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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 Kebar, [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 to Ezekiel the priest,
 the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
 Kebar; 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 from the midst of it as the color of amber,
 from the midst of the fire.
1:5 Also from the midst of it [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 color 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 the
 color 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
 returned 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 around 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 color of the terrible crystal,
 stretched forth over their heads above.
1:23 And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the
 one towards 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 a 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 color of amber, as the appearance of fire
 around 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 on all
 sides.
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 around.
 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 speaking.
2:1 And he said to me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I
 will speak to thee.
2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set
 me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke to me.
2:3 And he said to 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]
 to this very day.
2:4 For [they are] impudent children and obstinate in heart. I
 send thee to them; and thou shalt say to 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 [are] with
 thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of
 their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [are]
 a rebellious house.
2:7 And thou shalt speak my words to 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 to thee; Be not thou
 rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat
 that which I give thee.
2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand [was] sent to me; and lo,
 a roll of a book [was] in it;
2:10 And he spread it before me: and it [was] written within and
 without: and [there was] written in it lamentations, and
 mourning, and woe.
3:1 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat what thou findest;
 eat this roll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3:3 And he said to 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 to me, Son of man, depart, go to the house of
 Israel, and speak with my words to them.
3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
 a hard language, [but] to the house of Israel;
3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard
 language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I
 sent thee to them, they would have hearkened to thee.
3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee; for they
 will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel [are]
 impudent and hard-hearted.
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
 [are] a rebellious house.
3:10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I
 shall speak to thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thy
 ears.
3:11 And depart, go to them of the captivity, to the children of
 thy people, and speak to 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 the 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 Kebar, 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 to me, saying,
3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of
 Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
 warning from me.
3:18 When I say to 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 thy hand.
3:19 Yet if thou shalt warn the wicked, and he shall not turn
 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 stumbling-block
 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 thy hand.
3:21 Nevertheless if thou shalt 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 to
 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 Kebar: and I fell on my face.
3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,
 and spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut thyself within thy
 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 to 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.
4:1 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 on every side.
4:3 Moreover take thou to 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 towards the siege of
 Jerusalem, and thy 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 to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
 lentils, 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 of it.
4:10 And thy food 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 a
 hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
4:12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt
 bake it with human excrement 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 even till now have I not eaten of
 that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither hath
 abominable flesh come into my mouth.
4:15 Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
 man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.
4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break
 the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by
 weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure,
 and with astonishment.
4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one
 with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
 barber's razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thy head and upon
 thy beard: then take to 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 of them 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: from which a fire shall 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] around
 her.
5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than
 the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are]
 around 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] around 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]
 around 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 the
 like to which I will not do any more, because of all thy
 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 thy abominations, therefore I will also diminish
 [thee]; neither shall my 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 around 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 my 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] around 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 to the nations that [are] around 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].
6:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6:2 Son of man, set thy face towards 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 carcasses of the children of Israel
 before their idols; and I will scatter your bones about your
 altars.
6:6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste,
 and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be
 laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and
 cease, and your 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 apostate heart, which hath departed from me,
 and with their eyes which go astray 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 to them.
6:11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thy 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 by 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, on all the tops of the mountains, and under
 every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where
 they offered sweet savor to all their idols.
6:14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
 desolate, even, more desolate than the wilderness towards
 Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I
 [am] the LORD.
7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
7:2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD to 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 my anger
 upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
 recompense upon thee all thy abominations.
7:4 And my eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:
 but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thy 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 upon 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 my anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according
 to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thy abominations.
7:9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
 recompense thee according to thy ways and thy 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 hath risen 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] concerning
 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 stumbling-block 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 rumor shall be upon
 rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the
 law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
 desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
 troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to
 their deserts will I judge them, and they shall know that I
 [am] the LORD.
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 my 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
 color of amber.
8:3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock
 of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and
 the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
 to the door of the inner gate that looketh towards 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 to me, Son of man, lift up thy eyes now the way
 towards the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the
 north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image
 of jealousy in the entry.
8:6 He said furthermore to me, Son of man, seest thou what they
 do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel
 committeth here, that I should withdraw 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 to 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 to 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
 animals, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house
 of Israel, portrayed around upon the wall.
8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of
 the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah
 the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and
 a thick cloud of incense went up.
8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
 elders 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 to 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] towards the north; and behold, there sat
 women weeping for Tammuz.
8:15 Then said he to 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 towards the temple of the LORD, and their faces
 towards the east; and they worshiped the sun towards the east.
8:17 Then he said to 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: my eye shall not spare,
 neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a
 loud voice, [yet] I will not hear them.
9:1 He cried also in my 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 towards the north, and every man a slaughter-weapon
 in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen,
 with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in and stood
 beside the brazen altar.
9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the
 cherub on which he was, to the threshhold of the house. And he
 called to the man clothed with linen, who [had] the writer's
 inkhorn by his side;
9:4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city,
 through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
 foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
 abominations that are done in the midst of it.
9:5 And to the others he said in my 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
 elderly men who [were] before the house.
9:7 And he said to 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 to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
 Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land [is] full of blood,
 and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath
 forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
9:10 And as for me also, my 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, who [had] the
 inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done
 as thou hast commanded me.
10:1 Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was above
 the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a
 sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
10:2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in
 between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thy hand
 with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter
 [them] over the city. And he entered in my sight.
