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                                   Ezekiel



Chapter 1

1   Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the
    fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of
    Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2   In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king
    Jehoiachin's captivity,
3   The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son
    of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand
    of the Lord was there upon him.
4   And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great
    cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and
    out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the
    fire.
5   Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
    creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a
    man.
6   And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7   And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like
    the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of
    burnished brass.
8   And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
    and they four had their faces and their wings.
9   Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they
    went; they went every one straight forward.
10  As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man,
    and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of
    an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11  Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two
    wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their
    bodies.
12  And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to
    go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
13  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was
    like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up
    and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of
    the fire went forth lightning.
14  And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a
    flash of lightning.
15  Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth
    by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16  The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour
    of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and
    their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17  When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not
    when they went.
18  As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and
    their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
19  And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when
    the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
    lifted up.
20  Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their
    spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the
    spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21  When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and
    when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over
    against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22  And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
    creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over
    their heads above.
23  And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the
    other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had
    two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
24  And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise
    of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as
    the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25  And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads,
    when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26  And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of
    a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness
    of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon
    it.
27  And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round
    about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from
    the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the
    appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28  As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain,
    so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the
    appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it,
    I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Chapter 2

1   And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak
    unto thee.
2   And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon
    my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
3   And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of
    Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and
    their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
4   For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto
    them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.
5   And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for
    they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a
    prophet among them.
6   And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of
    their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell
    among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their
    looks, though they be a rebellious house.
7   And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or
    whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
8   But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
    rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I
    give thee.
9   And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll
    of a book was therein;
10  And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without:
    and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Chapter 3

1   Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this
    roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2   So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3   And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy
    bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in
    my mouth as honey for sweetness.
4   And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
    Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5   For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
    language, but to the house of Israel;
6   Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose
    words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they
    would have hearkened unto thee.
7   But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not
    hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and
    hardhearted.
8   Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy
    forehead strong against their foreheads.
9   As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them
    not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious
    house.
10  Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak
    unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
11  And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy
    people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God;
    whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12  Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
    rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.
13  I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that
    touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and
    a noise of a great rushing.
14  So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
    bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was
    strong upon me.
15  Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the
    river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished
    among them seven days.
16  And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the
    Lord came unto me, saying,
17  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel:
    therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18  When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest
    him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to
    save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
    blood will I require at thine hand.
19  Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor
    from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
    delivered thy soul.
20  Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and
    commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die:
    because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and
    his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his
    blood will I require at thine hand.
21  Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin
    not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned;
    also thou hast delivered thy soul.
22  And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me,
    Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
23  Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory
    of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of
    Chebar: and I fell on my face.
24  Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake
    with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
25  But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and
    shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
26  And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou
    shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a
    rebellious house.
27  But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say
    unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; He that heareth, let him hear; and
    he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Chapter 4

1   Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and
    portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2   And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a
    mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams
    against it round about.
3   Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
    iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it
    shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a
    sign to the house of Israel.
4   Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of
    Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie
    upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5   For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to
    the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou
    bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6   And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and
    thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have
    appointed thee each day for a year.
7   Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and
    thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8   And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee
    from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9   Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils,
    and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread
    thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon
    thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10  And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
    a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11  Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin:
    from time to time shalt thou drink.
12  And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with
    dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13  And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
    defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14  Then said I, Ah Lord God!  behold, my soul hath not been polluted:
    for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth
    of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh
    into my mouth.
15  Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's
    dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16  Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff
    of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with
    care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
17  That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another,
    and consume away for their iniquity.

Chapter 5

1   And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's
    razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard:  then
    take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2   Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when
    the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part,
    and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in
    the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
3   Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy
    skirts.
4   Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and
    burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the
    house of Israel.
5   Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst
    of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6   And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the
    nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about
    her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not
    walked in them.
7   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the
    nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes,
    neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the
    judgments of the nations that are round about you;
8   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee,
    and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the
    nations.
9   And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will
    not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
10  Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and
    the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee,
    and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
11  Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast
    defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
    abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine
    eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
12  A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine
    shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall
    by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all
    the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13  Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to
    rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the
    Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in
    them.
14  Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations
    that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
    astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall
    execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I
    the Lord have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be
    for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will
    increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall
    bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I
    will bring the sword upon thee.  I the Lord have spoken it.

Chapter 6

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy
    against them,
3   And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus
    saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers,
    and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and
    I will destroy your high places.
4   And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken:
    and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5   And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before
    their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6   In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the
    high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and
    made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images
    may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
7   And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I
    am the Lord.
8   Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape
    the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the
    countries.
9   And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations
    whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their
    whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which
    go a-whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the
    evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10  And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in
    vain that I would do this evil unto them.
11  Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy
    foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of
    Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
    pestilence.
12  He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near
    shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die
    by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
13  Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be
    among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all
    the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every
    thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their
    idols.
14  So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate,
    yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their
    habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 7

1   Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of
    Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3   Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee,
    and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee
    all thine abominations.
4   And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I
    will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in
    the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
5   Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6   An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is
    come.
7   The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the
    time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of
    the mountains.
8   Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine
    anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
    recompense thee for all thine abominations.
9   And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
    recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in
    the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.
10  Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the
    rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11  Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall
    remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall
    there be wailing for them.
12  The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice,
    nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13  For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they
    were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof,
    which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the
    iniquity of his life.
14  They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth
    to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15  The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he
    that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the
    city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16  But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
    mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for
    his iniquity.
17  All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18  They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
    cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all
    their heads.
19  They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
    removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls,
    neither fill their bowels:  because it is the stumblingblock of their
    iniquity.
20  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they
    made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things
    therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
21  And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to
    the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22  My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret
    place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23  Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is
    full of violence.
24  Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
    possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease;
    and their holy places shall be defiled.
25  Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be
    none.
26  Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour;
    then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish
    from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27  The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
    desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:
    I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will
    I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 8

1   And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the
    fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah
    sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
2   Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:  from the
    appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even
    upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
3   And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine
    head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and
    brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner
    gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of
    jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4   And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
    the vision that I saw in the plain.
5   Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way
    toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and
    behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the
    entry.
6   He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do?
    even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here,
    that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and
    thou shalt see greater abominations.
7   And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold
    a hole in the wall.
8   Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had
    digged in the wall, behold a door.
9   And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that
    they do here.
10  So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
    abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed
    upon the wall round about.
11  And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house
    of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
    with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went
    up.
12  Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of
    the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his
    imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the
    earth.
13  He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
    abominations that they do.
14  Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which
    was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15  Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee
    yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
16  And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and,
    behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the
    altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the
    temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped
    the sun toward the east.
17  Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a
    light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations
    which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and
    have returned to provoke me to anger:  and, lo, they put the branch to
    their nose.
18  Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither
    will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice,
    yet will I not hear them.

