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  EZEKIEL:


                            CHAPTER 1


  1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives
by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw
visions of God.

  2. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of
king Jehoiachin's captivity,

  3. The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

  4. And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north,
a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was
about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out
of the midst of the fire.

  5. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four
living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the
likeness of a man.

  6. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

  7. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the
colour of burnished brass.

  8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

  9. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
they went; they went every one straight forward.

  10. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face
of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the
face of an eagle.

  11. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched
upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two
covered their bodies.

  12. And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit
was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

  13. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance
of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the
fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

  14. And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning.

  15. Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon
the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

  16. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto
the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of
a wheel.

  17. When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
turned not when they went.

  18. As for their rings, they were so high that they were
dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

  19. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up.

  20. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was
their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against
them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

  21. When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.

  22. And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the
living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal,
stretched forth over their heads above.

  23. And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side,
and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

  24. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like
the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice
of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down
their wings.

  25. And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their
heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

  26. And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and
upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance
of a man above upon it.

  27. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire
round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even
upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw
as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round
about.

  28. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day
of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This
was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And
when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one
that spake.


                            CHAPTER 2


  1. And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I
will speak unto thee.

  2. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set
me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

  3. And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children
of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me:
they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto
this very day.

  4. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send
thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD.

  5. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that
there hath been a prophet among them.

  6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be
afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and
thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor
be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  7. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will
hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

  8. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat
that I give thee.

  9. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo,
a roll of a book was therein;

  10. And he spread it before me; and it was written within and
without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning,
and woe.


                            CHAPTER 3


  1. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;
eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

  2. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

  3. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat
it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

  4. And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house
of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

  5. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

  6. Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I
sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

  7. But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they
will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent
and hardhearted.

  8. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and
thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

  9. As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead:
fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be
a rebellious house.

  10. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I
shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine
ears.

  11. And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children
of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

  12. Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of
a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his
place.

  13. I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures
that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against
them, and a noise of a great rushing.

  14. So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was
strong upon me.

  15. Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt
by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained
there astonished among them seven days.

  16. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  17. Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning
from me.

  18. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou
givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his
wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

  19. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity;
but thou hast delivered thy soul.

  20. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block
before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning,
he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done
shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine
hand.

  21. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the
righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live,
because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

  22. And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto
me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with
thee.

  23. Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold,
the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the
river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

  24. Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,
and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine
house.

  25. But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon
thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out
among them:

  26. And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,
that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for
they are a rebellious house.

  27. But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou
shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let
him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a
rebellious house.


                            CHAPTER 4


  1. Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

  2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and
cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set
battering rams against it round about.

  3. Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a
wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against
it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it.
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  4. Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the
house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

  5. For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,
according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety
days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

  6. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty
days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

  7. Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it.

  8. And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not
turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days
of thy siege.

  9. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt
thou eat thereof.

  10. And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

  11. Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an
hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

  12. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake
it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

  13. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel
eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive
them.

  14. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been
polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of
that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came
there abominable flesh into my mouth.

  15. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

  16. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break
the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by
weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and
with astonishment:

  17. That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
another, and consume away for their iniquity.


                            CHAPTER 5


  1. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy
beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

  2. Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt
take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third
part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword
after them.

  3. Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them
in thy skirts.

  4. Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the
fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come
forth into all the house of Israel.

  5. Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in
the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

  6. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than
the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are
round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them.

  7. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more
than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in
my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done
according to the judgments of the nations that are round about
you;

  8. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am
against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in
the sight of the nations.

  9. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and
whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine
abominations.

  10. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter
into all the winds.

  11. Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because
thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and
with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee;
neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

  12. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third
part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter
a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after
them.

  13. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my
fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall
know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have
accomplished my fury in them.

  14. Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass
by.

  15. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I
shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in
furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

  16. When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which
shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy
you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your
staff of bread:

  17. So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they
shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through
thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken
it.


                            CHAPTER 6


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy against them,

  3. And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills,
to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a
sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

  4. And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be
broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

  5. And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel
before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your
altars.

  6. In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste,
and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be
laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and
cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
abolished.

  7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.

  8. Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered
through the countries.

  9. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am
broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and
with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they
shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in
all their abominations.

  10. And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not
said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

  11. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp
with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the
house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence.

  12. He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that
is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is
besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury
upon them.

  13. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men
shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every
high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green
tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer
sweet savour to all their idols.

  14. So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath,
in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 7


  1. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land
of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the
land.

  3. Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger
upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

  4. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:
but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations
shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.

  5. Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is
come.

  6. An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee;
behold, it is come.

  7. The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the
land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the
sounding again of the mountains.

  8. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish
mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways,
and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

  9. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I
will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations
that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD that smiteth.

  10. Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone
forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

  11. Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them
shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's:
neither shall there be wailing for them.

  12. The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof.

  13. For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole
multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  14. They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but
none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof.

  15. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine
within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he
that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  16. But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on
the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning,
every one for his iniquity.

  17. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water.

  18. They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness
upon all their heads.

  19. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to
deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not
satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.

  20. As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but
they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable
things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

  21. And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a
prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall
pollute it.

  22. My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute
my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile
it.

  23. Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence.

  24. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the
strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

  25. Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there
shall be none.

  26. Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

  27. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to
their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.


                            CHAPTER 8


  1. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in
the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders
of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there
upon me.

  2. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:
from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his
loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour
of amber.

  3. And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock
of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and
the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to
the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where
was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to
jealousy.

  4. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

  5. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the
way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the
north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of
jealousy in the entry.

  6. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they
do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel
committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but
turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

  7. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I
looked, behold a hole in the wall.

  8. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and
when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

  9. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked
abominations that they do here.

  10. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping
things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of
Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

  11. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the
son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick
cloud of incense went up.

  12. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the
chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the
LORD hath forsaken the earth.

  13. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations that they do.

  14. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's
house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women
weeping for Tammuz.

  15. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?
turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than
these.

  16. And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house,
and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the
porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their
backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the
east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

  17. Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is
it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land
with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo,
they put the branch to their nose.

  18. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not
spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears
with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.


                            CHAPTER 9


  1. He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause
them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man
with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  2. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,
which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in
his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a
writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside
the brasen altar.

