SPACE 1/SPACE - Library 1 - Volume 1.iso/misc~1/343/ezekiel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                        EZEKIEL 15
 15:1  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 15:2  Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree,
[or than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
 15:3  Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will
[men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
 15:4  Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire
devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned.
Is it meet for [any] work?
 15:5  Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how
much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire
hath devoured it, and it is burned?
 15:6  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree
among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire
for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 15:7  And I will set my face against them; they shall go out
from [one] fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye
shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against
them.
 15:8  And I will make the land desolate, because they have
committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

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

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

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

                        EZEKIEL 19
 19:1  Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel,
 19:2  And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down
among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
 19:3  And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young
lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
 19:4  The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their
pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
 19:5  Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was
lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a
young lion.
 19:6  And he went up and down among the lions, he became a
young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.
 19:7  And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste
their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness
thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
 19:8  Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their
pit.
 19:9  And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to
the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his
voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
 19:10  Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by
the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of
many waters.
 19:11  And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that
bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick
branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of
her branches.
 19:12  But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to
the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong
rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
 19:13  And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry
and thirsty ground.
 19:14  And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, [which]
hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be]
a sceptre to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation.

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

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

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

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

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

                        EZEKIEL 25
 25:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 25:2  Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and
prophesy against them;
 25:3  And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against
my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of
Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah,
when they went into captivity;
 25:4  Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the
east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in
thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy
fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
 25:5  And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the
Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I
[am] the LORD.
 25:6  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped
[thine] hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart
with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
 25:7  Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon
thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I
will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to
perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou
shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
 25:8  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do
say, Behold, the house of Judah [is] like unto all the heathen;
 25:9  Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
cities, from his cities [which are] on his frontiers, the glory
of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
 25:10  Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will
give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be
remembered among the nations.
 25:11  And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD.
 25:12  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt
against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
 25:13  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch
out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from
it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan
shall fall by the sword.
 25:14  And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my
people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine
anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my
vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
 25:15  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have
dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful
heart, to destroy [it] for the old hatred;
 25:16  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off
the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
 25:17  And I will execute great vengeance upon them with
furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when
I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

                        EZEKIEL 26
 26:1  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
[day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 26:2  Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gates of the
people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, [now]
she is laid waste:
 26:3  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am]
against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up
against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
 26:4  And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break
down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make
her like the top of a rock.
 26:5  It shall be [a place for] the spreading of nets in the
midst of the sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD:
and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
 26:6  And her daughters which [are] in the field shall be
slain by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
 26:7  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon
Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the
north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and
companies, and much people.
 26:8  He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field:
and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against
thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
 26:9  And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and
with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
 26:10  By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust
shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall
enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made
a breach.
 26:11  With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all
thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy
strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
 26:12  And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a
prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls,
and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones
and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
 26:13  And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and
the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
 26:14  And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt
be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more:
for I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.
 26:15  Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles
shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the
slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
 26:16  Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from
their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their
broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with
trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at
[every] moment, and be astonished at thee.
 26:17  And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say
to thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited of
seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror [to be] on
all that haunt it!
 26:18  Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall;
yea, the isles that [are] in the sea shall be troubled at thy
departure.
 26:19  For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a
desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I
shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover
thee;
 26:20  When I shall bring thee down with them that descend
into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee
in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with
them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I
shall set glory in the land of the living;
 26:21  I will make thee a terror, and thou [shalt be] no
[more]: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be
found again, saith the Lord GOD.

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

                        EZEKIEL 28
 28:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 28:2  Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast
said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set
thine heart as the heart of God:
 28:3  Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret
that they can hide from thee:
 28:4  With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast
gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures:
 28:5  By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou
increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of
thy riches:
 28:6  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set
thine heart as the heart of God;
 28:7  Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the
terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
brightness.
 28:8  They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt
die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the
seas.
 28:9  Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am]
God? but thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him
that slayeth thee.
 28:10  Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the
hand of strangers: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.
 28:11  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 28:12  Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of
Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest
up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
 28:13  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the
emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that
thou wast created.
 28:14  Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I
have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;
thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of
fire.
 28:15  Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
 28:16  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled
the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of
God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst
of the stones of fire.
 28:17  Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou
hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will
cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
 28:18  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of
thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore
will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in
the sight of all them that behold thee.
 28:19  All they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt]
thou [be] any more.
 28:20  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 28:21  Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy
against it,
 28:22  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am]
against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of
thee: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall
have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
 28:23  For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by
the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I
[am] the LORD.
 28:24  And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the
house of Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all [that are]
round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that
I [am] the Lord GOD.
 28:25  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen,
then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my
servant Jacob.
 28:26  And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build
houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
despise them round about them; and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD their God.

