Ezekiel 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the
heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2 In the fifth day of the month,
which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 3 The word of the LORD
came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the
Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. 4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and
a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst
thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the
midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their
appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and
every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of
their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour
of burnished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. 9 Their wings were
joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one
straight forward. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face
of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face
of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were
their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were
joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And they went every one
straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not
when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and
down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire
went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of a flash of lightning. 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures,
behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl:
and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it
were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their
four sides: and they turned not when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were
so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about
them four. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and
when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted
up. 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit
to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; and when
those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature
was in the wheels. 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the
living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over
their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one
had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. 24 And when they went, I
heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of
the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood,
they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was
over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26 And above
the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the
likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of
amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of
his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw
as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28 As the
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel 2
1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto
thee. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my
feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I
send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled
against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this
very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto
them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,)
yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, son of
man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and
thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 7 And
thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they
will forbear: for they are most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I
say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy
mouth, and eat that I give thee. 9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent
unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; 10 And he spread it before me;
and it was written within and without: and there was written therein
lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll,
and go speak unto the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me
to eat that roll. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was
in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get
thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 5 For thou art
not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the
house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to
them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7 But the house of Israel will not
hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of
Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong
against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an
adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be
dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said
unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine
heart, and hear with thine ears. 11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity,
unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 12 Then the
spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying,
Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place. 13 I heard also the noise of
the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the
wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. 14 So the spirit
lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my
spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to them of
the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where
they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. 16 And it came to
pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore
hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the
wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to
warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall
die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou
warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a
righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a
stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him
warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall
not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21 Nevertheless
if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin,
he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go
forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. 23 Then I arose, and went
forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the
glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the
spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said
unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold,
they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt
not go out among them: 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy
mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they
are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth,
and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him
hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 4
1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray
upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort
against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set
battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron
pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This
shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and
lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the
days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have
laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days,
three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of
Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and
thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed
thee each day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege
of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against
it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from
one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9 Take thou
also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and
fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to
the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall
be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou
shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time
shalt thou drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake
it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even
thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not
been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which
dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into
my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's
dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 16 Moreover he said unto me,
Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall
eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and
with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one
with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel 5
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and
cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to
weigh, and divide the hair. 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the
midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take
a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt
scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also
take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. 4 Then take of them
again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for
thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and
countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into
wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that
are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they
have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye
multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked
in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to
the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in
the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in thee that
which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of
all thine abominations. 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst
of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in
thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. 11
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my
sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations,
therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will
I have any pity. 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall
by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the
winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall mine anger be
accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be
comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I
have accomplished my fury in them. 14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a
reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that
pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute
judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have
spoken it. 16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall
be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: 17 So will I
send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and
pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon
thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 6
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face
toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to
the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I,
even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And
your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast
down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the
children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about
your altars. 6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and
the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made
desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut
down, and your works may be abolished. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst
of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that
ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be
scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me
among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken
with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes,
which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the
evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall
know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this
evil unto them. 11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp
with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of
Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall
fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the
famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then shall ye know that I
am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their
altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every
green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet
savour to all their idols. 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make
the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all
their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Also, thou son of man,
thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon
the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send
mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare
thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and
thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am
the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The
morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come,
the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now
will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee:
and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all
thine abominations. 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I
will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in
the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth. 10 Behold
the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed,
pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of
them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall
there be wailing for them. 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not
the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they
were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which
shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life. 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to
the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword is
without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall
die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall
devour him. 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his
iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and
shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall
cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver
and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the
LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it
is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 20 As for the beauty of his ornament,
he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of
their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. 21 And I
will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of
the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also
from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter
into it, and defile it. 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes,
and the city is full of violence. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the
heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the
strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. 25 Destruction cometh;
and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief shall come upon
mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the
prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
ancients. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do
unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of
the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that
the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness
as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire;
and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour
of amber. 3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine
head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought
me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that
looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the vision that I saw in the plain. 5 Then said he unto me, Son of
man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes
the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest
thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel
committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet
again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me to the door
of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto
me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a
door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they
do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the
wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house
of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they
say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. 13 He said also
unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they
do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was
toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then said
he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou
shalt see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner
court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD,
between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their
backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they
worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen
this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit
the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with
violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch
to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice,
yet will I not hear them.
