Restored King James Version Book of Ezekiel
Based on the Authorised Version (King James) with the words "God" and "LORD"
restored to their original words, and various words
(thee, thine, shouldest, crieth, didst, etc) and
constructions (them that, etc) modernized.
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 Elohim.
2 In the
fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's
captivity,
3 The word of YHWH came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the
hand of YHWH was there upon him.
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: where 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 a 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 YHWH. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and
I heard a voice of one who spoke.
1 And he said unto me, Son of man,
stand upon your feet, and I will speak unto you.
2 And the spirit entered
into me when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him who
spoke unto me.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send you to the
children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has 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 you unto them;
and you shall say unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH.
5 And they, whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious
house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
6 And
you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,
though briers and thorns be with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: be
not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a
rebellious house.
7 And you shall speak my words unto them, whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
8 But
you, son of man, hear what I say unto you; Be not you rebellious like that
rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that I give you.
9 And when I
looked, behold, a 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.
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that you find; 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 your
belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll that I give you. 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 you unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words
unto them.
5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange
speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely,
had I sent you to them, they would have hearkened unto you.
7 But the
house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto me:
for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have
made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against
their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your 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 you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
11 And go,
get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of your people, and speak
unto them, and tell them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 YHWH 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 YHWH
was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, who
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 YHWH came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have
made you 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, You
shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the
wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in
his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
19 Yet if you
warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
20 Again,
When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because you have not
given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he
has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not,
and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you
have delivered your soul.
22 And the hand of YHWH was there upon me; and
he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with
you.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory
of YHWH 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 spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut yourself within your
house.
25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon you,
and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
26 And
I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be
dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say
unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; He who hears, let him hear; and he who
neglects, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
1 You also,
son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray 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 you unto you an
iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your
face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against
it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie you also upon your
left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to
the number of the days that you shall lie upon it you shall bear their
iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity, according
to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when you have accomplished them,
lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.
7 Therefore
you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be
uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay
bands upon you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till
you have ended the days of your siege.
9 Take you also unto you wheat, and
barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one
vessel, and make you bread thereof, according to the number of the days that
you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days shall you eat
thereof.
10 And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
11 You shall drink also
water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you
drink.
12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with
dung that comes out of man, in their sight.
13 And YHWH said, Even thus
shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
where I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Adonai YHWiH! behold, my soul has
not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that
which dies 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 you cow's
dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your 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.
1 And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a
barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard: then
take you balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 You shall burn with
fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are
fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife:
and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword
after them.
3 You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in
your 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; This is Jerusalem: I have
set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6 And she has 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you 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 said the Adonai YHWiH;
Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in the midst of
you in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in you that which I have
not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your
abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in
you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.
11 Wherefore, as I live, said the Adonai YHWiH; Surely, because you have
defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your
abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye
spare, neither will I have any pity.
12 A third part of you shall die with
the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you:
and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter
a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest
upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I YHWH have
spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
14 Moreover
I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about
you, 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 you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in
furious rebukes. I YHWH 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 you; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I YHWH have spoken it.
1 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your
face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
3 And say,
You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Adonai YHWiH; Thus said the Adonai YHWiH
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 you shall know that I am YHWH.
8 Yet
will I leave a remnant, that you may have some who shall escape the sword
among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And
they who escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall
be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which has
departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols:
and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in
all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I am YHWH, and that
I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
11 Thus said
the Adonai YHWiH; Smite with your hand, and stamp with your 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 who is far off shall
die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he
who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish
my fury upon them.
13 Then shall you know that I am YHWH, 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, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their
habitations: and they shall know that I am YHWH.
1 Moreover the word
of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus said the
Adonai YHWiH 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 you, and I will send my
anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will
recompense upon you all your abominations.
4 And my eye shall not spare
you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and
your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am
YHWH.
5 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watches for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto you, O you who dwell 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 you, and accomplish
my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will
recompense you for all your abominations.
9 And my eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and
your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am
YHWH who smites.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is
gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has 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 draws 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 goes 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 who is in the field
shall die with the sword; and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence
shall devour him.
16 But they who 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 YHWH: 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 comes; 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 YHWH.
1 And it came to pass in the
sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in
my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Adonai
YHWiH 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 a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;
and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me
in the visions of Elohim to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks
toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes
to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the Elohim 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 your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my
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, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of
Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn
you yet again, and you shall 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
dug 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, portrayed 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, have you seen what the ancients of the house of Israel
do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, YHWH sees us not; YHWH has forsaken the earth.
13 He said also unto
me, Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of YHWH's house which was
toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then
said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you yet again, and
you shall see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into
the inner court of YHWH's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of
YHWH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men,
with their backs toward the temple of YHWH, and their faces toward the
east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
17 Then he said unto me,
Have you 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:
my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in
my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
1 He cried also in
my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who have charge over the city
to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And,
behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lies 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 brazen altar.
3 And the glory of the Elohim 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, who had the writer's inkhorn by his
side;
4 And YHWH 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
who sigh and who cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst
thereof.
5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have you 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 who were before the house.
7 And he
said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you
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 Adonai YHWiH! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in
your pouring out of your 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, YHWH has
forsaken the earth, and YHWH sees not.
10 And as for me also, my eye
shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way
upon their head.
11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, who had the
inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have
commanded me.
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 spoke unto
the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the
cherub, and fill your 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 YHWH 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 YHWH's glory.
5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court,
as the voice of the Almighty El when he speaks.
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 who 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 where 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 YHWH 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 YHWH's house; and the
glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.
20 This is the living
creature that I saw under the Elohim 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.
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto
the east gate of YHWH's house, which looks 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 who devise mischief, and give wicked
counsel in this city:
3 who 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 YHWH fell upon me, and said
unto me, Speak; Thus said YHWH; Thus have you said, O house of Israel: for
I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
6 You have
multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof
with the slain.
7 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Your slain whom you 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 You have feared the sword;
and I will bring a sword upon you, said the Adonai YHWiH.
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 You shall fall by the sword; I will
judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am YHWH.
11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the
midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And you shall
know that I am YHWH: for you 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 Adonai YHWiH! will you make a full end of the remnant of
Israel?
