THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL

The prophet Ezekiel is one of four Major Prophets along

with  Isaiah,  Jeremiah, and  Daniel in  Hebrew Scripture, our Old Testament of
the  Bible. The priest Ezekiel was the first prophet to be called by the Lord
outside of Israel during the Babylonian Captivity. Deported to Babylon
by the river Chebar in 597 BC, Ezekiel - ‫יְ ֶחזְקֵאל‬ - was truly an exilic
prophet, who foresaw both the Fall of  Jerusalem in 586 BC, but also the
Restoration of Israel and the Temple.

The central figure in the Book of Ezekiel is God. The book opens with a
unique vision of the glory of the Lord. The phrase "you shall know that I
am the Lord" recurs 33 times throughout the text. While he punishes
Israel for their idolatry and disobedience, his love for his creation
mankind prevails in the end. God the Creator calls Ezekiel "Son of
Man" 93 times. The Book of Ezekiel is generally divided into five parts:
the Call of the Prophet (Chapters 1-3); Judgement and Condemnation
Against Israel (4-24); Judgement and Condemnation of Nations (25-
32); Salvation for Israel (33-39); and the Restoration of Israel and the
Temple (40-48).

The Book is both esoteric and fascinating in many ways, such as the
description of his prophetic call. His reference to the prophet as
Watchman for Israel (3 and 33) serves as an admonition for all of us to
be watchmen for our own lives and our loved ones, as well as for our
neighbor. Cherubim, of the higher order of  Angels, figure prominently in
the Book, such as Chapter 10. He mentions three Biblical figures in a
row as men of righteousness, Noah, Daniel, and Job (14:14 and 14:20).
Ezekiel utilizes the parable ‫מָ שָׁ ל‬ - mashal - to convey his message, as
seen in the Parable of the Two Eagles and Vine (17), and the Parable of
the Pot (24). Ezekiel records the death of his wife in 24:18.

His Vision of the Dry Bones in Chapter 37 as a symbol of the

Restoration of Israel - and the Resurrection of the Dead - is perhaps the
best known passage of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel of all the prophets is noteworthy for providing the timing of

events. In the traditional way, Ezekiel noted the time of the fall of
Jerusalem in 33:21, "on the fifth day of the tenth month, in the twelfth
year of our exile."

Ezekiel 38:23 serves as the inspiration for the Kaddish -  ‫קדישׁ‬ - "holy" in
Aramaic, a hymn of praise to God, often said as the Mourner's Prayer.

Ezekiel 40:1 records Rosh Hashanah -  ‫ר ֹאׁש הַשָּׁ נָה‬, (in) "the beginning of
the year."

The Book serves as an important source for New Testament thought.

Salvation by grace is prefigured in God giving a new heart (36:26) and
pouring out his spirit (36:26, 39:29) to his people. Ezekiel 36:24-28
anticipates Baptism. The Book as a whole serves as a source of symbols
and imagery for the Book of  Revelation, such as the eating of the scroll
(Ezekiel 2:1-10 and Revelation 10:1-10), the darkening of the sun and
moon (Ezekiel 32:7 and Revelation 6:12, and the references to Gog and
Magog (Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 20:8)

The following Scripture is the Authorized King James Version of the

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group of Biblical scholars in 1604 to establish an authoritative
translation of the Bible from the ancient languages and other
translations at the time, and the work was completed in 1611. The
original King James Bible included the Apocrypha but in a separate
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 THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL

CALL OF THE PROPHET

CHAPTER 1
The Vision of God

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the
fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of
Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2 In the
fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's
captivity, 3: The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the
priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great
cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out
of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And
every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet
were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's
foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
and they four had their faces and their wings. 9 Their wings were joined
one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one
straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and
the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox
on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were
their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every
one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And
they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they
went; and they turned not when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the
living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like
the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth
lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth
by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the
wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four
had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a
wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon
their four sides: and they turned not when they went. 18 As for their
rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full
of eyes round about them four. 19 And when the living creatures went,
the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up
from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Whithersoever the spirit
was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were
lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels. 21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels.

22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over
their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their wings
straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on
this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their
bodies. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the
noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech,
as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25
And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads,
when they stood, and had let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness
of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness
of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round
about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from
the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the
appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28 As the
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of
the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my
face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

CHAPTER 2
Eating of the Scroll

1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak
unto thee. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and
set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. 3 And he said
unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious
nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have
transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are
impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou
shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,)
yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou,
son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,
though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among
scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house. 7 And thou shalt speak my words
unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they
are most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee;
Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and
eat that I give thee.

9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll
of a book was therein; 10 And he spread it before me; and it was written
within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and
mourning, and woe.

CHAPTER 3

1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this
roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and
he caused me to eat that roll. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause
thy belly to eat, and fill thy stomach with this roll that I give thee. Then
did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 4 And he
said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and
speak with my words unto them.

5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange
speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand.
Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not
hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and
hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces,
and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder
than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed
at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. 11 And
go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and
speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear.

12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place. 13 I
heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one
another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a
great rushing. 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I
went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD
was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib,
that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained
there astonished among them seven days. 16 And it came to pass at the
end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
The Prophet as Watchman

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of

Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me.

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest
him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way,
to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he
turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in
his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and
commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die:
because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his
blood will I require at thine hand. 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the
righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall
surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
 Ezekiel Loses His Voice

22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me,
Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. 23 Then I
arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD
stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on
my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,
and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine
house. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon
thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among
them: 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,
that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are
a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy
mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that
heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are
a rebellious house.

JUDGEMENT AND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL

CHAPTER 4
Acts Symbolic of Siege and Exile

1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and
pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and
build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also
against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take
thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and
the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou
shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie
thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel
upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it
thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of
their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and
ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And
when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou
shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed
thee each day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the
siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou
shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days
of thy siege.