                        EZEKIEL 29
 29:1  In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth
[day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 29:2  Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
 29:3  Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am]
against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that
lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river
[is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.
 29:4  But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the
fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring
thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy
rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
 29:5  And I will leave thee [thrown] into the wilderness, thee
and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open
fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I
have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the
fowls of the heaven.
 29:6  And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am]
the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house
of Israel.
 29:7  When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst
break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon
thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a
stand.
 29:8  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring
a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
 29:9  And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and
they shall know that I [am] the LORD: because he hath said, The
river [is] mine, and I have made [it].
 29:10  Behold, therefore I [am] against thee, and against thy
rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste [and]
desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of
Ethiopia.
 29:11  No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast
shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty
years.
 29:12  And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst
of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities among the
cities [that are] laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries.
 29:13  Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years
will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
scattered:
 29:14  And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will
cause them to return [into] the land of Pathros, into the land
of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
 29:15  It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall
it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish
them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
 29:16  And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of
Israel, which bringeth [their] iniquity to remembrance, when
they shall look after them: but they shall know that I [am] the
Lord GOD.
 29:17  And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in
the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
 29:18  Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his
army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head [was]
made bald, and every shoulder [was] peeled: yet had he no
wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had
served against it:
 29:19  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give
the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her
prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
 29:20  I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labour
wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me,
saith the Lord GOD.
 29:21  In that day will I cause the horn of the house of
Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the
mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I [am] the
LORD.

                        EZEKIEL 30
 30:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 30:2  Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
 30:3  For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is]
near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
 30:4  And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain
shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and
they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down.
 30:5  Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled
people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league,
shall fall with them by the sword.
 30:6  Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall
fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the
tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the
Lord GOD.
 30:7  And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries
[that are] desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of
the cities [that are] wasted.
 30:8  And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have
set a fire in Egypt, and [when] all her helpers shall be
destroyed.
 30:9  In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships
to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall
come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
 30:10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude
of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon.
 30:11  He and his people with him, the terrible of the
nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall
draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the
slain.
 30:12  And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into
the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all
that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have
spoken [it].
 30:13  Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols,
and I will cause [their] images to cease out of Noph; and there
shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put
a fear in the land of Egypt.
 30:14  And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in
Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
 30:15  And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
 30:16  And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great
pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have]
distresses daily.
 30:17  The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
 30:18  At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I
shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her
strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
 30:19  Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD.
 30:20  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
[month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
 30:21  Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of
Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a
roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
 30:22  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am]
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the
strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword
to fall out of his hand.
 30:23  And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
will disperse them through the countries.
 30:24  And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon,
and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms,
and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly
wounded [man].
 30:25  But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon,
and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know
that I [am] the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the
land of Egypt.
 30:26  And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I
[am] the LORD.

                        EZEKIEL 31
 31:1  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third
[month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
 31:2  Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
 31:3  Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair
branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;
and his top was among the thick boughs.
 31:4  The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high
with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out
her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
 31:5  Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of
the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches
became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot
forth.
 31:6  All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs,
and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring
forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great
nations.
 31:7  Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his
branches: for his root was by great waters.
 31:8  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the
fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were
not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was
like unto him in his beauty.
 31:9  I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches:
so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of
God, envied him.
 31:10  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among
the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
 31:11  I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the
mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I
have driven him out for his wickedness.
 31:12  And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut
him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the
valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by
all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are
gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
 31:13  Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain,
and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
 31:14  To the end that none of all the trees by the waters
exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top
among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their
height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto
death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the
children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
 31:15  Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down
to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him,
and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were
stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
trees of the field fainted for him.
 31:16  I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall,
when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the
pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon,
all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of
the earth.
 31:17  They also went down into hell with him unto [them that
be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that]
dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
 31:18  To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness
among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with
the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou
shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be]
slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.

