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Lamsa OT - Ezekiel

"1 ¶ NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2 On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, 3 The word of the LORD carne to 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 me."

"4 ¶ And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud, and a flaming fire and a brightness was round about it, and out of the midst of it there came as it were a figure out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their legs were straight; and the soles of their feet were like the soles of a calf’s feet; and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass. 8 And they had human hands under their wings on their four sides; and their faces and their wings were on their four sides. 9 Their wings were joined one to another; and when they went, they went straight forward; they turned not when they went. 10 And as for the likeness of their faces, each of the four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side; and each of the four had the face of an ox and the face of an eagle on the left side. 11 And their faces and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of each creature were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And they went every one straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of a lamp going to and fro among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran, but returned not, and their appearance was like a flash of lightning."

"15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold wheels were upon the earth by the side of each of the four living creatures. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of a beryl; and they four had the one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon four sides; and they turned not when they went; and wherever the first one turned to go, the other went after it, and turned not. 18 As for their rims, they were high and they could see; for the rims were full of eyes round about them four. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went with them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the ground, the wheels were lifted up with them. 20 Wheresoever the spirit was to go, they went, and the wheels were lifted up with them; for there was a living spirit in the wheels. 21 When the living creatures went, the wheels went; and when the creatures stood, they stood also; and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up with them; for there was a living spirit in the wheels. 22 And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, resembling pure crystal, stretched out over their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other; over and under; two of them covering their faces and two covering their bodies. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of God, like the sound of speech in a host; and when they stopped, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads; and when they stopped, they let down their wings."

"26 ¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a sapphire stone, as the likeness of a throne; and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above it. 27 And I saw as it were the appearance of God, and the appearance of fire within it round about from his loins and upward; and from his loins and downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire shining round about. 28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in the clouds in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about him. Such was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face and I heard the voice of one who spoke."

"2:1 ¶ AND he said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet and I will speak with you. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and he set me upon my feet, and I heard him that spoke to me. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people who have risen up against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 And they to whom I am sending you are impudent and stubborn children; and you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD God of hosts. 5 Perhaps they will listen and tremble (for they are a rebellious house), and they shall know that you are a prophet among them."

"6 ¶ And you, Son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed by their words, for they will deny you and denounce you; for you dwell among scorpions; fear not their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 7 And you shall speak my words to them; perhaps they will listen and tremble; for they are a rebellious house. 8 But you, Son of man, hear what I say to you; and be not rebellious like that rebellious house: but open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, lo, a scroll of a book was in it. 10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it chants, woes, and lamentations."

"3:1 ¶ MOREOVER he said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, fill your belly with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it and it was in my mouth sweet as honey. 4 And he said to me, Son of man, go to them of the captivity, to the children of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Nor to many peoples whose speech you do not understand. Surely, if I send you to them, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not hearken to me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and stubborn of heart. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart and hear with your ears. 11 And go and get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; perhaps they will listen, and tremble. 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place. 13 I heard also the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them and a noise of a great rushing. 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and carried me away, and I went in the strength of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to the exiles at Tel-akib, who dwelt by the river Chebar, and I stayed there astonished among them seven days."

"16 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came upon me, saying. 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the words of my mouth and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; but you have not warned him, nor have you spoken to warn the sinner from his wicked way, to save his life; the same sinner shall die in his iniquity; and his blood will I require at your hand. 19 But if you warn the sinner, and he turn not from his sin nor from his evil way, he shall die in his sins; but you have delivered your soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, I will lay a stumbling block before him, and he shall die; because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sins and his righteousness which he had done shall not be remembered; and his blood will I require at your hand. 21 Nevertheless, if you warn the righteous man, that he may not sin, and he does not sin, the righteous man shall surely live, because he is warned; and you have delivered your soul."

"22 ¶ And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk to you there. 23 Then I arose and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me and said to me, Go, shut yourself in your house. 25 And you, O Son of man, behold, they shall put chains upon you, and shall bind you with them, that you cannot go out among them. 26 And I will make your tongue cleave to your palate, and you shall be dumb and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD God: He that hears, let him hear; and he that trembles, let him tremble; for they are a rebellious house."

"4:1 ¶ YOU also, O Son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and draw upon it the outline of the city of Jerusalem; 2 And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mount against it; and set some camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take an iron pan, and set it for an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Then lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon that side; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have given you two tasks of iniquities, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; I have appointed you each day for a year. 7 Therefore you shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall prevail, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 And behold, I have laid chains upon you, and you shall not turn from one side to another until you have completed the days of your siege."

"9 ¶ And take for yourself wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and rye, and put them in one vessel, and make for yourself bread of them; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. 10 And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 And you shall drink water by measure, a sixth part of a hin; from time to time shall you drink. 12 And you shall eat it as if you ate barley cakes, having baked it in their sight with the dung that comes out of men. 13 And the LORD said, Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the Gentiles, whither I shall drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah LORD God! behold, I have never defiled myself; and from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces by wild beasts; neither has unclean meat entered into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, Lo, I have given you oxen’s dung instead of men’s dung, that you shall bake your bread with it. 16 Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight; and when thirsty, they shall drink water by measure; 17 And they shall lack bread and water, and they shall perish one with another, and shall be consumed in their iniquity."

"5:1 ¶ AND you, Son of man, take a sharp sword, like a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard; then take scales to weigh it, and divide the hair into three parts. 2 A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of your siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and cut it with the sword, going round about the city; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword, after Israel. 3 And you shall take from thence a few of the hairs and bind them in the skirt of your cloak. 4 Then take some of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for from them shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel."

"5 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, with all the cities round about her. 6 For she has exchanged my judgments for wickedness from the Gentiles, and my commandments for statutes from the cities that are round about her; for they have rejected my statutes and they have not walked in my commandments. 7 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have regarded the statutes which you took from nations round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in you that which I have never done before, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore the parents shall eat their children in the midst of you, and the children shall eat their parents; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, as I live, says the LORD God, Because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will scatter you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity. 12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall my anger be poured out, 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 poured out my anger upon them. 14 Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So you shall be a reproach and a taunt, an example of punishment and a horror to the nations that are round about you, when I have executed judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. 16 When I shall send upon you my grievous arrows of famine, which shall be for your destruction and which I will send to destroy you: I will increase the famine upon you, and will break the staff of your grain. 17 And I will send upon you famine and fierce beasts, and they shall devour you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I the LORD have spoken it."

"6:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, 3 And say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God; Thus says the LORD God to the mountains and to the hills, to the valleys and to the brooks: Behold, I am bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 Your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the house of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, that your altars may be destroyed and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and made desolate, and your images may be cut down, and your works may cease. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"8 ¶ Yet I will leave a remnant of you among the nations, those of you who shall escape the sword and are scattered through the cities. 9 And those who escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they are carried captives; when I have destroyed their corrupt hearts, for they have departed from me, and with their eyes have gone astray after their idols; and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."

"11 ¶ Thus says the LORD God, Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 He that is far off shall die of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remains and that escapes shall die by famine; thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain shall be among their idols round about their altars upon every high hill and upon all the tops of the mountains and under every green tree and under every thick terebinth, the place where they did offer incense to all their idols. 14 So I will stretch out my hand against them and will make the land desolate and waste, more than the wilderness of Diblath, throughout all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"7:1 ¶ MOREOVER the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Also, Son of man, thus says the LORD God to the land of Israel: The end is come upon the land of Israel, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end is come upon you, and I will pour out my wrath upon you, and I will judge you according to your ways and will recompense you all your abominations. 4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will recompense you according to your ways, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus says the LORD God: Behold, an evil is coming for every evil which you have committed. 6 An end is coming, and it shall afflict you. 7 The dawn of destruction is come upon you, O you inhabitant of the land; the time is come, the day of trouble is near. 8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon you, and I will pour out my anger upon you; and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will recompense you according to your ways; and your abominations shall remain in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who has smitten you. 10 Behold the day is come, the dawn is gone forth; the staff has blossomed, the shame has budded. 11 Violence has grown upon the staff of the wicked; none of them shall remain, neither their disturbances nor their works; nor shall I cease from punishing them. 12 The time is come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller regret; for wrath is upon all their substance. 13 For the buyer shall not return to the seller, for they will not be living; for catastrophe shall not spare any of their possessions; neither shall a man spare his life by means of his corruptness. 14 They have blown the trumpet, and made all ready; but there is none that goes to battle; for my wrath is upon all their substance. 15 The sword is in the streets, pestilence and famine in the houses; he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour."

"16 ¶ But those of them who escape shall escape on the mountains, and they shall take refuge like doves in the crags; all of them shall die every one in his own iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak. 18 The people shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all heads. 19 They shall cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall be despised; 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 bellies; because this is their torment on account of their iniquity. 20 And the beauty of their ornaments, which they made with excellency for the images and altars of their abominations, I have made, therefore, to be despised; 21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 And I will turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my sanctuary, and robbers shall enter into it and defile it."

"23 ¶ And they shall attack it with bricks; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of iniquity. 24 Therefore I will bring shepherds of Gentiles, and they shall possess their houses; I will also make the excellency of the mighty ones to cease; and the Gentiles shall possess their sanctuary. 25 Indignation is coming; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then they shall seek a vision from the prophets; but the law shall perish from the priests, and counsel from the elders. 27 The king shall sit in mourning and the prince shall be clothed with desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble; I will do to them according to their evil way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"8:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, that the hand of the LORD God fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and 1o, a likeness as of the appearance of fire; from the loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, brightness, as the appearance of God. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and caught me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in a vision of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north; where stood the image of lust, which provokes to lust. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain. 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the way of the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the way of the north, and behold, on the north side of the east gate stood the statue of lust in the entrance. 6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, even the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, for they have gone far off from my sanctuary? But turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations which they are doing."

"7 ¶ And he brought me in to the door of the court; and I looked, and behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, Son of man, dig in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold, there I found a door. 9 And he said to me, Go in and see the abominations and wicked things that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, and they were standing before him every man his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, do you see the thing which the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his secret chamber? For they say, The LORD does not see us; because the LORD has forsaken the earth."

"13 ¶ He said also to me, Turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations that they are doing. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, Do you see this, O Son of man? Turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, there stood about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, Do you see this, O Son of man? Is it a little thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with iniquity, and have returned to provoke me to anger; and they sneer at me. 18 Therefore I will also deal in my fury; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

"9:1 ¶ AND he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Come near, O you avengers of the city, every man with his destroying weapons in his hand. 2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which looks toward the north, and every man had his destroying weapons in his hand; and there was a man among them clothed with linen, and his loins were girded with girdles of sapphire; and they went in and stood beside the bronze altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub which stood on the corner of the house. And he called to the man who was clothed with linen and whose loins were girded with girdles of sapphire; 4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who are tormented on account of all the abominations and evil things that are done in the midst thereof."

"5 ¶ And to those who were with him he said in my sight, Go after him through the city and destroy; let not your eyes spare, nor have pity; 6 Slay utterly old and young, both virgins and little children and women; but touch not any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elders who stood in front of the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain; then go forth and slay in the city. 8 And it came to pass, when they had slain them, I was left; and I fell upon my face and cried with a loud voice mournfully, and said, Ah LORD God, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel? Wilt thou pour out thy fury upon Jerusalem? 9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, the land is full of blood and the city full of treachery; for they said, The LORD has forsaken the earth and the LORD does not see us. 10 And as for me, I will have no mercy upon them, nor will I have pity; but I will recompense their evil ways upon their head. 11 And behold, the man clothed with linen answered, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me."

"10:1 ¶ THEN I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them something with the appearance of a sapphire stone, and the form of a throne. 2 And the voice spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherubim; and fill your hand with the coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight. 3 Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of God went up from the cherub that stood over the threshhold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory. 5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God when he speaks. 6 And it came to pass, when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; he went in and stood beside the wheels. 7 Then one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man who was clothed with linen, who took it and went out."

"8 ¶ And I looked, and behold, there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man’s hand under their wings. 9 And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like the color of beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearance and the form, the four of them were alike, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the first one went they followed it, they turned not as they went. 12 And their whole body and their backs and their hands and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes when they turned on their sides. 13 And as for the wheels, he called them Rolling Wheels, in my presence. 14 And every one of them had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the same living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels also went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up also; when the cherubim lifted their wings, the wheels also lifted up with them; for the spirit of life was in them. 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from the corner of the temple, and stood over the cherubim. 19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight; when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 20 These were the living creatures that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubim. 21 Each one had four faces, and each one four wings; and the likeness of a man’s hand was under their wings. 22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were like the same faces that I saw by the river Chebar, and their appearance was the same; they went every one straight forward."

