Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/EZE.LZH/EZE

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1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
 [month], on the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives
 by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions
 of God.
1:2 On the fifth of the month, (it was the fifth year of king
 Jehoiachin's captivity,)
1:3 the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
 the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
 Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.
1:4 And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind 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
 look of glowing brass, out of the midst of the fire.
1:5 Also out of the midst thereof, the likeness of four living
 creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness
 of a man.
1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four
 wings.
1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their
 feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled as
 the look of burnished brass.
1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
 four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings:
1:9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
 they went; they went every one straight forward.
1:10 And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man; and
 they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they
 four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also
 the face of an eagle.
1:11 And their faces and their wings were parted above; two
 [wings] of every one were joined one to another, and two
 covered their bodies.
1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the
 Spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.
1:13 And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their
 appearance was like burning coals of fire, as the appearance of
 torches: it went up and down among the living creatures; and
 the fire was bright; and out of the fire went forth lightning.
1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
 of a flash of lightning.
1:15 And I looked at the living creatures, and behold, one wheel
 upon the earth beside the living creatures, toward their four
 faces.
1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was as the look
 of a chrysolite; and they four had one likeness; and their
 appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle
 of a wheel.
1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they
 turned not when they went.
1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they
 four had their rims full of eyes round about.
1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside
 them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the
 earth, the wheels were lifted up.
1:20 Whithersoever the Spirit was to go, they went, thither
 would [their] spirit go; and the wheels were lifted up along
 with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
 wheels.
1:21 When those went, they went; and when those stood, they
 stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
 were lifted up along with them: for the spirit of the living
 creature was in the wheels.
1:22 And there was the likeness of an expanse over the heads of
 the living creature, as the look of the terrible crystal,
 stretched forth over their heads above.
1:23 And under the expanse were their wings straight, the one
 toward the other: every one had two which covered on this side,
 and every one had two which covered on that side their bodies.
1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like
 the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, a
 tumultuous noise, as the noise of a host: when they stood, they
 let down their wings;
1:25 and there was a voice from above the expanse that was over
 their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings.
1:26 And above the expanse 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 a likeness as the
 appearance of a man above upon it.
1:27 And I saw as the look of glowing brass, as the appearance
 of fire, within it round about; from the appearance of his
 loins and upward, and from the appearance of his loins and
 downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
 brightness round about.
1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the
 day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round
 about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of
 Jehovah. And when I saw, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice
 of one that spoke.
2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I
 will speak with thee.
2:2 And the Spirit entered into me when he spoke unto me, and
 set me upon my feet; and I heard him that spoke unto me.
2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children
 of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled
 against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me
 unto this very day;
2:4 and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am
 sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
2:5 And they, whether they will hear or whether they will
 forbear -- for they are a rebellious house -- yet shall they
 know that there hath been a prophet among them.
2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not
 afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and
 thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words,
 and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious
 house.
2:7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will
 hear or whether they will forbear; for they are rebellious.
2:8 And thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not thou
 rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat
 that I give thee.
2:9 And I looked, and behold, a hand was put forth toward me;
 and behold, a roll of a book therein.
2:10 And he spread it out before me; and it was written within
 and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and
 mourning, and woe.
3:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, eat what thou findest; eat
 this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.
3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
 fill thy bowels with this roll which I give thee. And I ate,
 and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house
 of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of strange language, and
 of difficult speech, [but] to the house of Israel;
3:6 not to many peoples of strange language and of difficult
 speech, whose words thou canst not understand: had I sent thee
 to them, would they not hearken unto thee?
3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none
 of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are
 hard of forehead and stiff of heart.
3:8 Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and
 thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead.
 Fear them not, neither be dismayed at them, for they are a
 rebellious house.
3:10 And he said unto me, Son of man, all my words which I shall
 speak unto thee, receive in thy heart, and hear with thine
 ears;
3:11 and go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the
 children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them,
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, -- whether they will hear or
 whether they will forbear.
3:12 And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the
 sound of a great rushing, [saying,] Blessed be the glory of
 Jehovah from his place!
3:13 -- and the sound of the wings of the living creatures that
 touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them,
 and the sound of a great rushing.
3:14 And the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went
 in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of
 Jehovah was strong upon me.
3:15 And I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt
 by the river Chebar, and I sat where they sat; and I sat there
 astonied among them seven days.
3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word
 of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
3:17 Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house
 of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give
 them warning from me.
3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and
 thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked
 from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked [man]
 shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy
 hand.
3:19 But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
 wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his
 iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
3:20 And when a righteous [man] doth turn from his
 righteousness, and do what is wrong, 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 righteous
 acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood
 will I require at thy hand.
3:21 And if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous
 sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall certainly live, for he
 hath taken warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.
3:22 And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto
 me, Arise, go forth into the valley, and there I will talk with
 thee.
3:23 And I arose, and went forth into the valley, and behold,
 the glory of Jehovah stood there, like the glory which I saw by
 the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
3:24 And the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet;
 and he spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within
 thy house.
3:25 And thou, son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon
 thee, and shall bind thee therewith, and thou shalt not go out
 among them.
3:26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,
 that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover;
 for they are a rebellious house.
3:27 And when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou
 shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that
 heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear:
 for they are a rebellious house.
4:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and lay it before
 thee, and portray upon it a city, -- Jerusalem:
4:2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and
 cast a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place
 battering-rams against it round about.
4:3 And take thou unto thee an iron plate, and put it [for] a
 wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face
 against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege
 against it: this shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4:4 And thou, lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of
 the house of Israel upon it: the number of the days that thou
 liest upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.
4:5 And I have appointed thee the years of their iniquity,
 according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety
 days; and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt lie again
 on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the
 house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a
 year.
4:7 And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
 and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy
 against it.
4:8 And behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
 thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the
 days of thy siege.
4:9 And thou, take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
 lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and
 make thee bread thereof, [according to] the number of the days
 that thou liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days
 shalt thou eat thereof.
4:10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight,
 twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
4:11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a
 hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
4:12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley-cake, and thou shalt bake
 it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
4:13 And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their
 bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.
4:14 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not
 been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not
 eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn;
 neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
4:15 And he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for
 man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
4:16 And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff
 of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and
 with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with
 astonishment:
4:17 because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be
 astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.
5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife; a barber's
 razor shalt thou take; and cause it to pass upon thy head and
 upon thy beard: and thou shalt take balances to weigh, and
 divide the [hair].
5:2 A third part shalt thou burn in the fire 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 to the wind, and I will draw out
 a sword after them.
5:3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them
 in thy skirts;
5:4 and thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the
 midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire: from it shall a
 fire come forth against all the house of Israel.
5:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem: I have set
 her in the midst of the nations, and the countries are round
 about her.
5:6 And she hath rebelled against my judgments in wickedness
 more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the
 countries that are round about her: for mine ordinances have
 they refused; and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have been
 turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, [and]
 have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine
 ordinances, nor [even] have done according to the ordinances of
 the nations that are round about you;
5:8 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am
 against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee
 in the sight of the nations;
5:9 and I will do in thee that which I have not done, and
 whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine
 abominations.
5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
 thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
 judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter
 to all the winds.
5:11 Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily
 because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable
 things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also
 withdraw mine eye, and it shall not spare, nor will I have any
 pity.
5:12 A third part of thee shall die by the pestilence, and shall
 be consumed by the famine in the midst of thee; and a third
 part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will
 scatter a third part to all the winds, and I will draw out a
 sword after them.
5:13 And mine anger shall be accomplished, and I will satisfy my
 fury upon them, and I will comfort myself; and they shall know
 that I Jehovah have spoken in my jealousy, when I have
 accomplished my fury upon them.
5:14 And I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the
 nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that
 pass by.
5:15 And 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 upon thee in anger, and in fury,
 and in furious rebukes: I, Jehovah, have spoken.
5:16 When I send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are
 for [their] destruction, which I send to destroy you, then will
 I increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of
 bread.
5:17 And I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, which
 shall bereave thee of children; and pestilence and blood shall
 pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I,
 Jehovah, have spoken.
6:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
 prophesy against them,
6:3 and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
 Jehovah: thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to
 the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys: Behold, I,
 [even] I, do bring a sword upon you, and will destroy your high
 places.
6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall
 be broken; and I will cast down your slain [men] before your
 idols;
6:5 and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel
 before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about
 your altars.
6:6 In all your dwelling-places 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 sun-images may be cut down, and your works may
 be abolished.
6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
 know that I [am] Jehovah.
6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some
 escaped from the sword among the nations, when ye shall be
 scattered through the countries.
6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
 nations whither they have been carried captives, when I shall
 have broken their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,
 and their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols; and they
 shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have
 committed, in all their abominations.
6:10 And they shall know that I [am] Jehovah: I have not said in
 vain that I would do this evil unto them.
6:11 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Smite with thy hand, and stamp
 with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the abominations of the
 iniquities of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the
 sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that
 is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is left, and is
 besieged, shall die by the famine: and I will accomplish my
 fury upon them.
6:13 And ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when their slain
 shall be among their idols, round about their altars, upon
 every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under
 every green tree, and under every thick terebinth, the places
 where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.
6:14 And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
 desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, in
 all their dwellings; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
7:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
7:2 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the
 land of Israel: An end, the end is come upon the four corners
 of the land.
7:3 Now is the end upon thee; and I will send mine anger upon
 thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will bring
 upon thee all thine abominations.
7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity;
 but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations
 shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah.
7:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold,
 it is come.
7:6 The end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee:
 behold, it cometh.
7:7 The doom is come unto thee, inhabitant of the land; the time
 is come, the day is near, -- tumult, and not the joyous cry
 from the mountains.
7:8 Now will I soon pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish
 mine anger against thee; and I will judge thee according to thy
 ways, and will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I
 will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine
 abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know
 that it is I, Jehovah, that smite.
7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the doom is gone forth;
 the rod hath blossomed, pride is full blown.
7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: nothing of
 them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their
 wealth, nor of the magnificence in the midst of them.
7:12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
 rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for fierce anger is upon all the
 multitude thereof.
7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, even
 though he were yet alive amongst the living: for the vision is
 touching the whole multitude thereof; it shall not be revoked;
 and none shall through his iniquity assure his life.
7:14 They have blown the trumpet and made all ready, but none
 goeth to the battle; for my fierce anger is upon all the
 multitude thereof.
7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine
 within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he
 that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
7:16 And they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on
 the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning,
 every one for his iniquity.
7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into
 water.
7:18 And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover
 them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all
 their heads.
7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
 shall be as an impurity: their silver and their gold shall not
 be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; they
 shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their belly; for it
 hath been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.
7:20 And he set in majesty his beautiful ornament; but they made
 therein the images of their abominations [and] of their
 detestable things: therefore have I made it an impurity unto
 them.
7:21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey,
 and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall
 profane it.
7:22 And I will turn my face from them; and they shall profane
 my secret [place]; and the violent shall enter into it, and
 profane it.
7:23 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and
 the city is full of violence.
7:24 Therefore will I bring the worst of the nations, and they
 shall possess their houses; and I will make the pride of the
 strong to cease; and their sanctuaries shall be profaned.
7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, but there
 shall be none.
7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
 rumour; and they shall seek a vision from a prophet; but the
 law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
 dismay, and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble:
 I will do unto them according to their way, and with their
 judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah.
8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month],
 on the fifth of the month, that [as] I sat in my house, and the
 elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord Jehovah
 fell there upon me.
8:2 And I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of
 fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and
 from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as
 the look of glowing brass.
8:3 And he stretched forth the form of a hand, and took me by a
 lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth
 and the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to
 Jerusalem, to the entry of the inner gate that looketh toward
 the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
 provoketh to jealousy.
8:4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
 according to the appearance that I saw in the valley.
8:5 And he said unto me, Son of man, lift up now thine eyes
 toward the north. And I lifted up mine eyes toward the north,
 and behold, northward of the gate of the altar, this image of
 jealousy in the entry.
8:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do?
 the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, to
 cause [me] to go far off from my sanctuary? And yet again thou
 shalt see great abominations.
8:7 And he brought me to the entry of the court, and I looked,
 and behold, a hole in the wall.
8:8 And he said unto me, Son of man, dig now through the wall;
 and I digged through the wall, and behold, a door.
8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked
 abominations that they do here.
8:10 And I went in and looked, and behold, every form of
 creeping thing and abominable beast, and all the idols of the
 house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of
 the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah
 the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and
 a thick cloud of incense went up.
8:12 And he said unto me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the
 elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in his
 chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not;
 Jehovah hath forsaken the land.
8:13 And he said unto me, Yet again thou shalt see great
 abominations which they do.
8:14 And he brought me to the entry of the gate of Jehovah's
 house that was toward the north; and behold, there sat women
 weeping for Tammuz.
8:15 And he said unto me, Seest thou, son of man? Thou shalt yet
 again see greater abominations than these.
8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house,
 and behold, at the entry of the temple of Jehovah, between the
 porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their
 backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the
 east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
8:17 And he said unto me, Seest thou, son of man? Is it a light
 thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which
 they commit here, that they yet fill the land with violence,
 and keep provoking me afresh to anger? And behold, they put the
 branch to their nose.
8:18 And I also will deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
 neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with
 a loud voice, I will not hear them.
9:1 And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Draw
 near, ye that have charge of the city, and every man [with] his
 destroying weapon in his hand.
9:2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate,
 which is turned toward the north, and every man [with] his
 slaughter weapon in his hand; and in the midst of them, one man
 clothed with linen, with a writer's ink-horn by his side; and
 they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
 cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he
 called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's
 ink-horn by his side;
9:4 and Jehovah 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 are done in the midst thereof.
9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him
 through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
 have pity.
9:6 Slay utterly the old man, the young man, and the maiden, 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
 elders who were before the house.
9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
 with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and smote in the
 city.
9:8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was
 left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah, Lord
 Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the remnant of Israel in thy
 pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9:9 And he said 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, Jehovah hath
 forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not.
9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will
 I have pity: I will recompense their way upon their head.
9:11 And behold, the man clothed with linen, who had the
 ink-horn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done
 as thou hast commanded me.
