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Ezekiel
(May the Blessings of JEHOVAH and My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be upon the Reading
and Studying of His Word. May the Holy Spirit Guide You and Me in Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding of YHVH'S Word. The
name of the LORD & God; as written in the King James Bible, is JEHOVAH. See Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18 & Isaiah 12:2 {KJV})
Chapter 1
1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the
month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2.
In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 3. The word of the LORD came expressly
unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there
upon him. {Click Here For More Verses Relating To "The Word Of The LORD"}
4. And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding
itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5. Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the
likeness of a man. 6. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7. And their feet [were] straight feet;
and the sole of their feet [was] like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
8. And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
9. Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 10. As
for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. 11. Thus [were] their faces: and their wings
[were] stretched upward; two [wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
12. And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they
went. 13. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, [and] like the appearance
of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
14. And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 15. Now as I beheld the living creatures,
behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16. The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness:
and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17. When they went, they went upon
their four sides: [and] they turned not when they went. 18. As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
and their rings [were] full of eyes round about them four. 19. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither [was their] spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over
against them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels. 21. When those went, [these] went; and when those
stood, [these] stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit
of the living creature [was] in the wheels. 22. And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was]
as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
23. And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on
this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. 24. And when they went, I heard the noise of their
wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they
stood, they let down their wings. 25. And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over their heads, when they stood,
[and] had let down their wings.
26. And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire
stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27. And I saw as the
colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the
appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28. As
the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about.
This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard
a voice of one that spake. Chapter 2
1. And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto
thee. 2. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake
unto me. 3. And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation
that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, [even] unto this very day. 4. For [they
are] impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
5. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they [are] a rebellious house,) yet shall know that
there hath been a prophet among them.
6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [be] with thee,
and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious
house. 7. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they [are] most
rebellious. 8. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy
mouth, and eat that I give thee . 9. And when I looked, behold, an hand [was] sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book
[was] therein; 10. And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written therein lamentations,
and mourning, and woe.
Chapter 3
1. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll,
and go speak unto the house of Israel. 2. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. 3. And he said unto
me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then
did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 4. And he said unto me, Son of man,
go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 5. For thou art not sent to a people of
a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6. Not to many people of a strange speech and
of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto
thee.
7. But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are
impudent and hardhearted. 8. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their
foreheads. 9. As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house . 10. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words
that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. 11. And go, get thee to them of the captivity,
unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear.
12. Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed
be the glory of the LORD from his place. 13. I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures
that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. 14. So the spirit
lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon
me. 15. Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and
remained there astonished among them seven days.
16. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17.
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning
from me. 18. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the
wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at thine hand. 19. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and
I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21. Nevertheless if
thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is
warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. 22. And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
23. Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw
by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. 24. Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with
me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. 25. But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall
put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: 26. And I will make thy tongue cleave
to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious
house. 27. But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that
heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
Chapter 4
1. Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray
upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against
it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3. Moreover take thou unto thee
an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4. Lie thou also upon
thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou
shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5. For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the
number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. 7. Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8. And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee,
and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9. Take thou also unto
thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread
thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt
thou eat thereof. 10. And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time
shalt thou eat it. 11. Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight .
13. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them. 14. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted:
for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth. 15. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 16. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink
water by measure, and with astonishment: 17. That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume
away for their iniquity.
Chapter 5
1. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor,
and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2. Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt
take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw
out a sword after them. 3. Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. 4. Then take of them
again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into
all the house of Israel.
5. Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations
and countries that are round about her. 6. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations,
and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes,
they have not walked in them. 7. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither
have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of
thee in the sight of the nations.
9. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine
abominations. 10. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and
I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. 11. Wherefore, as
I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable
things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither
will I have any pity. 12. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the
midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds,
and I will draw out a sword after them.
13. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they
shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. 14. Moreover I will
make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. 15.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee,
when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. 16.
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I
will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: 17. So will I send
upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will
bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it .
