Ezekiel
1:1Now it happened in the thirtieth year,
in the fourth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I was among
the captives by the river Chebar, that the
heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
God. 1:2In the fifth day
of the month, which was the fifth year of
king Jehoiachin's captivity, 1:3the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land
of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and
the hand of Yahweh was there on him. 1:4I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came
out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing
lightning, and a brightness round about
it, and out of the midst of it as it were
glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
1:5Out of the midst
of it came the likeness of four living creatures.
This was their appearance: they had the
likeness of a man. 1:6Everyone had four
faces, and everyone of them had four wings.
1:7Their feet were
straight feet; and the sole of their feet
was like the sole of a calf's foot; and
they sparkled like burnished brass. 1:8They had the hands
of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and
their wings thus: 1:9their wings were
joined one to another; they didn't turn
when they went; they went everyone straight
forward. 1:10As for the likeness of their faces, they
had the face of a man; and they four had
the face of a lion on the right side; and
they four had the face of an ox on the left
side; they four had also the face of an
eagle. 1:11Their faces and
their wings were separate above; two wings
of everyone were joined one to another,
and two covered their bodies. 1:12They went everyone
straight forward: where the spirit was to
go, they went; they didn't turn when they
went. 1:13As for the likeness of the living creatures,
their appearance was like burning coals
of fire, like the appearance of torches:
the fire went up and down among the
living creatures; and the fire was bright,
and out of the fire went forth lightning.
1:14The living creatures ran and returned
as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
1:15Now as I saw the
living creatures, behold, one wheel on the
earth beside the living creatures, for each
of the four faces of it. 1:16The appearance
of the wheels and their work was like a
beryl: and they four had one likeness; and
their appearance and their work was as it
were a wheel within a wheel. 1:17When they went, they went in their four
directions: they didn't turn when they went.
1:18As for their rims, they were high and
dreadful; and they four had their rims full
of eyes round about. 1:19When the living creatures went, the wheels
went beside them; and when the living creatures
were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up. 1:20Wherever the spirit
was to go, they went; there was the spirit
to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside
them; for the spirit of the living creature
was in the wheels. 1:21When those went, these went; and when
those stood, these stood; and when those
were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up beside them: for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels.
1:22Over the head of the living creature
there was the likeness of an expanse, like
the awesome crystal to look on, stretched
forth over their heads above. 1:23Under the expanse
were their wings straight, the one toward
the other: everyone had two which covered
on this side, and every one had two which
covered on that side, their bodies. 1:24When they went, I heard the noise of
their wings like the noise of great waters,
like the voice of the Almighty, a noise
of tumult like the noise of a host: when
they stood, they let down their wings. 1:25There was a voice above the expanse that
was over their heads: when they stood, they
let down their wings. 1:26Above the expanse that was over their
heads was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness
as the appearance of a man on it above.
1:27I saw as it were
glowing metal, as the appearance of fire
within it round about, from the appearance
of his loins and upward; and from the appearance
of his loins and downward I saw as it were
the appearance of fire, and there was brightness
round about him. 1:28As 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 Yahweh. When I saw it, I
fell on my face, and I heard a voice of
one that spoke.
2:1He said to me, Son of man, stand on your
feet, and I will speak with you. 2:2The Spirit entered
into me when he spoke to me, and set me
on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to
me. 2:3He said to me, Son of man, I send you
to the children of Israel, to nations that
are rebellious, which have rebelled against
me: they and their fathers have transgressed
against me even to this very day. 2:4The children are impudent and stiff-hearted:
I do sent you to them; and you shall tell
them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh. 2:5They, whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious
house), yet shall know that there has been
a prophet among them. 2:6You, son of man,
don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid
of their words, though briers and thorns
are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions:
don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed
at their looks, though they are a rebellious
house. 2:7You shall speak my words to them, whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear;
for they are most rebellious. 2:8But you, son of man, hear what I tell
you; don't be you rebellious like that rebellious
house: open your mouth, and eat that which
I give you. 2:9When I looked, behold,
a hand was put forth to me; and, behold,
a scroll of a book was therein; 2:10He spread it before me: and it was written
within and without; and there were written
therein lamentations, and mourning, and
woe.
3:1He said to me, Son of man, eat that which
you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak
to the house of Israel. 3:2So I opened my mouth, and he caused me
to eat the scroll. 3:3He said to me, Son of man, cause your
belly to eat, and fill your bowels with
this scroll that I give you. Then did I
eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey
for sweetness. 3:4He said to me, Son of man, go, get you
to the house of Israel, and speak with my
words to them. 3:5For you are not sent to a people of a
strange speech and of a hard language, but
to the house of Israel; 3:6not to many peoples of a strange speech
and of a hard language, whose words you
can not understand. Surely, if I sent you
to them, they would listen to you. 3:7But the house of
Israel will not listen to you; for they
will not listen to me: for all the house
of Israel are of hard forehead and of a
stiff heart. 3:8Behold, I have made your face hard against
their faces, and your forehead hard against
their foreheads. 3:9As an adamant harder than flint have I
made your forehead: don't be afraid of them,
neither be dismayed at their looks, though
they are a rebellious house. 3:10Moreover he said
to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak to you receive in your heart, and
hear with your ears. 3:11Go, get you to
them of the captivity, to the children of
your people, and speak to them, and tell
them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
3:12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard
behind me the voice of a great rushing,
saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh
from his place. 3:13I heard
the noise of the wings of the living creatures
as they touched one another, and the noise
of the wheels beside them, even the noise
of a great rushing. 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up, and took
me away; and I went in bitterness, in the
heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh
was strong on me. 3:15Then I came to
them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that
lived by the river Chebar, and to where
they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed
among them seven days. 3:16It happened at the end of seven days,
that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
3:17Son of man, I have
made you a watchman to the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and
give them warning from me. 3:18When I tell the
wicked, You shall surely die; and you give
him no warning, nor speak 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 your hand.
3:19Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't
turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked
way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered your soul. 3:20Again, when a righteous
man does turn from his righteousness, and
commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block
before him, he shall die: because you have
not given him warning, he shall die in his
sin, and his righteous deeds which he has
done shall not be remembered; but his blood
will I require at your hand. 3:21Nevertheless if you warn the righteous
man, that the righteous not sin, and he
does not sin, he shall surely live, because
he took warning; and you have delivered
your soul. 3:22The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and
he said to me, Arise, go forth into the
plain, and I will there talk with you. 3:23Then I arose, and went forth into the
plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh
stood there, as the glory which I saw by
the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
3:24Then the Spirit entered into me, and
set me on my feet; and he spoke with me,
and said to me, Go, shut yourself within
your house. 3:25But you, son of man, behold, they shall
lay bands on you, and shall bind you with
them, and you shall not go out among them:
3:26and I will make your tongue cleave to
the roof of your mouth, that you shall be
mute, and shall not be to them a reprover;
for they are a rebellious house. 3:27But when I speak
with you, I will open your mouth, and you
shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears,
let him forbear: for they are a rebellious
house.
4:1You also, son of man, take a tile, and
lay it before you, and portray on it a city,
even Jerusalem: 4:2and lay siege against it, and build forts
against it, and cast up a mound against
it; set camps also against it, and plant
battering rams against it round about. 4:3Take for yourself an iron pan, and set
it for a wall of iron between you and the
city: and set your face toward it, and it
shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege
against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel. 4:4Moreover lie you
on your left side, and lay the iniquity
of the house of Israel on it; according
to the number of the days that you shall
lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
4:5For I have appointed the years of their
iniquity to be to you a number of days,
even three hundred ninety days: so shall
you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:6Again, when you have accomplished these,
you shall lie on your right side, and shall
bear the iniquity of the house of Judah:
forty days, each day for a year, have I
appointed it to you. 4:7You shall set your face toward the siege
of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and
you shall prophesy against it. 4:8Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall
not turn you from one side to the other,
until you have accomplished the days of
your siege. 4:9Take for yourself
also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils,
and millet, and spelt, and put them in one
vessel, and make you bread of it; according
to the number of the days that you shall
lie on your side, even three hundred ninety
days, shall you eat of it. 4:10Your food which
you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shall you
eat it. 4:11You shall drink water by measure, the
sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall
you drink. 4:12You shall eat it as barley cakes, and
you shall bake it in their sight with dung
that comes out of man. 4:13Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children
of Israel eat their bread unclean, among
the nations where I will drive them. 4:14Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold,
my soul has not been polluted; for from
my youth up even until now have I not eaten
of that which dies of itself, or is torn
of animals; neither came there abominable
flesh into my mouth. 4:15Then he said to
me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung
for man's dung, and you shall prepare your
bread thereon. 4:16Moreover he said
to me, Son of man, behold, I will break
the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they
shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness;
and they shall drink water by measure, and
in dismay: 4:17that they may want
bread and water, and be dismayed one with
another, and pine away in their iniquity.
5:1You, son of man, take a sharp sword; as
a barber's razor shall you take it to you,
and shall cause it to pass on your head
and on your beard: then take balances to
weigh, and divide the hair. 5:2A third part shall you burn in the fire
in the midst of the city, when the days
of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall
take a third part, and strike with the sword
round about it; and a third part you shall
scatter to the wind, and I will draw out
a sword after them. 5:3You shall take of it a few in number,
and bind them in your skirts. 5:4Of these again shall
you take, and cast them into the midst of
the fire, and burn them in the fire; from
it shall a fire come forth into all the
house of Israel. 5:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem;
I have set her in the midst of the nations,
and countries are round about her. 5:6She has rebelled against my ordinances
in doing wickedness more than the nations,
and against my statutes more than the countries
that are round about her; for they have
rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes,
they have not walked in them. 5:7Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because
you are turbulent more than the nations
that are round about you, and have not walked
in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances,
neither have done after the ordinances of
the nations that are round about you; 5:8therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold,
I, even I, am against you; and I will execute
judgments in the midst of you in the sight
of the nations. 5:9I will do in you
that which I have not done, and whereunto
I will not do any more the like, because
of all your abominations. 5:10Therefore the fathers
shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and
I will execute judgments on you; and the
whole remnant of you will I scatter to all
the winds. 5:11Therefore, as I
live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because
you have defiled my sanctuary with all your
detestable things, and with all your abominations,
therefore will I also diminish you;
neither shall my eye spare, and I also will
have no pity. 5:12A third part of you shall die with the
pestilence, and with famine shall they be
consumed in the midst of you; and a third
part shall fall by the sword round about
you; and a third part I will scatter to
all the winds, and will draw out a sword
after them. 5:13Thus shall my anger be accomplished,
and I will cause my wrath toward them to
rest, and I shall be comforted; and they
shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in
my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath
on them. 5:14Moreover I will
make you a desolation and a reproach among
the nations that are round about you, in
the sight of all that pass by. 5:15So it shall be
a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
an astonishment, to the nations that are
round about you, when I shall execute judgments
on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful
rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) 5:16when I shall send on them the evil arrows
of famine, that are for destruction, which
I will send to destroy you: and I will increase
the famine on you, and will break your staff
of bread; 5:17and I will send on you famine and evil
animals, and they shall bereave you; and
pestilence and blood shall pass through
you; and I will bring the sword on you:
I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
6:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
6:2Son of man, set your face toward the mountains
of Israel, and prophesy to them, 6:3and say, You mountains
of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and
to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will
bring a sword on you, and I will destroy
your high places. 6:4Your altars shall become desolate, and
your sun-images shall be broken; and I will
cast down your slain men before your idols.
6:5I will lay the dead bodies of the children
of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars.
6:6In all your dwelling-places the cities
shall be laid waste, and the high places
shall be desolate; that your altars may
be laid waste and made desolate, and your
idols may be broken and cease, and your
sun-images may be hewn down, and your works
may be abolished. 6:7The slain shall fall in the midst of you,
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 6:8Yet will I leave
a remnant, in that you shall have some that
escape the sword among the nations, when
you shall be scattered through the countries.
6:9Those of you that escape shall remember
me among the nations where they shall be
carried captive, how that I have been broken
with their lewd heart, which has departed
from me, and with they eyes, which play
the prostitute after their idols: and they
shall loathe themselves in their own sight
for the evils which they have committed
in all their abominations. 6:10They shall know
that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain
that I would do this evil to them. 6:11Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with
your hand, and stamp with your foot, and
say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations
of the house of Israel; for they shall fall
by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence. 6:12He who is far off
shall die of the pestilence; and he who
is near shall fall by the sword; and he
who remains and is besieged shall die by
the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath
on them. 6:13You shall know
that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall
be among their idols round about their altars,
on every high hill, on all the tops of the
mountains, and under every green tree, and
under every thick oak, the places where
they offered sweet savor to all their idols.
6:14I will stretch out my hand on them, and
make the land desolate and waste, from the
wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all
their habitations: and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
7:1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, 7:2You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh
to the land of Israel, An end: the end is
come on the four corners of the land. 7:3Now is the end on you, and I will send
my anger on you, and will judge you according
to your ways; and I will bring on you all
your abominations. 7:4My eye shall not
spare you, neither will I have pity; but
I will bring your ways on you, and your
abominations shall be in the midst of you:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 7:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an
only evil; behold, it comes. 7:6An end is come,
the end is come; it awakes against you;
behold, it comes. 7:7Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of
the land: the time is come, the day is near,
a day of tumult, and not of
joyful shouting, on the mountains. 7:8Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on
you, and accomplish my anger against you,
and will judge you according to your ways;
and I will bring on you all your abominations.
7:9My eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity: I will bring on you according
to your ways; and your abominations shall
be in the midst of you; and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, do strike. 7:10Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your
doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed,
pride has budded. 7:11Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness;
none of them shall remain, nor of
their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither
shall there be eminency among them. 7:12The time is come, the day draws near:
don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller
mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude
of it. 7:13For the seller shall not return to that
which is sold, although they be yet alive:
for the vision is touching the whole multitude
of it, none shall return; neither shall
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of
his life. 7:14They have blown
the trumpet, and have made all ready; but
none goes to the battle; for my wrath is
on all the multitude of it. 7:15The sword is outside,
and the pestilence and the famine within:
he who is in the field shall die with the
sword: and he who is in the city, famine
and pestilence shall devour him. 7:16But those of those who escape shall escape,
and shall be on the mountains like doves
of the valleys, all of them moaning, every
one in his iniquity. 7:17All hands shall
be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water. 7:18They shall also gird themselves with
sackcloth, and horror shall cover them;
and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness
on all their heads. 7:19They shall cast
their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver
and their gold shall not be able to deliver
them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh:
they shall not satisfy their souls, neither
fill their bowels; because it has been the
stumbling block of their iniquity. 7:20As for the beauty of his ornament, he
set it in majesty; but they made the images
of their abominations and their detestable
things therein: therefore have I made it
to them as an unclean thing. 7:21I 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 profane it. 7:22My face will I
turn also from them, and they shall profane
my secret place; and robbers shall
enter into it, and profane it. 7:23Make the chain;
for the land is full of bloody crimes, and
the city is full of violence. 7:24Therefore I will bring the worst of the
nations, and they shall possess their houses:
I will also make the pride of the strong
to cease; and their holy places shall be
profaned. 7:25Destruction comes; and they shall seek
peace, and there shall be none. 7:26Mischief shall
come on mischief, and rumor shall be on
rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the
prophet; but the law shall perish from the
priest, and counsel from the elders. 7:27The 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 to them after their
way, and according to their deserts will
I judge them; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh.
8:1It happened in the sixth year, in the
sixth month, in the fifth day
of the month, as I sat in my house, and
the elders of Judah sat before me, that
the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on
me. 8:2Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as
the appearance of fire; from the appearance
of his loins and downward, fire; and from
his loins and upward, as the appearance
of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
8:3He put forth the
form of a hand, and took me by a lock of
my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between
earth and the sky, and brought me in the
visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door
of the gate of the inner court that
looks toward the north; where was the seat
of the image of jealousy, which provokes
to jealousy. 8:4Behold, the glory of the God of Israel
was there, according to the appearance that
I saw in the plain. 8:5Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up
your eyes now the way toward the north.
So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the
north, and see, northward of the gate of
the altar this image of jealousy in the
entry. 8:6He said to me, Son of man, see you what
they do? even the great abominations that
the house of Israel do commit here, that
I should go far off from my sanctuary? but
you shall again see yet other great abominations.
8:7He brought me to
the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold, a hole in the wall. 8:8Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now
in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall,
behold, a door. 8:9He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked
abominations that they do here. 8:10So I went in and
saw; and see, every form of creeping things,
and abominable animals, and all the idols
of the house of Israel, portrayed on the
wall round about. 8:11There stood before them seventy men of
the elders of the house of Israel; and in
the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son
of Shaphan, every man with his censer in
his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense
went up. 8:12Then said he to
me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
man in his chambers of imagery? for they
say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken
the land. 8:13He said also to
me, You shall again see yet other great
abominations which they do. 8:14Then he brought me to the door of the
gate of Yahweh's house which was toward
the north; and see, there sat the women
weeping for Tammuz. 8:15Then said he to me, Have you seen this,
son of man? you shall again see yet greater
abominations than these. 8:16He brought me into the inner court of
Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of
the temple of Yahweh, between the porch
and the altar, were about twenty-five men,
with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh,
and their faces toward the east; and they
were worshipping the sun toward the east.