"11:1 ¶ MOREOVER the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which looks eastward; and I beheld at the entrance of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then the LORD said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city, 3 Saying, We have built houses in the midst of it; the city is the caldron, and we are the meat. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O Son of man. 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says the LORD God: Thus have you desired, O house of Israel; for I know the inclination of your thought. 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. 7 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the LORD God. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst of it and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and I will execute judgments upon you. 10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the meat in the midst of it; but I will judge you in the border of Israel; 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have followed after the ordinances of the Gentiles that are round about you. 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah, LORD God! wilt thou make full end of the remnant of Israel?"

"14 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 15 Son of man, your brethren, your brethren, even your kindred, who are in your captivity, and all the house of Israel shall be annihilated, for the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said to them, Get you far from the LORD; to us is this land given for an inheritance. 16 Therefore say, Thus says the LORD God: I will cast them far off among the Gentiles, and I will scatter them among the countries, nevertheless I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries where they have gone. 17 Therefore say, Thus says the LORD God: I will gather you from among the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and shall remove from it all its idols and all its abominations. 19 And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh, 20 That they may walk in my commandments and keep my ordinances and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for those whose heart followed after their images and abominations, I will recompense their evil ways upon their own heads, says the LORD God."

"22 ¶ Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 24 Then the spirit lifted me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into the land of Chaldea to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen departed from me. 25 Then I spoke to those of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me."

"12:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not; who have ears to hear and hear not; for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, Son of man, prepare for yourself the things which are necessary for captivity, and go into the captivity by day in their sight; go from your own place to another place, so that they may see, because they are a rebellious house. 4 Then bring out your belongings by day in their sight, as though they were the necessary things for captivity; and you shall go forth in the evening like those who go forth into captivity. 5 Make a breach through the wall in their sight and go forth through it. 6 Take the luggage on your shoulder and go forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you may not see the ground; for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel. 7 And I did as he had commanded me: I brought forth my luggage by day as one who carries luggage into captivity, and in the evening I made a breach through the wall and went forth in the dark, carrying my luggage upon my shoulder in their sight. 8 And the word of the LORD came upon me in the morning, saying, 9 Son of man, if the children of the rebellious house of Israel should say to you, What are you doing? 10 Say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Even so shall the prince carry such luggage in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel with him. 11 Say to them, I am a sign to you; just as I have done, so shall it be done to you; you shall go into captivity. 12 And the leader who is among you shall carry his luggage upon his shoulder, and shall go forth in the dark, and shall make a breach through the wall and go out through it; he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground. 13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be caught in it; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see the land, and there shall he die. 14 And I will scatter towards every wind all that are about him to help him and give him strength; and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will spare a few men of them from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles whither they go; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"17 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fear of scarcity; 19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the LORD God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and concerning the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fear of lack, and drink their water with terror, for the land shall be desolate from all that is therein, because of the iniquity of all those who dwell in it. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"21 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision shall fall? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the LORD God: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand when every vision shall come true. 24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor doubtful divination among the children of Israel. 25 For I am the LORD; I have spoken, and the word which I speak I shall perform it; and I shall no more delay it; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and will perform it, says the LORD God. 26 Again the word of the LORD came upon me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, the children of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for the distant future, and he prophesies of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God: There shall none of my words be delayed any more, but the word which I have spoken I shall soon fulfil, says the LORD God."

"13:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy to the people, and say to them who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of the LORD; 3 Thus says the LORD God: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own pride, for they have not seen any vision! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the ruins. 5 You have not gone up to build the breaches, neither have you made up a hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6 For they say, Thus says the LORD; and the LORD has not sent them; and they persist in confirming a false word. 7 Indeed you have seen a vain vision, and you have spoken a lying divination, and yet you say, The LORD said it; although I have not spoken. 8 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have seen false visions and spoken lies; therefore, behold, I am against you, says the LORD God. 9 And my hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations; they shall not remain in the midst of my people, neither shall they be written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they return to the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD God."

"10 ¶ Because they have deceived my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and when the people built up a wall, they daubed it with untempered mortar in such a manner that it shall fall. 11 Say to those who daubed it in such a manner that it shall fall, Behold, I will bring a violent rain which will sweep everything away, and hailstones shall fall, and a whirlwind; 12 And the wall shall be breached and shall fall; and it shall be said to you, Where is the mortar with which you daubed it? 13 Therefore thus says the LORD God: I will bring a whirlwind in my wrath; and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So I will demolish the wall that you have daubed and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be laid bare, and you shall be defeated and consumed in the midst of it; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have daubed it with untempered mortar so that it shall be said to you, Where is the wall? Where are those who daubed it? 16 Such are the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the LORD God."

"17 ¶ Likewise, you Son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, and say to them, 18 Thus says the LORD God: Woe to the women who embroider wristlets and make coverings for every head and for every type of person to snare the souls of men! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save your own souls? 19 You have polluted my people for a handful of barley and a piece of bread, to kill persons who were not guilty of death, and to save the lives of those who should not live, and you have lied to a people who listen to lies. 20 Wherefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against your embroidered garments with which you hunt the souls of the people, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will set free the souls of those that you hunt, and I will cause them to fly. 21 And I will tear your robes, and will deliver my people out of your hands, and they shall be no more delivered into your hands to be hunted; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sorrowful; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that they did not return from their wicked ways and live. 23 Therefore you shall no longer see false visions, nor work divinations any more; for I will deliver my people from your hands; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"14:1 ¶ THEN came certain of the elders of Israel to me to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me. 2 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; I will seek vengeance from them. 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be a witness against him because of the multitude of his idols, 5 That I may take the house of Israel in the imagination of their own hearts, because they have departed from me through all their idols. 6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: Repent, and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell in Israel, who departs from me and sets up idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to a prophet to inquire of him, I the LORD will be a witness against him; 8 And I will pour out my anger against that man, and I will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And when a prophet shall err and speak a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall both bear the punishment of their iniquity; the punishment of him who seeks to inquire shall be like the punishment of the prophet, 11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the LORD God."

"12 ¶ The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 13 Son of man, if a land should sin against me and commit iniquity before me, then I will stretch out my hand against it, and will break the staff of its wheat; and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast from it; 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in the land, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the LORD God. 15 And if I should send vicious beasts against the land, and they destroy it so that it become desolate, so that no man could pass through because of the wild beasts; 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; but they alone would be delivered and the land would be made desolate. 17 Or if I should bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through that land, and I destroy man and beast from it; 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. 19 Or if I should send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, and destroy from it man and beast; 20 Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; but they would only deliver themselves by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the LORD God: How much more when I send four sore judgments upon Jerusalem: the sword and famine and vicious beasts and pestilence, to destroy from it man and beast. 22 Yet there shall be left in it those who will be delivered, who will bring forth sons and daughters; and even they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their ways and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the LORD God."

"15:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, What shall happen to the wood of the vine more than to any wood, or to any branch of the trees which are among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken from the vine to make anything from it? Or do men take a peg from it to hang vessels on it? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; and when the fire has consumed both ends of it and the middle of it is burned, is it good for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was not useful for implements; how much less shall it be useful when the fire has devoured it and it is destroyed? 6 Therefore thus says the LORD God: As I have given the wood of the vine among all the trees of the forest to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will pour out my anger against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall consume them; and you shall know that I am the LORD, when I pour out my anger against them. 8 And I will make the land desolate and a horror because they have committed iniquity, says the LORD God."

"16:1 ¶ AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations, 3 And say, Thus says the LORD God to Jerusalem: Your root and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 And as for the one who bore you, in the day you were born she did not cut your navel, neither did she wash you with water nor did she salt your body with salt nor wrap you in swaddling clothes at all. 5 Nor did her eye have pity upon you, to do any of these things to you and to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person on the day that you were born."

"6 ¶ And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your own blood, I said to you as you lay thus wallowing in your blood, Live, 7 And multiply like the grass of the field. And you have increased and grown great; then you went into the cities. Your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, you had reached the marriage age; and I spread my hand over you and covered your nakedness; yea, I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the LORD God, and you became mine. 9 Then I bathed you with water, and I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered clothes, and shod you with shoes; and I girded your loins with fine linen and clothed you with silk. 11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace on your neck. 12 And I put a jewel on your forehead and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were decked with gold and gems, and you were clothed with fine linen and purple and embroidered cloth; and you ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you became exceedingly beautiful, and you grew prosperous among the kingdoms. 14 And your renown went forth among the Gentiles for your beauty, because of the beautiful crown of my glory which I put upon you, says the LORD God."

"15 ¶ But you trusted in your own beauty and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one who passed by; 16 And you took some of my garments and decorated the high places for yourself, and played the harlot upon them; they shall not be brought back, neither shall they be yours. 17 You have also taken your costly jewels of gold and silver which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them; 18 And you took your embroidered garments and covered them; and you have set my oil and my incense before them. 19 And the food which I gave you, the fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you have set before them for a sweet savor; says the LORD God. 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you have sacrificed to them for food. These things you did besides your whoredoms, 21 That you have slaughtered my children, and offered them to the idols after you had been ravished by them. 22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and lay wallowing in blood. 23 And after all your wickedness, woe, woe to you! says the LORD God; 24 You have built yourself a house of idols, and made yourself altars in every street. 25 You have built yourself small temples for idol worship at every head of the way, and defiled your beauty and exposed yourself to every one that passed by, and multiplied your fornications. 26 You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, who have large male organs; and you have multiplied your fornications, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and have abolished your ordinances and delivered you into the hand of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who rebuked you because of your ways of whoredom. 28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, and yet you were not satisfied. 29 You have moreover multiplied your fornications in the land of Canaan and in Chaldea; and yet, even with them you were not satisfied. 30 How shall I judge you, O daughter, says the LORD God, seeing that you did all these things, the works of a whore and a rebellious woman? 31 In that you built your notorious shrines at the head of every way, and set your altars in every street; and yet you were not as clever as a harlot who charges a price; 32 And even not as clever as a whorish wife who takes a price from strangers. 33 Men pay a price to all harlots; but instead you pay a price to all your lovers and bribe them with your whoredom, that they may come to you from every side round about you. 34 So you are different from other women in your whoredoms, in that you pay others a price, and no one pays a price to you."

"35 ¶ Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD; 36 Thus says the LORD God: Because you have practiced divination and exposed your nakedness through your whoredoms with your lovers, and because of all the idols of your abominations and the blood of your children which you offered to them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those you have loved, with all those you have hated; I will even gather them against you from every side and will expose your nakedness in their presence, and they shall see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you with the judgment of an adulteress, and as those who shed blood are judged; and I will deliver you to slaughter and to fury and indignation. 39 And I will also deliver you into their hands, and shall demolish your brothels and tear down the houses of your idols; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your precious jewels and leave you naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up multitudes of people against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn you in the midst of fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire to your lovers any more. 42 So will I make my wrath to rest upon you, and my indignation shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be no more angry. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have provoked me in all these things; behold, therefore I have also recompensed your evil ways upon your head, says the LORD God, because you have committed abomination and fornication."

"44 ¶ Behold, every one who uses a proverb shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 You are your mother’s daughter, who deserted her husband and her children; and you are the sister of women who deserted their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand with her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters. 47 Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but in a very little time you became more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the LORD God, Sodom your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this is the iniquity of Sodom your proud sister: she and her daughters had abundant food and lived in tranquillity, but she did not help the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty and committed evil before me; therefore when I saw these things in them I overthrew them. 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have outdone your sisters in all your abominations which you have committed. 52 You also shall endure the shame because you have outdone your sisters in your sins, and have polluted yourself more than they; they are more righteous than you; you must be confounded also and bear your shame, for your sisters are more righteous than you. 53 I will bring back their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; then I will cause the captivity of your exiles to be carried among them, 54 That you may bear shame and be confounded in all that you have done to provoke my anger. 55 When your sister Sodom, with her daughters, shall be restored to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall be restored to their former state, then you and your daughters shall be restored to your former state. 56 For your sister Sodom was not a proverb in your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 Before your wickedness was exposed, as she was at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Edom, when all the daughters of the Philistines who were round about her used to despise her. 58 Now you bear your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD God. 59 For thus says the LORD God: I will even deal with you as you have done, because you have despised my oaths and nullified my covenant."