10:1 And I looked, and behold, in the expanse that was over the
 head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a
 sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
10:2 And he spoke unto the man clothed with linen, and said,
 Come in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill the
 hollow of thy hands with coals of fire from between the
 cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my
 sight.
10:3 And the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when
 the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
10:4 And the glory of Jehovah mounted up from the cherub, [and
 came] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled
 with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of
 Jehovah's glory.
10:5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard to the
 outer court, as the voice of the Almighty ∙God when he
 speaketh.
10:6 And it came to pass when he had commanded the man clothed
 with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from
 between the cherubim, then he went in, and stood beside the
 wheel.
10:7 And the cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
 cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took
 and put it into the hands of him [that was] clothed with linen;
 who took [it], and went out.
10:8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
 under their wings.
10:9 And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim,
 one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another
 cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was as the look of a
 chrysolite stone.
10:10 And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness,
 as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they
 turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head
 looked they followed it: they turned not as they went.
10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands,
 and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes round about,
 in them four [and] their wheels.
10:13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, Galgal.
10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face
 of a cherub, and the second face the face of a man, and the
 third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
10:15 And the cherubim mounted up. This was the living creature
 that I saw by the river Chebar.
10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them;
 and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from
 the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up,
 these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living
 creature was in them.
10:18 And the glory of Jehovah departed from over the threshold
 of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up
 from the earth in my sight, when they went out; and the wheels
 were beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate
 of Jehovah's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over
 them above.
10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of
 Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
10:21 Each one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the
 likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
10:22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the
 faces which I had seen by the river Chebar -- their appearance
 and themselves: they went every one straight before them.
11:1 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east
 gate of Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward; and behold, at
 the door of the gate were five and twenty men; and I saw in the
 midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son
 of Benaiah, princes of the people.
11:2 And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that
 devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:
11:3 who say, It is not the time to build houses: this is the
 cauldron, and we are the flesh.
11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
11:5 And the Spirit of Jehovah fell on me, and said unto me,
 Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of
 Israel; and the things that come into your mind, I know them.
11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have
 filled the streets thereof with the slain.
11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye
 have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and it is the
 cauldron; but you will I bring forth out of the midst of it.
11:8 Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon
 you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you
 into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among
 you.
11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the
 borders of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
11:11 This shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the
 flesh in the midst of it: I will judge you in the borders of
 Israel;
11:12 and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, in whose statutes
 ye have not walked, neither have done mine ordinances, but have
 done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about
 you.
11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the
 son of Benaiah died. And I fell down on my face, and cried with
 a loud voice, and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full
 end of the remnant of Israel?
11:14 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
11:15 Son of man, [it is] thy brethren, thy brethren, the men of
 thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, the whole of it, unto
 whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, Get you far from
 Jehovah: unto us is this land given for a possession.
11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Although I
 have removed them far off among the nations, and although I
 have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them
 as a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.
11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even
 gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the
 countries where ye are scattered, and I will give you the land
 of Israel.
11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from
 thence all its detestable things and all its abominations.
11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new
 spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of
 their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
11:20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
 ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I
 will be their God.
11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh well-pleased with
 their detestable things and their abominations, I will
 recompense their way upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
11:22 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels
 were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over
 them above.
11:23 And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the
 city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of
 the city.
11:24 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision
 by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity;
 and the vision that I had seen went up from me.
11:25 And I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that
 Jehovah had shewn me.
12:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious
 house, which have eyes to see, and see not, which have ears to
 hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
12:3 And thou, son of man, prepare thee a captive's baggage, and
 go captive by day in their sight; and thou shalt go captive
 from thy place to another place in their sight. It may be they
 will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
12:4 And bring forth thy baggage by day in their sight, as a
 captive's baggage, and thou thyself, go forth at even in their
 sight as they that go forth into captivity.
12:5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out
 thereby.
12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear [it] upon [thy] shoulder,
 and carry it forth in the dark; thou shalt cover thy face, and
 thou shalt not see the ground: for I have appointed thee for a
 sign unto the house of Israel.
12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my baggage
 by day, as a captive's baggage, and in the even I digged
 through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark,
 [and] bore it upon [my] shoulder, in their sight.
12:8 And in the morning the word of Jehovah came unto me,
 saying,
12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious
 house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
12:10 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This burden
 [concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
 Israel that are among them.
12:11 Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so shall it be done
 unto them: they shall go into exile, into captivity.
12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon [his]
 shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; they shall dig
 through the wall to carry out thereby; he shall cover his face,
 that he see not the land with [his] eyes.
12:13 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken
 in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the
 Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, and there shall he die.
12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about
 him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the
 sword after them.
12:15 And they shall know that I [am] Jehovah when I shall
 scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the
 countries.
12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from
 the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all
 their abominations among the nations whither they shall come;
 and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
12:17 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy
 water with trembling and with anxiety;
12:19 and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord
 Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the land of
 Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink
 their water with astonishment, because her land shall be left
 desolate of all that is in it, for the violence of all them
 that dwell therein.
12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and
 the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah.
12:21 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
12:22 Son of man, what is that proverb which ye have in the land
 of Israel, saying, The days shall be prolonged, and every
 vision faileth?
12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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 accomplishment of every vision.
12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
 divination in the midst of the house of Israel.
12:25 For I [am] Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I
 shall speak shall be performed, it shall be no more deferred.
 For in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word and
 will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
12:26 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The
 vision that he seeth is for many days, and he prophesieth of
 times that are far off.
12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
 There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word
 that I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
13:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying:
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
 prophesy, and say unto them that prophesy out of their own
 heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah.
13:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the foolish prophets,
 that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
13:4 O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in desert
 places.
13:5 Ye have not gone up into the breaches, nor made up the
 fence for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the
 day of Jehovah.
13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, that say,
 Jehovah saith! and Jehovah hath not sent them; and they make
 [them] to hope that the word will be fulfilled.
13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and spoken a lying
 divination, when ye say, Jehovah saith; and I have not spoken?
13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye speak
 vanity, and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
13:9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity
 and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my
 people, neither shall they be written in the register of the
 house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of
 Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.
13:10 Because, yea because they have seduced my people, saying,
 Peace! and there is no peace; and one buildeth up a wall, and
 lo, they daub it with untempered [mortar] --
13:11 say unto them which daub it with untempered [mortar] that
 it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing rain, and ye, O
 great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall burst
 forth.
13:12 And lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto
 you, Where is the daubing with which ye have daubed [it]?
13:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will cause to
 burst forth a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an
 overflowing rain in mine anger, and hail-stones in fury for
 utter destruction.
13:14 And I will break down the wall that ye have daubed with
 untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that
 the foundation thereof shall be discovered; and it shall fall,
 and ye shall be destroyed in the midst thereof; and ye shall
 know that I [am] Jehovah.
13:15 And I will accomplish my fury upon the wall, and upon them
 that daub it with untempered [mortar], and will say unto you,
 The wall is no [more], neither they that daubed it,
13:16 the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
 and who see a vision of peace for her, and there is no peace,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
13:17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters
 of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and
 prophesy against them,
13:18 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the women
 that sew pillows for all wrists, and that make veils for the
 head [of persons] of every stature to catch souls! Will ye
 catch the souls of my people, and will ye save your own souls
 alive?
13:19 And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of
 barley and for morsels 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 listen to lying?
13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
 against your pillows, that the souls which ye catch by their
 means may fly away; and I will tear them from your arms, and
 will let the souls go, the souls that ye catch, that they may
 fly away.
13:21 And I will tear your veils 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] Jehovah.
13:22 Because with falsehood ye have grieved the heart of the
 righteous, whom I have not made sad; and have strengthened the
 hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked
 way, to save his life:
13:23 therefore ye shall no more see vanity, nor divine
 divinations; and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and
 ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
14:1 And there came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and
 sat before me.
14:2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their
 heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before
 their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
14:4 Therefore speak to them, and say unto them, Thus saith the
 Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up
 his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his
 iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet, I Jehovah
 will answer him according to this, according to the multitude
 of his idols:
14:5 that I may take the house of Israel by their own heart,
 because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
 Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and
 turn away your faces from all your abominations.
14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers
 that sojourn in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and
 setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the
 stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to
 the prophet to inquire of me by him, I Jehovah will answer him
 by myself;
14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him
 desolate, [so that he shall be] for a sign and for proverbs,
 and I will cut him off from the midst of my people: and ye
 shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
14:9 And if the prophet be enticed and shall speak a word, I
 Jehovah have enticed that prophet; and I will stretch out my
 hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my
 people Israel.
14:10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the
 prophet shall be even as the iniquity of the inquirer;
14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
 neither make themselves any more unclean with all their
 transgressions; and they shall be my people, and I will be
 their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
14:12 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
14:13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by working
 unfaithfulness, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break
 the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and
 cut off man and beast from it;
14:14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, should be
 in it, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their
 righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
14:15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they
 bereave it, and it become a desolation, so that no one passeth
 through because of the beasts;
14:16 -- though these three men should be in it, [as] I live,
 saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor
 daughters: they only should be delivered, and the land should
 be a desolation.
14:17 Or [if] I bring the sword upon that land, and say, Sword,
 go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it,
14:18 and these three men should be in it, [as] I live, saith
 the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor
 daughters, but they only themselves should be delivered.
14:19 Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out
 my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
14:20 and Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in it, [as] I live,
 saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor
 daughter: they should [but] deliver their own souls by their
 righteousness.
14:21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send
 my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the
 famine, and the evil beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from
 it man and beast!
14:22 But behold, there shall be left in it those that escape,
 who shall be brought out of [it], 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, as to all that I have
 brought upon it.
14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and
 their doings; and ye shall know that I have not done without
 cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
15:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
15:2 Son of man, what is the wood of the vine more than any
 wood, the vine-branch, which is among the trees of the forest?
15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men]
 take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
15:4 Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel: the fire
 consumeth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned;
 is it fit for [any] work?
15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was used for no work; how
 much less when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burned,
 should it yet be used for any work?
15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the wood of the
 vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the
 fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15:7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go forth
 from [one] fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye
 shall know that I [am] Jehovah when I set my face against them.
15:8 And I will make the land a desolation, because they have
 wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
16:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
16:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy
 birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite: thy
 father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy
 navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for
 cleansing; thou wast not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled
 at all.
16:5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
 compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field,
 from abhorrence of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
16:6 And I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood,
 and I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live! yea, I said unto
 thee, in thy blood, Live!
16:7 I caused thee to multiply, as the bud of the field; and
 thou didst increase and grow great, and thou camest to fulness
 of beauty; [thy] breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: but
 thou wast naked and bare.
16:8 And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy
 time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and
 covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into
 a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest
 mine.
16:9 And I washed thee with water, and thoroughly washed away
 thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil;
16:10 and I clothed thee with embroidered work, and shod thee
 with badgers' skin, and I bound thee about with byssus, and
 covered thee with silk.
16:11 And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
 thy hands, and a chain on thy neck;
16:12 and I put a ring on thy nose, and earrings in thine ears,
 and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy
 raiment was byssus, and silk, and embroidered work. Thou didst
 eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou becamest
 exceedingly beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
16:14 And thy fame went forth among the nations for thy beauty;
 for it was perfect through my magnificence, which I had put
 upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
16:15 But thou didst confide in thy beauty, and playedst the
 harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on
 every one that passed by: his it was.
16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and madest for
 thyself high places decked with divers colours, and didst play
 the harlot thereupon: [the like] hath not come to pass, and
 shall be no more.
16:17 And thou didst take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
 silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of
 males, and didst commit fornication with them.
16:18 And thou tookest thine embroidered garments, and coveredst
 them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
16:19 And my bread which I had given thee, the fine flour and
 the oil and the honey wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set
 it before them for a sweet savour: thus it was, saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
16:20 And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou
 hadst borne unto me, and these didst thou sacrifice unto them,
 to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,
16:21 that thou didst slay my children and give them up in
 passing them over to them?
16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast
 not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and
 bare, when thou wast weltering in thy blood.
16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe
 unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah),
16:24 that thou didst also build unto thee a place of
 debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
16:25 thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way,
 and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy
 feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.
16:26 And thou didst commit fornication with the Egyptians thy
 neighbours, great of flesh; and didst multiply thy whoredom to
 provoke me to anger.
16:27 And behold, I stretched out my hand over thee, and
 diminished thine appointed portion; and I gave thee over unto
 the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the
 Philistines, who were confounded at thy lewd way.
16:28 And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians,
 because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit
 fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
16:29 And thou didst multiply thy whoredom with the land of
 merchants, Chaldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
16:30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou
 doest all these [things], the work of a whorish woman, under no
 restraint;
16:31 in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head
 of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And
 thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward,
16:32 O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her
 husband.
16:33 They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy
 rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might
 come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
16:34 And in thee is the contrary from [other] women, in thy
 whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to commit fornication;
 and whereas thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto
 thee, so art thou contrary.
16:35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah.
16:36 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy money hath been
 poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy
 fornications with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thine
 abominations, and because of the blood of thy children which
 thou didst give unto them;
16:37 therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom
 thou hast taken pleasure, and all that thou hast loved, with
 all that thou hast hated, -- I will even gather them round
 about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them,
 that they may see all thy nakedness.
16:38 And I will judge thee with the judgments of women that
 commit adultery and shed blood; and I will give thee up to the
 blood of fury and jealousy;
16:39 and I will give thee into their hand, and they shall throw
 down thy place of debauchery, and shall break down thy high
 places; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall
 take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
16:40 And they shall bring up an assemblage against thee, and
 they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with
 their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute
 judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will
 cause thee to cease from being a harlot, and thou also shalt
 give no more any reward.
16:42 And I will appease my fury against thee, and my jealousy
 shall depart from thee; and I will be quiet, and will be no
 more angry.
16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,
 but hast raged against me in all these [things], behold,
 therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon [thy] head,
 saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness
 besides all thine abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a
 proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, [so is] her
 daughter!
16:45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her
 husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy
 sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your
 mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria that dwelleth at thy
 left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that
 dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
16:47 And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according
 to their abominations; but as though that were a very little,
 thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
16:48 [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath
 not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and
 thy daughters!
