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.
In the fifth day
of the month,
which was
the fifth year
of king
Jehoiachin's captivity,
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.
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.
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.
And every one
had four faces,
and every one
had four wings.
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.
And they
had
the hands
of a man
under their wings
on their four sides;
and
they four
had their faces
and their wings.
Their wings
were joined one
to another;
they turned not
when they went;
they went every one
straight forward.
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.
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.
And
they went every one
straight forward:
whither
the spirit
was to go,
they went;
and
they turned not
when they went.
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.
And the living creatures
ran
and returned
as the appearance
of a flash
of lightning.
Now as I
beheld the living creatures,
behold one wheel
upon the earth
by the living creatures,
with his four faces.
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.
When they went,
they went upon their four sides:
and
they turned not
when they went.
As for their rings,
they were so high
that
they were dreadful;
and their rings
were full of
eyes round
about them four.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And there was
a voice
from the firmament
that was over their heads,
when they stood,
and had let down
their wings.
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.
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.
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.
And
he said unto me,
Son of man,
stand
upon thy feet,
and
I will speak
unto thee.
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.
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.
For they
are impudent children
and stiffhearted.
I do send thee
unto them;
and
thou
shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
And
thou shalt speak
my words
unto them,
whether they
will hear,
or whether
they will forbear:
for they
are most rebellious.
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.
And
when I looked,
behold,
an hand
was sent unto me;
and,
lo,
a roll
of a book
was therein;
And he spread it
before me;
and it
was written within and without:
and there was written therein
lamentations,
and mourning,
and woe.
Moreover he
said unto me,
Son of man,
eat that
thou findest;
eat this roll,
and go
speak
unto the house
of Israel.
So I
opened my mouth,
and
he caused me
to eat
that roll.
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.
And
he said unto me,
Son of man,
go,
get thee
unto the house
of Israel,
and speak
with my words
unto them.
For thou art
not sent
to a people
of a strange speech
and of an hard language,
but to the house
of Israel;
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.
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.
Behold,
I have made thy
face strong
against their faces,
and thy forehead strong
against their foreheads.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then I
came
to them
of the captivity
at Telabib,
that dwelt
by the river
of Chebar,
and I
sat
where they sat,
and remained
there astonished
among them seven days.
And it
came
to pass
at the end
of seven days,
that the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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.
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.
Again,
When a righteous man
doth turn
from his righteousness,
and commit
iniquity,
and I
lay
a stumbling-block
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Thou also,
son of man,
take thee
a tile,
and lay it
before thee,
and pourtray
upon it the city,
even Jerusalem:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Therefore thou
shalt set
thy face toward
the siege
of Jerusalem,
and thine
arm
shall be uncovered,
and
thou shalt prophesy
against it.
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.
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.
And thy meat which
thou shalt eat
shall be
by weight,
twenty shekels a day:
from time to time
shalt thou
eat it.
Thou shalt drink
also water
by measure,
the sixth part
of an hin:
from time to time
shalt thou drink.
And
thou shalt eat
it as barley cakes,
and
thou shalt bake
it with dung
that cometh out of man,
in their sight.
And the LORD said,
Even thus
shall
the children
of Israel
eat their defiled bread
among the Gentiles,
whither
I will drive them.
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.
Then
he said unto me,
Lo,
I have given
thee cow's dung
for man's dung,
and
thou shalt prepare
thy bread therewith.
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:
That they
may want bread
and water,
and be astonied one
with another,
and consume away
for their iniquity.
And thou,
son of man,
take thee a sharp knife,
take thee
a barber's razor,
and cause
it to pass
upon thine head
and
upon thy beard:
then take thee balances
to weigh,
and divide
the hair.
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.
Thou shalt also take thereof
a few in number,
and bind them
in thy skirts.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face toward the mountains
of Israel,
and
prophesy against them,
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.
And your altars
shall be desolate,
and your images
shall be broken:
and I
will cast
down your slain men
before your idols.
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.
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.
And the slain
shall fall
in the midst
of you,
and ye
shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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.
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
An evil,
an only evil,
behold,
is come.
An end
is come,
the end
is come:
it watcheth for thee;
behold,
it is come.
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.
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.
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.
Behold the day,
behold,
it is come:
the morning
is gone forth;
the rod
hath blossomed,
pride hath budded.
Violence is risen up into a rod
of wickedness:
none of them
shall remain,
nor
of their multitude,
nor
of any
of their's:
neither shall there be
wailing for them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All hands
shall be feeble,
and all knees
shall be weak
as water.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Make a chain:
for the land
is full of bloody crimes,
and the city
is full of violence.
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.
Destruction cometh;
and
they shall seek peace,
and there shall be none.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And,
behold,
the glory
of the God
of Israel
was there,
according to
the vision
that I
saw
in the plain.
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.
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.
And
he brought me
to the door
of the court;
and
when I looked,
behold a hole
in the wall.
Then said
he unto me,
Son of man,
dig
now in the wall:
and
when
I had digged
in the wall,
behold a door.
And
he said unto me,
Go in,
and behold
the wicked abominations that
they do here.
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.
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.
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.
He said also unto me,
Turn thee
yet again,
and
thou shalt see
greater abominations that
they do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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:
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.
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.
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?
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.
And
as for me also,
mine
eye
shall not spare,
neither will
I have pity,
but
I will recompense
their way
upon their head.
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.
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.
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.
Now the cherubims
stood
on the right side
of the house,
when the man went in;
and the cloud
filled the inner court.
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.
And
the sound
of the cherubims' wings
was heard even
to the outer court,
as the voice
of the Almighty God
when he speaketh.
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.
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.