"60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you shall remember your evil ways and be ashamed, when I take your sisters, the elder and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not because of your covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD, 63 Because you shall remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, for I have forgiven you for all that you have done, says the LORD God."

"17:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel, 3 And say, Thus says the LORD God: A great eagle with large wings and long pinions and fully developed claws, and thickly feathered, came to Lebanon and took the choicest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the topmost of its tender twigs, and carried it to the land of Canaan; and he set it in a city of merchants. 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in uncultivated land; he placed it by many waters, and then set a watchman over it. 6 And it sprang up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature, so that its branches turned toward him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches and shot forth tendrils. 7 And, behold, there was also another great eagle with large wings and many claws: and, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its tendrils toward him, that he might water the soil where it was planted. 8 For it was planted in a good field, by many waters that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit and become a goodly vine. 9 Say now, Thus says the LORD God: It shall not prosper, but its roots shall be cut off, and its fruit shall dry up; and all the foliage which it has put forth shall wither; and it will not require a strong arm, nor many people to pluck it up by its roots. 10 Yea, behold, being planted, it shall not prosper; when the east wind strikes it, it shall wither in the soil where it grew. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12 Say now to the rebellious house, Do you know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is coming to Jerusalem, and he shall take the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon; 13 And he shall take one of the offspring of the royal family, and make a covenant with him and take an oath of him; and he shall carry away the rulers of the land, so that they may not boast again, 14 That the kingdom might be humbled, and that they might keep his covenant, and stand by him. 15 But he shall revolt against the king of Babylon, and shall send his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. But he who does such things shall not prosper, nor shall he be delivered. 16 As I live, says the LORD God, surely in the very place where dwells the king of Babylon, who made him king and he despised my oath and nullified my covenant, even in the midst of Babylon, he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh fight against him with a great army nor with many horses, but by casting up mounds and building forts shall he destroy many lives. 18 Because he has despised the oaths and nullified the covenant, he shall surrender, but he shall not be delivered, because he has done all these things. 19 Therefore thus says the LORD God: As I live, because he has despised my oaths and nullified my covenant, I will punish him for it. 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in it, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, and judge him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. 21 And all his noble men and all his friends shall fall by the sword, and those that remain shall be scattered to all the winds; and you shall know that I the LORD have spoken it."

"22 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: I will also take one of the choicest branches of the highest cedar, and I will clip it; I will crop off from the top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon high and lofty mountains; 23 On the mountains 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 its branches shall they rest. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have made dry the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I the LORD have spoken and have done it."

"18:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, why do you use this proverb in the land of Israel, saying, The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, says the LORD God, this proverb shall never be used again in Israel. 4 Because all souls are mine; the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die. 5 But if a man be righteous and do justice and righteousness, 6 And has not eaten the meat sacrificed to idols on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols and the altars of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, nor has come near a menstruous woman, 7 And has not oppressed any man, and has not harmed any one, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 8 He has not lent money with usury, neither has loaned with a discount; has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man; 9 Has walked in my commandments, and has kept my judgments, and has done justice; he who does so is a righteous man and shall surely live, says the LORD God."

"10 ¶ If he begets a son who is a wicked man, a shedder of blood, and he does any one of these evil things, 11 And eats the meat sacrificed to idols on the mountains, and defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 Oppresses the poor and needy, extorts from his neighbor, restores not the pledge to its owner, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination, 13 Lends money with usury, and takes a discount; shall he then live? He shall not live: because he has done all these evil things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. 14 But if he begets a son, who sees all the sins that his father had committed, and shall not do likewise, 15 And who shall not eat meat sacrificed to the idols on the mountains, neither shall lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; shall defile not his neighbor’s wife, 16 Oppresses no man, takes no pledge from any one, extorts no one, but shall give his bread to the hungry and cover the naked with a garment; 17 Who does not refuse to help the poor, who charges no usury or discount, executes my judgments, and walks in my commandments; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed and extorted from his brother and did nothing that is good among his people, lo, he is dead in his own sins. 19 And if they should say, Why does not the son bear the sins of his father? say to them, Because the son has done that which is lawful and right and has kept all my commandments, he shall surely live. 20 The soul that sins, that soul shall die. The son shall not bear the sins of his father, neither shall the father bear the sins of his son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."

"21 ¶ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his sins which he has committed, they shall not be remembered against him; but in the righteousness which he has done shall he live. 23 I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, says the LORD God; but rather that he should return from his evil ways and live. 24 But if the righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and abominations like those that the sinner has done, all the righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered to him, but in the iniquity which he has committed and in the sins that he has sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet you say, The ways of the LORD are not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel; my ways are fair, but it is your ways that are not fair. 26 If a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, in the iniquity that he has committed shall he die. 27 But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he has committed and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 And if he considers and turns away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, The ways of the LORD are not fair. O house of Israel, my ways are fair, but it is your ways that are not fair."

"30 ¶ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the LORD God. Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that your sins may not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all the iniquities which you have committed; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, so that you may not die, O house of Israel. 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of any one who dies, says the LORD God; wherefore repent and live."

"19:1 ¶ MOREOVER, you Son of man, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, What is your mother? O whelp of lions! she crouched among lions, she reared her whelps among young lions. 3 And one of her whelps grew up and became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; and he devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of his fame; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with a bridle to the land of Egypt. 5 Now when his mother saw that she had suffered and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey and devoured men. 7 Then he walked in his strength and ravaged cities and laid waste the land in its fulness by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations gathered together against him from the provinces round about him, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; and he threw him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel."

"10 ¶ Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And she had strong rods for scepters of the rulers upon the great branches, and their stature rose up higher among its shoots, and their height was seen and the multitude of their tendrils. 12 But it was plucked up in fury and was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed it. 13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a thirsty and dry land. 14 And fire is gone out from its choice branches and has devoured its fruit, so that no strong rod was found in it, or a branch to become a ruler’s scepter. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."

"20:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came in to inquire of the LORD and sat down before me. 2 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not give you an answer. 4 You judge them, you judge them, O Son of man! and declare to them the abominations of their fathers;"

"5 ¶ And say to them, Thus says the LORD God: In the day when I chose Israel and swore by lifting up my hand to the descendants of the house of Jacob and revealed myself to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them and said to them, I am the LORD your God; 6 On that day I swore to them to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had given to them, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 7 And I said to them, Cast away every man his image from before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God. 8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the images from before their sight, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them and accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 But I pitied them for my name’s sake, that it should not be defiled among the Gentiles, in whose sight I revealed myself to them to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt."

"10 ¶ Wherefore I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my commandments and showed them my judgments, which if a man do he shall live by them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not walk in my commandments, and they despised my judgments, which if a man would do, he would live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness and destroy them. 14 But I pitied them for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose presence I brought them out. 15 So I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 16 Because they despised my judgments and polluted my sabbaths exceedingly; for their hearts went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless my eve spared them and I did not destroy them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. 18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments nor defile yourselves with their idols; 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them: 20 And hallow my sabbaths: and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Notwithstanding the children of Israel rebelled against me; they did not walk in my commandments, neither did they keep my judgments to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall live by them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them and accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 But I pitied them for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose presence I brought them out. 23 But I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them through the countries; 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my commandments and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. 25 Wherefore I gave them statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they could not live; 26 And I let them defile themselves through their own gifts, when they offered their first-born as sacrifices: that I might destroy them and that they might know that I am the LORD."

"27 ¶ Therefore, Son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them. Thus says the LORD God: Yet in this very manner your fathers have blasphemed before me in their iniquity which they dealt treacherously against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land that I had sworn to give them, then they saw every high hill and every shady tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offerings; there they also made their sweet savor and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, What is the shrine to which you go? And its name is called Shrine of Idols to this day. 30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: You have defiled yourselves after the manner of your fathers and you go astray after their idols; 31 And you offer your gift offerings and make your sons to pass through the fire; you have polluted yourselves with your idols, even to this day; and yet you wish to inquire of me, O house of Israel? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not give you an answer. 32 And that which is in your mind shall not come to pass at all, for you say, We will be like the Gentiles and like the families of the earth, to serve wood and stones."

"33 ¶ As I live, says the LORD God, surely with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out will I rule over you. 34 And I will bring you out from the Gentiles, and will gather you out of the countries wherein you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with a fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the Gentiles, and there will I judge you face to face. 36 Just as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the LORD God. 37 And I will cause you to be subject to my scepter, and will bring you into the discipline of the covenant; 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the LORD God: If you will not hearken to me, go then and serve every one his own idols, but pollute not my holy name any more with your gift offerings and with your idols. 40 For on my holy mountain, even in the mountain height of Israel, says the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me perfectly; there will I be pleased with them, and there will I require their offerings and the first fruits of their harvest and the choicest of their gift offerings with all their holy things. 41 I will accept you with a sweet savor, when I bring you out from among the Gentiles and gather you out of the cities wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the Gentiles. 42 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers. 43 And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings by which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evils that you have committed. 44 And you shall know that I am the LORD who had pity upon you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the LORD God,"

"45 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and look southward and prophesy against the forest which is in the south; 47 And say to the forest which is in the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the flaming fire shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched. 49 Then said I, Ah LORD God! Behold, they will say to me, You speak in parables."

"21:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and look at their holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you; I will draw my sword out of its sheath and will destroy from you the righteous and the sinner. 4 Seeing then that I will destroy from you the righteous and the sinner, therefore my sword shall go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north, 5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more. 6 And as for you, O Son of man, sigh with a broken heart, and with bitterness groan before their eyes. 7 And if they should say to you, Why do you sigh? you shall say to them, Because of news of disaster which is coming; and every heart shall melt and all hands shall be feeble and every spirit shall faint and all knees shall be weary; behold, it is coming and it shall be brought to pass, says the LORD God."

"8 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD God: A sword, a sword is sharpened; 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is burnished that it may glitter; and it is sharpened to cut off the family of my son; and to reject every other branch. 11 I have given it to be burnished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and polished to deliver it into the hand of the slayer. 12 Cry and wail, Son of man; for it is against my people and against all the princes of Israel; 13 Clap your hands because this calamity is justified; if the royal family is rejected, it shall be no more, says the LORD God. 14 You therefore, Son of man, prophesy and clap your hands, and let the sword smite double, and the third stroke is the stroke of the slain; this is the sword for a great slaughter that causes them to tremble, 15 That their hearts may faint and the sufferers be multiplied in all their gates, for I have delivered them to the sword which is sharpened, glittering and drawn for the slaughter. 16 Take hold firmly my right hand, take hold firmly my left hand, wherever my face is turned; 17 I will also clap my hands, and I will cause my fury to rest; I the LORD have said it."

"18 ¶ The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 19 Also, Son of man, prepare for yourself two ways that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; both of them shall come forth out of the same land; and set a sign at the head of the highway to the choicest city. 20 And prepare a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah and to Jerusalem, the mighty city. 21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shoots an arrow, he inquires of his idol, he sees his triumph. 22 At his right hand was the divination against Jerusalem, saying to build mounds against her, to open his mouth threatening with all his strength, to lift up his voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build siege forts. 23 And it shall be as a false divination to them; but he will call to remembrance their iniquity, that they may be captured. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered clearly and your transgressions are uncovered so that in all your devices your sins are evident, therefore, with the hand shall you be caught. 25 And as for you, filthy wicked prince of Israel, your day and the time of your iniquity and your end has come. 26 Thus says the LORD God: Remove the diadem and take off the crown; the low is exalted, and the proud is brought down. 27 Even this place I will cause to be a ruin; until he comes to whom it belongs by right, and I will deliver it to him."

"28 ¶ And you, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach: even say, The sword, the sword is drawn for the slaughter; it is sharpened and it glitters; 29 Because of your false vision and because of your false divination, to bring you upon the necks of the sinful and wicked men, whose day has come and the time of their iniquity and their end. 30 Return the sword to its sheath! for in the land wherein you were born, there will I judge you. 31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow against you with the fire of my wrath, and will deliver you into the hand of men brutish and skilful to destroy. 32 You shall be fuel for the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered; for I the LORD have spoken it."