Chapter 9

1   He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that
    have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
    destroying weapon in his hand.
2   And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth
    toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one
    man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his
    side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
3   And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
    whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the
    man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
4   And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through
    the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men
    that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the
    midst thereof.
5   And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the
    city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
6   Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
    women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my
    sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the
    house.
7   And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the
    slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
8   And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left,
    that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou
    destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon
    Jerusalem?
9   Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is
    exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
    perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the
    Lord seeth not.
10  And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
    pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
11  And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his
    side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded
    me.

Chapter 10

1   Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head
    of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone,
    as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
2   And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between
    the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of
    fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he
    went in in my sight.
3   Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man
    went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
4   Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the
    threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the
    court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory.
5   And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer
    court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
6   And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with
    linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the
    cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
7   And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims
    unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put
    it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and
    went out.
8   And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under
    their wings.
9   And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel
    by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance
    of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
10  And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a
    wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
11  When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as
    they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it;
    they turned not as they went.
12  And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their
    wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels
    that they four had.
13  As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
14  And every one had four faces:  the first face was the face of a
    cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the
    face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15  And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I
    saw by the river of Chebar.
16  And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the
    cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same
    wheels also turned not from beside them.
17  When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these
    lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in
    them.
18  Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the
    house, and stood over the cherubims.
19  And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the
    earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them,
    and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord's house;
    and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
20  This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the
    river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
21  Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the
    likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
22  And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the
    river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one
    straight forward.

Chapter 11

1   Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of
    the Lord's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the
    gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur,
    and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2   Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
    mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
3   Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the
    caldron, and we be the flesh.
4   Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5   And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus
    saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the
    things that come into your mind, every one of them.
6   Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the
    streets thereof with the slain.
7   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in the
    midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I
    will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8   Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the
    Lord God.
9   And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into
    the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10  Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
    and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
11  This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in
    the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12  And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my
    statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners
    of the heathen that are round about you.
13  And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
    Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud
    voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant
    of Israel?
14  Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
15  Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred,
    and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants
    of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord: unto us is this land
    given in possession.
16  Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far
    off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the
    countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries
    where they shall come.
17  Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from
    the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been
    scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18  And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
    detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19  And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within
    you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give
    them an heart of flesh:
20  That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do
    them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
21  But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
    detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way
    upon their own heads, saith the Lord God.
22  Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside
    them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
23  And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and
    stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
24  Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the
    spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that
    I had seen went up from me.
25  Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord
    had shewed me.

Chapter 12

1   The word of the Lord also came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which
    have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not:
    for they are a rebellious house.
3   Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and
    remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to
    another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they
    be a rebellious house.
4   Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff
    for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they
    that go forth into captivity.
5   Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6   In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it
    forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the
    ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
7   And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as
    stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine
    hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder
    in their sight.
8   And in the morning came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,
9   Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said
    unto thee, What doest thou?
10  Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; This burden concerneth
    the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among
    them.
11  Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto
    them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
12  And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the
    twilight, and shall go forth:  they shall dig through the wall to carry
    out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with
    his eyes.
13  My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my
    snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet
    shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
14  And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help
    him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
15  And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them
    among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
16  But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine,
    and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations
    among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the
    Lord.
17  Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18  Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with
    trembling and with carefulness;
19  And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat
    their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment,
    that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the
    violence of all them that dwell therein.
20  And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
    shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
21  And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
22  Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel,
    saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
23  Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this
    proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel;
    but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every
    vision.
24  For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination
    within the house of Israel.
25  For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak
    shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O
    rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the
    Lord God.
26  Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
27  Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that
    he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that
    are far off.
28  Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; There shall none of
    my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall
    be done, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 13

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and
    say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the
    word of the Lord;
3   Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow
    their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4   O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5   Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the
    house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
6   They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith:
    and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that
    they would confirm the word.
7   Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying
    divination, whereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not
    spoken?
8   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and
    seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.
9   And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that
    divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither
    shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither
    shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am
    the Lord God.
10  Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
    there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it
    with untempered mortar:
11  Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall
    fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones,
    shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
12  Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is
    the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
13  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy
    wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger,
    and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
14  So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered
    mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof
    shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the
    midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
15  Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that
    have daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say unto you, The wall
    is no more, neither they that daubed it;
16  To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
    and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the
    Lord God.
17  Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy
    people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against
    them,
18  And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows
    to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to
    hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the
    souls alive that come unto you?
19  And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for
    pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the
    souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear
    your lies?
20  Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows,
    wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them
    from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt
    to make them fly.
21  Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your
    hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall
    know that I am the Lord.
22  Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I
    have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he
    should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
23  Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations:  for I
    will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the
    Lord.

Chapter 14

1   Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
3   Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put
    the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be
    inquired of at all by them?
4   Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
    Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart,
    and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
    cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according
    to the multitude of his idols;
5   That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they
    are all estranged from me through their idols.
6   Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God;
    Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces
    from all your abominations.
7   For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
    sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up
    his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
    before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning
    me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:
8   And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and
    a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye
    shall know that I am the Lord.
9   And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord
    have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and
    will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10  And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment
    of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto
    him;
11  That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be
    polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my
    people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God.
12  The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,
13  Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing
    grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break
    the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will
    cut off man and beast from it:
14  Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they
    should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the
    Lord God.
15  If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil
    it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the
    beasts:
16  Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God,
    they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be
    delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
17  Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the
    land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
18  Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God,
    they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be
    delivered themselves.
19  Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon
    it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20  Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
    God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver
    their own souls by their righteousness.
21  For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore
    judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome
    beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
22  Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought
    forth, both sons and daughters:  behold, they shall come forth unto you,
    and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted
    concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning
    all that I have brought upon it.
23  And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings:
    and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have
    done in it, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 15

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch
    which is among the trees of the forest?
3   Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of
    it to hang any vessel thereon?
4   Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the
    ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
5   Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less
    shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and
    it is burned?
6   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As the vine tree among the trees of
    the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7   And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire,
    and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the
    Lord, when I set my face against them.
8   And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
    trespass, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 16

