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The World English Bible (WEB): Ezekiel

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From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward.



Book 26 Ezekiel
001:001 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month],
in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives
by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw
visions of God.
001:002 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year
of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
001:003 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son
of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.
001:004 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north,
a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round
about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal,
out of the midst of the fire.
001:005 Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.
This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
001:006 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
001:007 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled
like burnished brass.
001:008 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:
001:009 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn
when they went; each one went straight forward.
001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man;
and they four had the face of a lion on the right side;
and they four had the face of an ox on the left side;
they four had also the face of an eagle.
001:011 Their faces and their wings were separate above;
two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two
covered their bodies.
001:012 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go,
they went; they didn't turn when they went.
001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches:
[the fire] went up and down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
001:014 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning.
001:015 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on
the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four
faces of it.
001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl:
and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their
work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
001:017 When they went, they went in their four directions:
they didn't turn when they went.
001:018 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four
had their rims full of eyes round about.
001:019 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,
the wheels were lifted up.
001:020 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go:
and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels.
001:021 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 beside them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.
001:022 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness
of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on,
stretched forth over their heads above.
001:023 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward
the other: each one had two which covered on this side,
and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
001:024 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise
of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise
of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood,
they let down their wings.
001:025 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads:
when they stood, they let down their wings.
001:026 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of
a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone;
and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance
of a man on it above.
001:027 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within
it round about, from the appearance of his waist and upward;
and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw
as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness
round about him.
001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day
of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh.
When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice
of one that spoke.
002:001 He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will
speak with you.
002:002 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me
on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
002:003 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel,
to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me:
they and their fathers have transgressed against me even
to this very day.
002:004 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you
to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
002:005 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,
(for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there
has been a prophet among them.
002:006 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid
of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you
do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words,
nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
002:007 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear,
or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
002:008 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you
rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth,
and eat that which I give you.
002:009 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold,
a scroll of a book was therein;
002:010 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without;
and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
003:001 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find;
eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
003:003 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat,
and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.
Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
003:004 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel,
and speak with my words to them.
003:005 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
003:006 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language,
whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you
to them, they would listen to you.
003:007 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will
not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard
forehead and of a stiff heart.
003:008 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces,
and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead:
don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they are a rebellious house.
003:010 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
003:011 Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people,
and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
003:012 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice
of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh
from his place.
003:013 [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they
touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them,
even the noise of a great rushing.
003:014 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went
in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh
was strong on me.
003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived
by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.
003:016 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying,
003:017 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
003:018 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him
no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way,
to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at your hand.
003:019 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness,
nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity;
but you have delivered your soul.
003:020 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him,
he shall die: because you have not given him warning,
he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has
done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require
at your hand.
003:021 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous
not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live,
because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
003:022 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise,
go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold,
the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw
by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
003:024 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet;
and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself
within your house.
003:025 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you,
and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
003:026 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth,
that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover;
for they are a rebellious house.
003:027 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you
shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears,
let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear:
for they are a rebellious house.
004:001 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you,
and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
004:002 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it,
and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it,
and plant battering rams against it round about.
004:003 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
between you and the city: and set your face toward it,
and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
004:004 Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of
the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days
that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
004:005 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be
to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days:
so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
004:006 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your
right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah:
forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
004:007 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
004:008 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from
one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days
of your siege.
004:009 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils,
and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make
you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that
you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days,
shall you eat of it.
004:010 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
004:011 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin:
from time to time shall you drink.
004:012 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it
in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
004:013 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted;
for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten
of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
004:015 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung
for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
004:016 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 fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure,
and in dismay:
004:017 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another,
and pine away in their iniquity.
005:001 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor
shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on
your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh,
and divide the hair.
005:002 A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city,
when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take
a third part, and strike with the sword round about it;
and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will
draw out a sword after them.
005:003 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
005:004 Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst
of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire
come forth into all the house of Israel.
005:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her
in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
005:006 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more
than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries
that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances,
and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
005:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent
more than the nations that are round about you, and have
not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances,
neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
round about you;
005:008 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I,
am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst
of you in the sight of the nations.
005:009 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I
will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter
to all the winds.
005:011 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you
have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things,
and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you];
neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
005:012 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence,
and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you;
and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you;
and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will
draw out a sword after them.
005:013 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause
my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted;
and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal,
when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
005:014 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among
the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all
that pass by.