  3. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he
called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's
inkhorn by his side;

  4. And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be
done in the midst thereof.

  5. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have
ye pity:

  6. Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children,
and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and
begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which
were before the house.

  7. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the
city.

  8. And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was
left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD!
wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of
thy fury upon Jerusalem?

  9. Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken
the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

  10. And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

  11. And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the
inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as
thou hast commanded me.


                            CHAPTER 10


  1. Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above
the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a
sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

  2. And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in
between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand
with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them
over the city. And he went in in my sight.

  3. Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when
the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

  4. Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood
over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the
cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's
glory.

  5. And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the
outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

  6. And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man
clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels,
from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the
wheels.

  7. And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took
thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with
linen: who took it, and went out.

  8. And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand
under their wings.

  9. And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims,
one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and
the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

  10. And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as
if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

  11. When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned
not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they
followed it; they turned not as they went.

  12. And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and
their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even
the wheels that they four had.

  13. As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
wheel.

  14. And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of
a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third
the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

  15. And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living
creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

  16. And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and
when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the
earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

  17. When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living
creature was in them.

  18. Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold
of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

  19. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from
the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were
beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of
the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them
above.

  20. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of
Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the
cherubims.

  21. Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings;
and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

  22. And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I
saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they
went every one straight forward.


                            CHAPTER 11


  1. Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the
east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold
at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw
Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah,
princes of the people.

  2. Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that
devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

  3. Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is
the caldron, and we be the flesh.

  4. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

  5. And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,
Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel:
for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

  6. Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have
filled the streets thereof with the slain.

  7. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have
laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the
caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

  8. Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
saith the Lord GOD.

  9. And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver
you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among
you.

  10. Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border
of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  11. This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the
flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of
Israel:

  12. And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked
in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after
the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

  13. And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the
son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with
a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of
the remnant of Israel?

  14. Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  15. Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom
the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD:
unto us is this land given in possession.

  16. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast
them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them
among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary
in the countries where they shall come.

  17. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather
you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where
ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

  18. And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all
the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof
from thence.

  19. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh,
and will give them an heart of flesh:

  20. That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,
and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  21. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their
way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

  22. Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them
above.

  23. And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the
city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the
city.

  24. Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision
by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So
the vision that I had seen went up from me.

  25. Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that
the LORD had shewed me.


                            CHAPTER 12


  1. The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house,
which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and
hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

  3. Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy
place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they be a rebellious house.

  4. Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight,
as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their
sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

  5. Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out
thereby.

  6. In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and
carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that
thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the
house of Israel.

  7. And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by
day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the
wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I
bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.

  8. And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

  9. Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious
house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

  10. Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden
concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel
that are among them.

  11. Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be
done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

  12. And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his
shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig
through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
that he see not the ground with his eyes.

  13. My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in
my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the
Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

  14. And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him
to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword
after them.

  15. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter
them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

  16. But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the
famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their
abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.

  17. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  18. Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water
with trembling and with carefulness;

  19. And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They
shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with
astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is
therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

  20. And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and
the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  21. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  22. Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

  23. Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make
this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb
in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect
of every vision.

  24. For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel.

  25. For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall
speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in
your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will
perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

  26. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.

  27. Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The
vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth
of the times that are far off.

  28. Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There
shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I
have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 13


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own
hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

  3. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

  4. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

  5. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge
for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the
LORD.

  6. They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD
saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others
to hope that they would confirm the word.

  7. Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a
lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have
not spoken?

  8. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken
vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith
the Lord GOD.

  9. And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of
Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  10. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo,
others daubed it with untempered morter:

  11. Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it
shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great
hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

  12. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

  13. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with
a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower
in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

  14. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with
untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the
foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye
shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.

  15. Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them
that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you,
The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

  16. To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no
peace, saith the Lord GOD.

  17. Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the
daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart;
and prophesy thou against them,

  18. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew
pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every
stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and
will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

  19. And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of
barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not
die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your
lying to my people that hear your lies?

  20. Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your
pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I
will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the
souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

  21. Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out
of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  22. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous
sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the
wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by
promising him life:

  23. Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 14


  1. Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat
before me.

  2. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  3. Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:
should I be enquired of at all by them?

  4. Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer
him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

  5. That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

  6. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away
your faces from all your abominations.

  7. For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and
setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock
of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to
enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by
myself:

  8. And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my
people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  9. And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I
the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my
hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people
Israel.

  10. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him
that seeketh unto him;

  11. That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but
that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord
GOD.

  12. The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  13. Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing
grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will
break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon
it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

  14. Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
saith the Lord GOD.

  15. If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through
because of the beasts:

  16. Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

  17. Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go
through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

  18. Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only
shall be delivered themselves.

  19. Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my
fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

  20. Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith
the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they
shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

  21. For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my
four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and
the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and
beast?

  22. Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come
forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and
ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon
Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

  23. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their
doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all
that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 15


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than
a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

  3. Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take
a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

  4. Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth
both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for
any work?

  5. Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath
devoured it, and it is burned?

  6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so
will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  7. And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from
one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

  8. And I will make the land desolate, because they have
committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 16


  1. Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

  3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth
and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an
Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

  4. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel
was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee;
thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

  5. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to
the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

  6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own
blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I
said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

  7. I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and
thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to
excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is
grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

  8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy
time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and
covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a
covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

  9. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away
thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

  10. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with
badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I
covered thee with silk.

  11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

  12. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine
ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

  13. Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat
fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful,
and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

  14. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:
for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the Lord GOD.

  15. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the
harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on
every one that passed by; his it was.

  16. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high
places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the
like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

  17. Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of
men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

  18. And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and
thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

  19. My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for
a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.

  20. Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom
thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them
to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

  21. That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to
cause them to pass through the fire for them?

  22. And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast
not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and
bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

  23. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto
thee! saith the LORD GOD;)

  24. That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and
hast made thee an high place in every street.

  25. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and
hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to
every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

  26. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to
provoke me to anger.

  27. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,
and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto
the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines,
which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

  28. Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because
thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them,
and yet couldest not be satisfied.

  29. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.

  30. How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou
doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

  31. In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of
every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast
not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

  32. But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband!

  33. They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to
all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on
every side for thy whoredom.

  34. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy
whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in
that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee,
therefore thou art contrary.

  35. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

  36. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured
out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy
lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the
blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

  37. Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom
thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with
all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about
against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they
may see all thy nakedness.