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride,
 fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her
 daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and
 needy.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before
 me, and I took them away when I saw [it].
16:51 And Samaria hath not sinned according to the half of thy
 sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than
 they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations
 which thou hast done.
16:52 Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own
 confusion, because of thy sins in which thou hast acted more
 abominably than they: they are more righteous than thou. So be
 thou ashamed also, and bear thy confusion, in that thou hast
 justified thy sisters.
16:53 And I will bring again their captivity, the captivity of
 Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
 daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of
 them;
16:54 that thou mayest bear thy confusion, and mayest be
 confounded for all that thou hast done, in that thou comfortest
 them.
16:55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
 their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return
 to their former estate; thou also and thy daughters, ye shall
 return to your former estate.
16:56 Yea, Sodom thy sister was not mentioned by thy mouth in
 the day of thy pride,
16:57 before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of
 the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are
 round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise
 thee on every side.
16:58 Thy lewdness and thine abominations, thou bearest them,
 saith Jehovah.
16:59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with
 thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath, and broken
 the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the
 days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an
 everlasting covenant.
16:61 And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be confounded, when
 thou shalt receive thy sisters who are older than thou,
 together with those who are younger than thou; for I will give
 them unto thee for daughters, but not by virtue of thy
 covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt
 know that I [am] Jehovah;
16:63 that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more
 open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee
 all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
17:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto
 the house of Israel,
17:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with
 great wings, long-pinioned, full of feathers, which was of
 divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch
 of the cedar.
17:4 He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it
 into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.
17:5 And he took of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
 fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, he set it as a
 willow tree.
17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, so
 that its branches should turn toward him, and the roots thereof
 be under him; and it became a vine, and brought forth branches,
 and shot forth sprigs.
17:7 And there was another great eagle with great wings and many
 feathers; and behold, from the beds of her plantation, this
 vine did bend her roots unto him, and shot forth her branches
 toward him, that he might water it.
17:8 It was planted in a good field by many waters, that it
 might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a
 noble vine.
17:9 Say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall
 he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may
 wither? All its fresh sprouting leaves shall wither, even
 without a great arm and many people to pluck it up by its
 roots.
17:10 And behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
 utterly wither when the east wind toucheth it? It shall wither
 in the beds where it grew.
17:11 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these
 things are? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem,
 and took its king and its princes, and led them with him to
 Babylon.
17:13 And he took of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
 him, and brought him under an oath, and he took away the mighty
 of the land;
17:14 that the kingdom might be abased, that it might not lift
 itself up, that it might keep his covenant in order to stand.
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors
 into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.
 Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall
 he break the covenant, and yet escape?
17:16 [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily in the place
 of the king that made him king, whose oath he despised, and
 whose covenant he broke, even with him, in the midst of
 Babylon, shall he die.
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with a mighty army and a great
 assemblage do anything for him in the war, when they cast up
 mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.
17:18 He despised the oath, and broke the covenant; and behold,
 he had given his hand, yet hath he done all these things: he
 shall not escape.
17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: [As] I live,
 verily, mine oath which he hath despised, and my covenant which
 he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his head.
17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken
 in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter
 into judgment with him there for his unfaithfulness in which he
 hath been unfaithful against me.
17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
 sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every
 wind; and ye shall know that I Jehovah have spoken.
17:22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the
 highest branch of the lofty cedar, and will set it; I will crop
 off from the top of its young shoots a tender one, and I will
 plant it upon a high and eminent mountain:
17:23 upon the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it;
 and it shall bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and become a
 noble cedar; and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing;
 in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah
 have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree,
 have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to
 flourish: I Jehovah have spoken, and will do [it].
18:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
18:2 What mean ye, ye who use this proverb of the land of
 Israel, saying, [The] fathers eat sour grapes, and the
 children's teeth are set on edge?
18:3 [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have any
 more to use this proverb in Israel.
18:4 Behold, all the souls are mine; as the soul of the father,
 so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it
 shall die.
18:5 And if a man be righteous, and do judgment and justice:
18:6 -- he hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his
 eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled
 his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a woman in her
 separation,
18:7 and hath not oppressed any; he hath restored to the debtor
 his pledge, hath not exercised robbery, hath given his bread to
 the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment;
18:8 he hath not given forth upon usury, nor taken increase; he
 hath withdrawn his hand from unrighteousness, hath executed
 true judgment between man and man,
18:9 hath walked in my statutes, and kept mine ordinances, to
 deal faithfully: he is righteous, he shall certainly live,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
18:10 And if he have begotten a son that is violent, a shedder
 of blood, and that doeth only one of any of these [things],
18:11 and that doeth not any of those [duties], but also hath
 eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
18:12 hath oppressed the poor and needy, exercised robbery, hath
 not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the
 idols, committed abomination,
18:13 given forth upon usury, and taken increase; shall he then
 live? He shall not live: he hath done all these abominations;
 he shall certainly die; his blood shall be upon him.
18:14 But lo, if he have begotten a son that seeth all his
 father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth
 not such like:
18:15 -- he hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his
 eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; he hath not defiled
 his neighbour's wife,
18:16 and hath not oppressed any, nor withholden the pledge,
 neither hath exercised robbery; he hath given his bread to the
 hungry, and covered the naked with a garment;
18:17 he hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, hath not
 received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, [and]
 walked in my statutes: he shall not die for the iniquity of his
 father, he shall certainly live.
18:18 As for his father, because he practised oppression,
 exercised robbery upon his brother, and did what was not good
 among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
18:19 And ye say, Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
 father? But the son hath done judgment and justice, hath kept
 all my statutes, and hath done them; he shall certainly live.
18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not
 bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear
 the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous
 shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be
 upon him.
18:21 And the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he hath
 committed, and keep all my statutes, and do judgment and
 justice, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
18:22 None of his transgressions which he hath committed shall
 be remembered against him; in his righteousness which he hath
 done shall he live.
18:23 Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked?
 saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way,
 that he may live?
18:24 And when the righteous turneth from his righteousness and
 practiseth what is wrong, [and] doeth according to all the
 abominations that the wicked doeth, shall he live? None of his
 righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered: in his
 unfaithfulness which he hath wrought, and in his sin which he
 hath sinned, in them shall he die.
18:25 And ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear then,
 house of Israel. Is not my way equal? are not your ways
 unequal?
18:26 When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,
 and practiseth what is wrong, and dieth for it; in his wrong
 that he hath done shall he die.
18:27 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he
 hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep
 his soul alive.
18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth from all his
 transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly
 live, he shall not die.
18:29 But the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not
 equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Is it not your
 ways that are unequal?
18:30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one
 according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and
 turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be
 your snare.
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye
 have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit:
 why then will ye die, house of Israel?
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,
 saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live.
19:1 And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
 Israel,
19:2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among
 lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young
 lions.
19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young
 lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
19:4 And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit,
 and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.
19:5 And when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was
 lost, she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young
 lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young
 lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
19:7 And he knew their [desolate] palaces, and he laid waste
 their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it
 contained, by the noise of his roaring.
19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
 provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their
 pit.
19:9 And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, and brought him
 to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that
 his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
19:10 Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the
 waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
 waters.
19:11 And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear
 rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and
 it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its
 branches.
19:12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the
 ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods
 were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
19:13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and
 thirsty ground:
19:14 and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, [which]
 hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a
 sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
 lamentation.
20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
 [month], the tenth of the month, [that] certain of the elders
 of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and they sat before me.
20:2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto
 them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Are ye come to inquire of
 me? [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired
 of by you.
20:4 Wilt thou judge them, wilt thou judge, son of man? Cause
 them to know the abominations of their fathers,
20:5 and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day
 when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand unto the seed of the
 house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of
 Egypt, when I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I [am]
 Jehovah your God,
20:6 in that day I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them
 out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
 them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all
 lands;
20:7 and I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the
 abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the
 idols of Egypt: I [am] Jehovah your God.
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto
 me: none of them cast away the abominations of his eyes,
 neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought to
 pour out my fury upon them, so as to accomplish mine anger
 against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
 profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, in
 whose sight I had made myself known unto them in bringing them
 forth out of the land of Egypt.
20:10 And I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
 and brought them into the wilderness.
20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine
 ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
20:12 And I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me
 and them, that they might know that I [am] Jehovah that hallow
 them.
20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the
 wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected
 mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them; and
 my sabbaths they greatly profaned: and I said I would pour out
 my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
 profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had
 brought them out.
20:15 And I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness,
 that I would not bring them into the land that I had given
 [them], flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of
 all lands;
20:16 because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my
 statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after
 their idols.
20:17 But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them,
 neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not
 in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances,
 nor defile yourselves with their idols.
20:19 I [am] Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep
 mine ordinances, and do them;
20:20 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between
 me and you, that ye may know that I [am] Jehovah your God.
20:21 And the children rebelled against me: they walked not in
 my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if
 a man do, he shall live by them; they profaned my sabbaths: and
 I said I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish mine
 anger against them in the wilderness.
20:22 But I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
 that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in
 whose sight I had brought them out.
20:23 I lifted up my hand also unto them in the wilderness, that
 I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them
 through the countries;
20:24 because they performed not mine ordinances, and rejected
 my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were
 after their fathers' idols.
20:25 And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and
 ordinances whereby they should not live;
20:26 and I defiled them by their own gifts, in that they
 devoted all that opened the womb, that I might make them
 desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] Jehovah.
20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and
 say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover
 have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have wrought
 unfaithfulness against me.
20:28 When I had brought them into the land which I had lifted
 up my hand to give unto 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; and
 there they placed their sweet savour, and there poured out
 their drink-offerings.
20:29 And I said unto them, What is the high place whither ye
 go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
20:30 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
 Lord Jehovah: Do ye defile yourselves after the manner of your
 fathers? and do ye commit fornication after their abominations?
20:31 And when ye offer your gifts, making your sons to pass
 through the fire, ye defile yourselves with all your idols,
 even unto this day; and shall I be inquired of by you, O house
 of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be
 inquired of by you.
20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,
 that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the
 countries, in serving wood and stone.
20:33 [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily with a mighty
 hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out,
 will I reign over you.
20:34 And I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather
 you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a
 mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured
 out;
20:35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples,
 and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
20:36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the
 wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment
 with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will
 bring you into the bond of the covenant.
20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them
 that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the
 country where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the
 land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord
 Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols henceforth also, if
 none of you will hearken unto me; but profane my holy name no
 more with your gifts and with your idols.
20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
 Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of
 Israel serve me, the whole of it, in the land; there will I
 accept them, and there will I require your heave-offerings and
 the first-fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
20:41 As a sweet savour will I accept you, when I bring you out
 from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein
 ye have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you in the
 sight of the nations.
20:42 And ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have brought
 you into the land of Israel, into the country which I lifted up
 my hand to give to your fathers.
20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your
 doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe
 yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which ye have
 committed.
20:44 And ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have wrought
 with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways,
 nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, saith
 the Lord Jehovah.
20:45 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop
 [words] against the south, and prophesy against the forest of
 the south field;
20:47 and say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of
 Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a
 fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and
 every dry tree: the flashing flame shall not be quenched; and
 all that it meets from the south to the north shall be burned
 thereby.
20:48 And all flesh shall see that I Jehovah have kindled it: it
 shall not be quenched.
20:49 And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not
 speak parables?
21:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
21:2 Son of man, set thy face against Jerusalem, and drop
 [words] against the holy places, and prophesy against the land
 of Israel,
21:3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold,
 I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its
 sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
 wicked.
21:4 Seeing that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
 wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
 against all flesh, from the south to the north;
21:5 and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah have drawn forth my
 sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.
21:6 Sigh then, thou son of man; with breaking of the loins, and
 with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore dost
 thou sigh? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it
 cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
 feeble, and every spirit shall languish, and all knees shall
 melt into water: behold, it cometh; it is here, saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
21:8 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A
 sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished.
21:10 It is sharpened for sore slaughter, it is furbished that
 it may glitter. Shall we then make mirth, [saying,] The sceptre
 of my son contemneth all wood?
21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished that it may be
 handled. The sword, -- it is sharpened, and it is furbished to
 give it into the hand of the slayer.
21:12 Cry and howl, son of man; for it shall be against my
 people, it shall be against all the princes of Israel: they are
 given up to the sword along with my people: smite therefore
 upon the thigh.
21:13 For the trial [is made]; and what if even the contemning
 sceptre shall be no [more]? saith the Lord Jehovah.
21:14 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands
 together; for [the strokes of] the sword shall be doubled the
 third time: it is the sword of the slain, the sword that hath
 slain the great one, which encompasseth them privily.
21:15 In order that the heart may melt, and the stumbling-blocks
 be multiplied, I have set the threatening sword against all
 their gates: ah! it is made glittering, it is whetted for the
 slaughter.
21:16 Gather up [strength], go to the right hand, turn thee, go
 to the left, whithersoever thy face is appointed.
21:17 And I myself will smite my hands together, and I will
 satisfy my fury: I Jehovah have spoken [it].
21:18 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
21:19 And thou, son of man, set thee two ways, by which the
 sword of the king of Babylon may come -- out of one land shall
 they both come -- and make thee a signpost, make it at the head
 of the way to the city.
21:20 Appoint a way for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the
 children of Ammon, and to Judah at the fenced [city] of
 Jerusalem.
21:21 For the king of Babylon standeth at the parting of the
 way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shaketh
 [his] arrows, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the
 liver.
21:22 In his right hand is the lot of Jerusalem to appoint
 battering-rams, to open the mouth for bloodshed, to lift up the
 voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rams against the
 gates, to cast mounds, to build siege-towers.
21:23 And this shall be a false divination in their sight, for
 them that have sworn oaths; but he will call to remembrance the
 iniquity, that they may be taken.
21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye make
 your iniquity to be remembered in that your transgressions are
 discovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear;
 because ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the
 hand.
21:25 And thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is
 come, at the time of the iniquity of the end,
21:26 -- thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre and take
 off the crown; what is shall be no [more]. Exalt that which is
 low, and abase that which is high.
21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it! This also shall be
 no [more], until he come whose right it is; and I will give it
 [to him].