1   Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3   And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
    nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy
    mother an Hittite.
4   And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not
    cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not
    salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5   None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion
    upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of
    thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
6   And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I
    said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee
    when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
7   I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast
    increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:
    thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast
    naked and bare.
8   Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was
    the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
    nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with
    thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
9   Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood
    from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
10  I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers'
    skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with
    silk.
11  I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy
    hands, and a chain on thy neck.
12  And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
    beautiful crown upon thine head.
13  Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of
    fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and
    honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst
    prosper into a kingdom.
14  And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it
    was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the
    Lord God.
15  But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot
    because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one
    that passed by; his it was.
16  And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places
    with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things
    shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17  Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
    which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
    commit whoredom with them,
18  And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast
    set mine oil and mine incense before them.
19  My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
    wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
    savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.
20  Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast
    borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured.
    Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
21  That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to
    pass through the fire for them?
22  And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not
    remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and
    wast polluted in thy blood.
23  And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee!
    saith the Lord God;)
24  That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made
    thee an high place in every street.
25  Thou has built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made
    thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that
    passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
26  Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
    neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke
    me to anger.
27  Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have
    diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them
    that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of
    thy lewd way.
28  Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
    unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest
    not be satisfied.
29  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan
    unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
30  How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all
    these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
31  In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way,
    and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
    harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
32  But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers
    instead of her husband!
33  They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy
    lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for
    thy whoredom.
34  And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms,
    whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest
    a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art
    contrary.
35  Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
36  Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and
    thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with
    all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children,
    which thou didst give unto them;
37  Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast
    taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that
    thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and
    will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy
    nakedness.
38  And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
    judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
39  And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down
    thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall
    strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and
    leave thee naked and bare.
40  They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone
    thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
41  And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments
    upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease
    from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
42  So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall
    depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43  Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast
    fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense
    thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit
    this lewdness above all thine abominations.
44  Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
    thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
45  Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her
    children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their
    husbands and their children:  your mother was an Hittite, and your
    father an Amorite.
46  And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell
    at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right
    hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
47  Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their
    abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast
    corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
48  As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she
    nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
49  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of
    bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters,
    neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
    therefore I took them away as I saw good.
51  Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast
    multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy
    sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
52  Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for
    thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are
    more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy
    shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
53  When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
    her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will
    I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
54  That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in
    all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
55  When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
    former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their
    former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former
    estate.
56  For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
    pride,
57  Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach
    of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the
    daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
58  Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord.
59  For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast
    done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60  Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
    youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
61  Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt
    receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them
    unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
62  And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that
    I am the Lord:
63  That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy
    mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for
    all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 17

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of
    Israel;
3   And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings,
    longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto
    Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
4   He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land
    of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
5   He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful
    field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
6   And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose
    branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it
    became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7   There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers:
    and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her
    branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
    plantation.
8   It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring
    forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly
    vine.
9   Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull
    up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it
    shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power
    or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
10  Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly
    wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows
    where it grew.
11  Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
12  Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean?
    tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath
    taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him
    to Babylon;
13  And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and
    hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
14  That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but
    that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
15  But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt,
    that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall
    he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be
    delivered?
16  As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king
    dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant
    he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17  Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for
    him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off
    many persons:
18  Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he
    had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not
    escape.
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that
    he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I
    recompense upon his own head.
20  And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare,
    and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his
    trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21  And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and
    they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know
    that I the Lord have spoken it.
22  Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of
    the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his
    young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and
    eminent:
23  In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall
    bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it
    shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches
    thereof shall they dwell.
24  And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have
    brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the
    green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have
    spoken and have done it.

Chapter 18

1   The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
2   What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
    saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are
    set on edge?
3   As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to
    use this proverb in Israel.
4   Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
    soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
5   But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6   And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes
    to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his
    neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
7   And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his
    pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the
    hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
8   He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any
    increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true
    judgment between man and man,
9   Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly;
    he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.
10  If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that
    doeth the like to any one of these things,
11  And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the
    mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
12  Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not
    restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath
    committed abomination,
13  Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then
    live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall
    surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
14  Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he
    hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
15  That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his
    eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his
    neighbour's wife,
16  Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither
    hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and
    hath covered the naked with a garment,
17  That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received
    usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my
    statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall
    surely live.
18  As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother
    by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even
    he shall die in his iniquity.
19  Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?
    When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all
    my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
20  The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the
    iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
    the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the
    wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
21  But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed,
    and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he
    shall surely live, he shall not die.
22  All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
    mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall
    live.
23  Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord
    God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24  But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
    committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that
    the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath
    done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed,
    and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25  Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of
    Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26  When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and
    committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath
    done shall he die.
27  Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he
    hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save
    his soul alive.
28  Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions
    that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29  Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O
    house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30  Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to
    his ways, saith the Lord God.  Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
    transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31  Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
    transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye
    die, O house of Israel?
32  For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
    God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Chapter 19

1   Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2   And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she
    nourished her whelps among young lions.
3   And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it
    learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4   The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they
    brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5   Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she
    took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6   And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and
    learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
7   And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities;
    and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his
    roaring.
8   Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and
    spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
9   And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of
    Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be
    heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10  Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she
    was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11  And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and
    her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in
    her height with the multitude of her branches.
12  But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and
    the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and
    withered; the fire consumed them.
13  And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
    ground.
14  And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured
    her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This
    is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Chapter 20

1   And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth
    day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire
    of the Lord, and sat before me.
2   Then came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,
3   Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus
    saith the Lord God; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the
    Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
4   Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to
    know the abominations of their fathers:
5   And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when I chose
    Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and
    made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine
    hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God;
6   In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth
    of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing
    with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
7   Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his
    eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord
    your God.
8   But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did
    not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they
    forsake the idols of Egypt:  then I said, I will pour out my fury upon
    them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
    Egypt.
9   But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
    before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself
    known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10  Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and
    brought them into the wilderness.
11  And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a
    man do, he shall even live in them.
12  Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
    them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
13  But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they
    walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a
    man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly
    polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the
    wilderness, to consume them.
14  But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
    before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15  Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I
    would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with
    milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16  Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes,
    but polluted my sabbaths:  for their heart went after their idols.
17  Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I
    make an end of them in the wilderness.
18  But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the
    statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile
    yourselves with their idols:
19  I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments,
    and do them;
20  And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,
    that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
21  Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in
    my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he
    shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would
    pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
    wilderness.
22  Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
    that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose
    sight I brought them forth.
23  I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would
    scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
24  Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my
    statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their
    fathers' idols.
25  Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments
    whereby they should not live;
26  And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
    through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
    desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.
27  Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto
    them, Thus saith the Lord God; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed
    me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
28  For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up
    mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the
    thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
    presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their
    sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
29  Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?  And
    the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
30  Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Are
    ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom
    after their abominations?
31  For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through
    the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day:
    and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith
    the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
32  And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye
    say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to
    serve wood and stone.
33  As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a
    stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34  And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of
    the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a
    stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there
    will I plead with you face to face.
36  Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of
    Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
37  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into
    the bond of the covenant:
38  And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that
    transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where
    they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye
    shall know that I am the Lord.
39  As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go ye, serve
    ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto
    me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your
    idols.
40  For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
    saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in
    the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require
    your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your
    holy things.
41  I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from
    the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been
    scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
42  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the
    land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to
    give it to your fathers.
43  And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein
    ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight
    for all your evils that ye have committed.
44  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought with you
    for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to
    your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
45  Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
46  Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward
    the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
47  And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus
    saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
    devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
    shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
    be burned therein.
48  And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not
    be quenched.
49  Then said I, Ah Lord God!  they say of me, Doth he not speak
    parables?