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

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

                        EZEKIEL 34
 34:1  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 34:2  Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the
shepherds; Woe [be] to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
 34:3  Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill
them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
 34:4  The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye
healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that
which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was
driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but
with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
 34:5  And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd:
and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they
were scattered.
 34:6  My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon
every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face
of the earth, and none did search or seek [after them].
 34:7  Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
 34:8  [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock
became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the
field, because [there was] no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and fed not my flock;
 34:9  Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
 34:10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against the
shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause
them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the
shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock
from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
 34:11  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will
both search my sheep, and seek them out.
 34:12  As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he
is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my
sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
 34:13  And I will bring them out from the people, and gather
them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land,
and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and
in all the inhabited places of the country.
 34:14  I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high
mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie
in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of Israel.
 34:15  I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie
down, saith the Lord GOD.
 34:16  I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that
which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was]
broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will
destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
 34:17  And [as for] you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and
the he goats.
 34:18  [Seemeth it] a small thing unto you to have eaten up
the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the
residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters,
but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
 34:19  And [as for] my flock, they eat that which ye have
trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have
fouled with your feet.
 34:20  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I,
[even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the
lean cattle.
 34:21  Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and
pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered
them abroad;
 34:22  Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more
be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
 34:23  And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall
feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he
shall be their shepherd.
 34:24  And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David
a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it].
 34:25  And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will
cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall
dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
 34:26  And I will make them and the places round about my hill
a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his
season; there shall be showers of blessing.
 34:27  And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and
the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in
their land, and shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have
broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the
hand of those that served themselves of them.
 34:28  And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,
neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall
dwell safely, and none shall make [them] afraid.
 34:29  And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and
they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither
bear the shame of the heathen any more.
 34:30  Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God [am]
with them, and [that] they, [even] the house of Israel, [are]
my people, saith the Lord GOD.
 34:31  And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men,
[and] I [am] your God, saith the Lord GOD.

                        EZEKIEL 35
 35:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 35:2  Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and
prophesy against it,
 35:3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O
mount Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out mine
hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
 35:4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate,
and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
 35:5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed
[the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword
in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their]
iniquity [had] an end:
 35:6  Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will
prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou
hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
 35:7  Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off
from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
 35:8  And I will fill his mountains with his slain [men]: in
thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall
they fall that are slain with the sword.
 35:9  I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities
shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
 35:10  Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the
LORD was there:
 35:11  Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even
do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which
thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make
myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
 35:12  And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I
have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against
the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they
are given us to consume.
 35:13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and
have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].
 35:14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth
rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
 35:15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house
of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee:
thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even]
all of it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

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

                        EZEKIEL 37
 37:1  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in
the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the
valley which [was] full of bones,
 37:2  And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold,
[there were] very many in the open valley; and, lo, [they were]
very dry.
 37:3  And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?
And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
 37:4  Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and
say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
 37:5  Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will
cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
 37:6  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and
ye shall live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
 37:7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came
together, bone to his bone.
 37:8  And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up
upon them, and the skin covered them above: but [there was] no
breath in them.
 37:9  Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy,
son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come
from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain,
that they may live.
 37:10  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came
into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
exceeding great army.
 37:11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the
whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried,
and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
 37:12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and
cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the
land of Israel.
 37:13  And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have
opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your
graves,
 37:14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and
I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I
the LORD have spoken [it], and performed [it], saith the LORD.
 37:15  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
 37:16  Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and
write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his
companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For
Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel
his companions:
 37:17  And join them one to another into one stick; and they
shall become one in thine hand.
 37:18  And when the children of thy people shall speak unto
thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou [meanest] by
these?
 37:19  Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with
him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
and they shall be one in mine hand.
 37:20  And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine
hand before their eyes.
 37:21  And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and
bring them into their own land:
 37:22  And I will make them one nation in the land upon the
mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
 37:23  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with
their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of
their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse
them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
 37:24  And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and
they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my
judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
 37:25  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto
Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they
shall dwell therein, [even] they, and their children, and their
children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be]
their prince for ever.
 37:26  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it
shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place
them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst
of them for evermore.
 37:27  My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be
their God, and they shall be my people.
 37:28  And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify
Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for
evermore.

