Bible (American Standard)/Ezekiel

The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
==Chapter 1==
 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the
fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among
the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened,
and I saw visions of God. 
 In the fifth [day] of the month,
which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 
 the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the
son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him. 
 And I looked,
and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud,
with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it,
and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of
the midst of the fire. 
 And out of the midst thereof came
the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their
appearance: they had the likeness of a man. 
 And every one
had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. 
 And
their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was
like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished
brass. 
 And they had the hands of a man under their wings
on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their
wings [thus]: 
 their wings were joined one to another; they
turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
 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. 
 And their faces and their
wings were separate above; two [wings] of every one were joined
one to another, and two covered their bodies. 
 And they
went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go,
they went; they turned not when they went. 
 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. 
 And
the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a
flash of lightning. 
 Now as I beheld the living creatures,
behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures,
for each of the four faces thereof. 
 The appearance of the
wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had
one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were
a wheel within a wheel. 
 When they went, they went in
their four directions: they turned not when they went. 
 As
for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had
their rims full of eyes round about. 
 And 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. 
 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went;
thither was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up
beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels. 
 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. 
 And over the head
of the living creature there was the likeness of a firmament,
like the terrible crystal to look upon, stretched forth over
their heads above. 
 And under the firmament were their
wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two
which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered
on that side, their bodies. 
 And 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 a
host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 
 And
there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads:
when they stood, they let down their wings. 
 And above the
firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a
throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the
likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man
upon it above. 
 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the
appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of
his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and
downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was
brightness round about him. 
 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 Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon
my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
==Chapter 2==
 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet,
and I will speak with thee. 
 And the Spirit entered into me
when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet; and I heard him
that spake unto me. 
 And he said unto me, Son of man, I
send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are
rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their
fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day.
 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent
thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah. 
 And they, whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall
know that there hath been a prophet among them. 
 And thou,
son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost
dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be
dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will
hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most
rebellious. 
 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto
thee; be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open
thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee. 
 And when I
looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of
a book was therein; 
 And he spread it before me: and it
was written within and without; and there were written therein
lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
==Chapter 3==
 And he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which thou
findest; eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.
 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat,
and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I
eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 
 And
he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 
 For thou art
not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language,
but to the house of Israel; 
 not to many peoples of a
strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst
not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would
hearken unto thee. 
 But the house of Israel will not
hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all
the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
 Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and
thy forehead hard against their foreheads. 
 As an adamant
harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not,
neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious
house. 
 Moreover, he said unto me, Son of man, all my words
that I shall speak unto thee receive in thy heart, and hear with
thine ears. 
 And go, get thee to them of the captivity,
unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell
them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear. 
 Then the Spirit lifted me up,
and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying],
Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place. 
 And [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. 
 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 Jehovah was strong upon me. 
 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by
the river Chebar, and to where they dwelt; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days. 
 And it came to pass at
the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give
them warning from me. 
 When I say unto the wicked, Thou
shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest
to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the
same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at thy hand. 
 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he
turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 
 Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he
shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die
in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not
be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 
 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous
sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he
took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul. 
 And the
hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise,
go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. 
 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the
glory of Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the
river Chebar; and I fell on my face. 
 Then the Spirit
entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake with me,
and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house. 
 But
thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon thee, and
shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
 and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy
mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a
reprover; for they are a rebellious house. 
 But when I
speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him
hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a
rebellious house.
==Chapter 4==
 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it
before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem: 
 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. 
 And take thou unto
thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and
the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged,
and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel. 
 Moreover, lie thou upon thy left side, and
lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; [according to]
the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt
bear their iniquity. 
 For I have appointed the years of
their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three
hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the
house of Israel. 
 And again, when thou hast accomplished
these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the
iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year,
have I appointed it unto thee. 
 And thou shalt set thy face
toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and
thou shalt prophesy against it. 
 And, behold, I lay bands
upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to the
other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege. 
 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof; [according to] the number of the days
that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety
days, shalt thou eat thereof. 
 And thy food which thou
shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to
time shalt thou eat it. 
 And thou shalt drink water by
measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou
drink. 
 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou
shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
 And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel
eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive
them. 
 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath
not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not
eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 
 Then
he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's
dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon. 
 Moreover,
he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of
bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with
fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in
dismay: 
 that they may want bread and water, and be
dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
==Chapter 5==
 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; [as] a
barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it
to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take thee
balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 
 A third part shalt
thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of
the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and
smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt
scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them
in thy skirts. 
 And of these again shalt thou take, and
cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire;
therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set
her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about
her. 
 And she hath rebelled against mine 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 mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not
walked in them. 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are round
about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept
mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the
nations that are round about you; 
 therefore thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will
execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the
nations. 
 And I will do in thee that which I have not done,
and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all
thine abominations. 
 Therefore, the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers;
and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of
thee will I scatter unto all the winds. 
 Wherefore, as I
live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, because thou hast defiled
my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither
shall mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity. 
 A
third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third
part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and a third part
I will scatter unto all the winds, and will draw out a sword
after them. 
 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I
will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be
comforted; and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in
my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them. 
 Moreover, I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass
by. 
 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction
and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee,
when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath,
and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;) 
 when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are
for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of
bread; 
 and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts,
and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah,
have spoken it.
==Chapter 6==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son
of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy unto them, 
 and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear
the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the
mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the
valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I
will destroy your high places. 
 And your altars shall
become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will
cast down your slain men before your idols. 
 And I will lay
the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols;
and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 
 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 sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be
abolished. 
 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you,
and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 Yet will I leave a
remnant, in that ye shall have some that escape the sword among
the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the
nations whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have
been broken with their lewd heart, which hath departed from me,
and with they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and
they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations. 
 And
they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that
I would do this evil unto them. 
 Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy 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. 
 He that is far off shall die of the
pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he
that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus
will I accomplish my wrath upon them. 
 And ye shall know
that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their
idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the
tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under
every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to
all their idols. 
 And I will stretch out my hand upon
them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness
toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 7==
 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the
land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of
the land. 
 Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine
anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and
I will bring upon thee all thine abominations. 
 And mine
eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will
bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the
midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it
cometh. 
 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh
against thee; behold, it cometh. 
 Thy doom is come unto
thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is
near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, upon the
mountains. 
 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee,
and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee
according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine
abominations. 
 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity: I will bring upon thee according to thy ways; and
thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall
know that I, Jehovah, do smite. 
 Behold, the day, behold,
it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride
hath budded. 
 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.
 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof. 
 For the seller shall not return to
that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision
is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall return;
neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life. 
 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all
ready; but none goeth to the battle; for my wrath is upon all
the multitude thereof. 
 The sword is without, and the
pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall
die with the sword: and he that is in the city, famine and
pestilence shall devour him. 
 But those of them that
escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of
the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water. 
 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth,
and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces,
and baldness upon all their heads. 
 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 Jehovah: they shall not satisfy
their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the
stumblingblock of their iniquity. 
 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 unto them as an unclean thing. 
 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall
profane it. 
 My face will I turn also from them, and they
shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into
it, and profane it. 
 Make the chain; for the land is full
of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 
 Wherefore 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. 
 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
be none. 
 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor
shall be upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the
prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel
from the elders. 
 The king shall mourn, and the prince
shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of
the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way,
and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 8==
 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
[month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house,
and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord
Jehovah fell there upon me. 
 Then I beheld, and, lo, a
likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his
loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the
appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. 
 And he
put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;
and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of
the gate of the inner [court] that looketh toward the north;
where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to
jealousy. 
 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now
the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way
toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar
this image of jealousy in the entry. 
 And he said unto me,
Son of man, seest thou 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 thou shalt again see yet other great
abominations. 
 And he brought me to the door of the court;
and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 
 Then said
he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had
digged in the wall, behold, a door. 
 And he said unto me,
Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. 
 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things,
and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
portrayed upon the wall round about. 
 And there stood
before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel;
and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud
of incense went up. 
 Then said he unto me, Son of man,
hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the
dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say,
Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land. 
 He
said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great
abominations which they do. 
 Then he brought me to the
door of the gate of Jehovah's house which was toward the north;
and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. 
 Then
said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? thou shalt
again see yet greater abominations than these. 
 And he
brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house; and behold,
at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the
altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they
were worshipping the sun toward the east. 
 Then he said
unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light
thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations
which they commit here? for they have filled the land with
violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo,
they put the branch to their nose. 
 Therefore, will I also
deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet
will I not hear them.
==Chapter 9==
 Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying,
Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every
man with his destroying weapon in his hand. 
 And behold,
six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth 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. And they went in, and stood beside the
brazen altar. 
 And 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. 
 And Jehovah said unto him,
Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that
sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the
midst thereof. 
 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go
ye through the city after him, and smite: let not your eye
spare, neither have ye pity; 
 slay utterly the old man, the
young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but
come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the
house. 
 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill
the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and
smote in the city. 