Chapter 21

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward
    the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3   And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am
    against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will
    cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
4   Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
    wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all
    flesh from the south to the north:
5   That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out
    of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6   Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and
    with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7   And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?
    that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every
    heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall
    faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and
    shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.
8   Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
9   Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a
    sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10  It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
    glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as
    every tree.
11  And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:  this
    sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the
    slayer.
12  Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be
    upon all the princes of Israel:  terrors by reason of the sword shall be
    upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
13  Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it
    shall be no more, saith the Lord God.
14  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together,
    and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it
    is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their
    privy chambers.
15  I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their
    heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright,
    it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16  Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,
    whithersoever thy face is set.
17  I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to
    rest: I the Lord have said it.
18  The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
19  Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the
    king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land:
    and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20  Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
    and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21  For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head
    of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he
    consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22  At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
    captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with
    shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount,
    and to build a fort.
23  And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to
    them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the
    iniquity, that they may be taken.
24  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have made your iniquity
    to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in
    all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to
    remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
25  And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when
    iniquity shall have an end,
26  Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown:
    this shall not be the same:  exalt him that is low, and abase him that
    is high.
27  I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more,
    until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28  And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God
    concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou,
    The sword, the sword is drawn:  for the slaughter it is furbished, to
    consume because of the glittering:
29  Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee,
    to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked,
    whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30  Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the
    place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31  And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against
    thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish
    men, and skilful to destroy.
32  Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst
    of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have
    spoken it.

Chapter 22

1   Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody
    city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
3   Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the
    midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to
    defile herself.
4   Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast
    defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast
    caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years:
    therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to
    all countries.
5   Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee,
    which art infamous and much vexed.
6   Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power
    to shed blood.
7   In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee
    have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed
    the fatherless and the widow.
8   Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
9   In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat
    upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
10  In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have
    they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
11  And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and
    anothe r hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee
    hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
12  In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury
    and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by
    extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
13  Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain
    which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of
    thee.
14  Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days
    that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it.
15  And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the
    countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
16  And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the
    heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
17  And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
18  Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are
    brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they
    are even the dross of silver.
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross,
    behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20  As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into
    the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will
    I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there,
    and melt you.
21  Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath,
    and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22  As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be
    melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have
    poured out my fury upon you.
23  And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
24  Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor
    rained upon in the day of indignation.
25  There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a
    roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have
    taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows
    in the midst thereof.
26  Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things:
    they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have
    they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid
    their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27  Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey,
    to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28  And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing
    vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God,
    when the Lord hath not spoken.
29  The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery,
    and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger
    wrongfully.
30  And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and
    stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it:
    but I found none.
31  Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
    consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I
    recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 23

1   The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3   And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in
    their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised
    the teats of their virginity.
4   And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister:
    and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their
    names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5   And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her
    lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
6   Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them
    desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7   Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were
    the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all
    their idols she defiled herself.
8   Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth
    they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and
    poured their whoredom upon her.
9   Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the
    hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10  These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters,
    and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they
    had executed judgment upon her.
11  And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
    inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in
    her whoredoms.
12  She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
    clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
    desirable young men.
13  Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14  And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed
    upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
15  Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon
    their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the
    Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and
    sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17  And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they
    defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her
    mind was alienated from them.
18  So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then
    my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her
    sister.
19  Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days
    of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20  For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
    asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21  Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in
    bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22  Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise
    up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will
    bring them against thee on every side;
23  The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and
    all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains
    and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
24  And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels,
    and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and
    shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and
    they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
25  And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal
    furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and
    thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy
    daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
26  They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair
    jewels.
27  Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom
    brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine
    eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28  For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the
    hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind
    is alienated:
29  And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy
    labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy
    whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30  I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone awhoring
    after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
31  Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her
    cup into thine hand.
32  Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep
    and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it
    containeth much.
33  Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
    astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34  Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the
    sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it,
    saith the Lord God.
35  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast forgotten me,
    and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and
    thy whoredoms.
36  The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah
    and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
37  That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and
    with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused
    their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire,
    to devour them.
38  Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary
    in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came
    the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they
    done in the midst of mine house.
40  And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto
    whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash
    thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
41  And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it,
    whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
42  And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the
    men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which
    put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43  Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit
    whoredoms with her, and she with them?
44  Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth
    the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd
    women.
45  And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of
    adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because
    they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
46  For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and
    will give them to be removed and spoiled.
47  And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with
    their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn
    up their houses with fire.
48  Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women
    may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
49  And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear
    the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

Chapter 24

1   Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
    month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the
    king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
3   And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus
    saith the Lord God; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into
    it:
4   Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh,
    and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
5   Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and
    make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
6   Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot
    whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it
    out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
7   For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a
    rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
8   That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her
    blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
9   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even
    make the pile for fire great.
10  Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well,
    and let the bones be burned.
11  Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be
    hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it,
    that the scum of it may be consumed.
12  She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth
    out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13  In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou
    wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more,
    till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
14  I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I
    will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according
    to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith
    the Lord God.
15  Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
16  Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes
    with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy
    tears run down.
17  Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine
    head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy
    lips, and eat not the bread of men.
18  So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died;
    and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19  And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things
    are to us, that thou doest so?
20  Then I answered them, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
21  Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I
    will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire
    of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your
    daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
22  And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat
    the bread of men.
23  And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your
    feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your
    iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24  Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done
    shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord
    God.
25  Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from
    them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes,
    and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26  That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee
    to hear it with thine ears?
27  In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and
    thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto
    them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 25

1   The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against
    them;
3   And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith
    the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it
    was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and
    against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
4   Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a
    possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their
    dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy
    milk.
5   And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a
    couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
6   For thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast clapped thine hands,
    and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite
    against the land of Israel;
7   Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will
    deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from
    the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will
    destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
8   Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,
    the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
9   Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from
    his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
    Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
10  Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in
    possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
11  And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am
    the Lord.
12  Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Edom hath dealt against the
    house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and
    revenged himself upon them;
13  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand
    upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it
    desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14  And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people
    Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according
    to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
15  Thus saith the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by
    revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it
    for the old hatred;
16  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out mine
    hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and
    destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17  And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes;
    and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance
    upon them.