10:3 Now the cherubim 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 threshhold 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 cherubim's 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 cherubim; then he went in, and stood beside
 the wheels.
10:7 And [one] cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
 cherubim, to the fire that [was] between the cherubim, and took
 [of it], and put [it] into the hands of [him that was] clothed
 with linen: who took [it], and went out.
10:8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
 under their wings.
10:9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim,
 one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub:
 and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the color 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 on every
 side, [even] the wheels that they four had.
10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried to 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 cherubim were lifted up. This [is] the living
 creature that I saw by the river of Kebar.
10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them: and
 when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the
 earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
10:17 When they stood, [these] stood; and when they 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
 threshhold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up
 from the earth in my sight: when they went out, 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 Kebar; and I knew that they [were] the
 cherubim.
10:21 Every one had four faces each, 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 Kebar, their appearances and themselves:
 they went every one straight forward.
11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the
 east-gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and
 behold, at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom
 I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of
 Benaiah, princes of the people.
11:2 Then said he to me, Son of man, these [are] the men that
 devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
11:3 Who say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city
 is] the caldron, and we [are] 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 to 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 its streets 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 of it, 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 of it; [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] around you.
11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the
 son of Benaiah died. Then I fell 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 to 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 to
 whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Retire far from
 the LORD: to 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 from
 thence all its detestable things, and all its abominations.
11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new
 spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their
 flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:
11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my 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 the cherubim raised 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 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 spoke to them of the captivity all the things that
 the LORD had shown me.
12:1 The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,
12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious
 house, who 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 [are] 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
 evening 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 mayest not see the ground: for I have set thee
 [for] a sign to 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 evening I digged
 through the wall with my hand; I brought [it] forth in the
 twilight, [and] I bore [it] upon [my] shoulder in their sight.
12:8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD to me, saying,
12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious
 house, said to thee, What doest thou?
12:10 Say thou to 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: as I have done, so shall it be done
 to 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 may not see 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 towards 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 solicitude.
12:19 And say to 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 solicitude, 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 to 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 to them, The days are at hand, and
 the effect of every vision.
12:24 For there shall no more be 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 no more be 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] distant.
12:28 Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There
 shall none of my words be further deferred, but the word which
 I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
13:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
 prophesy, and say thou to them that prophesy out of their own
 hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to 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], although
 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 my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
 that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
 people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the
 house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of
 Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
 Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a wall, and
 lo, others daubed it with untempered [mortar]:
13:11 Say to them who daub [it] with untempered [mortar], that
 it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O
 great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend
 [it].
13:12 Lo, when the wall hath fallen, shall it not be said to
 you, Where [is] the daubing with which 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 my anger, and great hailstones in [my]
 fury to consume [it].
13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with
 untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that
 its foundation shall be made bare, and it shall fall, and ye
 shall be consumed in the midst of it: and ye shall know that I
 [am] the LORD.
13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
 them that have daubed it with untempered [mortar], and will say
 to you, The wall [is] no [more], neither they that daubed it;
13:16 [To wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning
 Jerusalem, and who 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, who 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 arm-holes, 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] to you?
13:19 And will ye profane 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, with which 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 no more be 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.
14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat
 before me.
14:2 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their
 heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before
 their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
14:4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the
 Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
 idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his
 iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I 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 to 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, who separateth himself from me, and
 setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the
 stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to
 a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will
 answer him by myself:
14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him
 a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of
 my people; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing,
 I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out
 my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my
 people Israel.
14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
 punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of
 him that seeketh [to him];
14:11 That the house of Israel may no more go 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 my 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 their own souls only by their
 righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and
 they lay it waste, 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 deliver their own souls only by their
 righteousness.
14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my
 four severe 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 to 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.
15:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
15:2 Son of man, What is the vine-tree more than any tree, [or
 than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
15:3 Shall wood be taken of it to do any work? or will [men]
 take a pin of it to hang any vessel upon it?
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 suitable for [any] work?
15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was fit for no work: how much
 less then shall it be fit 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.
16:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth
 and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was]
 an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
16:4 And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy
 navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple
 [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these to 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 thy own
 blood, I said to thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yes,
 I said to 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 become great, and thou art come to
 excellent ornaments: [thy] breasts are fashioned, and thy 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: yes, I swore to thee, and
 entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
 becamest mine.
16:9 Then I washed thee with water; yes, I thoroughly washed
 away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee
 with badgers' skin, and I girded thee 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 ear-rings in thy
 ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy 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 thy 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 deck thy high
 places with divers colors, and play the harlot upon them: [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 hast made to thyself images
 of men, and hast committed lewdness with them.
16:18 And hast taken thy broidered garments, and covered them:
 and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.
16:19 My provisions also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil,
 and honey, [with which] I fed thee, thou hast even set before
 them for a sweet savor: and [thus] it was, saith the Lord GOD.
16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom
 thou hast borne to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them
 to be devoured. [Is this] of thy lewdness 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 thy abominations and thy deeds of lewdness 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 to
 thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
16:24 [That] thou hast also built to thee an eminent place, and
 hast made thee a 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 prostituted
 thyself to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy lewd
 deeds.
16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians
 thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy lewd
 deeds, to provoke me to anger.
16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,
 and have diminished thy ordinary [food], and delivered thee to
 the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the
 Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.