005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you,
when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath,
and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
005:016 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine,
that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you:
and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your
staff of bread;
005:017 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall
bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you;
and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
006:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
006:002 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel,
and prophesy to them,
006:003 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys:
Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will
destroy your high places.
006:004 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars
shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men
before your idols.
006:005 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel
before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round
about your altars.
006:006 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 incense altars may be hewn down,
and your works may be abolished.
006:007 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that
escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered
through the countries.
006:009 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations
where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been
broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me,
and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols:
and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations.
006:010 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain
that I would do this evil to them.
006:011 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with
your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations
of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence.
006:012 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is
near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is
besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish
my wrath on them.
006:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be
among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill,
on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree,
and under every thick oak, the places where they offered
sweet savor to all their idols.
006:014 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate
and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all
their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
007:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
007:002 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land
of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners
of the land.
007:003 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you,
and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring
on you all your abominations.
007:004 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity;
but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall
be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
007:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
007:006 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you;
behold, it comes.
007:007 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land:
the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult,
and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my
anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways;
and I will bring on you all your abominations.
007:009 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity:
I will bring on you according to your ways; and your
abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, do strike.
007:010 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth;
the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them
[shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth:
neither shall there be eminency among them.
007:012 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice,
nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching
the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
007:014 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none
goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it.
007:015 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he who is in the field shall die with the sword:
and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
007:016 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on
the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning,
every one in his iniquity.
007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness
on all their heads.
007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall
not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh:
they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels;
because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty;
but they made the images of their abominations [and] their
detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them
as an unclean thing.
007:021 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 profane it.
007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane
my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it,
and profane it.
007:023 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes,
and the city is full of violence.
007:024 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong
to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
007:025 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there
shall be none.
007:026 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor;
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
007:027 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
own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
008:001 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth
[day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders
of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell
there on me.
008:002 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from
his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness,
as it were glowing metal.
008:003 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;
and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky,
and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward
the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provokes to jealousy.
008:004 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain.
008:005 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward
the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry.
008:006 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel do commit here,
that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall
again see yet other great abominations.
008:007 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold, a hole in the wall.
008:008 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall:
and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
008:009 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that
they do here.
008:010 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things,
and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
portrayed on the wall round about.
008:011 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, every man with his censer in his hand;
and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
008:012 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his
chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us;
Yahweh has forsaken the land.
008:013 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great
abominations which they do.
008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house
which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women
weeping for Tammuz.
008:015 Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you
shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
008:016 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see,
at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch
and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs
toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east;
and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
008:017 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man?
Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land
with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger:
and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
008:018 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears
with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
009:001 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you
them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man
with his destroying weapon in his hand.
009:002 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate,
which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter
weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them
clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side.
They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
009:003 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house:
and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's
inkhorn by his side.
009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
that are done in the midst of it.
009:005 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through
the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare,
neither have you pity;
009:006 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin,
and little children and women; but don't come near any
man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary.
Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
009:007 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck
in the city.
009:008 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left,
that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh!
will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring
out of your wrath on Jerusalem?
009:009 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood,
and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has
forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.
009:010 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
but I will bring their way on their head.
009:011 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by
his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you
have commanded me.
010:001 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head
of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or,
lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne.
010:002 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between
the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both
your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim,
and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.
010:003 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house,
when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
010:004 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood]
over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled
with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness
of Yahweh's glory.
010:005 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to
the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
010:006 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen,
saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between
the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
010:007 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim
to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it],
and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen,
who took it and went out.
010:008 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
under their wings.
010:009 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel
beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub;
and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
010:010 As for their appearance, they four had one likeness,
as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
010:011 When they went, they went in their four directions:
they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head
looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
010:012 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands,
and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
[even] the wheels that they four had.
010:013 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing,
the whirling [wheels].
010:014 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face
of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man,
and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face
of an eagle.
010:015 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I
saw by the river Chebar.
010:016 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when
the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,
the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up,
these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in them.
010:018 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house,
and stood over the cherubim.
010:019 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth
in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them:
and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
010:021 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings;
and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
010:022 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I
saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves;
they went every one straight forward.
011:001 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to
the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward:
and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men;
and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur,
and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
011:002 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity,
and who give wicked counsel in this city;
011:003 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses:
this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
011:005 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me,
Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel;
for I know the things that come into your mind.