Chapter 26

1   And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
    month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she
    is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I
    shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
3   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus,
    and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth
    his waves to come up.
4   And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers:
    I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a
    rock.
5   It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea:
    for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to
    the nations.
6   And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword;
    and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7   For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
    horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
    people.
8   He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall
    make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the
    buckler against thee.
9   And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes
    he shall break down thy towers.
10  By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee:
    thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels,
    and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter
    into a city wherein is made a breach.
11  With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets:  he
    shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go
    down to the ground.
12  And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy
    merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy
    pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy
    dust in the midst of the water.
13  And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of
    thy harps shall be no more heard.
14  And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to
    spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have
    spoken it, saith the Lord God.
15  Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the
    sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in
    the midst of thee?
16  Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
    and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments:  they
    shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground,
    and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
17  And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How
    art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned
    city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause
    their terror to be on all that haunt it!
18  Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles
    that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
19  For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city,
    like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep
    upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
20  When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit,
    with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the
    earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit,
    that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the
    living;
21  I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be
    sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 27

1   The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2   Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
3   And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
    which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord
    God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
4   Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected
    thy beauty.
5   They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have
    taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
6   Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the
    Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of
    Chittim.
7   Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
    spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of
    Elishah was that which covered thee.
8   The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O
    Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
9   The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy
    calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to
    occupy thy merchandise.
10  They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of
    war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
    comeliness.
11  The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and
    the Gammadims were in thy towers:  they hanged their shields upon thy
    walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
12  Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of
    riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
13  Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the
    persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
14  They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and
    horsemen and mules.
15  The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise
    of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and
    ebony.
16  Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy
    making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered
    work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
17  Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded
    in thy market wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and
    balm.
18  Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
    making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and
    white wool.
19  Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
    iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
20  Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
21  Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in
    lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
22  The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they
    occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious
    stones, and gold.
23  Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and
    Chilmad, were thy merchants.
24  These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and
    broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and
    made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
25  The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast
    replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26  Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath
    broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27  Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy
    pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy
    men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the
    midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy
    ruin.
28  The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29  And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the
    sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
30  And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry
    bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow
    themselves in the ashes:
31  And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them
    with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart
    and bitter wailing.
32  And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and
    lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in
    the midst of the sea?
33  When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people;
    thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy
    riches and of thy merchandise.
34  In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of
    the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee
    shall fall.
35  All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
    their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
    countenance.
36  The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a
    terror, and never shalt be any more.

Chapter 28

1   The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God;
    Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit
    in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and
    not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3   Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
    hide from thee:
4   With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
    riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5   By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches,
    and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart
    as the heart of God;
7   Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of
    the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy
    wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8   They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths
    of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9   Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou
    shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10  Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
    strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
11  Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
12  Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say
    unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
    wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
    thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx,
    and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
    the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in
    the day that thou wast created.
14  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
    thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
    the midst of the stones of fire.
15  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
    till iniquity was found in thee.
16  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
    thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
    profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering
    cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17  Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted
    thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground,
    I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
    iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth
    a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring
    thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19  All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:
    thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
20  Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
21  Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
22  And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon;
    and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I
    am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be
    sanctified in her.
23  For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and
    the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on
    every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24  And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel,
    nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised
    them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
25  Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of
    Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be
    sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in
    their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
26  And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and
    plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have
    executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;
    and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

Chapter 29

1   In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the
    month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
    against him, and against all Egypt:
3   Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee,
    Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his
    rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for
    myself.
4   But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy
    rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the
    midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy
    scales.
5   And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the
    fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not
    be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the
    beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
6   And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord,
    because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7   When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend
    all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and
    madest all their loins to be at a stand.
8   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon
    thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9   And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know
    that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have
    made it.
10  Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I
    will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower
    of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
11  No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
    through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
12  And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
    countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are
    laid waste shall be desolate forty years:  and I will scatter the
    Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
    countries.
13  Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather
    the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
14  And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to
    return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and
    they shall be there a base kingdom.
15  It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself
    any more above the nations:  for I will diminish them, that they shall
    no more rule over the nations.
16  And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which
    bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them:
    but they shall know that I am the Lord God.
17  And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first
    month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me,
    saying,
18  Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a
    great service against Tyrus:  every head was made bald, and every
    shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for
    the service that he had served against it:
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of
    Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her
    multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the
    wages for his army.
20  I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served
    against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.
21  In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud
    forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of
    them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 30

1   The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe
    worth the day!
3   For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day;
    it shall be the time of the heathen.
4   And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in
    Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away
    her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
5   Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub,
    and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the
    sword.
6   Thus saith the Lord; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the
    pride of her power shall come down:  from the tower of Syene shall they
    fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God.
7   And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
    desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are
    wasted.
8   And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in
    Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
9   In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the
    careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in
    the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
10  Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to
    cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
11  He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be
    brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against
    Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
12  And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of
    the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by
    the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.
13  Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will
    cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a
    prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of
    Egypt.
14  And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will
    execute judgments in No.
15  And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will
    cut off the multitude of No.
16  And I will set fire in Egypt:  Sin shall have great pain, and No
    shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
17  The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and
    these cities shall go into captivity.
18  At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break
    there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in
    her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go
    into captivity.
19  Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am
    the Lord.
20  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the
    seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me,
    saying,
21  Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo,
    it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to
    make it strong to hold the sword.
22  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king
    of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was
    broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23  And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
    them through the countries.
24  And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
    sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan
    before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
25  But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms
    of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when
    I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
    stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26  And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them
    among the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 31

1   And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the
    first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
    Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3   Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and
    with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among
    the thick boughs.
4   The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers
    running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all
    the trees of the field.
5   Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and
    his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the
    multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6   All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
    branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and
    under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7   Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for
    his root was by great waters.
8   The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were
    not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches;
    nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9   I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the
    trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up
    thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs,
    and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11  I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the
    heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
    wickedness.
12  And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and
    have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches
    are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and
    all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left
    him.
13  Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
    beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14  To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
    for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs,
    neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for
    they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in
    the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15  Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I
    caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the
    floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon
    to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16  I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him
    down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of
    Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be
    comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17  They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with
    the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in
    the midst of the heathen.
18  To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees
    of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the
    nether parts of the earth:  thou shalt lie in the midst of the
    uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and
    all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 32

1   And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
    first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say
    unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a
    whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst
    the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
3   Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee
    with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
4   Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the
    open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon
    thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5   And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with
    thy height.
6   I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even
    to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7   And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the
    stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
    shall not give her light.
8   All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set
    darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
9   I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
    destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
    known.
10  Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be
    horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them;
    and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in
    the day of thy fall.
11  For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall
    come upon thee.
12  By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the
    terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of
    Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13  I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great
    waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the
    hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14  Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run
    like oil, saith the Lord God.
15  When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall
    be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them
    that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
16  This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
    daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her,
    even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
17  It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the
    month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
18  Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even
    her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of
    the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19  Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the
    uncircumcised.
20  They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword:
    she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21  The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of
    hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie
    uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22  Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him:  all
    of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23  Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is
    round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which
    caused terror in the land of the living.
24  There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of
    them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into
    the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of
    the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to
    the pit.
25  They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
    multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised,
    slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the
    living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
    pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
26  There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round
    about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they
    caused their terror in the land of the living.
27  And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
    uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
    and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities
    shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in
    the land of the living.
28  Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
    shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
29  There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might
    are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
    uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30  There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
    Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they
    are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be
    slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the
    pit.
31  Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
    multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the
    Lord God.
32  For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall
    be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with
    the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 33