 And it came to pass, while they were
smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried,
and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the residue of
Israel in thy pouring out of thy wrath upon Jerusalem? 
 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Jehovah hath
forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not. 
 And as for me
also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I
will bring their way upon their head. 
 And behold, the man
clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the
matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
==Chapter 10==
 Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was
over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it
were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a
throne. 
 And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and
said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the
cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of fire from between
the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in
my sight. 
 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the
house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner
court. 
 And the glory of Jehovah 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 Jehovah's glory. 
 And the sound of the wings
of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice
of God Almighty when he speaketh. 
 And 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. 
 And the cherub
stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire
that was between the cherubim, and took [thereof], and put it
into the hands of him that was clothed in linen, who took it and
went out. 
 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of
a man's hand under their wings. 
 And 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 unto a beryl stone. 
 And as for their
appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been
within a wheel. 
 When they went, they went in their four
directions: they turned not as they went, but to the place
whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as
they went. 
 And their whole body, and their backs, and
their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes
round about, [even] the wheels that they four had. 
 As
for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling
[wheels]. 
 And 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. 
 And the cherubim mounted up: this is
the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 
 And
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 turned not from beside them. 
 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.
 And the glory of Jehovah went forth from over the
threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. 
 And
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 Jehovah's
house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of
Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and
the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
 And 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.
==Chapter 11==
 Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto
the east gate of Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward: and
behold, at the door of the gate five and twenty men; and I saw
in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah
the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 
 And he said
unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and
that give wicked counsel in this city; 
 that say, [The
time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron,
and we are the flesh. 
 Therefore, prophesy against them,
prophesy, O son of man. 
 And the Spirit of Jehovah fell
upon me, and he said unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus
have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come
into your mind. 
 Ye have multiplied your slain in this
city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye
have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this
[city] is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the
midst of it. 
 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring
the sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 And I will
bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into
the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the
border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the
flesh in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of
Israel; 
 and ye shall know that I am Jehovah: for ye have
not walked in my statutes, neither have ye executed mine
ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations
that are round about you. 
 And it came to pass, when I
prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I
down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah
Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of
Israel? 
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of
thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are
they] unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you
far from Jehovah; unto us is this land given for a possession.
 Therefore, say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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. 
 Therefore, say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will
gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the
countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the
land of Israel. 
 And they shall come thither, and they
shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the
abominations thereof from thence. 
 And I will give them
one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will
take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a
heart of flesh; 
 that they may walk in my statutes, and
keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people,
and I will be their God. 
 But as for them whose heart
walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their
abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith
the Lord Jehovah. 
 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. 
 And the glory of Jehovah
went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain
which is on the east side of the city. 
 And 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. 
 Then I spake unto them of the
captivity all the things that Jehovah had showed me.
==Chapter 12==
 The word of Jehovah also came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house,
that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and
hear not; for they are a rebellious house. 
 Therefore,
thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by
day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to
another place in their sight: it may be they will consider,
though they are a rebellious house. 
 And thou shalt bring
forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing;
and thou shalt go forth thyself at even in their sight, as when
men go forth into exile. 
 Dig thou through the wall in
their sight, and carry out thereby. 
 In their sight shalt
thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark;
thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the land: for I
have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. 
 And I
did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as
stuff for removing, and in the even I digged through the wall
with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bare it upon
my shoulder in their sight. 
 And in the morning came the
word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, hath not the
house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What
doest thou? 
 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: This burden [concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and
all the house of Israel among whom they are. 
 Say, I am
your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them;
they shall go into exile, into captivity. 
 And the prince
that is among them shall bear upon 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. 
 My net also will I spread upon him,
and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to
Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it,
though he shall die there. 
 And I will scatter toward
every wind all that are round about him to help him, and all his
bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. 
 And
they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall disperse them
among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
 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 whither they come; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 Moreover, the word of
Jehovah came to me, saying, 
 Son of man, eat thy bread
with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with
fearfulness; 
 and say unto the people of the land, Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah 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 them that dwell therein. 
 And the
cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision
faileth? 
 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no
more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days
are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision. 
 For
there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel. 
 For I am Jehovah;
I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be
performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O
rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it,
saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Again the word of Jehovah came
to me, saying, 
 Son of man, behold, they of the house of
Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many day to come,
and he prophesieth of times that are far off. 
 Therefore,
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of
my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak
shall be performed, saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 13==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own
heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: 
 Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own
spirit, and have seen nothing! 
 O Israel, thy prophets
have been like foxes in the waste places. 
 Ye 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 Jehovah. 
 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah
saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to
hope that the word would be confirmed. 
 Have ye not seen a
false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that
ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken? 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken
falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 And my hand shall be against the
prophets that see false visions, and that 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 ye shall know that I am
the Lord Jehovah. 
 Because, even because they have
seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and
when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with
untempered [mortar]: 
 say unto them that daub it with
untempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an
overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and
a stormy wind shall rend it. 
 Lo, when the wall is
fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing
wherewith ye have daubed it? 
 Therefore, thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my
wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger,
and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. 
 So will I
break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered
[mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the
foundation thereof shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye
shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I
am Jehovah. 
 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the
wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered
[mortar]; and I will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither
they that daubed it; 
 [to wit], the prophets of Israel
that prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and that see visions of
peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters
of thy people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and
prophesy thou against them, 
 and say, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and
make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to
hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls
alive for yourselves? 
 And ye have profaned me among my
people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay
the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that
should not live, by your lying to my people that hearken unto
lies. 
 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I
am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to
make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will
let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make [them]
fly. 
 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my
people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand
to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 Because with lies ye 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: 
 Therefore, ye shall no more see false
visions, nor divine divinations: and I will deliver my people
out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 14==
 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and
sat before me. 
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into
their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before
their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 
 Therefore, speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his
idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah
will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
 Therefore, say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols;
and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 
 For
every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh
his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire
for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself: 
 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 ye shall know that I am
Jehovah. 
 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word,
I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out
my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my
people Israel. 
 And they shall bear their iniquity: the
iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him
that seeketh [unto him]; 
 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, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 And the word
of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, when a land
sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out
my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and
send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast; 
 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they
should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith
the Lord Jehovah. 
 If I cause evil beasts to pass through
the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that
no man may pass through because of the beasts; 
 though
these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah,
they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should
be delivered, but the land should be desolate. 
 Or if I
bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the
land; so that I cut off from it man and beast; 
 though
these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah,
they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only
should be delivered themselves. 
 Or if I send a
pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in
blood, to cut off from it man and beast; 
 though Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah,
they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but
deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 
 For thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore
judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and
beast! 
 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that
shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they
shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their
doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought upon it. 
 And they shall comfort you, when ye see
their way and their doings; and ye shall know that I have not
done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
==Chapter 15==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the
vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest? 
 Shall
wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin
of it to hang any vessel thereon? 
 Behold, it is cast into
the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the ends of it,
and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?
 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how
much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned,
shall it yet be meet for any work! 
 Therefore, thus saith
the Lord Jehovah: 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. 
 And I will set my face
against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire
shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I
set my face against them. 
 And I will make the land
desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
==Chapter 16==
 Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; 
 and
say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and
thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was
thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite. 
 And as for thy
nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut,
neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not
salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 
 No eye pitied thee,
to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon
thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy
person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born. 
 And
when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I
said unto thee, [Though thou art] in thy blood, live; yea, I
said unto thee, [Though thou art] in thy blood, live. 
 I
caused thee to multiply as that which groweth in the field, and
thou didst increase and wax great, and thou attainedst to
excellent ornament; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was
grown; yet thou wast naked and bare. 
 Now when I passed by
thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of
love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant
with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.
 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed
away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 
 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with
sealskin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and covered
thee with silk. 
 And I decked thee with ornaments, and I
put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 
 And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine ears, and
a beautiful crown upon thy head. 
 Thus wast thou decked
with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and
silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey,
and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst
prosper unto royal estate. 
 And thy renown went forth
among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect, through my
majesty which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the
harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on
every one that passed by; his it was. 
 And thou didst
take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked
with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: [the like
things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. 
 Thou
didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and
didst play the harlot with them; 
 and thou tookest thy
broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil
and mine incense before them. 
 My bread also which I gave
thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou
didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it
was, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Moreover, thou hast taken
thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and
these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy
whoredoms a small matter, 
 that thou hast slain my
children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through
[the fire] unto them? 
 And in all thine abominations and
thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,
when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.
 And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe,
woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,) 
 that thou hast
built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty
place in every street. 
 Thou hast built thy lofty place
at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an
abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed
by, and multiplied thy whoredom. 
 Thou hast also
committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great
of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to
anger. 
 Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand
over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and
delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the
daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of thy lewd way.
 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians,
because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot
with them, and yet thou wast not satisfied. 
 Thou hast
moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto
Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. 
 How
weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all
these things, the work of an impudent harlot; 
 in that
thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and
makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a
harlot, in that thou scornest hire. 
 A wife that
committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her
husband! 