14 Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man,
your brethren, even your brethren, the men of your kindred, and all the house of
Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get
you far from YHWH: unto us is this land given in possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; I will even gather you from
the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you 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 a heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in
my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their Elohim.
21 But as for them whose heart walks
after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will
recompense their way upon their own heads, said the Adonai YHWiH.
22 Then did
the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory
of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.
23 And the glory of YHWH 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 Elohim into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So
the vision that I had seen went up from me.
25 Then I spoke unto them of the
captivity all the things that YHWH had showed me.
1 The word of YHWH also came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of
a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to
hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
3 Therefore, you son
of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and
you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be
they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
4 Then shall you
bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and you
shall go forth at even in their sight, as they who go forth into captivity.
5 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In
their sight shall you bear it upon your shoulders, and carry it forth in the
twilight: you shall cover your face, that you see not the ground: for I have
set you 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 dug through the wall with my 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 YHWH unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, has not
the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto you, What do you?
10 Say you unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; This burden concerns the
prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who 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 who 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 who 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 YHWH, 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 where they come; and they shall know that I
am YHWH.
17 Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
18 Son
of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and
with carefulness;
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus said the
Adonai YHWiH 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 those who dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are
inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall
know that I am YHWH.
21 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel,
saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
23 Tell them
therefore, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 YHWH: 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, said the Adonai YHWiH.
26 Again the
word of YHWH came to me, saying,
27 Son of man, behold, they of the
house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he
prophesies of the times that are far off.
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but
the word which I have spoken shall be done, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 And the
word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say you unto those who prophesy out of
their own hearts, Hear you the word of YHWH;
3 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH;
Woe unto the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing!
4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 You
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 YHWH.
6 They have seen
vanity and lying divination, saying, YHWH said: and YHWH has not
sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
7 Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination,
whereas you say, YHWH said it; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore
thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you have spoken vanity, and seen lies,
therefore, behold, I am against you, said the Adonai YHWiH.
9 And my hand
shall be upon the prophets who see vanity, and who 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 you shall know that I am the Adonai YHWiH.
10 Because, even because
they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one
built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar:
11 Say
unto those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there
shall be an overflowing shower; and you, 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 you have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I will even rend it with a stormy wind
in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great
hailstones in my fury to consume it.
14 So will I break down the wall that
you have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so
that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and you
shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am YHWH.
15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have
daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say unto you, The wall is no more,
neither they who daubed it;
16 To wit, the prophets of Israel who
prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and
there is no peace, said the Adonai YHWiH.
17 Likewise, you son of man, set your
face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own
heart; and prophesy you against them,
18 And say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH;
Woe to the women who sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the
head of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and
will you save the souls alive who come unto you?
19 And will you pollute me
among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the
souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live,
by your lying to my people who hear your lies?
20 Wherefore thus said the
Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith you 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 you 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 you shall know that I am YHWH.
22 Because
with lies you 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 you shall see no more
vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand:
and you shall know that I am YHWH.
1 Then came certain of the elders
of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of YHWH 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
inquired of at all by them?
4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them,
Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his
idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his
face, and comes to the prophet; I YHWH will answer him who comes
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 said the Adonai
YHWiH; 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 who sojourns in Israel, who separates himself from me, and
sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning
me; I YHWH 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 you shall know that I am YHWH.
9 And if the
prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I YHWH 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 who seeks 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 Elohim, said the Adonai YHWiH.
12 The word of YHWH came again to me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the
land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out
my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will
send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
14 Though these
three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their
own souls by their righteousness, said the Adonai YHWiH.
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, said the Adonai YHWiH, 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, said the Adonai YHWiH, 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, said the Adonai YHWiH, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they
shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus said
the Adonai YHWiH; 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 you shall see their way and their doings: and you 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 you see their ways and their doings: and you shall know that I have not
done without cause all that I have done in it, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 And
the word of YHWH 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 devours 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 has
devoured it, and it is burned?
6 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 you shall know that I am YHWH, when I set my face against them.
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3 And say, Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH unto Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity is of the land
of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a hittite.
4 And as
for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither
were you washed in water to supple you; you were not salted at all, nor
swaddled at all.
5 None eye pitied you, to do any of these unto you, to
have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the
loathing of your person, in the day that you were born.
6 And when I passed
by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said unto you when you were in your blood,
Live.
7 I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you
have increased and waxen great, and you are come to excellent ornaments: your
breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you were naked and
bare.
8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time
was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your
nakedness: yes, I swore unto you, and entered into a covenant with you,
said the Adonai YHWiH, and you became my.
9 Then washed I you with water;
yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with
oil.
10 I clothed you also with broidered work, and shod you with badgers'
skin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands,
and a chain on your neck.
12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings
in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
13 Thus were you
decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and
broidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were
exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.
14 And your
renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for it was perfect through
my comeliness, which I had put upon you, said the Adonai YHWiH.
15 But you
did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your
renown, and poured out your fornications on every one who passed by; his it
was.
16 And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places
with divers colours, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall
not come, neither shall it be so.
17 You have also taken your fair jewels of
my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images
of men, and did commit whoredom with them,
18 And took your broidered
garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense
before them.
19 My food also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, said the Adonai YHWiH.
20 Moreover you have taken your
sons and your daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have you
sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter,
21 That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to
pass through the fire for them?
22 And in all your abominations and your
whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked
and bare, and was polluted in your blood.
23 And it came to pass after all
your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! said the Adonai YHWiH;)
24 That you have
also built unto you an eminent place, and have made you a high place in
every street.
25 You have built your high place at every head of the way,
and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one
that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
26 You have also committed
fornication with the Egyptians your neighbours, great of flesh; and have
increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
27 Behold, therefore I have
stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and
delivered you unto the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the
Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
28 You have played the
whore also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yes, you have
played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.
29 You have
moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and
yet you were not satisfied herewith.
30 How weak is your heart, said the
Adonai YHWiH, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish
woman;
31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every
way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, in that you scorn hire;
32 But as a wife who commits
adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
33 They give gifts
to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hires them,
that they may come unto you on every side for your whoredom.