1   Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
    When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man
    of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3   If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet,
    and warn the people;
4   Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
    warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
    his own head.
5   He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood
    shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6   But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and
    the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from
    among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I
    require at the watchman's hand.
7   So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of
    Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them
    from me.
8   When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if
    thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man
    shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
9   Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if
    he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
    delivered thy soul.
10  Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye
    speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we
    pine away in them, how should we then live?
11  Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in
    the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live:
    turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of
    Israel?
12  Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The
    righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
    transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall
    thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall
    the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he
    sinneth.
13  When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he
    trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his
    righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he
    hath committed, he shall die for it.
14  Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn
    from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15  If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk
    in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely
    live, he shall not die.
16  None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him:
    he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17  Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal:
    but as for them, their way is not equal.
18  When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth
    iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19  But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is
    lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20  Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I
    will judge you every one after his ways.
21  And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
    tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped
    out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
22  Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, afore he that
    was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the
    morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23  Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
24  Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel
    speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are
    many; the land is given us for inheritance.
25  Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the
    blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and
    shall ye possess the land?
26  Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every
    one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
27  Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely
    they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in
    the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that
    be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
28  For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength
    shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none
    shall pass through.
29  Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land
    most desolate because of all their abominations which they have
    committed.
30  Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking
    against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one
    to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear
    what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.
31  And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before
    thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them:
    for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after
    their covetousness.
32  And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a
    pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy
    words, but they do them not.
33  And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they
    know that a prophet hath been among them.

Chapter 34

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and
    say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; Woe be to the
    shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds
    feed the flocks?
3   Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are
    fed: but ye feed not the flock.
4   The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that
    which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither
    have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought
    that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled
    them.
5   And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became
    meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6   My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill:
    yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did
    search or seek after them.
7   Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;
8   As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey,
    and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was
    no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the
    shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9   Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;
10  Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I
    will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from
    feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more;
    for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat
    for them.
11  For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
    sheep, and seek them out.
12  As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his
    sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver
    them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and
    dark day.
13  And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the
    countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the
    mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of
    the country.
14  I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of
    Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in
    a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15  I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the
    Lord God.
16  I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was
    driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen
    that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will
    feed them with judgment.
17  And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge
    between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
18  Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,
    but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and
    to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your
    feet?
19  And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your
    feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20  Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will
    judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21  Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all
    the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
22  Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and
    I will judge between cattle and cattle.
23  And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
    even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
    shepherd.
24  And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among
    them; I the Lord have spoken it.
25  And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the
    evil beasts to cease out of the land:  and they shall dwell safely in
    the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26  And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
    and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be
    showers of blessing.
27  And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall
    yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know
    that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and
    delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
28  And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the
    beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none
    shall make them afraid.
29  And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no
    more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the
    heathen any more.
30  Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that
    they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.
31  And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,
    saith the Lord God.

Chapter 35

1   Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3   And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am
    against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will
    make thee most desolate.
4   I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou
    shalt know that I am the Lord.
5   Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of
    the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their
    calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6   Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto
    blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even
    blood shall pursue thee.
7   Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him
    that passeth out and him that returneth.
8   And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in
    thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with
    the sword.
9   I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not
    return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
10  Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries
    shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to
    thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy
    hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I
    have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy
    blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel,
    saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied
    your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make
    thee desolate.
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel,
    because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate,
    O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I
    am the Lord.

Chapter 36

1   Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say,
    Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
2   Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha,
    even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3   Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God: Because they have
    made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be
    a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the
    lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4   Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus
    saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers,
    and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are
    forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen
    that are round about;
5   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy
    have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all
    Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy
    of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6   Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the
    mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
    saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury,
    because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
7   Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely
    the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8   But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and
    yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9   For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be
    tilled and sown:
10  And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all
    of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be
    builded:
11  And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase
    and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will
    do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am
    the Lord.
12  Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and
    they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou
    shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
13  Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land
    devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
14  Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations
    any more, saith the Lord God.
15  Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any
    more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more,
    neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord
    God.
16  Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
17  Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they
    defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me
    as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18  Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed
    upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19  And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed
    through the countries: according to their way and according to their
    doings I judged them.
20  And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they
    profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of
    the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.
21  But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had
    profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22  Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I do
    not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's
    sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23  And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the
    heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen
    shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be
    sanctified in you before their eyes.
24  For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all
    countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25  Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:
    from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
    you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
    give you an heart of flesh.
27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
    statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28  And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye
    shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29  I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for
    the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30  And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
    field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the
    heathen.
31  Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were
    not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your
    iniquities and for your abominations.
32  Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto
    you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33  Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you
    from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities,
    and the wastes shall be builded.
34  And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the
    sight of all that passed by.
35  And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the
    garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become
    fenced, and are inhabited.
36  Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the
    Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the
    Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.
37  Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the
    house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a
    flock.
38  As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so
    shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know
    that I am the Lord.

Chapter 37

1   The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of
    the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of
    bones,
2   And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were
    very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3   And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered,
    O Lord God, thou knowest.
4   Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O
    ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5   Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath
    to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6   And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and
    cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye
    shall know that I am the Lord.
7   So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a
    noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his
    bone.
8   And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and
    the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9   Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
    and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds,
    O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,
    and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of
    Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we
    are cut off from our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
    Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
    out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves,
    O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place
    you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it,
    and performed it, saith the Lord.
15  The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16  Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it,
    For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
    another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and
    for all the house of Israel his companions:
17  And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become
    one in thine hand.
18  And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying,
    Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19  Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick
    of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
    fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and
    make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20  And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before
    their eyes.
21  And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the
    children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and
    will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22  And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of
    Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no
    more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any
    more at all:
23  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor
    with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but
    I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have
    sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be
    their God.
24  And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have
    one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my
    statutes, and do them.
25  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
    servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein,
    even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever:
    and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an
    everlasting covenant with them:  and I will place them, and multiply
    them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27  My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and
    they shall be my people.
28  And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when
    my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

Chapter 38

1   And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2   Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief
    prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3   And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,
    the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4   And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will
    bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them
    clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and
    shields, all of them handling swords:
5   Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and
    helmet:
6   Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters,
    and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7   Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company
    that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8   After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt
    come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered
    out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been
    always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall
    dwell safely all of them.
9   Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to
    cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10  Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
    time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
    thought:
11  And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I
    will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them
    dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12  To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the
    desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are
    gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that
    dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young
    lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil?  hast
    thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold,
    to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord
    God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou
    not know it?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and
    many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company,
    and a mighty army:
16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to
    cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee
    against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be
    sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17  Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old
    time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those
    days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come
    against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come
    up in my face.
19  For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely
    in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20  So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
    beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,
    and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my
    presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places
    shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains,
    saith the Lord God: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
22  And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I
    will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that
    are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and
    brimstone.
23  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known
    in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 39