8:17Then he said to
me, Have you seen this, 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 turned again
to provoke me to anger: and, behold, they
put the branch to their nose. 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath;
my eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity; and though they cry in my ears with
a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
9:1Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice,
saying, Cause you them that have charge
over the city to draw near, every man with
his destroying weapon in his hand. 9:2Behold, six men came from the way of the
upper gate, which lies toward the north,
every man with his slaughter weapon in his
hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed
in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his
side. They went in, and stood beside the
brazen altar. 9:3The glory of the God of Israel was gone
up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to
the threshold of the house: and he called
to the man clothed in linen, who had the
writer's inkhorn by his side. 9:4Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst
of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem,
and set a mark on the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
that are done in the midst of it. 9:5To the others he said in my hearing, Go
you through the city after him, and strike:
don't let your eye spare, neither have you
pity; 9:6kill utterly the old man, the young man
and the virgin, and little children and
women; but don't come near any man on whom
is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary.
Then they began at the old men that were
before the house. 9:7He said to them,
Defile the house, and fill the courts with
the slain: go you forth. They went forth,
and struck in the city. 9:8It happened, while
they were smiting, and I was left, that
I fell on my face, and cried, and said,
Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the
residue of Israel in your pouring out of
your wrath on Jerusalem? 9:9Then said he to 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 wrestling of judgment: for
they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land,
and Yahweh doesn't see. 9:10As for me also, my eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity, but I will bring
their way on their head. 9:11Behold, the man clothed in linen, who
had the inkhorn by his side, reported the
matter, saying, I have done as you have
commanded me.
10:1Then I looked, and see, in the expanse
that was over the head of the cherubim there
appeared above them as it were a sapphire
stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne. 10:2He spoke to the man clothed in linen,
and said, Go in between the whirling wheels,
even under the cherub, and fill both your
hands with coals of fire from between the
cherubim, and scatter them over the city.
He went in as I watched. 10:3Now the cherubim stood on the right side
of the house, when the man went in; and
the cloud filled the inner court. 10:4The glory of Yahweh mounted 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 Yahweh's glory. 10:5The sound of the wings of the cherubim
was heard even to the outer court, as the
voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 10:6It came to pass, when he commanded the
man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire
from between the whirling wheels, from between
the cherubim, that he went in, and stood
beside a wheel. 10:7The cherub stretched forth his hand from
between the cherubim to the fire that was
between the cherubim, and took of it,
and put it into the hands of him who was
clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
10:8There appeared
in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
under their wings. 10:9I looked, and behold, four wheels beside
the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub,
and another wheel beside another cherub;
and the appearance of the wheels was like
a beryl stone. 10:10As for their appearance, they four had
one likeness, as if a wheel have been within
a wheel. 10:11When they went, they went in their four
directions: they didn't turn as they went,
but to the place where the head looked they
followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
10:12Their whole body, and their backs, and
their hands, and their wings, and the wheels,
were full of eyes round about, even
the wheels that they four had. 10:13As for the wheels, they were called
in my hearing, the whirling wheels.
10:14Every one had
four faces: the first face was the face
of the cherub, and the second face was the
face of a man, and the third face the face
of a lion, and the fourth the face of an
eagle. 10:15The cherubim mounted up: this is the
living creature that I saw by the river
Chebar. 10:16When the cherubim
went, the wheels went beside them; and when
the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount
up from the earth, the wheels also didn't
turn from beside them. 10:17When they stood, these stood; and when
they mounted up, these mounted up with them:
for the spirit of the living creature was
in them. 10:18The glory of Yahweh
went forth from over the threshold of the
house, and stood over the cherubim. 10:19The cherubim lifted up their wings,
and mounted up from the earth in my sight
when they went forth, and the wheels beside
them: and they stood at the door of the
east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory
of the God of Israel was over them above.
10:20This is the living creature that I saw
under the God of Israel by the river Chebar;
and I knew that they were cherubim. 10:21Every one had four faces, and every
one four wings; and the likeness of the
hands of a man was under their wings. 10:22As for the likeness of their faces,
they were the faces which I saw by the river
Chebar, their appearances and themselves;
they went every one straight forward.
11:1Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and
brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's
house, which looks eastward: and see, at
the door of the gate twenty-five men; and
I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the
son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah,
princes of the people. 11:2He said to me, Son of man, these are
the men who devise iniquity, and who give
wicked counsel in this city; 11:3who say, The time is not near
to build houses: this city is the
caldron, and we are the flesh. 11:4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy,
son of man. 11:5The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and
he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh:
Thus have you said, house of Israel; for
I know the things that come into your mind.
11:6You have multiplied your slain in this
city, and you have filled the streets of
it with the slain. 11:7Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Your slain whom you have laid in the midst
of it, they are the flesh, and this city
is the caldron; but you shall be brought
forth out of the midst of it. 11:8You have feared the sword; and I will
bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
11:9I will bring you
forth out of the midst of it, and deliver
you into the hands of strangers, and will
execute judgments among you. 11:10You shall fall
by the sword; I will judge you in the border
of Israel; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. 11:11This city shall not be your caldron,
neither shall you be the flesh in the midst
of it; I will judge you in the border of
Israel; 11:12and you shall
know that I am Yahweh: for you have not
walked in my statutes, neither have you
executed my ordinances, but have done after
the ordinances of the nations that are round
about you. 11:13It happened, when
I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah
died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried
with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh!
will you make a full end of the remnant
of Israel? 11:14The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
11:15Son of man, your brothers, even your
brothers, the men of your relatives, and
all the house of Israel, all of them, are
they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem
have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us
is this land given for a possession. 11:16Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Whereas I have removed them far off among
the nations, and whereas I have scattered
them among the countries, yet will I be
to them a sanctuary for a little while in
the countries where they are come. 11:17Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
I will gather you from the peoples, and
assemble you out of the countries where
you have been scattered, and I will give
you the land of Israel. 11:18They shall come there, and they shall
take away all the detestable things of it
and all the abominations of it from there.
11:19I 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 a heart of flesh; 11:20that they may
walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances,
and do them: and they shall be my people,
and I will be their God. 11:21But as for them
whose heart walks after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations,
I will bring their way on their own heads,
says the Lord Yahweh. 11:22Then did the cherubim lift up their
wings, and the wheels were beside them;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over
them above. 11:23The glory of Yahweh went up from the
midst of the city, and stood on the mountain
which is on the east side of the city. 11:24The Spirit lifted me up, and brought
me in the vision by the Spirit of God into
Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the
vision that I had seen went up from me.
11:25Then I spoke to them of the captivity
all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
12:1The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
12:2Son of man, you dwell in the midst of
the rebellious house, who have eyes to see,
and don't see, who have ears to hear, and
don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
12:3Therefore, you son of man, prepare you
stuff for removing, and remove by day in
their sight; and you shall remove from your
place to another place in their sight: it
may be they will consider, though they are
a rebellious house. 12:4You shall bring forth your stuff by day
in their sight, as stuff for removing; and
you shall go forth yourself at even in their
sight, as when men go forth into exile.
12:5Dig you through the wall in their sight,
and carry out thereby. 12:6In their sight shall you bear it on your
shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark;
you shall cover your face, that you don't
see the land: for I have set you for a sign
to the house of Israel. 12:7I did so as I was commanded: I brought
forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing,
and in the even I dug through the wall with
my hand; I brought it forth in the dark,
and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
12:8In the morning
came the word of Yahweh to me, saying, 12:9Son of man, has
not the house of Israel, the rebellious
house, said to you, What do you? 12:10Say you to them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: This burden concerns the
prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
Israel among whom they are. 12:11Say, I am your
sign: like as I have done, so shall it be
done to them; they shall go into exile,
into captivity. 12:12The prince who is among them shall bear
on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go
forth: they shall dig through the wall to
carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
because he shall not see the land with his
eyes. 12:13My net also will
I spread on him, and he shall be taken in
my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon
to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall
he not see it, though he shall die there.
12:14I will scatter
toward every wind all who are round about
him to help him, and all his bands; and
I will draw out the sword after them. 12:15They shall know that I am Yahweh, when
I shall disperse them among the nations,
and scatter them through the countries.
12:16But I will leave a few men of them from
the sword, from the famine, and from the
pestilence; that they may declare all their
abominations among the nations where they
come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
12:17Moreover the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, 12:18Son of man, eat
your bread with quaking, and drink your
water with trembling and with fearfulness;
12:19and tell the people of the land, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They
shall eat their bread with fearfulness,
and drink their water in dismay, that her
land may be desolate, and despoiled
of all that is therein, because of the violence
of all those who dwell therein. 12:20The cities that are inhabited shall
be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 12:21The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
12:22Son of man, what is this proverb that
you have in the land of Israel, saying,
The days are prolonged, and every vision
fails? 12:23Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease,
and they shall no more use it as a proverb
in Israel; but tell them, The days are at
hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
12:24For there shall
be no more any false vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel. 12:25For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the
word that I shall speak shall be performed;
it shall be no more deferred: for in your
days, rebellious house, will I speak the
word, and will perform it, says the Lord
Yahweh. 12:26Again the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, 12:27Son of man, behold,
they of the house of Israel say, The vision
that he sees is for many day to come, and
he prophesies of times that are far off.
12:28Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: There shall none of my words be
deferred any more, but the word which I
shall speak shall be performed, says the
Lord Yahweh.
13:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
13:2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets
of Israel who prophesy, and say you to those
who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear
you the word of Yahweh: 13:3Thus says the Lord
Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
13:4Israel, your prophets have been like
foxes in the waste places. 13:5You have not gone
up into the gaps, neither built up the wall
for the house of Israel, to stand in the
battle in the day of Yahweh. 13:6They have seen
falsehood and lying divination, who say,
Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them:
and they have made men to hope that the
word would be confirmed. 13:7Haven't you seen a false vision, and
haven't you spoken a lying divination, in
that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not
spoken? 13:8Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen
lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
says the Lord Yahweh. 13:9My hand shall be
against the prophets who see false visions,
and who divine lies: they shall not be in
the council 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 you shall know that
I am the Lord Yahweh. 13:10Because, even because they have seduced
my people, saying, Peace; and there is no
peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold,
they daub it with whitewash: 13:11tell those who daub it with whitewash,
that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and you, great hailstones, shall
fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it. 13:12Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall
it not be said to you, Where is the daubing
with which you have daubed it? 13:13Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
I will even tear it with a stormy wind in
my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in my anger, and great hailstones
in wrath to consume it. 13:14So will I break down the wall that you
have daubed with whitewash, and bring it
down to the ground, so that the foundation
of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall,
and you shall be consumed in the midst of
it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
13:15Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the
wall, and on those who have daubed it with
whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall
is no more, neither those who daubed it;
13:16to wit, the prophets of Israel
who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who
see visions of peace for her, and there
is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh. 13:17You, son of man,
set your face against the daughters of your
people, who prophesy out of their own heart;
and prophesy you against them, 13:18and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Woe to the women who sew pillows on all
elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head
of persons of every stature to hunt
souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people,
and save souls alive for yourselves? 13:19You have profaned me among my people
for handfuls of barley and for pieces of
bread, to kill the souls who should not
die, and to save the souls alive who should
not live, by your lying to my people who
listen to lies. 13:20Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
your pillows, with which you there hunt
the souls to make them fly, and I
will tear them from your arms; and I will
let the souls go, even the souls who you
hunt to make them fly. 13:21Your 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 you shall know that I am Yahweh.
13:22Because with lies you have grieved the
heart of the righteous, whom I have not
made sad; and strengthened the hands of
the wicked, that he should not return from
his wicked way, and be saved alive: 13:23Therefore you
shall no more see false visions, nor practice
divination. I will deliver my people out
of your hand; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh.
14:1Then came certain of the elders of Israel
to me, and sat before me. 14:2The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, 14:3Son of man, these men have taken their
idols into their heart, and put the stumbling
block of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them?
14:4Therefore speak to them, and tell them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of
the house of Israel who takes his idols
into his heart, and puts the stumbling block
of his iniquity before his face, and comes
to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him
therein according to the multitude of his
idols; 14:5that I may take
the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through
their idols. 14:6Therefore tell
the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves
from your idols; and turn away your faces
from all your abominations. 14:7For everyone of the house of Israel,
or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel,
who separates himself from me, and takes
his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling
block of his iniquity before his face, and
comes to the prophet to inquire for himself
of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
14:8and I will set
my face against that man, and will make
him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb,
and I will cut him off from the midst of
my people; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. 14:9If the prophet
be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh,
have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch
out my hand on him, and will destroy him
from the midst of my people Israel. 14:10They shall bear
their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet
shall be even as the iniquity of him who
seeks to him; 14:11that the house
of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither defile themselves any more with
all their transgressions; but that they
may be my people, and I may be their God,
says the Lord Yahweh. 14:12The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, 14:13Son of man, when a land sins against
me by committing a trespass, and I stretch
out my hand on it, and break the staff of
the bread of it, and send famine on it,
and cut off from it man and animal; 14:14though these three men, Noah, Daniel,
and Job, were in it, they should deliver
but their own souls by their righteousness,
says the Lord Yahweh. 14:15If I cause evil
animals to pass through the land, and they
ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that
no man may pass through because of the animals;
14:16though these three men were in it, as
I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should
deliver neither sons nor daughters; they
only should be delivered, but the land should
be desolate. 14:17Or if I bring a sword on that land,
and say, Sword, go through the land; so
that I cut off from it man and animal; 14:18though these three men were in it, as
I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should
deliver neither sons nor daughters, but
they only should be delivered themselves.
14:19Or if I send a pestilence into that
land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood,
to cut off from it man and animal; 14:20though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in
it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they
should deliver neither son nor daughter;
they should but deliver their own souls
by their righteousness. 14:21For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much
more when I send my four sore judgments
on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
and the evil animals, and the pestilence,
to cut off from it man and animal! 14:22Yet, behold, therein shall be left a
remnant that shall be carried forth, both
sons and daughters: behold, they shall come
forth to you, and you shall see their way
and their doings; and you shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought
on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I
have brought on it. 14:23They shall comfort you, when you see
their way and their doings; and you shall
know that I have not done without cause
all that I have done in it, says the Lord
Yahweh.
15:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
15:2Son of man, what is the vine tree more
than any tree, the vine-branch which is
among the trees of the forest? 15:3Shall wood be taken of it to make any
work? or will men take a pin of it to hang
any vessel thereon? 15:4Behold, it is cast into the fire for
fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends
of it, and the midst of it is burned: is
it profitable for any work? 15:5Behold, when it
was whole, it was meet for no work: how
much less, when the fire has devoured it,
and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for
any work! 15:6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
As the vine tree among the trees of the
forest, which I have given to the fire for
fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. 15:7I will set my face against them; they
shall go forth from the fire, but the fire
shall devour them; and you shall know that
I am Yahweh, when I set my face against
them. 15:8I will make the land desolate, because
they have committed a trespass, says the
Lord Yahweh.
16:1Again the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, 16:2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
abominations; 16:3and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to
Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is
of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite
was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
16:4As for your birth, in the day you were
born your navel was not cut, neither were
you washed in water to cleanse you; you
weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5No eye pitied you, to do any of these
things to you, to have compassion on you;
but you were cast out in the open field,
for that your person was abhorred, in the
day that you were born. 16:6When I passed by you, and saw you weltering
in your blood, I said to you, Though
you are in your blood, live; yes, I
said to you, Though you are in your
blood, live. 16:7I caused you to multiply as that which
grows in the field, and you increased and
grew great, and you attained to excellent
ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and
your hair was grown; yet you were naked
and bare. 16:8Now when I passed
by you, and looked at you, behold, your
time was the time of love; and I spread
my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness:
yes, I swore to you, and entered into a
covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh,
and you became mine. 16:9Then washed I you with water; yes, I
thoroughly washed away your blood from you,
and I anointed you with oil. 16:10I clothed you also with embroidered
work, and shod you with sealskin, and I
girded you about with fine linen, and covered
you with silk. 16:11I decked you with
ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands,
and a chain on your neck. 16:12I put a ring on your nose, and ear-rings
in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your
head. 16:13Thus was you decked with gold and silver;
and your clothing was of fine linen, and
silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine
flour, and honey, and oil; and you were
exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper
to royal estate. 16:14Your renown went
forth among the nations for your beauty;
for it was perfect, through my majesty which
I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
16:15But you did trust in your beauty, and
played the prostitute because of your renown,
and poured out your prostitution on everyone
who passed by; his it was. 16:16You took of your garments, and made
for yourselves high places decked with various
colors, and played the prostitute on them:
the like things shall not come, neither
shall it be so. 16:17You also took your beautiful jewels
of my gold and of my silver, which I had
given you, and made for yourself images
of men, and played the prostitute with them;
16:18and you took your embroidered garments,
and covered them, and did set my oil and
my incense before them. 16:19My bread also which I gave you, fine
flour, and oil, and honey, with which I
fed you, you did even set it before them
for a sweet savor; and thus it was,
says the Lord Yahweh. 16:20Moreover you have taken your sons and
your daughters, whom you have borne to me,
and these have you sacrificed to them to
be devoured. Were your prostitution a small
matter, 16:21that you have slain my children, and
delivered them up, in causing them to pass
through the fire to them? 16:22In all your abominations and your prostitution
you have not remembered the days of your
youth, when you were naked and bare, and
was weltering in your blood. 16:23It is happen after all your wickedness,
(woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh),
16:24that you have built to you a vaulted
place, and have made you a lofty place in
every street. 16:25You have built your lofty place at the
head of every way, and have made your beauty
an abomination, and have opened your feet
to everyone who passed by, and multiplied
your prostitution. 16:26You have also committed sexual immorality
with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great
of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution,
to provoke me to anger. 16:27See therefore, I have stretched out
my hand over you, and have diminished your
ordinary food, and delivered you
to the will of those who hate you, the daughters
of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your
lewd way. 16:28You have played
the prostitute also with the Assyrians,
because you were insatiable; yes, you have
played the prostitute with them, and yet
you weren't satisfied. 16:29You have moreover multiplied your prostitution
to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and
yet you weren't satisfied with this. 16:30How weak is your heart, says the Lord
Yahweh, seeing you do all these things,
the work of an impudent prostitute; 16:31in that you build your vaulted place
at the head of every way, and make your
lofty place in every street, and have not
been as a prostitute, in that you scorn
pay. 16:32A wife who commits adultery! who takes
strangers instead of her husband! 16:33They give gifts
to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts
to all your lovers, and bribe them, that
they may come to you on every side for your
prostitution. 16:34You are different from other
women in your prostitution, in that none
follows you to play the prostitute; and
whereas you give hire, and no hire is given
to you, therefore you are different. 16:35Therefore, prostitute, hear the word
of Yahweh: 16:36Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your
filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness
uncovered through your prostitution with
your lovers; and because of all the idols
of your abominations, and for the blood
of your children, that you gave to them;
16:37therefore see, I will gather all your
lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure,
and all those who you have loved, with all
those who you have hated; I will even gather
them against you on every side, and will
uncover your nakedness to them, that they
may see all your nakedness. 16:38I will judge you, as women who break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I
will bring on you the blood of wrath and
jealousy. 16:39I will also give you into their hand,
and they shall throw down your vaulted place,
and break down your lofty places; and they
shall strip you of your clothes, and take
your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave
you naked and bare. 16:40They shall also bring up a company against
you, and they shall stone you with stones,
and thrust you through with their swords.