And there appeared
in the cherubims the form
of a man's hand
under their wings.
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.
And
as for their appearances,
they four
had one likeness,
as if a wheel
had been
in the midst
of a wheel.
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.
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.
As for the wheels,
it was cried
unto them
in my hearing,
O wheel.
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.
And the cherubims
were lifted up.
This is
the living creature
that I
saw
by the river
of Chebar.
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.
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.
Then
the glory
of the LORD
departed from
off the threshold
of the house,
and stood
over the cherubims.
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.
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.
Every one
had four
faces apiece,
and every one four wings;
and the likeness
of the hands
of a man
was under their wings.
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.
Moreover the spirit
lifted me up,
and brought me
unto the east gate
of the LORD's house,
which looketh eastward:
and behold
at the door
of the gate five
and twenty men;
among whom
I saw Jaazaniah
the son
of Azur,
and Pelatiah
the son
of Benaiah,
princes
of the people.
Then said
he unto me,
Son of man,
these are
the men that
devise mischief,
and give wicked counsel
in this city:
Which say,
It is not near;
let us
build houses:
this city
is the caldron,
and
we be
the flesh.
Therefore prophesy against them,
prophesy,
O son of man.
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.
Ye have multiplied
your slain
in this city,
and
ye have filled
the streets
thereof with the slain.
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.
Ye have feared
the sword;
and I
will bring
a sword
upon you,
saith the Lord GOD.
And
I will bring you
out of the midst
thereof,
and deliver you
into the hands
of strangers,
and will execute judgments
among you.
Ye shall fall
by the sword;
I will judge you
in the border
of Israel;
and ye
shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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:
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.
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?
Again
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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.
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.
And
they shall come thither,
and they
shall take away all
the detestable things
thereof
and all
the abominations
thereof from thence.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then
I spake unto them
of the captivity all
the things
that the LORD
had shewed me.
The word
of the LORD
also came unto me,
saying,
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.
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.
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.
Dig
thou through the wall
in their sight,
and carry out
thereby.
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.
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.
And
in the morning
came the word
of the LORD
unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
hath not
the house
of Israel,
the rebellious house,
said unto thee,
What doest thou?
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.
Say,
I am your sign:
like as I
have done,
so shall
it be done unto them:
they shall remove
and go
into captivity.
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.
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.
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.
And
they shall know
that I
am the LORD,
when
I shall scatter them
among the nations,
and disperse them
in the countries.
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.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came to me,
saying,
Son of man,
eat thy bread
with quaking,
and drink thy
water
with trembling
and
with carefulness;
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.
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.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
what is
that proverb that
ye have
in the land
of Israel,
saying,
The days
are prolonged,
and every vision faileth?
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.
For there shall be
no more any vain vision
nor flattering divination
within the house
of Israel.
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.
Again
the word
of the LORD
came to me,
saying.
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.
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.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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;
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe
unto the foolish prophets,
that follow
their own spirit,
and have seen
nothing!
O Israel,
thy prophets
are like
the foxes
in the deserts.
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.
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.
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?
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Because
ye have spoken
vanity,
and seen lies,
therefore,
behold,
I am against you,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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:
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.
Lo,
when the wall
is fallen,
shall
it not be said
unto you,
Where
is
the daubing wherewith
ye have daubed it?
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.
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.
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;
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.
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,
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?
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?
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.
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.
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:
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.
Then came certain
of the elders
of Israel
unto me,
and sat
before me.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
these men
have set up their idols
in their heart,
and put
the stumblingblock
of their iniquity
before their face:
should
I be enquired of
at all by them?
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;
That I
may take
the house
of Israel
in their own heart,
because
they are all estranged
from me
through their idols.
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.
For every one
of the house
of Israel,
or of the stranger
that sojourneth in Israel,
which separateth himself from me,
and setteth up his idols
in his heart,
and putteth
the stumblingblock
of his iniquity
before his face,
and cometh to a prophet to
enquire of him
concerning me;
I the LORD
will answer him
by myself:
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.
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.
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;
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.
The word
of the LORD
came again to me,
saying,
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:
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
what is
the vine tree
more than any tree,
or than
a branch
which is among the trees
of the forest?
Shall wood
be taken thereof
to do any work?
or will men
take a pin
of it
to hang any vessel thereon?
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?
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?
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.
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.
And
I will make
the land desolate,
because
they have committed
a trespass,
saith the Lord GOD.
Again
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
cause Jerusalem
to know
her abominations,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then washed
I thee
with water;
yea,
I throughly washed away thy blood
from thee,
and
I anointed thee
with oil.
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.
I decked thee
also with ornaments,
and
I put bracelets
upon thy hands,
and a chain
on thy neck.
And I put
a jewel
on thy forehead,
and earrings
in thine ears,
and a beautiful crown
upon thine head.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
And tookest thy broidered garments,
and coveredst them:
and thou
hast set
mine
oil
and mine
incense
before them.
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.
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,
That thou
hast slain
my children,
and delivered them
to cause them
to pass
through the fire
for them?
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.
And it
came to pass
after all
thy wickedness,
(woe,
woe unto thee!
saith the LORD GOD;)
That thou
hast also built
unto thee
an eminent place,
and hast made
thee an high place
in every street.
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.
Thou hast also committed fornication
with the Egyptians thy neighbours,
great of flesh;
and hast increased
thy whoredoms,
to provoke me
to anger.
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.
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.
Thou hast moreover multiplied
thy fornication
in the land
of Canaan
unto Chaldea;
and yet
thou wast not satisfied
therewith.
How weak
is thine heart,
saith the LORD GOD,
seeing
thou doest all
these things,
the work
of an imperious whorish woman;
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;
But as a wife
that committeth adultery,
which taketh strangers
instead of her husband!