16:28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians,
 because thou wast insatiable; yes, thou hast played the harlot
 with them, and yet couldst not be satisfied.
16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land
 of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet with this thou wast not
 satisfied.
16:30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou
 doest all these [things], the work of an imperious lewd woman;
16:31 In that thou buildest thy eminent place in the head of
 every way, and makest thy high place in every street; and hast
 not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
16:32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [who] taketh
 strangers instead of her husband!
16:33 They give gifts to all lewd women: but thou givest thy
 gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come to
 thee on every side for thy lewdness.
16:34 And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy
 unlawful commerce, whereas none followeth thee to commit
 lewdness: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is
 given to 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 exposed through thy carnal connection
 with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations,
 and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give to
 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
 on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to
 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 thy 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 thy 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 towards 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 provoked me in all these [things]; behold therefore, I
 also will recompense thy way upon [thy] head, saith the Lord
 GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thy
 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 lotheth her husband
 and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters, who
 lothed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] a
 Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And thy 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,
 fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in
 her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
 and needy.
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 thy abominations more than they, and hast
 justified thy sisters in all thy abominations which thou hast
 done.
16:52 Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thy own shame
 for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than
 they: they are more righteous than thou: yes, 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 thy own shame, and mayest be
 confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a
 comfort to them.
16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
 their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return
 to their former state, then thou and thy daughters shall return
 to your former state.
16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the
 day of thy pride,
16:57 Before thy wickedness was disclosed, as at the time of
 [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are]
 around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise thee
 on every side.
16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thy abominations, saith
 the LORD.
16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as
 thou hast done, who 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 to thee an everlasting
 covenant.
16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when
 thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and
 I will give them to 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 towards thee for all that thou hast done, saith the
 Lord GOD.
17:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the
 house of Israel;
17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great
 wings, long-winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors,
 came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
17:4 He cropped off the top of its 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 towards him, and its roots 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 towards
 him, and shot forth her branches towards 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 its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may
 wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even
 without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.
17:10 Yes, 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 to me, saying,
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these
 [things mean]? tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon hath
 come to Jerusalem, and hath taken its king, and its princes,
 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 from 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 his covenant it might stand.
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his embassadors
 into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many 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 broke, [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 my
 oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath
 broken, even that 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 towards 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 its young twigs a tender one, and will plant
 [it] upon a high mountain and eminent:
17:23 In the mountain of the hight 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 shade of its branches shall they dwell.
17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD
 have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree,
 have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to
 flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done [it].
18:1 The word of the LORD came to 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 is just, and doeth 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 neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a
 polluted woman,
18:7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the
 debtor his pledge, hath stripped 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 interest, 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 begetteth 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 neighbor's wife,
18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath stripped 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 interest, 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 begetteth 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 neighbor's wife,
18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withheld the pledge,
 neither hath stripped 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 interest 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,
 stripped 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 to 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 a 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, by which 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 [ye], and live.
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 to 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 fullness of it, 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 custody 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 scepters of them that bore
 rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and
 she appeared in her hight 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 hath gone out of a rod of her branches, [which]
 hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be]
 a scepter to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a
 lamentation.
20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
 [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the
 elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before
 me.
20:2 Then came the word of the LORD to me, saying,
20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them,
 Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye come to inquire of me? [As] I
 live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]?
 cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
20:5 And say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I
 chose Israel, and lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of
 Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when
 I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;
20:6 In the day [that] I lifted up my hand to them, to bring
 them forth from 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 to 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 to me:
 they did not every man cast away the abominations of their
 eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said,
 I 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
 profaned before the heathen, among whom they [were], in whose
 sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth from
 the land of Egypt.
20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth from the land of
 Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments,
 which [if] a man doeth, 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 doeth, he shall even live in
 them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: 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
 profaned before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness,
 that I would not bring them into the land which I had given
 [them], flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of
 all lands;
20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
 statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after
 their idols.
20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them,
 neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 But I said to 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 doeth, he shall even live in them: they
 profaned 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 my hand, and wrought for my name's
 sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the
 heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
20:23 I lifted up my hand to 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 profaned my sabbaths, and their
 eyes were after their fathers' idols.
20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good,
 and judgments by which they should not live;
20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they
 caused to pass through [the fire] all the first-born, 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 to the house of Israel, and
 say to 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] which I
 lifted up my 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 savor, and poured
 out there their drink-offerings.
20:29 Then I said to them, What [is] the high place to which ye
 go? and its name is called Bamah to this day.
20:30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
 GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and
 commit ye lewd deeds 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 to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O
 house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be
 inquired of by you.
20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,
 that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the
 countries, to serve wood and stone.
20:33 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty
 hand, and with an out-stretched 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 in which ye are scattered, with a
 mighty hand, and with an out-stretched 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 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 to me: but profane ye my holy name no more
 with your gifts, and with your idols.
20:40 For on my holy mountain, on the mountain of the hight 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 first
 fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savor, when I bring you
 out from the people, and gather you out of the countries in
 which 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] which I
 lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.
20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings
 in which 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 to me, saying,
20:46 Son of man, set thy face towards the south, and drop [thy
 word] towards 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?
21:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
21:2 Son of man, set thy face towards Jerusalem, and drop [thy
 word] towards 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 its
 sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
 wicked.