Chapter 6
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, set thy face
toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3. And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the
word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys;
Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4. And your altars shall be
desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5. And I will lay
the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6.
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be
laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may
be abolished.
7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 8. Yet will I leave a remnant,
that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
9. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken
with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they
shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10. And they shall know that I am
the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them .
11. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot,
and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by
the pestilence. 12. He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that
remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13. Then shall ye know that I
am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill,
in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet
savour to all their idols. 14. So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than
the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Chapter 7
1. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Also, thou son of
man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3. Now is
the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense
thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 5.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6. An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7. The morning is come unto thee, O thou
that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to
thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. 9. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity:
I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD that smiteth.
10. Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11. Violence
is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither
shall there be wailing for them. 12. The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller
mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13. For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although
they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither
shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14. They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath
is upon all the multitude thereof. 15. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he
that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour
him. 16. But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning,
every one for his iniquity. 17. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18. They shall also
gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness
upon all their heads.
19. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and
their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither
fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 20. As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in
majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I
set it far from them. 21. And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for
a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22. My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place:
for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23. Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 24. Wherefore I will bring the
worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy
places shall be defiled. 25. Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26. Mischief
shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall
perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. 27. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts
will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Chapter 8
1. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day
of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there
upon me. 2. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire;
and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. 3. And he put forth the form of an
hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in
the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat
of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
5. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted
up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations
that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations. 7. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole
in the wall. 8. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in
the wall, behold a door. 9. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do
here.
10. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house
of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. 11. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house
of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick
cloud of incense went up. 12. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the
house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD
seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. 13. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,
and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the
LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16. And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and,
behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with
their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17.
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of
Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned
to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall
not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Chapter 9
1. He cried also in mine ears with a loud
voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with
his destroying weapon in his hand. {Click Here For More Veres Relating To "Cried With A Loud Voice"} 2. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man
a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a
writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. {Daniel 10:5 {KJV} {Revelation 15:6 {KJV} 3. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house.
And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
4. And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and
set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
{Genesis 4:15 {KJV} {Job 10:14 {KJV} {Revelation 14:9 {KJV} 5. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let
not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6. Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women:
but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which
were before the house. {Revelation 9:4 {KJV}
7. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.
And they went forth, and slew in the city. 8. And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell
upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring
out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? 9. Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say,
The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. 10. And as for me
also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
11. And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. Chapter 10
1. Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there
appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2. And he spake unto the man
clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of
fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3. Now the cherubims
stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4. Then the glory of the
LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud,
and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.
5. And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice
of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 6. And it came to pass, that when he had commanded
the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood
beside the wheels. 7. And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims
unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him
that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out. 8. And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a
man's hand under their wings.
9. And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another
wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10. And as for
their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11. When they went, they went
upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned
not as they went. 12. And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were
full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. 13. As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my
hearing, O wheel.
14. And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the
face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15. And the cherubims were lifted up.
This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16. And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by
them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside
them. 17. When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also:
for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 18. Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold
of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
19. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels
also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory
of the God of Israel was over them above. 20. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims. 21. Every one had four faces apiece, and every one
four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22. And the likeness of their faces was
the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Chapter 11
1. Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which
looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and
Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2. Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are
the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3. Which say, It is
not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
4. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5. And the
Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said,
O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
6. Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this
city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8. Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring
a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9. And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of
strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10. Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 11. This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh
in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12. And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed
my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. 13. And it came to
pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice,
and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14. Again the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, 15. Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
16. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although
I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them
as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. 17. Therefore say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries
where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18. And they shall come thither, and they shall take
away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19. And I will give them one heart, and
I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20. That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God. 21. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things
and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
22. Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above. 23. And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is
on the east side of the city. 24. Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went
up from me. 25. Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
Chapter 12
1. The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, thou dwellest
in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are
a rebellious house. 3. Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and
thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a
rebellious house. 4. Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go
forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. 5. Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry
out thereby.
6. In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it
forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto
the house of Israel. 7. And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and
in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it
upon my shoulder in their sight. 8. And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 9.
Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
10. Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth
the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them. 11. Say, I am
your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
12. And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight,
and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground
with his eyes. 13. My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to
Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 14. And I will scatter
toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
15. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the
countries. 16. But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may
declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
17. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18. Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and
drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; 19. And say unto the people of the land, Thus
saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall
eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is
therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20. And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste,
and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 21. And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, 22. Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel,
saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
23. Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at
hand, and the effect of every vision. 24. For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the
house of Israel. 25. For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall
be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith
the Lord GOD. 26. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 27. Son of man, behold, they
of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come,
and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28. Therefore say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more,
but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
Chapter 13
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, prophesy against
the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear
ye the word of the LORD; 3. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and
have seen nothing! 4. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither
made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6. They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others
to hope that they would confirm the word.
7. Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD
saith it; albeit I have not spoken? 8. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
9. And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel;
and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 10. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
11. Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12. Lo, when the wall is fallen,
shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an
overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14. So will I break down
the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof
shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am
the LORD.
15. Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and
will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; 16. To wit, the prophets of
Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD. 17. Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people,
which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, 18. And say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature
to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
19. And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should
not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20. Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there
hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the
souls that ye hunt to make them fly. 21. Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand,
and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 22. Because with lies
ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should
not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: 23. Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations:
for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
Chapter 14
1. Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 2. And the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying, 3. Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? 4. Therefore speak unto them,
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD
will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; 5. That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
7. For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth
himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 8. And I will set my face against
that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that
I am the LORD. 9. And if the prophet be deceived when he hath
spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from
the midst of my people Israel.
10. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment
of him that seeketh unto him; 11. That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any
more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the
Lord GOD. 12. The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13. Son of man, when the land
sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread
thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
14. Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
saith the Lord GOD.
15. If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass
through because of the beasts: 16. Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith
the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
17. Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from
it: 18. Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they
shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19. Or if I send a pestilence
into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20. Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as
I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but
deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21. For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more
when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to
cut off from it man and beast? 22. Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both
sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23. And
they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all
that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
Chapter 15
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, What is the
vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3. Shall wood be taken thereof
to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4. Behold, it is cast into the fire for
fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? 5. Behold,
when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured
it, and it is burned? 6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of
the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7. And I will set my face
against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that
I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. 8. And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Chapter 17
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, put forth
a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A
great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest
branch of the cedar: 4. He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a
city of merchants. 5. He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great
waters, and set it as a willow tree. 6. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7. There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward
him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. 8. It was planted in
a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9. Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof,
and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or
many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. 10. Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly
wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew . 11. Moreover the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
12. Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean?
tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof,
and led them with him to Babylon; 13. And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath
of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: 14. That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but
that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. 15. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that
they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he
break the covenant, and be delivered?
16. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth
that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he
shall die. 17. Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up
mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: 18. Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he
had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. 19. Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even
it will I recompense upon his own head. 20. And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will
bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21. And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all
winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it. 22. Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young
twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 23. In the mountain of the height of Israel
will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl
of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 24. And all the trees of the field shall know that
I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry
tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Chapter 19
1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2. And say,
What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young
lions. 3. And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4. The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5. Now
when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him
a young lion. 6. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and
devoured men.
7. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof,
by the noise of his roaring. 8. Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over
him: he was taken in their pit. 9. And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought
him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. 10. Thy mother is like a vine
in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11. And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches,
and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12. But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to
the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13. And
now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14. And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is
a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation .
Chapter 24
1. Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this
same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. 3. And utter a parable unto the rebellious house,
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water
into it: 4. Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it
with the choice bones. 5. Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well,
and let them seethe the bones of it therein. 6. Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no
lot fall upon it.
7. For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover
it with dust; 8. That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that
it should not be covered. 9. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will
even make the pile for fire great. 10. Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones
be burned. 11. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that
the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. 12. She hath wearied herself
with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13. In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged
from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. 14. I the LORD have spoken it: it shall
come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy
ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. 15.
Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 16. Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes
with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17. Forbear to cry, make no mourning
for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips,
and eat not the bread of men .
18. So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. 19.
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest
so? 20. Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21. Speak unto
the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency
of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have
left shall fall by the sword. 22. And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your
lips, nor eat the bread of men.
23. And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye
shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. 24. Thus Ezekiel is unto you
a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
25. Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their
glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, 26. That
he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 27.
In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be
a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Chapter 25
1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, set thy
face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 3. And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of
the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when
it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity; 4. Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces
in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5. And I will make Rabbah
a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 6.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced
in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
7. Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will
cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know
that I am the LORD. 8. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 9. Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities,
from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, 10.
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among
the nations. 11. And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 12.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly
offended, and revenged himself upon them;
13. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand
upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by
the sword. 14. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according
to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. 15. Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart,
to destroy it for the old hatred; 16. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 17.
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Chapter 26
1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,
Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be
replenished, now she is laid waste: 3. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4. And
they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like
the top of a rock. 5. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am
the LORD. 7. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
8. He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against
thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. 9. And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall
break down thy towers. 10. By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at
the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a
city wherein is made a breach.
11. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12. And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise:
and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy
dust in the midst of the water. 13. And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be
no more heard. 14. And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt
be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
15. Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry,
when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16. Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and
lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon
the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17. And they shall take up a lamentation
for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which
wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
18. Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at
thy departure. 19. For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the
cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 20. When I shall
bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in
the land of the living; 21. I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought
for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
Chapter 28 - Satan Is Described & Identified
1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, say unto
the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou
hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet
thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3. Behold, thou art wiser
than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4. With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten
thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5. By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast
thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart
as the heart of God; 7. Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw
their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8. They shall bring thee down to the
pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9. Wilt thou yet say before him
that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand
of him that slayeth thee. 10. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD. 11. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12. Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty. 13. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering,
the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and
gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14. Thou
art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;
thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that
thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16. By the multitude of thy merchandise they
have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain
of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17. Thine heart was lifted up because
of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee
before kings, that they may behold thee. 18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the
iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring
thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished
at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. 20. Again the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, 21. Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22. And say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in
the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall
be sanctified in her. 23. For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged
in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
24. And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that
are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 25. Thus
saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant
Jacob. 26. And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence,
when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD their God .
Chapter 29
1. In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3. Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said,
My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4. But I will put hooks
in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of
thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
5. And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon
the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and
to the fowls of the heaven. 6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have
been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their
shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. 8.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath
said, The river is mine, and I have made it. 10. Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against
thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border
of Ethiopia. 11. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited
forty years. 12. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and
her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among
the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
13. Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from
the people whither they were scattered: 14. And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return
into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. 15. It shall
be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they
shall no more rule over the nations. 16. And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their
iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD . 17.
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month,
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18. Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus:
every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for
the service that he had served against it: 19. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take
her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith
he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. 21. In that day will I cause
the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
Chapter 30
1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, prophesy
and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! 3. For the day is near,
even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4. And the sword shall come
upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude,
and her foundations shall be broken down. 5. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the
men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6. Thus saith the LORD; They
also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in
it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
7. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the
midst of the cities that are wasted. 8. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in
Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 9. In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to
make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. 10. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon. 11. He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they
shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
12. And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and
all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. 13. Thus saith the
Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall
be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14. And I will make Pathros desolate,
and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. 15. And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt;
and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16. And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent
asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 17. The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword:
and these cities shall go into captivity.
18. At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength
shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19. Thus will I execute
judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD . 20. And it came to pass in the eleventh year,
in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21. Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be
healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause
the sword to fall out of his hand.
23. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24. And I will strengthen
the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before
him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. 25. But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the
arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD .
Chapter 31
1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day
of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in
Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4.
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little
rivers unto all the trees of the field. 5. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs
were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring
forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. 7. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his
branches: for his root was by great waters. 8. The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not
like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in
his beauty. 9. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in
the garden of God, envied him. 10. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted
up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11. I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have
driven him out for his wickedness. 12. And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon
the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and
all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13. Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the
heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14. To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among
the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death,
to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him,
and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
trees of the field fainted for him.
16. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the
pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts
of the earth. 17. They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that
were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 18. To whom art thou thus like in glory
and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the
earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh
and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD .
Chapter 35
1. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, set thy
face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3. And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most
desolate. 4. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 5.
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword
in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: 6. Therefore, as I live,
saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast
not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. 8. And I
will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall
that are slain with the sword. 9. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD. 10. Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will
possess it; whereas the LORD was there: 11. Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD,
I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them;
and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12. And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast
spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. 13. Thus with your mouth
ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. 14.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. 15. As thou didst rejoice at the
inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,
and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD .
Chapter 37
1. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they
were very dry. 3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and
say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these
bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6. And I will lay sinews
upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
7. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came
together, bone to his bone. 8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them
above: but there was no breath in them. 9. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy,
son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from
the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10. So I prophesied as he commanded me,
and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11. Then he said unto
me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our
bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you
into the land of Israel. 13. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and
brought you up out of your graves, 14. And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own
land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. 15. The
word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 16. Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and
write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph,
the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17. And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18. And when the children of
thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19. Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will
put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20.
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every
side, and bring them into their own land:
22. And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and
they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23. Neither shall they
defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I
will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people,
and I will be their God. 24. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd:
they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they
shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David
shall be their prince for ever. 26. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting
covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28. And the heathen shall
know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore .
Chapter 38
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, set thy face
against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3. And say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 4. And I will
turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of
them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords: 5. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6. Gomer, and all his bands; the house
of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard
unto them. 8. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought
back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always
waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. 9. Thou shalt ascend and come
like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 10.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind,
and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11. And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely,
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12. To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations,
which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. 13. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered
thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? 14.
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my
people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army: 16. And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the
land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be
sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 17. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he
of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years
that I would bring thee against them? 18. And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land
of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. 19. For in my jealousy
and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20. So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that
creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21. And I will call for a
sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against
his brother. 22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands,
and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23. Thus
will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am
the LORD .
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1. Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2. And I will
turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring
thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out
of thy right hand. 4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is
with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am
the LORD. 7. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute
my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8. Behold, it is come,
and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9. And they
that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers,
the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10. So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall
burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord GOD. 11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves
in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and
there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. 12. And seven months
shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be
glorified, saith the Lord GOD. 14. And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury
with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they
search. 15. And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set
up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. 16. And also the name of the city shall be
Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17. And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every
beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for
you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18. Ye shall eat
the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all
of them fatlings of Bashan. 19. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice
which I have sacrificed for you. 20. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with
all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21. And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand
that I have laid upon them. 22. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and
forward. 23. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed
against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have
mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26. After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they
dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 27. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; 28. Then shall they know that I
am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto
their own land, and have left none of them any more there. 29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
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1. Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side,
and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2. And the breadth of the door was
ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he
measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3. Then went he inward, and measured the post of
the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4. So he measured the length thereof,
twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
5. After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round
about the house on every side. 6. And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they
entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they
had not hold in the wall of the house. 7. And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side
chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was
still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
8. I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six
great cubits. 9. The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and
that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within. 10. And between
the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11. And the doors of the side
chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:
and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. 12. Now the building that was before
the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was
five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
13. So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof,
an hundred cubits long; 14. Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred
cubits. 15. And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the
galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the
court; 16. The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the
door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
17. To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without,
by measure. 18. And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub
and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19. So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on
the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house
round about. 20. From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall
of the temple. 21. The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of
the one as the appearance of the other.
22. The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is
before the LORD. 23. And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24. And the doors had two leaves apiece, two
turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25. And there were
made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there
were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. 26. And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the
one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
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1. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into
the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
2. Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3. Over
against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was
for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4. And before the chambers was
a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
5. Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the
middlemost of the building. 6. For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the
courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7. And the
wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length
thereof was fifty cubits. 8. For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty
cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9. And from under these chambers was the entry
on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
10. The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place,
and over against the building. 11. And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were
toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to
their fashions, and according to their doors. 12. And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the
south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth
into them.
13. Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place,
they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall
they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is
holy. 14. When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but
there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and
shall approach to those things which are for the people.
15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is
toward the east, and measured it round about. 16. He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed round about. 17. He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
18. He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19. He turned about to the west side, and
measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20. He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five
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1. Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: 2.
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many
waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3. And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4. And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the
gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by
me.
7. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet,
where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile,
neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8. In
their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have
even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 9.
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them
for ever. 10. Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let
them measure the pattern.
11. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the
goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms
thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all
the ordinances thereof, and do them . 12. This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole
limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. 13. And these are
the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be
a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this
shall be the higher place of the altar.
14. And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the
breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth
one cubit. 15. So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
16. And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. 17. And
the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border
about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look
toward the east. 18. And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the
ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19. And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto
me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20. And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it
on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and
purge it. 21. Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house,
without the sanctuary. 22. And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and
they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
23. When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out
of the flock without blemish. 24. And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and
they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 25. Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for
a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26. Seven days shall
they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. 27. And when these days are expired, it shall be,
that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and
your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
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1. Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall
offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand
reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round
about. 2. Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth,
square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. 3. And of this measure shalt thou measure the length
of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy
place.
4. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near
to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. 5. And the five
and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for
themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. 6. And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad,
and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house
of Israel.
7. And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion,
and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city,
from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions,
from the west border unto the east border. 8. In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more
oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute
judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
10. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,
that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall
be after the homer. 12. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels,
shall be your maneh. 13. This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat,
and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: 14. Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil,
ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are
an homer:
15. And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for
a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
16. All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. 17. And it shall be the prince's part to
give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths,
in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering,
and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
18. Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month,
thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: 19. And the priest shall take of the blood of
the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and
upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20. And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one
that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. 21. In the first month, in the
fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a
sin offering. 23. And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams
without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 24. And he shall prepare a
meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. 25. In the seventh month,
in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according
to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil .
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1. Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner
court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day
of the new moon it shall be opened. 2. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and
shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall
worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3. Likewise
the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons. 4. And
the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish,
and a ram without blemish.
5. And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs
as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 6. And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young
bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. 7. And he shall prepare a meat offering,
an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil
to an ephah. 8. And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall
go forth by the way thereof.
9. But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the
north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go
forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
against it. 10. And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
11. And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and
to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
12. Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one
shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 13. Thou
shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare
it every morning. 14. And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third
part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
15. Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering .
16. Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons,
the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance. 17. But if he give a gift
of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince:
but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. 18. Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression,
to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my
people be not scattered every man from his possession. 19. After he brought me through the entry, which was
at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was
a place on the two sides westward.
20. Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering
and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court,
to sanctify the people. 21. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners
of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22. In the four corners of the court there
were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. 23.
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with
boiling places under the rows round about. 24. Then said he unto me, These are the places of
them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
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1. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from
under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came
down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. 2. Then brought he me out of the
way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold,
there ran out waters on the right side. 3. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured
a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. 4. Again he measured a thousand,
and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through;
the waters were to the loins.
5. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. 6. And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou
seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 7. Now when I had returned,
behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8. Then said he unto me,
These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which
being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 9. And it shall come to pass, that every thing
that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish,
because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall
be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding
many. 11. But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. 12. And by
the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,
neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters
they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. 13. Thus saith
the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to
the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14. And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto
your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. 15. And this shall be the border of the land toward
the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 16. Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is
between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17. And
the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And
this is the north side. 18. And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and
from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19. And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the
great sea. And this is the south side southward. 20. The west side also shall be the great sea from the
border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. 21. So shall ye divide this land unto you according
to the tribes of Israel. 22. And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you,
and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the
country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23. And it shall come
to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
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