  38. And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed
blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

  39. And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall
throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high
places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take
thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

  40. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they
shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their
swords.

  41. And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause
thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no
hire any more.

  42. So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy
shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more
angry.

  43. Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but
hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will
recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou
shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

  44. Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb
against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

  45. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and
her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed
their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and
your father an Amorite.

  46. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth
at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

  47. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after
their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou
wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

  48. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not
done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy
daughters.

  49. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and
needy.

  50. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.

  51. Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou
hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast
done.

  52. Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own
shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than
they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded
also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

  53. When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives
in the midst of them:

  54. That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort
unto them.

  55. When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to
their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to
your former estate.

  56. For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the
day of thy pride,

  57. Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about
her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round
about.

  58. Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith
the LORD.

  59. For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as
thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the
covenant.

  60. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the
days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant.

  61. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou
shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will
give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

  62. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD:

  63. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open
thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 17


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel;

  3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great
wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours,
came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

  4. He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it
into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

  5. He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a
willow tree.

  6. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,
whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under
him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot
forth sprigs.

  7. There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him,
and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by
the furrows of her plantation.

  8. It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might
be a goodly vine.

  9. Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he
not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that
it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even
without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots
thereof.

  10. Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in
the furrows where it grew.

  11. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  12. Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to
Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes
thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

  13. And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty
of the land:

  14. That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift
itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

  15. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break
the covenant, and be delivered?

  16. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the
king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and
whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he
shall die.

  17. Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts,
to cut off many persons:

  18. Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,
lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he
shall not escape.

  19. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine
oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken,
even it will I recompense upon his own head.

  20. And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in
my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him
there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

  21. And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds:
and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

  22. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest
branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from
the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an
high mountain and eminent:

  23. In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and
it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly
cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

  24. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD
have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have
dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I
the LORD have spoken and have done it.


                            CHAPTER 18


  1. The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

  2. What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of
Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge?

  3. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any
more to use this proverb in Israel.

  4. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so
also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall
die.

  5. But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

  6. And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled
his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous
woman,

  7. And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor
his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to
the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

  8. He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken
any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
executed true judgment between man and man,

  9. Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to
deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

  10. If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and
that doeth the like to any one of these things,

  11. And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten
upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

  12. Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence,
hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the
idols, hath committed abomination,

  13. Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall
he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

  14. Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins
which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

  15. That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted
up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled
his neighbour's wife,

  16. Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,
neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

  17. That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not
received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath
walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father, he shall surely live.

  18. As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his
brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his
people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

  19. Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and
hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely
live.

  20. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be
upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

  21. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  22. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall
not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done
he shall live.

  23. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith
the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and
live?

  24. But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the
abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his
righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his
trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them shall he die.

  25. Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

  26. When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that
he hath done shall he die.

  27. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness
that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right,
he shall save his soul alive.

  28. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he
shall not die.

  29. Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not
equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways
unequal?

  30. Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be
your ruin.

  31. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why
will ye die, O house of Israel?

  32. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith
the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.


                            CHAPTER 19


  1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel,

  2. And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among
lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

  3. And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion,
and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

  4. The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and
they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

  5. Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

  6. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

  7. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their
cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the
noise of his roaring.

  8. Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their
pit.

  9. And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the
king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice
should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

  10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the
waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
waters.

  11. And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare
rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and
she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

  12. But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were
broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

  13. And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and
thirsty ground.

  14. And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath
devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre
to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.


                            CHAPTER 20


  1. And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month,
the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel
came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

  2. Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

  3. Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I
live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

  4. Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause
them to know the abominations of their fathers:

  5. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I
chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house
of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt,
when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your
God;

  6. In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring
them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands:

  7. Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols
of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  8. But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes,
neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will
pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in
the midst of the land of Egypt.

  9. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight
I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the
land of Egypt.

  10. Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of
Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

  11. And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

  12. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between
me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify
them.

  13. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the
wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my
judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my
sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my
fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  14. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

  15. Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness,
that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

  16. Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after
their idols.

  17. Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,
neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

  18. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye
not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their
judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  19. I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them;

  20. And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

  21. Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they
walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my
sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  22. Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's
sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen,
in whose sight I brought them forth.

  23. I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that
I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through
the countries;

  24. Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised
my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were
after their fathers' idols.

  25. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and
judgments whereby they should not live;

  26. And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused
to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might
make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the
LORD.

  27. Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers
have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against
me.

  28. For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high
hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their
sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their
offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out
there their drink offerings.

  29. Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye
go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.

  30. Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit
ye whoredom after their abominations?

  31. For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass
through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even
unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of
Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of
by you.

  32. And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,
that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the
countries, to serve wood and stone.

  33. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I
rule over you:

  34. And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather
you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

  35. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.

  36. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the
land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

  37. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant:

  38. And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them
that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the
country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land
of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  39. As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go
ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will
not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your
gifts, and with your idols.

  40. For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel,
all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and
there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your
oblations, with all your holy things.

  41. I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you
out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein
ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the
heathen.

  42. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you
into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted
up mine hand to give it to your fathers.

  43. And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

  44. And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought
with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD.

  45. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  46. Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word
toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south
field;

  47. And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the
LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in
thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry
tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from
the south to the north shall be burned therein.

  48. And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it
shall not be quenched.

  49. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables?


                            CHAPTER 21


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word
toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

  3. And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath,
and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

  4. Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and
the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath
against all flesh from the south to the north:

  5. That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my
sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

  6. Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy
loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

  7. And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest
thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh:
and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and
every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water:
behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord
GOD.

  8. Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  9. Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A
sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

  10. It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished
that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the
rod of my son, as every tree.

  11. And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be
handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it
into the hand of the slayer.

  12. Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it
shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the
sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

  13. Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even
the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

  14. Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword
of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain,
which entereth into their privy chambers.

  15. I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,
that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it
is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

  16. Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on
the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

  17. I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my
fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.

  18. The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

  19. Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword
of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out
of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the
way to the city.

  20. Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

  21. For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows
bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

  22. At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to
appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up
the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the
gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

  23. And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

  24. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your
iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are
discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken
with the hand.

  25. And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is
come, when iniquity shall have an end,

  26. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the
crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and
abase him that is high.

  27. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no
more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

  28. And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even
say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is
furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

  29. Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie
unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of
the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an
end.