21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and
 the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth from its sheath
 against all flesh from the south to the north:
21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn my sword
 out of its 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 to thee, Why 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 to 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 grievous 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: the 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]
 contemneth even the rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord
 GOD.
21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thy]
 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 private 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] sharpened 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 my hands together, and I will cause my
 fury to rest: I the LORD have said [it].
21:18 The word of the LORD came to 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 [ways] shall come
 forth from 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 Rabbah of the
 Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
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 to 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
 disclosed, 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 cometh 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 While they see vanity to thee, while they divine a lie to
 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 its 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 my indignation upon thee, I will blow
 against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the
 hand of brutish men, [and] skillful to destroy.
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].
22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the
 bloody city? yes, thou shalt show her all her abominations.
22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city sheddeth
 blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh
 idols against herself to defile herself.
22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed;
 and hast defiled thyself by thy idols which thou hast made; and
 thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] to
 thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the
 heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
22:5 [Those that are] near, and [those that are] far from thee,
 shall mock thee, [who art] infamous [and] much troubled.
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 oppressed the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 Thou hast despised my 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 uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in
 thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor'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 interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained from
 thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the
 Lord GOD.
22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest
 gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in
 the midst of thee.
22:14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy 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 thy 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 to 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 my anger and in my
 fury, and I will leave [you there], and melt you.
22:21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of
 my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst of it.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
 ye be melted in the midst of it; and ye shall know that I the
 LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
22:23 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
22:24 Son of man, say to 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 of
 her, 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 of her.
22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my
 holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and
 profane, neither have they shown [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 of her [are] like wolves ravening
 the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get
 dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered
 [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to 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 oppressed the poor and needy: yes, 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 my 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.
23:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one
 mother:
23:3 And they committed lewd deeds in Egypt; they committed lewd
 deeds in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and
 there they were first corrupted.
23:4 And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah
 her sister: and they were mine, and they bore 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] neighbors.
23:6 [Who were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of
 them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7 Thus she committed her lewd deeds 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 lewd deeds [brought] from Egypt: for
 in her youth they lay with her, and they first corrupted her,
 and poured their impurities 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 uncovered 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
 prostitutions more than her sister in [her] prostitutions.
23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians [her] neighbors, 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 prostitutions: 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 to them into Chaldea.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and
 they defiled her with their lewdness, and she was polluted with
 them, and her mind was alienated from them.
23:18 So she disclosed her lewd deeds, and exposed her
 nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, as my mind was
 alienated from her sister.
23:19 Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to
 remembrance the days of her youth, in which 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, by being corrupted by the Egyptians in 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 on every side: 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 thy
 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 of thy clothes, and take away
 thy fair jewels.
23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
 adultery [brought] from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt
 not lift up thy eyes to 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 treat thee with hatred, and shall take away
 all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the
 nakedness of thy prostitutions shall be disclosed, both thy
 lewdness and thy prostitutions.
23:30 I will do these [things] to thee, because thou hast gone
 astray 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 thy hand.
23:32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's
 cup deep and large: thou shalt be treated with 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 empty it to the dregs, and
 thou shalt break its pieces, and pluck off thy 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 prostitutions.
23:36 The LORD said moreover to me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
 Aholah and Aholibah? yes, declare to 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 bore to me, to pass for
 them through [the fire], to devour [them].
23:38 Moreover this they have done to 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 my house.
23:40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from
 far, to whom a messenger [was] sent; and lo, they came: for
 whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thy eyes, and deck thyself
 with ornaments,
23:41 And sattest upon a stately bed and a table prepared before
 it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my 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, who put bracelets upon their hands, and
 beautiful crowns upon their heads.
23:43 Then said I to [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they
 now commit lewd deeds with her, and she [with them]?
23:44 Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that
 playeth the harlot: so they went in to Aholah and to 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 plundered.
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 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.
24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
 [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:2 Son of man, Write for 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 to the rebellious house, and say to
 them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set [it] on, and
 also pour water into it:
24:4 Gather its pieces 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 boil its bones in it.
24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city,
 to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone
 out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon
 it.
24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the
 top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it
 with dust;
24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I
 have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not
 be covered.
24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city!
 I will even make the pile for fire great.
24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and
 spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
24:11 Then set it empty upon its coals, that the brass of it may
 be hot, and may burn, and [that] the filthiness of it may be
 melted 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 to me, saying,
24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of
 thy eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,
 neither shall thy tears run down.
24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the
 tire of thy 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 spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my
 wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
24:19 And the people said to 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 to me,
 saying,
24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
 Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellence 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 towards another.
24:24 Thus Ezekiel is to 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 on which they set their minds,
 their sons and their daughters,
24:26 [That] he that escapeth in that day shall come to thee, to
 cause [thee] to hear [it] with [thy] ears?
24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him who hath
 escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou
 shalt be a sign to them; and they shall know that I [am] the
 LORD.
25:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and
 prophesy against them;
25:3 And say to 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 couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I
 [am] the LORD.
25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped
 [thy] 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 my 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 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, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
25:10 To 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 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
 my 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 my 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 my 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.
26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
 [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me,
 saying,
26:2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem,
 Aha, she is broken [that was] the gates of the people: she is
 turned to me: I shall be replenished, [now] she is laid waste:
26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against
 thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against
 thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.
26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down
 her towers: 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 who [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 Tyre
 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 in which 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 Tyre; 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 by
 sea-faring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the
 sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror [to be] on
 all that haunt it!