                        EZEKIEL 38
 38:1  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 38:2  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against
him,
 38:3  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against
thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
 38:4  And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,
and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even]
a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords:
 38:5  Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with
shield and helmet:
 38:6  Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the
north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee.
 38:7  Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all
thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard
unto them.
 38:8  After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter
years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from
the sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the
mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely
all of them.
 38:9  Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be
like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and
many people with thee.
 38:10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass,
[that] at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and
thou shalt think an evil thought:
 38:11  And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of
unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having
neither bars nor gates,
 38:12  To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand
upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the
people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have
gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
 38:13  Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with
all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come
to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey?
to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods,
to take a great spoil?
 38:14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel
dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know [it]?
 38:15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north
parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
 38:16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as
a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and
I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know
me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their
eyes.
 38:17  Thus saith the Lord GOD; [Art] thou he of whom I have
spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in those days [many] years that I would bring thee
against them?
 38:18  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog
shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
[that] my fury shall come up in my face.
 38:19  For in my jealousy [and] in the fire of my wrath have I
spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in
the land of Israel;
 38:20  So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the
heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that [are] upon the
face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the
mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall
fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
 38:21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all
my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be
against his brother.
 38:22  And I will plead against him with pestilence and with
blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon
the many people that [are] with him, an overflowing rain, and
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
 38:23  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I
will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know
that I [am] the LORD.

                        EZEKIEL 39
 39:1  Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O
Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
 39:2  And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part
of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,
and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
 39:3  And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will
cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
 39:4  Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and
all thy bands, and the people that [is] with thee: I will give
thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts
of the field to be devoured.
 39:5  Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken
[it], saith the Lord GOD.
 39:6  And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that
dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
 39:7  So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my
people Israel; and I will not [let them] pollute my holy name
any more: and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, the
Holy One in Israel.
 39:8  Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD;
this [is] the day whereof I have spoken.
 39:9  And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go
forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the
shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the
handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire
seven years:
 39:10  So that they shall take no wood out of the field,
neither cut down [any] out of the forests; for they shall burn
the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled
them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
 39:11  And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will
give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of
the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the
[noses] of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and
all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of
Hamongog.
 39:12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying
of them, that they may cleanse the land.
 39:13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and
it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified,
saith the Lord GOD.
 39:14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment,
passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that
remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end
of seven months shall they search.
 39:15  And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when
[any] seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,
till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
 39:16  And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus
shall they cleanse the land.
 39:17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak
unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great
sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh,
and drink blood.
 39:18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the
blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of
goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
 39:19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood
till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for
you.
 39:20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the
Lord GOD.
 39:21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the
heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand
that I have laid upon them.
 39:22  So the house of Israel shall know that I [am] the LORD
their God from that day and forward.
 39:23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel
went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed
against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them
into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
 39:24  According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from
them.
 39:25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring
again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole
house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
 39:26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their
trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they
dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid.
 39:27  When I have brought them again from the people, and
gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in
them in the sight of many nations;
 39:28  Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD their God,
which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen:
but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left
none of them any more there.
 39:29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I
have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the
Lord GOD.