16:41They shall burn your houses with fire,
and execute judgments on you in the sight
of many women; and I will cause you to cease
from playing the prostitute, and you shall
also give no hire any more. 16:42So will I cause my wrath toward you
to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from
you, and I will be quiet, and will be no
more angry. 16:43Because you have not remembered the
days of your youth, but have raged against
me in all these things; therefore, behold,
I also will bring your way on your head,
says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not
commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
16:44Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall
use this proverb against you, saying,
As is the mother, so is her daughter. 16:45You are the daughter of your mother,
who loathes her husband and her children;
and you are the sister of your sisters,
who loathed their husbands and their children:
your mother was a Hittite, and your father
an Amorite. 16:46Your elder sister
is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand,
she and her daughters; and your younger
sister, who dwells at your right hand, is
Sodom and her daughters. 16:47Yet have you not walked in their ways,
nor done after their abominations; but,
as if that were a very little thing,
you were more corrupt than they in all your
ways. 16:48As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom
your sister has not done, she nor her daughters,
as you have done, you and your daughters.
16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of your
sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread,
and prosperous ease was in her and in her
daughters; neither did she strengthen the
hand of the poor and needy. 16:50They were haughty, and committed abomination
before me: therefore I took them away as
I saw good. 16:51Neither has Samaria committed half of
your sins; but you have multiplied your
abominations more than they, and have justified
your sisters by all your abominations which
you have done. 16:52You also, bear you your own shame, in
that you have given judgment for your sisters;
through your sins that you have committed
more abominable than they, they are more
righteous that you: yes, be also confounded,
and bear your shame, in that you have justified
your sisters. 16:53I will turn again their captivity, the
captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and
the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
and the captivity of your captives in the
midst of them; 16:54that you may bear your own shame, and
may be ashamed because of all that you have
done, in that you are a comfort to them.
16:55Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
shall return to their former estate; and
Samaria and her daughters shall return to
their former estate; and you and your daughters
shall return to your former estate. 16:56For your sister
Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in
the day of your pride, 16:57before your wickedness was uncovered,
as at the time of the reproach of the daughters
of Syria, and of all who are round about
her, the daughters of the Philistines, who
do despite to you round about. 16:58You have borne your lewdness and your
abominations, says Yahweh. 16:59For thus says
the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you
as you have done, who have despised the
oath in breaking the covenant. 16:60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant
with you in the days of your youth, and
I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
16:61Then shall you remember your ways, and
be ashamed, when you shall receive your
sisters, your elder sisters and your
younger; and I will give them to you for
daughters, but not by your covenant. 16:62I will establish
my covenant with you; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh; 16:63that you may remember, and be confounded,
and never open your mouth any more, because
of your shame, when I have forgiven you
all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
17:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
17:2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak
a parable to the house of Israel; 17:3and say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great
wings and long feathers, full of feathers,
which had various colors, came to Lebanon,
and took the top of the cedar: 17:4he cropped off the topmost of the young
twigs of it, and carried it to a land of
traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
17:5He took also of the seed of the land,
and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed
it beside many waters; he set it as a willow
tree. 17:6It grew, and became a spreading vine
of low stature, whose branches turned toward
him, and the roots of it were under him:
so it became a vine, and brought forth branches,
and shot forth sprigs. 17:7There was also another great eagle with
great wings and many feathers: and, behold,
this vine did bend its roots toward him,
and shot forth its branches toward him,
from the beds of its plantation, that he
might water it. 17:8It was planted
in a good soil by many waters, that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might
bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
17:9Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall
it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots
of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that
it may wither; that all its fresh springing
leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm
or much people can it be raised from the
roots of it. 17:10Yes, behold, being planted, shall it
prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when
the east wind touches it? it shall wither
in the beds where it grew. 17:11Moreover the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, 17:12Say now to the
rebellious house, Don't you know what these
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king
of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the
king of it, and the princes of it, and brought
them to him to Babylon: 17:13and he took of the seed royal, and made
a covenant with him; he also brought him
under an oath, and took away the mighty
of the land; 17:14that the kingdom might be base, that
it might not lift itself up, but that by
keeping his covenant it might stand. 17:15But 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 who does such things?
shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
17:16As I live, says
the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where
the king dwells who made him king, whose
oath he despised, and whose covenant he
broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon
he shall die. 17:17Neither shall
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
help him in the war, when they cast up mounds
and build forts, to cut off many persons.
17:18For he has despised the oath by breaking
the covenant; and behold, he had given his
hand, and yet has done all these things;
he shall not escape. 17:19Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely
my oath that he has despised, and my covenant
that he has broken, I will even bring it
on his own head. 17:20I will spread my net on him, and he
shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring
him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment
with him there for his trespass that he
has trespassed against me. 17:21All his fugitives in all his bands shall
fall by the sword, and those who remain
shall be scattered toward every wind: and
you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken
it. 17:22Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also
take of the lofty top of the cedar, and
will set it; I will crop off from the topmost
of its young twigs a tender one, and I will
plant it on a high and lofty mountain: 17:23in 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 birds
of every wing; in the shade of the branches
of it shall they dwell. 17:24All the trees of the field shall know
that I, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, have spoken
and have done it.
18:1The word of Yahweh came to me again,
saying, 18:2What do you mean, that you use this proverb
concerning the land of Israel, saying, The
fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge? 18:3As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you
shall not have occasion any more
to use this proverb in Israel. 18:4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul
of the father, so also the soul of the son
is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.
18:5But if a man is just, and does that which
is lawful and right, 18:6and has not eaten
on the mountains, neither has lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
neither has defiled his neighbor's wife,
neither has come near to a woman in her
impurity, 18:7and has not wronged
any, but has restored to the debtor his
pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has
given his bread to the hungry, and has covered
the naked with a garment; 18:8he who has not given forth on interest,
neither has taken any increase, who has
withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed
true justice between man and man, 18:9has walked in my statutes, and has kept
my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just,
he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
18:10If he fathers a son who is a robber,
a shedder of blood, and who does any one
of these things, 18:11and who does not any of those duties,
but even has eaten on the mountains, and
defiled his neighbor's wife, 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has
taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge,
and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,
has committed abomination, 18:13has given forth
on interest, and has taken increase; shall
he then live? he shall not live: he has
done all these abominations; he shall surely
die; his blood shall be on him. 18:14Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who
sees all his father's sins, which he has
done, and fears, and does not such like;
18:15who has not eaten on the mountains,
neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols
of the house of Israel, has not defiled
his neighbor's wife, 18:16neither has wronged
any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither
has taken by robbery, but has given his
bread to the hungry, and has covered the
naked with a garment; 18:17who has withdrawn his hand from the
poor, who has not received interest nor
increase, has executed my ordinances, has
walked in my statutes; he shall not die
for the iniquity of his father, he shall
surely live. 18:18As for his father,
because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his
brother, and did that which is not good
among his people, behold, he shall die in
his iniquity. 18:19Yet say you, Why does not the son bear
the iniquity of the father? when the son
has done that which is lawful and right,
and has kept all my statutes, and has done
them, he shall surely live. 18:20The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be on him. 18:21But if the wicked turn from all his
sins that he has committed, and keep all
my statutes, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall surely live, he shall
not die. 18:22None of his transgressions that he has
committed shall be remembered against him:
in his righteousness that he has done he
shall live. 18:23Have I any pleasure
in the death of the wicked? says the Lord
Yahweh; and not rather that he should return
from his way, and live? 18:24But when the righteous
turns away from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and does according to all the
abominations that the wicked man does, shall
he live? None of his righteous deeds that
he has done shall be remembered: in his
trespass that he has trespassed, and in
his sin that he has sinned, in them shall
he die. 18:25Yet you say, The way of the Lord is
not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is
my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
18:26When the righteous man turns away from
his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
and dies therein; in his iniquity that he
has done shall he die. 18:27Again, when the
wicked man turns away from his wickedness
that he has committed, and does that which
is lawful and right, he shall save his soul
alive. 18:28Because he considers, and turns away
from all his transgressions that he has
committed, he shall surely live, he shall
not die. 18:29Yet says the house of Israel, The way
of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel,
are not my ways equal? are not your ways
unequal? 18:30Therefore I will judge you, house of
Israel, everyone according to his ways,
says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn
yourselves from all your transgressions;
so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions,
in which you have transgressed; and make
you a new heart and a new spirit: for why
will you die, house of Israel? 18:32For I have no pleasure in the death
of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore
turn yourselves, and live.
19:1Moreover, take up a lamentation for the
princes of Israel, 19:2and say, What was your mother? A lioness:
she couched among lions, in the midst of
the young lions she nourished her cubs.
19:3She brought up one of her cubs: he became
a young lion, and he learned to catch the
prey; he devoured men. 19:4The nations also heard of him; he was
taken in their pit; and they brought him
with hooks to the land of Egypt. 19:5Now when she saw that she had waited,
and her hope was lost, then she took another
of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
19:6He went up and down among the lions;
he became a young lion, and he learned to
catch the prey; he devoured men. 19:7He knew their palaces, and laid waste
their cities; and the land was desolate,
and the fullness of it, because of the noise
of his roaring. 19:8Then the nations
set against him on every side from the provinces;
and they spread their net over him; he was
taken in their pit. 19:9They put him in
a cage with hooks, and brought him to the
king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds,
that his voice should no more be heard on
the mountains of Israel. 19:10Your mother was like a vine, in your
blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful
and full of branches by reason of many waters.
19:11It had strong rods for the scepters
of those who bore rule, and their stature
was exalted among the thick boughs, and
they were seen in their height with the
multitude of their branches. 19:12But it was plucked up in fury, it was
cast down to the ground, and the east wind
dried up its fruit: its strong rods were
broken off and withered; the fire consumed
them. 19:13Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land. 19:14Fire is gone out
of the rods of its branches, it has devoured
its fruit, so that there is in it no strong
rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation,
and shall be for a lamentation.
20:1It happened 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 Yahweh, and
sat before me. 20:2The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
20:3Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel,
and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Is it to inquire of me that you have come?
As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will
not be inquired of by you. 20:4Will you judge them, son of man, will
you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations
of their fathers; 20:5and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
In the day when I chose Israel, and swore
to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made
myself known to them in the land of Egypt,
when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh
your God; 20:6in that day I swore
to them, to bring them forth out of the
land of Egypt into a land that I had searched
out for them, flowing with milk and honey,
which is the glory of all lands. 20:7I said to them, Cast you away every man
the abominations of his eyes, and don't
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt;
I am Yahweh your God. 20:8But they rebelled
against me, and would not listen to 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 would
pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish
my anger against them in the midst of the
land of Egypt. 20:9But I worked for my name's sake, that
it should not be profaned in the sight of
the nations, among which they were, in whose
sight I made myself known to them, in bringing
them forth out of the land of Egypt. 20:10So I caused them
to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and
brought them into the wilderness. 20:11I gave them my statutes, and shown them
my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall
live in them. 20:12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths,
to be a sign between me and them, that they
might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies
them. 20:13But the house of Israel rebelled against
me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in
my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances,
which if a man keep, he shall live in them;
and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then
I said I would pour out my wrath on them
in the wilderness, to consume them. 20:14But I worked for
my name's sake, that it should not be profaned
in the sight of the nations, in whose sight
I brought them out. 20:15Moreover also
I swore to them in the wilderness, that
I would not bring them into the land which
I had given them, flowing with milk and
honey, which is the glory of all lands;
20:16because they rejected my ordinances,
and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned
my Sabbaths: for their heart went after
their idols. 20:17Nevertheless my eye spared them, and
I didn't destroy them, neither did I make
a full end of them in the wilderness. 20:18I said to their children in the wilderness,
Don't you walk in the statutes of your fathers,
neither observe their ordinances, nor defile
yourselves with their idols. 20:19I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes,
and keep my ordinances, and do them; 20:20and make my Sabbaths
holy; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh
your God. 20:21But the children
rebelled against me; they didn't walk in
my statutes, neither kept my ordinances
to do them, which if a man do, he shall
live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out my wrath on
them, to accomplish my anger against them
in the wilderness. 20:22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and
worked for my name's sake, that it should
not be profaned in the sight of the nations,
in whose sight I brought them forth. 20:23Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness,
that I would scatter them among the nations,
and disperse them through the countries;
20:24because they had not executed my ordinances,
but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned
my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their
fathers' idols. 20:25Moreover also
I gave them statutes that were not good,
and ordinances in which they should not
live; 20:26and I polluted them in their own gifts,
in that they caused to pass through the
fire all that opens the womb, that I
might make them desolate, to the end that
they might know that I am Yahweh. 20:27Therefore, son of man, speak to the
house of Israel, and tell them, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your
fathers blasphemed me, in that they have
committed a trespass against me. 20:28For when I had brought them into the
land, which I swore to give to them, then
they saw every high hill, and every thick
tree, and they offered there their sacrifices,
and there they presented the provocation
of their offering; there also they made
their sweet savor, and they poured out there
their drink-offerings. 20:29Then I said to them, What means the
high place whereunto you go? So the name
of it is called Bamah to this day. 20:30Therefore tell the house of Israel,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute
yourselves after the manner of your fathers?
and play you the prostitute after their
abominations? 20:31and when you offer your gifts, when
you make your sons to pass through the fire,
do you pollute yourselves with all your
idols to this day? and shall I be inquired
of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says
the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired
of by you; 20:32and that which comes into your mind
shall not be at all, in that you say, We
will be as the nations, as the families
of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
20:33As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely
with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched
arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be
king over you: 20:34and I will bring
you out from the peoples, and will gather
you out of the countries in which you are
scattered, with a mighty hand, and with
an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured
out; 20:35and I will bring
you into the wilderness of the peoples,
and there will I enter into judgment with
you face to face. 20:36Like as I entered
into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness
of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into
judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.
20:37I will cause you to pass under the rod,
and I will bring you into the bond of the
covenant; 20:38and I will purge out from among you
the rebels, and those who disobey against
me; I will bring them forth out of the land
where they sojourn, but they shall not enter
into the land of Israel: and you shall know
that I am Yahweh. 20:39As for you, house
of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go
you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter
also, if you will not listen to me; but
my holy name shall you no more profane with
your gifts, and with your idols. 20:40For in my holy mountain, in the mountain
of the height of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh,
there shall all the house of Israel, all
of them, serve me in the land: there will
I accept them, and there will I require
your offerings, and the first fruits of
your offerings, with all your holy things.
20:41As a sweet savor
will I accept you, when I bring you out
from the peoples, and gather you out of
the countries in which you have been scattered;
and I will be sanctified in you in the sight
of the nations. 20:42You shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you
into the land of Israel, into the country
which I swore to give to your fathers. 20:43There shall you remember your ways,
and all your doings, in which you have polluted
yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves
in your own sight for all your evils that
you have committed. 20:44You shall know that I am Yahweh, when
I have dealt with you for my name's sake,
not according to your evil ways, nor according
to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh. 20:45The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
20:46Son of man, set your face toward the
south, and drop your word toward
the south, and prophesy against the forest
of the field in the South; 20:47and tell the forest
of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus
says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle
a fire in you, and it shall devour every
green tree in you, and every dry tree: the
flaming flame shall not be quenched, and
all faces from the south to the north shall
be burnt thereby. 20:48All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh,
have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
20:49Then said I, Ah
Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a
speaker of parables?
21:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
21:2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem,
and drop your word toward the sanctuaries,
and prophesy against the land of Israel;
21:3and tell the land of Israel, Thus says
Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will
draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and
will cut off from you the righteous and
the wicked. 21:4Seeing then that I will cut off from
you the righteous and the wicked, therefore
shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
against all flesh from the south to the
north: 21:5and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh,
have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath;
it shall not return any more. 21:6Sigh therefore, you son of man; with
the breaking of your loins and with bitterness
shall you sigh before their eyes. 21:7It shall be, when they tell you, Why
do you sigh? that you shall say, Because
of the news, for it comes; 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 comes,
and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
21:8The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, 21:9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says
Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened,
and also furbished; 21:10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter;
it is furbished that it may be as lightning:
shall we then make mirth? the rod of my
son, it condemns every tree. 21:11It is given to be furbished, that it
may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened,
yes, it is furbished, to give it into the
hand of the killer. 21:12Cry and wail,
son of man; for it is on my people, it is
on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered
over to the sword with my people; strike
therefore on your thigh. 21:13For there is a trial; and what if even
the rod that condemns shall be no more?
says the Lord Yahweh. 21:14You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
and strike your hands together; and let
the sword be doubled the third time, the
sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword
of the great one who is deadly wounded,
which enters into their chambers. 21:15I have set the threatening sword against
all their gates, that their heart may melt,
and their stumblings be multiplied: ah!
it is made as lightning, it is pointed for
slaughter. 21:16Gather you together, go to the right,
set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever
your face is set. 21:17I will also strike my hands together,
and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh,
have spoken it. 21:18The word of Yahweh came to me again,
saying, 21:19Also, you son of man, appoint two ways,
that the sword of the king of Babylon may
come; they both shall come forth out of
one land: and mark out a place, mark it
out at the head of the way to the city.
21:20You shall appoint a way for the sword
to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
21:21For the king of Babylon stood at the
parting of the way, at the head of the two
ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows
back and forth, he consulted the teraphim,
he looked in the liver. 21:22In his right hand was the divination
for Jerusalem, to set battering rams,
to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift
up the voice with shouting, to set battering
rams against the gates, to cast up mounds,
to build forts. 21:23It shall be to them as a false divination
in their sight, who have sworn oaths to
them; but he brings iniquity to memory,
that they may be taken. 21:24Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that
your transgressions are uncovered, so that
in all your doings your sins do appear;
because you have come to memory, you shall
be taken with the hand. 21:25You, deadly wounded wicked one, the
prince of Israel, whose day is come, in
the time of the iniquity of the end, 21:26thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the
turban, and take off the crown; this shall
be no more the same; exalt that which
is low, and abase that which is high. 21:27I will overturn, overturn, overturn
it: this also shall be no more, until he
come whose right it is; and I will give
it him. 21:28You, son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning
their reproach; and say you, A sword, a
sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is
furbished, to cause it to devour, that it
may be as lightning; 21:29while they see for you false visions,
while they divine lies to you, to lay you
on the necks of the wicked who are deadly
wounded, whose day is come in the time of
the iniquity of the end. 21:30Cause it to return into its sheath.
In the place where you were created, in
the land of your birth, will I judge you.
21:31I will pour out my indignation on you;
I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath;
and I will deliver you into the hand of
brutish men, skillful to destroy. 21:32You shall be for fuel to the fire; your
blood shall be in the midst of the land;
you shall be no more remembered: for I,
Yahweh, have spoken it.
22:1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, 22:2You, son of man, will you judge, will
you judge the bloody city? then cause her
to know all her abominations. 22:3You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
A city that sheds blood in the midst of
her, that her time may come, and that makes
idols against herself to defile her! 22:4You have become guilty in your blood
that you have shed, and are defiled in your
idols which you have made; and you have
caused your days to draw near, and are come
even to your years: therefore have I made
you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking
to all the countries. 22:5Those who are near, and those who are
far from you, shall mock you, you infamous
one and full of tumult. 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone
according to his power, have been in you
to shed blood. 22:7In you have they set light by father
and mother; in the midst of you have they
dealt by oppression with the foreigner;
in you have they wronged the fatherless
and the widow. 22:8You have despised my holy things, and
have profaned my Sabbaths. 22:9Slanderous men have been in you to shed
blood; and in you they have eaten on the
mountains: in the midst of you they have
committed lewdness. 22:10In you have they
uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you
have they humbled her who was unclean in
her impurity. 22:11One has committed
abomination with his neighbor's wife; and
another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law;
and another in you has humbled his sister,
his father's daughter. 22:12In you have they taken bribes to shed
blood; you have taken interest and increase,
and you have greedily gained of your neighbors
by oppression, and have forgotten me, says
the Lord Yahweh. 22:13Behold, therefore, I have struck my
hand at your dishonest gain which you have
made, and at your blood which has been in
the midst of you. 22:14Can your heart
endure, or can your hands be strong, in
the days that I shall deal with you? I,
Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15I will scatter you among the nations,
and disperse you through the countries;
and I will consume your filthiness out of
you. 22:16You shall be profaned in yourself, in
the sight of the nations; and you shall
know that I am Yahweh. 22:17The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is become
dross to me: all of them are brass and tin
and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace;
they are the dross of silver. 22:19Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because you are all become dross, therefore,
behold, I will gather you into the midst
of Jerusalem. 22:20As they gather
silver and brass and iron and lead and tin
into the midst of the furnace, to blow the
fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather
you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will
lay you there, and melt you. 22:21Yes, I will gather you, and blow on
you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall
be melted in the midst of it. 22:22As silver is melted in the midst of
the furnace, so shall you be melted in the
midst of it; and you shall know that I,
Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
22:23The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
22:24Son of man, tell her, You are a land
that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the
day of indignation. 22:25There is a conspiracy of her prophets
in the midst of it, like a roaring lion
ravening the prey: they have devoured souls;
they take treasure and precious things;
they have made her widows many in the midst
of it. 22:26Her priests have
done violence to my law, and have profaned
my holy things: they have made no distinction
between the holy and the common, neither
have they caused men to discern between
the unclean and the clean, and have hid
their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned
among them. 22:27Her princes in the midst of it are like
wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
and to destroy souls, that they may
get dishonest gain. 22:28Her prophets have
daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false
visions, and divining lies to them, saying,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has
not spoken. 22:29The people of the land have used oppression,
and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed
the poor and needy, and have oppressed the
foreigner wrongfully. 22:30I sought for a
man among them, who should build up the
wall, and stand in the gap before me for
the land, that I should not destroy it;
but I found none. 22:31Therefore have I poured out my indignation
on them; I have consumed them with the fire
of my wrath: their own way have I brought
on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
23:1The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, 23:2Son of man, there were two women, the
daughters of one mother: 23:3and they played the prostitute in Egypt;
they played the prostitute in their youth;
there were their breasts pressed, and there
was handled the bosom of their virginity.
23:4The names of them were Oholah the elder,
and Oholibah her sister: and they became
mine, and they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and
Jerusalem Oholibah. 23:5Oholah played the prostitute when she
was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on
the Assyrians her neighbors, 23:6who were clothed with blue, governors
and rulers, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding on horses. 23:7She bestowed her prostitution on them,
the choicest men of Assyria all of them;
and on whoever she doted, with all their
idols she defiled herself. 23:8Neither has she
left her prostitution since the days
of Egypt; for in her youth they lay
with her, and they handled the bosom of
her virginity; and they poured out their
prostitution on her. 23:9Therefore I delivered
her into the hand of her lovers, into the
hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
23:10These uncovered her nakedness; they
took her sons and her daughters; and her
they killed with the sword: and she became
a byword among women; for they executed
judgments on her. 23:11Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was
she more corrupt in her doting than she,
and in her prostitution which were more
than the prostitution of her sister. 23:12She doted on the Assyrians, governors
and rulers, her neighbors, clothed
most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses,
all of them desirable young men. 23:13I saw that she was defiled; they both
took one way. 23:14She increased her prostitution; for
she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images
of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
23:15girded with girdles on their loins,
with flowing turbans on their heads, all
of them princes to look on, after the likeness
of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land
of their birth. 23:16As soon as she saw them she doted on
them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
23:17The Babylonians came to her into the
bed of love, and they defiled her with their
prostitution, and she was polluted with
them, and her soul was alienated from them.
23:18So she uncovered her prostitution, and
uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was
alienated from her, like as my soul was
alienated from her sister. 23:19Yet she multiplied
her prostitution, remembering the days of
her youth, in which she had played the prostitute
in the land of Egypt. 23:20She doted on their
paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue
of horses. 23:21Thus you called
to memory the lewdness of your youth, in
the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians
for the breasts of your youth. 23:22Therefore, Oholibah,
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will
raise up your lovers against you, from whom
your soul is alienated, and I will bring
them against you on every side: 23:23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans,
Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them; desirable young men,
governors and rulers all of them, princes
and men of renown, all of them riding on
horses. 23:24They shall come
against you with weapons, chariots, and
wagons, and with a company of peoples; they
shall set themselves against you with buckler
and shield and helmet round about; and I
will commit the judgment to them, and they
shall judge you according to their judgments.
23:25I will set my
jealousy against you, and they shall deal
with you in fury; they shall take away your
nose and your ears; and your residue shall
fall by the sword: they shall take your
sons and your daughters; and your residue
shall be devoured by the fire. 23:26They shall also
strip you of your clothes, and take away
your beautiful jewels. 23:27Thus will I make your lewdness to cease
from you, and your prostitution brought
from the land of Egypt; so that you shall
not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember
Egypt any more. 23:28For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold,
I will deliver you into the hand of them
whom you hate, into the hand of them from
whom your soul is alienated; 23:29and they shall
deal with you in hatred, and shall take
away all your labor, and shall leave you
naked and bare; and the nakedness of your
prostitution shall be uncovered, both your
lewdness and your prostitution. 23:30These things shall be done to you, because
you have played the prostitute after the
nations, and because you are polluted with
their idols. 23:31You have walked
in the way of your sister; therefore will
I give her cup into your hand. 23:32Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall
drink of your sister's cup, which is deep
and large; you shall ridiculed and had in
derision; it contains much. 23:33You shall be filled
with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup
of astonishment and desolation, with the
cup of your sister Samaria. 23:34You shall even
drink it and drain it out, and you shall
gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall
tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,
says the Lord Yahweh. 23:35Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because you have forgotten me, and cast
me behind your back, therefore bear you
also your lewdness and your prostitution.
23:36Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man,
will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then
declare to them their abominations. 23:37For they have committed adultery, and
blood is in their hands; and with their
idols have they committed adultery; and
they have also caused their sons, whom they
bore to me, to pass through the fire
to them to be devoured. 23:38Moreover this they have done to me:
they have defiled my sanctuary in the same
day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. 23:39For when they had slain their children
to their idols, then they came the same
day into my sanctuary to profane it; and,
behold, thus have they done in the midst
of my house. 23:40Furthermore you have sent for men who
come from far, to whom a messenger was sent,
and, behold, they came; for whom you did
wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck
yourself with ornaments, 23:41and sit on a stately bed, with a table
prepared before it, whereupon you did set
my incense and my oil. 23:42The voice of a multitude being at ease
was with her: and with men of the common
sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness;
and they put bracelets on the hands of them
twain, and beautiful crowns on their
heads. 23:43Then said I of
her who was old in adulteries, Now will
they play the prostitute with her, and she
with them. 23:44They went in to
her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went
they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd
women. 23:45Righteous men, they shall judge them
with the judgment of adulteresses, and with
the judgment of women who shed blood; because
they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
hands. 23:46For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will
bring up a company against them, and will
give them to be tossed back and forth and
robbed. 23:47The company shall stone them with stones,
and dispatch them with their swords; they
shall kill their sons and their daughters,
and burn up their houses with fire. 23:48Thus will I cause lewdness to cease
out of the land, that all women may be taught
not to do after your lewdness. 23:49They shall recompense your lewdness
on you, and you shall bear the sins of your
idols; and you shall know that I am the
Lord Yahweh.
24:1Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month,
the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 24:2Son of man, write you the name of the
day, even of this same day: the king
of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this
same day. 24:3Utter a parable to the rebellious house,
and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Set on the caldron, set it on, and also
pour water into it: 24:4gather the pieces
of it into it, even every good piece, the
thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the
choice bones. 24:5Take the choice of the flock, and also
a pile of wood for the bones under
the caldron; make it boil well; yes,
let the bones of it be boiled in the midst
of it. 24:6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose
rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone
out of it! take out of it piece after piece;
No lot is fallen on it. 24:7For her blood is in the midst of her;
she set it on the bare rock; she didn't
pour it on the ground, to cover it with
dust. 24:8That it may cause wrath to come up to
take vengeance, I have set her blood on
the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
24:9Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Woe to the bloody city! I also will make
the pile great. 24:10Heap on the wood, make the fire hot,
boil well the flesh, and make thick the
broth, and let the bones be burned. 24:11Then set it empty on the coals of it,
that it may be hot, and the brass of it
may burn, and that the filthiness of it
may be molten in it, that the rust of it
may be consumed. 24:12She has wearied herself with
toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth
out of her; her rust doesn't go forth
by fire. 24:13In your filthiness
is lewdness: because I have cleansed you
and you weren't cleansed, you shall not
be cleansed from your filthiness any more,
until I have caused my wrath toward you
to rest. 24:14I, Yahweh, have
spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do
it: I will not go back, neither will I spare,
neither will I repent; according to your
ways, and according to your doings, shall
they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh. 24:15Also the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away from
you the desire of your eyes with a stroke:
yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither
shall your tears run down. 24:17Sigh, but not
aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind
your headdress on you, and put your shoes
on your feet, and don't cover your lips,
and don't eat men's bread. 24:18So I spoke to the people in the morning;
and at even my wife died; and I did in the
morning as I was commanded. 24:19The people said to me, Won't you tell
us what these things are to us, that you
do so? 24:20Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane
my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the
desire of your eyes, and that which your
soul pities; and your sons and your daughters
whom you have left behind shall fall by
the sword. 24:22You shall do as I have done: you shall
not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of
men. 24:23Your tires shall be on your heads, and
your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn
nor weep; but you shall pine away in your
iniquities, and moan one toward another.
24:24Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign;
according to all that he has done shall
you do: when this comes, then shall you
know that I am the Lord Yahweh. 24:25You, 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 heart, their sons and their
daughters, 24:26that in that day
he who escapes shall come to you, to cause
you to hear it with your ears? 24:27In that day shall your mouth be opened
to him who is escaped, and you shall speak,
and be no more mute: so shall you be a sign
to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
25:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
25:2Son of man, set your face toward the
children of Ammon, and prophesy against
them: 25:3and tell the children
of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said,
Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned;
and against the land of Israel, when it
was made desolate; and against the house
of Judah, when they went into captivity:
25:4therefore, behold, I will deliver you
to the children of the east for a possession,
and they shall set their encampments in
you, and make their dwellings in you; they
shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink
your milk. 25:5I will make Rabbah
a stable for camels, and the children of
Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. 25:6For thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced
with all the despite of your soul against
the land of Israel; 25:7therefore, behold, I have stretched out
my hand on you, and will deliver you for
a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you
off from the peoples, and I will cause you
to perish out of the countries: I will destroy
you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
25:8Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab
and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah
is like all the nations; 25:9therefore, 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, 25:10to the children of the east, to go
against the children of Ammon; and I will
give them for a possession, that the children
of Ammon may not be remembered among the
nations. 25:11and I will execute judgments on Moab;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 25:12Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against
the house of Judah by taking vengeance,
and has greatly offended, and revenged himself
on them; 25:13therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and
will cut off man and animal from it; and
I will make it desolate from Teman; even
to Dedan shall they fall by the sword. 25:14I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the
hand of my people Israel; and they shall
do in Edom according to my anger and according
to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance,
says the Lord Yahweh. 25:15Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the
Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have
taken vengeance with despite of soul to
destroy with perpetual enmity; 25:16therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the
Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites,
and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
25:17I will execute great vengeance on them
with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance
on them.
26:1It happened in the eleventh year, in
the first day of the month, that
the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 26:2Son of man, because Tyre has said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate
of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall
be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
26:3therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will
cause many nations to come up against you,
as the sea causes its waves to come up.
26:4They shall destroy the walls of Tyre,
and break down her towers: I will also scrape
her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
26:5She shall be a place for the spreading
of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she
shall become a spoil to the nations. 26:6Her daughters who are in the field shall
be slain with the sword: and they shall
know that I am Yahweh. 26:7For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold,
I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, king of kings, from the north,
with horses, and with chariots, and with
horsemen, and a company, and much people.
26:8He shall kill with
the sword your daughters in the field; and
he shall make forts against you, and cast
up a mound against you, and raise up the
buckler against you. 26:9He shall set his battering engines against
your walls, and with his axes he shall break
down your towers. 26:10By reason of the abundance of his horses
their dust shall cover you: your walls shall
shake at the noise of the horsemen, and
of the wagons, and of the chariots, when
he shall enter into your gates, as men enter
into a city in which is made a breach. 26:11With the hoofs of his horses shall he
tread down all your streets; he shall kill
your people with the sword; and the pillars
of your strength shall go down to the ground.
26:12They shall make a spoil of your riches,
and make a prey of your merchandise; and
they shall break down your walls, and destroy
your pleasant houses; and they shall lay
your stones and your timber and your dust
in the midst of the waters. 26:13I will cause the noise of your songs
to cease; and the sound of your harps shall
be no more heard. 26:14I will make you a bare rock; you shall
be a place for the spreading of nets; you
shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. 26:15Thus says the
Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles
shake at the sound of your fall, when the
wounded groan, when the slaughter is made
in the midst of you? 26:16Then all the princes of the sea shall
come down from their thrones, and lay aside
their robes, and strip off their embroidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with
trembling; they shall sit on the ground,
and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished
at you. 26:17They shall take up a lamentation over
you, and tell you, How are you destroyed,
who were inhabited by seafaring men, the
renowned city, who was strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, who caused their
terror to be on all who lived there! 26:18Now shall the isles tremble in the day
of your fall; yes, the isles that are in
the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.