 They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest
thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may
come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms. 
 And thou
art different from [other] women in thy whoredoms, in that none
followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire,
and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.
 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah: 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness was poured
out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy
lovers; and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and
for the blood of thy children, that thou didst give unto them;
 therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with
whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast
loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather
them against thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness
unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. 
 And I
will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and
jealousy. 
 I will also give thee into their hand, and
they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy
lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take
thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.
 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and
they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with
their swords. 
 And they shall burn thy houses with fire,
and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and
I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou
shalt also give no hire any more. 
 So will I cause my
wrath toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from
thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 
 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast
raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also
will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and
thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.
 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this]
proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her
daughter. 
 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that
loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister
of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children:
your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 
 And thine elder sister is Samaria, that dwelleth at thy left
hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that
dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 
 Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their
abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou
wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways. 
 As I live,
saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor
her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom:
pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in
her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
and needy. 
 And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw
[good]. 
 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins;
but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and
hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou
hast done. 
 Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that
thou hast given judgment for thy sisters; through thy sins that
thou hast committed more abominable than they, they are more
righteous that thou: yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy
shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 
 And 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 thy captives in the midst of them; 
 that
thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because
of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto
them. 
 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall
return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters
shall return to their former estate; and thou and thy daughters
shall return to your former estate. 
 For thy sister Sodom
was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 
 before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round
about her, the daughters of the Philistines, that do despite
unto thee round about. 
 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and
thine abominations, saith Jehovah. 
 For thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who
hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 
 Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days
of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant. 
 Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be
ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder
[sisters] and thy younger; and I will give them unto thee for
daughters, but not by thy covenant. 
 And I will establish
my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;
 that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never
open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have
forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 17==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel; 
 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A
great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers,
which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of
the cedar: 
 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs
thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a
city of merchants. 
 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. 
 And it grew, and
became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned
toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a
vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 
 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. 
 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.
 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper?
shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit
thereof, 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 thereof. 
 Yea, behold, being
planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the
east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the beds where it
grew. 
 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to
Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof,
and brought them to him to Babylon: 
 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; 
 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself
up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. 
 But
he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt,
that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break
the covenant, and yet escape? 
 As I live, saith the Lord
Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made
him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake,
even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 
 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. 
 For he hath despised the oath
by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and
yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape. 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine
oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken,
I will even bring it upon his own head. 
 And I will
spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I
will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him
there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
 And all his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every
wind: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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 upon a high
and lofty mountain: 
 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 thereof shall
they dwell. 
 And all the trees of the field shall know
that I, Jehovah, 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, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.
==Chapter 18==
 The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying, 
 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of
Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge? 
 As I live, saith the
Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have [occasion] any more to use this
proverb in Israel. 
 Behold, all souls are mine; as the
soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the
soul that sinneth, it shall die. 
 But if a man be just,
and do that which is lawful and right, 
 and hath not eaten
upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols
of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's
wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity, 
 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his
pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to
the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; 
 he
that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any
increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
executed true justice between man and man, 
 hath walked in
my statutes, and hath kept mine ordinances, to deal truly; he is
just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 If
he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that
doeth any one of these things, 
 and that doeth not any of
those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and
defiled his neighbor's wife, 
 hath wronged the poor and
needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and
hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed
abomination, 
 hath given forth upon interest, and hath
taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath
done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood
shall be upon him. 
 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that
seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth,
and doeth not such like; 
 that hath not eaten upon the
mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's wife, 
 neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge,
neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; 
 that
hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received
interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath
walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father, he shall surely live. 
 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.
 Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity
of the father? when the son hath done that which is lawful and
right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he
shall surely live. 
 The soul that sinneth, it shall die:
the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall
the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of
the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him. 
 But if the wicked turn from
all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes,
and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he
shall not die. 
 None of his transgressions that he hath
committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness
that he hath done he shall live. 
 Have I any pleasure in
the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; and not rather
that he should return from his way, and live? 
 But when
the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations
that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous
deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass
that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in
them shall he die. 
 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is
not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not my way equal? are
not your ways unequal? 
 When the righteous man turneth
away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth
therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 
 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that
he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he
shall save his soul alive. 
 Because he considereth, and
turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed,
he shall surely live, he shall not die. 
 Yet saith the
house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of
Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
 Therefore, I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and
turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall
not be your ruin. 
 Cast away from you all your
transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new
heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,
saith the Lord Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.
==Chapter 19==
 Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes
of Israel, 
 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she
couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she
nourished her whelps. 
 And she brought up one of her
whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the
prey; he devoured men. 
 The nations also heard of him; he
was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the
land of Egypt. 
 Now when she saw that she had waited, and
her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made
him a young lion. 
 And he went up and down among the
lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey;
he devoured men. 
 And he knew their palaces, and laid
waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness
thereof, because of the noise of his roaring. 
 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.
 And 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 upon the mountains of Israel.
 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the
waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
waters. 
 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them
that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick
boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of
their branches. 
 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. 
 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry
and thirsty land. 
 And fire is gone out of the rods of
its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it
no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation,
and shall be for a lamentation.
==Chapter 20==
 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
[month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the
elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son
of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Is it to inquire of me that ye are come?
As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by
you. 
 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge
them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;
 and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the
day when I chose Israel, and sware unto the seed of the house of
Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt,
when I sware unto them, saying, I am Jehovah your God; 
 in
that day I sware unto 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. 
 And
I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his
eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am
Jehovah your God. 
 But they rebelled against me, and would
not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the
abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols
of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt. 
 But I wrought 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 unto them, in bringing
them forth out of the land of Egypt. 
 So I caused them to
go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the
wilderness. 
 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them
mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
 Moreover, also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that
sanctifieth them. 
 But the house of Israel rebelled
against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes,
and they rejected mine 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 upon them in the wilderness, to
consume them. 
 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it
should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose
sight I brought them out. 
 Moreover, also I sware unto
them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the
land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which
is the glory of all lands; 
 because they rejected mine
ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my
sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. 
 Nevertheless, mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not,
neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. 
 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in
the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances,
nor defile yourselves with their idols. 
 I am Jehovah
your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do
them; 
 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign
between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.
 But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in
my statutes, neither kept mine 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 upon them, to accomplish my anger
against them in the wilderness. 
 Nevertheless, I withdrew
my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought
them forth. 
 Moreover, I sware unto them in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and
disperse them through the countries; 
 because they had
not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and
had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their
fathers' idols. 
 Moreover, also I gave them statutes that
were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they
caused to pass through [the fire] all that openeth the womb,
that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know
that I am Jehovah. 
 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the
house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they
have committed a trespass against me. 
 For when I had
brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto 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. 
 Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye
go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. 
 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your
fathers? and play ye the harlot after their abominations?
 and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to
pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your
idols unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house
of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be
inquired of by you; 
 and that which cometh into your mind
shall not be at all, in that ye say, We will be as the nations,
as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty
hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out,
will I be king over you: 
 and I will bring you out from
the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye
are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm,
and with wrath poured out; 
 and I will bring you into the
wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment
with you face to face. 
 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, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will
bring you into the bond of the covenant; 
 and I will
purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress
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
ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 As for you, O house of
Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his
idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but
my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with
your idols. 
 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of
the height of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 oblations, with all your holy things.
 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out
from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the
sight of the nations. 
 And ye shall know that I am
Jehovah, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into
the country which I sware to give unto your fathers. 
 And
there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein
ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in
your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt
with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel,
saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 And the word of Jehovah came
unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, set thy face toward the
south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy
against the forest of the field in the South; 
 and say to
the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it
shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the
flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the
south to the north shall be burnt thereby. 
 And all flesh
shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be
quenched. 
 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me,
Is he not a speaker of parables?
==Chapter 21==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word]
toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah:
Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of
its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked. 
 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the
righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out
of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
 and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn
forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy
loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.
 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore
sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for
it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be
weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith
the Lord Jehovah. 
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith
Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also
furbished; 
 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 contemneth every tree. 
 And
it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword,
it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand
of the slayer. 
 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon
my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are
delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon
thy thigh. 
 For there is a trial; and what if even the
rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.
 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy
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
that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.
 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. 
 Gather thee together, go to the right, set
thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my
wrath to rest: I, Jehovah, have spoken it. 
 The word of
Jehovah came unto me again, saying, 
 Also, thou son of
man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of
Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land:
and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the
city. 
 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to
Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the
fortified. 
 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 to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he
looked in the liver. 
 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. 
 And it shall be unto them as a false
divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths unto them; but
he bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have
made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with
the hand. 
 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the
prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity
of the end, 
 thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the
mitre, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same;
exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. 
 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].
 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning
their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the
slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be
as lightning; 
 while they see for thee false visions,
while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of
the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the
time of the iniquity of the end. 
 Cause it to return into
its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in the land of
thy birth, will I judge thee. 
 And I will pour out mine
indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with the fire of my
wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men,
skilful to destroy. 