"22:1 ¶ MOREOVER the word of the LORD came to me, saying. 2 Now, Son of man, judge the bloody city and declare to her all her abominations; 3 Then say, Thus says the LORD God: The city where blood is shed in the midst, her time has come. and the city that makes idols in the midst of her has defiled herself. 4 You have become guilty in the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself by the idols which you have made; now your days have drawn near, and the time of your years has come; therefore I have made you a reproach to the Gentiles and a derision to all cities. 5 Those that are near and those that are far from you shall mock you and shall say, O you filthy one, infamous and full of iniquity. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his own tribe, were in you to shed blood. 7 In you have they cursed father and mother; in the midst of you have they oppressed the proselytes; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widows. 8 You have despised my holy things and have profaned my sabbaths. 9 In you were merchants to shed blood, and in you have they eaten sacrifices upon the mountains; in the midst of you they committed lewdness. 10 In you have they uncovered the nakedness of their fathers’ concubines; in you have they lain with menstruous women. 11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law in committing adultery with her; and another in you has defiled his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; in you have they taken usury and exorbitant gains, and they have deceived their friends by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the LORD God. 13 Behold, therefore I will strike my hands together with anger because of the iniquity which you have done and because of the blood which has been shed in the midst of you. 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it and will do it. 15 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles and disperse you in the countries. 16 And I will chastise you in the sight of the Gentiles, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"17 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross; all they are like brass and like tin, and like iron and lead in the midst of the furnace when they are mixed with silver. 19 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have all become mixed together, behold, therefore I will gather you in the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and tin and lead into the midst of the furnace, and blow the fire upon it to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger, and in my fury will I melt you. 21 Yea, I will blow upon you the fire of my anger, and I will cause you to melt in the midst of it. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you."

"23 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 24 Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, and have refused to receive moisture, nor has rain come down upon you. 25 Her prophets in the midst of her have conspired; they are like a lion that roars and tears the prey; they have devoured lives with their might; they have taken the precious things of their palaces. 26 Her priests have violated my law and have profaned my holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have refused to keep my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy lives, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed her walls with untempered mortar which will fall off, seeing for them visions of falsehood, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the LORD, when the LORD has not spoken. 29 They have oppressed the people of the land and humiliated them; and have extorted from the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed wrongfully the proselyte. 30 And I sought for a man among them who would build up the fence and stand in the gap before me for the sake of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their own ways have I recompensed upon their heads, says the LORD God."

"23:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 And they committed whoredom in Egypt in their youth; there were their breasts fondled, there was their virginity broken. 4 And the name of the elder was Ahlah, and the name of the younger was Ahlibah; and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names: Samaria is Ahlah and Jerusalem is Ahlibah. 5 And Ahlah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 Who were clothed with blue, lords and captains, desirable young men, all of them horsemen riding on horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all the chosen men of Assyria and with all on whom she doted; with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither did she leave the whoredoms which she had committed in Egypt; for in her youth they defiled her and they broke her virginity and poured out their whoredom upon her. 9 Therefore I have delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10 These uncovered her nakedness; they carried away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; for her paramours had executed judgment upon her."

"11 ¶ And when her sister Ahlibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her excessive lust than she, and her whoredoms were more than the whoredoms of her sister. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, lords and captains clothed with blue, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that the ways of both of them were defiled. 14 And they added to their whoredoms; for when they saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15 Girded with girdles upon their loins and with turbans tied on their heads, all of them handsome men to look at, the likeness of the sons of Babylon and of the land of the Chaldeans, the land of their nativity; 16 As soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them to the land of the Chaldeans, 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted by them; then her soul abhorred them. 18 So she exposed her fornications and uncovered her nakedness; then my soul abhorred her just as my soul abhorred her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt; 20 For she doted upon their servants, whose male organs are like those of asses, and whose privates are like those of horses. 21 Thus you have missed the wickedness of your youth, when your virginity was broken in Egypt, and the breasts of your youth were fondled."

"22 ¶ Therefore, O Ahlibah, thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, the lovers whom your soul has abhorred, and I will bring them against you. 23 And the Babylonians and the Chaldeans shall surround you, Pod Lod, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, lords and captains, all renowned men, all of them riding on horses. 24 And they shall come against you well armed with chariots, wagons, and with a host of people, who shall set against you with spears, bucklers, shields, and helmets round about; and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my indignation against you, and they shall crush your nose with fury and shall pluck out your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword; they shall carry away your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by fire, 26 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your costly jewels. 27 Thus I will nullify your counsel and the whoredom which you brought from the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more. 28 For thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of the Assyrians whom your soul abhorred; 29 And they shall deal with you with hate, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoredoms and your iniquities shall be uncovered. 30 These things were done to you because of your whoredom, for you have played the harlot with the Gentiles and polluted yourself with their idols. 31 And because you have walked in the ways of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hands. 32 Thus says the LORD God: You shall drink your sister’s cup deep and large; you shall become a laughingstock, and be ridiculed and scorned; for it contains much. 33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of horror and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. 34 Then you shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall cut off your hair and tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the LORD God. 35 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me off behind your idols, therefore you also shall bear your lewdness and your whoredoms."

"36 ¶ The LORD said to me, Son of man, now you can judge Ahlah and Ahlibah, and declare to them their abominations; 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols they have committed adultery and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to be consumed in the fire. 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths; 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary and profaned it; and, 1o, thus have they done in the midst of my house. 40 Also they sent for men who came from afar, to whom they had sent messengers; and, 1o, as soon as they arrived, they bathed and painted their eyes, and adorned themselves with ornaments. 41 Then they sat on stately beds, and tables were prepared before them, and my oil and my incense were wasted on them. 42 And the sound of their merrymaking could be heard everywhere, and the voices of men who had come from Sheba and from the desert, who put bracelets upon their wrists, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 43 Then I said. With these men have they played the harlot and committed the acts of harlots. 44 And they went in to them as to a woman who plays the harlot; so went they in to Ahlah and to Ahlibah, the harlots. 45 And the righteous men shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. 46 For thus says the LORD God, I will bring up a multitude against them, and will give them over to terror and spoil. 47 And the multitude shall stone them with stones and thrust them through with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I put an end to lewdness from the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your whoredom. 49 And I will recompense your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the LORD God."

"24:1 ¶ IN the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, write down the name of this day, for on this very day the king of Babylon has set himself against Jerusalem. 3 And devise a parable concerning the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Set a pot on the fire and pour water into it; 4 And put into it pieces of meat which are good and fat, a shoulder whose bone is broken from the choicest of the flock. 5 And burn also the bones under the pot, and make it boil well, and let the bones seethe in it. 6 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Woe to the bloody city, in which the pot is set on the fire, and whose iniquity has not gone out of it! Cut her piece by piece, so destroyed that no one would divide her by lot. 7 For the blood is still in the midst of her; she splashed it upon the rock; she poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust, 8 That it might cause my fury to come up, to take vengeance; I have set her blood on the top of a smooth rock, that it should not be covered. 9 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: Woe to the bloody city! I will even enlarge the fireplace and increase the fuel, 10 And I will kindle the fire, and the flesh shall be cooked and seethe, and the bones shall be burned. 11 Then set the pot empty upon the coals, that it may become hot and that its brass may melt and the filthiness of it may be melted in it and that the scum of it may be consumed. 12 She has become like rotten figs, and her great iniquities have not gone out of her; her vengeance shall be in the fire. 13 Because you have polluted yourself with lewdness, and because I have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your filthiness, you shall not be cleansed any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon you. 14 I the LORD have spoken it; it shall come to pass and I will do it; I will not have pity, neither will I spare nor will I have mercy; but I will judge you according to your ways; and according to your doings, shall I judge you, says the LORD God."

"15 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke; and you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, put on your robe and put shoes on your feet; and do not cover your lips nor eat the bread provided for you. 18 So I spoke of it to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and in the morning of the next day I did as I had been commanded. 19 And the people said to me, Will you not tell us the meaning of these strange things which you do? 20 Then I said to them, This is the word of the LORD which came to me, saying, 21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will allow my sanctuary to be profaned, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, the cleanser of your souls; and your sons and your daughters whom you leave behind shall fall by the sword. 22 And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor shall you eat the bread provided for mourners. 23 And your hair shall not be cut, and your shoes shall be on your feet; you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities and shall try to comfort one another. 24 Thus Ezekiel shall be to you for a sign; according to all that he has done shall you do; and you shall know that I am the LORD God. 25 But you, O Son of man, on the day when I take away from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and the cleanser of their souls, their sons and their daughters, 26 On that day a survivor shall come to you and cause you to hear it with your ears; 27 And on that day the survivor shall open your mouth, and you shall speak and be no more dumb; and you shall be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"25:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them; 3 And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the LORD God: Thus says the LORD God: Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was laid waste, and over the house of Judah when they went into captivity; 4 Behold, therefore I will deliver you to the men of the east for a possession, and their army shall dwell in you and pitch their tents in you; they shall eat your fruit and they shall drink your milk. 5 And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a fold for flocks, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 6 For thus says the LORD God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with your feet and rejoiced in yourself against the land of Israel; 7 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: I will stretch out my hand against you and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from among the people, and I will destroy you out of the cities, and will make you desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"8 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: Because Moab and Seir have said, Behold, the house of Judah is dispersed among all the nations; 9 Therefore, behold, I will make a breach in Moab at the cities, at his royal city, at the towns round about him, the glory of the country of Beth-ashimon, Baal-meon, and Koriathaim, 10 And I will give them, together with the Ammonites, to the men of the east as a possession, so that Rabbath of the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgment upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 12 Thus says the LORD God: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and had ill-will toward them and envied them; 13 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and will destroy both man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman to Deran; and they shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall avenge themselves from Edom according to my anger and my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the LORD God. 15 Thus says the LORD God: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance, and have revenged themselves with satisfaction of their heart, thus destroying the friendship of old; 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will destroy Crete and lay waste the remnant of the seacoast. 17 And I will execute my great vengeance upon them with rebukes and anger; and they shall know that I am the LORD when I have executed my vengeance upon them."

"26:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, the gates of the people are broken; the people have turned to me; I shall be enriched, now that she is destroyed and is laid waste. 3 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers, and remove the soil from her; and I will make her like a bare rock. 5 It shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, says the LORD God; and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters who are in the field shall be slain by the sword; they shall know that I am the LORD. 7 For thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and a multitude and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword your daughters who are in the field; and he shall set up forts against you and cast a mount against you and lift up the buckler against you. 9 And he shall strike the sharp points of his spears against your walls, and he shall destroy your towers with his swords. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of his horsemen and of the wheels and of the chariots, when he shall enter your gates as men enter into a city in which is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all your streets; he shall slay your people by the sword, and your mighty altars shall he demolish to the ground. 12 And his army shall plunder your riches and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall demolish your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall cast your stones and your timber and your wealth into the sea. 13 And I will cause the noise of the multitude of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harpers shall be heard no more. 14 And I will make you a bare rock, a drying place for nets; you shall be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, says the LORD God."

"15 ¶ Thus says the LORD God to Tyre: At the sound of your fall and of the torment of your slain and the slaughter which is made in the midst of you, the islands shall tremble. 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay away their robes and put off their embroidered garments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble and become restless, and be astonished at you. 17 And they shall take up lamentations over you, and say to you, How you are destroyed, O you inhabitant of the seas, O fortified city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all the inhabitants thereof! 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled in the day of your fall. 19 For thus says the LORD God to Tyre: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities theft are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and great waters shall cover you; 20 When I shall bring you down with those who descend into the grave, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the lowest parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with those that go down into the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will not cause your resurrection in the land of the living: 21 I will give you to destruction, you will be sought for, yet you will not be found again for ever, says the LORD God."