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.
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.
Wherefore,
O harlot,
hear the word
of the LORD:
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;
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.
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.
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.
They shall also bring
up a company
against thee,
and
they shall stone thee
with stones,
and thrust thee
through
with their swords.
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.
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.
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.
Behold,
every one that
useth
proverbs
shall use
this proverb
against thee,
saying,
As is the mother,
so is her daughter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Behold,
this was the iniquity
of thy sister Sodom,
pride,
fulness of bread,
and
abundance
of idleness
was in her
and in her daughters,
neither did
she strengthen
the hand
of the poor
and needy.
And
they were haughty,
and committed abomination
before me:
therefore I
took them away as I
saw good.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
For thy sister
Sodom
was not mentioned
by thy
mouth
in the day
of thy pride,
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.
Thou hast borne
thy lewdness
and thine abominations,
saith the LORD.
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.
Nevertheless
I will remember
my covenant
with thee
in the days
of thy youth,
and
I will establish
unto thee
an everlasting covenant.
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.
And
I will establish
my covenant
with thee;
and
thou shalt know
that I
am the LORD:
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.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
put forth a riddle,
and speak
a parable
unto the house
of Israel;
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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;
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:
That the kingdom
might be base,
that it
might not lift itself up,
but
that by keeping
of his covenant it
might stand.
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?
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
And all
the trees
of the field
shall know
that I
the LORD
have brought down
the high tree,
have exalted
the low tree,
have dried
up the green tree,
and have made
the dry tree
to flourish:
I the LORD
have spoken
and have done it.
The word
of the LORD
came
unto me again,
saying,
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?
As I live,
saith the Lord GOD,
ye shall not have
occasion any more
to use this proverb
in Israel.
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.
But
if a man
be just,
and do
that which
is lawful
and right,
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,
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;
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,
Hath walked
in my statutes,
and hath kept
my judgments,
to deal truly;
he is just,
he shall surely live,
saith the Lord GOD.
If he
beget a son
that is
a robber,
a shedder
of blood,
and that
doeth
the like
to any one
of these things,
And that
doeth not any
of those duties,
but even hath eaten
upon the mountains,
and defiled
his neighbour's wife,
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,
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.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All his transgressions that
he hath committed,
they shall not be mentioned
unto him:
in his righteousness
that
he hath done
he shall live.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
Because
he considereth,
and turneth away
from all
his transgressions that
he hath committed,
he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
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?
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.
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?
For I
have no pleasure
in the death
of him that dieth,
saith the Lord GOD:
wherefore turn yourselves,
and live ye.
Moreover take
thou up a lamentation
for the princes
of Israel,
And say,
What
is thy mother?
A lioness:
she lay down
among lions,
she nourished her whelps
among young lions.
And she
brought
up one
of her whelps:
it became
a young lion,
and it
learned
to catch
the prey;
it devoured men.
The nations
also heard of him;
he was taken
in their pit,
and
they brought him
with chains
unto the land
of Egypt.
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.
And
he went up and down
among the lions,
he became
a young lion,
and learned
to catch the prey,
and devoured men.
And
he knew their desolate palaces,
and
he laid
waste their cities;
and the land
was desolate,
and the fulness
thereof,
by the noise
of his roaring.
Then the nations
set
against him
on every side
from the provinces,
and spread
their net
over him:
he was taken
in their pit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And
now
she is planted
in the wilderness,
in a dry
and thirsty ground.
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.
And it
came
to pass
in the seventh year,
in the fifth month,
the tenth day
of the month,
that certain
of the elders
of Israel
came
to enquire
of the LORD,
and sat
before me.
Then came
the word
of the LORD
unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
speak
unto the elders
of Israel,
and
say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Are ye come
to enquire of me?
As I live,
saith the Lord GOD,
I will not be enquired of
by you.
Wilt
thou judge them,
son of man,
wilt thou
judge them?
cause them
to know
the abominations
of their fathers:
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;
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:
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.
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.
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.
Wherefore
I caused them
to go forth
out of the land
of Egypt,
and brought them
into the wilderness.
And
I gave them
my statutes,
and shewed them
my judgments,
which if a man do,
he shall even live in them.
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.
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.
But I
wrought
for my name's sake,
that it
should not be polluted
before the heathen,
in whose sight
I brought them out.
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;
Because
they despised
my judgments,
and walked not
in my statutes,
but polluted my sabbaths:
for their heart
went after their idols.
Nevertheless
mine
eye
spared them
from destroying them,
neither did
I make
an end
of them
in the wilderness.
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:
I am the LORD
your God;
walk
in my statutes,
and keep
my judgments,
and do them;
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
Wherefore
I gave them also
statutes
that were not good,
and judgments
whereby
they should not live;
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.
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.
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.
Then
I said unto them,
What
is
the high
place whereunto
ye go?
And the name
whereof is called Bamah
unto this day.
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?
For when
ye offer
your gifts,
when
ye make
your sons
to pass
through the fire,
ye pollute yourselves
with all
your idols,
even unto
this day:
and shall
I be enquired of
by you,
O house
of Israel?
As I live,
saith the Lord GOD,
I will not be enquired of
by you.
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.
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:
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.
And
I will bring you
into the wilderness
of the people,
and there will
I plead
with you
face to face.
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.
And I
will cause
you
to pass
under the rod,
and
I will bring you
into the bond
of the covenant:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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;
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.
And all flesh
shall see
that I
the LORD
have kindled it:
it shall not be quenched.
Then said I,
Ah Lord GOD!
they say of me,
Doth
he not speak parables?