 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire;
thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no
more remembered: for I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
==Chapter 22==
 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge
the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city
that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come,
and that maketh idols against herself to defile her! 
 Thou
art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art
defiled in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast
caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years:
therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a
mocking to all the countries. 
 Those that are near, and
those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one
[and] full of tumult. 
 Behold, the princes of Israel,
every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed
blood. 
 In thee have they set light by father and mother;
in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the
sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the
widow. 
 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast
profaned my sabbaths. 
 Slanderous men have been in thee to
shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in
the midst of thee they have committed lewdness. 
 In thee
have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they
humbled her that was unclean in her impurity. 
 And one
hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another
hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee
hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 
 In thee
have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest
and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by
oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy
dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath
been in the midst of thee. 
 Can thy heart endure, or can
thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I,
Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it. 
 And I will
scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the
countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
 And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of
the nations; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. 
 And
the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man,
the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are
brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace;
they are the dross of silver. 
 Therefore, thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore,
behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 
 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into
the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it;
so will I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and I will
lay you there, and melt you. 
 Yea, I will gather you, and
blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted
in the midst thereof. 
 As silver is melted in the midst
of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and
ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon
you. 
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not
cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 
 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, 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 thereof. 
 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. 
 Her princes in the midst thereof
are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to
destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. 
 And her
prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing
false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken. 
 The
people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery;
yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the
sojourner wrongfully. 
 And I sought for a man among them,
that 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.
 Therefore, have I poured out mine indignation upon them;
I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way
have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 23==
 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the
harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and
there was handled the bosom of their virginity. 
 And the
names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister:
and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as
for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she
doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, 
 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 
 And she
bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria
all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols
she defiled herself. 
 Neither hath she left her whoredoms
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 whoredom upon her. 
 Wherefore I delivered her into
the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon
whom she doted. 
 These uncovered her nakedness; they took
her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword:
and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments
upon her. 
 And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she
more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which
were more than the whoredoms of her sister. 
 She doted
upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors,
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of
them desirable young men. 
 And I saw that she was
defiled; they both took one way. 
 And she increased her
whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images
of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 
 girded with
girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads,
all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the
Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. 
 And
as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers
unto them into Chaldea. 
 And the Babylonians came to her
into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom,
and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from
them. 
 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her
nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul
was alienated from her sister. 
 Yet she multiplied her
whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had
played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 
 And she doted
upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and
whose issue is like the issue of horses. 
 Thus thou
calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the
handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy
youth. 
 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from
whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee
on every side: 
 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 upon horses. 
 And
they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons,
and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against
thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will
commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee
according to their judgments. 
 And I will set my jealousy
against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall
take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by
the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy
residue shall be devoured by the fire. 
 They shall also
strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and
thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that thou
shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any
more. 
 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will
deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the
hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated; 
 and they
shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy
labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of
thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms. 
 These things shall be done unto thee, for
that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because
thou art polluted with their idols. 
 Thou hast walked in
the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy
hand. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of
thy sister's cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed
to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 
 Thou
shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
 Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou
shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Therefore, thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast
me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and
thy whoredoms. 
 Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of
man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them
their abominations. 
 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 bare unto me, to pass through [the fire] unto them to be
devoured. 
 Moreover, this they have done unto me: they
have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
sabbaths. 
 For when they had slain their children to
their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to
profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my
house. 
 And furthermore ye have sent for men that come
from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came;
for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck
thyself with ornaments, 
 and sit upon a stately bed, with
a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine
incense and mine oil. 
 And 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
upon the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns upon their
heads. 
 Then said I of her that was old in adulteries,
Now will they play the harlot with her, and she [with them].
 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot:
so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the
judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that
shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
hands. 
 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up
a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and
fro and robbed. 
 And the company shall stone them with
stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay
their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with
fire. 
 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the
land, that all women may be taught not to do after your
lewdness. 
 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon
you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know
that I am the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 24==
 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the
tenth [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, write thee the name of the day,
[even] of this selfsame day: the king of Babylon drew close unto
Jerusalem this selfsame day. 
 And utter a parable unto the
rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into
it: 
 gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good
piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice
bones. 
 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of
wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yea,
let the bones thereof be boiled in the midst of it. 
 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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
upon it. 
 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it
upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover
it with dust. 
 That it may cause wrath to come up to take
vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it
should not be covered. 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile
great. 
 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well
the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be
burned. 
 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that
it may be hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the
filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be
consumed. 
 She hath wearied [herself] with toil; yet her
great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust [goeth not
forth] by fire. 
 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I
have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be
cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my
wrath toward thee to rest. 
 I, Jehovah, have spoken it:
it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back,
neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy
ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith
the Lord Jehovah. 
 Also the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the
desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn
nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 
 Sigh, but
not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire upon
thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips,
and eat not the bread of men. 
 So I spake unto the people
in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the
morning as I was commanded. 
 And the people said unto me,
Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou
doest so? 
 Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah
came unto me, saying, 
 Speak unto the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my
sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and
that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters
whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword. 
 And ye
shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat
the bread of men. 
 And your tires shall be upon your
heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor
weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one
toward another. 
 Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign;
according to all that he hath done shall ye do: when this
cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord Jehovah. 
 And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of
their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons
and their daughters, 
 that in that day he that escapeth
shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is
escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: so shalt
thou be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 25==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and
prophesy against them: 
 and say unto the children of
Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah, Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it
was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made
desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity: 
 therefore, behold, I will deliver thee to the
children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their
encampments in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they
shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 
 And I
will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon
a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah. 
 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou
hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced
with all the despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;
 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon
thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I
will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to
perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt
know that I am Jehovah. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is
like unto all the nations; 
 therefore, behold, I will open
the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on
his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth,
Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, 
 unto the children of the
east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; and I will give
them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be
remembered among the nations. 
 and I will execute
judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath
dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 
 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my
hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I
will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they
fall by the sword. 
 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom
by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom
according to mine anger and according to my wrath; and they
shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by
revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to
destroy with perpetual enmity; 
 therefore thus saith the
Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the
Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast. 
 And I will execute great
vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
==Chapter 26==
 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
[day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gate of the
peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that
she is laid waste: 
 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah,
Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations
to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come
up. 
 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break
down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make
her a bare rock. 
 She shall be a place for the spreading
of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the
Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain
with the sword: and they shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north,
with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a
company, and much people. 
 He shall slay with the sword
thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against
thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler
against thee. 
 And he shall set his battering engines
against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy
towers. 
 By reason of the abundance of his horses their
dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall
enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a
breach. 
 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down
all thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and
the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground. 
 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of
thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and
destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and
thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters. 
 And
I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of
thy harps shall be no more heard. 
 And I will make thee a
bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou
shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the
Lord Jehovah. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall
not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded
groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 
 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their
broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling;
they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment,
and be astonished at thee. 
 And they shall take up a
lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed,
that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that
was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused
their terror to be on all that dwelt there! 
 Now shall
the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that
are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure. 
 For
thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate
city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring
up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;
 then will I bring thee down with them that descend into
the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell
in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are
desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be
not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt no more have
any being; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be
found again, saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 27==
 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, 
 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; 
 and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea,
that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith
the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in
beauty. 
 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy
builders have perfected thy beauty. 
 They have made all
thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from
Lebanon to make a mast for thee. 
 Of the oaks of Bashan
have they made thine oars; they have made thy benches of ivory
inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim. 
 Of fine
linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might
be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of
Elishah was thine awning. 
 The inhabitants of Sidon and
Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they
were thy pilots. 
 The old men of Gebal and the wise men
thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with
their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise. 
 Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they
hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness. 
 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon
thy walls round about, and valorous men were in thy towers; they
hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have
perfected thy beauty. 
 Tarshish was thy merchant by
reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver,
iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares. 
 Javan,
Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise. 
 They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses
and war-horses and mules. 
 The men of Dedan were thy
traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand: they brought
thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. 
 Syria was thy
merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they
traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work,
and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. 
 Judah, and the
land of Israel, they were thy traffickers: they traded for thy
merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil,
and balm. 
 Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of
thy handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of
riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 
 Vedan
and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia,
and calamus, were among thy merchandise. 
 Dedan was thy
trafficker in precious cloths for riding. 
 Arabia, and
all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand;
in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants.
 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy
traffickers; they traded for thy wares with the chief of all
spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 
 Haran
and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and]
Chilmad, were thy traffickers. 
 These were thy
traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered
work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made
of cedar, among thy merchandise. 
 The ships of Tarshish
were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east
wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. 
 Thy
riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy
pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all
thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is
in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in
the day of thy ruin. 
 At the sound of the cry of thy
pilots the suburbs shall shake. 
 And all that handled the
oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come
down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land, 
 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry
bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall
wallow themselves in the ashes: 
 and they shall make
themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they
shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation
for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like
Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the
sea? 