011:006 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled
the streets of it with the slain.
011:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you
have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this
[city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out
of the midst of it.
011:008 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
011:009 I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you
into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
011:010 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border
of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
011:011 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh
in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
011:012 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked
in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances,
but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
round about you.
011:013 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son
of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried
with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make
a full end of the remnant of Israel?
011:014 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
011:015 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men
of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them,
[are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said,
Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession.
011:016 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed
them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered
them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary
for a little while in the countries where they are come.
011:017 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you
from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you
have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
011:018 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable
things of it and all the abominations of it from there.
011:019 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;
011:020 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.
011:021 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their
way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
011:022 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels
were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above.
011:023 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city,
and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
011:024 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by
the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.
So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
011:025 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh
had shown me.
012:001 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
012:002 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house,
who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear,
and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
012:003 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from
your place to another place in their sight: it may be they
will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
012:004 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight,
as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at
even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
012:005 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
012:006 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder,
and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face,
that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign
to the house of Israel.
012:007 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day,
as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall
with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it
on my shoulder in their sight.
012:008 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,
012:009 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
said to you, What do you?
012:010 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden
[concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel
among whom they are.
012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
012:012 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder
in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through
the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
012:013 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare;
and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
012:014 I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about
him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out
the sword after them.
012:015 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them
among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
012:016 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 nations where they come;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
012:017 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
012:018 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water
with trembling and with fearfulness;
012:019 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land
of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness,
and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate,
[and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence
of all those who dwell therein.
012:020 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
012:021 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
012:022 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land
of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will
make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it
as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand,
and the fulfillment of every vision.
012:024 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel.
012:025 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall
speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred:
for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word,
and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.
012:026 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision
that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies
of times that are far off.
012:028 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall
none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I
shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
013:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy,
and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart,
Hear you the word of Yahweh:
013:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets,
who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
013:004 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
013:005 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up
the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle
in the day of Yahweh.
013:006 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say,
Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made
men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
013:007 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken
a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I
have not spoken?
013:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken
falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
013:009 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions,
and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house
of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel;
and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold,
they daub it with whitewash:
013:011 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall:
there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
013:012 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you,
Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
013:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with
a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
013:014 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash,
and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it
shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed
in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those
who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you,
The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it;
013:016 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,
says the Lord Yahweh.
013:017 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters
of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart;
and prophesy you against them,
013:018 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew
pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head
of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt
the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
013:019 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley
and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die,
and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying
to my people who listen to lies.
013:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am
against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls
to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms;
and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt
to make [them] fly.
013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
013:022 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of
the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way,
and be saved alive:
013:023 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor
practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.
014:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
014:003 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart,
and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them?
014:004 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes
his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block
of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet;
I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude
of his idols;
014:005 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
014:006 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols;
and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
014:007 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who
sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes
his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his
iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire
for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
014:008 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him
an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut
him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
014:009 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him,
and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
014:010 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet
shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];
014:011 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions;
but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,
says the Lord Yahweh.
014:012 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
014:013 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass,
and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of
the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it
man and animal;
014:014 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
says the Lord Yahweh.
014:015 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they
ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass
through because of the animals;
014:016 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
014:017 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
014:018 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they
only should be delivered themselves.
014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath
on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
014:020 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the
Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter;
they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
014:021 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my
four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it
man and animal!
014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come
forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings;
and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought on it.
014:023 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings;
and you shall know that I have not done without cause all
that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
015:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree,
the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
015:003 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take
a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has
devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned:
is it profitable for any work?
015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work:
how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned,
shall it yet be meet for any work!
015:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among
the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel,
so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
015:007 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire,
but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
015:008 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
016:001 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
016:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth
and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite
was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
016:004 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was
not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you;
you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
016:005 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have
compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field,
for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
016:006 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood,
I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said
to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live.
016:007 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you
increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament;
your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown;
yet you were naked and bare.
016:008 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time
was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you,
and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you,
and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh,
and you became mine.
016:009 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away
your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
016:010 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you
with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen,
and covered you with silk.
016:011 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands,
and a chain on your neck.
016:012 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears,
and a beautiful crown on your head.
016:013 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing
was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate
fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful,
and you prospered to royal estate.