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face toward
Jerusalem,
and drop thy
word toward
the holy places,
and prophesy
against the land
of Israel,
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.
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:
That all flesh
may know
that I
the LORD
have drawn
forth my sword
out of his sheath:
it shall not return
any more.
Sigh therefore,
thou son of man,
with the breaking
of thy loins;
and
with bitterness
sigh
before their eyes.
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.
Again
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
prophesy,
and say,
Thus saith the LORD;
Say,
A sword,
a sword
is sharpened,
and also furbished:
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.
And
he hath given it
to be furbished,
that it
may be handled:
this sword
is sharpened,
and it
is furbished,
to give it
into the hand
of the slayer.
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.
Because
it is a trial,
and
what
if the sword contemn
even the rod?
it shall be no more,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
Go thee one way
or other,
either on the right hand,
or on the left,
whithersoever
thy face
is set.
I will also smite
mine
hands together,
and I
will cause
my fury
to rest:
I the LORD
have said it.
The word
of the LORD
came
unto me again,
saying,
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.
Appoint a way,
that the sword
may come
to Rabbath
of the Ammonites,
and to Judah
in Jerusalem the defenced.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And thou,
profane wicked prince
of Israel,
whose day
is come,
when iniquity
shall have
an end,
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
And
I will pour
out mine indignation
upon thee,
I will blow
against thee
in the fire
of my wrath,
and deliver thee
into the hand
of brutish men,
and skilful
to destroy.
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.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Now,
thou son of man,
wilt thou judge,
wilt thou
judge the bloody city?
yea,
thou shalt shew
her all
her abominations.
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.
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.
Those that
be near,
and those that
be far
from thee,
shall mock thee,
which art infamous
and much vexed.
Behold,
the princes
of Israel,
every one
were in thee
to their power
to shed blood.
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.
Thou hast despised
mine holy things,
and hast profaned
my sabbaths.
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.
In thee
have
they discovered
their fathers' nakedness:
in thee
have
they
humbled
her that
was set apart
for pollution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And
I will scatter thee
among the heathen,
and disperse thee
in the countries,
and will consume
thy filthiness
out of thee.
And
thou shalt take
thine inheritance
in thyself
in the sight
of the heathen,
and
thou shalt know
that I
am the LORD.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Because
ye are all become dross,
behold,
therefore I
will gather you
into the midst
of Jerusalem.
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.
Yea,
I will gather you,
and blow upon you
in the fire
of my wrath,
and
ye shall be melted
in the midst therof.
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.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
say unto her,
Thou art the land
that is not cleansed,
nor rained upon
in the day
of indignation.
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.
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.
Her princes
in the midst
thereof are like wolves ravening
the prey,
to shed blood,
and to destroy souls,
to get dishonest gain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The word
of the LORD
came again unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
there were two women,
the daughters
of one mother:
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.
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.
And Aholah
played the harlot
when
she was mine;
and she
doted on
her lovers,
on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Which were clothed
with blue,
captains
and rulers,
all of them desirable young men,
horsemen
riding upon horses.
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.
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.
Wherefore
I have delivered her
into the hand
of her lovers,
into the hand
of the Assyrians,
upon whom she doted.
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.
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.
She doted
upon the Assyrians her neighbours,
captains
and rulers
clothed most gorgeously,
horsemen
riding upon horses,
all of them desirable young men.
Then I
saw that
she was defiled,
that they
took both one way,
And
that she
increased
her whoredoms:
for when
she saw men pourtrayed
upon the wall,
the images
of the Chaldeans pourtrayed
with vermilion,
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:
And
as soon as she
saw them
with her eyes,
she doted upon them,
and sent messengers
unto them
into Chaldea.
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.
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.
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.
For she doted
upon their paramours,
whose flesh
is as the flesh
of asses,
and whose issue
is like
the issue
of horses.
Thus
thou calledst to remembrance
the lewdness
of thy youth,
in bruising
thy teats
by the Egyptians
for the paps
of thy youth.
Therefore,
O Aholibah,
thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold,
I will raise
up thy lovers
against thee,
from whom
thy mind
is alienated,
and
I will bring them
against thee
on every side;
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.
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.
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.
They shall also strip thee
out of thy clothes,
and take away thy
fair jewels.
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.
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:
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.
I will do these things
unto thee,
because
thou hast gone
a whoring
after the heathen,
and
because
thou art
polluted
with their idols.
Thou hast walked
in the way
of thy sister;
therefore will
I give
her cup
into thine hand.
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.
Thou shalt be filled
with drunkenness
and sorrow,
with the cup
of astonishment
and desolation,
with the cup
of thy sister Samaria.
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.
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.
The LORD
said moreover unto me;
Son of man,
wilt
thou judge Aholah
and Aholibah?
yea,
declare unto them their abominations;
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.
Moreover this
they
have done unto me:
they have defiled
my sanctuary
in the same day,
and have profaned
my sabbaths.
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.
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,
And satest upon a stately bed,
and a table
prepared
before it,
whereupon
thou hast set
mine
incense
and mine oil.
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.
Then said
I unto her that
was old
in adulteries,
Will
they now commit whoredoms
with her,
and she with them?
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.
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.
For thus
saith the Lord GOD;
I will bring
up a company
upon them,
and will give them
to be removed
and spoiled.
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.
Thus
will
I cause lewdness
to cease
out of the land,
that all women
may be taught not
to do
after your lewdness.
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.
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,
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.
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:
Gather the pieces
thereof into it,
even every good piece,
the thigh,
and the shoulder;
fill it
with the choice bones.
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.
Wherefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Woe
to the bloody city,
to the pot
whose scum
is therein,
and whose scum
is not gone out of it!
bring it
out piece by piece;
let no lot
fall
upon it.
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;
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.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Woe
to the bloody city!
I will even make
the pile
for fire great.
Heap on wood,
kindle the fire,
consume the flesh,
and spice it well,
and let
the bones
be burned.
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.
She hath wearied herself
with lies,
and her great scum
went not
forth out of her:
her scum
shall be
in the fire.
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.
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.
Also the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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.
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.
And the people
said unto me,
Wilt
thou not tell us
what these things
are to us,
that thou
doest so?
Then
I answered them,
The word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
And ye
shall do as I
have done:
ye shall not cover
your lips,
nor eat
the bread
of men.
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.
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.
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,
That he
that escapeth in that day
shall come
unto thee,
to cause
thee to hear it
with thine ears?
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.
The word
of the LORD
came again unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face
against the Ammonites,
and
prophesy against them;
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;
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.
And
I will make Rabbah
a stable
for camels,
and the Ammonites a
couching
place for flocks:
and ye
shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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;
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because that Moab
and Seir
do say,
Behold,
the house
of Judah
is like
unto all the heathen;
Therefore,
behold,
I will open the side
of Moab
from the cities,
from his cities
which are on his frontiers,
the glory
of the country,
Bethjeshimoth,
Baalmeon,
and Kiriathaim,
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.
And
I will execute judgments
upon Moab;
and
they shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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;
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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,
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:
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.
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.
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.
And her daughters
which are in the field
shall be slain
by the sword;
and
they shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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.
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.
And
he shall set engines
of war
against thy walls,
and with his axes
he shall break down
thy towers.
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.
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.
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.
And I
will cause
the noise
of thy songs
to cease;
and the sound
of thy
harps
shall be
no more heard.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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;
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;
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.
The word
of the LORD
came again unto me,
saying,
Now,
thou son of man,
take up
a lamentation
for Tyrus;
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.
Thy borders
are in the midst
of the seas,
thy builders
have perfected
thy beauty.
They
have made all thy
ship
boards
of fir trees
of Senir:
they have taken cedars
from Lebanon
to make masts
for thee.
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.
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.
The inhabitants
of Zidon
and Arvad
were thy mariners:
thy wise men,
O Tyrus,
that were in thee,
were thy pilots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Javan,
Tubal,
and Meshech,
they were thy merchants:
they traded
the persons
of men
and vessels
of brass in thy market.
They of the house
of Togarmah
traded
in thy
fairs
with horses
and horsemen
and mules.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dan
also and Javan
going
to
and fro
occupied
in thy fairs:
bright iron,
cassia,
and calamus,
were in thy market.
Dedan was thy merchant
in precious clothes
for chariots.
Arabia,
and all
the princes
of Kedar,
they occupied
with thee
in lambs,
and rams,
and goats:
in these
were
they thy merchants.
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.
Haran,
and Canneh,
and Eden,
the merchants
of Sheba, Asshur,
and Chilmad,
were thy merchants.
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.
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.
Thy rowers
have brought thee
into great waters:
the east wind
hath broken thee
in the midst
of the seas.
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.
The suburbs
shall shake
at the sound
of the cry of thy pilots.
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;
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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The merchants
among the people
shall hiss
at thee;
thou shalt be
a terror,
and never shalt be
any more.
The word
of the LORD
came again unto me,
saying,
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:
Behold,
thou art wiser
than Daniel;
there is
no secret
that they
can hide
from thee:
With thy wisdom
and
with thine
understanding
thou hast gotten thee riches,
and hast gotten
gold
and silver
into thy treasures:
By thy great wisdom
and
by thy traffick
hast
thou increased
thy riches,
and thine heart
is lifted up
because of thy riches:
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Because
thou hast set
thine heart
as the heart
of God;
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.
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.
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.
Thou shalt die
the deaths
of the uncircumcised
by the hand
of strangers:
for I
have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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.
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.
Thou wast
perfect in thy ways
from the day
that thou
wast created,
till iniquity
was found
in thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Again
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face
against Zidon,
and prophesy
against it,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the tenth year,
in the tenth month,
in the twelfth day
of the month,
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face
against Pharaoh king
of Egypt,
and
prophesy against him,
and
against all Egypt:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Behold,
I will bring a sword
upon thee,
and cut off man
and beast
out of thee.
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.
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.
No foot of man
shall pass
through it,
nor foot of beast
shall pass
through it,
neither shall
it be inhabited
forty years.
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.
Yet thus
saith the Lord GOD;
At the end
of forty years
will
I gather
the Egyptians
from the people
whither
they were scattered:
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.
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.
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.
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,
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:
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.
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.
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.
The word
of the LORD
came again unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
prophesy and say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Howl ye,
Woe worth the day!
For the day
is near,
even
the day
of the LORD
is near,
a cloudy day;
it shall be
the time
of the heathen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will also make the multitude
of Egypt
to cease
by the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon.
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.
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.
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.
And I
will make
Pathros desolate,
and will set
fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments
in No.
And I
will pour
my fury
upon Sin,
the strength
of Egypt;
and
I will cut off
the multitude
of No.
And
I will set
fire in Egypt:
Sin shall have
great pain,
and No
shall be rent asunder,
and Noph
shall have
distresses daily.
The young men
of Aven
and of Pibeseth
shall fall
by the sword:
and these cities
shall go
into captivity.
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.
Thus
will
I execute judgments
in Egypt:
and
they shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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,
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.
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.
And
I will scatter
the Egyptians
among the nations,
and will disperse them
through the countries.
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.
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.