 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou
filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth
with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 
 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of
the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the
midst of thee. 
 All the inhabitants of the isles are
astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they
are troubled in their countenance. 
 The merchants among
the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou
shalt nevermore have any being.
==Chapter 28==
 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I
am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart
as the heart of God;- 
 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that is hidden from thee; 
 by thy
wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; 
 by
thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou increased thy
riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;-
 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast
set thy heart as the heart of God, 
 therefore, behold, I
will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
and they shall defile thy brightness. 
 They shall bring
thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that
are slain, in the heart of the seas. 
 Wilt thou yet say
before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and
not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee. 
 Thou
shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son
of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 
 Thou wast in
Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering,
the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx,
and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in
thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.
 Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set
thee, [so that] thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou
hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee. 
 By
the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with
violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 
 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast
thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may
behold thee. 
 By the multitude of thine iniquities, in
the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy
sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the
midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to
ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
 All they that know thee among the peoples shall be
astonished at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt
nevermore have any being. 
 And the word of Jehovah came
unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon,
and prophesy against it, 
 and say, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be
glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am
Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall
be sanctified in her. 
 For I will send pestilence into
her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in
the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and
they shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 And there shall be no
more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a hurting
thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite unto
them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations,
then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my
servant Jacob. 
 And they shall dwell securely therein;
yea, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall
dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those
that do them despite round about them; and they shall know that
I am Jehovah their God.
==Chapter 29==
 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the
twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 
 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt; 
 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that
lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is
mine own, and I have made it for myself. 
 And I will put
hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to
stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst
of thy rivers, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto
thy scales. 
 And I will cast thee forth into the
wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall
upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor
gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth
and to the birds of the heavens. 
 And all the inhabitants
of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a
staff of reed to the house of Israel. 
 When they took hold
of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their
shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and
madest all their loins to be at a stand. 
 Therefore, thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee,
and will cut off from thee man and beast. 
 And the land of
Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said, The river is mine, and
I have made it; 
 therefore, behold, I am against thee,
and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an
utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto
the border of Ethiopia. 
 No foot of man shall pass
through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither
shall it be inhabited forty years. 
 And I will make the
land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that
are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid
waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries. 
 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end
of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples
whither they were scattered; 
 and I will bring back the
captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land
of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be
there a base kingdom. 
 It shall be the basest of the
kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the
nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule
over the nations. 
 And it shall be no more the confidence
of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when
they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the
Lord Jehovah. 
 And it came to pass in the seven and
twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the
month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of
man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a
great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every
shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre,
for the service that he had served against it. 
 Therefore,
thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry
off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army. 
 I have given him the
land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because
they wrought for me, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 In that day
will I cause a horn to bud forth unto the house of Israel, and I
will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;
and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 30==
 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Wail
ye, Alas for the day! 
 For the day is near, even the day
of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the
nations. 
 And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish
shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and
they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be
broken down. 
 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the
mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in
league, shall fall with them by the sword. 
 Thus saith
Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride
of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall
they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 And
they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities
that are wasted. 
 And they shall know at I am Jehovah,
when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are
destroyed. 
 In that day shall messengers go forth from
before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and
there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for,
lo, it cometh. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also
make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 
 He and his people with
him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy
the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and
fill the land with the slain. 
 And I will make the rivers
dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I
will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the
hand of strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it. 
 Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I
will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be
no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear
in the land of Egypt. 
 And I will make Pathros desolate,
and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments upon No.
 And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 
 And I
will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No
shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the
day-time. 
 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall
fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when
I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her
power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall go into captivity. 
 Thus will I
execute judgments upon Egypt; and they shall know that I am
Jehovah. 
 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in
the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, I have
broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it hath not
been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to
bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword. 
 Therefore,
thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that
which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his
hand. 
 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 
 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and
he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded
man. 
 And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon;
and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah, when I shall put my sword into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land
of Egypt. 
 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 31==
 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third
[month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of
Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, say unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like
in thy greatness? 
 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in
Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of
high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. 
 The
waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers
thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its
channels unto all the trees of the field. 
 Therefore, its
stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its
boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason
of many waters, when it shot [them] forth. 
 All the birds
of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their
young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations. 
 Thus
was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for
its root was by many waters. 
 The cedars in the garden of
God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs,
and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree
in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty. 
 I made
it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees
of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it. 
 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted
in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and
his heart is lifted up in his height; 
 I will even
deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he
shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his
wickedness. 
 And strangers, the terrible of the nations,
have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in
all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are
broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples
of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
 Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell,
and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;
 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters
exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among
the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their
height, [even] all that drink water: for they are all delivered
unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of
the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to
Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed;
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the
field fainted for him. 
 I made the nations to shake at
the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them
that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice
and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the
nether parts of the earth. 
 They also went down into
Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they
that were his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of
the nations. 
 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in
greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought
down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth:
thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that
are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 32==
 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the
twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of
Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, take up a
lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou
wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a
monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers,
and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their
rivers. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my
net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall
bring thee up in my net. 
 And I will leave thee upon the
land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause
all the birds of the heavens to settle upon thee, and I will
satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 
 And I
will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with
thy height. 
 I will also water with thy blood the land
wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the
watercourses shall be full of thee. 
 And when I shall
extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give its light. 
 All the bright lights of heaven
will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land,
saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 I will also vex the hearts of
many peoples, when I shall bring thy destruction among the
nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 
 Yea, I will make many peoples amazed at thee, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my
sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every
man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. 
 For thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall
come upon thee. 
 By the swords of the mighty will I cause
thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all:
and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the
multitude thereof shall be destroyed. 
 I will destroy
also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither
shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of
beasts trouble them. 
 Then will I make their waters
clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord
Jehovah. 
 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate
and waste, a land destitute of that whereof it was full, when I
shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know
that I am Jehovah. 
 This is the lamentation wherewith
they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament
therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they
lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 It came to
pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the
month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down,
even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the
nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid
with the uncircumcised. 
 They shall fall in the midst of
them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword;
draw her away and all her multitudes. 
 The strong among
the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with
them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the
uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 
 Asshur is there and
all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them
slain, fallen by the sword; 
 whose graves are set in the
uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her
grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror
in the land of the living. 
 There is Elam and all her
multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by
the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts
of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living,
and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with
all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused
in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with
them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them
that are slain. 
 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their
multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror
in the land of the living. 
 And they shall not lie with
the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone
down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their
swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their
bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of
the living. 
 But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain by the
sword. 
 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who
in their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword:
they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go
down to the pit. 
 There are the princes of the north, all
of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the
slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are
put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are
slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down
to the pit. 
 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be
comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army,
slain by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 For I have
put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid
in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by
the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
==Chapter 33==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto
them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the
land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
 if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow
the trumpet, and warn the people; 
 then whosoever heareth
the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword
come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning;
his blood shall be upon him; whereas if he had taken warning, he
would have delivered his soul. 
 But if the watchman see
the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not
warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them;
he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require
at the watchman's hand. 
 So thou, son of man, I have set
thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore hear the
word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 
 When I
say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and
thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked
man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at
thy hand. 
 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his
way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way; he shall die
in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. 
 And
thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye speak,
saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine
away in them; how then can we live? 
 Say unto them, As I
live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of
the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn
ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of
Israel? 
 And thou, son of man, say unto the children of
thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver
him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness
of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he
turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous
be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth. 
 When
I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust
to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous
deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath
committed, therein shall he die. 
 Again, when I say unto
the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and
do that which is lawful and right; 
 if the wicked restore
the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk
in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely
live, he shall not die. 
 None of his sins that he hath
committed shall be remembered against him: he hath done that
which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 
 Yet the
children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal:
but as for them, their way is not equal. 
 When the
righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, he shall even die therein. 
 And when the wicked
turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and
right, he shall live thereby. 
 Yet ye say, The way of the
Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I will judge you every one
after his ways. 
 And it came to pass in the twelfth year
of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of
the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto
me, saying, The city is smitten. 
 Now the hand of Jehovah
had been upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped
came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the
land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye
eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and
shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? 
 Ye stand upon
your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land? 
 Thus
shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I
live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the
sword; and him that is in the open field will I give to the
beasts to be devoured; and they that are in the strongholds and
in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 
 And I will
make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of
her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, so that none shall pass through. 
 Then shall
they know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a
desolation and an astonishment, because of all their
abominations which they have committed. 
 And as for thee,
son of man, the children of thy people talk of thee by the walls
and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every
one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is
the word that cometh forth from Jehovah. 
 And they come
unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my
people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their
mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their
gain. 
 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song
of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument; for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
 And when this cometh to pass, (behold, it cometh,) then
shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
==Chapter 34==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy,
and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep? 
 Ye
eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the
fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep. 
 The diseased have ye
not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick,
neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye
brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought
that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled
over them. 
 And they were scattered, because there was no
shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field,
and were scattered. 
 My sheep wandered through all the
mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were
scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none
that did search or seek [after them]. 