"27:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Now, Son of man, make a lamentation over Tyre; 3 And say to Tyre, O you that are situated at the entry of the sea, the trading center of the people and of many islands, Thus says the LORD God: O Tyre, you have said, I am the crown of beauty. 4 Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty. 5 They have brought you timber of fir trees from Senir for your ships; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory brought from the isles of China. 7 Fine linen with embroidered work brought from Egypt was made for your sails; blue and purple they brought you from the islands of Alis for your covering. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arwad were your mariners; your wise men, O Tyre, were your pilots. 9 The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were your caulkers; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in your harbors. 10 The Persians, the Lydians, and the men of Put, all valiant men, were in your army; they hung the shields and the helmets in you; they were your glory. 11 The men of Arwad with your army manned your fortified walls and guarded your towers; they hung their shields upon your walls round about; they made your beauty perfect. 12 Tarshish was your market place by reason of the abundance and variety of your wealth: silver, iron, tin, and lead they brought in to you for sale. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants; they traded with you in slaves and vessels of brass in your markets. 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in your markets with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of Deran were your merchants; many islands were the markets for the products of your hands; they brought you for presents horns of ivory for ointment, and frankincense. 16 Edom was your market place by reason of many of your products: your purple, fine linen, embroidered work, purple robes, bracelets, and agate. 17 Judah and the land of Israel, they were your merchants; they traded in your markets wheat, rice, millet, honey, oil, and balsam. 18 Damascus was your market place in the multitude of your products and your wealth; she traded with good wine and white wool. 19 Dan and Javan brought you merchandise to your markets from Usal, their iron ore, cassia, and cane. 20 Deran was your market place; her merchants brought you the choicest cattle. 21 They also brought you rams, lambs, and kids. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah brought to your markets their best spices and precious stones and gold. 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba and Assyria, were your merchants. 24 These were your merchants, who brought you blue clothes and embroidered work and precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords and laden in ships made of cedar. 25 The men of Tarshish who dwell west of you brought you loads of merchandise, and you were filled and became exceedingly strong."

"26 ¶ Your rowers have brought you into great waters; the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas. 27 Your riches and your merchandise and your fairs, all your chosen warriors, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers and the handlers of your merchandise and all your men of war and all the multitude of people who are in you shall fall in the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin. 28 Those who dwell round about you shall tremble at the sound of the wailing of your pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand on the shore, 30 And they shall lament over you a great and bitter lamentation and shall cast dust upon their heads and shall wallow in ashes: 31 And they shall shave their heads in mourning over you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And their sons shall take up lamentations for you and lament over you, saying, Who was like Tyre built in the midst of the sea? 33 When your wares went forth upon the seas, you filled many nations; you enriched the kings of the earth with the abundance of your riches and of your merchandise. 34 In the time when you shall be broken and sink in the depths of the sea, your merchandise and all your people in the midst of you shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you and their kings shall be sore afraid; tears shall run down their faces. 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you have become a ruin, and you never shall be any more."

"28:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, say to the king of Tyre, Thus says the LORD God: Because your heart is lifted up and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; and yet you are a man, and not God, though you think of your heart as though it were the heart of God; 3 Perhaps you are wiser than Daniel, or you have seen hidden things by your wisdom; 4 With your understanding you have become powerful, and have gotten silver and gold into your treasures; 5 By your great wisdom and by your trade you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches; 6 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you think of your heart as though it were the heart of God; 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the mightiest of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your glory. 8 They shall bring you down to ruin, and you shall die the death of those who are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Perhaps you will still say before those who slay you, I am God. Yet you are but a man, and no God, in the hands of those who slay you. 10 You shall die by the hand of uncircumcised strangers; for I have spoken it, says the LORD God."

"11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the LORD God: You were the seal of wisdom and the crown of beauty. 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; you were decked with every precious stone, the sardius, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire and pearls; and you have filled your treasuries with gold and your chests with precious stones; you had all of these things from the day you were created. 14 You were with the anointed cherub that shelters; and I have set you on the holy mountain of God; and you were safe in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways, from the day that you were created till iniquity was found in you. 16 By the multitude of your merchandise you have filled your land with iniquity and you have sinned; therefore I will cast you from the mountain of God; and I will destroy you, O sheltering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Since your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, now your wisdom and your beauty are corrupted; I will cast you to the ground before kings, that you may be a spectacle before them. 18 By the multitude of your frauds, by the iniquity of your traffic, you have defiled your sanctuary; therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of you, and it shall devour you, and I will reduce you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those who see you. 19 All those who know you among the people shall be astonished at you; you shall be brought to destruction, and you never shall be any more."

"20 ¶ The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 21 Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and the people shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send her pestilence and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her by the sword that is upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a thorn to cause them pain from all that are round about them, and that curse them; and they shall know that I am the LORD God. 25 Thus says the LORD God: When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified by them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in the land which I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell in it safely, and shall build houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence after I have executed judgments on all those who hurt them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God."

"29:1 ¶ IN the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt; 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of the rivers, who says, The river is my own; I have made it for myself. 4 I will put hooks into your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your river to stick to your scales, and I will draw you up out of the midst of your river, and all the fish of your river shall stick to your scales. 5 And I will throw you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your river; you shall fall upon the open fields; you shall not be gathered nor buried; I have given you for food to the wild beasts and to the fowls of the air. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they held you with their hands, you pierced them; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and made all their loins to tremble."

"8 ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold. I will bring a sword upon you and destroy from you man and beast. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD, because you have said, The river is mine; I have made it. 10 Therefore I am against you and against your river, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate from the tower of Sona even to the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, neither foot of beast, nor shall it be inhabited forty years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and I will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus says the LORD God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered: 14 And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Pathros, into the land from which they were sold; and they shall be there a humble kingdom. 15 It shall be the humblest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations; for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And the Egyptians shall be no more the hope of the house of Israel, bringing their iniquity to remembrance, because they went after them; and Israel shall know that I am the LORD God."

"17 ¶ And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon subjected all his army to many hardships against Tyre till every head was made bald and every shoulder weary; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre for the service that he had performed against her; 19 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her wealth, carry away captives, and plunder her; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for the labor with which he served against Tyre, says the LORD God. 21 On that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will open your mouth among them; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"30:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God: Howl and cry, Oh, for the day! 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; a cloudy day; a time of reckoning for the nations. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great terror shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her wealth, and her foundations shall be uprooted. 5 Ethiopians, Putians and Lybians and all Arabia and Chub and the men of the land that is in league with them shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus says the LORD God: Those also who help Egypt shall fall; and the strength of her greatness shall be broken; from the tower of Sona shall they fall in it by the sword, says the LORD God. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that lie waste. 8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have kindled a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are defeated. 9 On that day shall messengers go forth from me in haste to destroy Ethiopia which dwells in tranquillity, and there shall be confusion among them on the day of Egypt; for lo, it is coming. 10 Thus says the LORD God: I will also deliver the wealth of Egypt into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 11 Even to him and to the mighty men that are with him, who are coming to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and deliver the land into the hand of the wicked; and I will lay the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of the strangers; I the LORD have spoken it. 13 Thus says the LORD God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end to the images out of Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgment in No. 15 And I will pour out my fury upon Seen, the strength of Egypt; and I will destroy the riches of No. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt; Seen shall be terrified, and No shall be breached, and Memphis shall fall. 17 The young men of Mapibest shall be weak, and they shall fall by the sword; and the remnant shall go into captivity. 18 And in Tahpanhes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the sceptre of Egypt; and the pomp of her strength shall cease from her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgment in Egypt; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"20 ¶ In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, neither shall it be treated with ointment nor shall it be bound, and shall not heal so that he may hold the sword. 22 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arms, and I will cause the sword to fall from his hands. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword into his hands; and he shall cut off Pharaoh’s arms, and Pharaoh shall groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. 25 And 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 hands of the king of Babylon, and he will draw it out against the land of Egypt. 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"31:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying. 2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his armed forces: To whom do you liken yourself in your greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches giving a thick shade and of a high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made it grow, the deep made it to grow high, the rivers running round about its plants, and sent forth its branches over all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its branches were multiplied, and its boughs became long because of many waters which caused it to grow. 6 All the fowls of the air made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under its shadow dwelt all great nations. 7 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness and in the multitude of its branches; for its roots were by the great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not surpass it; the fir trees did not equal its boughs; the plane trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like to it in its beauty. 9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it."

"10 ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because it has exalted itself and has shot up its top among the thick boughs and its heart is haughty because of its height, 11 I have therefore delivered it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it according to its sin; and he shall destroy it. 12 And foreigners, the most powerful of the nations shall destroy it, and leave it upon the mountains, and its branches shall fall in all the valleys, and its boughs shall be broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth shall go down from its shadow, and leave it alone. 13 And when it falls, all the fowls of the air shall alight upon it and all the beasts of the field shall be under its branches, 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters may exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their tops among the thick boughs, nor shall any of them stand up in their height like it, all that are planted by the water; for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men who go down into the pit. 15 Thus says the LORD God: On the day when it went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning; I covered the deep for it and I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field trembled for it. 16 The earth trembled at the sound of its fall, when I brought it down to Sheol with those who go down into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down to Sheol with it to those who are slain by the sword; and its posterity dwelt under its shadow among the nations. 18 To whom are you thus like in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you were brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth; you shall lie among the uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword. This is the fate of Pharaoh and all his army, says the LORD God."

"32:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, make a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, You are like a lion among the nations and you are like a sea monster; you come forth in your rivers, and trouble the waters with your feet and foul their rivers. 3 Thus says the LORD God: I will therefore spread out my net over you with a multitude of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net. 4 Then I will cast you out upon the land; I will cast you forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the air to alight upon you and will fill the wild beasts of the whole earth with you. 5 And I will scatter your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your dust; 6 I will also drench the land of your seers with your blood, and the mountains and the valleys shall be filled with your flesh. 7 And when I shall put the light out of you, I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark; the sun shall be covered with clouds, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the luminaries which give light in heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon the land, says the LORD God. 9 I will also vex the hearts of many people when I bring the news of your destruction among the nations, into the cities which you have not known. 10 Yea, I will make many peoples aghast at you, and their kings shall be terrified because of you, when I brandish my sword in their presence; and they shall tremble and be alarmed, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall. 11 For thus says the LORD God: The sword of Babylon shall come upon you. 12 By the sword of mighty men will I cause your might to fall, and with the sword of all the mighty men of the nations; and they shall spoil the strength of Egypt, and all its wealth shall be plundered. 13 I will also destroy its cattle from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoof of cattle trouble them. 14 Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run smooth like oil, says the LORD God. 15 When I have made the land of Egypt desolate, the land shall be destitute in its fullness; when I shall smite all its inhabitants, they shall know that I am the LORD. 16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her; the daughters of the nations shall lament over Egypt; and over all her wealth shall they lament, says the LORD God."

"17 ¶ It came to pass in the eleventh year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, make a lamentation over the army of Egypt, and cast down her people among the strong nations into the nether parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. 19 Come down from the sweet water, and go down to sleep with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword; they shall bring her to ruin, and all her strength. 21 The rulers of the nations shall speak to their young men out of the midst of Sheol; they shall go down, and the uncircumcised shall lie with those who are slain by the sword; 22 Assyria is there and all her people round about her grave; all of them are slain, fallen by the sword. 23 Those whose graves are set in the sides of the pit and her people are round about her grave; all of them are slain, fallen by the sword, because they caused destruction in the land of the living. 24 Elam is there and all her army round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, because they caused destruction in the land of the living; and they have borne their shame with those that go down into the pit. 25 They have set her a bed among the slain in the midst of her army; the graves of all the uncircumcised are round about her grave, all slain by the sword; because they caused destruction in the land of the living; they have borne their shame with those that go down into the pit, and they lie among the slain. 26 Meshech is there, and Tubal, and all her host around about their graves; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they caused destruction in the land of the living. 27 And they shall lie with the valiant men who are fallen with the uncircumcised, who are gone down into Sheol with their weapons of war; and they have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones, because they caused destruction with their might in the land of the living. 28 You also shall sleep among the uncircumcised and shall lie among the slain by the sword. 29 Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who with their might were laid with those who were slain by the sword; they shall lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit. 30 There are princes of the north, all of them and all the Zidonians, who are gone down with those that are slain by the sword, ashamed and fallen from their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all his army slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army, says the LORD God. 32 For I have caused his destruction in the land of the living, and caused him to be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh, he and all his army, says the LORD God."

"33:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to your own people and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, let the people of the land take a man from among them and make him their watchman. 3 And when he sees the sword coming upon them, he shall blow the trumpet and warn the people; 4 Then whosoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not heed the warning, if the sword should come and take his life away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 But if he should take heed, he shall deliver his life. 6 But when the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and does not warn the people, and the sword comes and takes the life from among them, that life is taken away in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at the watchman’s hand. 7 So you, O Son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore you shall hear the word from my mouth, you shall warn them from me. 8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; and you do not speak to the wicked man that he may take heed from his evil way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hands. 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked that he may turn from his evil way; and if he does not turn from his evil way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul."

