

on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

40:27 And [there was] a gate in the inner court toward the

south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an

hundred cubits.

40:28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate:

and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

40:29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof,

and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and [there

were] windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: [it

was] fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

40:30 And the arches round about [were] five and twenty cubits

long, and five cubits broad.

40:31 And the arches thereof [were] toward the utter court; and

palm trees [were] upon the posts thereof: and the going up to

it [had] eight steps.

40:32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east:

and he measured the gate according to these measures.

40:33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof,

and the arches thereof, [were] according to these measures: and

[there were] windows therein and in the arches thereof round

about: [it was] fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits

broad.

40:34 And the arches thereof [were] toward the outward court;

and palm trees [were] upon the posts thereof, on this side, and

on that side: and the going up to it [had] eight steps.

40:35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured [it]

according to these measures;

40:36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the

arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length

[was] fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

40:37 And the posts thereof [were] toward the utter court; and

palm trees [were] upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on

that side: and the going up to it [had] eight steps.

40:38 And the chambers and the entries thereof [were] by the

posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

40:39 And in the porch of the gate [were] two tables on this

side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt

offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

40:40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of

the north gate, [were] two tables; and on the other side, which

[was] at the porch of the gate, [were] two tables.

40:41 Four tables [were] on this side, and four tables on that

side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they

slew [their sacrifices].

40:42 And the four tables [were] of hewn stone for the burnt

offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half

broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the

instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the

sacrifice.

40:43 And within [were] hooks, an hand broad, fastened round

about: and upon the tables [was] the flesh of the offering.

40:44 And without the inner gate [were] the chambers of the

singers in the inner court, which [was] at the side of the

north gate; and their prospect [was] toward the south: one at

the side of the east gate [having] the prospect toward the

north.

40:45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect [is]

toward the south, [is] for the priests, the keepers of the

charge of the house.

40:46 And the chamber whose prospect [is] toward the north [is]

for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these

[are] the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near

to the LORD to minister unto him.

40:47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an

hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar [that was]

before the house.

40:48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured

[each] post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five

cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate [was] three

cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

40:49 The length of the porch [was] twenty cubits, and the

breadth eleven cubits; and [he brought me] by the steps whereby

they went up to it: and [there were] pillars by the posts, one

on this side, and another on that side.

41:1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the

posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad

on the other side, [which was] the breadth of the tabernacle.

41:2 And the breadth of the door [was] ten cubits; and the sides

of the door [were] five cubits on the one side, and five cubits

on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty

cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

41:3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two

cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door,

seven cubits.

41:4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the

breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me,

This [is] the most holy [place].

41:5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and

the breadth of [every] side chamber, four cubits, round about

the house on every side.

41:6 And the side chambers [were] three, one over another, and

thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which [was] of

the house for the side chambers round about, that they might

have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

41:7 And [there was] an enlarging, and a winding about still

upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house

went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth

of the house [was still] upward, and so increased [from] the

lowest [chamber] to the highest by the midst.

41:8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the

foundations of the side chambers [were] a full reed of six

great cubits.

41:9 The thickness of the wall, which [was] for the side chamber

without, [was] five cubits: and [that] which [was] left [was]

the place of the side chambers that [were] within.

41:10 And between the chambers [was] the wideness of twenty

cubits round about the house on every side.

41:11 And the doors of the side chambers [were] toward [the

place that was] left, one door toward the north, and another

door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was

left [was] five cubits round about.

41:12 Now the building that [was] before the separate place at

the end toward the west [was] seventy cubits broad; and the

wall of the building [was] five cubits thick round about, and

the length thereof ninety cubits.

41:13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the

separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an

hundred cubits long;

41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the

separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against

the separate place which [was] behind it, and the galleries

thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred

cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries

round about on their three stories, over against the door,

cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the

windows, and the windows [were] covered;

41:17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and

without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by

measure.

41:18 And [it was] made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a

palm tree [was] between a cherub and a cherub; and [every]

cherub had two faces;

41:19 So that the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree on

the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree

on the other side: [it was] made through all the house round

about.

41:20 From the ground unto above the door [were] cherubims and

palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.

41:21 The posts of the temple [were] squared, [and] the face of

the sanctuary; the appearance [of the one] as the appearance

[of the other].

41:22 The altar of wood [was] three cubits high, and the length

thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length

thereof, and the walls thereof, [were] of wood: and he said

unto me, This [is] the table that [is] before the LORD.

41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

41:24 And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves;

two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other

[door].