34 And the
contrary is in you from other women in your whoredoms, whereas none follows
you to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is
given unto you, therefore you are contrary.
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear
the word of YHWH:
36 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because your filthiness was
poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your whoredoms with your
lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your
children, which you did give unto them;
37 Behold, therefore I will
gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom
you have loved, with all those whom you have hated; I will even gather them
round about against you, and will discover your nakedness unto them, that they
may see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you, as women who break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and
jealousy.
39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw
down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places: they shall
strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you
naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they
shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon
you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing
the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more.
42 So will I make my
fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will
be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because you have not remembered the
days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore
I also will recompense your way upon your head, said the Adonai YHWiH: and you
shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.
44 Behold,
every one who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As
is the mother, so is her daughter.
45 You are your mother's daughter, who
loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters,
who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a hittite,
and your father an Amorite.
46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and
her daughters who dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, who
dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
47 Yet have you not
walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that
were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
48 As I live, said the Adonai YHWiH, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor
her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
49 Behold, this
was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance
of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the
hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
51 Neither
has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your
abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your
abominations which you have done.
52 You also, who have judged your
sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more
abominable than they: they are more righteous than you: yes, be you
confounded also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring
again the captivity of your captives in the midst of them:
54 That you
may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have
done, in that you are a comfort unto them.
55 When your sisters, Sodom and
her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her
daughters shall return to their former estate, then you and your daughters
shall return to your former estate.
56 For your sister Sodom was not
mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
57 Before your wickedness was
discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all
that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you
round about.
58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, said
YHWH.
59 For thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I will even deal with you as you
have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your
youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant.
61 Then you
shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters,
your elder and your younger: and I will give them unto you for daughters, but
not by your covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you
shall know that I am YHWH:
63 That you may remember, and be
confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I am
pacified toward you for all that you have done, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 And the word of YHWH 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 traffic; 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 you, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly
wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the furrows where
it grew.
11 Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
12 Say now
to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? tell them,
Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king
thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
13 And
has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an
oath of him: he has 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 who does such things? or shall he break the
covenant, and be delivered?
16 As I live, said the Adonai YHWiH, surely in the
place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and
whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
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 has done all these things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; As I live, surely my oath that he
has despised, and my covenant that he has 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 has trespassed against me.
21 And all his
fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they who remain
shall be scattered toward all winds: and you shall know that I YHWH have
spoken it.
22 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 a 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 YHWH 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 YHWH have spoken and have
done it.
1 The word of YHWH came unto me again, saying,
2 What mean
you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The
fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
3 As I live, said the Adonai YHWiH, you shall not have occasion any more to use
this proverb in Israel.
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the
father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall
die.
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6 And
has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the
idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbour's wife,
neither has come near to a menstruous woman,
7 And has not oppressed any,
but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence,
has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
8 He that has not given forth upon usury, neither has taken any increase,
that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment
between man and man,
9 Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my
judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that
does the like to any one of these things,
11 And that does not any of
those duties, but even has eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his
neighbour's wife,
12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by
violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the
idols, has committed abomination,
13 Has given forth upon usury, and has
taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
14 Now, lo,
if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins which he has done, and
considers, and does not such like,
15 That has not eaten upon the
mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of
Israel, has not defiled his neighbour's wife,
16 Neither has oppressed
any, has not withheld the pledge, neither has spoiled by violence, but
has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
17 That has taken off his hand from the poor, that has not received usury
nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes; he shall
not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18 As for his
father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did
that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his
iniquity.
19 Yet say you, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the
father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept
all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that
sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,
neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of
the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be
upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he
shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has
committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he
has done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked
should die? said the Adonai YHWiH: and not that he should return from his ways,
and live?
24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and
commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the
wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall
not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that
he has sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet you say, The way of the Adonai is
not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways
unequal?
26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and
commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done
shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness
that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall
save his soul alive.
28 Because he considers, and turns away from all
his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not
die.
29 Yet said the house of Israel, The way of the Adonai is not equal. O
house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his
ways, said the Adonai YHWiH. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you
all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new
heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
32 For I
have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, said the Adonai YHWiH: wherefore
turn yourselves, and live.
1 Moreover take you up a lamentation for
the princes of Israel,
2 And say, What is your 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 Your mother is like a vine in your 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 those who 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 has devoured her fruit, so that she has
no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for
a lamentation.
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came
to inquire of YHWH, and sat before me.
2 Then came the word of YHWH
unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, said
the Adonai YHWiH, I will not be inquired of by you.
4 Will you judge them, son
of man, will you judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their
fathers:
5 And say unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; In the day when I
chose Israel, and lifted up my hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and
made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand
unto them, saying, I am YHWH your Elohim;
6 In the day that I lifted up
my hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that
I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast you away every man the abominations of
his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am YHWH
your Elohim.
8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did
they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon
them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto
them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 Wherefore I caused
them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the
wilderness.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave them
my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am
YHWH that sanctify them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me
in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my
judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they
greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the
wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it
should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would
not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and
honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16 Because they despised my
judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their
heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from
destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But
I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of
your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with
their idols:
19 I am YHWH your Elohim; walk in my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them;
20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign
between me and you, that you may know that I am YHWH your Elohim.
21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my
statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall
even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my
fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that
it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I
brought them forth.
23 I lifted up my hand unto them also in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them
through the countries;
24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but
had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were
after their fathers' idols.
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were
not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted them
in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that
opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might
know that I am YHWH.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of
Israel, and say unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Yet in this your fathers
have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up my
hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick
trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and
poured out there their drink offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What is
the high place whereunto you go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this
day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Are
you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit whoredom after
their abominations?
31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons
to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto
this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,
said the Adonai YHWiH, I will not be inquired of by you.
32 And that which
comes into your mind shall not be at all, that you say, We will be as the
heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
33 As I
live, said the Adonai YHWiH, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out
arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you
out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein you are
scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your
fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you,
said the Adonai YHWiH.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I
will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from
among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me: I will bring them
forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel: and you shall know that I am YHWH.