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

                        EZEKIEL 41
 41:1  Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the
posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad
on the other side, [which was] the breadth of the tabernacle.
 41:2  And the breadth of the door [was] ten cubits: and the
sides of the door [were] five cubits on the one side, and five
cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof,
forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
 41:3  Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door,
two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the
door, seven cubits.
 41:4  So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and
the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto
me, This [is] the most holy [place].
 41:5  After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and
the breadth of [every] side chamber, four cubits, round about
the house on every side.
 41:6  And the side chambers [were] three, one over another,
and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which [was]
of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might
have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
 41:7  And [there was] an enlarging, and a winding about still
upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house
went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth
of the house [was still] upward, and so increased [from] the
lowest [chamber] to the highest by the midst.
 41:8  I saw also the height of the house round about: the
foundations of the side chambers [were] a full reed of six
great cubits.
 41:9  The thickness of the wall, which [was] for the side
chamber without, [was] five cubits: and [that] which [was] left
[was] the place of the side chambers that [were] within.
 41:10  And between the chambers [was] the wideness of twenty
cubits round about the house on every side.
 41:11  And the doors of the side chambers [were] toward [the
place that was] left, one door toward the north, and another
door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was
left [was] five cubits round about.
 41:12  Now the building that [was] before the separate place
at the end toward the west [was] seventy cubits broad; and the
wall of the building [was] five cubits thick round about, and
the length thereof ninety cubits.
 41:13  So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and
the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof,
an hundred cubits long;
 41:14  Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the
separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
 41:15  And he measured the length of the building over against
the separate place which [was] behind it, and the galleries
thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred
cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
 41:16  The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the
galleries round about on their three stories, over against the
door, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to
the windows, and the windows [were] covered;
 41:17  To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and
without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by
measure.
 41:18  And [it was] made with cherubims and palm trees, so
that a palm tree [was] between a cherub and a cherub; and
[every] cherub had two faces;
 41:19  So that the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree on
the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree
on the other side: [it was] made through all the house round
about.
 41:20  From the ground unto above the door [were] cherubims
and palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.
 41:21  The posts of the temple [were] squared, [and] the face
of the sanctuary; the appearance [of the one] as the appearance
[of the other].
 41:22  The altar of wood [was] three cubits high, and the
length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof, [were] of wood: and he
said unto me, This [is] the table that [is] before the LORD.
 41:23  And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
 41:24  And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning
leaves; two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the
other [door].
 41:25  And [there were] made on them, on the doors of the
temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as [were] made upon the
walls; and [there were] thick planks upon the face of the porch
without.
 41:26  And [there were] narrow windows and palm trees on the
one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and
[upon] the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

                        EZEKIEL 42
 42:1  Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way
toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that [was]
over against the separate place, and which [was] before the
building toward the north.
 42:2  Before the length of an hundred cubits [was] the north
door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits.
 42:3  Over against the twenty [cubits] which [were] for the
inner court, and over against the pavement which [was] for the
utter court, [was] gallery against gallery in three [stories].
 42:4  And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits
breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the
north.
 42:5  Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries
were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost
of the building.
 42:6  For they [were] in three [stories], but had not pillars
as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the building] was
straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the
ground.
 42:7  And the wall that [was] without over against the
chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the
chambers, the length thereof [was] fifty cubits.
 42:8  For the length of the chambers that [were] in the utter
court [was] fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple [were] an
hundred cubits.
 42:9  And from under these chambers [was] the entry on the
east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
 42:10  The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the
court toward the east, over against the separate place, and
over against the building.
 42:11  And the way before them [was] like the appearance of
the chambers which [were] toward the north, as long as they,
[and] as broad as they: and all their goings out [were] both
according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
 42:12  And according to the doors of the chambers that [were]
toward the south [was] a door in the head of the way, [even]
the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one
entereth into them.
 42:13  Then said he unto me, The north chambers [and] the
south chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they
[be] holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the
LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the
most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering,
and the trespass offering; for the place [is] holy.
 42:14  When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go
out of the holy [place] into the utter court, but there they
shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they [are]
holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to
[those things] which [are] for the people.
 42:15  Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner
house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect [is]
toward the east, and measured it round about.
 42:16  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
 42:17  He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed round about.
 42:18  He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed.
 42:19  He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
 42:20  He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round
about, five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to
make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