And
I will scatter
the Egyptians
among the nations,
and disperse them
among the countries;
and
they shall know
that I
am the LORD.
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,
Son of man,
speak
unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt,
and
to his multitude;
Whom art
thou like
in thy greatness?
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.
The waters
made him great,
the deep set
him up
on high
with her rivers running round
about his plants,
and sent
her little rivers
unto all
the trees
of the field.
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.
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.
Thus
was
he fair
in his greatness,
in the length
of his branches:
for his root
was by great waters.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
Upon his ruin
shall all
the fowls
of the heaven
remain,
and all
the beasts
of the field
shall be
upon his branches:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
And I
will lay
thy flesh
upon the mountains,
and fill
the valleys
with thy height.
I will also water
with thy blood
the land
wherein thou swimmest,
even to the mountains;
and the rivers
shall be
full of thee.
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.
All
the bright lights
of heaven
will
I make dark
over thee,
and set
darkness upon thy land,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
For thus
saith the Lord GOD;
The sword
of the king
of Babylon
shall come upon thee.
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.
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.
Then will
I make
their waters deep,
and cause
their rivers
to run like oil,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
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,
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.
Whom dost
thou pass
in beauty?
go down,
and be
thou laid
with the uncircumcised.
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.
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.
Asshur
is there
and all her company:
his graves
are about him:
all of them slain,
fallen
by the sword:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yea,
thou shalt be broken in
the midst
of the uncircumcised,
and shalt lie
with them that
are slain
with the sword.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Again
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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:
If when he
seeth
the sword
come upon
the land,
he blow
the trumpet,
and warn
the people;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
Yet the children
of thy people say,
The way
of the Lord
is not equal:
but
as for them,
their way is not equal.
When the righteous
turneth from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die
thereby.
But
if the wicked turn
from his wickedness,
and do
that which
is lawful
and right,
he shall live thereby.
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.
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.
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.
Then
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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?
Ye stand
upon your sword,
ye work
abomination,
and
ye defile every one
his neighbour's wife:
and shall
ye possess
the land?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And
when this
cometh to pass,
(lo, it will come,)
then shall
they know
that a prophet
hath been among them.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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?
Ye eat the fat,
and ye
clothe you
with the wool,
ye kill them that
are fed:
but
ye feed not
the flock.
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.
And
they were scattered,
because
there is
no shepherd:
and
they became meat
to all the beasts
of the field,
when
they were scattered.
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.
Therefore,
ye shepherds,
hear the word
of the LORD;
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;
Therefore,
O ye shepherds,
hear the word
of the LORD;
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.
For thus
saith the Lord GOD;
Behold,
I,
even I,
will
both search
my sheep,
and
seek them out.
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.
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.
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.
I will feed
my flock,
and
I will cause them
to lie down,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD
unto them;
Behold,
I,
even I,
will judge
between the fat cattle
and between the lean cattle.
Because
ye have
thrust with side
and with shoulder,
and pushed all
the diseased
with your horns,
till ye
have scattered them abroad;
Therefore will
I save my flock,
and
they shall no more
be a prey;
and I
will judge
between cattle
and cattle.
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.
And I
the LORD
will be
their God,
and my servant David
a prince
among them;
I the LORD
have spoken it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And ye
my flock,
the flock
of my pasture,
are men,
and
I am your God,
saith the Lord GOD.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face
against mount Seir,
and prophesy
against it,
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.
I will lay
thy cities waste,
and
thou shalt be desolate,
and
thou shalt know
that I
am the LORD.
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:
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.
Thus
will
I make
mount Seir most desolate,
and cut off
from it
him that passeth
out and
him
that returneth.
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.
I will make
thee perpetual desolations,
and thy cities
shall not return:
and ye
shall know
that I
am the LORD.
Because
thou hast said,
These two nations
and these two countries
shall be mine,
and
we will possess it;
whereas the LORD
was there:
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.
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.
Thus
with your mouth
ye have boasted against me,
and have multiplied
your words
against me:
I have heard them.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
When the whole earth rejoiceth,
I will make thee desolate.
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.
Also,
thou son of man,
prophesy
unto the mountains
of Israel,
and say,
Ye mountains
of Israel,
hear the word
of the LORD:
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because the enemy
hath said
against you,
Aha,
even
the ancient high places
are ours
in possession:
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:
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;
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.
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:
Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD;
I have lifted
up mine hand,
Surely the heathen
that are about you,
they shall bear
their shame.
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.
For,
behold,
I am for you,
and
I will turn
unto you,
and
ye shall be tilled
and sown:
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:
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.
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because
they say
unto you,
Thou
land
devourest up men,
and hast bereaved
thy nations:
Therefore thou
shalt devour men no more,
neither bereave
thy nations any more,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
Moreover the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
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.
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:
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.
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.
But I
had pity
for mine holy name,
which the house
of Israel
had profaned
among the heathen,
whither they went.
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.
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.
For I
will take
you from
among the heathen,
and gather you
out of all countries,
and will bring you
into your own land.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the desolate land
shall be tilled,
whereas it lay desolate
in the sight
of all
that passed by.
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.
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will yet
for this
be enquired of
by the house
of Israel,
to do it
for them;
I will increase them
with men like
a flock.
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.
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,
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.
And
he said unto me,
Son of man,
can these bones live?
And I answered,
O Lord GOD,
thou knowest.
Again
he said unto me,
Prophesy
upon these bones,
and
say unto them,
O ye
dry bones,
hear the word
of the LORD.
Thus
saith
the Lord GOD
unto these bones;
Behold,
I will cause
breath
to enter
into you,
and
ye shall live:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
The word
of the LORD
came again unto me,
saying,
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:
And join them one
to another
into one stick;
and
they shall become one
in thine hand.