21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus speaketh the
 Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning
 their reproach; and thou shalt say, A sword, a sword is drawn;
 for the slaughter is it furbished, that it may consume, that it
 may glitter:
21:29 whilst they see vanity for thee, whilst they divine a lie
 unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are
 slain, whose day is come at the time of the iniquity of the
 end.
21:30 Restore [it] to its sheath. I will judge thee in the place
 where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth.
21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will
 blow upon thee the fire of my wrath, and give thee into the
 hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.
21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in
 the midst of the land; thou shalt not be remembered: for I
 Jehovah have spoken.
22:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
22:2 And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the
 bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations,
22:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth
 blood in her midst, that her time may come, and maketh idols
 against herself to defile herself.
22:4 Thou art become guilty by thy blood which thou hast shed,
 and hast defiled thyself with thine idols which thou hast made;
 and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come unto
 thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the
 nations, and a mocking unto all countries.
22:5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee,
 shall mock thee, who art infamous [and] full of tumult.
22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed
 blood, each according to his power.
22:7 In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the
 midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger;
 in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my
 sabbaths.
22:9 In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and
 in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of
 thee they have committed lewdness;
22:10 in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in
 thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.
22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's
 wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and
 another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast
 taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy
 neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
22:13 And behold, I have smitten mine hand at thine overreaching
 which thou hast done, and at thy bloodshed which hath been in
 the midst of thee.
22:14 Shall thy heart endure, shall thy hands be strong, in the
 days that I shall deal with thee? I Jehovah have spoken, and
 will do [it].
22:15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse
 thee through the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out
 of thee.
22:16 And thou shalt be polluted through thyself in the sight of
 the nations, and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.
22:17 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me:
 they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst
 of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all
 become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the
 midst of Jerusalem.
22:20 [As] they gather silver, and copper, 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 lay you on and melt you.
22:21 Yea, I will collect you, and blow upon you the fire of my
 wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
 ye be melted in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I
 Jehovah have poured out my fury upon you.
22:23 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not
 cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her
 like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they
 take away treasure and precious things; they increase her
 widows in the midst of her;
22:26 her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy
 things: they put no difference between the holy and profane,
 neither do they make known [the difference] between the unclean
 and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I
 am profaned among them.
22:27 Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening
 the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest
 gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered
 [mortar], seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying,
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land use oppression and practise
 robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the
 stranger wrongfully.
22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
 fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I
 should not destroy it; but I found none.
22:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon them; I will
 consume them in the fire of my wrath: their own way will I
 recompense upon their head, saith the Lord Jehovah.
23:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
23:3 And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed
 whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and
 there were handled the teats of their virginity.
23:4 And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her
 sister; and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters.
 As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
23:5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she
 lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
23:6 clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
 attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the
 choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she
 lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt; for in
 her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts
 of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.
23:9 Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the
 hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.
23:10 These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her
 daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name
 among women; and they executed judgment upon her.
23:11 And her sister Oholibah saw [this], and was more corrupt
 in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the
 whoredoms of her sister.
23:12 She lusted after the children of Asshur [her] neighbours,
 governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding
 upon horses, all of them attractive young men.
23:13 And I saw that she was defiled: both took one way.
23:14 And she increased her fornications; for she saw men
 portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed
 with vermilion,
23:15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans
 on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, [after] the
 likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of
 their nativity.
23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted
 after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
23:17 And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of
 love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too
 defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from
 them.
23:18 And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her
 nakedness; and my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul
 was alienated from her sister.
23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance
 the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the
 land of Egypt;
23:20 and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is [as]
 the flesh of asses, and whose issue is [as] the issue of
 horses.
23:21 And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in
 the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of
 thy youth.
23:22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold,
 I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is
 alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side.
23:23 The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and
 Shoa and Koa, all the children of Asshur with them; all of them
 attractive young men, governors and rulers, great lords and
 renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
23:24 And they shall come against thee [with] armour, chariots
 and wheels, and with an assemblage of peoples; they shall set
 themselves against thee [with] target, and shield, and helmet
 round about; and I will put judgment before them, and they
 shall judge thee according to their judgments.
23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall
 deal furiously with thee: they shall cut off thy nose and thine
 ears, and thy remnant shall fall by the sword; they shall take
 thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured
 by the fire.
23:26 They shall also strip the of thy garments, and take away
 thy fair jewels.
23:27 And I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
 whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt not
 lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
23:28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give thee
 over into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of
 them from whom thy soul is alienated.
23:29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take
 away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare; so
 that the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both
 thy lewdness and thy fornications.
23:30 These things shall be done unto thee, because thou hast
 gone a whoring after the nations, because thou hast defiled
 thyself with their idols.
23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; and I have
 given her cup into thy hand.
23:32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy
 sister's cup deep and large; thou shalt be for a laughing-stock
 and a derision, [for] it containeth much.
23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the
 cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister
 Samaria;
23:34 thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt
 gnaw the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I
 have spoken [it], saith the Lord Jehovah.
23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast
 forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou
 also thy lewdness and thy fornications.
23:36 And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge
 Oholah and Oholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations.
23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their
 hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery, and
 have also passed over unto them their children, whom they bore
 unto me, to be devoured.
23:38 Moreover this have they done unto me: in the same day have
 they defiled my sanctuary and profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 For when they had slaughtered their children unto their
 idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;
 and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
23:40 And furthermore, they sent for men to come from far, unto
 whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came: for whom thou
 didst wash thyself, paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thyself
 with ornaments;
23:41 and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared
 before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil.
23:42 And the voice of a multitude living carelessly was with
 her; and with people of the common sort were brought Sabeans
 from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon their hands,
 and a beautiful crown upon their heads.
23:43 And I said of her that was old in adulteries, Will she now
 commit her fornications, even she.
23:44 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish
 woman: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah the lewd
 women.
23:45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment
 of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed
 blood; for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
23:46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up an
 assemblage against them, and will give them to be driven hither
 and thither and spoiled.
23:47 And the assemblage shall stone them with stones, and
 despatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and
 their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
23:48 And I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, and
 all women shall receive instruction and shall not do according
 to your lewdness.
23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye
 shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I
 [am] the Lord Jehovah.
24:1 And in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of
 the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
24:2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, of this
 selfsame day: on this selfsame day the king of Babylon draws
 near to Jerusalem.
24:3 And propose a parable unto the rebellious house, and say
 unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set
 [it] on, and also pour water into it.
24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, every good piece, the
 thigh and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones:
24:5 take the choice of the flock; and also [put] a pile of wood
 under it, for the bones; make it boil well, and let the bones
 of it seethe therein.
24:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody
 city, to the pot whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not
 gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall
 upon it:
24:7 for her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the
 bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with
 dust.
24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to execute vengeance, I
 have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be
 covered.
24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody
 city! I also will make the pile great.
24:10 Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil thoroughly the
 flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
24:11 Then set it empty upon its coals, that it may be hot, and
 the brass of it may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten
 in it, [and] that its rust may be consumed.
24:12 She hath exhausted [her] labours, yet her great rust goeth
 not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire.
24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness, for I have purged thee, and
 thou art not pure. Thou shalt no more be purged from thy
 filthiness, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee.
24:14 I Jehovah have spoken [it]: it shall come to pass, and I
 will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, nor will
 I repent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings,
 shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
24:15 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of
 thine eyes with a stroke; yet thou shalt not mourn nor weep,
 neither shall thy tears run down.
24:17 Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy
 turban upon thee, and put thy sandals upon thy feet, and cover
 not the beard, and eat not the bread of men.
24:18 -- And I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even
 my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.
24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what
 these things are to us, which thou doest?
24:20 And I said to them, The word of Jehovah came unto me,
 saying,
24:21 Say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
 Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your
 strength, the desire of your eyes, and your soul's longing; and
 your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall
 fall by the sword.
24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover the
 beard, neither eat the bread of men;
24:23 and your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your
 sandals upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye
 shall waste away in your iniquities and moan one toward
 another.
24:24 Thus Ezekiel shall be unto you a sign; according to all
 that he hath done shall ye do: when it cometh, then ye shall
 know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.
24:25 And 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 whereunto they lift up their
 soul, their sons and their daughters,
24:26 that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee, to
 cause [thine] ears to hear [it]?
24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is
 escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb. So shalt
 thou be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah.
25:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and
 prophesy against them;
25:3 and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the
 Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou saidst,
 Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against
 the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the
 house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
25:4 therefore behold, I will give thee to the children of the
 east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in
 thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy
 fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.
25:5 And I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the
 children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall
 know that I [am] Jehovah.
25:6 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped
 the hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the
 despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;
25:7 therefore behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and
 will give thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee
 off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of
 the countries: I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I
 [am] Jehovah.
25:8 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir do say,
 Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations,
25:9 therefore behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
 cities, from his cities even to the last of them, the glory of
 the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kirjathaim,
25:10 unto the children of the east, with [the land of] the
 children of Ammon; and I will give it them for a possession,
 that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the
 nations:
25:11 and I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall
 know that I [am] Jehovah.
25:12 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom hath dealt
 against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath made
 himself very guilty, and revenged himself upon them,
25:13 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also stretch
 out my hand upon Edom; and will cut off man and beast from it;
 and I will make it desolate from Teman; and unto Dedan shall
 they fall by the sword.
25:14 And I will execute 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 Jehovah.
25:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have
 dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of
 soul, to destroy, from old hatred;
25:16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I stretch
 out my hands upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
 Kerethites, and cause the remnant of the sea-coast to perish.
25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious
 rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I shall
 lay my vengeance upon them.
26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first of
 the month, [that] the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
26:2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha,
 she is broken, the gate of the peoples! she is turned unto me:
 I shall be replenished [now] she is laid waste;
26:3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against
 thee, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against
 thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.
26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down
 her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a
 bare rock.
26:5 She shall be [a place] for the spreading of nets in the
 midst of the sea; for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord
 Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil for the nations.
26:6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain by
 the sword; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
26:7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring from
 the north, against Tyre, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, the
 king of kings, with horses, and with chariots, and with
 horsemen, and an assemblage, and much people.
26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field,
 and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound
 against thee, and lift up the target against thee;
26:9 and he shall set his engines of attack against thy walls,
 and with his spikes he shall break down thy towers.
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
 cover thee; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
 and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter
 through thy gates, as a city is entered into, wherein is made a
 breach.
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy
 streets; he shall slay thy people by the sword, and the pillars
 of thy strength shall go down to the ground.
26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey
 of thy wares; 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 waters.
26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the
 sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
26:14 And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be [a place]
 for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I
 Jehovah have spoken [it], saith the Lord Jehovah.
26:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Shall not the isles
 shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when
 the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
26:16 And all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
 thrones, and lay aside their robes, and put off their broidered
 garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling, they
 shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble [every] moment,
 and be astonied because of thee.
26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to
 thee, How hast thou perished, that wast inhabited from the
 seas, O renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, -- she and
 her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all them that
 dwell therein!
26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; and
 the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy
 departure.
26:19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a
 desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I
 bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters cover thee:
26:20 then will I bring thee down, with them that go down to the
 pit, to the people of old time, and will cause thee to dwell in
 the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with
 them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I
 will set glory in the land of the living.
26:21 And I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no
 [more]; and thou shalt be sought for, and shalt never be found
 again, for ever, saith the Lord Jehovah.
27:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying:
27:2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,
27:3 and say unto Tyre: O thou that art situate at the entries
 of the sea, and traffickest with the peoples in many isles,
 thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, Tyre, hast said, I am
 perfect in beauty.
27:4 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have
 perfected thy beauty.
27:5 They made all thy double boards of cypress-trees of Senir;
 they took cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan did they make thine oars; they made
 thy benches of ivory, inlaid in box-wood, out of the isles of
 Chittim.
27:7 Byssus with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, to
 serve thee for a banner; blue and purple from the isles of
 Elishah was thine awning.
27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy
 wise men, O Tyre, who were in thee, were thy pilots.
27:9 The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee
 repairing thy leaks; all the ships of the sea with their
 mariners were in thee, to barter with thee.
27:10 Persia and Lud and Phut were in thine army, thy men of
 war: they hanged shield and helmet in thee; they gave splendour
 to thee.
27:11 The children of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls
 round about, and the Gammadim were on thy towers: they hanged
 their shields upon thy walls round about; they made thy beauty
 perfect.
27:12 Tarshish dealt with thee by reason of the abundance of all
 substance; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they furnished thy
 markets.
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers: they
 bartered with thee the persons of men, and vessels of bronze.
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah furnished thy markets with
 horses, and horsemen, and mules.
27:15 The children of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles
 were the mart of thy hand: they rendered in payment horns of
 ivory, and ebony.
27:16 Syria dealt with thee for the multitude of thy handiworks:
 they traded in thy markets with carbuncles, purple, and
 broidered work, and fine linen, and corals, and rubies.
27:17 Judah and the land of Israel were thy traffickers: they
 bartered with thee wheat of Minnith, and sweet cakes, and
 honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18 Damascus dealt with thee because of the multitude of thy
 handiworks, by reason of the abundance of all substance, with
 wine of Helbon, and white wool.
27:19 Vedan and Javan of Uzal traded in thy markets: wrought
 iron, cassia, and calamus were in thy traffic.
27:20 Dedan was thy trafficker in precious riding-cloths.
27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of
 thy hand: in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these did they
 trade with thee.
27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were thy traffickers:
 they furnished thy markets with all the choice spices, and with
 all precious stones and gold.
27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba,
 Asshur, and Chilmad traded with thee:
27:24 these traded with thee in sumptuous clothes, in wrappings
 of blue and broidered work, and in chests full of variegated
 stuffs, bound with cords and made of cedar-wood, amongst thy
 merchandise.
27:25 The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy traffic;
 and thou wast replenished, and highly honoured, in the heart of
 the seas.
27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east
 wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
27:27 Thy substance, and thy markets, thy merchandise, thy
 mariners, and thy pilots, they that repair thy leaks, and they
 that barter with thee, and all thy men of war that are in thee,
 along with all thine assemblage which is in the midst of thee,
 shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall.