 Therefore, ye
shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: 
 As I live, saith the
Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my
sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there
was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep,
but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep; 
 therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: 
 Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and
I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease
from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their
mouth, that they may not be food for them. 
 For thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search
for my sheep, and will seek them out. 
 As a shepherd
seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that
are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will
deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day. 
 And I will bring them out
from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will
bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the
mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the
inhabited places of the country. 
 I will feed them with
good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel
shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold;
and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will
cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 I will
seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I
will destroy; I will feed them in justice. 
 And as for
you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge
between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats. 
 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good
pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of
your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must
foul the residue with your feet? 
 And as for my sheep,
they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they
drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even
I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 
 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the
diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more
be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 
 And
I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd. 
 And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my
servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will
cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 
 And
I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there
shall be showers of blessing. 
 And the tree of the field
shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase,
and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that
I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and
have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen
of them. 
 And they shall no more be a prey to the
nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them; but
they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
 And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land,
neither bear the shame of the nations any more. 
 And they
shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them, and that
they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord
Jehovah. 
 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are
men, and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 35==
 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
against it, 
 and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out
my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an
astonishment. 
 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt
be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. 
 Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over
the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of
their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; 
 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare
thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast
not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee. 
 Thus
will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I
will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that
returneth. 
 And I will fill its mountains with its slain:
in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses
shall they fall that are slain with the sword. 
 I will
make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be
inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 
 Because
thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall
be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do
according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou
hast showed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make
myself known among them, when I shall judge thee. 
 And
thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings
which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying,
They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. 
 And
ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and
have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I
will make thee desolate. 
 As thou didst rejoice over the
inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so
will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and
all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 36==
 And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of
Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of
Jehovah. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy
hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are
ours in possession; 
 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because they have made you
desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a
possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up
in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and
to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the
desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are
become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that
are round about; 
 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the
residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have
appointed my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy
of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a
prey. 
 Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel,
and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses
and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have
spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the
shame of the nations: 
 therefore thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are
round about you, they shall bear their shame. 
 But ye, O
mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to
come. 
 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into
you, and ye shall be tilled and sown; 
 and I will
multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it;
and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be
builded; 
 and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and
they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be
inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [unto
you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah. 
 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my
people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be
their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave
them of children. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because
they say unto you, Thou [land] art a devourer of men, and hast
been a bereaver of thy nation; 
 therefore thou shalt
devour men no more, neither bereave thy nation any more, saith
the Lord Jehovah; 
 neither will I let thee hear any more
the shame of the nations, neither shalt thou bear the reproach
of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to
stumble any more, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Moreover, the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, when
the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by
their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the
uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. 
 Wherefore I
poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had
poured out upon the land, and because they had defiled it with
their idols; 
 and I scattered them among the nations, and
they were dispersed through the countries: according to their
way and according to their doings I judged them. 
 And
when they came unto the nations, whither they went, they
profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the
people of Jehovah, and are gone forth out of his land. 
 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had
profaned among the nations, whither they went. 
 Therefore,
say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I do
not [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy
name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither ye went.
 And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been
profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst
of them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, saith the
Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their
eyes. 
 For I will take you from among the nations, and
gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into
your own land. 
 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all
your idols, will I cleanse you. 
 A new heart also will I
give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will
take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you
a heart of flesh. 
 And I will put my Spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine
ordinances, and do them. 
 And ye shall dwell in the land
that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I
will be your God. 
 And I will save you from all your
uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply
it, and lay no famine upon you. 
 And I will multiply the
fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may
receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
 Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings
that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 
 Nor
for your sake do I [this], saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known
unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of
Israel. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I
cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to
be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded. 
 And
the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a
desolation in the sight of all that passed by. 
 And they
shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden
of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are
fortified and inhabited. 
 Then the nations that are left
round about you shall know that I, Jehovah, have builded the
ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Jehovah,
have spoken it, and I will do it. 
 Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house
of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like
a flock. 
 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of
Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be
filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 37==
 The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out
in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the
valley; and it was full of bones. 
 And he caused me to
pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in
the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 
 And he said
unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O
Lord Jehovah, thou knowest. 
 Again he said unto me,
Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones,
hear the word of Jehovah. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah
unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
and ye shall live. 
 And I will lay sinews upon you, and
will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah. 
 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and
the bones came together, bone to its bone. 
 And I beheld,
and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and
skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 
 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of
man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from
the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that
they may live. 
 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and
the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon
their feet, an exceeding great army. 
 Then he said unto
me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost;
we are clean cut off. 
 Therefore, prophesy, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your
graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my
people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 
 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your
graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my
people. 
 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall
live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know
that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, saith Jehovah.
 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, 
 And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it,
For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then
take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of
Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
 and join them for thee one to another into one stick,
that they may become one in thy hand. 
 And when the
children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou
not show us what thou meanest by these? 
 say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of
Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, [even] with
the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be
one in my hand. 
 And the sticks whereon thou writest
shall be in thy hand before their eyes. 
 And say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the
children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are
gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into
their own land: 
 and I will make them one nation in the
land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king
to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither
shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; 
 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions; but I will save them out of all their
dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse
them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
 And my servant David shall be king over them; and they
all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine
ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. 
 And
they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell
therein, they, and their children, and their children's
children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince
for ever. 
 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will
place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the
midst of them for evermore. 
 My tabernacle also shall be
with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah that
sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of
them for evermore.
==Chapter 38==
 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 
 Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the
prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: 
 and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I
will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen,
all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler
and shield, all of them handling swords; 
 Persia, Cush,
and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 
 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the
uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many
peoples with thee. 
 Be thou prepared, yea, prepare
thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto
thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 
 After many days thou
shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the
land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out
of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a
continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and
they shall dwell securely, all of them. 
 And thou shalt
ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud
to cover the land, thou, and all thy hordes, and many peoples
with thee. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to
pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou
shalt devise an evil device: 
 and thou shalt say, I will
go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that
are at rest, that dwell securely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor gates; 
 to take the
spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste
places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people that are
gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods,
that dwell in the middle of the earth. 
 Sheba, and Dedan,
and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof,
shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take the spoil? hast thou
assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and
gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?
 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: In that day when my people Israel
dwelleth securely, shalt thou not know it? 
 And thou
shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of the
north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company and a mighty army; 
 and thou
shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the
land: it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will
bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I
shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in old
time by my servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in
those days for [many] years that I would bring thee against
them? 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog
shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah,
that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils. 
 For in my
jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in
that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
 so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the
heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the
face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every
wall shall fall to the ground. 
 And I will call for a
sword against him unto all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah:
every man's sword shall be against his brother. 
 And with
pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him;
and I will rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many
peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great
hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 
 And I will magnify
myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the
eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
==Chapter 39==
 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,
prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: 
 and I will turn thee
about, and will lead thee on, and will cause thee to come up
from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring thee
upon the mountains of Israel; 
 and I will smite thy bow
out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of
thy right hand. 
 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of
Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and the peoples that are with
thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort,
and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 
 Thou shalt
fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
Jehovah. 
 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them
that dwell securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am
Jehovah. 
 And my holy name will I make known in the midst
of my people Israel; neither will I suffer my holy name to be
profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah,
the Holy One in Israel. 
 Behold, it cometh, and it shall
be done, saith the Lord Jehovah; this is the day whereof I have
spoken. 
 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall
go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them,
both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and
the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of
them seven years; 
 so that they shall take no wood out of
the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they
shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those
that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the
Lord Jehovah. 
 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will give unto Gog a place for burial in Israel, the
valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it
shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog
and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of
Hamon-gog. 
 And seven months shall the house of Israel be
burying them, that they may cleanse the land. 
 Yea, all
the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them
a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord
Jehovah. 
 And they shall set apart men of continual
employment, that shall pass through the land, and, with them
that pass through, those that bury them that remain upon the
face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months
shall they search. 
 And they that pass through the land
shall pass through; and when any seeth a man's bone, then shall
he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the
valley of Hamon-gog. 
 And Hamonah shall also be the name
of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 
 And thou,
son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak unto the birds of
every sort, and to every beast of the field, Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my
sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice
upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink
blood. 
 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink
the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of
goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 
 And
ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the
Lord Jehovah. 
 And I will set my glory among the nations;
and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed,
and my hand that I have laid upon them. 
 So the house of
Israel shall know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day and
forward. 
 And the nations shall know that the house of
Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they
trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave
them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of
them by the sword. 
 According to their uncleanness and
according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my
face from them. 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy
upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my
holy name. 
 And they shall bear their shame, and all
their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when
they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make
them afraid; 
 when I have brought them back from the
peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am
sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. 
 And
they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused
them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered
them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them any more
there; 
 neither will I hide my face any more from them;
for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith
the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 40==
 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in
the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in
the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the
selfsame day, the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me
thither. 
 In the visions of God brought he me into the
land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain,
whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south. 