  30. Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge
thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy
nativity.

  31. And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow
against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the
hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

  32. Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in
the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the
LORD have spoken it.


                            CHAPTER 22


  1. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the
bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

  3. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth
blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols
against herself to defile herself.

  4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and
hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou
hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy
years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and
a mocking to all countries.

  5. Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall
mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

  6. Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to
their power to shed blood.

  7. In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the
midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in
thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

  8. Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my
sabbaths.

  9. In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee
they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit
lewdness.

  10. In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in
thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

  11. And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's
wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and
another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  12. In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken
usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy
neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
GOD.

  13. Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest
gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the
midst of thee.

  14. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the
days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and
will do it.

  15. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee
in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

  16. And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the
sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

  17. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  18. Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all
they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the
furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

  19. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become
dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of
Jerusalem.

  20. As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and
tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to
melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I
will leave you there, and melt you.

  21. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my
wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.

  22. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye
be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD
have poured out my fury upon you.

  23. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  24. Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not
cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

  25. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,
like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls;
they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made
her many widows in the midst thereof.

  26. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine
holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and
profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean
and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am
profaned among them.

  27. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening
the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest
gain.

  28. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter,
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the
Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

  29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised
robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have
oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  30. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it: but I found none.

  31. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I
have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I
recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 23


  1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one
mother:

  3. And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed
whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and
there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

  4. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her
sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus
were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

  5. And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

  6. Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of
them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

  7. Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them
that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she
doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

  8. Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her
youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her
virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

  9. Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

  10. These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous
among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

  11. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt
in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than
her sister in her whoredoms.

  12. She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and
rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all
of them desirable young men.

  13. Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one
way,

  14. And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed
with vermilion,

  15. Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed
attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the
manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

  16. And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon
them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

  17. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and
they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with
them, and her mind was alienated from them.

  18. So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her
nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind
was alienated from her sister.

  19. Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance
the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the
land of Egypt.

  20. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the
flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

  21. Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,
in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

  22. Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is
alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

  23. The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and
Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young
men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them
riding upon horses.

  24. And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and
wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against
thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set
judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their
judgments.

  25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal
furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears;
and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons
and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

  26. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away
thy fair jewels.

  27. Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not
lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

  28. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee
into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from
whom thy mind is alienated:

  29. And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away
all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the
nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness
and thy whoredoms.

  30. I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a
whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with
their idols.

  31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I
give her cup into thine hand.

  32. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's
cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in
derision; it containeth much.

  33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the
cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria.

  34. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt
break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

  35. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou
also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

  36. The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

  37. That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their
hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have
also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them
through the fire, to devour them.

  38. Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

  39. For when they had slain their children to their idols, then
they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo,
thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

  40. And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far,
unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou
didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with
ornaments,

  41. And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before
it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

  42. And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and
with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the
wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful
crowns upon their heads.

  43. Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they
now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

  44. Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that
playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah,
the lewd women.

  45. And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the
manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed
blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

  46. For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon
them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

  47. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch
them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their
daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

  48. Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that
all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

  49. And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye
shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the
Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 24


  1. Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day
of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same
day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same
day.

  3. And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also
pour water into it:

  4. Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the
thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

  5. Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under
it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it
therein.

  6. Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to
the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of
it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

  7. For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top
of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with
dust;

  8. That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have
set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be
covered.

  9. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I
will even make the pile for fire great.

  10. Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice
it well, and let the bones be burned.

  11. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of
it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be
molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

  12. She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went
not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

  13. In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee,
and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy
filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

  14. I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will
do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I
repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall
they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

  15. Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  16. Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of
thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,
neither shall thy tears run down.

  17. Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire
of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and
cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

  18. So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my
wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

  19. And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what
these things are to us, that thou doest so?

  20. Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,

  21. Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your
strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul
pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall
fall by the sword.

  22. And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your
lips, nor eat the bread of men.

  23. And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon
your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for
your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

  24. Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he
hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I
am the Lord GOD.

  25. Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I
take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons
and their daughters,

  26. That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to
cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

  27. In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is
escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt
be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 25


  1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy
against them;

  3. And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel,
when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they
went into captivity;

  4. Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east
for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and
make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they
shall drink thy milk.

  5. And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites
a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  6. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all
thy despite against the land of Israel;

  7. Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and
will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee
off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the
countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the
LORD.

  8. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,
Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

  9. Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of
the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

  10. Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give
them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among
the nations.

  11. And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.

  12. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt
against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly
offended, and revenged himself upon them;

  13. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out
mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I
will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by
the sword.

  14. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my
people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger
and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith
the Lord GOD.

  15. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt
by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to
destroy it for the old hatred;

  16. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch
out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

  17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious
rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay
my vengeance upon them.


                            CHAPTER 26


  1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of
the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,
Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned
unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

  3. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as
the sea causeth his waves to come up.

  4. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like
the top of a rock.

  5. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of
the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall
become a spoil to the nations.

  6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by
the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  7. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north,
with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies,
and much people.

  8. He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and
he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee,
and lift up the buckler against thee.

  9. And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with
his axes he shall break down thy towers.

  10. By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into
thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

  11. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy
streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
garrisons shall go down to the ground.

  12. And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey
of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and
destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy
timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

  13. And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the
sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

  14. And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a
place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the
LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

  15. Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake
at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter
is made in the midst of thee?

  16. Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall
sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be
astonished at thee.

  17. And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to
thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring
men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

  18. Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the
isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

  19. For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a
desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I
shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover
thee;

  20. When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the
pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low
parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go
down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory
in the land of the living;

  21. I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though
thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the
Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 27


  1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

  2. Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

  3. And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of
the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect
beauty.

  4. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
perfected thy beauty.

  5. They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir:
they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

  6. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company
of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of
the isles of Chittim.

  7. Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of
Elishah was that which covered thee.

  8. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy
wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

  9. The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee
thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in
thee to occupy thy merchandise.

  10. They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army,
thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they
set forth thy comeliness.

  11. The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round
about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their
shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty
perfect.

  12. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all
kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in
thy fairs.

  13. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they
traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

  14. They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with
horses and horsemen and mules.

  15. The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the
merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns
of ivory and ebony.

  16. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the
wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds,
purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

  17. Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they
traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and
oil, and balm.