39 As for you, O house
of Israel, thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Go, serve every one his idols, and
hereafter also, if you will not hearken unto me: but pollute my holy name no
more with your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in my holy mountain, in
the mountain of the height of Israel, said the Adonai YHWiH, there shall all the
house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them,
and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your
oblations, with all your holy things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet
savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the
countries wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you
before the heathen.
42 And you shall know that I am YHWH, when I shall
bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up
my hand to give it to your fathers.
43 And there shall you remember your
ways, and all your doings, wherein you have been defiled; and you shall loathe
yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
44 And you shall know that I am YHWH, when I have wrought with you for my
name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt
doings, O you house of Israel, said the Adonai YHWiH.
45 Moreover the word of
YHWH came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set your face toward the south,
and drop your word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the
south field;
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of YHWH; Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it
shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be
burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I YHWH have kindled it:
it shall not be quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah Adonai YHWiH! they say of me, Does
he not speak parables?
1 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the
holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land
of Israel, Thus said YHWH; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth
my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the
wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh
from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I YHWH have
drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh
therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with
bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto
you, Wherefore sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because
it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and
every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it
comes, and shall be brought to pass, said the Adonai YHWiH.
8 Again the word
of YHWH came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus
said YHWH; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it condemns the rod of my son, as every
tree.
11 And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this
sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the
slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it
shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall
be upon my people: smite therefore upon your thigh.
13 Because it is a trial,
and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, said the
Adonai YHWiH.
14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands
together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain:
it is the sword of the great men that are slain, who enters into their
privy chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their
gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is
made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go you one way or
other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face is
set.
17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to
rest: I YHWH have said it.
18 The word of YHWH came unto me again,
saying,
19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of
the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and
choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and
to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the
parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made
his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22 At
his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open
the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint
battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to those
who have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they
may be taken.
24 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so
that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come
to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked
prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this
shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until
he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28 And you, son of man,
prophesy and say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH concerning the Ammonites, and
concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for
the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine a lie unto you, to
bring you upon the necks of those who are slain, of the wicked, whose day is
come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return
into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in
the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you,
I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the
hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to
the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more
remembered: for I YHWH have spoken it.
1 Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will
you judge the bloody city? yes, you shall show her all her abominations.
3 Then say you, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH, The city sheds blood in the
midst of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to
defile herself.
4 You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed;
and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have
caused your days to draw near, and are come even unto your years: therefore have
I made you a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5 Those that be near, and those that be far from you, shall mock you,
who are infamous and much vexed.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every
one were in you to their power to shed blood.
7 In you have they set light
by father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with
the stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
8 You
have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
9 In you are
men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains:
in the midst of you they commit lewdness.
10 In you have they discovered
their fathers' nakedness: in you have they humbled her that was set apart for
pollution.
11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbour's wife;
and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in you has
humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
12 In you have they taken gifts
to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily
gained of your neighbours by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
13 Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain
which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I
shall deal with you? I YHWH have spoken it, and will do it.
15 And I
will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and
will consume your filthiness out of you.
16 And you shall take your
inheritance in yourself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall know that I
am YHWH.
17 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
18 Son of
man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin,
and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of
silver.
19 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you are all become
dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the
midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather
you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and you
shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the midst of
the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst thereof; and you shall know
that I YHWH have poured out my fury upon you.
23 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, You are the land
that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 There is
a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion
ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and
precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her
priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have
put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed
difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof
are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get
dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar,
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH,
when YHWH has not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used
oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yes,
they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among
them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the
land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I
poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of
my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
1 The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man,
there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3 And they committed
whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their
breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
4 And
the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they
were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is
Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was
mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
6 who
were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
horsemen riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them,
with all those who were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she
doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
8 Neither left she her
whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they
bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand
of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These discovered her nakedness:
they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she
became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11 And
when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love
than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12 She
doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And
that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the
wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
15 Girded with
girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of
them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the
land of their nativity:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she
doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the
Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their
whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from
them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then
my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of
her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For
she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and
whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus you called to
remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Egyptians
for the paps of your youth.
22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Adonai
YHWiH; Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is
alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;
23 The
Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers,
great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
24 And they shall
come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of
people, who shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet round
about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you
according to their judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against you,
and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and
your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons
and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
26 They
shall also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels.
27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your whoredom
brought from the land of Egypt: so that you shall not lift up your eyes unto
them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28 For thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I
will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of
them from whom your mind is alienated:
29 And they shall deal with you
hatefully, and shall take away all your labour, and shall leave you naked and
bare: and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be discovered, both your
lewdness and your whoredoms.
30 I will do these things unto you, because
you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with
their idols.
31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I
give her cup into your hand.
32 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; You shall drink
of your sister's cup deep and large: you shall be laughed to scorn and had in
derision; it contains much.
33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and
sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your
sister Samaria.
34 You shall even drink it and suck it out, and you shall
break the sherds thereof, and pluck off your own breasts: for I have spoken
it, said the Adonai YHWiH.
35 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you
have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your
lewdness and your whoredoms.
36 YHWH said moreover unto me; Son of man,
will you judge Aholah and Aholibah? yes, declare unto them their
abominations;
37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their
hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused
their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to
devour them.
38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39 For when they
had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my
sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my
house.
40 And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far, unto
whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom you did wash
yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,
41 And
sat upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon you have
set my incense and my oil.
42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease
was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from
the wilderness, who put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns
upon their heads.
43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will
they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
44 Yet they went in
unto her, as they go in unto a woman that plays the harlot: so went they in
unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
45 And the righteous men,
they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner
of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
hands.
46 For thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I will bring up a company upon them,
and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
47 And the company shall stone
them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their
sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
48 Thus will I
cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to
do after your lewdness.
49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,
and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Adonai
YHWiH.
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of
the month, the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, write
you 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out
of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13 In your filthiness is lewdness:
because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged
from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon you.
14 I YHWH 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
your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
15 Also the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man,
behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet
neither shall you mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your
head upon you, and put on your shoes upon your feet, and cover not your lips,
and eat not the bread of men.
18 So I spoke 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, Will you not tell us what these things are
to us, that you do so?
20 Then I answered them, The word of YHWH
came unto me, saying,
21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Adonai
YHWiH; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the
desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your
daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
22 And you shall do as I
have done: you 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: you shall
not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one
toward another.