9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles,
and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread
thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy
side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy
meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from
time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure,
the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. 12 And thou
shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh
out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the
children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I
will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not
been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of
that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have
given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread
therewith.

16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff
of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care;
and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That
they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and
consume away for their iniquity.

CHAPTER 5
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's
rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take
thee balances to weight, and divide the hair. 2 Thou shalt burn with fire
a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are
fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife:
and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a
sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and
bind them in thy skirts. 4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the
midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come
forth into all the house of Israel.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst
of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath
changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my
statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have
refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the
nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes,
neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the
judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute
judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do
in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more
the like, because of all thine abominations. 10 Therefore the fathers shall
eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I
will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I
scatter into all the winds.

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast
defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye
spare, neither will I have any pity. 12 A third part of thee shall die with
the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of
thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will
scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after
them. 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my
fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that
I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my
fury in them. 14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among
the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. 15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment
unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute
judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the
LORD have spoken it.

16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall
be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: 17 So
will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee;
and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the
sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

CHAPTER 6
Against the Mountains of Israel

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set
thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and
to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will
destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your
images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your
idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all
your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places
shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate,
and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut
down, and your works may be abolished. 7 And the slain shall fall in the
midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the
sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the
countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with
their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes,
which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for
the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And
they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that
I would do this evil unto them.

11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy
foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel!
for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 12
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall
by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the
famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall
be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all
the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every
thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate,
yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their
habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 7
The End Has Come

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Also, thou
son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the
end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come
upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine
abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have
pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations
shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An
end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the
time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of
the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and
accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy
ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. 9 And mine
eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee
according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of
thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.

10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod
hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of
wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of
any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time is
come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller
mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall
not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the
vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return;
neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. 14 They
have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the
battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he
that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But they that escape of them
shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all
of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be
feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird
themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall
be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast
their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver
and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of
the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their stomachs:
because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 20 As for the beauty of
his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their
abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it
far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a
prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret
place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full
of violence. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. 25 Destruction cometh; and
they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief shall come
upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a
vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and
counsel from the ancients. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall
be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall
be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their
deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 8
Vision of Abominations in the Temple

1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat
before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. 2 Then I
beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance
of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the
appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. 3 And he put forth the
form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit
lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the
visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh
toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. 5 Then said he unto
me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I
lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at
the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said
furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the
great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I
should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou
shalt see greater abominations.

7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold
a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the
wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said
unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed
upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men
of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand;
and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then said he unto me, Son of
man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the
dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The
LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. 13 He said also
unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations
that they do.

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house

which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for
Tammuz. 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?
turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and,
behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and
the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the
temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they
worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou
seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they
commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled
the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and,
lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury:
mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in
mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

CHAPTER 9
Slaughter of the Idolaters

1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that
have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand. 2 And, behold, six men came from the
way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a
slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed
with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and
stood beside the brasen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was
gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the
house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the
writer's inkhorn by his side; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through
the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark
upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the
city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6 Slay
utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but
come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the
house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with
the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

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

9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is
exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the
LORD seeth not. 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

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

CHAPTER 10
God's Glory Leaves Jerusalem

1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head
of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as
the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 And he spake unto the man
clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the
cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the
cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3
Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man
went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over
the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and
the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory. 5 And the
sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the
voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 6 And it came to pass,
that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take
fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went
in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one cherub stretched forth his
hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the
cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was
clothed with linen: who took it, and went out. 8 And there appeared in
the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one
wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the
appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as
for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been
in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four
sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head
looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. 12 And their
whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the
wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four
had. 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
wheel. 14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face
of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubims were
lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16
And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the
cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same
wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these
stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for
the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the
house, and stood over the cherubims. 19 And the cherubims lifted up
their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went
out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door
of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel
was over them above. 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the
God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the
cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four
wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the
river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one
straight forward.

CHAPTER 11
Judgment of the Princes

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, the princes of the people. 2 Then
said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and
give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near; let us build
houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. 4 Therefore
prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5 And the Spirit of the
LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD;
Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come
into your mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in
this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in
the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will
bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I
will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 And I will bring you
out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and
will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will
judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the
midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: 12 And ye
shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes,
neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the
heathen that are round about you.

13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of

Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud
voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant
of Israel?
Restoration of the Exiles

14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man,
thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house
of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have
said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in
possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I
have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered
them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in
the countries where they shall come. 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you
out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the
land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away
all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from
thence. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will
give them an heart of flesh: 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and
keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I
will be their God. 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart
of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their
way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside
them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 23 And
the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood
upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 24 Afterwards
the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God
into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went
up from me. 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things
that the LORD had shewed me.

CHAPTER 12
Acts Symbolic of the Exile

1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou
dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and
see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious
house. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place
to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they
be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in
their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their
sight, as they that go forth into captivity. 5 Dig thou through the wall in
their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon
thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face,
that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house
of Israel.

7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as

stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine
hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in
their sight.

8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 9
Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto
thee, What doest thou? 10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house
of Israel that are among them. 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have
done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into
captivity. 12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his
shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the
wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the
ground with his eyes. 13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he
shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of
the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 14 And I
will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all
his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations,
and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will leave a few men of
them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they
may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they
come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man,
eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with
carefulness; 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord
GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They
shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with
astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein,
because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20 And the cities
that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Prophecy Ridiculed

21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man,
what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days
are prolonged, and every vision faileth? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no
more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at
hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Israel. 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the
word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged:
for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will
perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 27 Son of man,
behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for
many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28
Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of
my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken
shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 13
Against the Prophets of Peace

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto
them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the
LORD; 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets
are like the foxes in the deserts.