  18. Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of
thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of
Helbon, and white wool.

  19. Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

  20. Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

  21. Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with
thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy
merchants.

  22. The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants:
they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all
precious stones, and gold.

  23. Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,
and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

  24. These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue
clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound
with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

  25. The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and
thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the
seas.

  26. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east
wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

  27. Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners,
and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise,
and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company
which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the
seas in the day of thy ruin.

  28. The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy
pilots.

  29. And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the
pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall
stand upon the land;

  30. And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and
shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they
shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  31. And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and
gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with
bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

  32. And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like
the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

  33. When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst
many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

  34. In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the
depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the
midst of thee shall fall.

  35. All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at
thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled
in their countenance.

  36. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou
shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.


                            CHAPTER 28


  1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a
God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou
art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart
of God:

  3. Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that
they can hide from thee:

  4. With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten
thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

  5. By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased
thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

  6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set
thine heart as the heart of God;

  7. Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the
terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against
the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

  8. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the
deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

  9. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but
thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth
thee.

  10. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

  11. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  12. Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus,
and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the
sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  13. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the
beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and
the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

  14. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set
thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created, till iniquity was found in thee.

  16. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the
midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I
will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will
destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of
fire.

  17. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee
to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold
thee.

  18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all
them that behold thee.

  19. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished
at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

  20. Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  21. Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against
it,

  22. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they
shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

  23. For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by
the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am
the LORD.

  24. And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house
of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about
them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord
GOD.

  25. Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then
shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant
Jacob.

  26. And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses,
and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I
have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round
about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.


                            CHAPTER 29


  1. In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of
the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

  3. Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the
midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I
have made it for myself.

  4. But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish
of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up
out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers
shall stick unto thy scales.

  5. And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and
all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields;
thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given
thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the
heaven.

  6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the
LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel.

  7. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break,
and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou
brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

  8. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a
sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

  9. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they
shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is
mine, and I have made it.

  10. Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from
the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

  11. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast
shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

  12. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of
the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities
that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will
scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.

  13. Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will
I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
scattered:

  14. And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will
cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of
their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

  15. It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it
exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them,
that they shall no more rule over the nations.

  16. And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of
Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they
shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  17. And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the
first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,

  18. Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army
to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald,
and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army,
for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

  19. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the
land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall
take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army.

  20. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith
he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord
GOD.

  21. In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to
bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the
midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 30


  1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl
ye, Woe worth the day!

  3. For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a
cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

  4. And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be
in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall
take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

  5. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people,
and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall
with them by the sword.

  6. Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;
and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

  7. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that
are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities
that are wasted.

  8. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a
fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

  9. In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to
make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come
upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

  10. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

  11. He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their
swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  12. And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the
hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that
is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

  13. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and
I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be
no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in
the land of Egypt.

  14. And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments in No.

  15. And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and
I will cut off the multitude of No.

  16. And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and
No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

  17. The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

  18. At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall
break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall
cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall go into captivity.

  19. Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know
that I am the LORD.

  20. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,

  21. Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to
bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

  22. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and
that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of
his hand.

  23. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries.

  24. And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he
shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

  25. But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am
the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

  26. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am
the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 31


  1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month,
in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,

  2. Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

  3. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair
branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and
his top was among the thick boughs.

  4. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with
her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little
rivers unto all the trees of the field.

  5. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the
field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became
long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

  6. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and
under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth
their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

  7. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his
branches: for his root was by great waters.

  8. The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir
trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not
like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto
him in his beauty.

  9. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so
that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied
him.

  10. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted
up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick
boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

  11. I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty
one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven
him out for his wickedness.

  12. And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him
off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the
rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down
from his shadow, and have left him.

  13. Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and
all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

  14. To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the
thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all
that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the
nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men,
with them that go down to the pit.

  15. Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the
grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed:
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the
field fainted for him.

  16. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all
the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink
water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

  17. They also went down into hell with him unto them that be
slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under
his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

  18. To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among
the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees
of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the
midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword.
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 32


  1. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth
month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and
thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy
rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst
their rivers.

  3. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net
over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee
up in my net.

  4. Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth
upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to
remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth
with thee.

  5. And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the
valleys with thy height.

  6. I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou
swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of
thee.

  7. And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and
make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon shall not give her light.

  8. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,
and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

  9. I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring
thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou
hast not known.

  10. Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword
before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for
his own life, in the day of thy fall.

  11. For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon thee.

  12. By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to
fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall
spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be
destroyed.

  13. I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the
great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more,
nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

  14. Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers
to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

  15. When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the
country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I
shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that
I am the LORD.

  16. This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for
her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord
GOD.

  17. It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  18. Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the
nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

  19. Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid
with the uncircumcised.

  20. They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the
sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her
multitudes.

  21. The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they
lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

  22. Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about
him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

  23. Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her
company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

  24. There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave,
all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down
uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused
their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their
shame with them that go down to the pit.

  25. They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all
her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused
in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with
them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that
be slain.

  26. There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves
are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

  27. And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of
the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons
of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but
their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the
terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

  28. Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

  29. There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with
their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they
shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to
the pit.

  30. There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror
they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with
them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them
that go down to the pit.

  31. Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD.

  32. For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and
he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that
are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 33


  1. Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto
them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the
land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

  3. If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the
trumpet, and warn the people;

  4. Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh
not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall
be upon his own head.

  5. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his
blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver
his soul.

  6. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the
trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take
any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but
his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

  7. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth,
and warn them from me.

  8. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely
die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that
wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require
at thine hand.

  9. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from
it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity;
but thou hast delivered thy soul.

  10. Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of
Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins
be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

  11. Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from
his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why
will ye die, O house of Israel?

  12. Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy
people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him
in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the
wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from
his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for
his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

  13. When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely
live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity,
all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his
iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

  14. Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if
he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

  15. If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had
robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity;
he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  16. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned
unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall
surely live.

  17. Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is
not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

  18. When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

  19. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that
which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

  20. Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of
Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

  21. And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in
the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had
escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is
smitten.

  22. Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore
he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came
to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more
dumb.

  23. Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  24. Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land:
but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

  25. Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat
with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed
blood: and shall ye possess the land?

  26. Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile
every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

  27. Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,
surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and
him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be
devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die
of the pestilence.