27:28 The open places shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy
 pilots.
27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, all the pilots
 of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand
 upon the land,
27:30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and
 shall cry bitterly; and they shall cast up dust upon their
 heads; they shall wallow themselves in ashes.
27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and
 gird themselves with sackcloth; and they shall weep for thee in
 bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
 thee, and lament over thee, [saying,] Who is like Tyre, like
 her that is destroyed in the midst of the sea?
27:33 When thy wares went forth over the seas, thou filledst
 many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
 abundance of thy substance and of thy merchandise.
27:34 In the time [when] thou art broken by the seas, in the
 depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thine assemblage
 in the midst of thee have fallen.
27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles are amazed at thee, and
 their kings are horribly afraid, [their] countenance is
 troubled.
27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art
 become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.
28:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the
 Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast
 said, I am a ∙god, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the heart of
 the seas, (and thou art a man, and not ∙God,) and thou settest
 thy heart as the heart of God:
28:3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is
 obscure for thee;
28:4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten
 thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
 treasures;
28:5 by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy
 riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.
28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast
 set thy heart as the heart of God,
28:7 therefore behold, 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 tarnish thy
 brightness.
28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die
 the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas.
28:9 Wilt thou then say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?
 but thou shalt be a man, and not ∙God, in the hand of him that
 pierceth thee.
28:10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised, by the
 hand of strangers: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
28:11 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre,
 and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, who
 sealest up the measure of perfection, full of wisdom and
 perfect in beauty,
28:13 thou wast in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone
 was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the
 chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the
 carbuncle, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of thy
 tambours and of thy pipes was in thee: in the day that thou
 wast created were they prepared.
28:14 Thou wast the anointed covering cherub, and I had set thee
 [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou didst walk
 up and down in the midst of stones of fire.
28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast
 created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
28:16 By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of
 thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast
 thee as profane from the mountain of God, and have destroyed
 thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
28:17 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast
 corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast
 thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they
 may behold thee.
28:18 By the multitude of thine iniquities, by the
 unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy
 sanctuaries: and I have brought forth a fire out of the midst
 of thee -- it hath consumed thee; and I have brought thee to
 ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold
 thee.
28:19 All they that know thee among the peoples shall be amazed
 at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any
 more.
28:20 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
28:21 Son of man, set thy face towards Zidon, and prophesy
 against it,
28:22 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against
 thee, Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and
 they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I shall have executed
 judgments in her, and shall be hallowed in her.
28:23 And I will send into her the pestilence, and blood in her
 streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, by the
 sword upon her on every side: and they shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah.
28:24 And there shall be no more a wounding sting for the house
 of Israel, nor any grieving thorn, among all that were round
 about them, that despised them: and they shall know that I [am]
 the Lord Jehovah.
28:25 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered
 the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are
 scattered, and shall be hallowed in them in the sight of the
 nations, then shall they dwell in their land which I have given
 to my servant Jacob.
28:26 They shall dwell in it in safety, and shall build houses
 and plant vineyards; and they shall dwell in safety, when I
 have executed judgments upon all those that despised them round
 about them: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah their God.
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], on the twelfth of
 the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
29:2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
 prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt;
29:3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
 against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that
 lieth in the midst of his rivers, which saith, My river is mine
 own, and I made it for myself.
29:4 And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish
 of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee
 up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy
 rivers shall stick unto thy scales;
29:5 and I will cast thee into the wilderness, thee and all the
 fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou
 shalt not be brought together nor gathered: I will give thee
 for meat to the beasts of the earth and to the fowl of the
 heavens.
29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
 Israel.
29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst give
 way and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon
 thee, thou didst break, and didst make all their loins to
 tremble.
29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring
 a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast from thee.
29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste:
 and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, because he saith, The
 river is mine, and I made it.
29:10 Therefore behold, I am against thee, and against thy
 rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt deserts of wasteness
 and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, even unto the border of
 Ethiopia.
29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor shall foot of
 beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited, forty years.
29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the
 midst of the countries that are desolated, and her cities shall
 be, in the midst of the cities that are laid waste, a
 desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among
 the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
29:13 Yet thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years
 will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were
 scattered;
29:14 and I will turn again the captivity of Egypt, and will
 cause them to return to the land of Pathros, into the land of
 their birth, and they shall there be a base kingdom.
29:15 It shall be the basest of kingdoms; neither shall it exalt
 itself any more above the nations; and I will diminish them, so
 that they shall no more rule over the nations.
29:16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of
 Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn after
 them: and they shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.
29:17 And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the
 first [month], on the first of the month, [that] the word of
 Jehovah came unto me, saying,
29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army
 to do hard service against Tyre; every head was made bald, and
 every shoulder was peeled: yet had he from Tyre no wages, nor
 his army, for the service that he had served against it.
29:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give
 the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
 shall carry away her multitude, and seize her spoil, and take
 her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
 wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel
 to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in
 the midst of them: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
30:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
 Howl ye, Alas for the day!
30:3 For the day is at hand, yea, the day of Jehovah is at hand,
 a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.
30:4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and there shall be
 anguish in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and
 they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
 be overthrown.
30:5 Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and
 Chub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall
 fall with them by the sword.
30:6 Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;
 and the pride of her strength shall come down: from Migdol to
 Syene shall they fall in her by the sword, saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
30:7 And they shall be desolated in the midst of the countries
 that are desolated, and her cities shall be in the midst of the
 cities that are wasted.
30:8 And they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have set a
 fire in Egypt, and all her helpers shall be broken.
30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships, to
 make careless Ethiopia afraid; and anguish shall come upon
 them, as in the day of Egypt: for behold, it cometh!
30:10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also make the
 multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
 of Babylon.
30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
 shall be brought to destroy the land; and they shall draw their
 swords against Egypt, and fill the land with slain.
30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the
 hand of the wicked; and I will make the land desolate, and all
 that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I Jehovah have
 spoken [it].
30:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the
 idols, and I will cause the images to cease out of Noph; and
 there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt; and I
 will put fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in
 Zoan, and will execute judgment in No.
30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt;
 and I will cut off the multitude of No.
30:16 And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great
 anguish, and No shall be rent asunder, and at Noph [there shall
 be] enemies in open day.
30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
 sword; and these shall go into captivity.
30:18 And at Tehaphnehes the day shall be darkened, when I break
 there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her strength shall
 cease in her; as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
 daughters shall go into captivity.
30:19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt; and they shall
 know that I [am] Jehovah.
30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
 [month], on the seventh of the month, the word of Jehovah came
 unto me, saying,
30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of
 Egypt; and behold, it shall not be bound up to apply remedies,
 to put a bandage to bind it, to make it strong to hold the
 sword.
30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
 against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the
 strong one, and that which was broken; and I will cause the
 sword to fall out of his hand.
30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
 will disperse them through the countries.
30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
 put my sword in his hand; and I will break Pharaoh's arms, so
 that he shall groan before him with the groanings of a
 deadly-wounded [man].
30:25 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
 the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I
 [am] Jehovah, when I have put my sword into the hand of the
 king of Babylon, and he shall have stretched it out upon the
 land of Egypt.
30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
 disperse them through the countries: and they shall know that I
 [am] Jehovah.
31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third
 [month], on the first of the month, [that] the word of Jehovah
 came unto me, saying,
31:2 Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
 multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
31:3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches
 and a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature: and his top was
 amidst the thick boughs.
31:4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high; its
 streams ran round about his plantation, and it sent out its
 rivulets unto all the trees of the field.
31:5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the
 field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became
 long, because of great waters, when he shot forth.
31:6 All the fowl of the heavens 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 the great
 nations.
31:7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his
 branches: because his root was by great waters.
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the
 cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were
 not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto
 him in his beauty.
31:9 I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and
 all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied
 him.
31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast
 lifted up thyself in stature, ... and he hath set his top
 amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his
 height,
31:11 I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the
 nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out
 for his wickedness.
31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him
 off and have left him; upon the mountains and in all the
 valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken in
 all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the
 earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
31:13 Upon his fallen [trunk] do all the fowl of the heavens
 dwell, and all the beasts of the field are upon his branches:
31:14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
 themselves in their stature, nor set their top amidst the thick
 boughs, and that none of them that drink water stand up in his
 height by himself; for they are all given over unto death in
 the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of
 men, with them that go down to the pit.
31:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down
 to Sheol, I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and
 I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were
 stayed; and I made Lebanon black for him, and all the trees of
 the field fainted for him.
31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when
 I cast him down to Sheol, with them that go down into the pit;
 and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all
 that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the
 earth.
31:17 They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that
 were slain with the sword, and [that were] his arm, that dwelt
 under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among
 the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be brought down with the
 trees of Eden, unto the lower parts of the earth; thou shalt
 lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain
 by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the
 Lord Jehovah.
32:1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth
 month, on the first of the month, that the word of Jehovah came
 unto me, saying,
32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of
 Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast like a young lion among the
 nations, and thou wast as a monster in the seas; and thou didst
 break forth in thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy
 feet, and fouledst their rivers.
32:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also spread out my net
 over thee with an assemblage of many peoples; and they shall
 bring thee up in my net.
32:4 And I will leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth
 upon the open field, and will cause all the fowl of the heavens
 to settle upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole
 earth with thee.
32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the
 valleys with the heap of thy [members];
32:6 and I will water with thy blood the land wherein thou
 swimmest, even to the mountains; and the water-courses shall be
 full of thee.
32:7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heavens,
 and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a
 cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
32:8 All the bright lights of the heavens will I make black over
 thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
32:9 And I will vex the heart of many peoples, when I bring [the
 news of] thy destruction among the nations, into the countries
 that thou hast not known.
32:10 And I will make many peoples amazed at thee, and their
 kings shall be horribly afraid at thee, when I brandish my
 sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, each
 one for his life, in the day of thy fall.
32:11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of
 Babylon shall come upon thee.
32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to
 fall: the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall
 spoil the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall
 be destroyed.
32:13 And I will destroy all the beasts thereof, from beside the
 great waters; and the foot of man shall not trouble them any
 more, nor shall the cloven hoofs of beasts trouble them.
32:14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their
 rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt a desolation, and the
 country shall be left desolate of all that was in it, when I
 have smitten all them that dwell therein, then shall they know
 that I [am] Jehovah.
32:16 It is a lamentation, and [thus] they shall lament her: the
 daughters of the nations shall say it in lamenting; they shall
 say it in lamenting over Egypt and over all her multitude,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
32:17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth
 of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
 down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the
 lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
32:19 Whom dost thou surpass in beauty? Go down, and be thou
 laid with the uncircumcised.
32:20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the
 sword. The sword hath been given: draw her out, and all her
 multitudes.
32:21 The strong among the mighty, with them that helped him,
 shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol: they are gone
 down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
32:22 There is Asshur and all his assemblage, his graves round
 about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
32:23 their graves are set in the sides of the pit, and his
 assemblage is round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen
 by the sword, -- who caused terror in the land of the living.
32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave,
 all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down
 uncircumcised unto the lower parts of the earth, who caused
 their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne
 their confusion with them that go down to the pit.
32:25 They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain, with
 all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of
 them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though their terror was
 caused in the land of the living; and they have borne their
 confusion with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the
 midst of them that are slain.
32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude, their
 graves round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by
 the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the
 living.
32:27 And they lie not with the mighty, [that are] fallen of the
 uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of
 war; and whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose
 iniquities are upon their bones, though they were the terror of
 the mighty in the land of the living.
32:28 Thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the
 uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the
 sword.
32:29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in
 their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword:
 they lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to
 the pit.
32:30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all
 the Zidonians, that are gone down with the slain -- ashamed of
 the terror which they caused through their might; and they lie
 uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear
 their confusion with them that go down to the pit.
32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all
 his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
32:32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living; and
 he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them
 that are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
33:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say
 unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people
 of the land take one man from among them all, and set him for
 their watchman:
33:3 if he see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the
 trumpet, and warn the people;
33:4 then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh
 not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood
 shall be upon his own head.
33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning;
 his blood is upon him: whereas had he taken warning, he would
 have delivered his soul.
33:6 But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the
 trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and
 take a person from among them, he is taken away in his
 iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
33:7 So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the
 house of Israel; and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth,
 and warn them from me.
33:8 When I say unto the wicked, Wicked [man], thou shalt
 certainly die; and thou speakest not to warn the wicked from
 his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his
 blood will I require at thy hand.
33:9 But if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and
 he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but
 thou hast delivered thy soul.
33:10 And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel, Thus
 ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us,
 and we waste away in them, how then should we live?
33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have
 no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked
 turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil
 ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
33:12 And 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; and 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 thereby in the day that he sinneth.
33:13 When I say to the righteous that he shall certainly live,
 and he trusteth to his righteousness and doeth what is wrong,
 none of his righteous acts shall be remembered; but in his
 unrighteousness which he hath done, in it shall he die.
33:14 And when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die,
 and he turneth from his sin, and doeth judgment and justice;
33:15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had
 taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, doing nothing
 that is wrong; he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
33:16 None of his sins which he hath committed shall be
 remembered against him: he hath done judgment and justice; he
 shall certainly live.
33:17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is
 not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and
 doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
33:19 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth
 judgment and justice, he shall live for these things.
33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of
 Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity,
 in the tenth [month], on the fifth of the month, that one who
 had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is
 smitten!
33:22 Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening,
 before he that had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth
 against his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was
 opened, and I was no more dumb.
33:23 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the
 land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited
 this land, and we are many: the land is given us for a
 possession.
33:25 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye
 eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols,
 and shed blood; and shall ye possess the land?
33:26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye
 defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the
 land?
33:27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: [As]
 I live, verily they that are in the waste places 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 are in the strongholds and
 in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
33:28 And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment,
 and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of
 Israel shall be desolated, so that none shall pass through.
33:29 And they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have made
 the land a desolation and an astonishment because of all their
 abominations which they have committed.
33:30 And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people
 keep talking of 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 Jehovah.
33:31 And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit
 before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they
 do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, [but]
 their heart goeth after their dishonest gain.