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

6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith:
and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope
that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and
have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith
it; albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am
against you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 And mine hand shall be upon the
prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the
assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the
house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;

and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it
with untempered morter: 11 Say unto them which daub it with
untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall
rend it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy
wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine
anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So will I break
down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it
down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered,
and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye
shall know that I am the LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath
upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered
morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that
daubed it; 16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,
saith the Lord GOD. 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against
the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and
prophesy thou against them,
Against Sorceresses

18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew
pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every
stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye
save the souls alive that come unto you? 19 And will ye pollute me
among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay
the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not
live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20 Wherefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye
there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your
arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them
fly. 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your
hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart
of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the
hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by
promising him life: 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 14
Prophecy Useless for Idolaters

1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 2
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, these
men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of
their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh
according to the multitude of his idols; 5 That I may take the house of
Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through
their idols.

6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces
from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of
the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me,
and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of
his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him
concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 8 And I will set
my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I
will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.

9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the

LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon
him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And
they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the
prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; 11
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be
polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my
people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Noah, Daniel, and Job

12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man,
when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I
stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread
thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast
from it:

14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,

they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
saith the Lord GOD.

15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it,
so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the
beasts: 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be
delivered, but the land shall be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword upon
that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and
beast from it: 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only
shall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land,
and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the

Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter;
they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four
sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? 22
Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth,
both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye
shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning
all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye
see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done
without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 15
Allegory of the Vine

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

CHAPTER 16
The Faithless Spouse

1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3 And say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of
Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. 4 And as
for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither
wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor
swaddled at all. 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to
have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to
the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood,
I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee
when thou wast in thy blood, Live. 7 I have caused thee to multiply as
the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou
art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair
is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by
thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I
spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto
thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and
thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 10 I
clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin,
and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. 11 I
decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and
a chain on thy neck. 12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings
in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. 13 Thus wast thou
decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk,
and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and
thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. 14
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was
perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the
Lord GOD.

15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one
that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and
deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot
thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou
hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had
given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit
whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and
coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before
them. 19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. 20 Moreover thou hast
taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and
these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy
whoredoms a small matter, 21 That thou hast slain my children, and
delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22 And
in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered
the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted
in thy blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee!
saith the Lord GOD;) 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25 Thou hast
built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty
to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and
multiplied thy whoredoms. 26 Thou hast also committed fornication
with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore I have
stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary
food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the
daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. 28
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest
not be satisfied. 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the
land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all
these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 31 In that thou
buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine
high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou
scornest hire; 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to all whores: but
thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may
come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. 34 And the contrary is
in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth
thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no
reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 36 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness
discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the
idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou
didst give unto them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers,
with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved,
with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about
against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may
see all thy nakedness. 38 And I will judge thee, as women that break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury
and jealousy. 39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall
throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places:
they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels,
and leave thee naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up a company
against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee
through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire,
and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will
cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no
hire any more. 42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my
jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more
angry. 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but
hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will
recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou
shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 Thou art thy
mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou
art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their
children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy
left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is
Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways,
nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing,
thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. 48 As I live, saith
the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as
thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity
of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness
was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of
the poor and needy.

50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:

therefore I took them away as I saw good. 51 Neither hath Samaria
committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations
more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations
which thou hast done. 52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear
thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable
than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded
also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I
bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: 54 That
thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that
thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. 55 When thy sisters,
Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and
Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou
and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. 56 For thy sister
Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 57
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of
the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of
the Philistines, which despise thee round about. 58 Thou hast borne thy
lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast
done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 60
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61 Then
thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee
for daughters, but not by thy covenant. 62 And I will establish my
covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: 63 That
thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth
any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all
that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 17
Parable of the Eagles and Vine

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of
man, put forth a riddle,
and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 3 And say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD;
A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers
colours,
came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of
traffick;
he set it in a city of merchants.
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field;
he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,
whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him:
so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers:
and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him,
and shot forth her branches toward him,
that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters,
that it might bring forth branches,
and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull
up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall
wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many
people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. 10 Yea, behold, being planted,
shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth
it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Say now
to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them,
Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the
king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and
hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: 14
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that
by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt,

that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper?
shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant,
and be delivered? 16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place
where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised,
and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he
shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building
forts, to cut off many persons: 18 Seeing he despised the oath by
breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done
all these things, he shall not escape.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that
he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I
recompense upon his own head. 20 And I will spread my net upon him,
and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and
will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against
me. 21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword,
and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall
know that I the LORD have spoken it.
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it;
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one,
and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring
forth boughs,
and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of
every wing;
in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that
I the LORD have brought down the high tree,
have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry
tree to flourish:
I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
 CHAPTER 18
Personal Responsibility

1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 2 What mean ye,
that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I
live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use
this proverb in Israel. 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the
father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall
die.

5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 6 And hath
not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols
of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither
hath come near to a menstruous woman, 7 And hath not oppressed any,
but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence,
hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a
garment; 8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken
any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed
true judgment between man and man, 9 Hath walked in my statutes, and
hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,
saith the Lord GOD.

10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth

the like to any one of these things, 11 And that doeth not any of those
duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his
neighbour's wife, 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by
violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the
idols, hath committed abomination, 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and
hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all
these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he
hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, 15 That hath not
eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, 16 Neither hath
oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by
violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the
naked with a garment, 17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor,
that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments,
hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father,
he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed,
spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among
his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity. 19 Yet say ye, Why? doth
not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that
which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done
them, he shall surely live. 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son
shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him,
and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed,
and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall
surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath
committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness
that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the
wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return
from his ways, and live?

