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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


20 {20:1} And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the
fifth [month,] the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of
the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat be-
fore me. {20:2} Then came the word of the LORD unto me,
saying, {20:3} Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel,
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come
to enquire of me? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not
be enquired of by you. {20:4} Wilt thou judge them, son of
man, wilt thou judge [them?] cause them to know the
abominations of their fathers:
{20:5} And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In
the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto
the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known
unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand
unto them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God; {20:6} In
the day [that] I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them
forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of
all lands: {20:7} Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every
man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves
with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God. {20:8}
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto
me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of
their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I
said, I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my
anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. {20:9}
But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, among whom they [were,] in
whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing
them forth out of the land of Egypt.
{20:10} Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the
land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
{20:11} And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my
judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them.
{20:12} Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a
sign between me and them, that they might know that I [am]
the LORD that sanctify them. {20:13} But the house of
Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not
in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which [if]
a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they
greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon
them in the wilderness, to consume them. {20:14} But I
wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted
before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
{20:15} Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the
wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which
I had given [them,] flowing with milk and honey, which [is]
the glory of all lands; {20:16} Because they despised my
judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my
sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. {20:17}
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,
neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
{20:18} But I said unto their children in the wilderness,
Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe
their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
{20:19} I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them; {20:20} And hallow
my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,
that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God. {20:21}
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they
walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do
them, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they
polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury
upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness. {20:22} Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand,
and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be
polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought
them forth. {20:23} I lifted up mine hand unto them also in
the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the
heathen, and disperse them through the countries; {20:24}
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had
despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and
their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. {20:25} Wherefore
I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and
judgments whereby they should not live; {20:26} And I
polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through [the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I might
make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I
[am] the LORD.
{20:27} Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of
Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in
this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have
committed a trespass against me. {20:28} [For] when I had
brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up mine
hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and
all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and
there they presented the provocation of their offering: there
also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there
their drink offerings. {20:29} Then I said unto them, What
[is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof
is called Bamah unto this day. {20:30} Wherefore say unto
the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye
polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye
whoredom after their abominations? {20:31} For when ye
offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through
the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto
this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of
Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be
enquired of by you. {20:32} And that which cometh into
your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the
heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and
stone.
{20:33} [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a
mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out, will I rule over you: {20:34} And I will bring
you out from the people, and will gather you out of the
countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. {20:35}
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
there will I plead with you face to face. {20:36} Like as I
pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of
Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
{20:37} And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I
will bring you into the bond of the covenant: {20:38} And I
will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that
transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the
country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
{20:39} As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord
GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter
[also,] if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my
holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
{20:40} For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the
height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the
house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I
accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the
firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
{20:41} I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I
bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the
countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be
sanctified in you before the heathen. {20:42} And ye shall
know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall bring you into the
land of Israel, into the country [for] the which I lifted up
mine hand to give it to your fathers. {20:43} And there shall
ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye
have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own
sight for all your evils that ye have committed. {20:44} And
ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have wrought
with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked
ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
{20:45} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, {20:46} Son of man, set thy face toward the south,
and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against
the forest of the south field; {20:47} And say to the forest
of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the
flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the
south to the north shall be burned therein. {20:48} And all
flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not
be quenched. {20:49} Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say
of me, Doth he not speak parables?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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