1   Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith
    the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
    Meshech and Tubal:
2   And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and
    will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee
    upon the mountains of Israel:
3   And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine
    arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4   Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,
    and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous
    birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5   Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the
    Lord God.
6   And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly
    in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7   So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel;
    and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen
    shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
8   Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the
    day whereof I have spoken.
9   And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall
    set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the
    bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall
    burn them with fire seven years:
10  So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down
    any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and
    they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed
    them, saith the Lord God.
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a
    place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the
    east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and
    there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it
    The valley of Hamongog.
12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that
    they may cleanse the land.
13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to
    them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.
14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through
    the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of
    the earth, to cleanse it:  after the end of seven months shall they
    search.
15  And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's
    bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it
    in the valley of Hamongog.
16  And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
    cleanse the land.
17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every
    feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves,
    and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
    sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
    that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
    princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all
    of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
    drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with
    mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
    see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
    them.
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from
    that day and forward.
23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into
    captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me,
    therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their
    enemies:  so fell they all by the sword.
24  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions
    have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the
    captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and
    will be jealous for my holy name;
26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses
    whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their
    land, and none made them afraid.
27  When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out
    of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many
    nations;
28  Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them
    to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them
    unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out
    my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 40

1   In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of
    the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after
    that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was
    upon me, and brought me thither.
2   In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set
    me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the
    south.
3   And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose
    appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his
    hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
4   And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear
    with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee;
    for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought
    hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
5   And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the
    man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand
    breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the
    height, one reed.
6   Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up
    the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was
    one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed
    broad.
7   And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and
    between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the
    gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8   He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
9   Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts
    thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
10  And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side,
    and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts
    had one measure on this side and on that side.
11  And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and
    the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
12  The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side,
    and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were
    six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
13  He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the
    roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against
    door.
14  He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the
    court round about the gate.
15  And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the
    porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
16  And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their
    posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and
    windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
17  Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were
    chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers
    were upon the pavement.
18  And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of
    the gates was the lower pavement.
19  Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate
    unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits
    eastward and northward.
20  And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he
    measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
21  And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on
    that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the
    measure of the first gate:  the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the
    breadth five and twenty cubits.
22  And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after
    the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up
    unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
23  And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the
    north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred
    cubits.
24  After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward
    the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof
    according to these measures.
25  And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about,
    like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five
    and twenty cubits.
26  And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof
    were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another
    on that side, upon the posts thereof.
27  And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he
    measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
28  And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
    measured the south gate according to these measures;
29  And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
    arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in
    it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and
    five and twenty cubits broad.
30  And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five
    cubits broad.
31  And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees
    were upon the posts thereof:  and the going up to it had eight steps.
32  And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
    measured the gate according to these measures.
33  And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
    arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows
    therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long,
    and five and twenty cubits broad.
34  And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees
    were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the
    going up to it had eight steps.
35  And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to
    these measures;
36  The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches
    thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits,
    and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
37  And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees
    were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the
    going up to it had eight steps.
38  And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the
    gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
39  And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two
    tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin
    offering and the trespass offering.
40  And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north
    gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of
    the gate, were two tables.
41  Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the
    side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
42  And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a
    cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit
    high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the
    burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43  And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon
    the tables was the flesh of the offering.
44  And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the
    inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect
    was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the
    prospect toward the north.
45  And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the
    south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
46  And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
    priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of
    Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the Lord to minister
    unto him.
47  So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred
    cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
48  And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post
    of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side:
    and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three
    cubits on that side.
49  The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven
    cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and
    there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that
    side.

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1   Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six
    cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
    which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
2   And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door
    were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and
    he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty
    cubits.
3   Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits;
    and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
4   So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth,
    twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most
    holy place.
5   After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth
    of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every
    side.
6   And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in
    order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the
    side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not
    hold in the wall of the house.
7   And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the
    side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward
    round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still
    upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the
    midst.
8   I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the
    side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
9   The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was
    five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers
    that were within.
10  And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round
    about the house on every side.
11  And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was
    left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:  and
    the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
12  Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward
    the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five
    cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
13  So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate
    place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
14  Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
    toward the east, an hundred cubits.
15  And he measured the length of the building over against the separate
    place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and
    on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the
    porches of the court;
16  The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about
    on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood round
    about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were
    covered;
17  To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and
    by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
18  And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree
    was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
19  So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side,
    and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it
    was made through all the house round about.
20  From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees
    made, and on the wall of the temple.
21  The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary;
    the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
22  The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two
    cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls
    thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is
    before the Lord.
23  And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
24  And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves
    for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
25  And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims
    and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick
    planks upon the face of the porch without.
26  And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on
    the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of
    the house, and thick planks.

Chapter 42

1   Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the
    north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the
    separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
2   Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the
    breadth was fifty cubits.
3   Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and
    over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery
    against gallery in three stories.
4   And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way
    of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
5   Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher
    than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
6   For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of
    the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest
    and the middlemost from the ground.
7   And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the
    utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was
    fifty cubits.
8   For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty
    cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
9   And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one
    goeth into them from the utter court.
10  The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward
    the east, over against the separate place, and over against the
    building.
11  And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which
    were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all
    their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to
    their doors.
12  And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south
    was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall
    toward the east, as one entereth into them.
13  Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
    which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the
    priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things:
    there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and
    the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
14  When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the
    holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments
    wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other
    garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
15  Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought
    me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured
    it round about.
16  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred
    reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
17  He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
    reed round about.
18  He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
    reed.
19  He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds
    with the measuring reed.
20  He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five
    hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between
    the sanctuary and the profane place.

Chapter 43

1   Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward
    the east:
2   And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the
    east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth
    shined with his glory.
3   And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even
    according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city:  and
    the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I
    fell upon my face.
4   And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate
    whose prospect is toward the east.
5   So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
    behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6   And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood
    by me.
7   And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place
    of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children
    of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more
    defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the
    carcases of their kings in their high places.
8   In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post
    by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my
    holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I
    have consumed them in mine anger.
9   Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings,
    far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10  Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may
    be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
11  And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form
    of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and
    the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
    ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws
    thereof:  and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form
    thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
12  This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole
    limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of
    the house.
13  And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit
    is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and
    the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round
    about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
14  And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be
    two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even
    to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
15  So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
    shall be four horns.
16  And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in
    the four squares thereof.
17  And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in
    the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit;
    and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look
    toward the east.
18  And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are
    the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer
    burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19  And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of
    Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God,
    a young bullock for a sin offering.
20  And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four
    horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border
    round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
21  Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall
    burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22  And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without
    blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they
    did cleanse it with the bullock.
23  When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young
    bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
24  And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast
    salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto
    the Lord.
25  Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering:
    they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock,
    without blemish.
26  Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall
    consecrate themselves.
27  And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth
    day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon
    the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the
    Lord God.