26:19For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When
I shall make you a desolate city, like the
cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep on you, and the great
waters shall cover you; 26:20then will I bring you down with those
who descend into the pit, to the people
of old time, and will make you to dwell
in the lower parts of the earth, in the
places that are desolate of old, with those
who go down to the pit, that you be not
inhabited; and I will set glory in the land
of the living: 26:21I will make you a terror, and you shall
no more have any being; though you are sought
for, yet shall you never be found again,
says the Lord Yahweh.
27:1The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, 27:2You, son of man, take up a lamentation
over Tyre; 27:3and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry
of the sea, who are the merchant of the
peoples to many isles, thus says the Lord
Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect
in beauty. 27:4Your borders are in the heart of the
seas; your builders have perfected your
beauty. 27:5They have made
all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to
make a mast for you. 27:6Of the oaks of
Bashan have they made your oars; they have
made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
from the isles of Kittim. 27:7Of fine linen with
embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
that it might be to you for an ensign; blue
and purple from the isles of Elishah was
your awning. 27:8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were
your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in
you, they were your pilots. 27:9The old men of Gebal and the wise men
of it were in you your repairers of ship
seams: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
27:10Persia and Lud and Put were in your
army, your men of war: they hanged the shield
and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
27:11The men of Arvad with your army were
on your walls round about, and valorous
men were in your towers; they hanged their
shields on your walls round about; they
have perfected your beauty. 27:12Tarshish was your merchant by reason
of the multitude of all kinds of riches;
with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded
for your wares. 27:13Javan, Tubal,
and Meshech, they were your traffickers;
they traded the persons of men and vessels
of brass for your merchandise. 27:14They of the house
of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses
and war-horses and mules. 27:15The men of Dedan were your traffickers;
many isles were the market of your hand:
they brought you in exchange horns of ivory
and ebony. 27:16Syria was your
merchant by reason of the multitude of your
handiworks: they traded for your wares with
emeralds, purple, and embroidered work,
and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they
were your traffickers: they traded for your
merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections,
and honey, and oil, and balm. 27:18Damascus was your merchant for the multitude
of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude
of all kinds of riches, with the wine of
Helbon, and white wool. 27:19Vedan and Javan
traded with yarn for your wares: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your
merchandise. 27:20Dedan was your trafficker in precious
cloths for riding. 27:21Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar,
they were the merchants of your hand; in
lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were
they your merchants. 27:22The traffickers
of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers;
they traded for your wares with the chief
of all spices, and with all precious stones,
and gold. 27:23Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers
of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were
your traffickers. 27:24These were your traffickers in choice
wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered
work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound
with cords and made of cedar, among your
merchandise. 27:25The ships of Tarshish were your caravans
for your merchandise: and you were replenished,
and made very glorious in the heart of the
seas. 27:26Your rowers have
brought you into great waters: the east
wind has broken you in the heart of the
seas. 27:27Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise,
your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers
of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise,
and all your men of war, who are in you,
with all your company which is in the midst
of you, shall fall into the heart of the
seas in the day of your ruin. 27:28At the sound of
the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall
shake. 27:29All who handled the oar, the mariners,
and all the pilots of the sea, shall
come down from their ships; they shall stand
on the land, 27:30and shall cause
their voice to be heard over you, and shall
cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on
their heads, they shall wallow themselves
in the ashes: 27:31and they shall make themselves bald
for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and
they shall weep for you in bitterness of
soul with bitter mourning. 27:32In their wailing
they shall take up a lamentation for you,
and lament over you, saying, Who
is there like Tyre, like her who is brought
to silence in the midst of the sea? 27:33When your wares went forth out of the
seas, you filled many peoples; you did enrich
the kings of the earth with the multitude
of your riches and of your merchandise.
27:34In the time that you were broken by
the seas in the depths of the waters, your
merchandise and all your company did fall
in the midst of you. 27:35All the inhabitants
of the isles are astonished at you, and
their kings are horribly afraid; they are
troubled in their face. 27:36The merchants
among the peoples hiss at you; you are become
a terror, and you shall nevermore have any
being.
28:1The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your
heart is lifted up, and you have said, I
am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the
midst of the seas; yet you are man, and
not God, though you did set your heart as
the heart of God;-28:3behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there
is no secret that is hidden from you; 28:4by your wisdom
and by your understanding you have gotten
you riches, and have gotten gold and silver
into your treasures; 28:5by your great wisdom
and by your traffic have you increased
your riches, and your heart is lifted up
because of your riches;-28:6therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set
your heart as the heart of God, 28:7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers
on you, the terrible of the nations; and
they shall draw their swords against the
beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile
your brightness. 28:8They shall bring you down to the pit;
and you shall die the death of those who
are slain, in the heart of the seas. 28:9Will you yet say before him who kills
you, I am God? but you are man, and not
God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
28:10You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken
it, says the Lord Yahweh. 28:11Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, 28:12Son of man, take up a lamentation over
the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full
of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you: ruby,
topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper,
sapphire, turquoise, and
beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes
was in you. In the day that you were created
they were prepared. 28:14You were the anointed cherub who covers:
and I set you, so that you were on
the holy mountain of God; you have walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of
fire. 28:15You were perfect in your ways from the
day that you were created, until unrighteousness
was found in you. 28:16By the abundance of your traffic they
filled the midst of you with violence, and
you have sinned: therefore I have cast you
as profane out of the mountain of God; and
I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire. 28:17Your heart was lifted up because of
your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom
by reason of your brightness: I have cast
you to the ground; I have laid you before
kings, that they may see you. 28:18By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your traffic,
you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore
have I brought forth a fire from the midst
of you; it has devoured you, and I have
turned you to ashes on the earth in the
sight of all those who see you. 28:19All those who
know you among the peoples shall be astonished
at you: you are become a terror, and you
shall nevermore have any being. 28:20The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, 28:21Son of man, set your face toward Sidon,
and prophesy against it, 28:22and say, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the
midst of you; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments
in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
28:23For I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets; and the wounded
shall fall in the midst of her, with the
sword on her on every side; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh. 28:24There shall be no more a pricking brier
to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn
of any that are round about them, that did
despite to them; and they shall know that
I am the Lord Yahweh. 28:25Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall
have gathered the house of Israel from the
peoples among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight
of the nations, then shall they dwell in
their own land which I gave to my servant
Jacob. 28:26They shall dwell securely therein; yes,
they shall build houses, and plant vineyards,
and shall dwell securely, when I have executed
judgments on all those who do them despite
round about them; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh their God.
29:1In the tenth year, in the tenth month,
in the twelfth day of the month,
the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 29:2Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and prophesy against him,
and against all Egypt; 29:3speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of
Egypt, the great monster that lies in the
midst of his rivers, that has said, My river
is my own, and I have made it for myself.
29:4I will put hooks
in your jaws, and I will cause the fish
of your rivers to stick to your scales;
and I will bring you up out of the midst
of your rivers, with all the fish of your
rivers which stick to your scales. 29:5I will cast you forth into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your rivers: you
shall fall on the open field; you shall
not be brought together, nor gathered; I
have given you for food to the animals of
the earth and to the birds of the sky. 29:6All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know
that I am Yahweh, because they have been
a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
29:7When they took hold of you by your hand,
you did break, and did tear all their shoulders;
and when they leaned on you, you broke,
and mad all their loins to be at a stand.
29:8Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and
will cut off from you man and animal. 29:9The land of Egypt shall be a desolation
and a waste; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh. Because he has said, The river
is mine, and I have made it; 29:10therefore, behold,
I am against you, and against your rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt an utter
waste and desolation, from the tower of
Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
29:11No foot of man
shall pass through it, nor foot of animal
shall pass through it, neither shall it
be inhabited forty years. 29:12I will make the
land of Egypt a desolation in the midst
of the countries that are desolate; and
her cities among the cities that are laid
waste shall be a desolation forty years;
and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through
the countries. 29:13For thus says the Lord Yahweh: At the
end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians
from the peoples where they were scattered;
29:14and I will bring back the captivity
of Egypt, and will cause them to return
into the land of Pathros, into the land
of their birth; and they shall be there
a base kingdom. 29:15It shall be the base of the kingdoms;
neither shall it any more lift itself up
above the nations: and I will diminish them,
that they shall no more rule over the nations.
29:16It shall be no more the confidence of
the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to
memory, when they turn to look after them:
and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
29:17It came to pass in the seven and twentieth
year, in the first month, in the
first day of the month, the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, 29:18Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon caused his army to serve
a great service against Tyre: every head
was made bald, and every shoulder was worn;
yet had he no wages, nor his army, from
Tyre, for the service that he had served
against it. 29:19Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall
carry off her multitude, and take her spoil,
and take her prey; and it shall be the wages
for his army. 29:20I have given him the land of Egypt as
his recompense for which he served, because
they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
29:21In that day will I cause a horn to bud
forth to the house of Israel, and I will
give you the opening of the mouth in the
midst of them; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
30:1The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, 30:2Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
30:3For the day is
near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it
shall be a day of clouds, a time of the
nations. 30:4A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish
shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall
fall in Egypt; and they shall take away
her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down. 30:5Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the
mixed people, and Cub, and the children
of the land that is in league, shall fall
with them by the sword. 30:6Thus says Yahweh:
They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and
the pride of her power shall come down:
from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall
in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.
30:7They shall be desolate in the midst of
the countries that are desolate; and her
cities shall be in the midst of the cities
that are wasted. 30:8They shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire
in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
30:9In that day shall messengers go forth
from before me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish
on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold,
it comes. 30:10Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also
make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
30:11He and his people
with him, the terrible of the nations, shall
be brought in to destroy the land; and they
shall draw their swords against Egypt, and
fill the land with the slain. 30:12I will make the rivers dry, and will
sell the land into the hand of evil men;
and I will make the land desolate, and all
that is therein, by the hand of strangers:
I, Yahweh, have spoken it. 30:13Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also
destroy the idols, and I will cause the
images to cease from Memphis; and there
shall be no more a prince from the land
of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land
of Egypt. 30:14I will make Pathros
desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and
will execute judgments on No. 30:15I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold
of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude
of No. 30:16I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall
be in great anguish, and No shall be broken
up; and Memphis shall have adversaries
in the day-time. 30:17The young men
of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
sword; and these cities shall go
into captivity. 30:18At Tehaphnehes
also the day shall withdraw itself, when
I shall break there the yokes of Egypt,
and the pride of her power shall cease in
her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall go into captivity.
30:19Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 30:20It happened in
the eleventh year, in the first month,
in the seventh day of the month,
that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
30:21Son of man, I have broken the arm of
Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has
not been bound up, to apply healing
medicines, to put a bandage to bind it,
that it be strong to hold the sword. 30:22Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and will break his arms, the strong arm,
and that which was broken; and I will cause
the sword to fall out of his hand. 30:23I will scatter
the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries. 30:24I will strengthen the arms of the king
of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand:
but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and
he shall groan before him with the groanings
of a deadly wounded man. 30:25I will hold up the arms of the king
of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall
fall down; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
stretch it out on the land of Egypt. 30:26I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them through the countries;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
31:1It happened in the eleventh year, in
the third month, in the first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying, 31:2Son of man, tell
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
Whom are you like in your greatness? 31:3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like
shade, and of high stature; and its top
was among the thick boughs. 31:4The waters nourished it, the deep made
it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about
its plantation; and it sent out its channels
to all the trees of the field. 31:5Therefore its stature
was exalted above all the trees of the field;
and its boughs were multiplied, and its
branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it shot them forth. 31:6All the birds of
the sky made their nests in its boughs;
and under its branches did all the animals
of the field bring forth their young; and
under its shadow lived all great nations.
31:7Thus was it beautiful
in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
for its root was by many waters. 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could
not hide it; the fir trees were not like
its boughs, and the plane trees were not
as its branches; nor was any tree in the
garden of God like it in its beauty. 31:9I made it beautiful by the multitude
of its branches, so that all the trees of
Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied
it. 31:10Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Because you are exalted in stature, and
he has set his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height;
31:11I will even deliver him into the hand
of the mighty one of the nations; he shall
surely deal with him; I have driven him
out for his wickedness. 31:12Strangers, the
terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
and have left him: on the mountains and
in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses
of the land; and all the peoples of the
earth are gone down from his shadow, and
have left him. 31:13On his ruin all the birds of the sky
shall dwell, and all the animals of the
field shall be on his branches; 31:14to the end that none of all the trees
by the waters exalt themselves in their
stature, neither set their top among the
thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones
stand up on their height, even all
who drink water: for they are all delivered
to death, to the lower parts of the earth,
in the midst of the children of men, with
those who go down to the pit. 31:15Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down
to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered
the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers
of it; and the great waters were stayed;
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and
all the trees of the field fainted for him.
31:16I made the nations
to shake at the sound of his fall, when
I cast him down to Sheol with those who
descend into the pit; and all the trees
of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon,
all that drink water, were comforted in
the lower parts of the earth. 31:17They also went down into Sheol with
him to those who are slain by the sword;
yes, those who were his arm, that
lived under his shadow in the midst of the
nations. 31:18To whom are you thus like in glory and
in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet
shall you be brought down with the trees
of Eden to the lower parts of the earth:
you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with those who are slain by the sword. This
is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the
Lord Yahweh.
32:1It happened in the twelfth year, in the
twelfth month, in the first day of
the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying, 32:2Son of man, take up a lamentation over
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You
were likened to a young lion of the nations:
yet are you as a monster in the seas; and
you did break forth with your rivers, and
troubled the waters with your feet, and
fouled their rivers. 32:3Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread
out my net on you with a company of many
peoples; and they shall bring you up in
my net. 32:4I will leave you on the land, I will
cast you forth on the open field, and will
cause all the birds of the sky to settle
on you, and I will satisfy the animals of
the whole earth with you. 32:5I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your height. 32:6I will also water
with your blood the land in which you swim,
even to the mountains; and the watercourses
shall be full of you. 32:7When I shall extinguish
you, I will cover the heavens, and make
the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun
with a cloud, and the moon shall not give
its light. 32:8All the bright lights of the sky will
I make dark over you, and set darkness on
your land, says the Lord Yahweh. 32:9I will also vex the hearts of many peoples,
when I shall bring your destruction among
the nations, into the countries which you
have not known. 32:10Yes, I will make
many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for you, 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 your
fall. 32:11For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword
of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
32:12By the swords
of the mighty will I cause your multitude
to fall; the terrible of the nations are
they all: and they shall bring to nothing
the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude
of it shall be destroyed. 32:13I will destroy also all the animals
of it from beside many waters; neither shall
the foot of man trouble them any more, nor
the hoofs of animals trouble them. 32:14Then will I make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
says the Lord Yahweh. 32:15When I shall make the land of Egypt
desolate and waste, a land destitute of
that of which it was full, when I shall
strike all those who dwell therein, then
shall they know that I am Yahweh. 32:16This is the lamentation with which they
shall lament; the daughters of the nations
shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and
over all her multitude, shall they lament
therewith, says the Lord Yahweh. 32:17It happened also
in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying, 32:18Son of man, wail
for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
down, even her, and the daughters of the
famous nations, to the lower parts of the
earth, with those who go down into the pit.
32:19Whom do you pass
in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the
uncircumcised. 32:20They shall fall in the midst of those
who are slain by the sword: she is delivered
to the sword; draw her away and all her
multitudes. 32:21The strong among the mighty shall speak
to him out of the midst of Sheol with those
who help him: they are gone down, they lie
still, even the uncircumcised, slain by
the sword. 32:22Asshur is there and all her company;
her graves are round about her; all of them
slain, fallen by the sword; 32:23whose graves are set in the uttermost
parts of the pit, and her company is round
about her grave; all of them slain, fallen
by the sword, who caused terror in the land
of the living. 32:24There is Elam and all her multitude
round about her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised
into the lower parts of the earth, who caused
their terror in the land of the living,
and have borne their shame with those who
go down to the pit. 32:25They have set
her a bed in the midst of the slain with
all her multitude; her graves are round
about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain
by the sword; for their terror was caused
in the land of the living, and they have
borne their shame with those who go down
to the pit: he is put in the midst of those
who are slain. 32:26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their
multitude; their graves are round about
them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by
the sword; for they caused their terror
in the land of the living. 32:27They shall not lie with the mighty who
are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are
gone down to Sheol with their weapons of
war, and have laid their swords under their
heads, and their iniquities are on their
bones; for they were the terror of
the mighty in the land of the living. 32:28But you shall
be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
and shall lie with those who are slain by
the sword. 32:29There is Edom,
her kings and all her princes, who in their
might are laid with those who are slain
by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised,
and with those who go down to the pit. 32:30There are the
princes of the north, all of them, and all
the Sidonians, who are gone down with the
slain; in the terror which they caused by
their might they are put to shame; and they
lie uncircumcised with those who are slain
by the sword, and bear their shame with
those who go down to the pit. 32:31Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be
comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh
and all his army, slain by the sword, says
the Lord Yahweh. 32:32For I have put
his terror in the land of the living; and
he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with those who are slain by the sword, even
Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the
Lord Yahweh.
33:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
33:2Son of man, speak to the children of
your people, and tell them, When I bring
the sword on a land, and the people of the
land take a man from among them, and set
him for their watchman; 33:3if, when he sees the sword come on the
land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the
people; 33:4then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet,
and doesn't take warning, if the sword come,
and take him away, his blood shall be on
his own head. 33:5He heard the sound
of the trumpet, and didn't take warning;
his blood shall be on him; whereas if he
had taken warning, he would have delivered
his soul. 33:6But if the watchman sees the sword come,
and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people
aren't warned, and the sword comes, and
take any person from among them; he is taken
away in his iniquity, but his blood will
I require at the watchman's hand. 33:7So you, son of man, I have set you a
watchman to the house of Israel; therefore
hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me. 33:8When I tell the
wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die,
and you don't speak to warn the wicked from
his way; that wicked man shall die in his
iniquity, but his blood will I require at
your hand. 33:9Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked
of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't
turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity,
but you have delivered your soul. 33:10You, son of man, tell the house of Israel:
Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions
and our sins are on us, and we pine away
in them; how then can we live? 33:11Tell them, As
I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked; but
that the wicked turn from his way and live:
turn you, turn you from your evil ways;
for why will you die, house of Israel? 33:12You, son of man, tell the children of
your people, The righteousness of the righteous
shall not deliver him in the day of his
disobedience; and as for the wickedness
of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby
in the day that he turns from his wickedness;
neither shall he who is righteous be able
to live thereby in the day that he sins.
33:13When I tell the righteous, that he shall
surely live; if he trust to his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, none of his righteous
deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity
that he has committed, therein shall he
die. 33:14Again, when I say to the wicked, You
shall surely die; if he turn from his sin,
and do that which is lawful and right; 33:15if the wicked restore the pledge, give
again that which he had taken by robbery,
walk in the statutes of life, committing
no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall
not die. 33:16None of his sins that he has committed
shall be remembered against him: he has
done that which is lawful and right; he
shall surely live. 33:17Yet the children
of your people say, The way of the Lord
is not equal: but as for them, their way
is not equal. 33:18When the righteous turns from his righteousness,
and commits iniquity, he shall even die
therein. 33:19When the wicked turns from his wickedness,
and does that which is lawful and right,
he shall live thereby. 33:20Yet you say, The way of the Lord is
not equal. House of Israel, I will judge
you everyone after his ways. 33:21It happened in the twelfth year of our
captivity, in the tenth month, in
the fifth day of the month, that
one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came
to me, saying, The city has been struck.
33:22Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me
in the evening, before he who was escaped
came; and he had opened my mouth, until
he came to me in the morning; and my mouth
was opened, and I was no more mute. 33:23The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
33:24Son of man, they who inhabit those waste
places in the land of Israel speak, saying,
Abraham was one, and he inherited the land:
but we are many; the land is given us for
inheritance. 33:25Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift
up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood:
and shall you possess the land? 33:26You stand on your sword, you work abomination,
and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife:
and shall you possess the land? 33:27Thus shall you tell them, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those
who are in the waste places shall fall by
the sword; and him who is in the open field
will I give to the animals to be devoured;
and those who are in the strongholds and
in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
33:28I will make the
land a desolation and an astonishment; and
the pride of her power shall cease; and
the mountains of Israel shall be desolate,
so that none shall pass through. 33:29Then shall they know that I am Yahweh,
when I have made the land a desolation and
an astonishment, because of all their abominations
which they have committed. 33:30As for you, son of man, the children
of your people talk of you by the walls
and in the doors of the houses, and speak
one to another, everyone to his brother,
saying, Please come and hear what is the
word that comes forth from Yahweh. 33:31They come to you as the people comes,
and they sit before you as my people, and
they hear your words, but don't do them;
for with their mouth they show much love,
but their heart goes after their gain. 33:32Behold, you are to them as a very lovely
song of one who has a pleasant voice, and
can play well on an instrument; for they
hear your words, but they don't do them.
33:33When this comes to pass, (behold, it
comes), then shall they know that a prophet
has been among them.
34:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
34:2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds
of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even
to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed
themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed
the sheep? 34:3You eat the fat,
and you clothe you with the wool, you kill
the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
34:4You haven't strengthened the diseased,
neither have you healed that which was sick,
neither have you bound up that which was
broken, neither have you brought back that
which was driven away, neither have you
sought that which was lost; but with force
and with rigor have you ruled over them.
34:5They were scattered,
because there was no shepherd; and they
became food to all the animals of the field,
and were scattered. 34:6My sheep wandered
through all the mountains, and on every
high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered
on all the surface of the earth; and there
was none who searched or sought. 34:7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word
of Yahweh: 34:8As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely
because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep
became food to all the animals of the field,
because there was no shepherd, neither did
my shepherds search for my sheep, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed
my sheep; 34:9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word
of Yahweh: 34:10Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
am against the shepherds; and I will require
my sheep at their hand, and cause them to
cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall
the shepherds feed themselves any more;
and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth,
that they may not be food for them. 34:11For thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even
I, will search for my sheep, and will seek
them out. 34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in
the day that he is among his sheep that
are scattered abroad, so will I seek out
my sheep; and I will deliver them out of
all places where they have been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day. 34:13I will bring them out from the peoples,
and gather them from the countries, and
will bring them into their own land; and
I will feed them on the mountains of Israel,
by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited
places of the country. 34:14I will feed them with good pasture;
and on the mountains of the height of Israel
shall their fold be: there shall they lie
down in a good fold; and on fat pasture
shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.
34:15I myself will
be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will
cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
34:16I will seek that which was lost, and
will bring back that which was driven away,
and will bind up that which was broken,
and will strengthen that which was sick:
but the fat and the strong I will destroy;
I will feed them in justice. 34:17As for you, O my flock, thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep
and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
34:18Seems it a small thing to you to have
fed on the good pasture, but you must tread
down with your feet the residue of your
pasture? and to have drunk of the clear
waters, but you must foul the residue with
your feet? 34:19As for my sheep,
they eat that which you have trodden with
your feet, and they drink that which you
have fouled with your feet. 34:20Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I,
even I, will judge between the fat sheep
and the lean sheep. 34:21Because you thrust
with side and with shoulder, and push all
the diseased with your horns, until you
have scattered them abroad; 34:22therefore will
I save my flock, and they shall no more
be a prey; and I will judge between sheep
and sheep. 34:23I will set up one shepherd over them,
and he shall feed them, even my servant
David; he shall feed them, and he shall
be their shepherd. 34:24I, Yahweh, will
be their God, and my servant David prince
among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it. 34:25I will make with them a covenant of
peace, and will cause evil animals to cease
out of the land; and they shall dwell securely
in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
34:26I will make them and the places round
about my hill a blessing; and I will cause
the shower to come down in its season; there
shall be showers of blessing. 34:27The tree of the
field shall yield its fruit, and the earth
shall yield its increase, and they shall
be secure in their land; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken
the bars of their yoke, and have delivered
them out of the hand of those who made slaves
of them. 34:28They shall no more be a prey to the
nations, neither shall the animals of the
earth devour them; but they shall dwell
securely, and none shall make them afraid.
34:29I will raise up to them a plantation
for renown, and they shall be no more consumed
with famine in the land, neither bear the
shame of the nations any more. 34:30They shall know that I, Yahweh, their
God am with them, and that they, the house
of Israel, are my people, says the Lord
Yahweh. 34:31You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture,
are men, and I am your God, says the Lord
Yahweh.
35:1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, 35:2Son of man, set your face against Mount
Seir, and prophesy against it, 35:3and tell it, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out
my hand against you, and I will make you
a desolation and an astonishment. 35:4I will lay your cities waste, and you
shall be desolate; and you shall know that
I am Yahweh. 35:5Because you have had a perpetual enmity,
and have given over the children of Israel
to the power of the sword in the time of
their calamity, in the time of the iniquity
of the end; 35:6therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall
pursue you: since you have not hated blood,
therefore blood shall pursue you. 35:7Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment
and a desolation; and I will cut off from
it him who passes through and him who returns.
35:8I will fill its mountains with its slain:
in your hills and in your valleys and in
all your watercourses shall they fall who
are slain with the sword. 35:9I will make you
a perpetual desolation, and your cities
shall not be inhabited; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh. 35:10Because you have
said, These two nations and these two countries
shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas
Yahweh was there: 35:11therefore, as
I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do
according to your anger, and according to
your envy which you have shown out of your
hatred against them; and I will make myself
known among them, when I shall judge you.
35:12You shall know that I, Yahweh, have
heard all your insults which you have spoken
against the mountains of Israel, saying,
They are laid desolate, they are given us
to devour. 35:13You have magnified yourselves against
me with your mouth, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard it.
35:14Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the
whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
35:15As you did rejoice
over the inheritance of the house of Israel,
because it was desolate, so will I do to
you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir,
and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh.
36:1You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel,
hear the word of Yahweh. 36:2Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the
enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The
ancient high places are ours in possession;
36:3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they
have made you desolate, and swallowed you
up on every side, that you might be a possession
to the residue of the nations, and you are
taken up in the lips of talkers, and the
evil report of the people; 36:4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear
the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the
Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the
hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys,
to the desolate wastes and to the cities
that are forsaken, which are become a prey
and derision to the residue of the nations
that are round about; 36:5therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I
spoken against the residue of the nations,
and against all Edom, that have appointed
my land to themselves for a possession with
the joy of all their heart, with despite
of soul, to cast it out for a prey. 36:6Therefore prophesy
concerning the land of Israel, and tell
the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses
and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and
in my wrath, because you have borne the
shame of the nations: 36:7therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, saying,
Surely the nations that are round about
you, they shall bear their shame. 36:8But you, mountains of Israel, you shall
shoot forth your branches, and yield your
fruit to my people Israel; for they are
at hand to come. 36:9For, behold, I am for you, and I will
turn into you, and you shall be tilled and
sown; 36:10and I will multiply men on you, all
the house of Israel, even all of it; and
the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste
places shall be built; 36:11and I will multiply
on you man and animal; and they shall increase
and be fruitful; and I will cause you to
be inhabited after your former estate, and
will do better to you than at your
beginnings: and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. 36:12Yes, I will cause men to walk on you,
even my people Israel; and they shall possess
you, and you shall be their inheritance,
and you shall no more henceforth bereave
them of children. 36:13Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they
say to you, You land are a devourer
of men, and have been a bereaver of your
nation; 36:14therefore you
shall devour men no more, neither bereave
your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
36:15neither will I let you hear any more
the shame of the nations, neither shall
you bear the reproach of the peoples any
more, neither shall you cause your nation
to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.
36:16Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, 36:17Son of man, when the house of Israel
lived in their own land, they defiled it
by their way and by their doings: their
way before me was as the uncleanness of
a woman in her impurity. 36:18Therefore I poured out my wrath on them
for the blood which they had poured out
on the land, and because they had defiled
it with their idols; 36:19and I scattered
them among the nations, and they were dispersed
through the countries: according to their
way and according to their doings I judged
them. 36:20When they came to the nations, where
they went, they profaned my holy name; in
that men said of them, These are the people
of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his
land. 36:21But I had regard for my holy name, which
the house of Israel had profaned among the
nations, where they went. 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do this
for your sake, house of Israel, but for
my holy name, which you have profaned among
the nations, where you went. 36:23I will sanctify my great name, which
has been profaned among the nations, which
you have profaned in the midst of them;
and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh,
says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified
in you before their eyes. 36:24For I will take you from among the nations,
and gather you out of all the countries,
and will bring you into your own land. 36:25I will sprinkle clean water on you,
and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness,
and from all your idols, will I cleanse
you. 36:26A 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 a heart
of flesh. 36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and you
shall keep my ordinances, and do them. 36:28You shall dwell in the land that I gave
to your fathers; and you shall be my people,
and I will be your God. 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness:
and I will call for the grain, and will
multiply it, and lay no famine on you. 36:30I will multiply the fruit of the tree,
and the increase of the field, that you
may receive no more the reproach of famine
among the nations. 36:31Then shall you
remember your evil ways, and your doings
that were not good; and you shall loathe
yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities
and for your abominations. 36:32Nor for your sake do I this,
says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you:
be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
house of Israel. 36:33Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you
from all your iniquities, I will cause the
cities to be inhabited, and the waste places
shall be built. 36:34The land that was desolate shall be
tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the
sight of all who passed by. 36:35They shall say, This land that was desolate
is become like the garden of Eden; and the
waste and desolate and ruined cities are
fortified and inhabited. 36:36Then the nations
that are left round about you shall know
that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places,
and planted that which was desolate: I,
Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.
36:37Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I
be inquired of by the house of Israel, to
do it for them: I will increase them with
men like a flock. 36:38As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock
of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so
shall the waste cities be filled with flocks
of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
37:1The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he
brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh,
and set me down in the midst of the valley;
and it was full of bones. 37:2He caused me to
pass by them round about: and, behold, there
were very many in the open valley; and,
behold, they were very dry. 37:3He said to me,
Son of man, can these bones live? I answered,
Lord Yahweh, you know. 37:4Again he said to me, Prophesy over these
bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear
the word of Yahweh. 37:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones:
Behold, I will cause breath to enter into
you, and you shall live. 37:6I will lay sinews on you, and will bring
up flesh on you, and cover you with skin,
and put breath in you, and you shall live;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 37:7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and
as I prophesied, there was a noise, and,
behold, an earthquake; and the bones came
together, bone to its bone. 37:8I saw, and, behold, there were sinews
on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered
them above; but there was no breath in them.
37:9Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind,
prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the
four winds, breath, and breathe on these
slain, that they may live. 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me,
and the breath came into them, and they
lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding
great army. 37:11Then he said to
me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones
are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are
clean cut off. 37:12Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open
your graves, and cause you to come up out
of your graves, my people; and I will bring
you into the land of Israel. 37:13You shall know that I am Yahweh, when
I have opened your graves, and caused you
to come up out of your graves, my people.
37:14I will put my Spirit in you, and you
shall live, and I will place you in your
own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh,
have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
37:15The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, 37:16You, son of man, take one stick, and
write on it, For Judah, and for the children
of Israel his companions: then take another
stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the
stick of Ephraim, and for all the
house of Israel his companions: 37:17and join them for you one to another
into one stick, that they may become one
in your hand. 37:18When the children of your people shall
speak to you, saying, Will you not show
us what you mean by these? 37:19tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph,
which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the
tribes of Israel his companions; and I will
put them with it, even with the stick
of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in my hand. 37:20The sticks whereon you write shall be
in your hand before their eyes. 37:21Say to them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the nations,
where they are gone, and will gather them
on every side, and bring them into their
own land: 37:22and I will make
them one nation in the land, on the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to
them all; and they shall be no more two
nations, neither shall they be divided into
two kingdoms any more at all; 37:23neither 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 dwelling-places, in which they
have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall
they be my people, and I will be their God.
37:24My servant David shall be king over
them; and they all shall have one shepherd:
they shall also walk in my ordinances, and
observe my statutes, and do them. 37:25They shall dwell in the land that I
have given to Jacob my servant, in which
your fathers lived; and they shall dwell
therein, they, and their children, and their
children's children, forever: and David
my servant shall be their prince for ever.
37:26Moreover 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 forevermore. 37:27My tent also shall be with them; and
I will be their God, and they shall be my
people. 37:28The nations shall know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary
shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
38:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
38:2Son of man, set your face toward Gog,
of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against
him, 38:3and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold,
I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech,
and Tubal: 38:4and I will turn you about, and put hooks
into your jaws, and I will bring you forth,
and all your army, horses and horsemen,
all of them clothed in full armor, a great
company with buckler and shield, all of
them handling swords; 38:5Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all
of them with shield and helmet; 38:6Gomer, and all
his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the
uttermost parts of the north, and all his
hordes; even many peoples with you. 38:7Be prepared, yes,
prepare yourself, you, and all your companies
who are assembled to you, and be a guard
to them. 38:8After many days
you shall be visited: in the latter years
you shall come into the land that is brought
back from the sword, that is gathered out
of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel,
which have been a continual waste; but it
is brought forth out of the peoples, and
they shall dwell securely, all of them.
38:9You shall ascend, you shall come like
a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover
the land, you, and all your hordes, and
many peoples with you. 38:10Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day,
that things shall come into your mind, and
you shall devise an evil device: 38:11and you shall
say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages; I will go to those who are at
rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling
without walls, and having neither bars nor
gates; 38:12to take the spoil
and to take the prey; to turn your hand
against the waste places that are now
inhabited, and against the people who are
gathered out of the nations, who have gotten
cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth. 38:13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants
of Tarshish, with all the young lions of
it, shall tell you, Are you come to take
the spoil? have you assembled your company
to take the prey? to carry away silver and
gold, to take away cattle and goods, to
take great spoil? 38:14Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and
tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In
that day when my people Israel dwells securely,
shall you not know it? 38:15You shall come
from your place out of the uttermost parts
of the north, you, and many peoples with
you, all of them riding on horses, a great
company and a mighty army; 38:16and you shall come up against my people
Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it
shall happen in the latter days, that I
will bring you against my land, that the
nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified
in you, Gog, before their eyes. 38:17Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he
of whom I spoke in old time by my servants
the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in
those days for many years that I
would bring you against them? 38:18It shall happen in that day, when Gog
shall come against the land of Israel, says
the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come
up into my nostrils. 38:19For in my jealousy
and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
Surely in that day there shall be a great
shaking in the land of Israel; 38:20so that the fish of the sea, and the
birds of the sky, and the animals of the
field, and all creeping things who creep
on the earth, and all the men who are on
the surface of the earth, shall shake at
my presence, and the mountains shall be
thrown down, and the steep places shall
fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
38:21I will call for a sword against him
to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh:
every man's sword shall be against his brother.