24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the
wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done
shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his
sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet ye say, The way of
the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal?
are not your ways unequal? 26 When a righteous man turneth away from
his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his
iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man
turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth
that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he
considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet saith the house
of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my
ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to

his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you
all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a
new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

CHAPTER 19
Allegory of the Lions

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

2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness:
she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it
learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought
him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she
took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and
learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities;
and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his
roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces,
and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
 9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of
Babylon:
they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the
mountains of Israel.
Allegory of the Vine Branch

10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters:

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

12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the
east wind
dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire
consumed them.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her
fruit,
so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.

This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

CHAPTER 20
Israel's History of Infidelity

1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth
day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of
the LORD, and sat before me. 2 Then came the word of the LORD unto
me, saying, 3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I
live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to
know the abominations of their fathers: 5 And say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand
unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them
in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am
the LORD your God; 6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them,
to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: 7
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his
eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD
your God.

8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did
not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they
forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them
to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself
known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and

brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and
shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in
them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between
me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify
them.

13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they

walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a
man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly
polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the
wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that
it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought
them out. 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness,
that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 16 Because
they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted
my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless mine
eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of
them in the wilderness.

18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the
statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile
yourselves with their idols: 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my
statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 20 And hallow my
sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may
know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Notwithstanding the children
rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my
judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them;
they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon
them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I
brought them forth.

23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would
scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the
countries; 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had
despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were
after their fathers' idols. 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that
were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; 26 And I
polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the
fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the
end that they might know that I am the LORD.

27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have
blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine
hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick
trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour,
and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said unto them,
What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called
Bamah unto this day. 30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers?
and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? 31 For when ye
offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye
pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be
inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
will not be inquired of by you.

32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say,
We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood
and stone. 33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over
you: 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you
out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring
you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you
face to face. 36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of
the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. 37 And
I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond
of the covenant: 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and
them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the
country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of
Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve
ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me:
but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your
idols. 40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them
in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require
your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy
things. 41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you
out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have
been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. 42
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the
land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to
give it to your fathers. 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and
all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe
yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with
you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor
according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD. 45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 46
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the
south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 And say to
the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green
tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched,
and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 48 And
all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be
quenched. 49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not
speak parables?

CHAPTER 21
The Sword of the Lord

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set
thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places,
and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel,
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my
sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all
flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword
out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. 6 Sigh therefore, thou son
of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before
their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest
thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and
every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit
shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and
shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. 8 Again the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus
saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as
every tree.

11 And he hath give it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword

is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 12
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be
upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be
upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Song of the Sword

13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall
be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and
let the sword be doubled the third time,
the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which
entereth into their privy chambers.

15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may
faint,
and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the
slaughter.
16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,
whithersoever thy face is set.
 17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest:
I the LORD have said it.

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

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

20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the
two ways,
to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he
looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to
open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates,
to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
Nebuchadnezzar at the Crossroads

23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them

that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that
they may be taken. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I
say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when
iniquity shall have an end, 26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the
diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that
is low, and abase him that is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn,
it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give
it him. 28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even
say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is
furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee,
to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose
day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. 30 Shall I cause it to
return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast
created, in the land of thy nativity. 31 And I will pour out mine
indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath,
and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy. 32
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the
land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

CHAPTER 22
Crimes of Jerusalem

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou
son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou
shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the
Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may
come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art
become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself
in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to
draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee
a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those that
be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art
infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one
were in thee to their power to shed blood. 7 In thee have they set light by
father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression
with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. 9
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon
the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. 10 In thee
have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled
her that was set apart for pollution. 11 And one hath committed
abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled
his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his
father's daughter. 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou
hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy
neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain

which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of
thee. 14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days
that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it. 15
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the
countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. 16 And thou shalt
take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou
shalt know that I am the LORD.

17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man,
the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and
iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of
silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become
dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the
midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather
you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt
you. 21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my
wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. 22 As silver is melted
in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof;
and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man,
say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in
the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the
midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured
souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made
her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have violated my
law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference
between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference
between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the midst
thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy
souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with
untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying,
Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29 The
people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and
have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger
wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make
up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine
indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath:
their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord
GOD.

CHAPTER 23
The Two Sisters

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 And they
committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their
youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats
of their virginity. 4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and
Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and
daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem
Aholibah. 5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she
doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 6 Which were
clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms
with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with
all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither
left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay
with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their
whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of
her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters,
and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for
they had executed judgment upon her.

11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in
her whoredoms. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours,
captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon
horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was
defiled, that they took both one way, 14 And that she increased her
whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images
of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with girdles upon
their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes
to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of
their nativity: 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted
upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. 17 And the
Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with
their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was
alienated from them. 18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and
discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as
my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her
whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein
she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted upon
their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is
like the issue of horses.

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in

bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 22 There,
O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers
against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them
against thee on every side; 23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans,
Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them
desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all
of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with
chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which
shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I
will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to
their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they
shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine
ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons
and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They
shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 27
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom
brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes
unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand
of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is
alienated: 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away
all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of
thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms. 30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a
whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her
cup into thine hand. 32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of
thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in
derision; it containeth much. 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness
and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of
thy sister Samaria.

34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the
sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD. 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou
also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with
their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their
sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to
devour them. 38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have
defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came
the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they
done in the midst of mine house. 40 And furthermore, that ye have sent
for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo,
they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and
deckedst thyself with ornaments, 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a
table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine
oil. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with
the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness,
which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their
heads.

43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit
whoredoms with her, and she with them? 44 Yet they went in unto her,
as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto
Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 45 And the righteous men,
they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the
manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and
blood is in their hands.

46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them,
and will give them to be removed and spoiled. 47 And the company
shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they
shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with
fire. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall
recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your
idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
 CHAPTER 24
Parable of the Pot

1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of
the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same
day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same
day.
3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 4 Gather the pieces
thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it
with the choice bones. 5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the
bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it
therein.

6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot
whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out
piece by piece; let no lot fall up on it. 7 For her blood is in the midst of
her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground,
to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause fury to come up to take
vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not
be covered.