 And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax
in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine
eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that
I shall show thee; for, to the intent that I may show them unto
thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to
the house of Israel. 
 And, behold, a wall on the outside
of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed
six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he
measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the
height, one reed. 
 Then came he unto the gate which
looketh toward the east, and went up the steps thereof: and he
measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the
other threshold, one reed broad. 
 And every lodge was one
reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the
lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the
porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. 
 He
measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and
the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was
toward the house. 
 And the lodges of the gate eastward
were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were
of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and
on that side. 
 And he measured the breadth of the opening
of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen
cubits; 
 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on
this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the
lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge
to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits;
door against door. 
 He made also posts, threescore
cubits; and the court [reached] unto the posts, round about the
gate. 
 And [from] the forefront of the gate at the
entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were
fifty cubits. 
 And there were closed windows to the
lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and
likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and
upon [each] post were palm-trees. 
 Then brought he me
into the outer court; and, lo, there were chambers and a
pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were
upon the pavement. 
 And the pavement was by the side of
the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the
lower pavement. 
 Then he measured the breadth from the
forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner
court without, a hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the
north. 
 And the gate of the outer court whose prospect is
toward the north, he measured the length thereof and the breadth
thereof. 
 And the lodges thereof were three on this side
and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches
thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length
thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits. 
 And the windows thereof, and the arches thereof,
and the palm-trees thereof, were after the measure of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up unto it by
seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. 
 And there was a gate to the inner court over against the [other]
gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from
gate to gate a hundred cubits. 
 And he led me toward the
south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the
posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these
measures. 
 And there were windows in it and in the arches
thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 
 And
there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof
were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and
another on that side, upon the posts thereof. 
 And there
was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. 
 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
measured the south gate according to these measures; 
 and
the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches
thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in
it and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits
long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 
 And there were
arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits
broad. 
 And the arches thereof were toward the outer
court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof: and the
ascent to it had eight steps. 
 And he brought me into the
inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according
to these measures; 
 and the lodges thereof, and the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures:
and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round
about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
broad. 
 And the arches thereof were toward the outer
court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side,
and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. 
 And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it]
according to these measures; 
 the lodges thereof, the
posts thereof, and the arches thereof: and there were windows
therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits. 
 And the posts thereof
were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts
thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it
had eight steps. 
 And a chamber with the door thereof was
by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.
 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this
side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the
burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.
 And on the [one] side without, as one goeth up to the
entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the
other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two
tables. 
 Four tables were on this side, and four tables
on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon
they slew [the sacrifices]. 
 And there were four tables
for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long,
and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they
laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and
the sacrifice. 
 And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were
fastened within round about: and upon the tables was the flesh
of the oblation. 
 And without the inner gate were
chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the
side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south;
one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the
north. 
 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect
is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the
charge of the house; 
 and the chamber whose prospect is
toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge
of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the
sons of Levi come near to Jehovah to minister unto him. 
 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred
cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and
measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and
five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three
cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. 
 The
length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven
cubits; even by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there
were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that
side.
==Chapter 41==
 And he brought me to the temple, and measured the
posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on
the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 
 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of
the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits
on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty
cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. 
 Then went he
inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and
the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven
cubits. 
 And he measured the length thereof, twenty
cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and
he said unto me, This is the most holy place. 
 Then he
measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of
every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every
side. 
 And the side-chambers were in three stories, one
over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the
wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round
about, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in
the wall of the house. 
 And the side-chambers were broader
as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the
encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the
house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward;
and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by
the middle [chamber]. 
 I saw also that the house had a
raised basement round about: the foundations of the
side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 
 The
thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the
outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place
of the side-chambers that belonged to the house. 
 And
between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about
the house on every side. 
 And the doors of the
side-chambers were toward [the place] that was left, one door
toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the
breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
 And the building that was before the separate place at
the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall
of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the
length thereof ninety cubits. 
 So he measured the house,
a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building,
with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; 
 also the
breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, a hundred cubits. 
 And he measured the
length of the building before the separate place which was at
the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and
on the other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and
the porches of the court; 
 the thresholds, and the closed
windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories,
over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and
[from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were
covered), 
 to [the space] above the door, even unto the
inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within
and without, by measure. 
 And it was made with cherubim
and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub,
and every cherub had two faces; 
 so that there was the
face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face
of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side. [thus
was it] made through all the house round about: 
 from the
ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made:
thus was the wall of the temple. 
 As for the temple, the
door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary,
the appearance [thereof] was as the appearance [of the temple].
 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length
thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length
thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto
me, This is the table that is before Jehovah. 
 And the
temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 
 And the doors
had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for
the one door, and two leaves for the other. 
 And there
were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and
palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a
threshold of wood upon the face of the porch without. 
 And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and
on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the
side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
==Chapter 42==
 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way
toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was
over against the separate place, and which was over against the
building toward the north. 
 Before the length of a hundred
cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the
inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the
outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth
inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the
north. 
 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the
galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the
middlemost, in the building. 
 For they were in three
stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts:
therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest
and the middlemost from the ground. 
 And the wall that was
without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court
before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 
 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was
fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east
side, as one goeth into them from the outer court. 
 In
the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before
the separate place, and before the building, there were
chambers. 
 And the way before them was like the
appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the
north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all
their egresses were both according to their fashions, and
according to their doors. 
 And according to the doors of
the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head
of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the
east, as one entereth into them. 
 Then said he unto me,
The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the
separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests
that are near unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things: there
shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and
the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is
holy. 
 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go
out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall
lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy: and
they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that
which pertaineth to the people. 
 Now when he had made an
end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way
of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it
round about. 
 He measured on the east side with the
measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round
about. 
 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds
with the measuring reed round about. 
 He measured on the
south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 
 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed. 
 He measured it on the
four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred,
and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that
which was holy and that which was common.
==Chapter 43==
 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate
that looketh toward the east. 
 And, behold, the glory of
the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice
was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his
glory. 
 And it was according to the appearance of the
vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when
I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 
 And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the
gate whose prospect is toward the east. 
 And the Spirit
took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of Jehovah filled the house. 
 And I heard one
speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me. 
 And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my
throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will
dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the
house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they,
nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of
their kings [in] their high places; 
 in their setting of
their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my
door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and
they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they
have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies
of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of
them for ever. 
 Thou, son of man, show the house to the
house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities;
and let them measure the pattern. 
 And if they be ashamed
of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the
house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and
the entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws
thereof; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the
whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
 This is the law of the house: upon the top of the
mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy.
Behold, this is the law of the house. 
 And these are the
measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a
handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a
cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about a
span; and this shall be the base of the altar. 
 And from
the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two
cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to
the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.
 And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the
altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. 
 And
the altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad,
square in the four sides thereof. 
 And the ledge shall be
fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides
thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the
bottom thereof shall be a cubit round about; and the steps
thereof shall look toward the east. 
 And he said unto me,
Son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: These are the
ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to
offer burnt-offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
 Thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of
the seed of Zadok, who are near unto me, to minister unto me,
saith the Lord Jehovah, a young bullock for a sin-offering.
 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on
the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and
upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse it and make
atonement for it. 
 Thou shalt also take the bullock of
the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place
of the house, without the sanctuary. 
 And on the second
day thou shalt offer a he-goat without blemish for a
sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did
cleanse it with the bullock. 
 When thou hast made an end
of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without
blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 
 And
thou shalt bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests shall
cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a
burnt-offering unto Jehovah. 
 Seven days shalt thou
prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also
prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without
blemish. 
 Seven days shall they make atonement for the
altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it. 
 And
when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the
eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your
burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I
will accept you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 44==
 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate
of the sanctuary, which looketh toward the east; and it was
shut. 
 And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut;
it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it;
for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore
it shall be shut. 
 As for the prince, he shall sit therein
as prince to eat bread before Jehovah; he shall enter by the way
of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the
same. 
 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate
before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of
Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah: and I fell upon my face.
 And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say
unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of Jehovah,
and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entrance of the
house, with every egress of the sanctuary. 
 And thou shalt
say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah: O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of
all your abominations, 
 in that ye have brought in
foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh,
to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when ye
offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my
covenant, [to add] unto all your abominations. 
 And ye
have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set
keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 
 Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any
foreigners that are among the children of Israel. 
 But
the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that
went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their
iniquity. 
 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in
the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice
for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister
unto them. 
 Because they ministered unto them before
their idols, and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the
house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against
them, saith the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their
iniquity. 
 And they shall not come near unto me, to
execute the office of priest unto me, nor to come near to any of
my holy things, unto the things that are most holy; but they
shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have
committed. 
 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of
the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall
be done therein. 
 But the priests the Levites, the sons
of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children
of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to
minister unto me; and they shall stand before me to offer unto
me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord Jehovah: 
 they
shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my
table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
 And it shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of
the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and
no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates
of the inner court, and within. 
 They shall have linen
tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their
loins; they shall not gird themselves with [anything that
causeth] sweat. 