38:22With pestilence and with blood will
I enter into judgment with him; and I will
rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the
many peoples who are with him, an overflowing
shower, and great hailstones, fire, and
sulfur. 38:23I will magnify
myself, and sanctify myself, and I will
make myself known in the eyes of many nations;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
39:1You, son of man, prophesy against Gog,
and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold,
I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech,
and Tubal: 39:2and I will turn
you about, and will lead you on, and will
cause you to come up from the uttermost
parts of the north; and I will bring you
on the mountains of Israel; 39:3and I will strike your bow out of your
left hand, and will cause your arrows to
fall out of your right hand. 39:4You shall fall on the mountains of Israel,
you, and all your hordes, and the peoples
who are with you: I will give you to the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the
animals of the field to be devoured. 39:5You shall fall on the open field; for
I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
39:6I will send a fire
on Magog, and on those who dwell securely
in the isles; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh. 39:7My holy name will I make known in the
midst of my people Israel; neither will
I allow my holy name to be profaned any
more: and the nations shall know that I
am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. 39:8Behold, it comes, and it shall be done,
says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about
which I have spoken. 39:9Those who dwell in the cities of Israel
shall go forth, and shall make fires of
the weapons and burn them, both the shields
and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows,
and the war clubs, and the spears, and they
shall make fires of them seven years; 39:10so that they shall take no wood out
of the field, neither cut down any out of
the forests; for they shall make fires of
the weapons; and they shall plunder those
who plundered them, and rob those who robbed
them, says the Lord Yahweh. 39:11It shall happen in that day, that I
will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel,
the valley of those who pass through on
the east of the sea; and it shall stop those
who pass through: and there shall they bury
Gog and all his multitude; and they shall
call it The valley of Hamon Gog. 39:12Seven months shall
the house of Israel be burying them, that
they may cleanse the land. 39:13Yes, all the people of the land shall
bury them; and it shall be to them a renown
in the day that I shall be glorified, says
the Lord Yahweh. 39:14They shall set
apart men of continual employment, who shall
pass through the land, and, with those who
pass through, those who bury those who remain
on the surface of the land, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they
search. 39:15Those who pass through the land shall
pass through; and when any sees a man's
bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,
until the undertakers have buried it in
the valley of Hamon Gog. 39:16Hamonah shall also be the name of a
city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
39:17You, son of man,
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the
birds of every sort, and to every animal
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 on the mountains of Israel, that
you may eat flesh and drink blood. 39:18You 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 bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
39:19You shall eat fat until you be full,
and drink blood until you be drunken, of
my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for
you. 39:20You shall be filled at my table with
horses and chariots, with mighty men, and
with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
39:21I will set my glory among the nations;
and all the nations shall see my judgment
that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid on them. 39:22So the house of
Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their
God, from that day and forward. 39:23The nations shall know that the house
of Israel went into captivity for their
iniquity; because they trespassed against
me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave
them into the hand of their adversaries,
and they fell all of them by the sword.
39:24According to their uncleanness and according
to their transgressions did I to them; and
I hid my face from them. 39:25Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob,
and have mercy on the whole house of Israel;
and I will be jealous for my holy name.
39:26They shall bear their shame, and all
their trespasses by which they have trespassed
against me, when they shall dwell securely
in their land, and none shall make them
afraid; 39:27when I have brought them back from the
peoples, and gathered them out of their
enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them
in the sight of many nations. 39:28They shall know
that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused
them to go into captivity among the nations,
and have gathered them to their own land;
and I will leave none of them any more there;
39:29neither will I
hide my face any more from them; for I have
poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh.
40:1In 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 struck, in the same day, the hand of
Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
40:2In the visions of God brought he me into
the land of Israel, and set me down on a
very high mountain, whereon was as it were
the frame of a city on the south. 40:3He brought me there; and, behold, there
was a man, whose appearance was like the
appearance of brass, with a line of flax
in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he
stood in the gate. 40:4The man said to me, Son of man, see with
your eyes, and hear with your ears, and
set your heart on all that I shall show
you; for, to the intent that I may show
them to you, are you brought here: declare
all that you see to the house of Israel.
40:5Behold, a wall on the outside of the
house round about, and in the man's hand
a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit
and a handbreadth each: so he measured the
thickness of the building, one reed; and
the height, one reed. 40:6Then came he to
the gate which looks toward the east, and
went up the steps of it: and he measured
the threshold of the gate, one reed broad;
and the other threshold, one reed broad.
40:7Every lodge was one reed long, and one
reed broad; and the space between
the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold
of the gate by the porch of the gate toward
the house was one reed. 40:8He measured also the porch of the gate
toward the house, one reed. 40:9Then measured he
the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and
the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch
of the gate was toward the house. 40:10The lodges of the gate eastward were
three on this side, and three on that side;
they three were of one measure: and the
posts had one measure on this side and on
that side. 40:11He measured the breadth of the opening
of the gate, ten cubits; and the length
of the gate, thirteen cubits; 40:12and a border before the lodges, one
cubit on this side, and a border,
one cubit on that side; and the lodges,
six cubits on this side, and six cubits
on that side. 40:13He measured the gate from the roof of
the one lodge to the roof of the other,
a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against
door. 40:14He made also posts, sixty cubits; and
the court reached to the posts, round
about the gate. 40:15From the forefront of the gate
at the entrance to the forefront of the
inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
40:16There were closed windows to the lodges,
and to their posts within the gate round
about, and likewise to the arches; and windows
were round about inward; and on each
post were palm trees. 40:17Then brought he me into the outer court;
and, behold, there were chambers and a pavement,
made for the court round about: thirty chambers
were on the pavement. 40:18The pavement was by the side of the
gates, answerable to the length of the gates,
even the lower pavement. 40:19Then he measured the breadth from the
forefront of the lower gate to the forefront
of the inner court outside, one hundred
cubits, both on the east and on the
north. 40:20The gate of the outer court whose prospect
is toward the north, he measured the length
of it and the breadth of it. 40:21The lodges of it were three on this
side and three on that side; and the posts
of it and the arches of it were after the
measure of the first gate: the length of
it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five
cubits. 40:22The windows of
it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees
of it, were after the measure of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east; and they
went up to it by seven steps; and the arches
of it were before them. 40:23There was a gate to the inner court
over against the other gate, both
on the north and on the east; and he measured
from gate to gate one hundred cubits. 40:24He led me toward the south; and, behold,
a gate toward the south: and he measured
the posts of it and the arches of it according
to these measures. 40:25There were windows
in it and in the arches of it round about,
like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
40:26There were seven steps to go up to it,
and the arches of it were before them; and
it had palm trees, one on this side, and
another on that side, on the posts of it.
40:27There was a gate to the inner court
toward the south: and he measured from gate
to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
40:28Then he brought me to the inner court
by the south gate: and he measured the south
gate according to these measures; 40:29and the lodges of it, and the posts
of it, and the arches of it, according to
these measures: and there were windows in
it and in the arches of it round about;
it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five
cubits broad. 40:30There were arches
round about, twenty-five cubits long, and
five cubits broad. 40:31The arches of it were toward the outer
court; and palm trees were on the posts
of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
40:32He brought me into the inner court toward
the east: and he measured the gate according
to these measures; 40:33and the lodges of it, and the posts
of it, and the arches of it, according to
these measures: and there were windows therein
and in the arches of it round about; it
was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits
broad. 40:34The arches of
it were toward the outer court; and palm
trees were on the posts of it, on this side,
and on that side: and the ascent to it had
eight steps. 40:35He brought me to the north gate: and
he measured it according to these
measures; 40:36the lodges of it, the posts of it, and
the arches of it: and there were windows
therein round about; the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
40:37The posts of it were toward the outer
court; and palm trees were on the posts
of it, on this side, and on that side: and
the ascent to it had eight steps. 40:38A chamber with
the door of it was by the posts at the gates;
there they washed the burnt offering. 40:39In the porch of the gate were two tables
on this side, and two tables on that side,
to kill thereon the burnt offering and the
sin-offering and the trespass-offering.
40:40On the one side outside, as one
goes up to the entry of the gate toward
the north, were two tables; and on the other
side, which belonged to the porch of the
gate, were two tables. 40:41Four tables were on this side, and four
tables on that side, by the side of the
gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed
the sacrifices. 40:42There were four
tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone,
a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and
a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon
they laid the instruments with which they
killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
40:43The hooks, a handbreadth long, were
fastened within round about: and on the
tables was the flesh of the offering. 40:44Outside of the inner gate were chambers
for the singers in the inner court, which
was at the side of the north gate; and their
prospect was toward the south; one at the
side of the east gate having the prospect
toward the north. 40:45He said to me,
This chamber, whose prospect is toward the
south, is for the priests, the keepers of
the charge of the house; 40:46and 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,
who from among the sons of Levi come near
to Yahweh to minister to him. 40:47He measured the court, one hundred cubits
long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare;
and the altar was before the house. 40:48Then he brought me to the porch of the
house, and measured each post of the porch,
five cubits on this side, and five cubits
on that side: and the breadth of the gate
was three cubits on this side, and three
cubits on that side. 40:49The length of
the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits; even by the steps by which
they went up to it: and there were pillars
by the posts, one on this side, and another
on that side.
41:1He 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 tent. 41:2The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits;
and the sides of the entrance were five
cubits on the one side, and five cubits
on the other side: and he measured the length
of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty
cubits. 41:3Then went he inward,
and measured each post of the entrance,
two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits;
and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
41:4He measured the length of it, twenty
cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits,
before the temple: and he said to me, This
is the most holy place. 41:5Then he measured
the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits,
round about the house on every side. 41:6The side-chambers were in three stories,
one over another, and thirty in order; and
they entered into the wall which belonged
to the house for the side-chambers round
about, that they might have hold therein,
and not have hold in the wall of the house.
41:7The side-chambers were broader as they
encompassed the house higher and
higher; for the encompassing of the house
went higher and higher round about the house:
therefore the breadth of the house continued
upward; and so one went up from the
lowest chamber to the highest by
the middle chamber. 41:8I saw also that the house had a raised
base round about: the foundations of the
side-chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits. 41:9The thickness of the wall, which was
for the side-chambers, on the outside, was
five cubits: and that which was left was
the place of the side-chambers that belonged
to the house. 41:10Between the chambers was a breadth of
twenty cubits round about the house on every
side. 41:11The doors of the side-chambers were
toward the place that was left, one
door toward the north, and another door
toward the south: and the breadth of the
place that was left was five cubits round
about. 41:12The building that was before the separate
place at the side toward the west was seventy
cubits broad; and the wall of the building
was five cubits thick round about, and the
length of it ninety cubits. 41:13So he measured the house, one hundred
cubits long; and the separate place, and
the building, with the walls of it, one
hundred cubits long; 41:14also the breadth
of the face of the house, and of the separate
place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
41:15He measured the length of the building
before the separate place which was at the
back of it, and the galleries of it on the
one side and on the other side, one hundred
cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches
of the court; 41:16the thresholds,
and the closed windows, and the galleries
round about on their three stories, over
against the threshold, with wood ceilings
round about, and from the ground
up to the windows, (now the windows were
covered), 41:17to the space above the door,
even to the inner house, and outside, and
by all the wall round about inside and outside,
by measure. 41:18It was made with
cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree
was between cherub and cherub, and every
cherub had two faces; 41:19so that there
was the face of a man toward the palm tree
on the one side, and the face of a young
lion toward the palm tree on the other side.
thus was it made through all the
house round about: 41:20from the ground
to above the door were cherubim and palm
trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
41:21As for the temple, the door-posts were
squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary,
the appearance of it was as the appearance
of the temple. 41:22The altar was of wood, three cubits
high, and the length of it two cubits; and
the corners of it, and the length of it,
and the walls of it, were of wood: and he
said to me, This is the table that is before
Yahweh. 41:23The temple and
the sanctuary had two doors. 41:24The doors had
two leaves apiece, two turning leaves:
two leaves for the one door, and
two leaves for the other. 41:25There were made
on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim
and palm trees, like as were made on the
walls; and there was a threshold of wood
on the face of the porch outside. 41:26There were closed windows and palm trees
on the one side and on the other side, on
the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers
of the house, and the thresholds.
42:1Then he brought me forth into the outer
court, the way toward the north: and he
brought me into the chamber that was over
against the separate place, and which was
over against the building toward the north.
42:2Before the length of one hundred cubits
was the north door, and the breadth was
fifty cubits. 42:3Over against the twenty cubits
which belonged to the inner court, and over
against the pavement which belonged to the
outer court, was gallery against gallery
in the third story. 42:4Before the chambers was a walk of ten
cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit;
and their doors were toward the north. 42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter;
for the galleries took away from these,
more than from the lower and the middle,
in the building. 42:6For they were in
three stories, and they didn't have pillars
as the pillars of the courts: therefore
the uppermost was straitened more
than the lowest and the middle from the
ground. 42:7The wall that was
outside by the side of the chambers, toward
the outer court before the chambers, the
length of it was fifty cubits. 42:8For the length of the chambers that were
in the outer court was fifty cubits: and,
behold, before the temple were one hundred
cubits. 42:9From under these
chambers was the entry on the east side,
as one goes into them from the outer court.
42:10In the thickness of the wall of the
court toward the east, before the separate
place, and before the building, there were
chambers. 42:11The way before
them was like the appearance of the way
of the chambers which were toward the
north; according to their length so was
their breadth: and all their exits were
both according to their fashions, and according
to their doors. 42:12According to the doors of the chambers
that were toward the south was a door at
the head of the way, even the way directly
before the wall toward the east, as one
enters into them. 42:13Then said he to me, The north chambers
and the south chambers, which are before
the separate place, they are the holy chambers,
where the priests who are near to Yahweh
shall eat the most holy things: there shall
they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering,
and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering;
for the place is holy. 42:14When the priests enter in, then shall
they not go out of the holy place into the
outer court, but there they shall lay their
garments in which they minister; for they
are holy: and they shall put on other garments,
and shall approach to that which pertains
to the people. 42:15Now when he had made an end of measuring
the inner house, he brought me forth by
the way of the gate whose prospect is toward
the east, and measured it round about. 42:16He measured on the east side with the
measuring reed five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed round about. 42:17He measured on the north side five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed round about.
42:18He measured on the south side five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed. 42:19He turned about
to the west side, and measured five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed. 42:20He measured it on the four sides: it
had a wall round about, the length five
hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to
make a separation between that which was
holy and that which was common.
43:1Afterward he brought me to the gate,
even the gate that looks toward the east.
43:2Behold, the glory
of the God of Israel came from the way of
the east: and his voice was like the sound
of many waters; and the earth shined with
his glory. 43:3It 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 on my face. 43:4The glory of Yahweh came into the house
by the way of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east. 43:5The Spirit took me up, and brought me
into the inner court; and, behold, the glory
of Yahweh filled the house. 43:6I heard one speaking to me out of the
house; and a man stood by me. 43:7He said to me,
Son of man, this is the place of
my throne, and the place of the soles of
my feet, where I will dwell in the midst
of the children of Israel forever. The house
of Israel shall no more defile my holy name,
neither they, nor their kings, by their
prostitution, and by the dead bodies of
their kings in their high places;
43:8in their setting
of their threshold by my threshold, and
their door-post beside my door-post, and
there was but the wall between me
and them; and they have defiled my holy
name by their abominations which they have
committed: therefore I have consumed them
in my anger. 43:9Now let them put
away their prostitution, and the dead bodies
of their kings, far from me; and I will
dwell in the midst of them forever. 43:10You, son of man, show the house to the
house of Israel, that they may be ashamed
of their iniquities; and let them measure
the pattern. 43:11If they be ashamed of all that they
have done, make known to them the form of
the house, and the fashion of it, and the
exits of it, and the entrances of it, and
all the forms of it, and all the ordinances
of it, and all the forms of it, and all
the laws of it; and write it in their sight;
that they may keep the whole form of it,
and all the ordinances of it, and do them.
43:12This is the law
of the house: on the top of the mountain
the whole limit of it round about shall
be most holy. Behold, this is the law of
the house. 43:13These are the measures of the altar
by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth):
the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth
a cubit, and the border of it by the edge
of it round about a span; and this shall
be the base of the altar. 43:14From the bottom on the ground to the
lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the
breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge
to the greater ledge shall be four cubits,
and the breadth a cubit. 43:15The upper altar shall be four cubits;
and from the altar hearth and upward there
shall be four horns. 43:16The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits
long by twelve broad, square in the four
sides of it. 43:17The ledge shall be fourteen cubits
long by fourteen broad in the four sides
of it; and the border about it shall be
half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall
be a cubit round about; and the steps of
it shall look toward the east. 43:18He said to me, Son of man, thus says
the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances
of the altar in the day when they shall
make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon,
and to sprinkle blood thereon. 43:19You shall give to the priests the Levites
who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near
to me, to minister to me, says the Lord
Yahweh, a young bull for a sin-offering.
43:20You shall take of the blood of it, and
put it on the four horns of it, and on the
four corners of the ledge, and on the border
round about: thus shall you cleanse it and
make atonement for it. 43:21You shall also take the bull of the
sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the
appointed place of the house, outside of
the sanctuary. 43:22On the second
day you shall offer a male goat without
blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it
with the bull. 43:23When you have made an end of cleansing
it, you shall offer a young bull without
blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
blemish. 43:24You shall bring them near before Yahweh,
and the priests shall cast salt on them,
and they shall offer them up for a burnt
offering to Yahweh. 43:25Seven days shall
you prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering:
they shall also prepare a young bull, and
a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
43:26Seven days shall they make atonement
for the altar and purify it; so shall they
consecrate it. 43:27When they have accomplished the days,
it shall be that on the eighth day, and
forward, the priests shall make your burnt
offerings on the altar, and your peace-offerings;
and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
44:1Then he brought me back by the way of
the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks
toward the east; and it was shut. 44:2Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be
shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall
any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the
God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore
it shall be shut. 44:3As for the prince, he shall sit therein
as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he
shall enter by the way of the porch of the
gate, and shall go out by the way of the
same. 44:4Then he brought me by the way of the
north gate before the house; and I looked,
and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled
the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.