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will
even make the pile for fire great. 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire,
consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be
hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that
the scum of it may be consumed. 12 She hath wearied herself with lies,
and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the
fire. 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and
thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any
more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. 14 I the LORD have
spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back,
neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and
according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Symbol of the Destruction of the Temple

15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man,
behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet
neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine
head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy
lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the
morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was
commanded. 19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what
these things are to us, that thou doest so? 20 Then I answered them, The
word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Speak unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary,
the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which
your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left
shall fall by the sword. 22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not
cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23 And your tires shall be
upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor
weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward
another. 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath
done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the
Lord GOD.
Ezekiel Recovers His Voice

25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and
that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, 26
That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to
hear it with thine ears? 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him
which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou
shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

JUDGEMENT OF FOREIGN NATIONS

CHAPTER 25

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set
thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 3 And say
unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and
against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 4 Behold,
therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and
they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they
shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5 And I will make
Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for
flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands,
and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite
against the land of Israel; 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine
hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I
will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of
the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the
LORD.

8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 9 Therefore, behold, I
will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on
his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and
Kiriathaim, 10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will
give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered
among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.

12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and
revenged himself upon them; 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and
beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of
Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom
according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know
my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by
revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it
for the old hatred; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 17 And I will
execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

CHAPTER 26
The City of Tyre

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that
was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished,
now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up
against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they shall
destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape
her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a
place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken
it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And
her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they
shall know that I am the LORD.

7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
people. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he
shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up
the buckler against thee. 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy
walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of
the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall
shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the
chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city
wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread
down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy
strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a
spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall
break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall
lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. 13
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee like the top of a
rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no
more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the
sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in
the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down
from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit
upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished
at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee,
 How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned
city,
which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants,
which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall;
yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city,
like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon
thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 20 When I shall bring thee down
with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall
set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them
that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in
the land of the living; 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no
more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again,
saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 27
Lament over Tyre

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

2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy
beauty.
5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir:
they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars;
the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of
the isles of Chittim.
7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest
forth to be thy sail;
 blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy mariners:
thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers:
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy
merchandise.

10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of
war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls
round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their
shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of
riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. 13 Javan,
Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons
of men and vessels of brass in thy market. 14 They of the house of
Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. 15
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the
merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of
ivory and ebony.

16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy
making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered
work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. 17 Judah, and the land of
Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of
Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18 Damascus was
thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the
multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan
also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia,
and calamus, were in thy market. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in
precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar,
they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were
they thy merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were
thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and
with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the
merchants of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 24 These
were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered
work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of
cedar, among thy merchandise.

25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters:
the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots,
thy calkers,
and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee,
and in all thy company
which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of
thy ruin.

28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea,
shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly,
and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the
ashes:
31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with
sackcloth,
and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament
over thee,
saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people;
thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of
thy merchandise.
34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the
waters
thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings
shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror,
and never shalt be any more.

CHAPTER 28
The Prince of Tyre

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

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the
seat of God,
in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide
from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the
heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the
nations:
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they
shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit,
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?
but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

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

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto
him, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy
covering,
the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper,
the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the
day that thou wast created.

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee.

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

17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may
behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by
the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that
behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Sidon
20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man,
set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be
glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD,
when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in
her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and
the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her
on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 24 And there
shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any
grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and
they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of
Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in
their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell
safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they
shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all
those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am
the LORD their God.

CHAPTER 29
Egypt

1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
against him, and against all Egypt:
3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth
in the midst of his rivers,
which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to
 stick unto thy scales,
and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers,
and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy
rivers:
thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor
gathered:
I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the
heaven.
6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all
their shoulder:
and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be
at a stand.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon
thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Egypt
shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD:
because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. 10 Behold,
therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the
land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even
unto the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor
foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty
years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid
waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet
thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the
Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: 14 And I will
bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the
land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a
base kingdom. 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it
exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that
they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the
confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to
remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that
I am the Lord GOD.
The Wages of Nebuchadnezzar

17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first
month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his
army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald,
and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for
Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and
take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he
served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. 21
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I
will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they
shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 30
Judgement of Egypt

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the
day 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy
day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon
Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in
Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled
people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall
with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold
Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the
tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 7
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,
and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt,
and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall
messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians
afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for,
lo, it cometh.

10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to
cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his
people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy
the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land
with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into
the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is
therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. 13 Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their
images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the
land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will
make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute
judgments in No. 15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16 And I will set fire in
Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph
shall have distresses daily. 17 The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth
shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At
Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the
yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for
her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19
Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am
the LORD.

20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the
seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to
make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the
strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out
of his hand. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the
arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will
break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings
of a deadly wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king
of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them
among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 31
Allegory of the Cedar

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day
of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom
art thou like in thy greatness?

3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches,

and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among
the thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants,
and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his
boughs were multiplied,
and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he
shot forth.
6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches
 did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow
dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root
was by great waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not
like his boughs,
and the chestnut trees were not like his branches;
nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches:
so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have therefore delivered him
into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with
him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the
terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the
mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs
are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are
gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13 Upon his ruin shall
all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be
upon his branches:

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

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave
I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the
floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon
to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made
the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell
with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice
and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the
nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him unto
them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt
under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 18 To whom art thou thus
like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be
brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth:
thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain
by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 32
Dirges Over Pharaoh and Egypt

1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,

in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto
him,
Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas:
and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet,
and fouledst their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with
a company of many people;
and they shall bring thee up in my net.
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open
field,
and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee,
and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy
height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to
the mountains;
and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness
upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known. 10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before
them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own
life, in the day of thy fall. 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of
the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the
terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of
Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. 13 I will destroy
also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the
foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like
oil, saith the Lord GOD.