41:25 And [there were] made on them, on the doors of the temple,

cherubims and palm trees, like as [were] made upon the walls;

and [there were] thick planks upon the face of the porch

without.

41:26 And [there were] narrow windows and palm trees on the one

side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and

[upon] the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

42:1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way

toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that [was]

over against the separate place, and which [was] before the

building toward the north.

42:2 Before the length of an hundred cubits [was] the north

door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits.

42:3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which [were] for the inner

court, and over against the pavement which [was] for the utter

court, [was] gallery against gallery in three [stories].

42:4 And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits breadth

inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

42:5 Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries

were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost

of the building.

42:6 For they [were] in three [stories], but had not pillars as

the pillars of the courts: therefore [the building] was

straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the

ground.

42:7 And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers,

toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the

length thereof [was] fifty cubits.

42:8 For the length of the chambers that [were] in the utter

court [was] fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple [were] an

hundred cubits.

42:9 And from under these chambers [was] the entry on the east

side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

42:10 The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the

court toward the east, over against the separate place, and

over against the building.

42:11 And the way before them [was] like the appearance of the

chambers which [were] toward the north, as long as they, [and]

as broad as they: and all their goings out [were] both

according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

42:12 And according to the doors of the chambers that [were]

toward the south [was] a door in the head of the way, [even]

the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one

entereth into them.

42:13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers [and] the south

chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they [be] holy

chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall

eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy

things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the

trespass offering; for the place [is] holy.

42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out

of the holy [place] into the utter court, but there they shall

lay their garments wherein they minister; for they [are] holy;

and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to [those

things] which [are] for the people.

42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house,

he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect [is] toward

the east, and measured it round about.

42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five

hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

42:17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the

measuring reed round about.

42:18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the

measuring reed.

42:19 He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five

hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round

about, five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to

make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, [even] the gate that

looketh toward the east:

43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the

way of the east: and his voice [was] like a noise of many

waters: and the earth shined with his glory.

43:3 And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision

which I saw, [even] according to the vision that I saw when I

came to destroy the city: and the visions [were] like the

vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of

the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.

43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner

court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

43:6 And I heard [him] speaking unto me out of the house; and

the man stood by me.

43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne,

and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in

the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name,

shall the house of Israel no more defile, [neither] they, nor

their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their

kings in their high places.

43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and

their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they

have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they

have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of

their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them

for ever.

43:10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel,

that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them

measure the pattern.

43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew

them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the

goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the

forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the

forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write [it] in

their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all

the ordinances thereof, and do them.

43:12 This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the

mountain the whole limit thereof round about [shall be] most

holy. Behold, this [is] the law of the house.

43:13 And these [are] the measures of the altar after the

cubits: The cubit [is] a cubit and an hand breadth; even the

bottom [shall be] a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the

border thereof by the edge thereof round about [shall be] a

span: and this [shall be] the higher place of the altar.

43:14 And from the bottom [upon] the ground [even] to the lower

settle [shall be] two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and

from the lesser settle [even] to the greater settle [shall be]

four cubits, and the breadth [one] cubit.

43:15 So the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from the altar

and upward [shall be] four horns.

43:16 And the altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve

broad, square in the four squares thereof.

43:17 And the settle [shall be] fourteen [cubits] long and

fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border

about it [shall be] half a cubit; and the bottom thereof [shall

be] a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;

These [are] the ordinances of the altar in the day when they

shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to

sprinkle blood thereon.

43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of

the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me,

saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put [it] on

the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle,

and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and

purge it.

43:21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and

he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without

the sanctuary.

43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats

without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the

altar, as they did cleanse [it] with the bullock.

43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing [it], thou shalt

offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the

flock without blemish.

43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests

shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up [for] a

burnt offering unto the LORD.

43:25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat [for] a sin

offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram

out of the flock, without blemish.

43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and

they shall consecrate themselves.

43:27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, [that] upon

the eighth day, and [so] forward, the priests shall make your

burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I

will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

44:1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward

sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it [was] shut.

44:2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it

shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because

the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore

it shall be shut.

44:3 [It is] for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to

eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the

porch of [that] gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

44:4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the

house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled

the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.

44:5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and

behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say

unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the

LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in

of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

44:6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, [even] to the house

of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let

it suffice you of all your abominations,

44:7 In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers,

uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my

sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my

bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant

because of all your abominations.

44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye

have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

44:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in

heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my

sanctuary, of any stranger that [is] among the children of

Israel.