26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yes,
 the isles that [are] in the sea shall be disturbed 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 shalt be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found
 again, saith the Lord GOD.
27:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;
27:3 And say to Tyre, O thou that art situated at the entry of
 the sea, [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles,
 Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyre, 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 thy 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 Tyre, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots.
27:9 The ancients of Gebal and its wise [men] 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 thy army,
 thy military men: they hung the shield and helmet in thee; they
 set forth thy comeliness.
27:11 The men of Arvad with thy army [were] upon thy walls on
 all sides, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung
 their shields upon thy walls on every side; 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 in 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 thy 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 in 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 military men, 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 themselves 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 Tyre,
 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 terribly 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.
28:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord
 GOD; Because thy 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 settest
 thy 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 thy understanding thou hast gained
 for thee riches, and hast gained gold and silver into thy
 treasures:
28:5 By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou
 increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy
 riches:
28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set
 thy 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 to me, saying,
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre,
 and say to 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 Thy 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 thy
 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 to me, saying,
28:21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy
 against it,
28:22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against
 thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee:
 and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have
 executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her
 streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by
 the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I
 [am] the LORD.
28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house
 of Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all [that are] around
 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; yes, they shall dwell with
 confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
 despise them around them; and they shall know that I [am] the
 LORD their God.
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth
 [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to 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] my 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 to thy scales, and I will bring thee out
 of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers
 shall stick to 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 food to the beasts of the field and to the
 fowls of 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 didst break, and make 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 to the border of Cush.
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 to me, saying,
29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army
 to serve a great service against Tyre: every head [was] made
 bald, and every shoulder [was] peeled: yet had he no wages, nor
 his army, for Tyre, 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 to 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 labor with
 which 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.
30:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl
 ye, Alas 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 Cush, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall
 take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken
 down.
30:5 Cush, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and
 Kub, 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 Cushites 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 in it, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken
 [it].
30:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols,
 and I will cause [their] images to cease out of Noph; and there
 shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put
 a fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in
 Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt;
 and I will cut off the multitude of No.
30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain,
 and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses
 daily.
30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
 sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I
 shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her
 strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover
 her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
30:19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall
 know that I [am] the LORD.
30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
 [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of
 the LORD came to 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.
31:1 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 to me, saying,
31:2 Son of man, speak to 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 shady cover, and of a 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 his plants, and sent out her little
 rivers to all the trees of the field.
31:5 Therefore his hight 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 shade 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; not any tree in the garden of God was
 like to 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 hight, and he hath shot up his top among
 the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his hight;
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
 have gone down from his shade, 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 hight, neither shoot up their top among
 the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their hight,
 all that drink water: for they are all delivered to 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 its floods, 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 the grave 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 the grave with him to [them that
 are] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that]
 dwelt under his shade in the midst of the heathen.
31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among
 the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the
 trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie
 in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain by
 the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the
 Lord GOD.
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 to me, saying,
32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of
 Egypt, and say to him, Thou art like a young lion of the
 nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and thou didst
 come forth with thy rivers, and disturb the waters with thy
 feet, and render their rivers foul.
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, and 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 hight.
32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land in which thou
 swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full
 of thee.
32:7 And when I shall extinguish thee, 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 Yes, 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
 lay waste the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be
 destroyed.
32:13 I will destroy also all its beasts from beside the great
 waters; neither shall the foot of man disturb them any more,
 nor the hoofs of beasts disturb 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 of which it was full, when I
 shall smite all them that dwell in it, then shall they know
 that I [am] the LORD.
32:16 This [is] the lamentation with which 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 to 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, to
 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 the grave 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 around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the
 sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
32:24 There [is] Elam and all her multitude around her grave,
 all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down
 uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who 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] around 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 are] slain.
32:26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her
 graves [are] around 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, who are gone down to the grave, 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 Yes, 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, who 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 [are] the princes of the north, all of them, and all
 the Zidonians, who are gone down with the slain; with their
 terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie
 uncircumcised with [them that are] 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.
33:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to
 them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the
 land take a man of their borders, and set him for their
 watchman:
33:3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he shall
 blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
33:4 Then whoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh
 not warning; if the sword shall 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 shall see the sword come, and blow not
 the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword shall
 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 to the
 house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my
 mouth, and warn them from me.
33:8 When I say to 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 thy hand.
33:9 Nevertheless, if thou shalt warn the wicked of his way to
 turn from it; if he shall 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 to the house of
 Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our
 sins [are] upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we
 then live?
33:11 Say to them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no
 pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked should
 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 to 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 by it 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 shall 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 to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if
 he shall turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and
 right;
33:15 [If] the wicked shall restore the pledge, give again that
 which 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
 to 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, for that he shall even die.
33:19 But if the wicked shall turn from his wickedness, and do
 that which is lawful and right, for that he shall live.
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 to me, saying, The
 city is smitten.
33:22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening,
 before he that had 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 to 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 to us for
 inheritance.
33:25 Wherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat
 with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards 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 neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the
 land?
33:27 Say thou thus to 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 [are] in the forts and in
 the caves shall die by 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 to thee as the people come, and they sit
 before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they
 will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love,
 [but] their heart goeth after their covetousness.
33:32 And lo, thou [art] to 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 not perform them.