                        EZEKIEL 43
 43:1  Afterward he brought me to the gate, [even] the gate
that looketh toward the east:
 43:2  And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from
the way of the east: and his voice [was] like a noise of many
waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
 43:3  And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision
which I saw, [even] according to the vision that I saw when I
came to destroy the city: and the visions [were] like the
vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
 43:4  And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way
of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.
 43:5  So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner
court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
 43:6  And I heard [him] speaking unto me out of the house; and
the man stood by me.
 43:7  And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne,
and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in
the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name,
shall the house of Israel no more defile, [neither] they, nor
their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their
kings in their high places.
 43:8  In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds,
and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them,
they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that
they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine
anger.
 43:9  Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases
of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
them for ever.
 43:10  Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel,
that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them
measure the pattern.
 43:11  And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show
them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the
goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the
forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the
forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write [it] in
their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all
the ordinances thereof, and do them.
 43:12  This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the
mountain the whole limit thereof round about [shall be] most
holy. Behold, this [is] the law of the house.
 43:13  And these [are] the measures of the altar after the
cubits: The cubit [is] a cubit and an hand breadth; even the
bottom [shall be] a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the
border thereof by the edge thereof round about [shall be] a
span: and this [shall be] the higher place of the altar.
 43:14  And from the bottom [upon] the ground [even] to the
lower settle [shall be] two cubits, and the breadth one cubit;
and from the lesser settle [even] to the greater settle [shall
be] four cubits, and the breadth [one] cubit.
 43:15  So the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from the altar
and upward [shall be] four horns.
 43:16  And the altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve
broad, square in the four squares thereof.
 43:17  And the settle [shall be] fourteen [cubits] long and
fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border
about it [shall be] half a cubit; and the bottom thereof [shall
be] a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
 43:18  And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord
GOD; These [are] the ordinances of the altar in the day when
they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to
sprinkle blood thereon.
 43:19  And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be
of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto
me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
 43:20  And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put [it]
on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle,
and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and
purge it.
 43:21  Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering,
and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house,
without the sanctuary.
 43:22  And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse [it] with the bullock.
 43:23  When thou hast made an end of cleansing [it], thou
shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of
the flock without blemish.
 43:24  And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the
priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up
[for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.
 43:25  Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat [for] a
sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a
ram out of the flock, without blemish.
 43:26  Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it;
and they shall consecrate themselves.
 43:27  And when these days are expired, it shall be, [that]
upon the eighth day, and [so] forward, the priests shall make
your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings;
and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

                        EZEKIEL 44
 44:1  Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it [was]
shut.
 44:2  Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it
shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because
the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore
it shall be shut.
 44:3  [It is] for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it
to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the
porch of [that] gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
 44:4  Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the
house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled
the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
 44:5  And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say
unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the
LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in
of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
 44:6  And thou shalt say to the rebellious, [even] to the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel,
let it suffice you of all your abominations,
 44:7  In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my
bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
because of all your abominations.
 44:8  And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but
ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.
 44:9  Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in
heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my
sanctuary, of any stranger that [is] among the children of
Israel.
 44:10  And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when
Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their
idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
 44:11  Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, [having]
charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house:
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
 44:12  Because they ministered unto them before their idols,
and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD,
and they shall bear their iniquity.
 44:13  And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office
of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
in the most holy [place]: but they shall bear their shame, and
their abominations which they have committed.
 44:14  But I will make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be
done therein.
 44:15  But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that
kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel
went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister
unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the
fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
 44:16  They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come
near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my
charge.
 44:17  And it shall come to pass, [that] when they enter in at
the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen
garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they
minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
 44:18  They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and
shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
[themselves] with any thing that causeth sweat.
 44:19  And when they go forth into the utter court, [even]
into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy
chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall
not sanctify the people with their garments.
 44:20  Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their
locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
 44:21  Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court.
 44:22  Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor
her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed
of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
 44:23  And they shall teach my people [the difference] between
the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the
unclean and the clean.
 44:24  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; [and]
they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall
keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they
shall hallow my sabbaths.
 44:25  And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband,
they may defile themselves.
 44:26  And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him
seven days.
 44:27  And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto
the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer
his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
 44:28  And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I [am]
their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in
Israel: I [am] their possession.
 44:29  They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering,
and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel
shall be theirs.
 44:30  And the first of all the firstfruits of all [things],
and every oblation of all, of every [sort] of your oblations,
shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the
first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in
thine house.
 44:31  The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of
itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