44:10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when

Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their

idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, [having]

charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house:

they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the

people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

44:12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and

caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore

have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD,

and they shall bear their iniquity.

44:13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of

a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in

the most holy [place]: but they shall bear their shame, and

their abominations which they have committed.

44:14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house,

for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done

therein.

44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept

the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went

astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me,

and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the

blood, saith the Lord GOD:

44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come

near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my

charge.

44:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] when they enter in at

the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen

garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they

minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

44:18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall

have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird

[themselves] with any thing that causeth sweat.

44:19 And when they go forth into the utter court, [even] into

the utter court to the people, they shall put off their

garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy

chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall

not sanctify the people with their garments.

44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their

locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into

the inner court.

44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her

that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of

the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

44:23 And they shall teach my people [the difference] between

the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the

unclean and the clean.

44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; [and]

they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall

keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they

shall hallow my sabbaths.

44:25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile

themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for

daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband,

they may defile themselves.

44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven

days.

44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the

inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his

sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.

44:28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I [am] their

inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I

[am] their possession.

44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering,

and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel

shall be theirs.

44:30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all [things], and

every oblation of all, of every [sort] of your oblations, shall

be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first

of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine

house.

44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of

itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for

inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy

portion of the land: the length [shall be] the length of five

and twenty thousand [reeds], and the breadth [shall be] ten

thousand. This [shall be] holy in all the borders thereof round

about.

45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred [in

length], with five hundred [in breadth], square round about;

and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

45:3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five

and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it

shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].

45:4 The holy [portion] of the land shall be for the priests the

ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister

unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an

holy place for the sanctuary.

45:5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten

thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of

the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty

chambers.

45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five

thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against

the oblation of the holy [portion]: it shall be for the whole

house of Israel.

45:7 And a [portion shall be] for the prince on the one side and

on the other side of the oblation of the holy [portion], and of

the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy

[portion], and before the possession of the city, from the west

side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length

[shall be] over against one of the portions, from the west

border unto the east border.

45:8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my

princes shall no more oppress my people; and [the rest of] the

land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their

tribes.

45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of

Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and

justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the

Lord GOD.

45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just

bath.

45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the

bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the

tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the

homer.

45:12 And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels,

five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

45:13 This [is] the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part

of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth

part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye

shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which

is] an homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer:

45:15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of

the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a

burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation

for them, saith the Lord GOD.

45:16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for

the prince in Israel.

45:17 And it shall be the prince's part [to give] burnt

offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the

feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all

solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin

offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and

the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of

Israel.

45:18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first [month], in the

first [day] of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock

without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin

offering, and put [it] upon the posts of the house, and upon

the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts

of the gate of the inner court.

45:20 And so thou shalt do the seventh [day] of the month for

every one that erreth, and for [him that is] simple: so shall

ye reconcile the house.

45:21 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month,

ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened

bread shall be eaten.

45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and

for all the people of the land a bullock [for] a sin offering.

45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt

offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without

blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily

[for] a sin offering.

45:24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a

bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an

ephah.

45:25 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month,

shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according

to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and

according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

46:1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that

looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but

on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new

moon it shall be opened.

46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of

[that] gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate,

and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace

offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate:

then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until

the evening.

46:3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door

of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new

moons.

46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the

LORD in the sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without blemish,

and a ram without blemish.

46:5 And the meat offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and

the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give,

and an hin of oil to an ephah.

46:6 And in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a young

bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall

be without blemish.

46:7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a

bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as

his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way

of the porch of [that] gate, and he shall go forth by the way

thereof.

46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD

in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the

north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south

gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall

go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by

the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over

against it.

46:10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in,

shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering

shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to

the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

46:12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt

offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, [one]

shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and

he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as

he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after

his going forth [one] shall shut the gate.

46:13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD

[of] a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt

prepare it every morning.

46:14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every

morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an

hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering

continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering,

and the oil, every morning [for] a continual burnt offering.

46:16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto

any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it

[shall be] their possession by inheritance.

46:17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his

servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it

shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his

sons' for them.

46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's

inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their

possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out of his

own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from

his possession.

46:19 After he brought me through the entry, which [was] at the

side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which

looked toward the north: and, behold, there [was] a place on

the two sides westward.

46:20 Then said he unto me, This [is] the place where the

priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering,

where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear [them]

not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

46:21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused

me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in

every corner of the court [there was] a court.

46:22 In the four corners of the court [there were] courts

joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four

corners [were] of one measure.