33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then
 shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
34:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
 prophesy, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD to 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 yourselves with the wool, ye
 kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
34:4 The diseased ye have 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 food 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: yes, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the
 earth, and none did search or seek [for 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 food 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 food for them.
34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [even] I, will both
 search for 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 to you to have eaten up the
 good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue
 of your pastures? and to have drank 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 to 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 around my hill a
 blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its
 season; there shall be showers of blessing.
34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield 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 subjected them to service.
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.
35:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
35:2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
 against it,
35:3 And say to it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount
 Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out my 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 to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since 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 thy anger, and according to thy 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 to thee: thou
 shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, [even] all of
 it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
36:1 Also thou son of man, prophesy to 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 had 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 to 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]
 around;
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 Edom, who 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
 to 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 my
 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 to 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 built.
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
 states, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings:
 and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
36:12 Yes, 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 to you, Thou
 [land] devourest 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 to 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 [with which]
 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 among 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 my holy name, which the house of Israel
 had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
36:22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
 GOD; I do not [this] for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for
 my 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 a 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 to 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 built.
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] fortified, [and] are inhabited.
36:36 Then the heathen that are left around you shall know that
 I the LORD build the ruined [places], [and] plant that which
 was desolate: I the LORD have spoken [it], and I will do [it].
36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be inquired
 of by the house of Israel, to do [it] for them; I will increase
 them with men like a flock.
36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
 feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men:
 and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
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 around: and behold, [there
 were] very many in the open valley; and lo, [they were] very
 dry.
37:3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? and I
 answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
37:4 Again he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say to
 them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD to 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 to me, Prophesy to 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 to 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 to them, Thus saith the Lord
 GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause
 you to come 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 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 to 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 thy hand.
37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee,
 saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou [meanest] by these?
37:19 Say to 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 my hand.
37:20 And the sticks on which thou writest shall be in thy hand
 before their eyes.
37:21 And say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
 take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither
 they are 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
 dwelling-places, in which 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 to
 Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt, and they
 shall dwell in it, [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: and 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
 ever.
38:1 And the word of the LORD came to 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 thy army, horses and horsemen,
 all of them clothed with all sorts [of armor], [even] a great
 company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling
 swords:
38:5 Persia, Cush, and Phut with them; all of them with shield
 and helmet:
38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah 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 to thee, and be thou a guard to
 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 all dwell in
 safety.
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 thy 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
 its young lions, shall say to 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 to 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 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, who
 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 animals
 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 overturned, 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.
39:1 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 from the north parts, and
 will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
39:3 And I will strike thy bow out of thy left hand, and I will
 cause thy arrows to fall from thy right hand.
39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all
 thy bands, and the people that [are] with thee: I will give
 thee to 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] profane 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 of which 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 handstaffs,
 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 lay waste those that wasted
 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
 to 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 in burying
 them, that they may cleanse the land.
39:13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury [them]: and it
 shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified,
 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 [as] passengers 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 to
 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 are full, and drink blood
 till ye are 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 I hid my face from them, and gave them
 into the hand of their enemies: so they all fell by the sword.
39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
 transgressions have I done to 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 they have borne their shame, and all their
 trespasses by which 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 the lands of their enemies, and am
 sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
39:28 Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD their God, who
 caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I
 have gathered them to their own land, and have left none of
 them there any more.
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.
40:1 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 the city was smitten, in the same day the
 hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
40:2 In the visions of God he brought 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 to me, Son of man, behold with thy eyes,
 and hear with thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall
 show thee; for, to the intent that I might show [them] to 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 around, and
 in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits [long] by the
 cubit and a hand-breadth: so he measured the breadth of the
 building, one reed: and the hight, one reed.
40:6 Then he came to the gate which looketh towards the east,
 and ascended its stairs, and measured the threshhold of the
 gate, [which was] one reed broad; and the other threshhold [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 threshhold 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 he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and
 its posts, 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 sixty cubits; even to the post of
 the court around the gate.
40:15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance to 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 around, and likewise to the
 arches: and windows [were] around inward: and upon [each] post
 [were] palm-trees.
40:17 Then he brought me into the outward court, and lo, [there
 were] chambers, and a pavement made for the court around:
 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 front of the lower
 gate to the front of the inner court without, a hundred cubits
 eastward and northward.
40:20 And the gate of the outward court that looked towards the
 north, he measured its length, and its breadth.
40:21 And the little chambers of it [were] three on this side
 and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after
 the measure of the first gate; its length [was] fifty cubits,
 and its 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 towards the
 east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches
 [were] before them.
40:23 And the gate of the inner court [was] over against the
 gate towards the north, and towards the east; and he measured
 from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
40:24 After that he brought me towards the south, and behold a
 gate towards the south: and he measured its posts and its
 arches according to these measures.
40:25 And [there were] windows in it and in its arches around,
 like those windows: the length [was] fifty cubits, and the
 breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:26 And [there were] seven steps to go up to it, and its
 arches [were] before them: and it had palm-trees, one on this
 side, and another on that side, upon its posts.
40:27 And [there was] a gate in the inner court towards the
 south: and he measured from gate to gate towards the south a
 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 its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches,
 according to these measures; and [there were] windows in it and
 in its arches around: [it was] fifty cubits long, and five and
 twenty cubits broad.