                        EZEKIEL 45
 45:1  Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy
portion of the land: the length [shall be] the length of five
and twenty thousand [reeds], and the breadth [shall be] ten
thousand. This [shall be] holy in all the borders thereof round
about.
 45:2  Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred
[in length], with five hundred [in breadth], square round
about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
 45:3  And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of
five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and
in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].
 45:4  The holy [portion] of the land shall be for the priests
the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to
minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their
houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
 45:5  And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten
thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of
the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty
chambers.
 45:6  And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against
the oblation of the holy [portion]: it shall be for the whole
house of Israel.
 45:7  And a [portion shall be] for the prince on the one side
and on the other side of the oblation of the holy [portion],
and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the
holy [portion], and before the possession of the city, from the
west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the
length [shall be] over against one of the portions, from the
west border unto the east border.
 45:8  In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my
princes shall no more oppress my people; and [the rest of] the
land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their
tribes.
 45:9  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes
of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and
justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the
Lord GOD.
 45:10  Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a
just bath.
 45:11  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that
the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah
the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after
the homer.
 45:12  And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty
shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be
your maneh.
 45:13  This [is] the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth
part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the
sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
 45:14  Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye
shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which
is] an homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer:
 45:15  And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out
of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a
burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation
for them, saith the Lord GOD.
 45:16  All the people of the land shall give this oblation for
the prince in Israel.
 45:17  And it shall be the prince's part [to give] burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all
solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin
offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and
the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of
Israel.
 45:18  Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first [month], in the
first [day] of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock
without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
 45:19  And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering, and put [it] upon the posts of the house, and upon
the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts
of the gate of the inner court.
 45:20  And so thou shalt do the seventh [day] of the month for
every one that erreth, and for [him that is] simple: so shall
ye reconcile the house.
 45:21  In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the
month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten.
 45:22  And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself
and for all the people of the land a bullock [for] a sin
offering.
 45:23  And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt
offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily
[for] a sin offering.
 45:24  And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an
ephah.
 45:25  In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the
month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days,
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering,
and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

                        EZEKIEL 46
 46:1  Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court
that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of
the new moon it shall be opened.
 46:2  And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of
[that] gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate,
and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate:
then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until
the evening.
 46:3  Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the
door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the
new moons.
 46:4  And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto
the LORD in the sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without
blemish, and a ram without blemish.
 46:5  And the meat offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and
the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give,
and an hin of oil to an ephah.
 46:6  And in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a young
bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall
be without blemish.
 46:7  And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as
his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
 46:8  And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the
way of the porch of [that] gate, and he shall go forth by the
way thereof.
 46:9  But when the people of the land shall come before the
LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of
the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south
gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall
go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by
the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
against it.
 46:10  And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in,
shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
 46:11  And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat
offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram,
and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah.
 46:12  Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt
offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, [one]
shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and
he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as
he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after
his going forth [one] shall shut the gate.
 46:13  Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD
[of] a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt
prepare it every morning.
 46:14  And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every
morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an
hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering
continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
 46:15  Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat
offering, and the oil, every morning [for] a continual burnt
offering.
 46:16  Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto
any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it
[shall be] their possession by inheritance.
 46:17  But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it
shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his
sons' for them.
 46:18  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their
possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out of his
own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from
his possession.
 46:19  After he brought me through the entry, which [was] at
the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests,
which looked toward the north: and, behold, there [was] a place
on the two sides westward.
 46:20  Then said he unto me, This [is] the place where the
priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering,
where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear [them]
not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
 46:21  Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and
caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and,
behold, in every corner of the court [there was] a court.
 46:22  In the four corners of the court [there were] courts
joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four
corners [were] of one measure.
 46:23  And [there was] a row [of building] round about in
them, round about them four, and [it was] made with boiling
places under the rows round about.
 46:24  Then said he unto me, These [are] the places of them
that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the
sacrifice of the people.