Ezekiel 9
1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have
charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in
his hand. 2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which
lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one
man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and
they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of
Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the
house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's
inkhorn by his side; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the
city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the
men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst
thereof. 5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through
the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6 Slay
utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not
near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began
at the ancient men which were before the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile
the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth,
and slew in the city. 8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I
was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is
exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth
not. 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
but I will recompense their way upon their head. 11 And, behold, the man clothed
with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I
have done as thou hast commanded me.
Ezekiel 10
1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the
cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with
linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine
hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the
city. And he went in in my sight. 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of
the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then
the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of
the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of
the brightness of the LORD's glory. 5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was
heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen,
saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he
went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand
from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and
took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who
took it, and went out. 8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's
hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the
cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the
appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their
appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of
a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as
they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they
turned not as they went. 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their
hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the
wheels that they four had. 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my
hearing, O wheel. 14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face
of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face
of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubims were lifted
up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16 And when
the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up
their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from
beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in
them. 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the
house, and stood over the cherubims. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings,
and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also
were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's
house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 20 This is the
living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I
knew that they were the cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every
one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of
Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 11
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the
LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five
and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son
of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are
the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say,
It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the
flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5 And the
Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD;
Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your
mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye
have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and
this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands
of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the
sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD. 11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in
the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: 12 And ye shall
know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed
my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round
about you. 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14 Again
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy
brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they
unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD:
unto us is this land given in possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have
scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary
in the countries where they shall come. 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the
countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable
things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19 And I will give
them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the
stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: 20 That
they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for them whose heart
walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I
will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. 22 Then did
the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of
the God of Israel was over them above. 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from
the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of
the city. 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the
Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had
seen went up from me. 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things
that the LORD had shewed me.
Ezekiel 12
1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in
the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have
ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, thou
son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight;
and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be
they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring
forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go
forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. 5 Dig thou
through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shalt
thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt
cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign
unto the house of Israel. 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my
stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall
with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my
shoulder in their sight. 8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me,
saying, 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said
unto thee, What doest thou? 10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This
burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are
among them. 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity. 12 And the prince that is
among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth:
they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
that he see not the ground with his eyes. 13 My net also will I spread upon him,
and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land
of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 14 And I
will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his
bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I
am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in
the countries. 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the
famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations
among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 17
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat thy bread
with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; 19 And
say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with
carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be
desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that
dwell therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the
land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 21 And the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have
in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to
cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them,
The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. 24 For there shall be no
more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. 25
For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to
pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will
I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD. 26 Again the word of
the LORD came to me, saying. 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel
say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of
the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have
spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against
the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out
of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 Ye have
not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to
stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6 They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they
have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a
vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD
saith it; albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith
the Lord GOD. 9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall
they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter
into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 10 Because,
even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace;
and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: 11
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there
shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a
stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said
unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there
shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to
consume it. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered
morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be
discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof:
and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon
the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say
unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; 16 To wit, the
prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of
peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD. 17 Likewise, thou son
of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of
their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon
the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people,
and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? 19 And will ye pollute me
among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the
souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by
your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to
make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go,
even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. 21 Your kerchiefs also will I
tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your
hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies ye
have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and
strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked
way, by promising him life: 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 14
1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 2 And
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have set up
their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before
their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them,
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel
that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him
that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; 5 That I may take the house
of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through
their idols. 6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all
your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger
that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his
face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will
answer him by myself: 8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make
him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And if the prophet be deceived when he
hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch
out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the
prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; 11 That
the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more
with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be
their God, saith the Lord GOD. 12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then
will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread
thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should
deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. 15 If I
cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be
desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: 16 Though these
three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be
desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: 18 Though these three men
were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a
pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off
from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but
deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD;
How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and
the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man
and beast? 22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought
forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye
shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the
evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought
upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings:
and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it,
saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 15
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, what is the vine
tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the
forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of
it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the
fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet
for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it
is burned? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees
of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go
out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD, when I set my face against them. 8 And I will make the land
desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem
to know her abominations, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy
birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and
thy mother an Hittite. 4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy
navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast
not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of
these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the
open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. 6 And
when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto
thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in
thy blood, Live. 7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and
thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:
thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and
bare. 8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was
the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness:
yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord
GOD, and thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 10 I clothed thee
also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee
about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. 11 I decked thee also with
ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 12 And I
put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown
upon thine head. 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and
honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a
kingdom. 14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it
was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord
GOD. 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that
passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy
high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like
things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair
jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to
thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy
broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine
incense before them. 19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy
sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou
sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 21
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass
through the fire for them? 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms
thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare,
and wast polluted in thy blood. 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness,
(woe, woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;) 24 That thou hast also built unto thee
an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25 Thou hast
built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be
abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied
thy whoredoms. 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to
anger. 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have
diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that
hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be
satisfied. 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith. 30 How weak is
thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of
an imperious whorish woman; 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the
head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not
been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; 32 But as a wife that committeth
adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to
all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that
they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. 34 And the contrary is
in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit
whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee,
therefore thou art contrary. 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the
idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom
thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that
thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will
discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. 38 And I
will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I
will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. 39 And I will also give thee into
their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down
thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy
fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up a
company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee
through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and
execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to
cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. 42 So
will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee,
and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 43 Because thou hast not
remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things;
behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord
GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. 44
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee,
saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter,
that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy
sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an
Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she
and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that
dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet hast thou not
walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were
a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. 48 As I
live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters,
as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of
thy 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 hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but
thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy
sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. 52 Thou also, which hast
judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed
more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou
confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy 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 thy captives in the midst of them: 54 That thou mayest
bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in
that thou art a comfort unto them. 55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return
to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former
estate. 56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
pride, 57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach
of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of
the Philistines, which despise thee round about. 58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness
and thine abominations, saith the LORD. 59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking
the covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days
of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61 Then
thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy
sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for
daughters, but not by thy covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with
thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: 63 That thou mayest remember, and
be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am
pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 17
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, put forth a
riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 3 And say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which
had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of
traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. 5 He took also of the seed of the
land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set
it as a willow tree. 6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,
whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it
became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 7 There was
also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this
vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that
he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. 8 It was planted in a good
soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear
fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. 9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit
thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even
without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. 10 Yea,
behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the
east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew. 11 Moreover
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Say now to the rebellious house,
Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is
come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and
led them with him to Babylon; 13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a
covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty
of the land: 14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself
up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. 15 But he rebelled
against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him
horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such
things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16 As I live, saith
the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king,
whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst
of Babylon he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to
cut off many persons: 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant,
when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not
escape. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that
he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense
upon his own head. 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken
in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for
his trespass that he hath trespassed against me. 21 And all his fugitives with
all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered
toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it. 22 Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar,
and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one,
and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 23 In the mountain of the
height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear
fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing;
in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 24 And all the trees of
the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have
exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree
to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Ezekiel 18
1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 2 What mean ye, that ye use
this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour
grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, saith the Lord
GOD, ye 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 sinneth, it shall die. 5 But if a man be just, and do
that which is lawful and right, 6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither
hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath
defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, 7
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath
spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered
the naked with a garment; 8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither
hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
executed true judgment between man and man, 9 Hath walked in my statutes, and
hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith
the Lord GOD. 10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and
that doeth the like to any one of these things, 11 And that doeth not any of
those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his
neighbour's wife, 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by
violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the
idols, hath committed abomination, 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath
taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. 14 Now, lo, if
he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and
considereth, and doeth not such like, 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains,
neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife, 16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden
the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, 17 That hath taken off his
hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my
judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father, he shall surely live. 18 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 ye, Why? doth not
the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is
lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall
surely live. 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son:
the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that
he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he
hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that
he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should
die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth,
shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned:
in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in
them shall he die. 25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? 26 When a
righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and
dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 Again, when
the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and
doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because
he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet saith the house of
Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways
equal? are not your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of
Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and
make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD:
wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Ezekiel 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, What
is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps
among young lions. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young
lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 4 The nations also
heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto
the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was
lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. 6 And he
went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch
the prey, and devoured men. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid
waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the
noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9 And they
put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought
him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of
Israel. 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she
was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And she had
strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted
among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of
her branches. 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and
withered; the fire consumed them. 13 And now she is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to
rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel 20
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of
the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and
sat before me. 2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 3 Son of man,
speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are
ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired
of by you. 4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them
to know the abominations of their fathers: 5 And say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed
of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt,
when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; 6 In the
day that I lifted up mine 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 ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I
am the LORD your God. 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 shewed 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 the LORD 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 mine 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 ye not in the statutes of your
fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their
idols: 19 I am the LORD your God; 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 ye may know that I am the LORD your God. 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
mine 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 mine
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 openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to
the end that they might know that I am the LORD. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak
unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; 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 mine 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 ye go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye
polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their
abominations? 31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass
through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day:
and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord
GOD, I will not be enquired of by you. 32 And that which cometh into your mind
shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of
the countries, to serve wood and stone. 33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, 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 ye 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, saith the Lord GOD. 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 them that transgress against me: I will bring
them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into
the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 39 As for you, O house
of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and
hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no
more with your gifts, and with your idols. 40 For in mine holy mountain, in the
mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house
of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and
there will I require your offerings, and the 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 ye have
been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. 42 And ye
shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel,
into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have
been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils
that ye have committed. 44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have
wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor
according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. 45
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 46 Son of man, set thy face
toward the south, and drop thy 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 the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and
it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned
therein. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall
not be quenched. 49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables?