  28. For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her
strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, that none shall pass through.

  29. Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid
the land most desolate because of all their abominations which
they have committed.

  30. Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are
talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses,
and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come,
I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the
LORD.

  31. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit
before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will
not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their
heart goeth after their covetousness.

  32. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one
that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument:
for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

  33. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall
they know that a prophet hath been among them.


                            CHAPTER 34


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the
shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

  3. Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them
that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

  4. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed
that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was
broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away,
neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and
with cruelty have ye ruled them.

  5. And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and
they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were
scattered.

  6. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every
high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the
earth, and none did search or seek after them.

  7. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

  8. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became
a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,
because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for
my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

  9. Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

  10. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds;
and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease
from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth,
that they may not be meat for them.

  11. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both
search my sheep, and seek them out.

  12. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is
among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep,
and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

  13. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them
from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and
feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all
the inhabited places of the country.

  14. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high
mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a
good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains
of Israel.

  15. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down,
saith the Lord GOD.

  16. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which
was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the
strong; I will feed them with judgment.

  17. And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he
goats.

  18. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good
pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your
pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul
the residue with your feet?

  19. And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden
with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your
feet.

  20. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even
I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

  21. Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and
pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered
them abroad;

  22. Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a
prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

  23. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed
them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be
their shepherd.

  24. And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a
prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

  25. And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will
cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall
dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

  26. And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season;
there shall be showers of blessing.

  27. And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the
earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their
land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the
bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those
that served themselves of them.

  28. And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither
shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell
safely, and none shall make them afraid.

  29. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they
shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear
the shame of the heathen any more.

  30. Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them,
and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the
Lord GOD.

  31. And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am
your God, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 35


  1. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
against it,

  3. And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount
Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against
thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

  4. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

  5. Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the
blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the
time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an
end:

  6. Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee
unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated
blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

  7. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from
it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

  8. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy
hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall
that are slain with the sword.

  9. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall
not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  10. Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD
was there:

  11. Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do
according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou
hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself
known among them, when I have judged thee.

  12. And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have
heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the
mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are
given us to consume.

  13. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have
multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

  14. Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I
will make thee desolate.

  15. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou
shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it:
and they shall know that I am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 36


  1. Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel,
and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:

  2. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against
you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

  3. Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side,
that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and
ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the
people:

  4. Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills,
to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to
the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to
the residue of the heathen that are round about;

  5. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and
against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their
possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds,
to cast it out for a prey.

  6. Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say
unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the
valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my
jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the
heathen:

  7. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine
hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their
shame.

  8. But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they
are at hand to come.

  9. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye
shall be tilled and sown:

  10. And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes
shall be builded:

  11. And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old
estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  12. Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people
Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their
inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of
men.

  13. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou
land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:

  14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy
nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

  15. Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the
people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any
more, saith the Lord GOD.

  16. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  17. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own
land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their
way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

  18. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they
had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had
polluted it:

  19. And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were
dispersed through the countries: according to their way and
according to their doings I judged them.

  20. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went,
they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the
people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

  21. But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

  22. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord
GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine
holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen,
whither ye went.

  23. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among
the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I
shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

  24. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you
out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

  25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I
cleanse you.

  26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I
put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

  27. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk
in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

  28. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

  29. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will
call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon
you.

  30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase
of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine
among the heathen.

  31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings
that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight
for your iniquities and for your abominations.

  32. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it
known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O
house of Israel.

  33. Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have
cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to
dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

  34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay
desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

  35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become
like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

  36. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know
that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was
desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.

  37. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of
by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them
with men like a flock.

  38. As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men:
and they shall know that I am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 37


  1. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley
which was full of bones,

  2. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there
were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

  3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I
answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

  4. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say
unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

  5. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will
cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

  6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon
you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall
live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  7. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came
together, bone to his bone.

  8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon
them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in
them.

  9. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son
of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from
the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they
may live.

  10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into
them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding
great army.

  11. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our
hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

  12. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you
to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel.

  13. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

  14. And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I
shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the
LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

  15. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

  16. Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write
upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions:
then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick
of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:

  17. And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall
become one in thine hand.

  18. And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,
saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

  19. Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the
tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even
with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall
be one in mine hand.

  20. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
before their eyes.

  21. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they
be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into
their own land:

  22. And I will make them one nation in the land upon the
mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and
they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
into two kingdoms any more at all.

  23. Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their
idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions: but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

  24. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and
observe my statutes, and do them.

  25. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto
Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall
dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's
children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for
ever.

  26. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall
be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for
evermore.

  27. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their
God, and they shall be my people.

  28. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify
Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for
evermore.


                            CHAPTER 38


  1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

  2. Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

  3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

  4. And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I
will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen,
all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company
with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

  5. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with
shield and helmet:

  6. Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north
quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

  7. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto
them.

  8. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years
thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword,
and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of
Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out
of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

  9. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people
with thee.

  10. Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at
the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt
think an evil thought:

  11. And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely,
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor
gates,

  12. To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon
the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people
that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and
goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

  13. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all
the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to
take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to
carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take
a great spoil?

  14. Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
safely, shalt thou not know it?

  15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,
thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a
great company, and a mighty army:

  16. And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a
cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I
will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me,
when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

  17. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken
in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
against them?

  18. And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury
shall come up in my face.

  19. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I
spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;

  20. So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven,
and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep
upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the
earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be
thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall
fall to the ground.

  21. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my
mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against
his brother.

  22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood;
and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many
people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great
hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

  23. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will
be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I
am the LORD.


                            CHAPTER 39


  1. Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

  2. And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of
thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and
will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

  3. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause
thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

  4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all
thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto
the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field
to be devoured.

  5. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.

  6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell
carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  7. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people
Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and
the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

  8. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this
is the day whereof I have spoken.

  9. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and
the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the
spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

  10. So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither
cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons
with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob
those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

  11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto
Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the
passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of
the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his
multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

  12. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of
them, that they may cleanse the land.

  13. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it
shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith
the Lord GOD.

  14. And they shall sever out men of continual employment,
passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that
remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of
seven months shall they search.

  15. And the passengers that pass through the land, when any
seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the
buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

  16. And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall
they cleanse the land.

  17. And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto
every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my
sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon
the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

  18. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of
the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

  19. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till
ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  20. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord
GOD.