                        EZEKIEL 47
 47:1  Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the
house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold
of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house [stood
toward] the east, and the waters came down from under from the
right side of the house, at the south [side] of the altar.
 47:2  Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward,
and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way
that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the
right side.
 47:3  And when the man that had the line in his hand went
forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought
me through the waters; the waters [were] to the ankles.
 47:4  Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the
waters; the waters [were] to the knees. Again he measured a
thousand, and brought me through; the waters [were] to the
loins.
 47:5  Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river
that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters
to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
 47:6  And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]?
Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the
river.
 47:7  Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the
river [were] very many trees on the one side and on the other.
 47:8  Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the
east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea:
[which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be
healed.
 47:9  And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that
liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish,
because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be
healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
 47:10  And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall
stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a
[place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to
their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
 47:11  But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof
shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
 47:12  And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side
and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf
shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it
shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because
their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit
thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
 47:13  Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [shall be] the border,
whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.
 47:14  And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:
[concerning] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto
your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for
inheritance.
 47:15  And this [shall be] the border of the land toward the
north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go
to Zedad;
 47:16  Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which [is] between the
border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon,
which [is] by the coast of Hauran.
 47:17  And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the
border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of
Hamath. And [this is] the north side.
 47:18  And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and
from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel
[by] Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And [this is]
the east side.
 47:19  And the south side southward, from Tamar [even] to the
waters of strife [in] Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And
[this is] the south side southward.
 47:20  The west side also [shall be] the great sea from the
border, till a man come over against Hamath. This [is] the west
side.
 47:21  So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the
tribes of Israel.
 47:22  And it shall come to pass, [that] ye shall divide it by
lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that
sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and
they shall be unto you as born in the country among the
children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among
the tribes of Israel.
 47:23  And it shall come to pass, [that] in what tribe the
stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give [him] his inheritance,
saith the Lord GOD.

                        EZEKIEL 48
 48:1  Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north
end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of
Hamath; for these are his sides east [and] west; a [portion
for] Dan.
 48:2  And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the
west side, a [portion for] Asher.
 48:3  And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto
the west side, a [portion for] Naphtali.
 48:4  And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto
the west side, a [portion for] Manasseh.
 48:5  And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto
the west side, a [portion for] Ephraim.
 48:6  And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even
unto the west side, a [portion for] Reuben.
 48:7  And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the
west side, a [portion for] Judah.
 48:8  And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the
west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five
and twenty thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one
of the [other] parts, from the east side unto the west side:
and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
 48:9  The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD [shall
be] of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand
in breadth.
 48:10  And for them, [even] for the priests, shall be [this]
holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand [in
length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south
five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the
LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
 48:11  [It shall be] for the priests that are sanctified of
the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not
astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites
went astray.
 48:12  And [this] oblation of the land that is offered shall
be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
 48:13  And over against the border of the priests the Levites
[shall have] five and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth: all the length [shall be] five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
 48:14  And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor
alienate the firstfruits of the land: for [it is] holy unto the
LORD.
 48:15  And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth
over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane
[place] for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the
city shall be in the midst thereof.
 48:16  And these [shall be] the measures thereof; the north
side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four
thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand
and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five
hundred.
 48:17  And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north
two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and
fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward
the west two hundred and fifty.
 48:18  And the residue in length over against the oblation of
the holy [portion shall be] ten thousand eastward, and ten
thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of
the holy [portion]; and the increase thereof shall be for food
unto them that serve the city.
 48:19  And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all
the tribes of Israel.
 48:20  All the oblation [shall be] five and twenty thousand by
five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation
foursquare, with the possession of the city.
 48:21  And the residue [shall be] for the prince, on the one
side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the
possession of the city, over against the five and twenty
thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward
over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west
border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall
be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house [shall be]
in the midst thereof.
 48:22  Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from
the possession of the city, [being] in the midst [of that]
which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the
border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
 48:23  As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto
the west side, Benjamin [shall have] a [portion].
 48:24  And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto
the west side, Simeon [shall have] a [portion].
 48:25  And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto
the west side, Issachar a [portion].
 48:26  And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto
the west side, Zebulun a [portion].
 48:27  And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto
the west side, Gad a [portion].
 48:28  And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward,
the border shall be even from Tamar [unto] the waters of strife
[in] Kadesh, [and] to the river toward the great sea.
 48:29  This [is] the land which ye shall divide by lot unto
the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these [are] their
portions, saith the Lord GOD.
 48:30  And these [are] the goings out of the city on the north
side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
 48:31  And the gates of the city [shall be] after the names of
the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of
Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
 48:32  And at the east side four thousand and five hundred:
and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin,
one gate of Dan.
 48:33  And at the south side four thousand and five hundred
measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of
Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
 48:34  At the west side four thousand and five hundred, [with]
their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate
of Naphtali.
 48:35  [It was] round about eighteen thousand [measures]: and
the name of the city from [that] day [shall be], The LORD [is]
there.