016:014 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty;
for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
016:015 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute
because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution
on everyone who passed by; his it was.
016:016 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places
decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them:
[the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
016:017 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men,
and played the prostitute with them;
016:018 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them,
and did set my oil and my incense before them.
016:019 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
016:020 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have
borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured.
Were your prostitution a small matter,
016:021 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up,
in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
016:022 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not
remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare,
and was weltering in your blood.
016:023 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says
the Lord Yahweh),
016:024 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you
a lofty place in every street.
016:025 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way,
and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet
to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
016:026 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians,
your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied
your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
016:027 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have
diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will
of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines,
who are ashamed of your lewd way.
016:028 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians,
because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute
with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
016:029 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land
of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
016:030 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you
do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
016:031 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way,
and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been
as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
016:032 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead
of her husband!
016:033 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts
to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you
on every side for your prostitution.
016:034 You are different from [other] women in your prostitution,
in that none follows you to play the prostitute;
and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you,
therefore you are different.
016:035 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
016:036 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out,
and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with
your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations,
and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
016:037 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you
have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved,
with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them
against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness
to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
016:038 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood
are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
016:039 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw
down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places;
and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your
beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
016:040 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall
stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
016:041 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments
on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you
to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give
no hire any more.
016:042 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy
shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be
no more angry.
016:043 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth,
but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold,
I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh:
and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
016:044 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb
against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
016:045 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband
and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters,
who loathed their husbands and their children:
your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
016:046 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand,
she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells
at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
016:047 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after
their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing],
you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
016:048 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done,
she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom:
pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her
and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand
of the poor and needy.
016:050 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
016:051 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have
multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified
your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
016:052 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment
for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed
more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you:
yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you
have justified your sisters.
016:053 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
016:054 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because
of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
016:055 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return
to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall
return to your former estate.
016:056 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day
of your pride,
016:057 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round
about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite
to you round about.
016:058 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.
016:059 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you
have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days
of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
016:061 Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed,
when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters]
and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters,
but not by your covenant.
016:062 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh;
016:063 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your
mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven
you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
017:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the
house of Israel;
017:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings
and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors,
came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
017:004 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried
it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it
in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters;
he set it as a willow tree.
017:006 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him:
so it became a vine, and brought forth branches,
and shot forth sprigs.
017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings
and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its
roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him,
from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
017:008 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it
might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit,
that it might be a goodly vine.
017:009 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall
he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it,
that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves
may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it
be raised from the roots of it.
017:010 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither
in the beds where it grew.
017:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things
mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem,
and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought
them to him to Babylon:
017:013 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him;
he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty
of the land;
017:014 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up,
but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors
into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.
Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall
he break the covenant, and yet escape?
017:016 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where
the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised,
and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst
of Babylon he shall die.
017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts,
to cut off many persons.
017:018 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold,
he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things;
he shall not escape.
017:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath
that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken,
I will even bring it on his own head.
017:020 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare,
and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment
with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
017:021 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword,
and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind:
and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
017:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top
of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost
of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high
and lofty mountain:
017:023 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it
shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:
and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade
of the branches of it shall they dwell.
017:024 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought
down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried
up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish;
I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.
018:001 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
018:002 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land
of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge?
018:003 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion]
any more to use this proverb in Israel.
018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father,
so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins,
he shall die.
018:005 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
018:006 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has
defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman
in her impurity,
018:007 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge,
has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry,
and has covered the naked with a garment;
018:008 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken
any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity,
has executed true justice between man and man,
018:009 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly;
he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
018:010 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood,
and who does any one of these things,
018:011 and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten
on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
018:012 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not
restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,
has committed abomination,
018:013 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then
live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations;
he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.
018:014 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins,
which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
018:015 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled
his neighbor's wife,
018:016 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge,
neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread
to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
018:017 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received
interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked
in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father,
he shall surely live.
018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother,
and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall
die in his iniquity.
018:019 Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity
of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful
and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them,
he shall surely live.
018:020 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear
the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous
shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
be on him.
018:021 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed,
and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right,
he shall surely live, he shall not die.
018:022 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be
remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has
done he shall live.
018:023 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh;
and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
018:024 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness,
and commits iniquity, and does according to all the
abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live?
None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered:
in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin
that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
018:025 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal?