15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall
be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that
dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. 16 This is the
lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the
nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and
for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of
man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and
the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth,
with them that go down into the pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty?
go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in
the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the
sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty
shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they
are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of
them slain, fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of
the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. 24
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them
slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the
nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the
living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the
living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain. 26 There is Meshech,
Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the
land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are
fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their
weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but
their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of
the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the
midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with
the sword.

29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might
are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30 There be the
princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone
down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might;
and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and
bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see
them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and
all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have
caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the
midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

SALVATION FOR ISRAEL

CHAPTER 33
The Prophet a Watchman

1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the
sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts,
and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon
the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then whosoever
heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword
come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He
heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be
upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the
watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people
be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among
them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the
watchman's hand.

7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them
from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt
surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that
wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine
hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it;
if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
delivered thy soul.
Individual Retribution
10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus
ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we
pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I
live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked;
but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from
your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall
thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the
righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust
to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses
shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he
shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely
die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If
the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the
statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall
not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned
unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely
live.

17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal:
but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turneth
from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die
thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that
which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet ye say, The way
of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one
after his ways.

21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the

tenth month, in the fifth day of the month,
that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me,
saying, The city is smitten.
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he
that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me
in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
The Survivors in Judah

23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man,
they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying,
Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land
is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your
idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? 26 Ye stand upon
your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? 27 Say thou thus unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the
wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I
give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the
caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land most desolate,
and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel
shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know
that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of
all their abominations which they have committed.

30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking
against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to
another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear
what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD. 31 And they come
unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people,
and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth
they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. 32
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy
words, but they do them not. 33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it
will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
 CHAPTER 34
The Shepherds

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds
of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the
flocks? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them
that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. 4 The diseased have ye not
strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have
ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that
which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but
with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. 5 And they were
scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the
beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered
through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was
scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after
them.

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 8 As I live, saith

the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock
became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd,
neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and fed not my flock; 9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD; 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them
to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that
they may not be meat for them.

11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the
day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my
sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 And I will bring them out from
the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to
their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers,
and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a
good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be:
there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed
upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause
them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16 I will seek that which was
lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that
which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will
destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Separation of the Sheep

17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. 18
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but
ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to
have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your
feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with
your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. 20
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will
judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. 21 Because ye
have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with
your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 Therefore will I save
my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between
cattle and cattle. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he
shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall
be their shepherd. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant
David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the
evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the
places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to
come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the
tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her
increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am
the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered
them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. 28 And
they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the
land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them
afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall
be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of
the heathen any more. 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their
God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my
people, saith the Lord GOD. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my
pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 35
Against Edom

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say unto
it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee,
and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most
desolate. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of
the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: 6 Therefore, as I live,
saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall
pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him
that passeth out and him that returneth. 8 And I will fill his mountains
with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers,
shall they fall that are slain with the sword. 9 I will make thee perpetual
desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am
the LORD.

10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries
shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: 11
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to
thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy
hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I
have judged thee. 12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that
I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the
mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to
consume. 13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and
have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. 14 Thus saith
the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee
desolate. 15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be
desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall
know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 36
Regeneration of the Land

1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say,
Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: 2 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the
ancient high places are ours in possession: 3 Therefore prophesy and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate,
and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto
the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and
are an infamy of the people: 4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear
the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes,
and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to
the residue of the heathen that are round about; 5 Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against
the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed
my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with
despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. 6 Prophesy therefore
concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the
hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the
shame of the heathen: 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted
up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their
shame.

8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. 9
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled
and sown: 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be
builded: 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and
will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.

12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and
they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt
no more henceforth bereave them of men.

13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land
devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; 14 Therefore thou
shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith
the Lord GOD. 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of
the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people
any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the
Lord GOD.
Regeneration of the People
16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17 Son of
man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by
their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the
uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon
them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols
wherewith they had polluted it: 19 And I scattered them among the
heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to
their way and according to their doings I judged them. 20 And when
they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy
name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and
are gone forth out of his land. 21 But I had pity for mine holy name,
which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they
went. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy
name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye
went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among
the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I
shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you
out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I
cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you:
and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for
the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30 And I will
multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall
receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. 31 Then shall ye
remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and
shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it
known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O
house of Israel. 33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have
cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the
cities, and the wastes shall be builded. 34 And the desolate land shall be
tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And
they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of
Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced,
and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you
shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that
was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus saith
the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to
do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy
flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste
cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.

CHAPTER 37
Vision of the Dry Bones

1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit
of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full
of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold,
there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered,
O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon
these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the
LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath
to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you,
and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a
noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his
bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon
them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four
winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So
I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and
they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we
are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and
cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in
your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and
performed it, saith the LORD.
The Two Sticks

15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 16 Moreover,
thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and
for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and
write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of
Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick;
and they shall become one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of
thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what
thou meanest by these? 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even
with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one
in mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine
hand before their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring
them into their own land: 22 And I will make them one nation in the
land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them
all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
into two kingdoms any more at all:

23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor
with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I
will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned,
and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their
God. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and
observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land
that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have
dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and
their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their
prince for ever.