44:5Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well,
and see with your eyes, and hear with your
ears all that I tell you concerning all
the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and
all the laws of it; and mark well the entrance
of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
44:6You shall tell the rebellious, even to
the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice
you of all your abominations, 44:7in that you have
brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in
heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be
in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my
house, when you offer my bread, the fat
and the blood, and they have broken my covenant,
to add to all your abominations.
44:8You have not kept
the charge of my holy things; but you have
set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary
for yourselves. 44:9Thus says the Lord
Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter
into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who
are among the children of Israel. 44:10But the Levites who went far from me,
when Israel went astray, who went astray
from me after their idols, they shall bear
their iniquity. 44:11Yet they shall
be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight
at the gates of the house, and ministering
in the house: they shall kill the burnt
offering and the sacrifice for the people,
and they shall stand before them to minister
to them. 44:12Because they ministered to them before
their idols, and became a stumbling block
of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore
have I lifted up my hand against them, says
the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their
iniquity. 44:13They shall not
come near to me, to execute the office of
priest to me, nor to come near to any of
my holy things, to the things that are most
holy; but they shall bear their shame, and
their abominations which they have committed.
44:14Yet will I make them keepers of the
charge of the house, for all the service
of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
44:15But the priests the Levites, the sons
of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary
when the children of Israel went astray
from me, they shall come near to me to minister
to me; and they shall stand before me to
offer to me the fat and the blood, says
the Lord Yahweh: 44:16they shall enter into my sanctuary,
and they shall come near to my table, to
minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
44:17It shall be that, when they enter in
at the gates of the inner court, they shall
be clothed with linen garments; and no wool
shall come on them, while they minister
in the gates of the inner court, and within.
44:18They shall have
linen tires on their heads, and shall have
linen breeches on their loins; they shall
not gird themselves with anything that
causes sweat. 44:19When they go forth into the outer court,
even into the outer court to the people,
they shall put off their garments in which
they minister, and lay them in the holy
chambers; and they shall put on other garments,
that they not sanctify the people with their
garments. 44:20Neither shall they shave their heads,
nor allow their locks to grow long; they
shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
44:21Neither shall any of the priests drink
wine, when they enter into the inner court.
44:22Neither shall
they take for their wives a widow, nor her
who is put away; but they shall take virgins
of the seed of the house of Israel, or a
widow who is the widow of a priest. 44:23They shall teach my people the difference
between the holy and the common, and cause
them to discern between the unclean and
the clean. 44:24In a controversy
they shall stand to judge; according to
my ordinances shall they judge it: and they
shall keep my laws and my statutes in all
my appointed feasts; and they shall make
my Sabbaths holy. 44:25They shall go in to no dead person to
defile themselves; but for father, or for
mother, or for son, or for daughter, for
brother, or for sister who has had no husband,
they may defile themselves. 44:26After he is cleansed, they shall reckon
to him seven days. 44:27In the day that he goes into the sanctuary,
into the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering,
says the Lord Yahweh. 44:28They shall have
an inheritance: I am their inheritance;
and you shall give them no possession in
Israel; I am their possession. 44:29They shall eat
the meal-offering, and the sin-offering,
and the trespass-offering; and every devoted
thing in Israel shall be theirs. 44:30The first of all
the first fruits of every thing, and every
offering of everything, of all your offerings,
shall be for the priest: you shall also
give to the priests the first of your dough,
to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
44:31The priests shall not eat of anything
that dies of itself, or is torn, whether
it be bird or animal.
45:1Moreover, when you shall divide by lot
the land for inheritance, you shall offer
an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of
the land; the length shall be the length
of twenty-five thousand reeds, and
the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall
be holy in all the border of it round about.
45:2Of this there shall
be for the holy place five hundred in
length by five hundred in breadth,
square round about; and fifty cubits for
the suburbs of it round about. 45:3Of this measure shall you measure a length
of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of
ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary,
which is most holy. 45:4It is a holy portion
of the land; it shall be for the priests,
the ministers of the sanctuary, who come
near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall
be a place for their houses, and a holy
place for the sanctuary. 45:5Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites,
the ministers of the house, for a possession
to themselves, for twenty chambers.
45:6You shall appoint the possession of the
city five thousand broad, and twenty-five
thousand long, side by side with the offering
of the holy portion: it shall be for the
whole house of Israel. 45:7Whatever is for the prince shall
be on the one side and on the other
side of the holy offering and of the possession
of the city, in front of the holy offering
and in front of the possession of the city,
on the west side westward, and on the east
side eastward; and in length answerable
to one of the portions, from the west border
to the east border. 45:8In the land it
shall be to him for a possession in Israel:
and my princes shall no more oppress my
people; but they shall give the land to
the house of Israel according to their tribes.
45:9Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute justice
and righteousness; dispossessing my people,
says the Lord Yahweh. 45:10You shall have just balances, and a
just ephah, and a just bath. 45:11The ephah and
the bath shall be of one measure, that the
bath may contain the tenth part of a homer,
and the ephah the tenth part of a homer:
the measure of it shall be after the homer.
45:12The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty
shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen
shekels shall be your mina. 45:13This is the offering that you shall
offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a
homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth
part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
45:14and the set portion of oil, of the bath
of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of
the cor, which is ten baths, even
a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;) 45:15and one lamb of the flock, out of two
hundred, from the well-watered pastures
of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for
a burnt offering, and for peace-offerings,
to make atonement for them, says the Lord
Yahweh. 45:16All the people
of the land shall give to this offering
for the prince in Israel. 45:17It shall be the prince's part to give
the burnt offerings, and the meal-offerings,
and the drink-offerings, in the feasts,
and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths,
in all the appointed feasts of the house
of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering,
and the meal-offering, and the burnt offering,
and the peace-offerings, to make atonement
for the house of Israel. 45:18Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first
month, in the first day of
the month, you shall take a young bull without
blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
45:19The priest shall take of the blood of
the sin-offering, and put it on the door-posts
of the house, and on the four corners of
the ledge of the altar, and on the posts
of the gate of the inner court. 45:20So you shall do on the seventh day
of the month for everyone who errs, and
for him who is simple: so shall you make
atonement for the house. 45:21In the first month,
in the fourteenth day of the month, you
shall have the Passover, a feast of seven
days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 45:22On that day shall the prince prepare
for himself and for all the people of the
land a bull for a sin-offering. 45:23The seven days of the feast he shall
prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven
bulls and seven rams without blemish daily
the seven days; and a male goat daily for
a sin-offering. 45:24He shall prepare a meal-offering, an
ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram,
and a hin of oil to an ephah. 45:25In the seventh month, in the
fifteenth day of the month, in the feast,
shall he do the like the seven days; according
to the sin-offering, according to the burnt
offering, and according to the meal-offering,
and according to the oil.
46:1Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of
the inner court that looks toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but
on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and
on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
46:2The prince shall
enter by the way of the porch of the gate
outside, and shall stand by the post of
the gate; and the priests shall prepare
his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings,
and he shall worship at the threshold of
the gate: then he shall go forth; but the
gate shall not be shut until the evening.
46:3The people of the land shall worship
at the door of that gate before Yahweh on
the Sabbaths and on the new moons. 46:4The burnt offering that the prince shall
offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath
day six lambs without blemish and a ram
without blemish; 46:5and the meal-offering
shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering
for the lambs as he is able to give, and
a hin of oil to an ephah. 46:6On the day of the new moon it shall be
a young bull without blemish, and six lambs,
and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
46:7and he shall prepare a meal-offering,
an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for
the ram, and for the lambs according as
he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
46:8When the prince shall enter, he shall
go in by the way of the porch of the gate,
and he shall go forth by the way of it.
46:9But when the people of the land shall
come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts,
he who enters by the way of the north gate
to worship shall go forth by the way of
the south gate; and he who enters 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 by which he
came in, but shall go forth straight before
him. 46:10The prince, when
they go in, shall go in with of them; and
when they go out, he shall go out. 46:11In the feasts and in the solemnities
the meal-offering shall be an ephah for
a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for
the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin
of oil to an ephah. 46:12When the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering,
a burnt offering or peace-offerings as a
freewill-offering to Yahweh, one shall open
for him the gate that looks toward the east;
and he shall prepare his burnt offering
and his peace-offerings, as he does on the
Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and
after his going forth one shall shut the
gate. 46:13You shall prepare
a lamb a year old without blemish for a
burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning
by morning shall you prepare it. 46:14You shall prepare
a meal-offering with it morning by morning,
the sixth part of an ephah, and the third
part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine
flour; a meal-offering to Yahweh continually
by a perpetual ordinance. 46:15Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and
the meal-offering, and the oil, morning
by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
46:16Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince
give a gift to any of his sons, it is his
inheritance, it shall belong to his sons;
it is their possession by inheritance. 46:17But if he give of his inheritance a
gift to one of his servants, it shall be
his to the year of liberty; then it shall
return to the prince; but as for his inheritance,
it shall be for his sons. 46:18Moreover the prince shall not take of
the people's inheritance, to thrust them
out of their possession; he shall give inheritance
to his sons out of his own possession, that
my people not be scattered every man from
his possession. 46:19Then he brought me through the entry,
which was at the side of the gate, into
the holy chambers for the priests, which
looked toward the north: and, behold, there
was a place on the hinder part westward.
46:20He said to me, This is the place where
the priests shall boil the trespass-offering
and the sin-offering, and where they
shall bake the meal-offering; that they
not bring them forth into the outer court,
to sanctify the people. 46:21Then he brought me forth into the outer
court, and caused me to pass by the four
corners of the court; and, behold, in every
corner of the court there was a court. 46:22In the four corners of the court there
were courts enclosed, forty cubits
long and thirty broad: these four in the
corners were of one measure. 46:23There was a wall
round about in them, round about the four,
and boiling-places were made under the walls
round about. 46:24Then said he to
me, These are the boiling-houses, where
the ministers of the house shall boil the
sacrifice of the people.
47:1He brought me back to the door of the
house; and, behold, waters issued out from
under the threshold of the house eastward;
(for the forefront of the house was toward
the east;) and the waters came down from
under, from the right side of the house,
on the south of the altar. 47:2Then he brought me out by the way of
the gate northward, and led me round by
the way outside to the outer gate, by the
way of the gate that looks toward
the east; and, behold, there ran out waters
on the right side. 47:3When the man went
forth eastward with the line in his hand,
he measured one thousand cubits, and he
caused me to pass through the waters, waters
that were to the ankles. 47:4Again he measured one thousand, and caused
me to pass through the waters, waters that
were to the knees. Again he measured one
thousand, and caused me to pass through
the waters, waters that were to the
loins. 47:5Afterward he measured
one thousand; and it was a river
that I could not pass through; for the waters
were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed through. 47:6He said to me, Son of man, have you seen
this? Then he brought me, and caused
me to return to the bank of the river. 47:7Now when I had returned, behold, on the
bank of the river were very many trees on
the one side and on the other. 47:8Then said he to me, These waters issue
forth toward the eastern region, and shall
go down into the Arabah; and they shall
go toward the sea; into the sea shall
the waters go which were made to issue
forth; and the waters shall be healed. 47:9It shall happen, that every living creature
which swarms, in every place where the rivers
come, shall live; and there shall be a very
great multitude of fish; for these waters
are come there, and the waters of the
sea shall be healed, and everything
shall live wherever the river comes. 47:10It shall happen,
that fishermen shall stand by it: from En
Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place
for the spreading of nets; their fish shall
be after their kinds, as the fish of the
great sea, exceeding many. 47:11But the miry places of it, and the marshes
of it, shall not be healed; they shall be
given up to salt. 47:12By the river on the bank of it, on this
side and on that side, shall grow every
tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither,
neither shall the fruit of it fail: it shall
bring forth new fruit every month, because
the waters of it issue out of the sanctuary;
and the fruit of it shall be for food, and
the leaf of it for healing. 47:13Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall
be the border, by which you shall divide
the land for inheritance according to the
twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall
have two portions. 47:14You shall inherit it, one as well as
another; for I swore to give it to your
fathers: and this land shall fall to you
for inheritance. 47:15This shall be
the border of the land: On the north side,
from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon,
to the entrance of Zedad; 47:16Hamath, Berothah,
Sibraim, which is between the border of
Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer
Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
47:17The border from the sea, shall be Hazar
Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the
north northward is the border of Hamath.
This is the north side. 47:18The east side,
between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead,
and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan;
from the north border to the east
sea shall you measure. This is the east
side. 47:19The south side
southward shall be from Tamar as far as
the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook
of Egypt, to the great sea. This
is the south side southward. 47:20The west side shall be the great sea,
from the south border as far as over
against the entrance of Hamath. This is
the west side. 47:21So shall you divide
this land to you according to the tribes
of Israel. 47:22It shall happen, that you shall divide
it by lot for an inheritance to you and
to the strangers who sojourn among you,
who shall father children among you; and
they shall be to you as the home-born among
the children of Israel; they shall have
inheritance with you among the tribes of
Israel. 47:23It shall happen,
that in what tribe the stranger sojourns,
there shall you give him his inheritance,
says the Lord Yahweh.
48:1Now these are the names of the tribes:
From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon
to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at
the border of Damascus, northward beside
Hamath, (and they shall have their sides
east and west), Dan, one portion.
48:2By the border of Dan, from the east side
to the west side, Asher, one portion.
48:3By the border of Asher, from the east
side even to the west side, Naphtali, one
portion. 48:4By the border of Naphtali, from the east
side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
48:5By the border of Manasseh, from the east
side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
48:6By the border of Ephraim, from the east
side even to the west side, Reuben, one
portion. 48:7By the border of Reuben, from the east
side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
48:8By the border of Judah, from the east
side to the west side, shall be the offering
which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand
reeds in breadth, and in length as
one of the portions, from the east side
to the west side: and the sanctuary shall
be in the midst of it. 48:9The offering that you shall offer to
Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand reeds
in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
48:10For these, even for the priests, shall
be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five
thousand in length, and toward the
west ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the south twenty-five thousand in length:
and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in
the midst of it. 48:11It shall be for the priests who
are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who
have kept my charge, who didn't go astray
when the children of Israel went astray,
as the Levites went astray. 48:12It shall be to them an offering from
the offering of the land, a thing most holy,
by the border of the Levites. 48:13Answerable to the border of the priests,
the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand
in length, and ten thousand in breadth:
all the length shall be twenty-five thousand,
and the breadth ten thousand. 48:14They shall sell none of it, nor exchange
it, nor shall the first fruits of the land
be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
48:15The five thousand that are left in the
breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand,
shall be for common use, for the city, for
dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall
be in the midst of it. 48:16These shall be the measures of it: the
north side four thousand and five hundred,
and the south side four thousand and five
hundred, and on the east side four thousand
and five hundred, and the west side four
thousand and five hundred. 48:17The city shall have suburbs: toward
the north two hundred fifty, and toward
the south two hundred fifty, and toward
the east two hundred fifty, and toward the
west two hundred fifty. 48:18The remainder in the length, answerable
to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand
eastward, and ten thousand westward; and
it shall be answerable to the holy offering;
and the increase of it shall be for food
to those who labor in the city. 48:19Those who labor in the city, out of
all the tribes of Israel, shall until it.
48:20All the offering
shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five
thousand: you shall offer the holy offering
four-square, with the possession of the
city. 48:21The residue shall be for the prince,
on the one side and on the other of the
holy offering and of the possession of the
city; in front of the twenty-five thousand
of the offering toward the east border,
and westward in front of the twenty-five
thousand toward the west border, answerable
to the portions, it shall be for the prince:
and the holy offering and the sanctuary
of the house shall be in the midst of it.
48:22Moreover 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, it shall be
for the prince. 48:23As for the rest
of the tribes: from the east side to the
west side, Benjamin, one portion.
48:24By the border of Benjamin, from the
east side to the west side, Simeon, one
portion. 48:25By the border of Simeon, from the east
side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.
48:26By the border of Issachar, from the
east side to the west side, Zebulun, one
portion. 48:27By the border of Zebulun, from the east
side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
48:28By the border of Gad, at the south side
southward, the border shall be even from
Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh,
to the brook of Egypt, to the great
sea. 48:29This is the land which you shall divide
by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance,
and these are their several portions, says
the Lord Yahweh. 48:30These are the
exits of the city: On the north side four
thousand and five hundred reeds by
measure; 48:31and the gates of the city shall be after
the names of the tribes of Israel, three
gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one;
the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi,
one. 48:32At the east side four thousand and five
hundred reeds, and three gates: even
the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin,
one; the gate of Dan, one. 48:33At the south side four thousand and
five hundred reeds by measure, and
three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the
gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun,
one. 48:34At the west side four thousand and five
hundred reeds, with their three gates:
the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher,
one; the gate of Naphtali, one. 48:35It shall be eighteen thousand reeds
round about: and the name of the city from
that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
Notes:
[1] back
to 1:26 or, lapis lazuli
[2] back
to 10:1 or, lapis lazuli
[3] back to 28:13 or, lapis lazuli
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