"10 ¶ You therefore, O Son of man, say to the house of Israel. Thus have you spoken, saying, Our iniquity and our sins be upon us, and we are pining away in them; how can we live? 11 Say to them, As I live, says the LORD God, I do not desire the death of the wicked; but that the wicked should turn from his evil way and live; therefore you must repent and turn from your evil ways, and you shall not die, O house of Israel. 12 Therefore, Son of man, say to your own people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day that he sins; as for the iniquity of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live, and he trusts in his own righteousness and then commits iniquity, all his righteousness which he had done shall not be remembered to him; but for the iniquity which he has committed, he shall die. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die, and he turns from his sins and does that which is just and right, 15 And he shall restore the pledge which he has taken and return what he has acquired unjustly and walk in the commandments of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered to him; but by the justice and righteousness which he has done, he shall surely live. 17 Yet your people say, The way of the LORD is not fair; but it is their own ways that are not fair. 18 When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die in his iniquity. 19 And when a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does that which is just and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not fair; O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his ways."

"21 ¶ And it came to pass in the eleventh year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came and said to me, The city has been destroyed. 22 Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened and I was dumb no more. 23 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 24 Son of man, those who inhabit these waste places of the land of Israel are saying, Abraham was only one man, and yet he inherited the land; but we are many; are we not going to inherit it? 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Because you eat meat with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and drink blood, do you expect to inherit the land? 26 You rely on your swords, you commit abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife; and do you expect to inherit the land? 27 Say to them, Thus says the LORD God: As I live, all of those who dwell in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and he that is in the open field, I will give to the wild beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land desolate and waste, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land desolate and waste because of their abominations which they have committed."

"30 ¶ And as for you, O Son of man, your people are gossiping about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 And the people come to you and sit before you, and they hear your words, but they will not do them, because their mouths are full of falsehood and they follow after the thoughts of their own hearts. 32 And, lo, you are to them like a song and like a pleasant voice and like the sweet sound of a harp; for they hear your words, but they do them not. 33 And when your words shall come to pass, then they shall know that you are a prophet among them."

"34:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, O shepherds, thus says the LORD God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed them! These shepherds do not feed the flock. 3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool and sacrifice the fat ones; but you do not feed the flock. 4 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, and that which was injured you have not bound up, and that which had gone astray you have not brought back, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with violence and with cruelty you have ruled them. 5 And my sheep were scattered because they had no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts of the field. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill; yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and there is no one to search after them nor is there any one to gather them."

"7 ¶ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 8 As I live, says the LORD God, because my flock became a prey and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd; neither did the shepherds feed my flocks, but the shepherds fed themselves and have not fed my flock; 9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 10 Thus says 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 my flock again; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them any more. 11 For thus says the LORD God: Behold, I, even I, will search for my sheep and seek them out. 12 As the shepherd seeks out his flock on the day of violent rain with wind, so will I seek out my sheep, and will gather them from all countries where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 And I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, in the valleys, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall be their fold; there shall they lie in a good fold, and on a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will feed my sheep and I will cause them to lie down, says the LORD God. 16 I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was gone astray and bind up that which was injured and strengthen that which was sick; and I will protect the fat and the strong; and I will feed them with justice."

"17 ¶ And as for you, O my flock, thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will judge between ewe and ewe, and between ram and ram. 18 Is it not enough for you, O shepherds, to feed on good pastures, but you must tread down under your feet the rest of your pasture? And to have drunk water, but you must foul with your feet that which is left? 19 And as for my flock, they feed on that which you have trodden; and they drink that which you have fouled. 20 Therefore thus says the LORD God to them: Behold, I myself will judge between the fat ewe and the lean ewe. 21 Because they have thrust with their sides and shoulders, and pushed all the weak with their horns, till they have scattered them abroad; 22 Therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey for them; and I will judge between ewe and ewe and between ram and ram. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them and shall be their shepherd. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David shall be a prince among them; 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease from the land; and they shall dwell safely in the desert and sleep in the forest. 26 And I will give them my blessing round about my hill; and I will send down the rain in its season; and it shall be a shower of blessing. 27 And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall dwell securely 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 who had subjugated them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the wild beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely and none shall harm them. 29 And I will raise up for them a plantation of peace; and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. 30 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the LORD God. 31 And you are my sheep, the flock of my pasture; you are men, and I am your God, says the LORD."

"35:1 ¶ MOREOVER the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against mount Seir and prophesy against it, 3 And say to it, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you desolate and waste. 4 And I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity and delivered the children of Israel over to the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time when their iniquity had come to an end, 6 Therefore, as I live, says the LORD God, I will deliver you to the slaughter, and blood shall pursue you; the blood which you have hated, that very blood shall pursue you. 7 I will make mount Seir waste and desolate, and destroy from it him that goes out and him that comes in. 8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain; on your crags and on your hills and in your valleys shall they fall that are slain with the sword. 9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"10 ¶ Because you have said, These two nations and these two kingdoms are mine, and we will possess them, though the LORD was there; 11 Therefore, as I live, says the LORD God, I will do to you according to your own anger and according to your enmity which you showed toward them, and hatred to them; and I will make myself known among them when I have judged you. 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD and that I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. 13 Thus you dared to speak against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me; I heard them. 14 Thus says the LORD God to mount Seir which is situated at the happiest place on the earth: I will make you desolate. 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I do to you; you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"36:1 ¶ ALSO, you Son of man, prophesy concerning the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the LORD; 2 Thus says the LORD God: Because the enemy has said against you. Aha, the ancient high places are ours for a possession; 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God: Because you have been reproached and made desolate and blasphemed from all those who are round about you; and you have become an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and you became the subject of gossip and of mocking among the nations; 4 Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God: Thus says the LORD God to the mountains and to the hills and to the streams and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are deserted, which became a prey and a mockery among the rest of the people round about; 5 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: Surely in the fire of my indignation have I spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, because they partitioned my land to themselves for an inheritance; and with the joy of their heart they have reproached the people that they might carry them captive and plunder them. 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I have spoken in my indignation and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations; 7 Therefore thus says the LORD God: I have lifted up my hand against the nations that are round about you, so that they may bear their shame. 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your grass and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come. 9 For, behold, I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown; 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruined places shall be rebuilt. 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall be great and multiply; and I will settle you as in former days, and will do good to you as I did from the beginning; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of men. 13 Thus says the LORD God: Because they say to you, You are a land which devours her people and is bereaved of her inhabitants; 14 Therefore, from henceforth you shall devour men no more, neither shall you be bereaved of your people any more, says the LORD God. 15 Neither will I cause you to bear the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you be bereaved of your people any more, says the LORD God."

"16 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying. 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their evil ways and by their doings; their way was before me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. 18 Wherefore I poured out my fury upon them for the blood which they had shed in the land and for the idols with which they had polluted it, 19 And I scattered them among the nations and dispersed them through the countries; according to their ways and according to their evil doings I judged them. 20 And when they went to live among the Gentiles, wherever they went, they profaned my holy name; and the Gentiles said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and now they are gone out of his land. 21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the Gentiles, whither they went. 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am doing this; but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the Gentiles, whither you went. 23 So that I may sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the Gentiles, which you have caused to be profaned among them; and the Gentiles shall know that I am the LORD, says the LORD God, when my name shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries and will bring you into your own land."

"25 ¶ Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and I shall purify you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 A new heart will I give you, a new spirit will I put within you; and I will remove the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my commandments, and you shall keep my judgments and do them. 28 And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the grain, and will increase it, and will not bring famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the field, that you may no more bear the reproach famine among the nations. 31 Then you shall remember your own evil ways and your contemptible doings, and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and abominations. 32 But you must know, it is not for your sake that I am doing these things, says the LORD God; now be ashamed and refrain from your evil ways, that you may not die, O house of Israel. 33 Thus says the LORD God: On the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause the cities to be inhabited and the ruined places rebuilt. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, that was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the ruined and demolished cities are now become fenced, and are inhabited. 36 Then the Gentiles that are left around about you shall know that I the LORD am rebuilding the mined cities and planting that which was desolate; I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus says the LORD God: Moreover in this shall I avenge the house of Israel, to do these things for them; and I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock comes into Jerusalem at the time of her solemn feasts, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"37:1 ¶ THE hand of the LORD was upon me, and he carried me out in the spirit of the LORD and set me down in a valley which was full of bones, 2 And he caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the valley; and lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O LORD God, thou knowest. 4 Again he said to me, Prophesy concerning these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus says the LORD God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live; 6 And I will lay sinews upon you and bring flesh upon you and cover you with skin, and I will put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 7 So I prophesied as he had commanded me; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a quake, and the bones came together, each bone to its joint. 8 And when I beheld, lo, sinews and the flesh came upon them and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, Prophesy concerning the breath; prophesy, Son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the LORD God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he had commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, all these bones are the bones of the children of Israel, who said, Our bones are dried and our hope is lost; we are completely gone. 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will open your graves and bring you up out of them and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and brought you up out of them, 14 And I will put my spirit in you, and .you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land; then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken it, and I will do it, says the LORD God."

"15 ¶ The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 16 Son of man, take a stick and write on it: For Judah and for the children of Israel his companions; then take another stick and write on it: For Joseph, on the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions; 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one stick in your hand. 18 And if your people should say to you, Will you not show us what is the meaning of these sticks? 19 Say to them, Thus says 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 together with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. 20 And the sticks on which you write, hold them in your hand before their eyes; 21 And say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations whither they have gone, and will gather them together and bring them into their own land; 22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more. 23 Nor shall they defile themselves any more with their idols nor with their abominations nor with all their iniquity; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them; so they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall walk in my judgments and keep my commandments and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, even they and their children and their children’s children for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will multiply them and set my sanctuary among them for ever. 27 My dwelling place also shall be with them; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the Gentiles shall know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be among them for evermore."

"38:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against China, and against the land of Mongolia, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, 3 Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O China, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 4 I will gather your people together and put a bridle in your jaws, and I will bring you forth out of your country, both you and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in armor, a great host with spears and shields, all of them handling swords: 5 Persians, Ethiopians, and Lybians with them, all of them with shields and helmets. 6 Gomar and all her army, the house of Togarmah, and the uttermost parts of the north with all their hosts, and many other people who are with you. 7 Prepare yourself, you and all the people that are assembled with you, and be a protection to them. 8 You have been commanded in former days, and in the later years you shall come against the mountains of Israel and against the land which is at peace and free from the sword, whose people were gathered from many nations, and now they all dwell safely in it. 9 And you shall come up like a storm and like a cloud which covers the land, you and all your army and many people who are with you. 10 Thus says the LORD God: It shall come to pass that in that very day thoughts shall come into your mind and you shall think an evil thought; 11 And you shall say, I will go up against a prosperous land, I will go against those who dwell in tranquillity, without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12 To take captives and to take a spoil; to turn your hand against the desolate places that are now inhabited and against the people who were gathered together out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the beauty of the land. 13 Sheba and Deran and the merchants of Tarshish and all its villages shall say to you, Are you come to carry off captives and to take a spoil? Have you mobilized your host to take silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, and to take a great spoil?"

"14 ¶ Therefore, Son of man, prophesy and say to China, Thus says the LORD God: On that day when my people Israel shall dwell in tranquillity, you shall know it. 15 And you shall come from your place out of the north parts, you, and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host and a mighty army; 16 And you shall come up against my people Israel, like a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, and the nations will know me, when I shall be sanctified through your defeat. 17 Thus says the LORD God: You are he of whom I have spoken in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days and in those years that I would bring you against them. 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when China shall come against the land of Israel, says the LORD God, that my anger shall be consumed in my fury and zeal. 19 For in the fire of my wrath have I spoken; surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that even the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air 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 towers shall fall and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the LORD God; every man’s sword shall be against his brother. 22 And I will judge him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him and upon his princes and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"39:1 ¶ AND you, O Son of man, prophesy against China and say, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O China, the ruler and the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 2 I will subdue you and gather you together, and I will cause you to come up from the north parts, and bring you upon the mountains of Israel; 3 And I will swerve your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. 4 You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your army and the many peoples that are with you: I have given you to the ravenous birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 You shall fall in the open field; for I have spoken it, says the LORD God. 6 And I will send a fire on Mongolia, and on the people who dwell peacefully in the islands; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7 So I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them profane my holy name any more: and the Gentiles shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One of Israel."