26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall

be an everlasting covenant with them:
and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my
sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel,
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
 CHAPTER 38
First Prophecy Against Gog

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set
thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech
and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and
Tubal: 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I
will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of
them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with
bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 5 Persia, Ethiopia,
and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6 Gomer, and
all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his
bands: and many people with thee. 7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for
thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be
thou a guard unto them. 8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the
latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the
sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of
Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the
nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. 9 Thou shalt ascend and
come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and
all thy bands, and many people with thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought: 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them
dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12 To take a
spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that
are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the
nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of
the land. 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all
the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a
spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away
silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? 14
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou
not know it? 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north
parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a
great company, and a mighty army: 16 And thou shalt come up against
my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know
me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old
time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those
days many years that I would bring thee against them? 18 And it shall
come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. 19
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in
that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that the
fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field,
and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are
upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall
shall fall to the ground. 21 And I will call for a sword against him
throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword
shall be against his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with
pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands,
and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself;

and I will be known in the eyes of many nations,
and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER 39
 Second Prophecy Against Gog

1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal: 2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth
part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and
will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will smite thy bow
out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right
hand. 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy
bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous
birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 Thou
shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly
in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7 So will I make
my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let
them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I
am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8 Behold, it is come, and it is
done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set
on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the
bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall
burn them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood out
of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn
the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and
rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the
sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they
bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of
Hamon-gog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying
of them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yea, all the people of the
land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall
be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. 14 And they shall sever out men of
continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the
passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search. 15 And the passengers
that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he
set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-
gog. 16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
cleanse the land.

17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and
come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice
for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may
eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and
drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of
goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat
till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I
have sacrificed for you. 20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with
horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the
Lord GOD.
Israel's Return

21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their
God from that day and forward. 23 And the heathen shall know that the
house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they
trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them
into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. 24
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions
have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the
captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and
will be jealous for my holy name; 26 After that they have borne their
shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me,
when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 27
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out
of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many
nations; 28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which
cause them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have
gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more
there. 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

THE NEW ISRAEL

CHAPTER 40
The Man with a Measure

1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of

the year,

in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city
was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me,
and brought me thither. 2 In the visions of God brought he me into the
land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as
the frame of a city on the south. 3 And he brought me thither, and,
behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of
brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood
in the gate. 4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine
eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall
shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou
brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. 5 And
behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's
hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand
breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the
height, one reed.
The East Gate

6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went
up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was
one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed
broad. 7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed
broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the
threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8 He
measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9 Then measured
he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits;
and the porch of the gate was inward. 10 And the little chambers of the
gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three
were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on
that side. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 The space also
before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was
one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this
side, and six cubits on that side. 13 He measured then the gate from the
roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five
and twenty cubits, door against door. 14 He made also posts of
threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the
porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits. 16 And there were narrow
windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round
about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about
inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
The Outer Court

17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were
chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty
chambers were upon the pavement. 18 And the pavement by the side of
the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. 19
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto
the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and
northward.
The North and South Gates

20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he
measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 21 And the little
chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the
posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first
gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits. 22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees,
were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they
went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the
north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an
hundred cubits.

24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward
the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof
according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it and in the
arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 26 And there were seven
steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had
palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts
thereof. 27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and
he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
Gates of the Inner Court

28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he

measured the south gate according to these measures; 29 And the little
chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof,
according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the
arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty
cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits
long, and five cubits broad. 31 And the arches thereof were toward the
utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up
to it had eight steps. 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward
the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And
the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof,
were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and
in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and
twenty cubits broad. 34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on
that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. 35 And he brought me to
the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; 36 The little
chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the
windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth
five and twenty cubits. 37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on
that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
Side Rooms

38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the
gates, where they washed the burnt offering. 39 And in the porch of the
gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay
thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate,
were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the
gate, were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables
on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew
their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt
offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and
one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they
slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43 And within were hooks, an
hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of
the offering. 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the
singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and
their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate
having the prospect toward the north. 45 And he said unto me, This
chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the
keepers of the charge of the house. 46 And the chamber whose prospect
is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the
altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come
near to the LORD to minister unto him. 47 So he measured the court, an
hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the
altar that was before the house.
The Temple Building

48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post
of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the
breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that
side. 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to
it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on
that side.

CHAPTER 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. 2 And the breadth of the door
was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side,
and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof,
forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits;
and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4 So
he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty
cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy
place.
5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of
every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order;
and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side
chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold
in the wall of the house. 7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding
about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the
house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of
the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to
the highest by the midst. 8 I saw also the height of the house round
about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits. 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber
without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the
side chambers that were within. 10 And between the chambers was the
wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And
the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one
door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the
breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. 12 Now
the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west
was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits
thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate

place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the
building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the
galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits,
with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round
about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood
round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows
were covered; 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and
without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree
was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and
the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was
made through all the house round about. 20 From the ground unto above
the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the
temple. 21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the
sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22
The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two
cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls
thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is
before the LORD. 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves
for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25 And there were
made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees,
like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the
face of the porch without. 26 And there were narrow windows and palm
trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and
upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

CHAPTER 42
Other Structures

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

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he

brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and
measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side with the
measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round
about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about to the west
side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He
measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred
reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the
sanctuary and the profane place.

CHAPTER 43
The Return of the Lord

1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward
the east: 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the
way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the
earth shined with his glory. 3 And it was according to the appearance of
the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I
came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw
by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the
LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner
court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6 And I
heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the
place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel
no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by
the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their
threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall
between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their
abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed
them in mine anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the
carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
them for ever.
The Law of the Temple

10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may
be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And
if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the
house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the
comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances
thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in
their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and do them. 12 This is the law of the house; Upon
the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be
most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
The Altar

13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a
cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the
breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about
shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And
from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two
cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the
greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So the
altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four
horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square
in the four squares thereof. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits
long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about
it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and
his stairs shall look toward the east.

18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These
are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to
offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19 And thou
shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which
approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young
bullock for a sin offering. 20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof,
and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle,
and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 21
Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it
in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. 22 And on the
second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the
bullock.