And
when the children
of thy people
shall speak
unto thee,
saying,
Wilt
thou not shew us
what
thou meanest
by these?
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.
And the sticks
whereon
thou writest
shall be
in thine hand
before their eyes.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My tabernacle
also shall be with them:
yea,
I will be
their God,
and
they shall be
my people.
And the heathen
shall know
that I
the LORD
do sanctify
Israel,
when my sanctuary
shall be
in the midst
of them
for evermore.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto me,
saying,
Son of man,
set thy
face
against Gog,
the land
of Magog,
the chief prince
of Meshech
and Tubal,
and
prophesy against him,
And say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold,
I am against thee,
O Gog,
the chief prince
of Meshech
and Tubal:
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:
Persia,
Ethiopia,
and Libya
with them;
all of them
with shield
and helmet:
Gomer,
and all
his bands;
the house
of Togarmah
of the north quarters,
and all
his bands:
and many people
with thee.
Be thou prepared,
and prepare
for thyself,
thou,
and all thy company
that are assembled
unto thee,
and be
thou a guard
unto them.
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.
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.
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:
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,
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.
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?
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?
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:
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.
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?
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
And I
will smite
thy bow
out of thy left hand,
and will cause
thine arrows
to fall out of
thy right hand.
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.
Thou shalt fall
upon the open field:
for I
have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
Behold,
it is come,
and it
is done,
saith the Lord GOD;
this is the day
whereof I have spoken.
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:
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.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that I
will give
unto Gog a place
there of graves
in Israel,
the valley
of the passengers
on the east
of the sea:
and it
shall stop
the noses
of the passengers:
and there shall
they bury Gog
and all
his multitude:
and
they shall call
it The valley
of Hamongog.
And seven months
shall
the house
of Israel
be burying of them,
that they
may cleanse
the land.
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.
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.
And the passengers
that pass
through the land,
when any
seeth a man's bone,
then shall
he set up
a sign by it,
till the buriers
have buried it
in the valley
of Hamongog.
And
also the name
of the city
shall be Hamonah.
Thus
shall
they cleanse
the land.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So
the house
of Israel
shall know that
I am the LORD
their God
from that day
and forward.
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.
According to
their uncleanness
and
according to
their transgressions
have
I done unto them,
and hid
my face
from them.
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;
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.
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;
Then shall
they know that
I am the LORD
their God,
which caused them
to be led
into captivity
among the heathen:
but
I have gathered them
unto their own land,
and have left
none of them any
more there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He measured also
the porch
of the gate
within, one reed.
Then measured
he the porch
of the gate,
eight cubits;
and the posts
thereof,
two cubits;
and
the porch
of the gate was inward.
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.
And he
measured
the breadth
of the entry
of the gate,
ten cubits;
and the length
of the gate,
thirteen cubits.
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.
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.
He made
also posts
of threescore cubits,
even unto the post
of the court round
about the gate.
And from the face
of the gate
of the entrance
unto the face
of the porch
of the inner gate
were fifty cubits.
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.
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.
And the pavement
by the side
of the gates over
against the length
of the gates
was the lower pavement.
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.
And the gate
of the outward court
that looked toward
the north,
he measured
the length thereof,
and the breadth
thereof.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And
he brought me
to the inner court
by the south gate:
and he
measured
the south
gate according to
these measures;
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.
And the arches round
about were five
and twenty cubits long,
and five cubits broad.
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.
And
he brought me
into the inner
court toward
the east:
and he
measured
the gate
according to
these measures.
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.
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.
And
he brought me
to the north gate,
and measured it
according to
these measures;
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.
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.
And the chambers
and the entries
thereof were
by the posts
of the gates,
where they
washed
the burnt offering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And within were hooks,
an hand broad,
fastened round about:
and
upon the tables
was the flesh
of the offering.
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.
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.
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.
So he
measured the court,
an hundred cubits long,
and an hundred cubits broad,
foursquare;
and the altar
that was before the house.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I saw also
the height
of the house round about:
the foundations
of the side
chambers
were
a full reed
of six great cubits.
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.
And
between the chambers
was the wideness
of twenty cubits round
about the house
on every side.
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.
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.
So he
measured the house,
an hundred cubits long;
and the separate place,
and the building,
with the walls
thereof,
an hundred cubits long;
Also the breadth
of the face
of the house,
and
of the separate
place
toward the east,
an hundred cubits.
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;
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;
To that above the door,
even unto the inner house,
and without,
and
by all the wall round
about within and without,
by measure.
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;
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.
From the ground
unto above
the door
were cherubims
and palm trees made,
and on the wall
of the temple.
The posts
of the temple
were squared,
and the face
of the sanctuary;
the appearance
of the one
as the appearance
of the other.
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.
And the temple
and the sanctuary
had two doors.
And the doors
had two
leaves apiece,
two turning leaves;
two leaves
for the one door,
and two
leaves
for the other door.
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.
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.
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.
Before the length
of an hundred cubits
was the north door,
and the breadth
was fifty cubits.
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.
And
before the chambers
was a walk
to ten cubits breadth inward,
a way
of one cubit;
and their doors
toward the north.
Now the upper chambers
were shorter:
for the galleries
were higher
than these,
than the lower,
and
than the middlemost
of the building.
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.
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.
For the length
of the chambers
that
were in the utter court
was fifty cubits:
and,
lo,
before the temple
were an hundred cubits.
And from
under these chambers
was the entry
on the east side,
as one
goeth into them
from the utter court.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He measured
the east side
with the measuring reed,
five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed
round about.
He measured
the north side,
five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed
round about.