  21. And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the
heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand
that I have laid upon them.

  22. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their
God from that day and forward.

  23. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went
into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against
me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand
of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

  24. According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

  25. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again
the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of
Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

  26. After that they have borne their shame, and all their
trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they
dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

  27. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the
sight of many nations;

  28. Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which
caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have
gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any
more there.

  29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 40


  1. In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the
beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the
fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame
day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

  2. In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,
and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of
a city on the south.

  3. And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man,
whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of
flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

  4. And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes,
and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I
shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto
thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the
house of Israel.

  5. And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about,
and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the
cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the
building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

  6. Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and
went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the
gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the
gate, which was one reed broad.

  7. And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed
broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the
threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one
reed.

  8. He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

  9. Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the
posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

  10. And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on
this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure:
and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

  11. And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

  12. The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on
this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the
little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side.

  13. He measured then the gate from the roof of one little
chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty
cubits, door against door.

  14. He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post
of the court round about the gate.

  15. And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face
of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

  16. And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to
their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the
arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post
were palm trees.

  17. Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there
were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about:
thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

  18. And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the
length of the gates was the lower pavement.

  19. Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower
gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred
cubits eastward and northward.

  20. And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the
north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

  21. And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and
three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof
were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was
fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

  22. And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees,
were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east;
and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof
were before them.

  23. And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate
toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate
to gate an hundred cubits.

  24. After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate
toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches
thereof according to these measures.

  25. And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round
about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.

  26. And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches
thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side,
and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

  27. And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south:
and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred
cubits.

  28. And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and
he measured the south gate according to these measures;

  29. And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and
the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were
windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty
cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

  30. And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,
and five cubits broad.

  31. And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had
eight steps.

  32. And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and
he measured the gate according to these measures.

  33. And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and
the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there
were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

  34. And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and
palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

  35. And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it
according to these measures;

  36. The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the
arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was
fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

  37. And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side:
and the going up to it had eight steps.

  38. And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts
of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

  39. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side,
and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering
and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

  40. And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the
north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at
the porch of the gate, were two tables.

  41. Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their
sacrifices.

  42. And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt
offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half
broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the
instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the
sacrifice.

  43. And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about:
and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

  44. And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers
in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and
their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east
gate having the prospect toward the north.

  45. And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward
the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the
house.

  46. And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for
the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the
sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD
to minister unto him.

  47. So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an
hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before
the house.

  48. And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured
each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits
on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this
side, and three cubits on that side.

  49. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up
to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and
another on that side.


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  1. Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the
posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on
the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

  2. And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of
the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the
other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and
the breadth, twenty cubits.

  3. Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two
cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door,
seven cubits.

  4. So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the
breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me,
This is the most holy place.

  5. After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house
on every side.

  6. And the side chambers were three, one over another, and
thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the
house for the side chambers round about, that they might have
hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

  7. And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward
to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went
still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the
house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber
to the highest by the midst.

  8. I saw also the height of the house round about: the
foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits.

  9. The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber
without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of
the side chambers that were within.

  10. And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits
round about the house on every side.

  11. And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place
that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward
the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five
cubits round about.

  12. Now the building that was before the separate place at the
end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the
building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof
ninety cubits.

  13. So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the
separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an
hundred cubits long;

  14. Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the
separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

  15. And he measured the length of the building over against the
separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on
the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the
inner temple, and the porches of the court;

  16. The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries
round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled
with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and
the windows were covered;

  17. To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and
without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by
measure.

  18. And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a
palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had
two faces;

  19. So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the
one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the
other side: it was made through all the house round about.

  20. From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm
trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

  21. The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the
sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the
other.

  22. The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length
thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length
thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me,
This is the table that is before the LORD.

  23. And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

  24. And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two
leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

  25. And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and
there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

  26. And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side
and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the
side chambers of the house, and thick planks.


                            CHAPTER 42


  1. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over
against the separate place, and which was before the building
toward the north.

  2. Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,
and the breadth was fifty cubits.

  3. Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner
court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter
court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

  4. And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth
inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

  5. Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were
higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the
building.

  6. For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the
pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more
than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

  7. And the wall that was without over against the chambers,
toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length
thereof was fifty cubits.

  8. For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court
was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred
cubits.

  9. And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side,
as one goeth into them from the utter court.

  10. The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court
toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against
the building.

  11. And the way before them was like the appearance of the
chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as
broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to
their fashions, and according to their doors.

  12. And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward
the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly
before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

  13. Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south
chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy
chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat
the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things,
and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; for the place is holy.

  14. When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out
of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay
their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall
put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which
are for the people.

  15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he
brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the
east, and measured it round about.

  16. He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

  17. He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed round about.

  18. He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed.

  19. He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed.

  20. He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about,
five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a
separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.


                            CHAPTER 43


  1. Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that
looketh toward the east:

  2. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way
of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and
the earth shined with his glory.

  3. And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I
saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to
destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw
by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

  4. And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of
the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

  5. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner
court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

  6. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the
man stood by me.

  7. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and
the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst
of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the
house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by
their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high
places.

  8. In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and
their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they
have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they
have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

  9. Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of
their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them
for ever.

  10. Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that
they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the
pattern.

  11. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them
the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out
thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof,
and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all
the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep
the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do
them.

  12. This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain
the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold,
this is the law of the house.

  13. And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits:
The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be
a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the
edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the
higher place of the altar.

  14. And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the
lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and
the breadth one cubit.

  15. So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and
upward shall be four horns.

  16. And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad,
square in the four squares thereof.

  17. And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen
broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall
be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about;
and his stairs shall look toward the east.

  18. And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;
These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall
make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood
thereon.

  19. And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of
the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me,
saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

  20. And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the
four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon
the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

  21. Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he
shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the
sanctuary.

  22. And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats
without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the
altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

  23. When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer
a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock
without blemish.

  24. And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests
shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a
burnt offering unto the LORD.

  25. Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin
offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out
of the flock, without blemish.

  26. Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and
they shall consecrate themselves.

  27. And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the
eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt
offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will
accept you, saith the Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 44


  1. Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward
sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

  2. Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall
not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD,
the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be
shut.

  3. It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat
bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of
that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

  4. Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the
house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.

  5. And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee
concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all
the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with
every going forth of the sanctuary.