24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he
has done shall you do: and when this comes, you shall know that I am the Adonai
YHWiH.
25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and
that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26 That
he that escapes in that day shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it
with your ears?
27 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is
escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign
unto them; and they shall know that I am YHWH.
1 The word of YHWH
came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face against the
Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the
word of the Adonai YHWiH; Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you said, 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 you to the men of the east
for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in you, and make their
dwellings in you: they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a
couchingplace for flocks: and you shall know that I am YHWH.
6 For thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with
the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your despite against the land of
Israel;
7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out my hand upon you, and will
deliver you for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut you off from the
people, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy
you; and you shall know that I am YHWH.
8 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH;
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 YHWH.
12 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because that
Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
13 Therefore thus said
the Adonai YHWiH; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off
man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of
Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by
the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my
anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, said the
Adonai YHWiH.
15 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I will stretch
out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and
destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance
upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am YHWH, when I
shall lay my vengeance upon them.
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first day of the month, that the word of YHWH came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, because that Tyrus has 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 said the Adonai YHWiH;
Behold, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up
against you, as the sea causes 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, said
the Adonai YHWiH: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
6 And her
daughters who are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall
know that I am YHWH.
7 For thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 your daughters in the field: and he
shall make a fort against you, and cast a mount against you, and lift up the
buckler against you.
9 And he shall set engines of war against your walls,
and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
10 By reason of the
abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at
the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he
shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets: he
shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to
the ground.
12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of
your merchandise: and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant
houses: and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst
of the water.
13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the
sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
14 And I will make you like the
top of a rock: you shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built
no more: for I YHWH have spoken it, said the Adonai YHWiH.
15 Thus said
the Adonai YHWiH to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall,
when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
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 you.
17 And they shall take up a
lamentation for you, and say to you, How are you destroyed, that was
inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which was 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 your fall; yes, the isles that
are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.
19 For thus said the
Adonai YHWiH; When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not
inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and great waters shall
cover you;
20 When I shall bring you down with those who descend into the
pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you
be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
21 I will
make you a terror, and you shall be no more: though you be sought for, yet
shall you never be found again, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying,
2 Now, you son of man, take up a
lamentation for Tyrus;
3 And say unto Tyrus, O you that are situate at the
entry of the sea, which are a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; O Tyrus, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.
4 Your
borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken
cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have
they made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of
ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
7 Fine linen with broidered work
from Egypt was that which you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple
from the isles of Elishah was that which covered you.
8 The inhabitants of
Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyrus, that were in you,
were your pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in
you your calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to
occupy your merchandise.
10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in
your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they
set forth your comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with your army were upon your
walls round about, and the Gammadims were in your towers: they hanged their
shields upon your walls round about; they have made your beauty perfect.
12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of
riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass in your market.
14 They of the house of
Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
15 The men
of Dedan were your merchants; many isles were the merchandise of your hand:
they brought you for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Syria was your
merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of your making: they occupied
in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and
coral, and agate.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your merchants:
they traded in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil,
and balm.
18 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white
wool.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.
20 Dedan was your merchant in
precious clothes for chariots.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they
occupied with you in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they your
merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants:
they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious
stones, and gold.
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba,
Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.
24 These were your merchants in all
sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich
apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
25 The
ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market: and you were replenished,
and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Your rowers have brought
you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the
seas.
27 Your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and your
pilots, your calkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of
war, that are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you,
shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin.
28 The suburbs
shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
29 And all that handle
the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from
their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
30 And shall cause their voice
to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon
their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
31 And they shall
make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they
shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
32 And in
their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you,
saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people;
you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and
of your merchandise.
34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in
the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of
you shall fall.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at
you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you
shall be a terror, and never shall be any more.
1 The word of YHWH
came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am
an El (Elohim), I sit in the seat of Elohim, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man,
and not El (Elohim), though you set your heart as the heart of Elohim:
3 Behold, you
are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you:
4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten you riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures:
5 By your great wisdom
and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted
up because of your riches:
6 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you
have set your heart as the heart of Elohim;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring
strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of
those who are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Will you yet say before him
that slays you, I am Elohim? but you shall be a man, and no El (Elohim), in the hand
of him that slays you.
10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, said the Adonai YHWiH.
11 Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take
up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus said the Adonai
YHWiH; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 You
have been in Eden the garden of Elohim; every precious stone was your 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 your
tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were
created.
14 You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you
so: you were upon the holy mountain of Elohim; you have walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the
day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you.
16 By the
multitude of your merchandise they have filled the midst of you with violence,
and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the
mountain of Elohim: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of
the stones of fire.
17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you
have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the
ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.
18 You
have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the
iniquity of your traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of
you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in
the sight of all those who behold you.
19 All those who know you among the
people shall be astonished at you: you shall be a terror, and never shall
you be any more.
20 Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
22 And
say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will
be glorified in the midst of you: and they shall know that I am YHWH,
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 YHWH.
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
Adonai YHWiH.
25 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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; yes, 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 YHWH their Elohim.
1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month,
the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all
Egypt:
3 Speak, and say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I am against you,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers,
who has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
4 But
I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick
unto your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and
all the fish of your rivers shall stick unto your scales.
5 And I will leave
you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you
shall fall upon the open fields; you shall not be brought together, nor
gathered: I have given you for food 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
YHWH, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and rend all
their shoulder: and when they leaned upon you, you break, and made all
their loins to be at a stand.
8 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I
will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast out of you.
9 And
the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am
YHWH: because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your 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 said
the Adonai YHWiH; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the
people where 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, who brings their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look
after them: but they shall know that I am the Adonai YHWiH.
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 YHWH 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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, said the Adonai YHWiH.
21 In
that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will
give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know
that I am YHWH.
1 The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Howl, Woe worth
the day!
3 For the day is near, even the day of YHWH 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 said YHWH; 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, said the Adonai YHWiH.
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 YHWH, 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 comes.
10 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 YHWH have spoken it.
13 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 YHWH.
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 YHWH 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 YHWH, 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 YHWH.