He measured
the south side,
five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed.
He turned about
to the west side,
and measured
five hundred reeds
with the measuring reed.
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.
Afterward
he brought me
to the gate,
even the gate
that looketh
toward the east:
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.
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.
And
the glory
of the LORD
came
into the house
by the way
of the gate
whose prospect
is toward
the east.
So the spirit
took me up,
and brought me
into the inner court;
and,
behold,
the glory
of the LORD
filled the house.
And I
heard him
speaking
unto me out of the house;
and the man
stood by me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So the altar
shall be
four cubits;
and
from the altar
and upward shall be
four horns.
And the altar
shall be twelve cubits long,
twelve broad,
square in the four
squares thereof.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seven days
shall
they purge
the altar
and purify it;
and
they shall consecrate themselves.
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.
Then
he brought me
back the way
of the gate
of the outward sanctuary
which looketh
toward the east;
and it
was shut.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
And
ye have not kept
the charge
of mine holy things:
but
ye have set keepers
of my charge
in my sanctuary
for yourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
They shall enter
into my sanctuary,
and
they shall come near
to my table,
to minister unto me,
and
they shall keep
my charge.
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.
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.
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.
Neither shall
they shave
their heads,
nor suffer
their locks
to grow long;
they shall only poll
their heads.
Neither shall
any priest
drink wine,
when
they enter
into the inner court.
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.
And
they shall teach
my people
the difference
between the holy
and profane,
and cause them
to discern
between the unclean
and the clean.
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.
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.
And after he
is cleansed,
they shall reckon
unto him seven days.
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.
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.
They
shall eat
the meat offering,
and the sin offering,
and the trespass offering:
and
every dedicated thing
in Israel
shall be theirs.
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.
The priests
shall not eat
of any thing
that is dead
of itself,
or torn,
whether it
be fowl
or beast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ye shall have
just balances,
and a just ephah,
and a
just bath.
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.
And the shekel
shall be
twenty gerahs:
twenty shekels,
five and twenty shekels,
fifteen shekels,
shall be
your maneh.
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:
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:
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.
All the people
of the land
shall give
this oblation
for the prince
in Israel.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
And upon that day
shall
the prince
prepare
for himself
and for all the people
of the land a bullock
for a sin offering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the prince
in the midst
of them,
when they go in,
shall go in;
and
when
they go forth,
shall go forth.
And in the feasts
and in the solemnities
the meat
offering
shall be
an ephah
to a bullock,
and an ephah
to a ram,
and
to the lambs as he
is able to give,
and an hin
of oil
to an ephah.
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.
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.
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.
Thus
shall
they prepare
the lamb,
and the meat offering,
and the oil,
every morning for a
continual burnt offering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now
when
I had returned,
behold,
at the bank
of the river
were very many trees
on the one side
and on the other.
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.
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.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that the fishers
shall stand
upon it
from Engedi
even unto Eneglaim;
they shall be a place
to spread
forth nets;
their fish
shall be according to
their kinds,
as the fish
of the great sea,
exceeding many.
But the miry
places thereof
and the marishes
thereof shall not be healed;
they shall be given
to salt.
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.
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.
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.
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;
Hamath,
Berothah, Sibraim,
which is between the border
of Damascus
and the border
of Hamath;
Hazarhatticon,
which is by the coast
of Hauran.
And
the border
from the sea
shall be Hazarenan,
the border
of Damascus,
and the north northward,
and the border
of Hamath.
And this
is the north side.
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.
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.
The west side
also shall be
the great sea
from the border,
till a man
come over
against Hamath.
This is the west side.
So shall
ye divide
this land
unto you
according to
the tribes
of Israel.
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.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that in what
tribe the stranger sojourneth,
there shall
ye give him
his inheritance,
saith the Lord GOD.
Now these
are the names
of the tribes.
From the north end
to the coast
of the way
of Hethlon,
as one
goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan,
the border
of Damascus northward,
to the coast
of Hamath;
for these
are his sides
east
and west;
a portion
for Dan.
And by the border
of Dan,
from the east side
unto the west side,
a portion
for Asher.
And by the border
of Asher,
from the east
side even
unto the west side,
a portion
for Naphtali.
And by the border
of Naphtali,
from the east side
unto the west side,
a portion
for Manasseh.
And by the border
of Manasseh,
from the east side
unto the west side,
a portion
for Ephraim.
And by the border
of Ephraim,
from the east
side even
unto the west side,
a portion
for Reuben.
And by the border
of Reuben,
from the east side
unto the west side,
a portion
for Judah.
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.
The oblation
that ye
shall offer
unto the LORD
shall be
of five
and twenty thousand
in length,
and of ten thousand in breadth.
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.
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.
And this
oblation
of the land
that is offered
shall be
unto them a thing most holy
by the border
of the Levites.
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.
And
they shall not sell of it,
neither exchange,
nor alienate
the firstfruits
of the land:
for it
is holy
unto the LORD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And
they
that serve the city
shall serve it
out of all the tribes
of Israel.
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.
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.
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.
As for the rest
of the tribes,
from the east side
unto the west side,
Benjamin shall have
a portion.
And by the border
of Benjamin,
from the east side
unto the west side,
Simeon shall have
a portion.
And by the border
of Simeon,
from the east side
unto the west side,
Issachar a portion.
And by the border
of Issachar,
from the east side
unto the west side,
Zebulun a portion.
And by the border
of Zebulun,
from the east side
unto the west side,
Gad a portion.
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.
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.
And these
are the goings
out of the city
on the north side,
four thousand
and five hundred measures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was round
about eighteen thousand measures:
and the name
of the city
from that day
shall be,
The LORD is there.