40:30 And the arches around [were] five and twenty cubits long,
 and five cubits broad.
40:31 And its arches [were] towards the outer court; and
 palm-trees [were] upon its posts: and the ascent to it [had]
 eight steps.
40:32 And he brought me into the inner court towards the east:
 and he measured the gate according to these measures.
40:33 And its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches,
 [were] according to these measures; and [there were] windows in
 it and in its arches around: [it was] fifty cubits long, and
 five and twenty cubits broad.
40:34 And its arches [were] towards the outward court; and
 palm-trees were upon its posts, on this side, and on that side:
 and the ascent to it [had] eight steps.
40:35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured [it]
 according to these measures;
40:36 Its little chambers, its posts, and its arches, and the
 windows to it around: the length [was] fifty cubits, and the
 breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:37 And its posts [were] towards the outer court; and
 palm-trees [were] upon its posts, on this side, and on that
 side: and the ascent to it [had] eight steps.
40:38 And the chambers and its entries [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 upon it 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, upon which they
 slew [their sacrifices].
40:42 And the four tables [were] of hewn stone for the
 burnt-offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a
 half broad, and one cubit high: upon which also they laid the
 instruments with which they slew the burnt-offering and the
 sacrifice.
40:43 And within [were] hooks, a hand broad, fastened around:
 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] towards the south: one at
 the side of the east gate [having] the prospect towards the
 north.
40:45 And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect [is]
 towards the south, [is] for the priests, the keepers of the
 charge of the house.
40:46 And the chamber whose prospect [is] towards 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, who come near
 to the LORD to minister to him.
40:47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a
 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 by
 which they went up to it: and [there were] pillars by the
 posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
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 of it forty
 cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
41:3 Then he went 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 of it twenty cubits; and the
 breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me,
 This [is] the most holy [place].
41:5 Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits;
 and the breadth of [every] side-chamber, four cubits, round 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 around, 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 around 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 hight of the house around: 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 width of twenty cubits
 around the house on every side.
41:11 And the doors of the side-chambers [were] towards [the
 place that was] left, one door towards the north, and another
 door towards the south: and the breadth of the place that was
 left [was] five cubits around.
41:12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the
 end towards the west [was] seventy cubits broad; and the wall
 of the building [was] five cubits thick around, and its length
 ninety cubits.
41:13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the
 separate place, and the building, with its walls, a hundred
 cubits long;
41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the
 separate place towards the east, a hundred cubits.
41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against
 the separate place which [was] behind it, and its galleries on
 the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the
 inner temple, and the porches of the court;
41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries
 around on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled
 with wood around, and from the ground up to the windows, and
 the windows [were] covered;
41:17 To that above the door, even to the inner house, and
 without, and by all the wall around within and without, by
 measure.
41:18 And [it was] made with cherubim 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] towards the palm-tree on
 the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the
 palm-tree on the other side: [it was] made through all the
 house around.
41:20 From the ground to above the door [were] cherubim 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 its length
 two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls,
 [were] of wood: and he said to 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 each, 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,
 cherubim and palm-trees, 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.
42:1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way
 towards the north: and he brought me into the chamber that
 [was] over against the separate place, and which [was] before
 the building towards the north.
42:2 Before the length of a 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 outer
 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 towards 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,
 towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the
 length of it [was] fifty cubits.
42:8 For the length of the chambers that [were] in the outer
 court [was] fifty cubits: and lo, before the temple [were] a
 hundred cubits.
42:9 And from under these chambers [was] the entry on the east
 side, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
42:10 The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the
 court towards 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] towards 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]
 towards the south [was] a door in the head of the way, [even]
 the way directly before the wall towards the east, as one
 entereth into them.
42:13 Then said he to me, The north chambers [and] the south
 chambers which [are] before the separate place, they [are] holy
 chambers, where the priests that approach to 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 outer court, but there they shall
 lay their garments in which 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 towards the gate whose prospect [is]
 towards the east, and measured it around.
42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five
 hundred reeds, with the measuring reed around.
42:17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
 measuring reed around.
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 around,
 five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a
 separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, [even] the gate that
 looketh towards 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 Kebar; 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] towards 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 to me out of the house; and the
 man stood by me.
43:7 And he said to 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 lewd deeds, nor by the carcasses of their
 kings in their high places.
43:8 In their setting of their threshhold by my threshholds, 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 my anger.
43:9 Now let them put away their lewd deeds, and the carcasses
 of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
 them for ever.
43:10 Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel,
 that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them
 measure the pattern.
43:11 And if they shall be ashamed of all that they have done,
 show them the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and its
 goings out, and its comings in, and all its forms, and all its
 ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws: and write [it]
 in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it, and
 all its ordinances, and do them.
43:12 This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the
 mountain, the whole limit of it around [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 a hand-breadth; even the
 bottom [shall be] a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the
 border of it by its edge around [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 of it.
43:17 And the settle [shall be] fourteen [cubits] long and
 fourteen broad in its four squares; and the border about it
 [shall be] half a cubit; and the bottom of it [shall be] a
 cubit about; and its stairs shall look towards the east.
43:18 And he said to 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 upon it, and to
 sprinkle blood upon it.
43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of
 the seed of Zadok, who approach to me, to minister to me, saith
 the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin-offering.