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 YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and to his multitude; Whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Behold, the
Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing
shroud, and of a 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
Elohim could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the
chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of Elohim
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 Elohim,
envied him.
10 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because you have lifted
up yourself in height, and he has 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 those who go down to the pit.
15 Thus said the Adonai
YHWiH; 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 those who 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 those who be slain with the sword; and those who were
his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18 To whom
are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet
shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the
earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who be
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day of the month, that the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto
him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are as a whale in the
seas: and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with
your feet, and fouled their rivers.
3 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I will
therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people; and they
shall bring you up in my net.
4 Then will I leave you upon the land, I
will cast you forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the
heaven to remain upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with
you.
5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys
with your height.
6 I will also water with your blood the land wherein you
swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you.
7 And
when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof
dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her
light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set
darkness upon your land, said the Adonai YHWiH.
9 I will also vex the hearts of
many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the
countries which you have not known.
10 Yes, I will make many people amazed
at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall
brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every
man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11 For thus said the Adonai
YHWiH; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
12 By the swords
of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations,
all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude
thereof shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof
from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any
more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make their waters
deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, said the Adonai YHWiH.
15 When I
shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of
that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all those who dwell therein, then
shall they know that I am YHWH.
16 This is the lamentation wherewith
they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they
shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, said the
Adonai YHWiH.
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
of the month, that the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man,
wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the
daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with those
who go down into the pit.
19 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be
you laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of those
who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all
her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
midst of hell with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie
uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company:
his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose
graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her
grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land
of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave,
all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into
the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the
living; yet have they borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword:
though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne
their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those
who are slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves
are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though
they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not
lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down
to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their
heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the
terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yes, you shall be broken
in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain with
the sword.
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who with
their might are laid by those who were slain by the sword: they shall lie with
the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
30 There be the
princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who are gone down
with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they
lie uncircumcised with those who be slain by the sword, and bear their shame
with those who go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be
comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the
sword, said the Adonai YHWiH.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the
living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who
are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
1 Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man,
speak to the children of your people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword
upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him
for their watchman:
3 If when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blow
the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever hears the sound of the
trumpet, and takes not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his
blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and
took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that takes warning
shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow
not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any
person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at the watchman's hand.
7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a
watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my
mouth, and warn them from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man,
you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way,
that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at
your hand.
9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from
it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered your soul.
10 Therefore, O you son of man, speak unto the
house of Israel; Thus you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be
upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
11 Say unto
them, As I live, said the Adonai YHWiH, I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from
your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 Therefore, you
son of man, say unto the children of your people, The righteousness of the
righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the
wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns
from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his
righteousness in the day that he sins.
13 When I shall say to the
righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness,
and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for
his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
14 Again, when I
say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do
that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give
again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that
he has committed shall be mentioned unto him: he has done that which is
lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of your people
say, The way of the Adonai is not equal: but as for them, their way is not
equal.
18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his
wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20 Yet you say, The way of the Adonai is not equal. O you house of Israel, I
will judge you every one after his ways.
21 And it came to pass in the
twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the
month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The
city is smitten.
22 Now the hand of YHWH was upon me in the evening,
afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me
in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23 Then the
word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, those who inhabit
those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he
inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; You eat with the blood,
and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess
the land?
26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and you defile
every one his neighbour's wife: and shall you possess the land?
27 Say you
thus unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; As I live, surely those who are in
the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I
give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who be in the forts and in the
caves shall die of the pestilence.
28 For I will lay the land most desolate,
and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, that none shall pass through.
29 Then shall they know that I am
YHWH, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their
abominations which they have committed.
30 Also, you son of man, the
children of your people still are talking against you by the walls and in the
doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother,
saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from YHWH.
31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before
you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for
with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their
covetousness.
32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one
that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear
your words, but they do them not.
33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it
will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
1 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy
against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus said the
Adonai YHWiH unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 You eat the fat, and
you clothe you with the wool, you kill those who are fed: but you feed not the
flock.
4 The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that
which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have
you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which
was lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.
5 And they
were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the
beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through
all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yes, my flock was scattered upon
all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of YHWH;
8 As I live, said
the Adonai YHWiH, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat
to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my flock;
9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of YHWH;
10 Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my
flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither
shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from
their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
11 For thus said the Adonai
YHWiH; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As
a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that
are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all
places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I
will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and
will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel
by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14 I will
feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their
fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they
feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause
them to lie down, said the Adonai YHWiH.
16 I will seek that which was lost,
and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was
broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat
and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
17 And as for you, O my
flock, thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle,
between the rams and the he goats.
18 Seems it a small thing unto you to
have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the
residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must
foul the residue with your feet?
19 And as for my flock, they eat that which
you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with
your feet.
20 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH unto them; Behold, I, even
I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because
you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with
your horns, till you have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my
flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and
cattle.
23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
24 And I YHWH will be their Elohim, and my servant David a prince among
them; I YHWH have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of
peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall
dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make
them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the
shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall
yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that
I am YHWH, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them
out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
28 And they shall
no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour
them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
29 And I
will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed
with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
30 Thus shall they know that I YHWH their Elohim am with them, and that
they, even the house of Israel, are my people, said the Adonai YHWiH.
31 And you
my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your Elohim, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
1 Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
2 Son of
man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 And say
unto it, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against you, and
I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you most desolate.
4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall
know that I am YHWH.
5 Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and
have 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, said the Adonai YHWiH, I will prepare you unto blood,
and blood shall pursue you: sith you have not hated blood, even blood shall
pursue you.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from
it him that passes out and him that returns.
8 And I will fill his
mountains with his slain men: in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your
rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9 I will make you
perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return: and you shall know that
I am YHWH.
10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas YHWH was there:
11 Therefore, as I live, said the Adonai YHWiH, I will even do according to
your anger, and according to your envy which you have used out of your
hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have
judged you.
12 And you shall know that I am YHWH, and that I have
heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of
Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your
words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; When the
whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
15 As you did rejoice
at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I
do unto you: you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all
of it: and they shall know that I am YHWH.