46:23 And [there was] a row [of building] round about in them,

round about them four, and [it was] made with boiling places

under the rows round about.

46:24 Then said he unto me, These [are] the places of them that

boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice

of the people.

47:1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house;

and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the

house eastward: for the forefront of the house [stood toward]

the east, and the waters came down from under from the right

side of the house, at the south [side] of the altar.

47:2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward,

and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way

that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the

right side.

47:3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth

eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me

through the waters; the waters [were] to the ankles.

47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the

waters; the waters [were] to the knees. Again he measured a

thousand, and brought me through; the waters [were] to the

loins.

47:5 Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that

I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to

swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

47:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]?

Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the

river.

47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river

[were] very many trees on the one side and on the other.

47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the

east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea:

[which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be

healed.

47:9 And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that liveth,

which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live:

and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because

these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and

every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

47:10 And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall stand

upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a [place]

to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their

kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

47:11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall

not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and

on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall

not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall

bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their

waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof

shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

47:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [shall be] the border,

whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve

tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.

47:14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:

[concerning] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto

your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for

inheritance.

47:15 And this [shall be] the border of the land toward the

north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go

to Zedad;

47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which [is] between the border

of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which [is]

by the coast of Hauran.

47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border

of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath.

And [this is] the north side.

47:18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from

Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel [by]

Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And [this is] the

east side.

47:19 And the south side southward, from Tamar [even] to the

waters of strife [in] Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And

[this is] the south side southward.

47:20 The west side also [shall be] the great sea from the

border, till a man come over against Hamath. This [is] the west

side.

47:21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the

tribes of Israel.

47:22 And it shall come to pass, [that] ye shall divide it by

lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that

sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and

they shall be unto you as born in the country among the

children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among

the tribes of Israel.

47:23 And it shall come to pass, [that] in what tribe the

stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give [him] his inheritance,

saith the Lord GOD.

48:1 Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north end

to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,

Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of

Hamath; for these are his sides east [and] west; a [portion

for] Dan.

48:2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west

side, a [portion for] Asher.

48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto

the west side, a [portion for] Naphtali.

48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the

west side, a [portion for] Manasseh.

48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the

west side, a [portion for] Ephraim.

48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto

the west side, a [portion for] Reuben.

48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the

west side, a [portion for] Judah.

48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the

west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five

and twenty thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one

of the [other] parts, from the east side unto the west side:

and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

48:9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD [shall be]

of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in

breadth.

48:10 And for them, [even] for the priests, shall be [this] holy

oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand [in

length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and

toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south

five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the

LORD shall be in the midst thereof.

48:11 [It shall be] for the priests that are sanctified of the

sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray

when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went

astray.

48:12 And [this] oblation of the land that is offered shall be

unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

48:13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites

[shall have] five and twenty thousand in length, and ten

thousand in breadth: all the length [shall be] five and twenty

thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

48:14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor

alienate the firstfruits of the land: for [it is] holy unto the

LORD.

48:15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over

against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane

[place] for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the

city shall be in the midst thereof.

48:16 And these [shall be] the measures thereof; the north side

four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four

thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand

and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five

hundred.

48:17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two

hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty,

and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west

two hundred and fifty.

48:18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the

holy [portion shall be] ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand

westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy

[portion]; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them

that serve the city.

48:19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the

tribes of Israel.

48:20 All the oblation [shall be] five and twenty thousand by

five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation

foursquare, with the possession of the city.

48:21 And the residue [shall be] for the prince, on the one side

and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of

the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the

oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the

five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against

the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation;

and the sanctuary of the house [shall be] in the midst thereof.

48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the

possession of the city, [being] in the midst [of that] which is

the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of

Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

48:23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the

west side, Benjamin [shall have] a [portion].

48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the

west side, Simeon [shall have] a [portion].

48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the

west side, Issachar a [portion].

48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the

west side, Zebulun a [portion].

48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the

west side, Gad a [portion].

48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the

border shall be even from Tamar [unto] the waters of strife

[in] Kadesh, [and] to the river toward the great sea.

48:29 This [is] the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the

tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these [are] their

portions, saith the Lord GOD.

48:30 And these [are] the goings out of the city on the north

side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

48:31 And the gates of the city [shall be] after the names of

the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of

Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and

three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one

gate of Dan.

48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred

measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of

Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, [with]

their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate

of Naphtali.

48:35 [It was] round about eighteen thousand [measures]: and the

name of the city from [that] day [shall be], The LORD [is]

there.

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