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