Chapter 44

1   Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary
    which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2   Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be
    opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of
    Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3   It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread
    before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate,
    and shall go out by the way of the same.
4   Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I
    looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord:
    and I fell upon my face.
5   And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with
    thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning
    all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof;
    and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of
    the sanctuary.
6   And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel,
    Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all
    your abominations,
7   In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in
    heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it,
    even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they
    have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
8   And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set
    keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9   Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor
    uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger
    that is among the children of Israel.
10  And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went
    astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall
    even bear their iniquity.
11  Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the
    gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the
    burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand
    before them to minister unto them.
12  Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the
    house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine
    hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their
    iniquity.
13  And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest
    unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy
    place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which
    they have committed.
14  But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the
    service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15  But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge
    of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they
    shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before
    me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God:
16  They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my
    table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17  And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of
    the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool
    shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner
    court, and within.
18  They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen
    breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing
    that causeth sweat.
19  And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter
    court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
    ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on
    other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their
    garments.
20  Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow
    long; they shall only poll their heads.
21  Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner
    court.
22  Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put
    away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or
    a widow that had a priest before.
23  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and
    profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge
    it according to my judgments:  and they shall keep my laws and my
    statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25  And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for
    father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for
    sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26  And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27  And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner
    court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,
    saith the Lord God.
28  And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance:
    and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29  They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the
    trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30  And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every
    oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's:
    ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may
    cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31  The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or
    torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Chapter 45

1   Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye
    shall offer an oblation unto the Lord, an holy portion of the land:  the
    length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the
    breadth shall be ten thousand.  This shall be holy in all the borders
    thereof round about.
2   Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with
    five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round
    about for the suburbs thereof.
3   And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty
    thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the
    sanctuary and the most holy place.
4   The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of
    the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it
    shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
5   And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of
    breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for
    themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
6   And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad,
    and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy
    portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7   And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other
    side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the
    city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession
    of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side
    eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from
    the west border unto the east border.
8   In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no
    more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the
    house of Israel according to their tribes.
9   Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:
    remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away
    your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.
10  Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
11  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may
    contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an
    homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
12  And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and
    twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
13  This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah
    of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an
    homer of barley:
14  Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the
    tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for
    ten baths are an homer:
15  And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat
    pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and
    for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord
    God.
16  All the people of the land shall give this oblat ion for the prince
    in Israel.
17  And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat
    offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and
    in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel:  he shall
    prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering,
    and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of
    Israel.
18  Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the
    month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the
    sanctuary:
19  And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put
    it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle
    of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
20  And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that
    erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
21  In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have
    the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22  And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all
    the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
23  And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the
    Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven
    days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
24  And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and
    an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
25  In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do
    the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering,
    according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and
    according to the oil.

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1   Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh
    toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath
    it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2   And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate
    without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall
    prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship
    at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall
    not be shut until the evening.
3   Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate
    before the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
4   And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in
    the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without
    blemish.
5   And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat
    offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to
    an ephah.
6   And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without
    blemish, and six lambs, and a ram:  they shall be without blemish.
7   And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an
    ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain
    unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
8   And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the
    porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
9   But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the
    solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to
    worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth
    by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north
    gate:  he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in,
    but shall go forth over against it.
10  And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in;
    and when they go forth, shall go forth.
11  And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offerings shall be
    an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is
    able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
12  Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace
    offerings voluntarily unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate
    that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering
    and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go
    forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
13  Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of
    the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
14  And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the
    sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper
    with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual
    ordinance unto the Lord.
15  Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil,
    every morning for a continual burnt offering.
16  Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince give a gift unto any of his
    sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their
    possession by inheritance.
17  But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then
    it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the
    prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.
18  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by
    oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give
    his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not
    scattered every man from his possession.
19  After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the
    gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the
    north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.
20  Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil
    the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the
    meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to
    sanctify the people.
21  Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass
    by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the
    court there was a court.
22  In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty
    cubits long and thirty broad:  these four corners were of one measure.
23  And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them
    four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
24  Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where
    the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

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1   Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold,
    waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward:  for
    the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came
    down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of
    the altar.
2   Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me
    about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh
    eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
3   And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he
    measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the
    waters were to the ankles.
4   Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the
    waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me
    through; the waters were to the loins.
5   Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not
    pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
    could not be passed over.
6   And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought
    me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
7   Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very
    many trees on the one side and on the other.
8   Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country,
    and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought
    forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
9   And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth,
    whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a
    very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither:
    for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river
    cometh.
10  And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from
    Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets;
    their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great
    sea, exceeding many.
11  But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be
    healed; they shall be given to salt.
12  And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that
    side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither
    shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit
    according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the
    sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof
    for medicine.
13  Thus saith the Lord God; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall
    inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall
    have two portions.
14  And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which
    I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall
    fall unto you for inheritance.
15  And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from
    the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16  Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus
    and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of
    Hauran.
17  And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of
    Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is
    the north side.
18  And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus,
    and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border
    unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19  And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife
    in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side
    southward.
20  The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man
    come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21  So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of
    Israel.
22  And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an
    inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which
    shall beget children among you:  and they shall be unto you as born in
    the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance
    with you among the tribes of Israel.
23  And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger
    sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord
    God.

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1   Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast
    of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of
    Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east
    and west; a portion for Dan.
2   And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a
    portion for Asher.
3   And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west
    side, a portion for Naphtali.
4   And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side,
    a portion for Manasseh.
5   And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side,
    a portion for Ephraim.
6   And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west
    side, a portion for Reuben.
7   And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a
    portion for Judah.
8   And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side,
    shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand
    reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east
    side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9   The oblation that ye shall offer unto the Lord shall be of five and
    twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10  And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation;
    toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west
    ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth,
    and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the
    sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.
11  It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok;
    which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of
    Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12  And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a
    thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13  And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have
    five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the
    length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14  And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the
    firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.
15  And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the
    five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for
    dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16  And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand
    and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and
    on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four
    thousand and five hundred.
17  And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and
    fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east
    two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18  And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy
    portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward:  and
    it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the
    increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19  And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of
    Israel.
20  All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty
    thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the
    possession of the city.
21  And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the
    other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over
    against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east
    border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward
    the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall
    be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the
    midst thereof.
22  Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession
    of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between
    the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the
    prince.
23  As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side,
    Benjamin shall have a portion.
24  And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side,
    Simeon shall have a portion.
25  And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side,
    Issachar a portion.
26  And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side,
    Zebulun a portion.
27  And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side,
    Gad a portion.
28  And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border
    shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the
    river toward the great sea.
29  This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of
    Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord
    God.
30  And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four
    thousand and five hundred measures.
31  And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of
    Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah,
    one gate of Levi.
32  And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates;
    and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33  And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures:  and
    three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of
    Zebulun.
34  At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three
    gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35  It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the
    city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.