43:20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and put [it] on the four
 horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon
 the border around: 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 cleansed [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 [for] a
 burnt-offering to 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 have 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.
44:1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward
 sanctuary which looketh towards the east; and it [was] shut.
44:2 Then said the LORD to 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 he brought 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 to me, Son of man mark well, and behold
 with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears all that I say to thee
 concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all
 its laws; and mark well the entrance 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 my 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 have gone away far from me, when
 Israel went astray, who went astray 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 to them.
44:12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and
 caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
 have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and
 they shall bear their iniquity.
44:13 And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of a
 priest to 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 its service, 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 to me,
 and they shall stand before me to offer to 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 to 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, while 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 outer court, [even] into
 the outer court to the people, they shall put off their
 garments in which 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 my 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 to him seven
 days.
44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the
 inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his
 sin-offering, saith the Lord GOD.
44:28 And it shall be to 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 first-fruits of all [things], and
 every oblation of all, of every [sort] of your oblations, shall
 be the priest's: ye shall also give to the priest the first of
 your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thy
 house.
44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of
 itself, or torn, whether of fowl or beast.
45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
 inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation to the LORD, a 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 its borders on every
 side.
45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred [in
 length], with five hundred [in breadth], square around; and
 fifty cubits around for the suburbs of it.
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, who shall come near to minister to
 the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a 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 to 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 a homer, and the ephah the
 tenth part of a homer: the measure of it 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 a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth
 part of an ephah of a 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] a homer of ten baths: for ten baths [are] a 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 a 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.
46:1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that
 looketh towards 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 priest shall prepare his burnt-offering and his
 peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshhold 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 to 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 a 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 be able, and a 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
 of it.
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 by which he came in, but shall go forth
 over against it.
46:10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in,
 shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat-offering
 shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to
 the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
46:12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
 burnt-offering or peace-offerings voluntarily to the LORD,
 [one] shall then open to him the gate that looketh towards 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 to 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 a
 hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat-offering
 continually by a perpetual ordinance to 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 shall give a gift
 to any of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be to his sons;
 it [shall be] their possession by inheritance.
46:17 But if he shall give a gift of his inheritance to one of
 his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty;
 afterward it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance
 shall be to 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 Afterward he brought me through the entry, which [was] at
 the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests,
 which looked towards the north: and behold, there [was] a place
 on the two sides westward.
46:20 Then said he to 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 outer court, to sanctify the people.
46:21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused
 me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in
 every corner of the court [there was] a court.
46:22 In the four corners of the court [there were] 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] around in them, around
 them four, and [it was] made with boiling places under the rows
 around.
46:24 Then said he to me, These [are] the places of them that
 boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice
 of the people.
47:1 Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house; and
 behold, waters issued out from under the threshhold of the
 house eastward: for the front of the house [stood towards] 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 he brought me out of the way of the gate northward,
 and led me about the way without to the outer 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 had risen, waters to swim
 in, a river that could not be passed over.
47:6 And he said to 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 to me, These waters issue out towards 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 En-gedi even to 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, very numerous.
47:11 But its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed;
 they shall be given to salt.
47:12 And by the river upon its bank, on this side and on that
 side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade,
 neither shall its fruit be consumed: it shall bring forth new
 fruit according to its months, because their waters they issued
 out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its
 leaf for medicine.
47:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [shall be] the border, by
 which 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] which I lifted up my hand to give it to your
 fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.
47:15 And this [shall be] the border of the land towards 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 border of Hauran.
47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the
 border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of
 Hamath. 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 to 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 cometh over against Hamath. This [is] the
 west side.
47:21 So shall ye divide this land to 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 to you, and to the strangers that
 sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and
 they shall be to 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.
48:1 Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north end
 to the border of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
 Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the limit 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 to the west
 side, a [portion for] Asher.
48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even to the
 west side, a [portion for] Naphtali.
48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the
 west side, a [portion for] Manasseh.
48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the
 west side, a [portion for] Ephraim.
48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to
 the west side, a [portion for] Reuben.
48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west
 side, a [portion for] Judah.
48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side to 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 to the west side: and the
 sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
48:9 The oblation that ye shall offer to 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; towards the north five and twenty thousand [in
 length], and towards the west ten thousand in breadth, and
 towards the east ten thousand in breadth, and towards the south
 five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the
 LORD shall be in the midst of it.
48:11 [It shall be] for the priests that are sanctified of the
 sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, who 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
 to 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 first-fruits of the land: for [it is] holy to 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 of it.
48:16 And these [shall be] the measures of it; the north side
 four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four
 thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand
 and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five
 hundred.
48:17 And the suburbs of the city shall be towards the north two
 hundred and fifty, and towards the south two hundred and fifty,
 and towards the east two hundred and fifty, and towards 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 its increase shall be for food to 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 towards the east border, and westward over against the
 five and twenty thousand towards 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 of it.
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 to the
 west side, Benjamin [shall have] a [portion].
48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the
 west side, Simeon [shall have] a [portion].
48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the
 west side, Issachar a [portion].
48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the
 west side, Zebulun a [portion].
48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to 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 [to] the waters of strife [in]
 Kadesh, [and] to the river towards the great sea.
48:29 This [is] the land which ye shall divide by lot to 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; 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 And 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 The circuit [was] eighteen thousand [measures]: and the
 name of the city from [that] day [shall be], The LORD [is]
 there.