1 Also, you son of man,
prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear
the word of YHWH:
2 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because the enemy has said
against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because they have
made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a
possession unto the residue of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of
talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4 Therefore, you mountains of
Israel, hear the word of the Adonai YHWiH; Thus said the Adonai YHWiH to the
mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the
desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and
derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
5 Therefore
thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken
against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, who have
appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with
despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning
the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I have spoken in
my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the heathen:
7 Therefore thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the
heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8 But you, O
mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I am
for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown:
10 And I
will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the
cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built:
11 And I will
multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and
I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at
your beginnings: and you shall know that I am YHWH.
12 Yes, I will cause
men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and
you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave
them of men.
13 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Because they say unto you, You
land devours up men, and have bereaved your nations;
14 Therefore you
shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nations any more, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
15 Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the heathen
any more, neither shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, neither
shall you cause your nations to fall any more, said the Adonai YHWiH.
16 Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when
the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way
and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed
woman.
18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had
shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through
the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged
them.
20 And when they entered unto the heathen, where they went, they
profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of YHWH, and are gone forth out of his land.
21 But I had pity for my holy
name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, where they
went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I
do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake,
which you have profaned among the heathen, where you went.
23 And I will
sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have
profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am YHWH,
said the Adonai YHWiH, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all
countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle
clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and
from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I
will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you
shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And you shall dwell in the land that
I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your Elohim.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the
corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30 And I will
multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall
receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
31 Then shall you
remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations.
32 Not for your sakes do I this, said the Adonai YHWiH, be it
known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of
Israel.
33 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; In the day that I shall have cleansed
you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and
the wastes shall be built.
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled,
whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35 And they
shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and
the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I YHWH
build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I YHWH have
spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; I will yet for this
be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them
with men like a flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in
her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and
they shall know that I am YHWH.
1 The hand of YHWH was upon me,
and carried me out in the spirit of YHWH, 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 Adonai YHWiH, you know.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon
these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear the word of YHWH.
5 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to
enter into you, and you 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 you shall live; and you shall know that I am YHWH.
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 said the Adonai
YHWiH; 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 said
the Adonai YHWiH; 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 you
shall know that I am YHWH, 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 you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know
that I YHWH have spoken it, and performed it, said YHWH.
15 The
word of YHWH came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, you son of man,
take you 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 your
hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying,
Will you not show us what you means by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the
hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with
him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be
one in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your
hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where
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 Elohim.
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: yes, I
will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall
know that I YHWH do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the
midst of them for evermore.
1 And the word of YHWH came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief
prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus said
the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech
and Tubal:
4 And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I
will bring you forth, and all your 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 you.
7 Be you prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your
company that are assembled unto you, and be you a guard unto them.
8 After
many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall 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 You shall ascend and come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to
cover the land, you, and all your bands, and many people with you.
10 Thus
said the Adonai YHWiH; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall
things come into your mind, and you shall think an evil thought:
11 And you
shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those
who are at rest, who 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 your 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 you,
Are you come to take a spoil? have you gathered your 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 said the
Adonai YHWiH; In that day when my people of Israel dwells safely, shall you not
know it?
15 And you shall come from your place out of the north parts, you,
and many people with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company,
and a mighty army:
16 And you shall 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
you against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified
in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; Are you he
of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against
the land of Israel, said the Adonai YHWiH, 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, said the Adonai YHWiH: 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 YHWH.
1 Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus said
the Adonai YHWiH; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech
and Tubal:
2 And I will turn you back, and leave but the sixth part of
you, and will cause you to come up from the north parts, and will bring you
upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite your bow out of your left
hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
4 You
shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the
people that is with you: I will give you unto the ravenous birds of every
sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 You shall fall upon
the open field: for I have spoken it, said the Adonai YHWiH.
6 And I will send
a fire on Magog, and among those who dwell carelessly in the isles: and they
shall know that I am YHWH.
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 YHWH, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, said the Adonai YHWiH; this is the day
whereof I have spoken.
9 And those who 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, said the Adonai YHWiH.
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 Yes,
all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown
the day that I shall be glorified, said the Adonai YHWiH.
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 sees 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, you son of man, thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 you may eat
flesh, and drink blood.
18 You 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 you shall eat fat till you be
full, and drink blood till you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have
sacrificed for you.
20 Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, said the Adonai YHWiH.
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 YHWH their Elohim 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 YHWH their Elohim, who 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, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of
the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the
city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of YHWH was upon me, and
brought me thither.
2 In the visions of Elohim brought he me into the land of
Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a
city on the south.
3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a
man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in
his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
4 And the man said
unto me, Son of man, behold with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set
your heart upon all that I shall show you; for to the intent that I might
show them unto you are you brought hither: declare all that you see to
the house of Israel.
5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round
about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit
and a hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and
the height, one reed.
6 Then came he unto the gate which looks toward the
east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate,
which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one
reed broad.
7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed
broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of
the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8 He measured also
the porch of the gate within, one reed.
9 Then measured he the porch of the
gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the
gate was inward.
10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three
on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the
posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
11 And he measured the
breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate,
thirteen cubits.
12 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit
on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little
chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
13 He
measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of
another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.
14 He
made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round
about the gate.
15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the
face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
16 And there were
narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate
round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward:
and upon each post were palm trees.
17 Then brought he me into the outward
court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round
about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
18 And the pavement by the
side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto
the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits eastward and
northward.
20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the
north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
21 And the
little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and
the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first
gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were
after the measure of the gate that looks toward the east; and they went up
unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
23 And the
gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward
the east; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
24 After that
he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he
measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like
those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof
were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that
side, upon the posts thereof.
27 And there was a gate in the inner court
toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate:
and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
29 And the
little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof,
according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches
thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
broad.
30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and
five cubits broad.
31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court;
and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight
steps.
32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
measured the gate according to these measures.
33 And the little chambers
thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to
these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round
about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
34 And
the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the
posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had
eight steps.
35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it
according to these measures;
36 The little chambers thereof, the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length
was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
37 And the posts
thereof were toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon the posts
thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight
steps.
38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the
gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
39 And in the porch of the gate
were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the
burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
40 And at the
side without, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables;
and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side
of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
42 And the
four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and a half
long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they
laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43 And within were hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the
tables was the flesh of the offering.