23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young
bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24
And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast
salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the
LORD. 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin
offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the
flock, without blemish. 26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and
purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. 27 And when these days
are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the
priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace
offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 44
The Closed Gate

1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary
which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. 2 Then said the LORD
unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall
enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it,
therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it
to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of
that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
Admission to the Temple

4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I
looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
LORD: and I fell upon my face. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of
man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all
that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the
LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the
house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6 And thou shalt say to
the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O
ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 7 In that ye
have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and
uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my
house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have
broken my covenant because of all your abominations. 8 And ye have
not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my
charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No
stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter
into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went
astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even
bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house:
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and
they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they
ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to
fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith
the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not
come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near
to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their
shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will
make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof,
and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of
my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall
come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to
offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall
enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to
minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 And it shall come
to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall
be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them,
whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They
shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches
upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that
causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into
the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein
they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put
on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their
garments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow
long; they shall only poll their heads. 21 Neither shall any priest drink
wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither shall they take for
their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take
maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest
before. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the
holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the
clean. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall
judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my
statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for
father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister
that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26 And after he is
cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. 27 And in the day that
he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD. 28 And it
shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall
give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession. 29 They shall
eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and
every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the
firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your
oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first
of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. 31
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn,
whether it be fowl or beast.

CHAPTER 45
The Sacred Tract

1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall
offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length
shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth
shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round
about. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length,
with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round
about for the suburbs thereof. 3 And of this measure shalt thou measure
the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand:
and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4 The holy
portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary,
which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place
for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And the five and
twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the
Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession
for twenty chambers. 6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city
five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the
oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other
side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city,
before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the
city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and
the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border
unto the east border. 8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and
my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land
shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away
your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD. 10 Ye shall have
just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. I 11 The ephah and the
bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of
an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof
shall be after the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs:
twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
manneh.

13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an
homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer
of barley: 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall
offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten
baths; for ten baths are an homer: 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out
of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and
for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for
them, saith the Lord GOD. 16 All the people of the land shall give this
oblation for the prince in Israel. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to
give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of
the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
reconciliation for the house of Israel.
The Passover and Feast of Booths

18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the
month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the
sanctuary: 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering,
and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the
settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20
And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that
erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. 21 In
the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the
passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 And
upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people
of the land a bullock for a sin offering. 23 And seven days of the feast he
shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven
rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily
for a sin offering. 24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah
for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do

the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering,
according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and
according to the oil.

CHAPTER 46
Sabbaths

1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh
toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it
shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without,
and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his
burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the
threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut
until the evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the
door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the
sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without
blemish. 5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the
meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil
to an ephah. 6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young
bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without
blemish. 7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock,
and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall
attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
 Ritual Laws

8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch
of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 9 But when the
people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he
that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by
the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south
gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the
way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. 10
And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and
when they go forth, shall go forth. 11 And in the feast and in the
solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and ephah
to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah. 12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering
or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him
the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt
offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he
shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 13 Thou
shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first
year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. 14 And thou
shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an
ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a
meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. 15
Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil,
every morning for a continual burnt offering.

16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his
sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their
possession by inheritance. 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to
one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall
return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. 18
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by
oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his
sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not
scattered every man from his possession.
19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the
gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the
north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. 20
Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the
trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat
offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the
people. 21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me
to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of
the court there was a court. 22 In the four corners of the court there were
courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners
were of one measure. 23 And there was a row of building round about in
them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under
the rows round about. 24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of
them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of
the people.

CHAPTER 47
The Wonderful Stream

1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and,

behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the
waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the
south side of the altar. 2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate
northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the
way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right
side. 3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth
eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the
waters; the waters were to the ankles. 4 Again he measured a thousand,
and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again
he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the
loins. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I
could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river
that could not be passed over. 6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast
thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink
of the river. 7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river
were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 Then said he
unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down
into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the
sea, the waters shall be healed. 9 And it shall come to pass, that every
thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these
waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall
live whither the river cometh. 10 And it shall come to pass, that the
fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall
be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their
kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. 11 But the miry
places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be
given to salt. 12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and
on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,
neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit
according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the
sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for
medicine.
Boundaries of the Land

13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall
inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have
two portions. 14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:
concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers:
and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. 15 And this shall be the
border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of
Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is
between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-
hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17 And the border from the
sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north
northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. 18 And
the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and
from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto
the east sea. And this is the east side. 19 And the south side southward,
from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great
sea. And this is the south side southward. 20 The west side also shall be
the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This
is the west side.

21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which
shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in
the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance
with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And it shall come to pass, that in
what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his
inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 48

1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast
of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border
of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides
east and west; a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the
east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. 3 And by the border of
Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a
portion for Manasseh. 5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east
side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim. 6 And by the border of
Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for
Reuben. 7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west
side, a portion for Judah.
The Sacred Tract
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall
be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in
breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto
the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. 9 The oblation
that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand
in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. 10 And for them, even for the
priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty
thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and
twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the
midst thereof. 11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons
of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the
children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 12 And this
oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy
by the border of the Levites. 13 And over against the border of the
priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and
the breadth ten thousand. 14 And they shall not sell of it, neither
exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the
LORD. 15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against
the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for
dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof. 16
And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand
and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and
on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four
thousand and five hundred. 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be
toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two
hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward
the west two hundred and fifty. 18 And the residue in length over against
the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten
thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy
portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve
the city. 19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes
of Israel. 20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five
and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with
the possession of the city.

21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the
other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against
the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and
westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west
border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy
oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof. 22
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of
the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the
border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side,
Benjamin shall have a portion. 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from
the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. 25 And by
the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a
portion. 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the
west side, Zebulun a portion. 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the
east side unto the west side, Gad a portion. 28 And by the border of Gad,
at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto
the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. 29
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for
inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
The Gates of the City

30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four
thousand and five hundred measures. 31 And the gates of the city shall
be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate
of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. 32 And at the east side
four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph,
one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. 33 And at the south side four
thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of
Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. 34 At the west side
four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad,
one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. 35 It was round about eighteen
thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The
LORD is there.

THE BIBLE