33:32 And behold, thou art unto them as a lovely song, a
 pleasant voice, and one that playeth well on an instrument; and
 they hear thy words, but they do them not.
33:33 And when this cometh to pass (behold, it will come), then
 shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
34:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
 prophesy; and say unto them, unto the shepherds, Thus saith the
 Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel that feed
 themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?
34:3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool; ye kill
 them that are fattened: [but] ye feed not the flock.
34:4 The weak have ye not strengthened, nor have ye healed the
 sick, and ye have not bound up [what was] broken, neither have
 ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye
 sought for that which was lost; but with harshness and with
 rigour have ye ruled over them.
34:5 And they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and
 they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were
 scattered.
34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every
 high hill, and my sheep have been scattered upon all the face
 of the earth, and there was none that searched, or that sought
 for them.
34:7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
34:8 [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because my
 sheep have been a prey, and my sheep have been meat to every
 beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my
 shepherds searched not for my flock, but the shepherds fed
 themselves, and fed not my flock,
34:9 -- therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah.
34:10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the
 shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause
 them to cease from feeding the flock: that the shepherds may
 feed themselves no more; and I will deliver my sheep from their
 mouth, that they may not be food for them.
34:11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold I, [even] I, will
 both search for my sheep, and tend them.
34:12 As a shepherd tendeth his flock in the day that he is
 among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep, and will
 deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered
 in the cloudy and dark day.
34:13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather
 them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land;
 and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the
 water-courses, and in all the habitable places of the country.
34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high
 mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie
 down in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed upon
 the mountains of Israel.
34:15 I will myself feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie
 down, saith the Lord Jehovah.
34:16 I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was
 driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen
 that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong:
 I will feed them with judgment.
34:17 And as for you, my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
 Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and
 the he-goats.
34:18 Is it too small a thing unto you to have eaten up the good
 pastures, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of
 your pastures; and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye
 must foul the rest with your feet?
34:19 And my sheep have to eat that which ye have trodden with
 your feet, and to drink that which ye have fouled with your
 feet.
34:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold,
 [it is] I, and I will judge between the fat sheep and the lean
 sheep.
34:21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push
 all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them
 abroad,
34:22 -- I will save my flock, that they may no more be a prey;
 and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall
 feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he
 shall be their shepherd.
34:24 And I Jehovah will be their God, and my servant David a
 prince in their midst: I Jehovah have spoken [it].
34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will
 cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall
 dwell in safety in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
 blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its
 season: there shall be showers of blessing.
34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
 earth shall yield its increase; and they shall be in safety in
 their land, and shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have
 broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the
 hand of those that kept them in servitude.
34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither
 shall the beast of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell
 in safety, and none shall make them afraid.
34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they
 shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear
 the ignominy of the nations any more.
34:30 And they shall know that I Jehovah their God [am] with
 them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith
 the Lord Jehovah.
34:31 And ye, my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men: I [am]
 your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
35:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
35:2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
 against it,
35:3 and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
 against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand upon
 thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.
35:4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a
 desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.
35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast given
 over the children of Israel to the power of the sword, in the
 time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
35:6 therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will
 certainly appoint thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee;
 since thou hast not hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
35:7 And I will make mount Seir a desolation and an
 astonishment, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him
 that returneth;
35:8 and I will fill his mountains with his slain. In thy hills,
 and in thy valleys, and in all thy water-courses shall they
 fall that are slain with the sword.
35:9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities
 shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
35:10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two
 countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas
 Jehovah was there:
35:11 therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will
 even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy,
 as thou hast done out of thy hatred against them; and I will
 make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.
35:12 And thou shalt know that I Jehovah have heard all thy
 reproaches, which thou hast uttered against the mountains of
 Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to
 devour.
35:13 And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your
 mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard
 [them].
35:14 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth
 rejoiceth, I will make thee a desolation.
35:15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
 Israel, because it was desolated, so will I do unto thee: thou
 shalt be a desolation, O mount Seir, and all Edom, the whole of
 it: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
36:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of
 Israel, and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.
36:2 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said
 against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are become ours
 in possession;
36:3 therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
 Because, yea, because they have made [you] desolate, and have
 swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession
 unto the remnant of the nations, and ye are taken up in the
 lips of talkers, and in the defaming of the people:
36:4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
 Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and
 to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, to the
 desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are
 become a prey and a derision to the remnant of the nations that
 are round about,
36:5 -- therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the
 fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the remnant of the
 nations, and against the whole of Edom, which have appointed my
 land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all
 [their] heart, with despite of soul, to plunder it by pillage.
36:6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say
 to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to
 the valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken
 in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the
 ignominy of the nations;
36:7 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up my
 hand, [saying,] Verily the nations that are about you, they
 shall bear their shame.
36:8 And ye mountains of Israel shall shoot forth your branches,
 and yield your fruit to my people Israel: for they are at hand
 to come.
36:9 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye
 shall be tilled and sown.
36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,
 the whole of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the
 waste places shall be builded.
36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall
 increase and bring forth fruit; and I will cause you to be
 inhabited as [in] your former times, yea, I will make it better
 than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
36:12 And 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
 children.
36:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because they say unto you,
 Thou devourest men, and hast bereaved thy nation,
36:14 therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave
 thy nation any more, saith the Lord Jehovah;
36:15 neither will I cause thee to hear the ignominy of the
 nations any more, and thou shalt not bear the reproach of the
 peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to fall
 any more, saith the Lord Jehovah.
36:16 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own
 land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their
 way was before me as the uncleanness of a woman in her
 separation.
36:18 And I poured out my fury upon them for the blood that they
 had shed upon the land, and because they had defiled it with
 their idols.
36:19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they were
 dispersed through the countries: according to their way and
 according to their doings I judged them.
36:20 And when they came to the nations whither they went, they
 profaned my holy name, when it was said of them, These are the
 people of Jehovah, and they are gone forth out of his land.
36:21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel
 had profaned among the nations whither they went.
36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
 Lord Jehovah: I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel,
 but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations
 whither ye went.
36:23 And I will hallow my great name, which was profaned among
 the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and
 the nations shall know that I [am] Jehovah, saith the Lord
 Jehovah, when I shall be hallowed in you before their eyes.
36:24 And I will take you from among the nations, and gather you
 out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own
 land.
36:25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
 clean: from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols will
 I cleanse you.
36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new
 spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of
 your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk
 in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them.
36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
 fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
36:29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses; and I
 will call for the corn and will multiply it, and lay no famine
 upon you.
36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the
 increase of the field, so that ye may receive no more the
 reproach of famine among the nations.
36:31 And ye shall remember your evil ways, and your doings
 which were not good, and shall loathe yourselves for your
 iniquities and for your abominations.
36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord Jehovah, be
 it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O
 house of Israel.
36:33 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I shall
 cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the
 cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.
36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a
 desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become
 like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
 cities [are] fortified [and] inhabited.
36:36 And the nations that shall be left round about you shall
 know that I Jehovah build the ruined places [and] plant that
 which was desolate: I Jehovah have spoken, and I will do [it].
36:37 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will yet for this be
 inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it unto them; I will
 increase them with men like a flock.
36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her set
 feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men:
 and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
37:1 The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and Jehovah carried me out
 in the Spirit, and set me down in the midst of a valley; and it
 was full of bones.
37:2 And he caused me to pass by them round about; and behold,
 there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were
 very dry.
37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, Shall these bones live?
 And I said, Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.
37:4 And he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say
 unto them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.
37:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I
 will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
37:6 And I will put 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] Jehovah.
37:7 And I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied,
 there was a noise, and behold a rustling, and the bones came
 together, bone to its bone.
37:8 And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh came up upon
 them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath
 in them.
37:9 And he said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son
 of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come
 from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain,
 that they may live.
37:10 And I prophesied as he had commanded me, and the breath
 came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet,
 an exceeding great army.
37:11 And 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!
37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
 Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come
 up out of your graves, O my people, and bring you into the land
 of Israel.
37:13 And ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I have opened
 your graves, and have caused you to come up out of your graves,
 O my people.
37:14 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I
 will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I
 Jehovah have spoken, and have done [it], saith Jehovah.
37:15 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
37:16 And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon
 it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel, his companions.
 And take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the
 stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.
37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they
 shall become one in thy hand.
37:18 And when the children of my people speak unto thee,
 saying, Wilt thou not declare unto us what thou meanest by
 these?
37:19 say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will
 take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and
 the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with
 this, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and
 they shall be one in my hand.
37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand
 before their eyes.
37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I
 will take the children of Israel from among the nations,
 whither they are gone, and will gather them from every side,
 and bring them into their own land:
37:22 and I will make them one nation in the land upon the
 mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:
 and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
 divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
37:23 And they shall not defile themselves any more with their
 idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their
 transgressions; and I will save them out of all their
 dwelling-places wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse
 them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
 shall have one shepherd: and they shall walk in mine
 ordinances, and keep my statutes, and do them.
37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto
 Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they
 shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their
 children's children for ever: and David my servant shall be
 their prince for ever.
37:26 And 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 ever.
37:27 And my tabernacle shall be over them; and I will be their
 God, and they shall be my people.
37:28 And the nations shall know that I Jehovah do hallow
 Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for
 ever.
38:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,
 the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against
 him,
38:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against
 thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and
 I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
 horsemen, all of them thoroughly equipped, a great assemblage
 with targets and shields, all of them handling swords:
38:5 Persia, Cush, and Phut with them, all of them with shield
 and helmet;
38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah from the
 uttermost north, and all his bands; -- many peoples with thee.
38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself thou, and all
 thine assemblage that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a
 guard unto them.
38:8 After many days shalt thou be visited; at the end of years
 thou shalt come into the land brought back from the sword [and]
 gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel
 which have been a perpetual waste: but it is brought forth out
 from the peoples, and they shall all of them be dwelling in
 safety.
38:9 And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou
 shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy
 bands, and many peoples with thee.
38:10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall even come to pass in
 that day that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt
 think an evil thought;
38:11 and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
 villages; I will come to them that are in quiet, that dwell in
 safety, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
 bars nor gates,
38:12 to seize a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thy hand
 against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against
 a people gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
 and goods, that dwell in the middle of the land.
38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all
 the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to
 seize a spoil? hast thou gathered thine assemblage to take a
 prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take cattle and goods,
 to seize a great spoil?
38:14 Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say unto Gog, Thus
 saith the Lord Jehovah: In that day when my people Israel
 dwelleth in safety, shalt thou not know [it]?
38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost
 north, thou and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon
 horses, a great assemblage and a mighty army.
38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people Israel as a cloud
 to cover the land -- it shall be at the end of days -- and I
 will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me,
 when I shall be hallowed in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
38:17 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou not he of whom I
 have spoken in old time through my servants the prophets of
 Israel, who prophesied in those days, for [many] years, that I
 would bring thee against them?
38:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog
 shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah,
 [that] my fury shall come up in my face;
38:19 for in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
 Verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land
 of Israel;
38:20 so that the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens,
 and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things which
 creep upon the earth, and all mankind that are upon the face of
 the earth shall shake at my presence; and the mountains shall
 be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall
 shall fall to the ground.
38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my
 mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be
 against his brother.
38:22 And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence
 and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands,
 and upon the many peoples that are with him, overflowing rain
 and great hailstones, fire and brimstone.
38:23 And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will
 be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that
 I [am] Jehovah.
39:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus
 saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,
 prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
39:2 and I will turn thee back, and lead thee, and will cause
 thee to come up from the uttermost north, and will bring thee
 upon the mountains of Israel.
39:3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will
 cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all
 thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee: I have given
 thee to be meat for the birds of prey of every wing, and to the
 beasts of the field.
39:5 Thou shalt fall on the open field; for I have spoken [it],
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell
 at ease in the isles: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
39:7 And my holy name will I make known in the midst of my
 people Israel; and I will not suffer my holy name to be
 profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I [am]
 Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.
39:8 Behold, it cometh, and shall be done, saith the Lord
 Jehovah. This is the day whereof I have spoken.
39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
 and shall kindle fire, and burn weapons, and shields, and
 targets, bows, and arrows, and hand-staves, and spears: and
 they shall make fires with them seven years.
39:10 And no wood shall be taken out of the field, neither cut
 down out of the forests; for they shall make fire with the
 weapons; and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and
 plunder those that plundered them, saith the Lord Jehovah.
39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give
 unto Gog a place there for burial in Israel, the valley of the
 passers-by to the east of the sea; and it shall stop [the way]
 of the passers-by; and there shall they bury Gog and all the
 multitude; and they shall call it, Valley of Hamon-Gog.
39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying
 them, that they may cleanse the land;
39:13 and all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it
 shall be to them for renown in the day that I shall be
 glorified, saith the Lord Jehovah.
39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment to go
 through the land, who, with the passers-by, shall bury those
 that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: at the
 end of seven months shall they make a search.
39:15 And the passers-by shall pass through the land, and when
 [any] seeth a man's bone, he shall set up a sign by it, till
 the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.
39:16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall
 they cleanse the land.
39:17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak
 unto the birds of every wing, and to every beast of the field,
 Gather yourselves together and come, assemble yourselves on
 every side to my sacrifice which I sacrifice for you, a great
 sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh,
 and drink blood.
39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood
 of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
 [and] of bullocks, all of them fatted beasts of Bashan.
39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and drink blood
 till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I sacrifice for you.
39:20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
 charioteers, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith
 the Lord Jehovah.
39:21 And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the
 nations shall see my judgment which I have executed, and my
 hand which I have laid upon them.
39:22 And the house of Israel shall know that I [am] Jehovah
 their God from that day and forward.
39:23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went
 into captivity for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful
 against me; and I hid my face from them, and gave them into the
 hand of their enemies, so that they fell all of them by the
 sword.
39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
 transgressions I did unto them, and I hid my face from them.
39:25 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Now will I bring
 again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole
 house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name:
39:26 and they shall bear their confusion, and all their
 unfaithfulness in which they have acted unfaithfully against
 me, when they shall dwell safely in their land, and none shall
 make them afraid;
39:27 when I have brought them again from the peoples, and
 gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am hallowed in
 them in the sight of many nations.