44 And without the inner gate were the
chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north
gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east
gate having the prospect toward the north.
45 And he said unto me, This
chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers
of the charge of the house.
46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the
north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are
the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near to YHWH to
minister unto him.
47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and
a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of
the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the
breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that
side.
49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven
cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there
were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
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, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls
thereof, a hundred cubits long;
14 Also the breadth of the face of the
house, and of the separate place toward the east, a 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, a 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, ceiled 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
YHWH.
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.
1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court,
the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over
against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the
north.
2 Before the length of a 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 outer 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 outer court on the forepart of the
chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
8 For the length of the
chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the
temple were a hundred cubits.
9 And from under these chambers was the entry
on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer 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 enters 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 YHWH 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 outer 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 hundred reeds long, and five
hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane
place.
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks
toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the Elohim 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 YHWH 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 YHWH 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 my 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 You son of man,
show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their
iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
11 And if they be ashamed of
all that they have done, show 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
a 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 you shall give to
the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, who approach unto me,
to minister unto me, said the Adonai YHWiH, a young bullock for a sin offering.
20 And you shall 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 shall you cleanse and purge it.
21 You shall 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 you shall 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 you have made an
end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock without blemish, and a
ram out of the flock without blemish.
24 And you shall offer them before
YHWH, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them
up for a burnt offering unto YHWH.
25 Seven days shall you 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, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 Then he brought
me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looks toward the
east; and it was shut.
2 Then said YHWH unto me; This gate shall be
shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before
YHWH; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go
out by the way of the same.
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate
before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of YHWH filled the
house of YHWH: and I fell upon my face.
5 And YHWH said unto me, Son
of man, mark well, and behold with your eyes, and hear with your ears all
that I say unto you concerning all the ordinances of the house of YHWH,
and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with
every going forth of the sanctuary.
6 And you shall say to the rebellious,
even to the house of Israel, Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; O you house of Israel,
let it suffice you of all your abominations,
7 In that you have brought into
my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to
be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the
fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your
abominations.
8 And you have not kept the charge of my holy things: but you
have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Thus said
the Adonai YHWiH; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh,
shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of
Israel.
10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went
astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear
their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having
charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall
slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand
before them to minister unto them.
12 Because they ministered unto them
before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity;
therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, said the Adonai YHWiH, and
they shall bear their iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto me, to
do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of
the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall
be done therein.
15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that
kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from
me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand
before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, said the Adonai YHWiH:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table,
to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 And it shall come to
pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be
clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they
minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have
linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their
loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causes sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to
the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay
them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they
shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
20 Neither shall they
shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll
their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into
the inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her
that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of
Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my
people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern
between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in
judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall
keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my
sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but
for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for
sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26 And after he
is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27 And in the day that
he goes into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, said the Adonai YHWiH.
28 And it
shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall
give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat
the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every
dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of all the
firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your
oblations, shall be the priest's: you shall also give unto the priest the first
of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house.
31 The
priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it
be fowl or beast.
1 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, you shall offer an oblation unto YHWH, a holy portion of the
land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and
the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all 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 shall you
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, who shall come near to minister unto YHWH: and it shall be a
place for their houses, and a 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 you 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 said the Adonai YHWiH; Let it
suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute
judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, said the Adonai
YHWiH.
10 You 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 a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a 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 you shall offer; the sixth part of
an ephah of a homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah of
a homer of barley:
14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you
shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten
baths; for ten baths are a homer:
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,
said the Adonai YHWiH.
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 said the Adonai YHWiH; In the first month, in the first day of the
month, you shall 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 you shall do the seventh day of the month for every one that
errs, and for him that is simple: so shall you reconcile the house.
21 In
the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you 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 YHWH, 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 a 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.
1 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; The gate of the inner court that looks
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 YHWH in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
4 And the burnt
offering that the prince shall offer unto YHWH 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 a 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 a 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 YHWH in the solemn feasts, he that enters in by the
way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate;
and he that enters 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 a hin of oil to an ephah.
12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto YHWH, one shall then
open him the gate that looks 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 You shall
daily prepare a burnt offering unto YHWH of a lamb of the first year
without blemish: you shall prepare it every morning.
14 And you shall
prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and
the third part of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat
offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto YHWH.
15 Thus shall
they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a
continual burnt offering.
16 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; 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 outer
court, to sanctify the people.
21 Then he brought me forth into the outer
court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in
every corner of the court there was a court.
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
those who boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of
the people.
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 outer gate by the way that looks 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, have you
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 lives, which
moves, 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 where the river comes.
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 marshes 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
food, 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 food, and
the leaf thereof for medicine.
13 Thus said the Adonai YHWiH; This shall be the
border, whereby you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And you shall inherit it, one as
well as another: concerning the which I lifted up my 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 you 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 you divide this
land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to
pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the
strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you: and
they shall be unto you as 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 sojourns, there shall you
give him his inheritance, said the Adonai YHWiH.
1 Now these are the names
of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one
goes to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of
Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by
the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a
portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh,
from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the
border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for
Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west
side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side
unto the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer of five and
twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts,
from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst
of it.
9 The oblation that you shall offer unto YHWH shall be of five and
twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them,
even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and
twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty
thousand in length: and the sanctuary of YHWH shall be in the midst
thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of
Zadok; who have kept my charge, who went not astray when the children of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the
land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the
Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall
have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the
length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the
firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto YHWH.
15 And the five
thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty
thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for
suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be
the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the
south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand
and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And
the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and
toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and
fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in
length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand
eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation
of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto those who
serve the city.
19 And those who serve the city shall serve it out of all
the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand
by five and twenty thousand: you shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with
the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on
the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of
the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the
east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the
west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the
holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of
the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border
of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the
rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have
a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the
west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from
the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border
of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad
a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the
border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to
the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which you shall divide by
lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions,
said the Adonai YHWiH.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north
side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city
shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one
gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side
four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one
gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand
and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of
Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five
hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate
of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name
of the city from that day shall be, YHWH is there.
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Latest update: March 2008
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