Aren't your ways unequal?
018:026 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness,
and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity
that he has done shall he die.
018:027 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness
that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right,
he shall save his soul alive.
018:028 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions
that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
018:029 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal.
house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
018:030 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel,
everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh.
Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions;
so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you
have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:
for why will you die, house of Israel?
018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,
says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
019:001 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
019:002 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions,
in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
019:003 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
019:006 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
019:007 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land
was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise
of his roaring.
019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces;
and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
019:009 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king
of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice
should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
019:010 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters:
it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
019:011 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule,
and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs,
and they were seen in their height with the multitude
of their branches.
019:012 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were
broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
019:013 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
019:014 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured
its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter
to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
020:001 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month],
the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders
of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
020:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
020:003 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come?
As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired
of by you.
020:004 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them?
Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;
020:005 and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I
chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob,
and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I
swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;
020:006 in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land
of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
020:007 I said to them, Cast you away every man the abominations
of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols
of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me;
they did not every man cast away the abominations of
their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish
my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
020:009 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were,
in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them
forth out of the land of Egypt.
020:010 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
and brought them into the wilderness.
020:011 I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances,
which if a man do, he shall live in them.
020:012 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies them.
020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances,
which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths
they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath
on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
020:014 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned
in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
020:015 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I
would not bring them into the land which I had given them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
020:016 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in
my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went
after their idols.
020:017 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them,
neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
020:018 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in
the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances,
nor defile yourselves with their idols.
020:019 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances,
and do them;
020:020 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
020:021 But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in
my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if
a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish
my anger against them in the wilderness.
020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake,
that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations,
in whose sight I brought them forth.
020:023 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter
them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
020:024 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected
my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes
were after their fathers' idols.
020:025 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good,
and ordinances in which they should not live;
020:026 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused
to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I
might make them desolate, to the end that they might know
that I am Yahweh.
020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel,
and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover
have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed
a trespass against me.
020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore
to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every
thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices,
and there they presented the provocation of their offering;
there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out
there their drink offerings.
020:029 Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go?
So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
020:030 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you
pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play
you the prostitute after their abominations?
020:031 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons
to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all
your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you,
house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will
not be inquired of by you;
020:032 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all,
in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families
of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
020:033 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out,
will I be king over you:
020:034 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out
of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
020:035 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples,
and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
020:036 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness
of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
020:037 I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you
into the bond of the covenant;
020:038 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who
disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where
they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
020:039 As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you,
serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will
not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane
with your gifts, and with your idols.
020:040 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel,
all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them,
and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits
of your offerings, with all your holy things.
020:041 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from
the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight
of the nations.
020:042 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into
the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give
to your fathers.
020:043 There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings,
in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils
that you have committed.
020:044 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you
for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh.
020:045 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
020:046 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your
word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest
of the field in the South;
020:047 and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says
the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it
shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree:
the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from
the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
020:048 All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it;
it shall not be quenched.
020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a
speaker of parables?
021:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
021:002 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word]
toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
021:003 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am
against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath,
and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and
the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
against all flesh from the south to the north:
021:005 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth
my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
021:006 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs
and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.
021:007 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say,
Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt,
and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,
and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes,
and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
021:008 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword,
a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
021:010 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished
that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth?
the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.
021:011 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled:
the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it
into the hand of the killer.
021:012 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all
the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword
with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
021:013 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns
shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.
021:014 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together;
and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword
of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one
who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
021:015 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied:
ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
021:016 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array,
go to the left, wherever your face is set.
021:017 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath
to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
021:018 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
021:019 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king
of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land:
and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way
to the city.
021:020 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of
the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way,
at the head of the two ways, to use divination:
he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim,
he looked in the liver.
021:022 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem,
to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams
against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
021:023 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight,
who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory,
that they may be taken.
021:024 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
021:025 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel,
whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
021:026 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low,
and abase that which is high.
021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more,
until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
021:028 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach;
and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it
is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
021:029 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you,
to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
021:030 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you
were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
021:031 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you
with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand
of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
021:032 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in
the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered:
for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
022:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
022:002 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody
city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
022:003 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that
sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come,
and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
022:004 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed,
and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have
caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years:
therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations,
and a mocking to all the countries.
022:005 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you,
you infamous one [and] full of tumult.
022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power,
have been in you to shed blood.