"8 ¶ Behold, the day of which I have spoken is at hand, says the LORD God; 9 Then the inhabitants of the villages of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the spears, the bows and the arrows and the hand-staves and the lances, and they shall burn them as fuel for seven years; 10 So that they shall not need wood for fuel out of the field or the forest: for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall take captive those who had taken them captive and plunder those who had plundered them, says the LORD God. 11 And it shall come to pass on that day that I will give to China a place there for burial in the land of Israel, the great valley which is east of the sea; and they shall close off the valley: and there they shall bury China and all his army; and it shall be called the valley of the annihilation of China. 12 And for seven months the house of Israel shall be busy burying them; and then the land shall be cleansed. 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renowned day when I am glorified, says the LORD. 14 Even seven months after, there shall be men who will travel continually through the land burying those who are left lying on the face of the land, to cleanse it. 15 And every one who passes through the land, and sees a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till buriers have come and taken it and buried it in the valley of China. 16 And the name of the graveyard shall be, The Mighty City. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17 And you, Son of man, say to all the fowls of the air and to every beast of the field, Thus says the LORD God: Assemble yourselves and come: gather yourselves from every place to the great sacrifice that I perform for you upon the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of fatlings, of he-goats, of bullocks, and of all the young bullocks of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat flesh till you are filled and drink blood till you are drunk at the great sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you. 20 Thus you shall be filled at my table with the flesh of horses and their riders, and with that of mighty men, and with that of all the men of war, says the LORD God. 21 And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the Gentiles shall see the judgment that I have executed, and the heavy punishment with which I have punished them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward."

"23 ¶ And the Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel was carried into captivity for their iniquity; because they transgressed against me, therefore I turned away my face from them and delivered them into the hand of those who hate them, and they all fell by the sword. 24 According to their abominations and according to their iniquity have I rewarded them; and I turned away my face from them. 25 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon all the house of Israel, and will be zealous for my holy name’s sake; 26 After they have borne all their shame and their iniquity whereby they have transgressed against me; when they dwell securely in their own land, with no one to hurt them; 27 When I have gathered them from among the nations and brought them back from the cities of their enemies, and am sanctified by them in the sight of many nations; 28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, who caused them to be carried captive among the nations, and that it is I who gathered them into their own land and have left none of them there any more. 29 Neither will I turn away my face from them; but I will pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the LORD."

"40:1 ¶ IN the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem was destroyed, on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, 2 And he brought me into the land of Israel, in the visions of God, and set me upon a very high mountain, upon which was the plan of a city on the south. 3 And he brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand; and he was standing in the gate. 4 And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you; for you were brought here that I might show you these things; and everything that you see, declare it to the house of Israel."

"5 ¶ And behold, a wall round about the house, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits and a hand breadth long; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 Then he came to the gate that looks toward the east, and climbed up the steps thereof and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. 7 And every small room was one reed long and one reed broad; and between the small rooms were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits; and its posts from within two cubits. 10 And the small rooms of the gate eastward were three on this side and three on that side; the three were of the same measure; and the posts were of the same size on this side and on that side. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 The space also before the small rooms was one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side, and the small rooms were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side. 13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one small room to the roof of another; the breadth was twenty-five cubits from door to door. 14 He measured also the portico, sixty cubits; likewise to the portico of the court round about the gate, sixty cubits. 15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the portico of the inner gate were fifty cubits. 16 And there were windows to the small rooms which were wide from within and narrow from without, and to their posts within the gate, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about from within. 17 Then he brought me into the outer court, and 1o, there were steps round about it; thirty were one upon the other. 18 And the steps by the side of the gates were opposite the stairway at the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured its breadth from the forefront of the gate of the court, one hundred cubits eastward and northward. 20 And at the gate of the outer court that looks toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth. 21 And its small rooms were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches had the same measurements as those of the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 22 And its windows and its porticoes had the same measurements as those of the gate that looks toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and a portico was before them. 23 And the gates of the inner court were opposite the northeast gate; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits. 24 Then he brought me toward the south, and behold, a gate toward the south; and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it and in its arches round about, like the other windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and there was a portico in front of it; and it had palm trees, one on this side and another on that side, upon its posts."

"27 ¶ And there were gates in the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. 28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to these measurements; 29 And its small rooms and its posts and its arches, according to these measurements; and there were windows in it and in its arches round about; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about it were twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad. 31 And the arches of the outer court had palm trees upon them; and the stairway had eight steps. 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east; and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the small rooms thereof and its posts and its arches were according to these measurements; and there were windows in it and in its arches round about it; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad. 34 And its arches were toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon its posts, on this side and on that side; and the stairway had eight steps. 35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measurements; 36 The small rooms thereof, its posts and its arches and the windows to it round about; the length was fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits. 37 And the porticoes thereof were toward the outer court; and palm trees were in its porticoes, on this side and on that side; and the stairway had eight steps. 38 And the rooms and the vestibules thereof were by the porticoes of the gates, where they placed burnt offerings."

"39 ¶ And in the portico of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, to slay upon them the burnt offerings and the gift offerings and the sin offerings. 40 And at the side of the north gate, which is outside the place of the burnt offerings, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the portico of the gate, were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables in all, upon which they slaughtered their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offerings, a cubit and a half long and a cubit and a half broad, upon which they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offerings and the sacrifices. 43 And within were hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about; and upon the tables they placed the flesh of the offerings. 44 Facing the inner court were the rooms of the princes, in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate, which faces the south; one room was at the side of the east gate, facing the north. 45 And the man said to me, This room which faces toward the south is for the priests, the keepers who have charge of the house. 46 And the room that faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers who have charge of the altar; these are the descendants of Zadok, who are among the descendants of Levi, who come near to the altar to minister to the LORD. 47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. 48 And he brought me to the portico of the house, and measured each post of the portico, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. 49 The length of the portico was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and by steps they went to it; and pillars stood by the posts, one on this side and another on that side."

"41:1 ¶ THEN he brought me into the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on this side and six cubits broad on that side; 2 And the breadth of the door of the temple was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and he measured its length, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then he went inside and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4 And he measured, the length of the sanctuary, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the nave; and he said to me, This is the Holy of Holies. 5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6 And the side rooms were one over another, thirty-three in order; and they entered into the wall of the house for the side rooms round about, that they might hold fast, but they were separated from the wall. 7 And the side rooms rose higher, so that they encircled the house from above, thus enlarging the house from above; and from the lowest rooms they went up to the middle rooms, and from the middle rooms to the highest rooms. 8 I saw also the height of the house round about; and the side rooms were separated one from another a full measuring reed of six cubits. 9 The thickness of the outer wall which was for the side rooms was five cubits; and from within it was five cubits. 10 And between the rooms was the breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side rooms were toward the place that was left open, one door toward the south, another door toward the north; and the breadth of the door that was left was five cubits round about."

"12 ¶ Now the building that was in front of the separate place which is at the west gate was seventy cubits broad: and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and its length ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building, with its walls, a hundred cubits long; 14 Also the breadth opposite the house, and the separate place toward the east. a hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building in front of the separate place, and behind it, and its arches on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple and the porticoes of the court; 16 And the door posts and the narrow windows and the arches round about on their three stories, over against the three gates that were ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows; 17 And the windows which were covered above the door of the inner house, and the outside of all the walls round about, he measured from inside and from outside. 18 And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm trees from this side and from that side; the house was made in this manner round about: 20 The space from the ground to above the doors was decorated with cherubim and palm trees. 21 And the wall of the temple was foursquare, and the face of the sanctuary as seen in the vision was like the appearance of a wooden altar; 22 It was three cubits high, two cubits long; and it had corners: and its sides and base were all made of wood; and he said to me, This is the table that is before the LORD. 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors had two hinges apiece, two hinges for the one door and two hinges for the other. 25 And the doors of the temple were decorated with cherubim and palm trees, like those that were made on the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the portico without. 26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on one side and on the other side: and the sides of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple were covered with wood boards."

"42:1 ¶ THEN he brought me forth into the outer court, to the way toward the north; and he brought me into the room opposite the separate place and opposite the building toward the north. 2 Towards the place where he measured a hundred cubits, which is at the north gate, and the breadth of it was fifty cubits. 3 Opposite the gate of the inner court, over against the pavement of the outer court, was gallery above gallery in three stories. 4 And before the rooms was a passage ten cubits broad, and its length a hundred cubits; and the door of the passage was toward the north. 5 Now the upper rooms were smaller because the stairway went through them. 6 For they were in three stories, but had no pillars like the pillars of the court; therefore the upper rooms were smaller than the lower rooms and the middle ones. 7 And the wall that was outside, which is opposite the rooms, was fifty cubits long. 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and those before the temple were a hundred cubits. 9 And the door of the room of the vestibule which goes into the outer court was on the east. 10 The rooms were in the breadth of the wall of the court at the eastern gate opposite the separate place, and in front of the building where the rooms were. 11 And the passage in front of them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north, and the rooms were of the same length and breadth; and all their exits, entrances, their appearance, and their doors were alike. 12 Like to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way which was directly before the wall toward the place where the eastern valley starts. 13 Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are in front of the separate place, they are rooms where the priests who make offerings to the LORD eat the most holy things; there they lay the most holy things, the meat offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering: for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter therein, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments; then they can make offerings on behalf of the people."

"15 ¶ Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he took me out toward the gate that looks toward the east, and he measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 19 He measured the west side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides; and the wall round about, five hundred reeds long and five hundred broad, making a separation between the sanctuary and the unconsecrated ground."

"43:1 ¶ AFTERWARD he brought me to the gate that looks toward the east. 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the direction of the east; and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with his glory. 3 And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when I came to announce the destruction of the city, and like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the temple through the gate that looks toward the east. 5 And the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 6 And I heard someone speaking to me out of the temple; and the man was standing by me."

"7 ¶ And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall be no more defiled, and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their kings, by their whoredom nor with the corpses of their kings and with their idols. 8 For they used to make their gates beside my gates, and their door posts beside my doorposts, and there was only a wall between me and them; they have even defiled my holy name by the iniquities which they have committed; therefore I have consumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the corpses of their kings from my presence, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10 But you, Son of man, show to the house of Israel this temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities which they transgressed against me; and let them study the pattern thereof. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and its fashion and its entrances and its exits and all its forms and all its laws and ordinances, and draw the plans in their sight, that they may keep the whole design thereof, and all its form, and do them. 12 This is the vision of the house upon the top of the mountain; and all its borders round about are most holy."

"13 ¶ And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth): even the base shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border to its edges round about shall be a span, and likewise on its sides. 14 And from the bottom on the ground to the lower seat shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lower seat to the higher seat shall be four cubits, and the breadth, one cubit. 15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward there shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square on its four sides. 17 And the seat shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in its four squares: and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the base of it shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall look toward the east. 18 And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the LORD God: These are the ordinances of the altar on the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings upon it and to sprinkle blood upon it. 19 And you shall give to the priests and the Levites of the descendants of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, says the LORD God, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20 And you shall take some of its blood, and sprinkle it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the seat, and upon the border round about; thus shall you sprinkle blood on it, and it shall be cleansed. 21 You shall take the bullock also of the sin offering, and they shall take it to the side of the temple and burn it outside of the sanctuary. 22 And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bullock. 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24 And you shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall put salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the LORD, 25 For seven days they shall offer daily a he-goat for the sin offering; they shall also offer a young bullock and a ram out of the flock without blemish 26 For seven days they shall make offerings and shall cleanse the altar: and they shall consecrate themselves. 27 And when these days are expired, that is from the seventh day forward, then the priests shall make offerings upon the altar, both their burnt offerings and their peace offerings; and I will be pleased with them, says the LORD God."

"44:1 ¶ THEN he brought me back by way of the gate of the outer sanctuary which looks toward the east; and behold, it was shut. 2 Then the LORD said to 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, will enter in by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3 Only the high priest shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; but he shall enter by way of the portico of the gate, and shall go out by the same way."