39:28 And they shall know that I [am] Jehovah their God, in that
 I caused them to be led into captivity among the nations, and
 have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of
 them any more there.
39:29 And I will not hide my face any more from them, for I
 shall have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith
 the Lord Jehovah.
40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning
 of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year
 after that the city was smitten, on that same day the hand of
 Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither.
40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of
 Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain; and upon it was
 as the building of a city, on the south.
40:3 And he brought me thither, and behold, there was a man
 whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a
 flax-cord in his hand, and a measuring-reed; and he stood in
 the gate.
40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine
 eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that
 I shall shew thee; for in order that it might be shewn unto
 thee art thou brought hither. Declare to the house of Israel
 all that thou seest.
40:5 And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house
 round about, and in the man's hand a measuring-reed of six
 cubits, [each] of one cubit and a hand breadth. And he measured
 the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one
 reed.
40:6 And he came to the gate which looked toward the east, and
 went up its steps; and he measured the threshold of the gate,
 one reed broad; and the other threshold one reed broad.
40:7 And [each] chamber was one reed long and one reed broad;
 and between the chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of
 the gate, beside the porch of the gate within, was one reed.
40:8 And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.
40:9 And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and
 the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was
 inward.
40:10 And the chambers of the gate which was toward the east
 were three on this side and three on that side: they three were
 of one measure; and the posts on this side and on that side had
 one measure.
40:11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
 cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
40:12 And there was a border before the chambers of one cubit,
 and a border of one cubit on the other side; and the chambers
 were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
40:13 And he measured the gate from the roof of [one] chamber to
 the roof [of the other], a breadth of five and twenty cubits,
 entry opposite entry.
40:14 And he made posts, sixty cubits, and by the post was the
 court of the gate round about.
40:15 And from the front of the gate of the entrance unto the
 front of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
40:16 And there were closed windows to the chambers, and to
 their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the
 projections; and the windows round about were inward; and upon
 [each] post were palm-trees.
40:17 And he brought me into the outer court, and behold, there
 were cells, and a pavement made for the court round about:
 thirty cells were upon the pavement.
40:18 And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answering
 to the length of the gates, [namely] the lower pavement.
40:19 And he measured the breadth from the front of the lower
 gate unto the front of the inner court outside, a hundred
 cubits eastward and northward.
40:20 And the gate of the outer court, that looked toward the
 north, he measured its length and its breadth.
40:21 And its chambers were three on this side and three on that
 side; and its posts and its projections were according to the
 measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and
 breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:22 And its windows, and its projections, and its palm-trees
 were according to the measure of the gate that looked toward
 the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the
 projections thereof were before them.
40:23 And the gate of the inner court was opposite to the gate
 toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from
 gate to gate a hundred cubits.
40:24 And he brought me toward the south: and behold, there was
 a gate toward the south; and he measured its posts and its
 projections according to these measures.
40:25 And there were windows to it and to its projections round
 about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the
 breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:26 And there were seven steps to go up to it; and its
 projections were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on
 this side and one on that side, upon its posts.
40:27 And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south;
 and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred
 cubits.
40:28 And he brought me into the inner court by the south gate;
 and he measured the south gate according to these measures:
40:29 and its chambers, and its posts, and its projections,
 according to these measures; and there were windows to it and
 to its projections round about: the length was fifty cubits,
 and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
40:30 And there were projections round about, twenty-five cubits
 long, and five cubits broad.
40:31 And its projections were toward the outer court; and there
 were palm-trees upon its posts: and its ascent was [by] eight
 steps.
40:32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east;
 and he measured the gate according to these measures:
40:33 and its chambers, and its posts, and its projections,
 according to these measures; and there were windows to it and
 to its projections round about: the length was fifty cubits,
 and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
40:34 And its projections were toward the outer court; and there
 were palm-trees upon its posts on this side and on that side:
 and its ascent was [by] eight steps.
40:35 And he brought me to the north gate, and he measured [it]
 according to these measures:
40:36 its chambers, its posts, and its projections; and there
 were windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits,
 and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
40:37 And its posts were toward the outer court; and there were
 palm-trees upon its posts, on this side and on that side: and
 its ascent was [by] eight steps.
40:38 And there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the
 gates; there they rinsed the burnt-offering.
40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side,
 and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering
 and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.
40:40 And at the side without, at the ascent to the entry of the
 north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was
 at the porch of the gate, were two tables:
40:41 four tables on this side, and four tables on that side, by
 the side of the gate, -- eight tables, whereon they slew [the
 sacrifice],
40:42 -- and at the ascent, four tables of hewn stone, of a
 cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one
 cubit high; whereon also they laid the instruments with which
 they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.
40:43 And the double hooks of a hand breadth were fastened round
 about within; and upon the tables [they put] the flesh of the
 offering.
40:44 And outside the inner gate were two cells in the inner
 court, one at the side of the north gate, and its front towards
 the south; the other was at the side of the south gate, the
 front towards the north.
40:45 And he said unto me, This cell whose front is towards the
 south is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the
 house.
40:46 And the cell whose front is toward the north is for the
 priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the
 sons of Zadok, those who, from among the sons of Levi, approach
 unto Jehovah to minister unto him.
40:47 And he measured the court, the length a hundred cubits,
 and the breadth a hundred cubits, four square: and the altar
 was before the house.
40:48 And he brought me to the porch of the house; and he
 measured the post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and
 five cubits on that side; and the breadth of the gate, three
 cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
 eleven cubits, even by the steps whereby they went up to it;
 and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and one
 on that side.
41:1 And he brought me to the temple; and he measured the posts,
 six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the
 other side, the breadth of the tent.
41:2 And the breadth of the entry was ten cubits, and the sides
 of the entry were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on
 that side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the
 breadth, twenty cubits.
41:3 And he went inwards, and measured the post of the entry,
 two cubits; and the entry, six cubits; and the breadth of the
 entry, seven cubits.
41:4 And he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth,
 twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is
 the most holy [place].
41:5 And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
 breadth of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the
 house on every side.
41:6 And the side-chambers were three, chamber over chamber, and
 thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which the house
 had for the side-chambers round about, that they might have
 hold; but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
41:7 And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it
 went round about [the house] increasing upward; for the
 surrounding of the house increased upward round about the
 house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended
 [from] the lower [story] to the upper, by the middle one.
41:8 And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the
 foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to
 the joint.
41:9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers
 without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the
 building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.
41:10 And between the cells [and the house] was a width of
 twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
41:11 And the entry of the side-chambers was toward what was
 left free, one entry toward the north, and one entry toward the
 south; and the width of the space left free was five cubits
 round about.
41:12 And 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 its length
 ninety cubits.
41:13 And he measured the house: the length a hundred cubits;
 and the separate place, and the building, and its walls, the
 length a hundred cubits;
41:14 and the breadth of the front of the house, and of the
 separate places toward the east, a hundred cubits.
41:15 And he measured the length of the building before the
 separate place, which was at the back of it, with its galleries
 on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits; and
 the inner temple, and the porches of the court.
41:16 The thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries
 round about the three of them (opposite the thresholds it was
 wainscoted with wood round about, and from the ground up to the
 windows, and the windows were covered),
41:17 [and] above, over the entry, even unto the inner house,
 and without, and by all the wall round about, within and
 without, [all was] by measure.
41:18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees, and a
 palm-tree was between cherub and cherub; and the cherub had two
 faces:
41:19 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: [so] was it made upon all the house round about.
41:20 From the ground unto above the entry were the cherubim and
 the palm-trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.
41:21 As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and the
 front of the sanctuary had the same appearance.
41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length
 two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls were
 of wood. And he said unto me, This is the table which is before
 Jehovah.
41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
41:24 And the doors had two leaves, two turning-leaves: two for
 the one door, and two leaves for the other.
41:25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
 cherubim and palm-trees, as there were made upon the walls; and
 there was a wooden portal in front of the porch without,
41:26 and closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on
 the other side, on the sides of the porch and the side chambers
 of the house and the portals.
42:1 And he brought me forth into the outer court, the way
 toward the north; and he brought me to the cells that were over
 against the separate place and which were over against the
 building, toward the north,
42:2 before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on
 the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
42:3 over against the twenty [cubits] that pertained to the
 inner court, and over against the pavement that pertained to
 the outer court; there was gallery against gallery in the third
 [story];
42:4 and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth,
 [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were
 toward the north.
42:5 And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on
 them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of
 the building.
42:6 For they were in three [stories], but had not pillars as
 the pillars of the courts; therefore [the third story] was
 straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the
 ground.
42:7 And the wall that was without, answering to the cells,
 toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length
 was fifty cubits:
42:8 for the length of the cells that were against the outer
 court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a
 hundred cubits.
42:9 And under these cells was the entry from the east, as one
 goeth into them from the outer court.
42:10 In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south,
 before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;
42:11 and a passage before them, like the appearance of the
 cells that were toward the north, according to their length,
 according to their breadth and all their goings out, and
 according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
42:12 And according to the doors of the cells that were toward
 the south there was a door at the head of the way, the way
 directly before the corresponding wall toward the east as one
 entereth into them.
42:13 And he said unto me, The north cells [and] the south
 cells, which are before the separate place, they are holy
 cells, where the priests that come near unto Jehovah shall eat
 the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy
 things, both the oblation and the sin-offering and the
 trespass-offering: for the place is holy.
42:14 When the priests enter in, they shall not go forth from
 the sanctuary into the outer court, but there they shall lay
 their garments wherein they minister, for they are holy; and
 they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that
 which is for the people.
42:15 And when he had made an end of measuring the inner house,
 he brought me forth toward the gate whose front was toward the
 east, and measured [the enclosure] round about.
42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five
 hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
42:17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
 measuring-reed round about.
42:18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the
 measuring-reed.
42:19 He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five
 hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.
42:20 He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall round
 about, five hundred long, and five hundred broad, to make a
 separation between that which was holy and that which was
 common.
43:1 And he brought me unto the gate, the gate which looked
 toward the east.
43:2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the
 way of the east; and his voice was like the voice of many
 waters; and the earth was lit up with his glory.
43:3 And the appearance of the vision that I saw was according
 to the vision that I had seen when I came to destroy the city;
 and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river
 Chebar: and I fell upon my face.
43:4 And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of
 the gate whose front was toward the east.
43:5 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner
 court; and behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
43:6 And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a
 man was standing by me.
43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] 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 the
 house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they nor
 their kings, with their fornication, and with the carcases of
 their kings [in] their high places,
43:8 in that they set their threshold by my threshold, and their
 post by my post, and [there was only] a wall between me and
 them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations
 which they committed; and I consumed them in mine anger.
43:9 Now let them put away their fornication, and the carcases
 of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
 them for ever.
43:10 Thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel,
 that they may be confounded at their iniquities; and let them
 measure the pattern.
43:11 And if they be confounded at all that they have done, make
 known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its
 goings out, and its comings in, and all its forms, and all its
 statutes, yea, 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 statutes thereof, and do them.
43:12 This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain
 all its border round about is most holy. Behold, this is the
 law of the house.
43:13 And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: the
 cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth. The bottom was a cubit [in
 height] and the breadth a cubit, and its border on the edge
 thereof round about, one span: and this was the base of the
 altar.
43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower settle
 was two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the small
 settle to the great settle, four cubits, and the breadth a
 cubit.
43:15 And the upper altar was four cubits; and from the hearth
 of ∙God and upward were four horns.
43:16 And the hearth of ∙God was twelve [cubits] long, by twelve
 broad, square in the four sides thereof.
43:17 And the settle was fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen
 broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it, half
 a cubit; and the bottom thereof a cubit round about: and its
 steps looked toward the east.
43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord
 Jehovah: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when
 they shall make it, to offer up burnt-offerings thereon, and to
 sprinkle blood thereon.
43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of
 the seed of Zadok, who come near unto me, to minister unto me,
 saith the Lord Jehovah, a young bullock for a sin-offering.
43:20 And thou shalt take of its blood, and put it on the four
 horns thereof, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon
 the border round about: so shalt thou purge and make atonement
 for it.
43:21 And thou shalt take the bullock of the sin-offering, and
 it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside
 the sanctuary.
43:22 And on the second day thou shalt present a he-goat without
 blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall purge the altar, as
 they purged it with the bullock.
43:23 When thou hast ended purging it, thou shalt present a
 young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock
 without blemish;
43:24 and thou shalt present them before Jehovah; and the
 priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up
 for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.
43:25 Seven days shalt thou offer daily a goat for a
 sin-offering; they shall also offer a young bullock, and a ram
 out of the flock without blemish.
43:26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and
 purify it, and consecrate it.
43:27 And when these days are ended, it shall be that upon the
 eighth day and onwards the priests shall offer your
 burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I
 will accept you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
44:1 And he brought me back toward the outer gate of the
 sanctuary which looked toward the east; and it was shut.
44:2 And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it shall
 not be opened, and no one shall enter in by it: for Jehovah,
 the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; and it shall be shut.
44:3 As for the prince, he, the prince, shall sit in it to eat
 bread before Jehovah: he shall enter by the way of the porch of
 the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
44:4 And he brought me the way of the north gate before the
 house; and I beheld, and lo, the glory of Jehovah filled the
 house of Jehovah: and I fell upon my face.
44:5 And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, apply thy heart, and
 behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say
 unto thee concerning all the statutes of the house of Jehovah,
 and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the
 house, with every going forth of the sanctuary;
44:6 and say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus
 saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you of all your
 abominations, O house of Israel,
44:7 in that ye have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart
 and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane
 it, [even] my house, when ye offered my bread, the fat and the
 blood; and they have broken my covenant besides all your
 abominations.
44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things, but have
 set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
44:9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: No stranger, uncircumcised in
 heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my
 sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of
 Israel.
44:10 But the Levites who went away far from me, when Israel
 went astray, going astray from me after their idols, they shall
 even bear their iniquity;
44:11 but they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having
 oversight at the gates of the house, and doing the service of
 the house: they shall slaughter the burnt-offering and the
 sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to
 minister unto them.
44:12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and
 were unto the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity;
 therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord
 Jehovah, that they shall bear their iniquity.