 And when they go forth into the outer
court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put
off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the
holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they
sanctify not the people with their garments. 
 Neither
shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow
long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. 
 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court. 
 Neither shall they take for their
wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take
virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is
the widow of a priest. 
 And they shall teach my people
the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them
to discern between the unclean and the clean. 
 And in a
controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine
ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and
my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my
sabbaths. 
 And they shall go in to no dead person to
defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or
for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no
husband, they may defile themselves. 
 And after he is
cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. 
 And in
the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, into the inner court,
to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering,
saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 And they shall have an
inheritance: I am their inheritance; and ye shall give them no
possession in Israel; I am their possession. 
 They shall
eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the
trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be
theirs. 
 And the first of all the first-fruits of every
thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations,
shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the
first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.
 The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of
itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
==Chapter 45==
 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto Jehovah, a holy
portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and
twenty thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand:
it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about. 
 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in
length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and
fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about. 
 And of
this measure shalt thou measure a length of five and twenty
thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the
sanctuary, which is most holy. 
 It is a holy portion of
the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the
sanctuary, that come near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall
be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.
 And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand
in breadth, shall be unto the Levites, the ministers of the
house, for a possession unto themselves, [for] twenty chambers.
 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, side by side
with the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole
house of Israel. 
 And [whatsoever is] for the prince
[shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy
oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy
oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on the west
side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length
answerable unto one of the portions, from the west border unto
the east border. 
 In the land it shall be to him for a
possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my
people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel
according to their tribes. 
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and
spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your
exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. 
 Ye
shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the
bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the
tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the
homer. 
 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty
shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
maneh. 
 This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the
sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give
the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; 
 and
the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a
bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for
ten baths are a homer;) 
 and one lamb of the flock, out
of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel; -for a
meal-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for
peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord
Jehovah. 
 All the people of the land shall give unto this
oblation for the prince in Israel. 
 And it shall be the
prince's part to give the burnt-offerings, and the
meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on
the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts
of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering, and
the meal-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the
peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the first [month], in
the first [day] of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock
without blemish; and thou shalt cleanse the sanctuary. 
 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and
put it upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four
corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the
gate of the inner court. 
 And so thou shalt do on the
seventh [day] of the month for every one that erreth, and for
him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house.
 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the
month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten. 
 And upon that day shall
the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the
land a bullock for a sin-offering. 
 And the seven days of
the feast he shall prepare a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven
bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days;
and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering. 
 And he shall
prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah
for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 
 In the seventh
[month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall
he do the like the seven days; according to the sin-offering,
according to the burnt-offering, and according to the
meal-offering, and according to the oil.
==Chapter 46==
 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner
court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day
of the new moon it shall be opened. 
 And the prince shall
enter by the way of the porch of the gate without, and shall
stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his
burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at
the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate
shall not be shut until the evening. 
 And the people of
the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Jehovah
on the sabbaths and on the new moons. 
 And the
burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto Jehovah shall be
on the sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without
blemish; 
 and the meal-offering shall be an ephah for the
ram, and the meal-offering for the lambs as he is able to give,
and a hin of oil to an ephah. 
 And on the day of the new
moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs,
and a ram; they shall be without blemish: 
 and he shall
prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah
for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a
hin of oil to an ephah. 
 And when the prince shall enter,
he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall
go forth by the way thereof. 
 But when the people of the
land shall come before Jehovah in the appointed feasts, he that
entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth
by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of
the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he
shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but
shall go forth straight before him. 
 And the prince, when
they go in, shall go in in the midst of them; and when they go
forth, they shall go forth [together]. 
 And in the feasts
and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able
to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 
 And when the
prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or
peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, one shall
open for him the gate that looketh toward the east; and he shall
prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth
on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going
forth one shall shut the gate. 
 And thou shalt prepare a
lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto
Jehovah daily: morning by morning shalt thou prepare it. 
 And thou shalt prepare a meal-offering with it morning by
morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin
of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering unto Jehovah
continually by a perpetual ordinance. 
 Thus shall they
prepare the lamb, and the meal-offering, and the oil, morning by
morning, for a continual burnt-offering. 
 Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, it
is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their
possession by inheritance. 
 But if he give of his
inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to
the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as
for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. 
 Moreover,
the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust
them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his
sons out of his own possession, that my people be not scattered
every man from his possession. 
 Then he brought me
through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the
holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north:
and, behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.
 And he said unto me, This is the place where the priests
shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, [and]
where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them
not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people. 
 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to
pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every
corner of the court there was a court. 
 In the four
corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty [cubits]
long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one
measure. 
 And there was a wall round about in them, round
about the four, and boiling-places were made under the walls
round about. 
 Then said he unto me, These are the
boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the
sacrifice of the people.
==Chapter 47==
 And he brought me back unto the door of the house;
and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the
east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side
of the house, on the south of the altar. 
 Then he brought
me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the
way without unto the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that
looketh toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on
the right side. 
 When the man went forth eastward with the
line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused
me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
 Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass
through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he
measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters],
waters that were to the loins. 
 Afterward he measured a
thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass through;
for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could
not be passed through. 
 And he said unto me, Son of man,
hast thou seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to
return to the bank of the river. 
 Now when I had returned,
behold, upon the bank of the river were very many trees on the
one side and on the other. 
 Then said he unto me, These
waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down
into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea
[shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the
waters shall be healed. 
 And it shall come to pass, that
every living creature which swarmeth, in every place whither the
rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great
multitude of fish; for these waters are come thither, and [the
waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live
whithersoever the river cometh. 
 And it shall come to
pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto
En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish
shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many. 
 But the miry places thereof, and the
marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to
salt. 
 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this
side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose
leaf shall not whither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it
shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters
thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall
be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing. 
 Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: This shall be the border, whereby ye
shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions. 
 And
ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I sware to give
it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for
inheritance. 
 And this shall be the border of the land:
On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon,
unto the entrance of Zedad; 
 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim,
which is between the border of Damascus and the border of
Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
 And the border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the
border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of
Hamath. This is the north side. 
 And the east side,
between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel,
shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border unto the east sea
shall ye measure. This is the east side. 
 And the south
side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of
Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], unto the great sea.
This is the south side southward. 
 And the west side
shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over
against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. 
 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of
Israel. 
 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide
it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that
sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they
shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel;
they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the
stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
==Chapter 48==
 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north
end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath,
Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath,
(and they shall have their sides east [and] west,) Dan, one
[portion]. 
 And by the border of Dan, from the east side
unto the west side, Asher, one [portion]. 
 And by the
border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side,
Naphtali, one [portion]. 
 And by the border of Naphtali,
from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].
 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto
the west side, Ephraim, one [portion]. 
 And by the border
of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Reuben,
one [portion]. 
 And by the border of Reuben, from the east
side unto the west side, Judah, one [portion]. 
 And by the
border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be
the oblation which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand
[reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from
the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in
the midst of it. 
 The oblation that ye shall offer unto
Jehovah shall be five and twenty thousand [reeds] in length, and
ten thousand in breadth. 
 And for these, even for the
priests, shall be the holy oblation: toward the north five and
twenty thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in
breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary
of Jehovah shall be in the midst thereof. 
 [It shall be]
for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that
have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 
 And it
shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a
thing most holy, by the border of the Levites. 
 And
answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall
have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and
the breadth ten thousand. 
 And they shall sell none of
it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits of the land be
alienated; for it is holy unto Jehovah. 
 And the five
thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the five and
twenty thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for
dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst
thereof. 
 And these shall be the measures thereof: the
north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side
four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four
thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and
five hundred. 
 And the city shall have suburbs: toward
the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two
hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty,
and toward the west two hundred and fifty. 
 And the
residue in the length, answerable unto the holy oblation, shall
be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it
shall be answerable unto the holy oblation; and the increase
thereof shall be for food unto them that labor in the city.
 And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes
of Israel, shall till it. 
 All the oblation shall be five
and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer
the holy oblation four-square, with the possession of the city.
 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side
and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of
the city; in front of the five and twenty thousand of the
oblation toward the east border, and westward in front of the
five and twenty thousand toward the west border, answerable unto
the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
 Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from
the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is
the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of
Benjamin, it shall be for the prince. 
 And as for the
rest of the tribes: from the east side unto the west side,
Benjamin, one [portion]. 
 And by the border of Benjamin,
from the east side unto the west side, Simeon, one [portion].
 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the
west side, Issachar, one [portion]. 
 And by the border of
Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun, one
[portion]. 
 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east
side unto the west side, Gad, one [portion]. 
 And by the
border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be
even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook
[of Egypt], unto the great sea. 
 This is the land which
ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for
inheritance, and these are their several portions, saith the
Lord Jehovah. 
 And these are the egresses of the city: On
the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by
measure; 
 and the gates of the city shall be after the
names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate
of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred
[reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate
of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. 
 And at the south
side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and
three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one;
the gate of Zebulun, one. 
 At the west side four thousand
and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of
Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about: and
the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.