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