44:13 And they shall not draw near unto me, to do the office of
 a priest unto me, nor to draw near to any of my holy things,
 [even] to the most holy; but they shall bear their confusion,
 and their abominations which they have committed.
44:14 And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house,
 for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done
 therein.
44:15 But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept
 the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went
 astray from me, they shall approach unto me to minister unto
 me, and they shall stand before me to present unto me the fat
 and the blood, saith the Lord Jehovah.
44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall
 approach unto my table, to minister unto me, and they shall
 keep my charge.
44:17 And it shall come to pass 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, when they minister in the
 gates of the inner court, and towards the house.
44:18 They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall
 have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird on
 anything that causeth sweat.
44:19 And when they go forth into the outer court, into the
 outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments
 wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy cells; and
 they shall put on other garments, that they may not hallow the
 people with their garments.
44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their
 locks to grow long: they shall duly poll their heads.
44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into
 the inner court.
44:22 And they shall not 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 is the widow of a priest.
44:23 And they shall teach my people [the difference] between
 holy and profane, and cause them to discern between unclean and
 clean.
44:24 And in controversy they shall stand to judge: they shall
 judge it according to my judgments; and they shall keep my laws
 and my statutes in all my solemnities; and they shall hallow my
 sabbaths.
44:25 And they shall come at no dead person to become unclean;
 but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for
 brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may
 become unclean.
44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall count unto him seven
 days.
44:27 And on the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the
 inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall present his
 sin-offering, saith the Lord Jehovah.
44:28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance; I am their
 inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I
 am their possession.
44:29 They shall eat the oblation and the sin-offering and the
 trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be
 theirs.
44:30 And the first of all the first-fruits of every [kind], and
 every heave-offering of every [kind], of all your
 heave-offerings, shall be for the priests; ye shall also give
 unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the
 blessing to rest on thy house.
44:31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of
 itself, or of that which is torn, whether of fowl or of beast.
45:1 And when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance,
 ye shall offer a heave-offering unto Jehovah, a holy portion of
 the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty
 thousand [cubits], and the breadth ten thousand. This shall be
 holy in all the borders thereof round about.
45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred
 [reeds] by five hundred, square round about; and fifty cubits
 round about for the suburbs thereof.
45:3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five
 and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand; and in it
 shall be the sanctuary, the holy of holies.
45:4 This is the holy [portion] of the land; it shall be for the
 priests who do the service of the sanctuary, who draw near to
 serve Jehovah, and it shall be a place for their houses, and a
 holy place for the sanctuary.
45:5 And [a space of] five and twenty thousand in length, and
 ten thousand in breadth, shall the Levites, who do the service
 of the house, have for themselves, for a possession, for their
 habitations.
45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
 thousand in breadth, and five and twenty thousand in length,
 alongside of the holy heave-offering: it shall be for the whole
 house of Israel.
45:7 And the prince shall have [his portion] on the one side and
 on the other side of the holy heave-offering and of the
 possession of the city, over against the holy heave-offering,
 and over against the possession of the city, from the west side
 westward, and from the east side eastward; and in length
 answering to one of the portions [of the tribes] from the west
 border unto the east border.
45:8 As land shall it be his for a possession in Israel; and my
 princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give
 the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
45:9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, princes of
 Israel! Put away violence and spoil, and execute judgment and
 justice; take off your exactions from my people, saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
 bath.
45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that
 the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah
 the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be
 according to the homer.
45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
 five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
45:13 This is the heave-offering which ye shall offer: the sixth
 part of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the
 sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of barley;
45:14 and the set portion of oil, by the bath of oil, the tenth
 part of a bath out of a cor, [which is] a homer of ten baths,
 for ten baths are a homer;
45:15 and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, from
 the well-watered pastures of Israel; -- for an oblation, and
 for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make
 atonement for them, saith the Lord Jehovah.
45:16 All the people of the land shall be [held] to this
 heave-offering for the prince in Israel.
45:17 And it shall be the prince's part [to supply] the
 burnt-offerings, and the oblation, and the drink-offering, at
 the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all
 the solemnities of the house of Israel: it is he that shall
 prepare the sin-offering, and the oblation, and the
 burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for
 the house of Israel.
45:18 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the first [month], on the
 first of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock, without
 blemish, and thou shalt purge the sanctuary.
45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the
 sin-offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon
 the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts
 of the gate of the inner court.
45:20 So thou shalt do also on the seventh of the month for
 every one that erreth, and for the simple; and ye shall make
 atonement for the house.
45:21 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month,
 ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days: unleavened
 bread shall be eaten.
45:22 And upon that day shall the prince offer for himself and
 for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.
45:23 And the seven days of the feast he shall offer a
 burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams
 without blemish daily for the seven days; and a he-goat daily
 for a sin-offering.
45:24 And he shall offer an oblation of an ephah for a bullock,
 and an ephah for a ram; and oil, a hin for an ephah.
45:25 In the seventh [month], on the fifteenth day of the month,
 at the feast, shall he do the like seven days, according to the
 sin-offering, according to the burnt-offering, and according to
 the oblation, and according to the oil.
46:1 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court
 that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six
 working-days; but on the sabbath-day it shall be opened, and on
 the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of
 [that] gate from without, and shall stand by the post of the
 gate, and the priests shall offer his burnt-offering and his
 peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the
 gate, and shall go forth: but the gate shall not be shut until
 the evening.
46:3 And the people of the land shall worship at the door of
 this gate before Jehovah on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
46:4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall present unto
 Jehovah on the sabbath-day shall be six lambs without blemish,
 and a ram without blemish.
46:5 And the oblation shall be an ephah for a ram, and the
 oblation for the lambs as he shall be able to give; and oil, a
 hin for an ephah.
46:6 And on the day of the new moon, a young bullock without
 blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without
 blemish.
46:7 And he shall offer an oblation, an ephah for the bullock,
 and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according to what
 his hand may attain unto; and oil, a hin for an ephah.
46:8 And when the prince cometh in, he shall come in by the way
 of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by the way
 thereof.
46:9 And when the people of the land come in before Jehovah in
 the set feasts, he that cometh in by the way of the north gate
 to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he
 that cometh in by the way of the south gate shall go out by the
 way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the
 gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.
46:10 And the prince shall come in in the midst of them, when
 they come in; and when they go out, they shall go out
 [together].
46:11 And on the feast-days, and in the solemnities, the
 oblation shall be an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a
 ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give; and oil, a hin
 for an ephah.
46:12 And when the prince shall offer a voluntary burnt-offering
 or voluntary peace-offerings unto Jehovah, the gate that
 looketh toward the east shall be opened for him and he shall
 offer his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings as he did on
 the sabbath-day, and he shall go out again, and the gate shall
 be shut after he hath gone out.
46:13 And thou shalt daily offer a burnt-offering unto Jehovah,
 of a yearling-lamb without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
 morning by morning.
46:14 And thou shalt prepare an oblation with it every morning,
 the sixth part of an ephah, and of oil the third part of a hin,
 to moisten the fine flour: an oblation unto Jehovah continually
 by a perpetual ordinance.
46:15 They shall offer the lamb, and the oblation, and the oil,
 every morning for a continual burnt-offering.
46:16 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift
 unto any of his sons, it shall be that one's inheritance, for
 his sons: it shall be their possession by inheritance.
46:17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
 servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; and it
 shall return to the prince: to his sons alone shall his
 inheritance remain.
46:18 And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance,
 to thrust them by oppression out of their possession: he shall
 give his sons an inheritance out of his own possession: that my
 people be not scattered every one from his possession.
46:19 Then he brought me through the passage which was at the
 side of the gate, into the holy cells which were for the
 priests, which looked toward the north; and behold, a place was
 there at the end westward.
46:20 And he said unto me, This is the place where the priests
 shall boil the trespass-offering, and the sin-offering, [and]
 where they shall bake the oblation, that they bring them not
 out into the outer court, so as to hallow the people.
46:21 And he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused
 me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in
 every corner of the court there was a court.
46:22 In the four corners of the court there were enclosed
 courts, forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corner
 courts were of one measure.
46:23 And there was a row [of building] round about in them,
 round about those four, and it was made with boiling places
 under the rows round about.
46:24 And he said unto me, These are the boiling-houses, where
 those who do the service of the house shall boil the sacrifice
 of the people.
47:1 And he brought me back to the door of the house; and
 behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
 eastward: for the front of the house was eastward. And the
 waters came down from under, from the right side of the house,
 south of the altar.
47:2 And he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and
 led me round outside unto the outer gate towards [the gate]
 that looketh eastward; and behold, waters ran out on the right
 side.
47:3 When the man went forth eastward, a line was in his hand;
 and he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass
 through the waters: the waters were to the ankles.
47:4 And he measured a thousand [cubits], and caused me to pass
 through the waters: the waters were to the knees. And he
 measured a thousand and caused me to pass through: the waters
 were to the loins.
47:5 And he measured a thousand: it was a river that I could not
 pass through, for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a
 river that could not be passed through.
47:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]? And
 he led me, and brought me back to the bank of the river.
47:7 When I returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very
 many trees on the one side and on the other.
47:8 And he said unto me, These waters issue out toward the east
 district, and go down into the plain, and go into the sea; when
 they are brought forth into the sea, the waters [thereof] shall
 be healed.
47:9 And it shall come to pass that every living thing which
 moveth, whithersoever the double river shall come, shall live.
 And there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these
 waters shall come thither, and [the waters of the sea] shall be
 healed; and everything shall live whither the river cometh.
47:10 And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand upon
 it; from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be [a place] to
 spread forth nets: their fish shall be according to their
 kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
47:11 But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they
 shall be given up to salt.
47:12 And by the river, upon its bank, on the one side and on
 the other, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not
 fade, nor their fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit
 every month, for its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and the
 fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for
 medicine.
47:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This shall be the border
 whereby ye shall allot the land as inheritance according to the
 twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.
47:14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another, [the
 land] concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it unto your
 fathers; and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.
47:15 And this shall be the border of the land: toward the north
 side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to
 Zedad,
47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of
 Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by
 the border of Hauran.
47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the
 border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of
 Hamath: this is the north side.
47:18 -- And on the east side ye shall measure between Hauran
 and Damascus, and Gilead and the land of Israel [by] the
 Jordan, from the border unto the east sea: this is the east
 side.
47:19 -- And the south side southward, from Tamar to the waters
 of Meribah-Kadesh, by the torrent, unto the great sea: this is
 the south side southward.
47:20 -- And the west side shall be the great sea from the
 border, as far as over against the entering into Hamath: this
 is the west side.
47:21 And ye shall divide this land unto you according to the
 tribes of Israel.
47:22 And it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot
 for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn
 among you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall
 be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel: with
 you shall they draw by lot inheritance among the tribes of
 Israel.
47:23 And it shall come to pass that in the tribe in which the
 stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give [him] his inheritance,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
48:1 And these are the names of the tribes: From the north end
 along the way of Hethlon, as one entereth into Hamath,
 Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward unto near Hamath
 -- the east and west side [belonging] to him -- shall Dan have
 one [portion].
48:2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west
 side, Asher one.
48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto
 the west side, Naphtali one.
48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the
 west side, Manasseh one.
48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the
 west side, Ephraim one.
48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto
 the west side, Reuben one.
48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the
 west side, Judah one.
48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the
 west side, shall be the heave-offering that ye shall offer,
 five and twenty thousand [cubits] in breadth, and in length as
 one of the parts from the east side unto the west side: and the
 sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
48:9 The heave-offering that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall
 be five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
 breadth.
48:10 And for them, for the priests, shall be the holy
 heave-offering, toward the north five and twenty thousand, and
 toward the west the breadth ten thousand, and toward the east
 the breadth ten thousand, and toward the south the length five
 and twenty thousand: and the sanctuary of Jehovah shall be in
 the midst of it.
48:11 [It shall be] for the priests that are hallowed of the
 sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and went not astray when the
 children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
48:12 And this offering heaved from the heave-offering of the
 land shall be unto them a thing most holy, by the border of the
 Levites.
48:13 And answering to the border of the priests, the Levites
 shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand
 in breadth: the whole length shall be five and twenty thousand,
 and the breadth ten thousand.
48:14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor
 alienate the first-fruits of the land: for it is holy unto
 Jehovah.
48:15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over
 against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a common [place]
 for the city, for dwellings and for suburbs: and the city shall
 be in the midst of it.
48:16 And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side
 four thousand and five hundred [cubits], and the south side
 four thousand and five hundred, and the east side four thousand
 and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five
 hundred.
48:17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two
 hundred and fifty [cubits], and toward the south two hundred
 and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and
 toward the west two hundred and fifty.
48:18 And the residue in length, alongside the holy
 heave-offering, shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand
 westward: it shall be alongside the holy heave-offering; and
 the increase thereof shall be for the support of them that
 serve the city.
48:19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the
 tribes of Israel.
48:20 The whole heave-offering shall be five and twenty thousand
 by five and twenty thousand; ye shall offer the holy
 heave-offering foursquare with the possession of the city.
48:21 And the rest shall be for the prince, on the one side and
 on the other of the holy heave-offering and of the possession
 of the city, in front of the five and twenty thousand of the
 heave-offering toward the east border, and westward in front of
 the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, answering
 to the [other] portions: it shall be for the prince; and the
 holy heave-offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in
 the midst of it.
48:22 And from the possession of the Levites and from the
 possession of the city, being in the midst of that which shall
 be the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of
 Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
48:23 And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side unto
 the west side, Benjamin one [portion].
48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the
 west side, Simeon one.
48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the
 west side, Issachar one.
48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the
 west side, Zebulun one.
48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the
 west side, Gad one.
48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the
 border shall be from Tamar [to] the waters of Meribah-Kadesh,
 by the torrent, unto the great sea.
48:29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the
 tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
48:30 And these are the goings out of the city. On the north
 side, four thousand and five hundred [cubits] by measure.
48:31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
 tribes of Israel: three gates northward: the gate of Reuben,
 one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred, and
 three gates: the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin,
 one; the gate of Dan, one.
48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred
 [cubits] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one;
 the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, [and]
 their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher,
 one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
48:35 Round about it was eighteen thousand [cubits]; and the
 name of the city from that day, Jehovah is there.