  6. And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it
suffice you of all your abominations,

  7. In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread,
the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of
all your abominations.

  8. And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye
have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

  9. Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart,
nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any
stranger that is among the children of Israel.

  10. And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel
went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols;
they shall even bear their iniquity.

  11. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge
at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they
shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people,
and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

  12. Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I
lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they
shall bear their iniquity.

  13. And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a
priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the
most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.

  14. But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for
all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

  15. But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept
the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray
from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they
shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood,
saith the Lord GOD:

  16. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near
to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

  17. And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the
gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen
garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister
in the gates of the inner court, and within.

  18. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall
have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.

  19. And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the
utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments
wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and
they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the
people with their garments.

  20. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks
to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

  21. Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into
the inner court.

  22. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her
that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the
house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

  23. And they shall teach my people the difference between the
holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean
and the clean.

  24. And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they
shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my
laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow
my sabbaths.

  25. And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves:
but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for
brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile
themselves.

  26. And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven
days.

  27. And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the
inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin
offering, saith the Lord GOD.

  28. And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their
inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am
their possession.

  29. They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and
the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall
be theirs.

  30. And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and
every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be
the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your
dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

  31. The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of
itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.


                            CHAPTER 45


  1. Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy
portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and
twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This
shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

  2. Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in
length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and
fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

  3. And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and
twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall
be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

  4. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the
ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto
the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy
place for the sanctuary.

  5. And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten
thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the
house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

  6. And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the
oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of
Israel.

  7. And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on
the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the
possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion,
and before the possession of the city, from the west side
westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be
over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the
east border.

  8. In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall
they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

  9. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of
Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and
justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord
GOD.

  10. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
bath.

  11. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the
bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the
tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the
homer.

  12. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five
and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

  13. This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of
an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of
an ephah of an homer of barley:

  14. Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall
offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer
of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

  15. And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of
the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt
offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for
them, saith the Lord GOD.

  16. All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the
prince in Israel.

  17. And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings,
and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the
new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of
Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering,
and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
reconciliation for the house of Israel.

  18. Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first
day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish,
and cleanse the sanctuary:

  19. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering,
and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners
of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the
inner court.

  20. And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every
one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile
the house.

  21. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye
shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread
shall be eaten.

  22. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and
for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

  23. And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt
offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a
sin offering.

  24. And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.

  25. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month,
shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to
the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according
to the meat offering, and according to the oil.


                            CHAPTER 46


  1. Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that
looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on
the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it
shall be opened.

  2. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that
gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the
priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall
go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

  3. Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of
this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

  4. And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the
LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a
ram without blemish.

  5. And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the
meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an
hin of oil to an ephah.

  6. And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock
without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without
blemish.

  7. And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock,
and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand
shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

  8. And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of
the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

  9. But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in
the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north
gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he
that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the
way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate
whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

  10. And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall
go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

  11. And in the 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.

  12. Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering
or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open
him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare
his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the
sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one
shall shut the gate.

  13. Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a
lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
every morning.

  14. And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning,
the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil,
to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a
perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

  15. Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and
the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

  16. Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any
of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall
be their possession by inheritance.

  17. But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it
shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons'
for them.

  18. Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession;
but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession:
that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

  19. After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side
of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked
toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides
westward.

  20. Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests
shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they
shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the
utter court, to sanctify the people.

  21. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me
to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every
corner of the court there was a court.

  22. In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of
forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one
measure.

  23. And there was a row of building round about in them, round
about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the
rows round about.

  24. Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that
boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of
the people.


                            CHAPTER 47


  1. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house;
and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the
east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of
the house, at the south side of the altar.

  2. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and
led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that
looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right
side.

  3. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth
eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through
the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

  4. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the
waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a
thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.

  5. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I
could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in,
a river that could not be passed over.

  6. And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he
brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

  7. Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river
were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

  8. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east
country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which
being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

  9. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth,
which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and
there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these
waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every
thing shall live whither the river cometh.

  10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon
it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread
forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the
fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

  11. But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall
not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

  12. And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on
that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not
fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring
forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they
issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for
meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

  13. Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby
ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

  14. And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning
the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and
this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

  15. And this shall be the border of the land toward the north
side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

  16. Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of
Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the
coast of Hauran.

  17. And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border
of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath.
And this is the north side.

  18. And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from
Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan,
from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

  19. And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters
of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the
south side southward.

  20. The west side also shall be the great sea from the border,
till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

  21. So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the
tribes of Israel.

  22. And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot
for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn
among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be
unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they
shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

  23. And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger
sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the
Lord GOD.


                            CHAPTER 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.

  2. And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west
side, a portion for Asher.

  3. And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the
west side, a portion for Naphtali.

  4. And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the
west side, a portion for Manasseh.

  5. And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the
west side, a portion for Ephraim.

  6. And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto
the west side, a portion for Reuben.

  7. And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west
side, a portion for Judah.

  8. And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west
side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and
twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the
other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the
sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

  9. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of
five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in
breadth.

  10. And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy
oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and
toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten
thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand
in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst
thereof.

  11. It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons
of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when
the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

  12. And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto
them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

  13. And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall
have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the
breadth ten thousand.

  14. And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor
alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the
LORD.

  15. And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over
against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for
the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in
the midst thereof.

  16. And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four
thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and
five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred,
and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

  17. And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two
hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and
toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two
hundred and fifty.

  18. And the residue in length over against the oblation of the
holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand
westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy
portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that
serve the city.

  19. And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the
tribes of Israel.

  20. All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five
and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare,
with the possession of the city.

  21. And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and
on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the
city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation
toward the east border, and westward over against the five and
twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions
for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the
sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

  22. Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin,
shall be for the prince.

  23. As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the
west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.

  24. And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the
west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

  25. And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the
west side, Issachar a portion.

  26. And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the
west side, Zebulun a portion.

  27. And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the
west side, Gad a portion.

  28. And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the
border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in
Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

  29. This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the
tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions,
saith the Lord GOD.

  30. And these are the goings out of the city on the north side,
four thousand and five hundred measures.

  31. And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one
gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

  32. And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and
three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one
gate of Dan.

  33. And at the south side four thousand and five hundred
measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of
Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

  34. At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their
three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of
Naphtali.

  35. It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name
of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.