Ezekiel 21
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face
toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against
the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and
will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will
cut off from thee 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 the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath:
it shall not return any more. 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the
breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. 7 And it
shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt
answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all
hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak
as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. 8
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, prophesy, and
say, Thus saith the LORD; 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 contemneth the rod of my son, as
every tree. 11 And he hath 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 thy thigh. 13 Because it is a trial, and what if
the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. 14 Thou
therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together. and let the
sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the
great men that are slain, which entereth into their 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 thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the
left, whithersoever thy face is set. 17 I will also smite mine hands together,
and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. 18 The word of the
LORD came unto me again, saying, 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two
ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come
forth out of one land: and choose thou 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 them that have
sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be
taken. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye 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 ye are come to
remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. 25 And thou, profane wicked prince
of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, 26 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same:
exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. 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 thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The
sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because
of the glittering: 29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie
unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked,
whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. 30 Shall I cause it to
return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created,
in the land of thy nativity. 31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee,
I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand
of brutish men, and skilful to destroy. 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire;
thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered:
for I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 22
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man,
wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all
her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth
blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against
herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast
shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou
hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore
have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art
infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee
to their power to shed blood. 7 In thee have they set light by father and
mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in
thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised mine
holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. 9 In thee are men that carry tales
to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness. 10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness:
in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. 11 And one hath
committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled
his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's
daughter. 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury
and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and
hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. 13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine
hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath
been in the midst of thee. 14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be
strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and
will do it. 15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in
the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. 16 And thou shalt
take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD. 17 And the word of the LORD 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 saith the Lord GOD; Because ye 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 mine
anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 21 Yea, I will
gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in
the midst therof. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured
out my fury upon you. 23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son
of man, say unto her, Thou art 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 mine
holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither
have they shewed 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 morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus
saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29 The people of the land
have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy:
yea, 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 mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my
wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 23
1 The word of the LORD 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 Which 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 them that 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
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed 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 thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of
thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 22
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy
lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them
against thee on every side; 23 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 thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels,
and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield
and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall
judge thee according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against
thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and
thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons
and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall
also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus will
I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land
of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember
Egypt any more. 28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into
the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is
alienated: 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all
thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy
whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 30 I will do
these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and
because thou art polluted with their idols. 31 Thou hast walked in the way of
thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. 32 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be
laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 33 Thou shalt be
filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out,
and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou
also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of
man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, 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 mine house. 40 And
furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger
was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy
eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments, 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and
a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine 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, which 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 playeth
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 saith the Lord GOD; 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 ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am
the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 24
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month,
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, write thee the name of
the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against
Jerusalem this same day. 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour
water into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the
thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. 5 Take the choice of the
flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them
seethe the bones of it therein. 6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the
bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of
it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. 7 For her blood is in
the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the
ground, to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause fury to come up to take
vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be
covered. 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will
even make the pile for fire great. 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the
flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. 11 Then set it empty upon
the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the
filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. 12
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of
her: her scum shall be in the fire. 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I
have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy
filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. 14 I the LORD
have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back,
neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and
according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. 15 Also the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from
thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor
weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for
the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy
feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto
the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as
I was commanded. 19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what
these things are to us, that thou doest so? 20 Then I answered them, The word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength,
the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and
your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. 22 And ye shall do as
I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23 And your
tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not
mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward
another. 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done
shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 25
Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon
they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, 26 That he that escapeth
in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 27
In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt
speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 25
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face
against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 3 And say unto the Ammonites,
Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst,
Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel,
when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity; 4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings
in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5 And I will
make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks:
and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart
with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 7 Behold, therefore I will
stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the
heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to
perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am
the LORD. 8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 9 Therefore, behold, I will
open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his
frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, 10
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession,
that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will
execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 12 Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by
taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 13
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom,
and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman;
and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to
mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the
Lord GOD. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by
revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the
old hatred; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out
mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy
the remnant of the sea coast. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them
with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay
my vengeance upon them.
Ezekiel 26
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath
said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she
is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many
nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And
they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also
scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a
place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her
daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall
know that I am the LORD. 7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring
upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. 8
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a
fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler
against thee. 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his
axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses
their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as
men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses
shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and
thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil
of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy
walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy
timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of
thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I
will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets
upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord
GOD. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound
of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of
thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and
lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe
themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at
every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation
for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of
seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 18 Now shall
the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea
shall be troubled at thy departure. 19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall
make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 20 When I shall
bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old
time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of
old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall
set glory in the land of the living; 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou
shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found
again, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 27
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, take
up a lamentation for Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the
entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are
in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 5 They have
made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from
Lebanon to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine
oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out
of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that
which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of
Elishah was that which covered thee. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were
thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. 9 The
ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the
ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. 10
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they
hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. 11 The men
of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were
in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have
made thy beauty perfect. 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude
of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy
fairs. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. 14 They of the house of
Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of
Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they
brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. 16 Syria was thy merchant
by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy
fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and
agate. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in
thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the
multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and
Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus,
were in thy market. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and
rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba and
Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all
spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden,
the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 24 These were
thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and
in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy
merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou
wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 26 Thy rowers
have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst
of the seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and
thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men
of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee,
shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The suburbs
shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy 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 thee, 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 thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall
weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their
wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying,
What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When thy
wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich
the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters
thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 35 All the
inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be
sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among
the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any
more.
Ezekiel 28
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the
prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and
thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of
God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide
from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great
wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is
lifted up because of thy riches: 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; 7 Behold, therefore I will bring
strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them
that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that
slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him
that slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 11 Moreover the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the
king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the
sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden
of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed
cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain
of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou
wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst
of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of
thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will
cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold
thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities,
by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the
earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee
among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never
shalt thou be any more. 20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be
glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I
will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall
be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they
shall know that I am the LORD. 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier
unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about
them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 25 Thus
saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the
people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the
sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to
my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build
houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have
executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they
shall know that I am the LORD their God.
Ezekiel 29
1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak,
and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of
Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said,
My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in
thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and
I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy
rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the
wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open
fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for
meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. 6 And all the
inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a
staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand,
thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee,
thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. 8 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and
beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they
shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I
have made it. 10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of
Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it,
nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty
years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste
shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus saith the
Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people
whither they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt,
and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. 15 It shall be the basest of
the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I
will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it
shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their
iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know
that I am the Lord GOD. 17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year,
in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army
to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every
shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the
service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and
he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall
be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I
will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 30
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! 3 For the day is near,
even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the
heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in
Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her
multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and
Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in
league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that
uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the
tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 7 And
they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her
cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her
helpers shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in
ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon
them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against
Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and
sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and
all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. 13
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their
images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of
Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros
desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. 15 And I
will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the
multitude of No. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and
No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 17 The young men
of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into
captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break
there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as
for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19
Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man,
I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound
up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the
sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I
will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 And I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his
hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the
groanings of a deadly wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king
of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I
am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26 And I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 31
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day
of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in
thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches,
and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the
thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her
rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field. 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of
the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because
of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. 6 All the fowls of heaven made
their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the
field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. 7
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root
was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the
fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his
branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. 9 I
have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of
Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his
top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have
therefore delivered him into the hand of the m