"4 ¶ Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell upon my face. 5 And the LORD said to me. Son of man, mark in your heart and see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the temple and all its patterns; and remember well the entrances of the house and the exits of the sanctuary. 6 Then say to the rebellious house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: Have you not committed abominations enough, O house of Israel? 7 But you are also bringing strangers, who are uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute my house; when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and you nullified my covenant with all your abominations. 8 And you have not had charge of my sanctuary; but you have made the keepers of my sanctuary guards for yourselves. 9 Thus says the LORD God: No foreigner, uncircumcised in his heart and uncircumcised in his flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, nor any strangers who are among the children of Israel."

"10 ¶ Neither shall the Levites who went away far from me when Israel went astray from me after their idols, and who have borne their iniquity. 11 For these Levites once served in my sanctuary and ministered at the gates of the temple; and they slaughtered burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people, and stood before the people and ministered to them. 12 But because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the LORD God, and they have borne their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near to me, to minister to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things in the Holy of Holies; but they shall bear all their shame and all their abominations which they have committed. 14 And I will put them in charge of the temple, and make them laborers for all that shall be done in it. 15 But the priests, the descendants of Zadok, and the Levites who had charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and blood, says the LORD God; 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge:"

"17 ¶ And when they enter the gate of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; they shall not wear any garments made of wool, while they minister at the gate of the inner court. 18 Also when they are within the inner court, they shall wear linen mitres upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins. 19 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they ministered and leave them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, that they may not sanctify the people with their garments. 20 Neither shall they shave their heads nor let their locks grow long; but they shall have their hair cut. 21 Neither shall the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither shall they marry a widow nor her that is put away; but they shall marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the unconsecrated, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in the case of lawsuits they shall be appointed as judges; and they shall judge according to my judgments; and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 25 And they shall not attend the funeral of a dead person, lest they defile themselves, except for father or for mother or for son or for daughter or for brother or for his virgin sister who had never been married, otherwise they may become unclean. 26 And after a priest is unclean, he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean. 27 And on the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the LORD God. 28 And the sanctuary shall be to them for an inheritance; for I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; for I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meal offering and the meat of the sin offering, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the first-born of the sheep and cattle and of all things which you set aside for the LORD, shall be for the priests; and you shall also give the first of your dough to the priests, so that a blessing may rest in your houses. 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast."

"45:1 ¶ MOREOVER, when you shall divide the land for an inheritance, you must set apart a portion for the LORD, and consecrate a portion of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand reeds, and the breadth ten thousand reeds. It shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary a space five hundred in length and five hundred in breadth, square round about with fifty cubits of open space round it. 3 And of this measure you shall measure the length of twenty-five thousand and the breadth of ten thousand cubits; and in it shall be the Holy of Holies. 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests who minister in the sanctuary of the LORD, and who shall come near to minister to the LORD; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And there shall be a space of twenty-five thousand reeds long and ten thousand broad; and it shall be for a possession for the Levites who minister in the temple, twenty houses in all. 6 And the portion for the city shall be five thousand broad and twenty-five thousand long, toward the portion of the sanctuary; it shall be for all the house of Israel. 7 And a portion on the sides of the holy portion shall be for the ruler of the people and as a portion for the city, from the east side eastward and from the west side westward; and the length shall be like that of one of the portions from the east border to the west border. 8 The land shall be an inheritance to the children of Israel; and the rulers of my people shall no more oppress them; and the rest of the land they shall give to the children of Israel according to their tribes."

"9 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: It is enough, O princes of Israel; remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness, cease your oppression from my people, says the LORD God. 10 You shall have just balances and just weights and just measures. 11 You shall make a standard measure and a standard weight, so that you may receive tithes, one out of ten, evenly. 12 And the shekels shall be twenty gerahs; and each of the shekels shall be twenty-five minas; fifteen shekels shall be your mina."

"13 ¶ This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and one sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley; 14 And as for oil, you shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths, for ten baths are a homer; 15 And one ewe out of every two hundred sheep of the flocks of Israel for the meal offering and for the burnt offering and for the peace offering, that I may cleanse them, says the LORD God. 16 All the people of the land shall give this offering to the high priest of Israel. 17 And it shall be the high priest’s part to provide burnt offerings, meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the first day of the months, and sabbaths; and at all the feasts of the house of Israel, he shall offer the sin offering and the meal offering and the drink offering and the peace offerings, an offering to cleanse the children of Israel. 18 Thus says the LORD God: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bullock without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary; 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and sprinkle it on the posts of the house and on the four corners of the seat of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And he shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for every one who had done wrong and had gone astray; so shall he cleanse the house. 21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the feast of the passover, and you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days. 22 And on that day the high priest shall offer on behalf of himself and on behalf of all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering. 23 And during the seven days of the feast he shall offer burnt offerings to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days, and a he-goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And he shall prepare a meal offering of an ephah for every bullock and an ephah for every ram and a hin of oil for each ephah. 25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, he shall celebrate the feast in the same manner for seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, according to the meal offering, and according to the oil."

"46:1 ¶ THUS says the LORD God: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut during the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon. 2 And the high priest shall enter by the way of the porch at the gate from without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall offer his burnt offerings and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the sabbaths and on the new moons. 4 And the burnt offerings that the high priest shall offer before the LORD on the sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 5 And he shall offer a meal offering of an ephah for the bullock and an ephah for the ram; and for the lambs as much as he can afford, and add a hin of oil to an ephah. 6 And on the first day of the new moon it shall be a bullock without blemish and six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 7 And he shall prepare the meal offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs as much as he can afford, and add a hin of oil to an ephah. 8 And when the high priest shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the portico of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way. 9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD at the time of the solemn feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate; he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight ahead. 10 But the high priest who is among you, by the same gate that he enters by that gate shall he go out. 11 And at the time of the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as much as he can afford, and a hin of oil shall be added to an ephah. 12 Now when the high priest shall offer burnt offerings or gift offerings to the LORD, the gate that looks toward the east shall be opened for him, and he shall offer his burnt offerings and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day; then he shall go out, and after his going out the gate shall be shut. 13 He shall daily offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a lamb of the first year without blemish; he shall offer it every morning. 14 And he shall offer a meal offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah and the third part of a hin of oil to be mixed with fine flour, a meal offering continually by a perpetual ordinance to the LORD. 15 Thus they shall offer lambs and the meal offering and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering."

"16 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: If the high priest give a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons; it shall be their possession by inheritance. 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after that it shall return to the high priest; but what his sons inherit shall be theirs. 18 Moreover the high priest shall not take of the people’s inheritance, nor shall he defraud them of their inheritance; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession; so that my people may not be driven away every man from his inheritance."

"19 ¶ Then he brought me through the vestibule, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms of the priests, which look toward the north; and behold, there was a place at the end toward the west. 20 And he said to me, This is the place where the priests boil the sin offering, and where they bake the meal offering, that they may not go out into the outer court, to sanctify the people. 21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four sides of the court; and behold, on every side of the court there was a court. 22 On the four sides of the court there were small courts forty cubits long and thirty broad. 23 And there was a row of rooms round about the four courts. 24 Then he said to me, This is the house of the cooks, where the ministers of the temple cook the sacrifice of the people."

"47:1 ¶ THEN he brought me again to the door of the temple; and, behold, water issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; and the water was flowing down from under the side of the temple, at the south side of the altar. 2 And he brought me out by the way of the north gate, and led me about the way outside to the gate of the court that looks eastward; and, behold, water was running out from under the right side of the temple. 3 And a glorious man that had the measuring line in his hand went forth; he measured a thousand cubits and brought me through the water, and it was to the ankles. 4 Again he measured a thousand cubits and brought me through the water, and it was up to the knees. Again he measured a thousand cubits and brought me through the water, and it was up to the loins. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand cubits; and it was a torrent that no man could cross; for the waters were risen so high and the stream had become so turbulent that no one could cross it. 6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see this stream? Then he brought me and made me to sit by the bank of the torrent. 7 Now when I was seated, I saw that at the bank of the stream were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 Then he said to me, These waters that are issuing out toward the east region and flowing down toward the north, shall go into the sea and mingle with the stagnant water, and make it fresh. 9 And it shall come to pass that every living creature that swarms wheresoever the torrent shall flow shall live; and there shall be many fish because of the waters that flow there and make the water fresh. 10 And it shall come to pass, that fishermen shall stand beside it from En-gad to En-eglain; it shall be a place to spread forth nets; and there shall be very many kinds of fish in it, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many. 11 But the water in its springs and mouths shall not be fresh, but it shall become salt. 12 And by the stream, on the banks thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all kinds of trees for food, their leaves shall not fall off, neither shall their fruit fail; but in the beginning of every month they shall bring forth new fruit, because the water with which they are irrigated flows from the sanctuary; and their fruit shall be for food and their leaves for healing."

"13 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: These are the borders by which you shall divide the land for the inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. 14 And you shall inherit it, one as well as another, a land concerning which I swore by lifting up my hand to give it to your fathers; and this land shall be divided among you for an inheritance. 15 And this shall be the border of the land, on the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethron which goes to Zedad: 16 Hamath, Beroth, Sepharvim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar the central, which is on the border of Hauran. 17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, which is within the border of Damascus, and Zipon which is toward the north within the border of Hamath. This is the north side. 18 And the east side border shall run to Beth-hauran from Damascus and from Gilead to the land of Israel; and Jordan shall be the boundary by the sea, east of Tamar. This is the east border. 19 And the south side shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Maribath in Kadesh, then along the shores of the great sea. This is the south side. 20 And the border shall run as far as Nacakh which is at the entrance of Hammath. This is the west side. 21 So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel. 22 And it shall come to pass that when you divide it as an inheritance to you and to proselytes from among the aliens who dwell with you, who shall beget children among you; they shall be to you like the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And whatever tribe which has the aliens who are proselytes, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the LORD God."

"48:1 ¶ NOW these are the boundaries of the tribes: From the north end, by the way of Hithron which is at the entrance of Hamath and of Khazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward to the border of Hamath; these are its sides east and west, a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Asher. 3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Naphtali. 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Manasseh. 5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Reuben. 6 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Ephraim. 7 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Judah. 8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and in length the same as one of the other portions, from the east side to the west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. 9 And the portion of the land which you shall set apart for the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in breadth. 10 And for the priests shall be the holy portion; toward the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and toward the west ten thousand cubits in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand cubits in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand cubits in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst of it. 11 It shall be for the priests that are consecrated of the descendants of Zadok; who have kept my charge, who did not go astray as the children of Israel went astray and as the Levites went astray. 12 And this portion shall be their portion out of the land which is set aside, the most holy by the border of the Levites. 13 And opposite the border of the priests the Levites shall have a portion twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all their land shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in breadth. 14 And they shall not sell any of it, neither exchange it, nor do away with the tithes of the land; for it is holy to the LORD. 15 And the five thousand cubits that are left in the breadth over against the twenty-five thousand cubits shall be common ground for the use of the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst of it. 16 And these shall be its dimensions: the north side four thousand and five hundred cubits, the east side four thousand and five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand and five hundred cubits, and the west side four thousand and five hundred cubits. 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty cubits and toward the south two hundred and fifty cubits and toward the east two hundred and fifty cubits and toward the west two hundred and fifty cubits. 18 And the remainder of the land opposite the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward; and it shall be opposite the holy portion; and its produce shall be for food to those who work for the city. 19 And they that work for the city shall be recruited out of all the tribes of Israel. 20 The whole portion which is set aside shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand; you shall separate the holy portion from the possession of the city. 21 And the remainder shall be for the ruler of the city, on one side and on the other of the holy portion and of the possession of the city, opposite the twenty-five thousand cubits toward the east border, and westward twenty-five thousand cubits toward the west border, opposite the portion for the ruler; and it shall be the holy portion; and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst. 22 Moreover part of the possession of the Levites and of the possession of the city shall be the portion of the ruler in the city, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin. 23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion. 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar a portion. 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun a portion. 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad a portion. 28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Maribath in Kadesh, and his possession shall extend as far as the great sea. 29 This is the land which you shall divide for a heritage to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the LORD God. 30 And these shall be the limits of the city: on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures."

"31 ¶ And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates on the north side; one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, one gate for Levi. 32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred measures; and three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, one gate for Dan. 33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures; and three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, one gate for Zebulun. 34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred measures; and three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali. 35 And the circumference of the city shall be eighteen thousand measures; and the name of the city was given by the LORD from the day that it was built."