022:007 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst
of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner;
in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
022:008 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
022:009 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you
they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they
have committed lewdness.
022:010 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you
have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
022:011 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife;
and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another
in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
022:012 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken
interest and increase, and you have greedily gained
of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,
says the Lord Yahweh.
022:013 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest
gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been
in the midst of you.
022:014 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days
that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it,
and will do it.
022:015 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through
the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
022:016 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
022:017 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me:
all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst
of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
022:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all
become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into
the midst of Jerusalem.
022:020 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin
into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it,
to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath,
and I will lay you there, and melt you.
022:021 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath,
and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
022:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
022:024 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed,
nor rained on in the day of indignation.
022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it,
like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls;
they take treasure and precious things; they have made her
widows many in the midst of it.
022:026 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned
my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy
and the common, neither have they caused men to discern
between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
022:027 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening
the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they
may get dishonest gain.
022:028 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing
false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery;
yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed
the foreigner wrongfully.
022:030 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall,
and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it; but I found none.
022:031 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them;
I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own
way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
023:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
023:003 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the
prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed,
and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
023:004 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister:
and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
023:005 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
023:006 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
023:007 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria
all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols
she defiled herself.
023:008 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt;
for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom
of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
023:009 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
023:010 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters;
and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword
among women; for they executed judgments on her.
023:011 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her
doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than
the prostitution of her sister.
023:012 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors,
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them
desirable young men.
023:013 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
023:014 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
023:015 girded with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on
their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness
of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
023:016 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers
to them into Chaldea.
023:017 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them,
and her soul was alienated from them.
023:018 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness:
then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was
alienated from her sister.
023:019 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days
of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in
the land of Egypt.
023:020 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh
of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
023:021 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth,
in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts
of your youth.
023:022 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise
up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated,
and I will bring them against you on every side:
023:023 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa,
[and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men,
governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown,
all of them riding on horses.
023:024 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons,
and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves
against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about;
and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge
you according to their judgments.
023:025 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with
you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears;
and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take
your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured
by the fire.
023:026 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away
your beautiful jewels.
023:027 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you,
and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt;
so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember
Egypt any more.
023:028 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you
into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them
from whom your soul is alienated;
023:029 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take
away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare;
and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered,
both your lewdness and your prostitution.
023:030 These things shall be done to you, because you have played
the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted
with their idols.
023:031 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I
give her cup into your hand.
023:032 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup,
which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision;
it contains much.
023:033 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
023:034 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall
gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts;
for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
023:035 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me,
and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your
lewdness and your prostitution.
023:036 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah
and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.
023:037 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands;
and with their idols have they committed adultery;
and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me,
to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.
023:038 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols,
then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;
and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
023:040 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far,
to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came;
for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck
yourself with ornaments,
023:041 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it,
whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.
023:042 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her:
and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards
from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands
of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.
023:043 Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they
play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].
023:044 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute:
so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
023:045 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment
of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood;
because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
023:046 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company
against them, and will give them to be tossed back and
forth and robbed.
023:047 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with
their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters,
and burn up their houses with fire.
023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
023:049 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall
bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am
the Lord Yahweh.
024:001 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
[day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
024:002 Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day:
the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
024:003 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on,
and also pour water into it:
024:004 gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece,
the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood]
for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well;
yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.
024:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city,
to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust
is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece;
No lot is fallen on it.
024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock;
she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
024:008 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set
her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
024:009 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.
024:010 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh,
and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
024:011 Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot,
and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it
may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
024:012 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't
go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
024:013 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you
and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your
filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward
you to rest.
024:014 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it:
I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;
according to your ways, and according to your doings,
shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
024:015 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your
eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep,
neither shall your tears run down.
024:017 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead;
bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet,
and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
024:018 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died;
and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
024:019 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things
are to us, that you do so?
024:020 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
024:021 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power,
the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities;
and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind
shall fall by the sword.
024:022 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips,
nor eat the bread of men.
024:023 Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet:
you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away
in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
024:024 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has
done shall you do: when this comes, then shall you know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
024:025 You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart,
their sons and their daughters,
024:026 that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause
you to hear it with your ears?
024:027 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped,
and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you
be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
025:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
025:002 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon,
and prophesy against them:
025:003 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the
Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you
said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned;
and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate;