\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Ezekiel}
{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Ezekiel

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
thirtieth
year,
in
the
fourth
month,
in
the
fifth
day
of
the
month,
as
I
was amongst
the
captives
by
the
river
Chebar,
the
heavens
were
opened,
and
I
saw
visions
of
God.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
\par }{\PP \VS{2}In
the
fifth
of
the
month,
which
was
the
fifth
year
of
King
Jehoiachin’s captivity,
\VS{3}the
LORD’s\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:3 }
When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.}
word
came
to
Ezekiel
the
priest,
the
son
of
Buzi,
in
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans
by
the
river
Chebar;
and
the
LORD’s
hand
was
there
on
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}I
looked,
and
behold,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:4 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
a stormy
wind
came
out
of
the
north:
a
great
cloud,
with
flashing lightning,
and
a
brightness
around
it,
and
out
of
the
middle
of
it
as
it
were
glowing
metal,
out
of
the
middle
of
the
fire.
\VS{5}Out
of its centre came
the
likeness
of
four
living creatures.
This
was
their
appearance:
They
had
the
likeness
of
a
man.
\VS{6}Everyone
had
four
faces,
and
each
one
of
them
had
four
wings.
\VS{7}Their
feet
were
straight
feet.
The
sole
of
their
feet
was
like
the
sole
of
a
calf’s
foot;
and
they sparkled
like
burnished
bronze.
\VS{8}They
had
the
hands
of
a
man
under
their
wings
on
their
four
sides.
The
four
of
them
had
their
faces
and
their
wings
like this:
\VS{9}Their
wings
were
joined
to
one
another.
They
didn’t
turn
when
they
went.
Each
one
went
straight
forward.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}As
for
the
likeness
of
their
faces,
they
had
the
face
of
a
man.
The
four
of
them
had
the
face
of
a
lion
on
the
right
side.
The
four
of
them
had
the
face
of
an
ox
on
the
left
side.
The
four
of
them also
had
the
face
of
an
eagle.
\VS{11}Such
were
their
faces.
Their
wings
were
spread
out
above.
Two
wings
of
each
one
touched
another,
and
two
covered
their
bodies.
\VS{12}Each
one
went
straight
forward.
Where
the
spirit
was
to
go,
they
went.
They
didn’t
turn
when
they
went.
\VS{13}As
for
the
likeness
of
the
living
creatures,
their
appearance
was
like
burning
coals
of
fire,
like
the
appearance
of
torches.
The
fire
went
up
and
down amongst
the
living
creatures.
The
fire
was
bright,
and
lightning
went
out
of
the
fire.
\VS{14}The
living creatures
ran
and
returned as
the
appearance
of
a flash
of
lightning.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Now
as
I
saw
the
living creatures,
behold,
there
was
one
wheel
on
the
earth
beside
the
living creatures,
for
each
of
the
four
faces
of
it.
\VS{16}The
appearance
of
the
wheels
and
their
work
was
like
a
beryl.
The
four
of
them
had
one
likeness.
Their
appearance
and
their
work
was
as
it
were
a
wheel
within
a
wheel.
\VS{17}When
they
went,
they
went
in
their
four
directions.
They
didn’t
turn
when
they
went.
\VS{18}As
for
their
rims,
they
were
high
and dreadful;
and
the
four
of
them
had
their
rims
full
of
eyes
all
around.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}When
the
living creatures
went,
the
wheels
went
beside
them.
When
the
living creatures
were
lifted
up
from
the
earth,
the
wheels
were
lifted
up.
\VS{20}Wherever
the
spirit
was
to
go,
they
went.
The
spirit
was
to
go
there.
The
wheels
were
lifted
up
beside
them;
for
the
spirit
of
the
living
creature
was
in
the
wheels.
\VS{21}When
those
went, these
went.
When
those
stood, these
stood.
When
those
were
lifted
up
from
the
earth,
the
wheels
were
lifted
up
beside
them;
for
the
spirit
of
the
living
creature
was
in
the
wheels.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Over
the
head
of
the
living
creature there
was
the
likeness
of
an
expanse,
like
an
awesome
crystal
to
look
at,
stretched
out
over
their
heads
above.
\VS{23}Under
the
expanse,
their
wings
were
straight,
one towards
the
other.
Each
one
had
two
which
covered
on
this side,
and
each
one
had
two
which
covered
their
bodies
on
that side.
\VS{24}When
they went,
I
heard
the
noise
of
their
wings
like
the
noise
of
great
waters,
like
the
voice
of
the
Almighty,
a
noise
of
tumult
like
the
noise
of
an
army.
When
they
stood,
they
let down
their
wings.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}There
was
a
voice
above
the
expanse
that
was
over
their
heads.
When
they
stood,
they
let
down
their
wings.
\VS{26}Above
the
expanse
that
was
over
their
heads
was
the
likeness
of
a
throne,
as
the
appearance
of
a
sapphire\FTNT{§}{{\FR 1:26 }
or, lapis lazuli}
stone.
On
the
likeness
of
the
throne
was
a
likeness
as
the
appearance
of
a
man
on
it
above.
\VS{27}I
saw
as
it
were
glowing
metal,
as
the
appearance
of
fire
within
it
all
around,
from
the
appearance
of
his
waist
and
upward;
and
from
the
appearance
of
his
waist
and
downward
I
saw
as
it
were
the
appearance
of
fire,
and there
was
brightness
around
him.
\VS{28}As
the
appearance
of
the
rainbow
that
is
in
the
cloud
in
the
day
of
rain,
so
was
the
appearance
of
the
brightness
all
around.
\par }{\PP This
was
the
appearance
of
the
likeness
of
the
LORD’s
glory.
When
I
saw
it,
I
fell
on
my
face,
and
I
heard
a
voice
of
one
that
spoke.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
stand
on
your
feet,
and
I
will
speak
with
you.”
\VS{2}The
Spirit
entered
into
me
when
he
spoke
to
me,
and
set
me
on
my
feet;
and
I
heard
him
who
spoke
to
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
I
send
you
to
the
children
of
Israel,
to
a
nation
of
rebels
who
have
rebelled
against
me.
They
and
their
fathers
have
transgressed
against
me
even
to
this
very
day.
\VS{4}The
children
are impudent
and stiff-hearted.
I
am
sending
you
to
them,
and
you
shall
tell
them, ‘This
is
what
the
Lord\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:4 }
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”}
GOD
says.’
\VS{5}They,
whether
they
will
hear,
or
whether
they
will
refuse—for
they
are
a
rebellious
house—yet
they
will
know
that
there
has
been
a
prophet amongst
them.
\VS{6}You,
son
of
man,
don’t
be
afraid
of
them,
neither
be
afraid
of
their
words,
though
briers
and
thorns
are
with
you,
and
you
dwell amongst
scorpions.
Don’t
be
afraid
of
their
words,
nor
be
dismayed
at
their looks,
though
they
are
a
rebellious
house.
\VS{7}You
shall
speak
my
words
to
them,
whether
they
will
hear
or
whether
they
will
refuse;
for
they
are most
rebellious.
\VS{8}But
you,
son
of
man,
hear
what
I
tell
you.
Don’t
be
rebellious
like
that
rebellious
house.
Open
your
mouth,
and
eat
that
which
I
give
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}When
I
looked,
behold,
a
hand
was
stretched
out
to
me;
and
behold,
a
scroll
of
a
book
was
in
it.
\VS{10}He
spread
it
before
me.
It
was
written
within
and without;
and
lamentations,
mourning,
and
woe
were
written
in
it.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
eat
what
you
find.
Eat
this
scroll,
and go,
speak
to
the
house
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}So I
opened
my
mouth,
and
he caused
me
to
eat
the
scroll.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
eat
this
scroll
that
I
give
you
and
fill
your
belly
and
your
bowels
with
it.”
\par }{\PP Then
I
ate
it.
It
was
as
sweet
as
honey
in
my
mouth.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
go
to
the
house
of
Israel,
and
speak
my
words
to
them.
\VS{5}For
you
are
not
sent
to
a
people
of
a strange
speech
and
of
a
hard
language,
but
to
the
house
of
Israel—
\VS{6}not
to
many
peoples
of
a strange
speech
and
of
a
hard
language,
whose
words
you
can’t
understand.
Surely,
if
I
sent
you
to
them,
they
would
listen
to
you.
\VS{7}But
the
house
of
Israel
will
not
listen
to
you,
for
they
will
not
listen
to
me;
for
all
the
house
of
Israel
are
obstinate\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:7 }
Literally, have a hard forehead}
and hard-hearted.
\VS{8}Behold,
I
have
made
your
face
hard
against
their
faces,
and
your
forehead
hard
against
their
foreheads.
\VS{9}I
have
made
your
forehead
as
a
diamond,
harder
than
flint.
Don’t
be
afraid
of
them,
neither
be
dismayed
at
their looks,
though
they
are
a
rebellious
house.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Moreover
he
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
receive
in
your
heart
and
hear
with
your
ears
all
my
words
that
I
speak
to
you.
\VS{11}Go
to
them
of
the captivity,
to
the
children
of
your
people,
and
speak
to
them,
and
tell
them, ‘This
is
what
the
Lord
GOD
says,’
whether
they
will
hear,
or
whether
they
will
refuse.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
the
Spirit
lifted
me
up,
and
I
heard
behind
me
the
voice
of
a
great rushing,
saying, “Blessed
be
the
LORD’s
glory
from
his
place.”
\VS{13}I
heard
the
noise
of
the
wings
of
the
living creatures
as they touched
one
another,
and
the
noise
of
the
wheels
beside
them, even
the
noise
of
a
great rushing.
\VS{14}So
the
Spirit
lifted
me
up,
and
took
me
away;
and
I
went
in
bitterness,
in
the
heat
of
my
spirit;
and
the
LORD’s
hand
was
strong
on
me.
\VS{15}Then
I
came
to
them
of
the captivity
at Tel Aviv
who
lived
by
the
river
Chebar,
and
to
where
they
lived;
and
I
sat
there overwhelmed amongst
them
seven
days.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}At
the
end
of
seven
days,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{17}“Son
of
man,
I
have
made
you
a
watchman
to
the
house
of
Israel. Therefore
hear
the
word
from
my
mouth,
and
warn
them
from
me.
\VS{18}When
I
tell
the
wicked, ‘You
will
surely
die;’
and
you
give
him
no
warning,
nor
speak
to
warn
the
wicked
from
his
wicked
way,
to save
his
life,
that
wicked
man
will
die
in
his
iniquity;
but
I
will
require
his
blood
at
your
hand.
\VS{19}Yet
if
you
warn
the
wicked,
and
he
doesn’t
turn
from
his
wickedness,
nor
from
his
wicked
way,
he
will
die
in
his
iniquity;
but
you
have
delivered
your
soul.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“Again,
when
a
righteous
man
turns
from
his
righteousness
and
commits
iniquity,
and
I
lay
a
stumbling
block
before
him,
he
will
die.
Because
you
have
not
given
him warning,
he
will
die
in
his
sin,
and
his
righteous
deeds
which
he
has
done
will
not
be
remembered;
but
I
will
require
his
blood
at
your
hand.
\VS{21}Nevertheless
if
you
warn
the
righteous
man,
that
the
righteous
not
sin,
and
he
does
not
sin,
he
will
surely
live,
because
he
took warning;
and
you
have
delivered
your
soul.”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}The
LORD’s
hand
was
there
on
me;
and
he
said
to
me, “Arise,
go
out
into
the
plain,
and
I
will
talk
with
you
there.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Then
I
arose,
and
went
out
into
the
plain,
and
behold,
the
LORD’s
glory
stood
there,
like
the
glory
which
I
saw
by
the
river
Chebar.
Then
I
fell
on
my
face.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Then
the
Spirit
entered
into
me
and
set
me
on
my
feet.
He
spoke
with
me,
and
said
to
me, “Go,
shut
yourself
inside
your
house.
\VS{25}But
you,
son
of
man,
behold,
they
will
put
ropes
on
you,
and
will
bind
you
with
them,
and
you
will
not
go
out amongst
them.
\VS{26}I
will
make
your
tongue
stick
to
the
roof
of
your
mouth
so
that
you
will
be
mute
and
will
not
be able
to
correct
them,
for
they
are
a
rebellious
house.
\VS{27}But
when
I
speak
with
you,
I
will
open
your
mouth,
and
you
shall
tell
them, ‘This
is
what
the
Lord
GOD
says.’
He
who
hears,
let
him
hear;
and
he
who
refuses,
let
him
refuse;
for
they
are
a
rebellious
house.”

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“You
also,
son
of
man,
take
a tile,
and
lay
it
before
yourself,
and portray
on
it
a
city,
even
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Lay
siege
against
it,
build forts
against
it,
and
cast
up
a mound
against
it. Also
set
camps
against
it
and
plant battering
rams
against
it
all
around.
\VS{3}Take
for
yourself
an
iron
pan
and
set
it
for
a
wall
of
iron
between
you
and
the
city.
Then
set
your
face towards
it.
It
will
be
besieged,
and
you
shall
lay
siege
against
it.
This
shall
be
a
sign
to
the
house
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“Moreover
lie
on
your
left
side,
and
lay
the
iniquity
of
the
house
of
Israel
on
it.
According
to
the
number
of
the
days
that
you
shall
lie
on
it,
you
shall
bear
their
iniquity.
\VS{5}For
I
have
appointed
the
years
of
their
iniquity
to
be
to
you
a
number
of
days,
even
three
hundred
and
ninety
days.
So
you
shall
bear
the
iniquity
of
the
house
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“Again,
when
you
have
accomplished
these,
you
shall
lie
on
your right
side,
and
shall
bear
the
iniquity
of
the
house
of
Judah.
I
have
appointed
forty
days,
each
day
for
a
year,
to
you.
\VS{7}You
shall
set
your
face towards
the
siege
of
Jerusalem,
with
your
arm
uncovered;
and
you
shall
prophesy
against
it.
\VS{8}Behold,
I
put
ropes
on
you,
and
you
shall
not
turn
yourself
from
one
side
to
the
other,
until
you
have
accomplished
the
days
of
your
siege.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Take
for
yourself
also
wheat,
barley,
beans,
lentils,
millet,
and
spelt,
and
put
them
in
one
vessel.
Make
bread
of
it.
According
to
the
number
of
the
days
that
you
will
lie
on
your
side,
even
three
hundred
and
ninety
days,
you
shall
eat
of
it.
\VS{10}Your
food
which
you
shall
eat
shall
be
by
weight,
twenty
shekels\FTNT{*}{{\FR 4:10 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.}
a
day.
From
time
to
time
you
shall
eat
it.
\VS{11}You
shall
drink
water
by
measure,
the
sixth
part
of
a
hin.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 4:11 }
A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.}
From
time
to
time
you
shall
drink.
\VS{12}You
shall
eat
it
as
barley
cakes,
and
you
shall bake
it
in
their
sight
with
dung
that comes out
of
man.”
\VS{13}The
LORD
said, “Even
thus
will
the
children
of
Israel
eat
their
bread
unclean, amongst
the
nations
where
I
will
drive
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
I
said, “Ah
Lord
GOD!
Behold,
my
soul
has
not
been polluted;
for
from
my
youth
up
even
until
now
I
have
not
eaten
of
that
which
dies
of itself,
or
is
torn
of animals.
No abominable
meat
has
come
into
my
mouth!”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Then
he
said
to
me, “Behold,
I
have
given
you
cow’s
dung
for
man’s
dung,
and
you
shall
prepare
your
bread
on
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Moreover
he
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
behold,
I
will
break
the
staff
of
bread
in
Jerusalem.
They
will
eat
bread
by
weight,
and
with fearfulness.
They
will
drink
water
by
measure,
and
in dismay;
\VS{17}that
they
may
lack
bread
and
water,
be dismayed
one
with
another,
and pine
away
in
their
iniquity.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“You,
son
of
man,
take
a
sharp
sword.
You
shall
take
it
as
a
barber’s
razor
to
yourself,
and
shall cause
it
to
pass
over
your
head
and
over
your
beard.
Then
take
balances
to
weigh
and
divide
the
hair.
\VS{2}A
third
part
you
shall
burn
in
the
fire
in
the
middle
of
the
city,
when
the
days
of
the
siege
are
fulfilled.
You
shall
take
a
third
part,
and
strike
with
the
sword
around
it.
A
third
part
you
shall
scatter
to
the
wind,
and
I
will draw
out
a
sword
after
them.
\VS{3}You shall
take
a
small
number
of
these
and bind
them
in
the folds
of
your robe.
\VS{4}Of
these
again
you
shall
take,
and
cast
them
into
the
middle
of
the
fire,
and
burn
them
in
the
fire.
From
it
a
fire
will
come
out
into
all
the
house
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘This
is
Jerusalem.
I
have
set
her
in
the
middle
of
the
nations,
and
countries
are
around
her.
\VS{6}She
has
rebelled
against
my
ordinances
in doing
wickedness
more
than
the
nations,
and
against
my
statutes
more
than
the
countries
that
are
around
her;
for
they
have
rejected
my
ordinances,
and
as
for
my
statutes,
they
have
not
walked
in
them.’
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Because
you
are
more turbulent
than
the
nations
that
are
around
you,
and
have
not
walked
in
my
statutes,
neither
have
kept
my
ordinances,
neither
have
followed
the
ordinances
of
the
nations
that
are
around
you;
\VS{8}therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I,
even
I,
am
against
you;
and
I
will execute judgements amongst
you
in
the
sight
of
the
nations.
\VS{9}I
will
do
in
you
that
which
I
have
not
done,
and
which
I
will
not
do
anything
like
it
any
more,
because
of
all
your
abominations.
\VS{10}Therefore
the
fathers
will
eat
the
sons
within
you,
and
the
sons
will
eat
their
fathers.
I
will execute judgements
on
you;
and
I
will
scatter
the
whole
remnant
of
you
to
all
the
winds.
\VS{11}Therefore
as
I
live,’
says
the
Lord
GOD, ‘surely,
because
you
have
defiled
my
sanctuary
with
all
your
detestable
things,
and
with
all
your
abominations,
therefore
I
will
also diminish
you.
My
eye
won’t
spare,
and
I
will
have
no
pity.
\VS{12}A
third
part
of
you
will
die
with
the
pestilence,
and
they
will
be
consumed
with
famine
within
you.
A
third
part
will
fall
by
the
sword
around
you.
A
third
part
I
will
scatter
to
all
the
winds,
and
will draw
out
a
sword
after
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘Thus
my
anger
will
be
accomplished,
and
I
will cause
my
wrath towards
them
to
rest,
and
I
will
be
comforted.
They
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
in
my
zeal,
when
I
have
accomplished
my
wrath
on
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“ ‘Moreover
I
will
make
you
a
desolation
and
a
reproach amongst
the
nations
that
are
around
you,
in
the
sight
of
all
that
pass
by.
\VS{15}So
it
will
be
a
reproach
and
a taunt,
an
instruction
and
an astonishment,
to
the
nations
that
are
around
you,
when
I execute judgements
on
you
in
anger
and
in
wrath,
and
in
wrathful
rebukes—I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it—
\VS{16}when
I
send
on
them
the
evil
arrows
of
famine
that
are
for
destruction,
which
I
will
send
to
destroy
you.
I
will
increase
the
famine
on
you
and
will
break
your
staff
of
bread.
\VS{17}I
will
send
on
you
famine
and
evil
animals,
and
they
will
bereave
you.
Pestilence
and
blood
will
pass
through
you.
I
will
bring
the
sword
on
you.
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it.’ ”

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face towards
the
mountains
of
Israel,
and
prophesy
to
them,
\VS{3}and
say, ‘You
mountains
of
Israel,
hear
the
word
of
the
Lord
GOD!
The
Lord
GOD
says
to
the
mountains
and
to
the
hills,
to
the watercourses
and
to
the
valleys: “Behold,
I,
even
I,
will
bring
a
sword
on
you,
and
I
will
destroy
your
high
places.
\VS{4}Your
altars
will
become
desolate,
and
your
incense
altars
will
be
broken.
I
will
cast
down
your
slain men
before
your
idols.
\VS{5}I
will
lay
the
dead
bodies
of
the
children
of
Israel
before
their
idols.
I
will
scatter
your
bones
around
your
altars.
\VS{6}In
all
your
dwelling
places,
the
cities
will
be laid waste
and
the
high
places
will
be
desolate,
so
that
your
altars
may
be laid waste
and
made
desolate,
and
your
idols
may
be
broken
and
cease,
and
your
incense
altars
may
be
cut
down,
and
your
works
may
be abolished.
\VS{7}The
slain
will
fall amongst
you,
and
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘ “Yet
I
will
leave
a
remnant,
in
that
you
will
have
some
that
escape
the
sword amongst
the
nations,
when
you
are
scattered
through
the
countries.
\VS{9}Those
of
you
that
escape
will
remember
me amongst
the
nations
where
they
are
carried
captive,
how
I
have
been
broken
with
their lewd
heart,
which
has
departed
from
me,
and
with
their
eyes,
which
play
the
prostitute
after
their
idols.
Then
they
will loathe
themselves
in
their
own
sight
for
the evils
which
they
have
committed
in
all
their
abominations.
\VS{10}They
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
I
have
not
said
in
vain
that
I
would
do
this
evil
to
them.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Strike
with
your
hand,
and
stamp
with
your
foot,
and
say, “Alas!”,
because
of
all
the
evil
abominations
of
the
house
of
Israel;
for
they
will
fall
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence.
\VS{12}He
who
is
far
off
will
die
of
the
pestilence.
He
who
is
near
will
fall
by
the
sword.
He
who
remains
and
is
besieged
will
die
by
the
famine.
Thus
I
will
accomplish
my
wrath
on
them.
\VS{13}You
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
when
their
slain
men
are amongst
their
idols
around
their
altars,
on
every
high
hill,
on
all
the
tops
of
the
mountains,
under
every
green
tree,
and
under
every thick
oak—the
places
where
they
offered pleasant
aroma
to
all
their
idols.
\VS{14}I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
on
them
and
make
the
land
desolate
and
waste,
from
the
wilderness towards
Diblah,
throughout
all
their
habitations.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }
\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“You,
son
of
man,
the
Lord
GOD
says
to
the
land
of
Israel, ‘An
end!
The
end
has
come
on
the
four
corners
of
the
land.
\VS{3}Now
the
end
is
on
you,
and
I
will
send
my
anger
on
you,
and
will
judge
you
according
to
your
ways.
I
will
bring
on
you
all
your
abominations.
\VS{4}My
eye
will
not
spare
you,
neither
will
I
have
pity;
but
I
will
bring
your
ways
on
you,
and
your
abominations
will
be amongst
you.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘A
disaster!
A
unique
disaster!
Behold,
it
comes.
\VS{6}An
end
has
come.
The
end
has
come!
It awakes
against
you.
Behold,
it
comes.
\VS{7}Your
doom
has
come
to
you,
inhabitant
of
the
land!
The
time
has
come!
The
day
is
near,
a
day
of
tumult,
and
not
of
joyful
shouting,
on
the
mountains.
\VS{8}Now
I
will
shortly
pour
out
my
wrath
on
you,
and
accomplish
my
anger
against
you,
and
will
judge
you
according
to
your
ways.
I
will
bring
on
you
all
your
abominations.
\VS{9}My
eye
won’t
spare,
neither
will
I
have
pity.
I
will punish
you
according
to
your
ways.
Your
abominations
will
be amongst
you.
Then
you
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
strike.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘Behold,
the
day!
Behold,
it
comes!
Your
doom
has
gone
out.
The
rod
has blossomed.
Pride
has
budded.
\VS{11}Violence
has
risen
up into
a
rod
of
wickedness.
None
of
them
will
remain,
nor
of
their
multitude,
nor
of
their
wealth.
There
will
be
nothing
of value amongst
them.
\VS{12}The
time
has
come!
The
day draws
near.
Don’t
let
the
buyer
rejoice,
nor
the
seller
mourn;
for
wrath
is
on
all
its
multitude.
\VS{13}For
the
seller
won’t
return
to
that which
is
sold,
although
they
are
still
alive;
for
the
vision concerns
the
whole
multitude
of
it.
None
will
return.
None
will
strengthen
himself
in
the
iniquity
of
his
life.
\VS{14}They
have
blown
the
trumpet,
and
have
made
all
ready;
but
no
one
goes
to
the
battle,
for
my
wrath
is
on
all
its
multitude.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“ ‘The
sword
is
outside,
and
the
pestilence
and
the
famine
within.
He
who
is
in
the
field
will
die
by
the
sword.
He
who
is
in
the
city
will
be
devoured
by
famine
and
pestilence.
\VS{16}But
of
those
who
escape,
they
will
escape
and
will
be
on
the
mountains
like
doves
of
the
valleys,
all
of
them moaning,
everyone
in
his
iniquity.
\VS{17}All
hands
will
be
feeble,
and
all
knees
will
be
weak
as
water.
\VS{18}They
will
also
clothe
themselves
with
sackcloth,
and
horror
will
cover
them.
Shame
will
be
on
all
faces,
and
baldness
on
all
their
heads.
\VS{19}They
will
cast
their
silver
in
the
streets,
and
their
gold
will
be
as
an
unclean
thing.
Their
silver
and
their
gold
won’t
be
able
to
deliver
them
in
the
day
of
the
LORD’s
wrath.
They
won’t
satisfy
their
souls
or
fill
their bellies;
because
it
has
been
the
stumbling
block
of
their
iniquity.
\VS{20}As
for
the beauty
of
his ornament,
he
set
it
in majesty;
but
they
made
the
images
of
their
abominations
and
their
detestable
things therein.
Therefore
I
have
made
it
to
them
as
an
unclean
thing.
\VS{21}I
will
give
it
into
the
hands
of
the
strangers
for
a
prey,
and
to
the
wicked
of
the
earth
for
a
plunder;
and
they
will
profane
it.
\VS{22}I
will
also
turn
my
face
from
them,
and
they
will
profane
my
secret
place.
Robbers
will
enter
into
it,
and
profane
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“ ‘Make
chains,
for
the
land
is
full
of
bloody
crimes,
and
the
city
is
full
of
violence.
\VS{24}Therefore
I
will
bring
the worst
of
the
nations,
and
they
will
possess
their
houses.
I
will
also make
the
pride
of
the
strong
to
cease.
Their
holy
places
will
be
profaned.
\VS{25}Destruction
comes!
They
will
seek
peace,
and
there
will
be
none.
\VS{26}Mischief
will
come
on mischief,
and rumour
will
be
on rumour.
They
will
seek
a
vision
of
the
prophet;
but
the
law
will
perish
from
the
priest,
and
counsel
from
the
elders.
\VS{27}The
king
will
mourn,
and
the
prince
will
be
clothed
with
desolation.
The
hands
of
the
people
of
the
land
will
be troubled.
I
will
do
to
them
after
their
way,
and
according
to
their own judgements
I
will
judge
them.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
sixth
year,
in
the
sixth
month,
in
the
fifth
day
of
the
month,
as
I
sat
in
my
house,
and
the
elders
of
Judah
sat
before
me,
the
Lord GOD’s
hand
fell
on
me
there.
\VS{2}Then
I
saw,
and
behold,
a
likeness
as
the
appearance
of
fire—from
the
appearance
of
his
waist
and
downward,
fire,
and
from
his
waist
and
upward,
as
the
appearance
of
brightness,
as
it
were
glowing
metal.
\VS{3}He
stretched
out
the
form
of
a
hand,
and
took
me
by
a
lock
of
my
head;
and
the
Spirit
lifted
me
up
between
earth
and
the
sky,
and
brought
me
in
the
visions
of
God
to
Jerusalem,
to
the
door
of
the
gate
of
the
inner
court
that looks towards
the
north,
where
there
was
the
seat
of
the
image
of
jealousy,
which provokes
to
jealousy.
\VS{4}Behold,
the
glory
of
the
God
of
Israel
was
there, according
to
the
appearance
that
I
saw
in
the
plain.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
he
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
lift
up
your
eyes
now
the
way towards
the
north.”
\par }{\PP So
I
lifted
up
my
eyes
the
way towards
the
north,
and
saw,
northward
of
the
gate
of
the
altar
this image
of
jealousy
in
the entry.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
do
you
see
what
they
do?
Even
the
great
abominations
that
the
house
of
Israel commit
here,
that
I
should
go
far
off
from
my
sanctuary?
But
you
will
again
see
yet
other
great
abominations.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}He
brought
me
to
the
door
of
the
court;
and
when
I
looked,
behold,
a
hole
in
the
wall.
\VS{8}Then
he
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
dig
now
in
the
wall.”
\par }{\PP When
I
had
dug
in
the
wall,
I
saw
a
door.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}He
said
to
me, “Go
in,
and
see
the
wicked
abominations
that
they
do
here.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}So
I
went
in
and
looked,
and
saw
every
form
of
creeping
things, abominable
animals,
and
all
the
idols
of
the
house
of
Israel,
portrayed
around
on
the
wall.
\VS{11}Seventy
men
of
the
elders
of
the
house
of
Israel
stood
before
them.
In
the
middle
of
them
Jaazaniah
the
son
of
Shaphan
stood,
every
man
with
his
censer
in
his
hand;
and
the smell
of
the
cloud
of
incense
went
up.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
he
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
have
you
seen
what
the
elders
of
the
house
of
Israel
do
in
the
dark,
every
man
in
his
rooms
of imagery?
For
they
say, ‘The
LORD doesn’t
see
us.
The
LORD
has forsaken
the
land.’ ”
\VS{13}He
said
also
to
me, “You
will
again
see
more
of
the
great
abominations
which
they
do.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
he
brought
me
to
the
door
of
the
gate
of
the
LORD’s
house
which
was towards
the
north;
and
I
saw
the
women
sit
there
weeping
for
Tammuz.
\VS{15}Then
he
said
to
me, “Have
you
seen
this,
son
of
man?
You
will
again
see
yet
greater
abominations
than
these.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}He
brought
me
into
the
inner
court
of
the
LORD’s
house;
and
I
saw
at
the
door
of
the
LORD’s
temple,
between
the
porch
and
the
altar,
there
were
about
twenty-five
men
with
their
backs towards
the
LORD’s
temple
and
their
faces towards
the
east.
They
were worshipping
the
sun towards
the
east.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
he
said
to
me, “Have
you
seen
this,
son
of
man?
Is
it
a
light
thing
to
the
house
of
Judah
that
they commit
the
abominations
which
they commit
here?
For
they
have
filled
the
land
with
violence,
and
have
turned
again
to
provoke
me
to
anger.
Behold,
they
put
the
branch
to
their
nose.
\VS{18}Therefore
I
will
also
deal
in
wrath.
My
eye
won’t
spare,
neither
will
I
have
pity.
Though
they
cry
in
my
ears
with
a
loud
voice,
yet
I
will
not
hear
them.”

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
he
cried
in
my
ears
with
a
loud
voice,
saying, “Cause
those
who
are
in
charge
of
the
city
to
draw
near,
each
man
with
his
destroying
weapon
in
his
hand.”
\VS{2}Behold,
six
men
came
from
the
way
of
the
upper
gate,
which
lies towards
the
north,
every
man
with
his slaughter
weapon
in
his
hand.
One
man
in
the
middle
of
them
was
clothed
in
linen,
with
a writer’s inkhorn
by
his
side.
They
went
in,
and
stood
beside
the
bronze
altar.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}The
glory
of
the
God
of
Israel
went
up
from
the
cherub, whereupon
it
was,
to
the
threshold
of
the
house;
and
he
called
to
the
man
clothed
in
linen,
who
had
the writer’s inkhorn
by
his
side.
\VS{4}The
LORD
said
to
him, “Go
through
the
middle
of
the
city,
through
the
middle
of
Jerusalem,
and
set
a mark
on
the
foreheads
of
the
men
that
sigh
and
that cry
over
all
the
abominations
that
are
done
within
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}To
the
others
he
said
in
my
hearing, “Go
through
the
city
after
him,
and
strike.
Don’t
let
your
eye
spare,
neither
have
pity.
\VS{6}Kill
utterly
the
old
man,
the
young
man,
the
virgin,
little
children
and
women;
but
don’t
come
near
any
man
on
whom
is
the mark.
Begin
at
my
sanctuary.”
\par }{\PP Then
they
began
at
the
old
men
who
were
before
the
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}He
said
to
them, “Defile
the
house,
and
fill
the courts
with
the
slain.
Go
out!”
\par }{\PP They
went
out,
and
struck
in
the
city.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}While
they
were
killing,
and
I
was
left,
I
fell
on
my
face,
and
cried,
and
said, “Ah
Lord
GOD!
Will
you
destroy
all
the residue
of
Israel
in
your
pouring
out
of
your
wrath
on
Jerusalem?”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Then
he
said
to
me, “The
iniquity
of
the
house
of
Israel
and
Judah
is
exceedingly
great,
and
the
land
is
full
of
blood,
and
the
city
full
of
perversion;
for
they
say, ‘The
LORD
has forsaken
the
land,
and
the
LORD doesn’t
see.’
\VS{10}As
for
me
also,
my
eye
won’t
spare,
neither
will
I
have
pity,
but
I
will
bring
their
way
on
their
head.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Behold,
the
man
clothed
in
linen,
who
had
the inkhorn
by
his
side,
reported
the
matter,
saying, “I
have
done
as
you
have
commanded
me.”

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
I
looked,
and
see,
in
the
expanse
that
was
over
the
head
of
the
cherubim
there
appeared
above
them
as
it
were
a
sapphire\FTNT{*}{{\FR 10:1 }
or, lapis lazuli
}
stone,
as
the
appearance
of
the
likeness
of
a
throne.
\VS{2}He
spoke
to
the
man
clothed
in
linen,
and
said, “Go
in
between
the
whirling
wheels,
even
under
the
cherub,
and
fill
both
your
hands
with
coals
of
fire
from
between
the
cherubim,
and scatter
them
over
the
city.”
\par }{\PP He
went
in
as
I
watched.
\VS{3}Now
the
cherubim
stood
on
the
right
side
of
the
house
when
the
man
went
in;
and
the
cloud
filled
the
inner
court.
\VS{4}The
LORD’s
glory
mounted
up
from
the
cherub,
and stood
over
the
threshold
of
the
house;
and
the
house
was
filled
with
the
cloud,
and
the
court
was
full
of
the
brightness
of
the
LORD’s
glory.
\VS{5}The
sound
of
the
wings
of
the
cherubim
was
heard
even
to
the
outer
court,
as
the
voice
of
God
Almighty
when
he
speaks.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}It
came
to
pass,
when
he
commanded
the
man
clothed
in
linen,
saying, “Take
fire
from
between
the
whirling
wheels,
from
between
the
cherubim,”
that
he
went
in
and
stood
beside
a
wheel.
\VS{7}The
cherub
stretched
out
his
hand
from
between
the
cherubim
to
the
fire
that
was
between
the
cherubim,
and
took
some
of
it,
and
put
it
into
the
hands
of
him
who
was
clothed
in
linen,
who
took
it
and
went
out.
\VS{8}The
form
of
a
man’s
hand
appeared here
in
the
cherubim
under
their
wings.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}I
looked,
and
behold,
there
were
four
wheels
beside
the
cherubim,
one
wheel
beside
one
cherub,
and
another
wheel
beside
another
cherub.
The
appearance
of
the
wheels
was
like
a
beryl
stone.
\VS{10}As
for
their
appearance,
the
four
of
them
had
one
likeness,
like
a
wheel
within
a
wheel.
\VS{11}When
they
went,
they
went
in
their
four
directions.
They
didn’t
turn
as
they
went,
but
to
the
place
where
the
head
looked
they
followed
it.
They
didn’t
turn
as
they
went.
\VS{12}Their
whole
body,
including
their
backs,
their
hands,
their
wings,
and
the
wheels,
were
full
of
eyes
all
around, even
the
wheels
that
the
four
of
them
had.
\VS{13}As
for
the
wheels,
they
were
called
in
my
hearing, “the
whirling
wheels”.
\VS{14}Every
one
them
had
four
faces.
The
first
face
was
the
face
of
the
cherub.
The
second
face
was
the
face
of
a
man.
The
third
face
was
the
face
of
a
lion.
The
fourth
was
the
face
of
an
eagle.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}The
cherubim mounted
up.
This
is
the
living
creature
that
I
saw
by
the
river
Chebar.
\VS{16}When
the
cherubim
went,
the
wheels
went
beside
them;
and
when
the
cherubim
lifted
up
their
wings
to mount
up
from
the
earth,
the
wheels
also
didn’t
turn
from
beside
them.
\VS{17}When
they
stood, these
stood.
When
they mounted
up, these mounted
up
with
them;
for
the
spirit
of
the
living
creature
was
in
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}The
LORD’s
glory
went
out
from
over
the
threshold
of
the
house
and
stood
over
the
cherubim.
\VS{19}The
cherubim
lifted
up
their
wings
and mounted
up
from
the
earth
in
my
sight
when
they
went
out,
with
the
wheels
beside
them.
Then
they
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.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}This
is
the
living
creature
that
I
saw
under
the
God
of
Israel
by
the
river
Chebar;
and
I
knew
that
they
were
cherubim.
\VS{21}Every
one
had
four
faces,
and
every
one
four
wings.
The
likeness
of
the
hands
of
a
man
was
under
their
wings.
\VS{22}As
for
the
likeness
of
their
faces,
they
were
the
faces
which
I
saw
by
the
river
Chebar,
their appearances
and
themselves.
They
each
went
straight
forward.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moreover
the
Spirit
lifted
me
up
and
brought
me
to
the
east
gate
of
the
LORD’s
house,
which
looks
eastward.
Behold,
twenty-five
men
were
at
the
door
of
the
gate;
and
I
saw amongst
them
Jaazaniah
the
son
of
Azzur,
and
Pelatiah
the
son
of
Benaiah,
princes
of
the
people.
\VS{2}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
these
are
the
men
who
devise
iniquity,
and
who
give
wicked
counsel
in
this
city;
\VS{3}who
say, ‘The time
is
not
near
to
build
houses.
This
is
the cauldron,
and
we
are
the
meat.’
\VS{4}Therefore
prophesy
against
them.
Prophesy,
son
of
man.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}The
LORD’s
Spirit
fell
on
me,
and
he
said
to
me, “Speak, ‘The
LORD
says: “Thus
you
have
said,
house
of
Israel;
for
I
know
the
things
that
come
into
your
mind.
\VS{6}You have
multiplied
your
slain
in
this
city,
and
you have
filled
its
streets
with
the
slain.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Your
slain
whom
you
have
laid
in
the
middle
of
it,
they
are
the
meat,
and
this
is
the cauldron;
but
you
will
be
brought
out
of
the
middle
of
it.
\VS{8}You
have
feared
the
sword;
and
I
will
bring
the
sword
on
you,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{9}“I
will
bring
you
out
of
the
middle
of
it,
and
deliver
you
into
the
hands
of
strangers,
and
will
execute judgements amongst
you.
\VS{10}You
will
fall
by
the
sword.
I
will
judge
you
in
the
border
of
Israel.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\VS{11}This
will
not
be
your cauldron,
neither
will
you
be
the
meat
in
the
middle
of
it.
I
will
judge
you
in
the
border
of
Israel.
\VS{12}You
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
for
you
have
not
walked
in
my
statutes.
You
have
not executed
my
ordinances,
but
have
done
after
the
ordinances
of
the
nations
that
are
around
you.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}When
I
prophesied,
Pelatiah
the
son
of
Benaiah
died.
Then
I
fell
down
on
my
face,
and
cried
with
a
loud
voice,
and
said, “Ah
Lord
GOD!
Will
you
make
a
full
end
of
the
remnant
of
Israel?”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{15}“Son
of
man,
your
brothers,
even
your
brothers,
the
men
of
your
relatives,
and
all
the
house
of
Israel,
all
of
them,
are
the
ones
to
whom
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
have
said, ‘Go
far
away
from
the
LORD.
This
land
has
been
given
to
us
for
a
possession.’
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“Therefore
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Whereas
I
have
removed
them
far off amongst
the
nations,
and whereas
I
have
scattered
them amongst
the
countries,
yet
I
will
be
to
them
a
sanctuary
for
a
little
while
in
the
countries
where
they
have
come.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“Therefore
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “I
will
gather
you
from
the
peoples,
and
assemble
you
out
of
the
countries
where
you
have
been
scattered,
and
I
will
give
you
the
land
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“ ‘They
will
come
there,
and
they
will
take
away
all
its
detestable
things
and
all
its
abominations
from
there.
\VS{19}I
will
give
them
one
heart,
and
I
will
put
a
new
spirit
within
them.
I
will
take
the stony
heart out
of
their
flesh,
and
will
give
them
a
heart
of
flesh,
\VS{20}that
they
may walk
in
my
statutes,
and
keep
my
ordinances,
and
do
them.
They
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God.
\VS{21}But
as
for
them whose
heart
walks
after
the
heart
of
their
detestable
things
and
their
abominations,
I
will
bring
their
way
on
their own
heads,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Then
the
cherubim
lifted
up
their
wings,
and
the
wheels
were
beside
them.
The
glory
of
the
God
of
Israel
was
over
them
above.
\VS{23}The
LORD’s
glory
went
up
from
the
middle
of
the
city,
and
stood
on
the
mountain
which
is
on
the
east side
of
the
city.
\VS{24}The
Spirit
lifted
me
up,
and
brought
me
in
the
vision
by
the
Spirit
of
God
into
Chaldea,
to
the
captives.
\par }{\PP So
the
vision
that
I
had
seen
went
up
from
me.
\VS{25}Then
I
spoke
to
the
captives
all
the
things
that
the
LORD
had
shown
me.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
also
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
you
dwell
in
the
middle
of
the
rebellious
house,
who
have
eyes
to
see,
and
don’t
see,
who
have
ears
to
hear,
and
don’t
hear;
for
they
are
a
rebellious
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“Therefore,
you
son
of
man,
prepare
your
baggage
for moving,
and move
by
day
in
their
sight.
You
shall move
from
your
place
to
another
place
in
their
sight.
It
may
be
they
will
consider,
though
they
are
a
rebellious
house.
\VS{4}You
shall
bring
out
your
baggage
by
day
in
their
sight,
as
baggage
for moving.
You
shall
go
out
yourself
at
evening
in
their
sight,
as
when men
go
out
into
exile.
\VS{5}Dig
through
the
wall
in
their
sight,
and
carry
your baggage
out
that way.
\VS{6}In
their
sight
you
shall
bear
it
on
your
shoulder,
and
carry
it
out
in
the
dark.
You
shall
cover
your
face,
so
that
you
don’t
see
the
land,
for
I
have
set
you
for
a
sign
to
the
house
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}I
did
so
as
I
was
commanded.
I
brought
out
my
baggage
by
day,
as
baggage
for moving,
and
in
the
evening
I
dug
through
the
wall
with
my
hand.
I
brought
it
out
in
the
dark,
and
bore
it
on
my
shoulder
in
their
sight.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}In
the
morning,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{9}“Son
of
man,
hasn’t
the
house
of
Israel,
the
rebellious
house,
said
to
you, ‘What
are
you
doing?’
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Say
to
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “This
burden concerns
the
prince
in
Jerusalem,
and
all
the
house
of
Israel amongst
whom
they
are.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“Say, ‘I
am
your
sign.
As
I
have
done,
so
will
it be
done
to
them.
They
will go into
exile, into
captivity.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“ ‘The
prince
who
is amongst
them
will
bear
his baggage
on
his
shoulder
in
the
dark,
and
will
go
out.
They
will
dig
through
the
wall
to
carry
things
out
that
way.
He
will
cover
his
face,
because
he
will
not
see
the
land
with
his
eyes.
\VS{13}I
will
also
spread
my
net
on
him,
and
he
will
be
taken
in
my snare.
I
will
bring
him
to
Babylon
to
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans;
yet
he
will
not
see
it, though
he
will
die
there.
\VS{14}I
will
scatter towards
every
wind
all
who
are
around
him
to
help
him,
and
all
his bands.
I
will draw
out
the
sword
after
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“ ‘They
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
when
I
disperse
them amongst
the
nations
and
scatter
them
through
the
countries.
\VS{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 amongst
the
nations
where
they
come.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{18}“Son
of
man,
eat
your
bread
with quaking,
and
drink
your
water
with
trembling
and
with fearfulness.
\VS{19}Tell
the
people
of
the
land, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says
concerning
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
and
the
land
of
Israel: “They
will
eat
their
bread
with fearfulness
and
drink
their
water
in dismay,
that
her
land
may
be
desolate,
and
all
that
is therein,
because
of
the
violence
of
all
those
who
dwell therein.
\VS{20}The
cities
that
are
inhabited
will
be laid
waste,
and
the
land
will
be
a
desolation.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{22}“Son
of
man,
what
is
this
proverb
that
you
have
in
the
land
of
Israel,
saying, ‘The
days
are
prolonged,
and
every
vision
fails?’
\VS{23}Tell
them
therefore, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “I
will
make
this
proverb
to
cease,
and
they
will
no
more use
it
as
a
proverb
in
Israel;” ’
but
tell
them, ‘ “The
days
are
at hand,
and
the fulfilment
of
every
vision.
\VS{24}For
there
will
be
no
more
any
false
vision
nor
flattering
divination
within
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{25}For
I
am
the
LORD.
I
will
speak,
and
the
word
that
I
speak
will
be performed.
It
will
be
no
more
deferred;
for
in
your
days,
rebellious
house,
I
will
speak
the
word
and
will
perform
it,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Again
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{27}“Son
of
man,
behold,
they
of
the
house
of
Israel
say, ‘The
vision
that
he
sees
is
for
many
days
to
come,
and
he
prophesies
of
times
that
are
far
off.’
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“Therefore
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “None
of
my
words
will
be
deferred
any
more,
but
the
word
which
I
speak
will
be performed,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
prophesy
against
the
prophets
of
Israel
who
prophesy,
and
say
to
those
who
prophesy
out
of
their own
heart, ‘Hear
the
LORD’s
word:
\VS{3}The
Lord
GOD
says, “Woe
to
the
foolish
prophets,
who
follow
their own
spirit,
and
have
seen
nothing!
\VS{4}Israel,
your
prophets
have
been
like
foxes
in
the
waste
places.
\VS{5}You
have
not
gone
up
into
the gaps
or built
up
the
wall
for
the
house
of
Israel,
to
stand
in
the
battle
in
the
LORD’s
day.
\VS{6}They
have
seen
falsehood
and
lying
divination,
who
say, ‘The
LORD
says;’
but
the
LORD
has
not
sent
them.
They
have made
men
to
hope
that
the
word
would
be
confirmed.
\VS{7}Haven’t
you
seen
a
false
vision,
and
haven’t
you
spoken
a
lying
divination,
in
that
you
say, ‘The
LORD
says;’
but
I
have
not
spoken?”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Because
you
have
spoken
falsehood
and
seen
lies,
therefore,
behold,
I
am
against
you,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{9}“My
hand
will
be
against
the
prophets
who
see
false
visions
and
who
utter
lying
divinations.
They
will
not
be
in
the
council
of
my
people,
neither
will
they
be
written
in
the
writing
of
the
house
of
Israel,
neither
will
they
enter
into
the
land
of
Israel.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
Lord
GOD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘Because,
even
because
they
have seduced
my
people,
saying, “Peace;”
and
there
is
no
peace.
When
one
builds
up
a
wall,
behold,
they
plaster
it
with whitewash.
\VS{11}Tell
those
who
plaster
it
with whitewash
that
it
will
fall.
There
will
be
an
overflowing
shower;
and
you, great
hailstones,
will
fall.
A stormy
wind
will
tear
it.
\VS{12}Behold,
when
the
wall
has
fallen,
won’t
it
be
said
to
you, “Where
is
the
plaster
with
which
you
have
plastered
it?”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “I
will
even
tear
it
with
a stormy
wind
in
my
wrath.
There
will
be
an
overflowing
shower
in
my
anger,
and great
hailstones
in
wrath
to consume
it.
\VS{14}So
I
will
break
down
the
wall
that
you
have
plastered
with whitewash,
and
bring
it
down
to
the
ground,
so
that
its
foundation
will
be
uncovered.
It
will
fall,
and
you
will
be
consumed
in
the
middle
of
it.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\VS{15}Thus
I
will
accomplish
my
wrath
on
the
wall,
and
on
those
who
have
plastered
it
with whitewash.
I
will
tell
you, ‘The
wall
is
no
more,
nor
those
who
plastered
it—
\VS{16}to wit,
the
prophets
of
Israel
who
prophesy
concerning
Jerusalem,
and
who see
visions
of
peace
for
her,
and
there
is
no
peace,’ ”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}You,
son
of
man,
set
your
face
against
the
daughters
of
your
people,
who
prophesy
out
of
their
own
heart;
and
prophesy
against
them,
\VS{18}and
say, “The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Woe
to
the women
who
sew magic
bands
on
all elbows
and
make
veils
for
the
head
of
persons
of
every
stature
to
hunt
souls!
Will
you
hunt
the
souls
of
my
people
and
save
souls
alive
for
yourselves?
\VS{19}You
have
profaned
me amongst
my
people
for
handfuls
of
barley
and
for
pieces
of
bread,
to
kill
the
souls
who
should
not
die
and
to
save
the
souls
alive
who
should
not
live,
by
your
lying
to
my
people
who
listen
to
lies.’
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
am
against
your magic
bands,
with
which
you
hunt
the
souls
to make
them fly,
and
I
will
tear
them
from
your
arms.
I
will
let
the
souls fly
free,
even
the
souls
whom
you ensnare
like birds.
\VS{21}I
will
also
tear
your
veils
and
deliver
my
people
out
of
your
hand;
and
they
will
no
longer
be
in
your
hand
to
be ensnared.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\VS{22}Because
with
lies
you
have
grieved
the
heart
of
the
righteous, whom
I
have
not
made sad;
and
strengthened
the
hands
of
the
wicked,
that
he should
not
return
from
his
wicked
way,
and
be saved
alive.
\VS{23}Therefore
you
shall
no
more
see
false
visions
nor practise
divination.
I
will
deliver
my
people
out
of
your
hand.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
some
of
the
elders
of
Israel
came
to
me
and
sat
before
me.
\VS{2}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{3}“Son
of
man,
these
men
have
taken
their
idols
into
their
heart,
and
put
the
stumbling
block
of
their
iniquity
before
their
face.
Should
I
be enquired
of
at
all
by
them?
\VS{4}Therefore
speak
to
them
and
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Every
man
of
the
house
of
Israel
who
takes
his
idols
into
his
heart
and
puts
the
stumbling
block
of
his
iniquity
before
his
face
then
comes
to
the
prophet,
I
the
LORD
will
answer
him
there
according
to
the
multitude
of
his
idols,
\VS{5}that
I
may
take
the
house
of
Israel
in
their own
heart,
because
they
are
all estranged
from
me
through
their
idols.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“Therefore
tell
the
house
of
Israel, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Return,
and
turn
yourselves
from
your
idols!
Turn
away
your
faces
from
all
your
abominations.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘ “For
everyone
of
the
house
of
Israel,
or
of
the
strangers
who
live
in
Israel,
who
separates
himself
from
me
and
takes
his
idols
into
his
heart,
and
puts
the
stumbling
block
of
his
iniquity
before
his
face,
and
comes
to
the
prophet
to enquire
for
himself
of
me,
I
the
LORD
will
answer
him
by
myself.
\VS{8}I
will
set
my
face
against
that
man
and
will
make
him
an astonishment,
for
a
sign
and
a
proverb,
and
I
will
cut
him
off
from amongst
my
people.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘ “If
the
prophet
is deceived
and
speaks
a
word,
I,
the
LORD,
have deceived
that
prophet,
and
I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
on
him,
and
will
destroy
him
from amongst
my
people
Israel.
\VS{10}They
will
bear
their
iniquity.
The
iniquity
of
the
prophet
will
be even
as
the
iniquity
of
him
who
seeks
him,
\VS{11}that
the
house
of
Israel
may
no
more
go
astray
from
me,
neither
defile
themselves
any
more
with
all
their
transgressions;
but
that
they
may
be
my
people,
and
I
may
be
their
God,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{13}“Son
of
man,
when
a
land
sins
against
me
by
committing
a
trespass,
and
I
stretch
out
my
hand
on
it,
and
break
the
staff
of
its
bread
and
send
famine
on
it,
and
cut
off
from
it
man
and
animal—
\VS{14}though
these
three
men,
Noah,
Daniel,
and
Job,
were
in
it,
they
would
deliver
only
their
own
souls
by
their
righteousness,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“If
I
cause
evil
animals
to
pass
through
the
land,
and
they ravage
it
and
it
is
made
desolate,
so
that
no man
may
pass
through
because
of
the
animals—
\VS{16}though
these
three
men
were
in
it,
as
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “they
would
deliver
neither
sons
nor
daughters.
They
only
would
be
delivered,
but
the
land
would
be
desolate.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“Or
if
I
bring
a
sword
on
that
land,
and
say, ‘Sword,
go
through
the
land,
so
that
I
cut
off
from
it
man
and animal’—
\VS{18}though
these
three
men
were
in
it,
as
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “they
would
deliver
neither
sons
nor
daughters,
but
they
only
would
be
delivered
themselves.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“Or
if
I
send
a
pestilence
into
that
land,
and
pour
out
my
wrath
on
it
in
blood,
to
cut
off
from
it
man
and
animal—
\VS{20}though
Noah,
Daniel,
and
Job,
were
in
it,
as
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “they
would
deliver
neither
son
nor
daughter;
they
would
deliver
only
their
own
souls
by
their
righteousness.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}For
the
Lord
GOD
says: “How
much
more
when
I
send
my
four severe judgements
on
Jerusalem—the
sword,
the
famine,
the
evil
animals,
and
the
pestilence—to
cut
off
from
it
man
and
animal!
\VS{22}Yet,
behold,
there
will
be
left
a
remnant
in
it
that
will
be
carried
out,
both
sons
and
daughters.
Behold,
they
will
come
out
to
you,
and
you
will
see
their
way
and
their doings.
Then
you
will
be
comforted
concerning
the
evil
that
I
have
brought
on
Jerusalem,
even
concerning
all
that
I
have
brought
on
it.
\VS{23}They
will
comfort
you,
when
you
see
their
way
and
their doings;
then
you
will
know
that
I
have
not
done
all
that
I
have
done
in
it
without
cause,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
what
is
the
vine
tree more
than
any
tree,
the
vine
branch
which
is amongst
the
trees
of
the
forest?
\VS{3}Will
wood
be
taken
of
it
to
make
anything?
Will
men
take
a
pin
of
it
to
hang
any
vessel
on
it?
\VS{4}Behold,
it
is
cast
into
the
fire
for
fuel;
the
fire
has
devoured
both
its
ends,
and
the
middle
of
it
is burnt.
Is
it profitable
for
any
work?
\VS{5}Behold,
when
it
was
whole,
it
was suitable
for
no
work.
How
much
less,
when
the
fire
has
devoured
it,
and
it
has
been burnt,
will
it
yet
be suitable
for
any
work?”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “As
the
vine
wood amongst
the
trees
of
the
forest,
which
I
have
given
to
the
fire
for
fuel,
so
I
will
give
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{7}I
will
set
my
face
against
them.
They
will
go
out
from
the
fire,
but
the
fire
will still
devour
them.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
when
I
set
my
face
against
them.
\VS{8}I
will
make
the
land
desolate,
because
they
have
acted
unfaithfully,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Again
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man, cause
Jerusalem
to
know
her
abominations;
\VS{3}and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says
to
Jerusalem: “Your
origin
and
your
birth
is
of
the
land
of
the
Canaanite.
An
Amorite
was
your
father,
and
your
mother
was
a
Hittite.
\VS{4}As
for
your
birth,
in
the
day
you
were
born
your
navel
was
not
cut.
You weren’t
washed
in
water
to cleanse
you.
You weren’t salted
at
all,
nor
wrapped
in blankets
at
all.
\VS{5}No
eye pitied
you,
to
do
any
of
these
things
to
you,
to
have
compassion
on
you;
but
you
were
cast
out
in
the
open
field,
because
you
were
abhorred
in
the
day
that
you
were
born.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘ “When
I
passed
by
you,
and
saw
you wallowing
in
your
blood,
I
said
to
you, ‘Though
you
are
in
your
blood,
live!’
Yes,
I
said
to
you, ‘Though
you
are
in
your
blood,
live!’
\VS{7}I
caused
you
to
multiply
as
that which
grows
in
the
field,
and
you
increased
and
grew
great,
and
you attained
to excellent beauty.
Your
breasts were
formed,
and
your
hair
grew;
yet
you were
naked
and
bare.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘ “Now
when
I
passed
by
you,
and
looked
at
you,
behold,
your
time
was
the
time
of
love;
and
I
spread
my
garment
over
you
and
covered
your
nakedness.
Yes,
I pledged myself
to
you
and
entered
into
a
covenant
with
you,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “and
you
became mine.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘ “Then
I
washed
you
with
water. Yes,
I thoroughly
washed
away
your
blood
from
you,
and
I anointed
you
with
oil.
\VS{10}I
clothed
you also
with
embroidered
work
and
put leather
sandals
on
you. I
dressed
you
with
fine
linen
and
covered
you
with
silk.
\VS{11}I decked
you
with
ornaments,
put
bracelets
on
your
hands,
and
put
a
chain
on
your
neck.
\VS{12}I
put
a
ring
on
your
nose,
earrings
in
your
ears,
and
a
beautiful
crown
on
your
head.
\VS{13}Thus
you were decked
with
gold
and
silver.
Your clothing
was
of
fine
linen,
silk,
and
embroidered
work.
You
ate
fine
flour,
honey,
and
oil.
You were
exceedingly
beautiful,
and
you prospered
to
royal estate.
\VS{14}Your
renown
went
out amongst
the
nations
for
your
beauty;
for
it
was
perfect,
through
my
majesty
which
I
had
put
on
you,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“ ‘ “But
you
trusted
in
your
beauty,
and
played
the
prostitute
because
of
your
renown,
and
poured
out
your prostitution
on
everyone
who
passed
by.
It
was
his.
\VS{16}You
took some
of
your
garments,
and
made
for
yourselves
high
places decked
with
various colours,
and
played
the
prostitute
on
them.
This shouldn’t
happen,
neither
shall
it
be.
\VS{17}You
also
took
your
beautiful
jewels
of
my
gold
and
of
my
silver,
which
I
had
given
you,
and
made
for
yourself
images
of
men,
and
played
the
prostitute
with
them.
\VS{18}You
took
your
embroidered
garments,
covered
them,
and
set
my
oil
and
my
incense
before
them.
\VS{19}My
bread
also
which
I
gave
you,
fine
flour,
oil,
and
honey,
with
which
I
fed
you,
you even
set
it
before
them
for
a pleasant
aroma;
and
so
it
was,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“ ‘ “Moreover
you
have
taken
your
sons
and
your
daughters,
whom
you
have
borne
to
me,
and
you
have
sacrificed
these
to
them
to
be
devoured.
Was
your prostitution
a
small
matter,
\VS{21}that
you
have
slain
my
children
and
delivered
them
up,
in causing
them
to
pass
through
the fire
to
them?
\VS{22}In
all
your
abominations
and
your prostitution
you
have
not
remembered
the
days
of
your
youth,
when
you
were
naked
and
bare,
and
were wallowing
in
your
blood.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“ ‘ “It
has
happened
after
all
your
wickedness—woe,
woe
to
you!”
says
the
Lord
GOD—
\VS{24}“that
you
have
built
for
yourselves
a vaulted
place,
and
have
made
yourselves
a lofty
place
in
every
street.
\VS{25}You
have
built
your lofty
place
at
the
head
of
every
way,
and
have
made
your
beauty
an abomination,
and
have opened
your
feet
to
everyone
who
passed
by,
and
multiplied
your prostitution.
\VS{26}You
have
also committed sexual immorality
with
the
Egyptians,
your neighbours, great
of
flesh;
and
have
multiplied
your prostitution,
to
provoke
me
to
anger.
\VS{27}See therefore,
I
have
stretched
out
my
hand
over
you,
and
have
diminished
your
portion,
and
delivered
you
to
the
will
of
those
who
hate
you,
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines,
who
are
ashamed
of
your
lewd
way.
\VS{28}You
have
played
the
prostitute
also
with
the Assyrians,
because
you
were insatiable;
yes,
you
have
played
the
prostitute
with
them,
and
yet
you weren’t
satisfied.
\VS{29}You
have
moreover
multiplied
your prostitution
to
the
land
of merchants,
to
Chaldea;
and
yet
you weren’t
satisfied
with
this.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“ ‘ “How
weak
is
your
heart,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “since
you
do
all
these
things,
the
work
of an impudent
prostitute;
\VS{31}in
that
you
build
your vaulted
place
at
the
head
of
every
way,
and
make
your lofty
place
in
every
street,
and
have
not
been
as
a
prostitute,
in
that
you scorn pay.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“ ‘ “Adulterous
wife,
who
takes
strangers
instead
of
her
husband!
\VS{33}People
give
gifts
to
all
prostitutes;
but
you
give
your
gifts
to
all
your
lovers,
and
bribe
them,
that
they
may
come
to
you
on
every
side
for
your prostitution.
\VS{34}You
are
different
from other
women
in
your prostitution,
in
that
no
one
follows
you
to
play
the
prostitute;
and whereas
you
give
hire,
and
no
hire
is
given
to
you,
therefore
you
are
different.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{35}“Therefore,
prostitute,
hear
the
LORD’s
word:
\VS{36}‘The
Lord
GOD
says, “Because
your filthiness
was
poured
out,
and
your
nakedness
uncovered
through
your prostitution
with
your
lovers;
and
because
of
all
the
idols
of
your
abominations,
and
for
the
blood
of
your
children,
that
you
gave
to
them;
\VS{37}therefore
see,
I
will
gather
all
your
lovers,
with
whom
you
have
taken
pleasure,
and
all
those
whom
you
have
loved,
with
all
those
whom
you
have
hated.
I
will
even
gather
them
against
you
on
every
side,
and
will
uncover
your
nakedness
to
them,
that
they
may
see
all
your
nakedness.
\VS{38}I
will
judge
you
as women who break wedlock
and
shed
blood
are
judged;
and
I
will
bring
on
you
the
blood
of
wrath
and
jealousy.
\VS{39}I
will
also
give
you
into
their
hand,
and
they
will throw
down
your vaulted
place,
and
break
down
your lofty
places.
They
will
strip
you
of
your
clothes
and
take
your
beautiful
jewels.
They
will
leave
you
naked
and
bare.
\VS{40}They
will
also
bring
up
a
company
against
you,
and
they
will
stone
you
with
stones,
and thrust
you
through
with
their
swords.
\VS{41}They
will
burn
your
houses
with
fire,
and
execute judgements
on
you
in
the
sight
of
many
women.
I
will
cause
you
to
cease
from
playing
the
prostitute,
and
you
will
also
give
no
hire
any
more.
\VS{42}So
I
will cause
my
wrath towards
you
to
rest,
and
my
jealousy
will
depart
from
you.
I
will
be
quiet,
and
will
not
be
angry
any
more.
\par }{\PP \VS{43}“ ‘ “Because
you
have
not
remembered
the
days
of
your
youth,
but
have raged
against
me
in
all
these
things;
therefore,
behold,
I
also
will
bring
your
way
on
your
head,”
says
the
Lord
GOD: “and
you
shall
not
commit
this
lewdness
with
all
your
abominations.
\par }{\PP \VS{44}“ ‘ “Behold,
everyone
who uses proverbs
will use
this proverb
against
you,
saying, ‘As
is
the
mother,
so
is
her
daughter.’
\VS{45}You
are
the
daughter
of
your
mother,
who loathes
her
husband
and
her
children;
and
you
are
the
sister
of
your
sisters,
who
loathed
their
husbands
and
their
children.
Your
mother
was
a
Hittite,
and
your
father
an
Amorite.
\VS{46}Your
elder
sister
is
Samaria,
who
dwells
at
your
left
hand,
she
and
her
daughters;
and
your
younger
sister,
who
dwells
at
your
right
hand,
is
Sodom
with
her
daughters.
\VS{47}Yet
you
have
not
walked
in
their
ways,
nor
done
their
abominations;
but
soon
you were
more
corrupt
than
they
in
all
your
ways.
\VS{48}As
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “Sodom
your
sister
has
not
done,
she
nor
her
daughters,
as
you
have
done,
you
and
your
daughters.
\par }{\PP \VS{49}“ ‘ “Behold,
this
was
the
iniquity
of
your
sister
Sodom:
pride, fullness
of
bread,
and prosperous
ease
was
in
her
and
in
her
daughters.
She
also
didn’t
strengthen
the
hand
of
the
poor
and
needy.
\VS{50}They
were arrogant
and
committed
abomination
before
me.
Therefore
I
took
them
away
when
I
saw
it.
\VS{51}Samaria
hasn’t
committed
half
of
your
sins;
but
you
have
multiplied
your
abominations
more
than
they,
and
have
justified
your
sisters
by
all
your
abominations
which
you
have
done.
\VS{52}You
also
bear
your own
shame
yourself,
in
that
you
have given judgement
for
your
sisters;
through
your
sins
that
you
have
committed
more
abominable
than
they,
they
are
more
righteous
than
you.
Yes,
be
also
confounded,
and
bear
your
shame,
in
that
you
have
justified
your
sisters.
\par }{\PP \VS{53}“ ‘ “I
will
reverse
their
captivity,
the
captivity
of
Sodom
and
her
daughters,
and
the
captivity
of
Samaria
and
her
daughters,
and
the
captivity
of
your
captives amongst
them;
\VS{54}that
you
may
bear
your own
shame,
and
may
be
ashamed
because
of
all
that
you
have
done,
in
that
you
are
a
comfort
to
them.
\VS{55}Your
sisters,
Sodom
and
her
daughters,
will
return
to
their
former estate;
and
Samaria
and
her
daughters
will
return
to
their
former estate;
and
you
and
your
daughters
will
return
to
your
former estate.
\VS{56}For
your
sister
Sodom
was
not mentioned
by
your
mouth
in
the
day
of
your
pride,
\VS{57}before
your
wickedness
was
uncovered,
as
at
the
time
of
the
reproach
of
the
daughters
of
Syria,
and
of
all
who
are
around
her,
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines,
who despise
you
all
around.
\VS{58}You
have
borne
your
lewdness
and
your
abominations,”
says
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{59}“ ‘For
the
Lord
GOD
says: “I
will
also
deal
with
you
as
you
have
done,
who
have
despised
the
oath
in breaking
the
covenant.
\VS{60}Nevertheless
I
will
remember
my
covenant
with
you
in
the
days
of
your
youth,
and
I
will
establish
an
everlasting
covenant
with
you.
\VS{61}Then
you
will
remember
your
ways
and
be
ashamed
when
you
receive
your
sisters,
your
elder
sisters
and
your
younger;
and
I
will
give
them
to
you
for
daughters,
but
not
by
your
covenant.
\VS{62}I
will
establish
my
covenant
with
you.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD;
\VS{63}that
you
may
remember,
and
be
confounded,
and
never
open
your
mouth
any
more
because
of
your
shame,
when
I
have forgiven
you
all
that
you
have
done,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
tell
a
riddle,
and speak
a
parable
to
the
house
of
Israel;
\VS{3}and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “A
great
eagle
with
great
wings
and
long
feathers,
full
of
feathers
which
had
various colours,
came
to
Lebanon
and
took
the
top
of
the
cedar.
\VS{4}He cropped
off
the
topmost
of
its
young
twigs,
and
carried
it
to
a
land
of traffic.
He planted
it
in
a
city
of
merchants.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ ‘ “He also
took
some
of
the
seed
of
the
land
and
planted
it
in fruitful
soil.
He
placed
it
beside
many
waters.
He
set
it
as
a
willow tree.
\VS{6}It grew
and
became
a
spreading
vine
of
low
stature, whose
branches
turned towards
him,
and
its
roots
were
under
him.
So
it
became
a
vine,
produced
branches,
and
shot
out sprigs.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘ “There
was
also
another
great
eagle
with
great
wings
and
many
feathers.
Behold,
this
vine
bent
its
roots towards
him,
and
shot
out
its
branches towards
him,
from
the ground
where
it
was
planted,
that
he might
water
it.
\VS{8}It
was
planted
in
a
good
soil
by
many
waters,
that
it might
produce
branches
and
that
it might
bear
fruit,
that
it might
be
a
good
vine.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Will
it
prosper?
Won’t
he
pull
up
its
roots
and
cut
off
its
fruit,
that
it
may
wither,
that
all
its fresh springing
leaves
may
wither?
It
can’t
be
raised
from
its
roots
by
a
strong
arm
or
many
people.
\VS{10}Yes,
behold, being
planted,
will
it
prosper?
Won’t
it utterly
wither
when
the
east
wind
touches
it?
It
will
wither
in
the ground
where
it
grew.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{12}“Say
now
to
the
rebellious
house, ‘Don’t
you
know
what
these
things mean?’
Tell
them, ‘Behold,
the
king
of
Babylon
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
took
its
king,
and
its
princes,
and
brought
them
to
him
to
Babylon.
\VS{13}He
took
one
of
the
royal
offspring,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 17:13 }
or, seed}
and
made
a
covenant
with
him.
He
also
brought
him
under
an
oath,
and
took
away
the mighty
of
the
land,
\VS{14}that
the
kingdom
might
be
brought
low,
that
it
might
not
lift itself
up,
but
that
by
keeping
his
covenant
it
might
stand.
\VS{15}But
he
rebelled
against
him
in
sending
his
ambassadors
into
Egypt,
that
they might
give
him
horses
and
many
people.
Will
he
prosper?
Will
he
who
does
such
things
escape?
Will
he
break
the
covenant,
and still
escape?
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ ‘As
I
live,’
says
the
Lord
GOD, ‘surely
in
the
place
where
the
king dwells
who
made
him
king,
whose
oath
he
despised,
and
whose
covenant
he broke,
even
with
him
in
the
middle
of
Babylon
he
will
die.
\VS{17}Pharaoh
with
his
mighty
army
and
great
company
won’t
help
him
in
the
war,
when
they
cast
up mounds
and
build forts
to
cut
off
many
persons.
\VS{18}For
he
has
despised
the
oath
by breaking
the
covenant;
and
behold,
he
had
given
his
hand,
and
yet
has
done
all
these
things.
He
won’t
escape.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘As
I
live,
I
will
surely
bring
on
his own
head
my
oath
that
he
has
despised
and
my
covenant
that
he
has broken.
\VS{20}I
will
spread
my
net
on
him,
and
he
will
be
taken
in
my snare.
I
will
bring
him
to
Babylon,
and
will
enter
into judgement
with
him
there
for
his
trespass
that
he
has trespassed
against
me.
\VS{21}All
his fugitives
in
all
his bands
will
fall
by
the
sword,
and
those
who
remain
will
be
scattered towards
every
wind.
Then
you
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it.’
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘I
will
also
take some
of
the
lofty
top
of
the
cedar,
and
will
plant
it.
I
will crop
off
from
the
topmost
of
its
young
twigs
a
tender
one,
and
I
will
plant
it
on
a
high
and
lofty
mountain.
\VS{23}I
will
plant
it
in
the
mountain
of
the
height
of
Israel;
and
it
will
produce
boughs,
and
bear
fruit,
and
be
a good
cedar.
Birds
of
every
kind
will
dwell
in
the
shade
of
its
branches.
\VS{24}All
the
trees
of
the
field
will
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 flourish.
\par }{\PP “ ‘I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
and
have
done
it.’ ”

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me
again,
saying,
\VS{2}“What
do
you mean,
that
you
use
this
proverb
concerning
the
land
of
Israel,
saying,
\par }{\Q ‘The
fathers
have
eaten
sour
grapes,
\par }{\QB and
the
children’s
teeth
are set
on edge’?
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“As
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “you
shall
not
use
this
proverb
any
more
in
Israel.
\VS{4}Behold,
all
souls
are mine;
as
the
soul
of
the
father,
so also
the
soul
of
the
son
is mine.
The
soul
who
sins,
he
shall
die.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{5}“But
if
a
man
is
just,
\par }{\QB and
does
that which
is lawful
and
right,
\par }{\Q \VS{6}and
has
not
eaten
on
the
mountains,
\par }{\QB hasn’t
lifted
up
his
eyes
to
the
idols
of
the
house
of
Israel,
\par }{\Q hasn’t
defiled
his neighbour’s
wife,
\par }{\QB hasn’t
come
near
a
woman
in
her
impurity,
\par }{\Q \VS{7}and
has
not
wronged
any,
\par }{\QB but
has
restored
to
the
debtor
his
pledge,
\par }{\Q has
taken
nothing
by
robbery,
\par }{\QB has
given
his
bread
to
the
hungry,
\par }{\QB and
has
covered
the
naked
with
a
garment;
\par }{\Q \VS{8}he
who
hasn’t lent
to
them
with
interest,
\par }{\QB hasn’t
taken
any
increase
from
them,
\par }{\Q who
has withdrawn
his
hand
from
iniquity,
\par }{\QB has executed
true
justice
between
man
and
man,
\par }{\Q \VS{9}has
walked
in
my
statutes,
\par }{\QB and
has
kept
my
ordinances,
\par }{\QB to
deal
truly;
\par }{\Q he
is
just,
\par }{\QB he
shall
surely
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{10}“If
he
fathers
a
son
who
is
a robber
who
sheds
blood,
and
who
does
any
one
of
these
things,
\VS{11}or
who
does
not
do
any
of
those
things
\par }{\Q but
has
eaten
at
the
mountain shrines
\par }{\QB and
defiled
his neighbour’s
wife,
\par }{\Q \VS{12}has
wronged
the
poor
and
needy,
\par }{\QB has
taken
by
robbery,
\par }{\Q has
not
restored
the
pledge,
\par }{\QB and
has
lifted
up
his
eyes
to
the
idols,
\par }{\QB has
committed
abomination,
\par }{\Q \VS{13}has lent
with
interest,
\par }{\QB and
has
taken
increase
from
the poor,
\par }{\MM shall
he
then
live?
He
shall
not
live.
He
has
done
all
these
abominations.
He
shall
surely
die.
His
blood
will
be
on
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Now,
behold,
if
he
fathers
a
son
who
sees
all
his
father’s
sins
which
he
has
done,
and fears,
and
doesn’t
do
likewise,
\par }{\Q \VS{15}who
hasn’t
eaten
on
the
mountains,
\par }{\QB hasn’t
lifted
up
his
eyes
to
the
idols
of
the
house
of
Israel,
\par }{\QB hasn’t
defiled
his neighbour’s
wife,
\par }{\Q \VS{16}hasn’t
wronged
any,
\par }{\QB hasn’t
taken
anything
to
pledge,
\par }{\Q hasn’t
taken
by
robbery,
\par }{\QB but
has
given
his
bread
to
the
hungry,
\par }{\QB and
has
covered
the
naked
with
a
garment;
\par }{\Q \VS{17}who
has withdrawn
his
hand
from
the
poor,
\par }{\QB who
hasn’t
received
interest
or
increase,
\par }{\Q has
executed
my
ordinances,
\par }{\QB has
walked
in
my
statutes;
\par }{\MM he
shall
not
die
for
the
iniquity
of
his
father.
He
shall
surely
live.
\VS{18}As
for
his
father,
because
he cruelly
oppressed,
robbed
his
brother,
and
did
that
which
is
not
good amongst
his
people,
behold,
he
will
die
in
his
iniquity.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“Yet
you
say, ‘Why
doesn’t
the
son
bear
the
iniquity
of
the
father?’
When
the
son
has
done
that
which
is lawful
and
right,
and
has
kept
all
my
statutes,
and
has
done
them,
he
will
surely
live.
\VS{20}The
soul
who
sins,
he
shall
die.
The
son
shall
not
bear
the
iniquity
of
the
father,
neither
shall
the
father
bear
the
iniquity
of
the
son.
The
righteousness
of
the
righteous
shall
be
on
him,
and
the
wickedness
of
the
wicked
shall
be
on
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“But
if
the
wicked
turns
from
all
his
sins
that
he
has
committed,
and
keeps
all
my
statutes,
and
does
that
which
is lawful
and
right,
he
shall
surely
live.
He
shall
not
die.
\VS{22}None
of
his
transgressions
that
he
has
committed
will
be
remembered
against
him.
In
his
righteousness
that
he
has
done,
he
shall
live.
\VS{23}Have
I
any
pleasure
in
the
death
of
the
wicked?”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “and
not
rather
that
he should
return
from
his
way,
and
live?
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“But
when
the
righteous
turns
away
from
his
righteousness,
and
commits
iniquity,
and
does according
to
all
the
abominations
that
the
wicked
man
does,
should
he live?
None
of
his
righteous
deeds
that
he
has
done
will
be
remembered.
In
his
trespass
that
he
has trespassed,
and
in
his
sin
that
he
has
sinned,
in
them
he
shall
die.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“Yet
you
say, ‘The
way
of
the
Lord
is
not equal.’
Hear
now,
house
of
Israel:
Is
my
way
not equal? Aren’t
your
ways unequal?
\VS{26}When
the
righteous
man
turns
away
from
his
righteousness,
and
commits
iniquity,
and
dies
in
it,
then
he
dies
in
his
iniquity
that
he
has
done.
\VS{27}Again,
when
the
wicked
man
turns
away
from
his
wickedness
that
he
has
committed,
and
does
that
which
is lawful
and
right,
he
will
save
his
soul
alive.
\VS{28}Because
he
considers,
and
turns
away
from
all
his
transgressions
that
he
has
committed,
he
shall
surely
live.
He
shall
not
die.
\VS{29}Yet
the
house
of
Israel
says, ‘The
way
of
the
Lord
is
not fair.’
House
of
Israel, aren’t
my
ways fair? Aren’t
your
ways unfair?
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“Therefore
I
will
judge
you,
house
of
Israel,
everyone
according
to
his
ways,”
says
the
Lord
GOD. “Return,
and
turn
yourselves
from
all
your
transgressions,
so
iniquity
will
not
be
your ruin.
\VS{31}Cast
away
from
you
all
your
transgressions
in
which
you
have
transgressed;
and
make
yourself
a
new
heart
and
a
new
spirit.
For
why
will
you
die,
house
of
Israel?
\VS{32}For
I
have
no
pleasure
in
the
death
of
him
who
dies,”
says
the
Lord
GOD. “Therefore
turn yourselves,
and
live!

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Moreover,
take
up
a
lamentation
for
the
princes
of
Israel,
\VS{2}and
say,
\par }{\Q ‘What
was
your
mother?
\par }{\QB A
lioness.
\par }{\Q She couched amongst
lions,
\par }{\QB in
the
middle
of
the
young
lions
she nourished
her
cubs.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}She
brought
up
one
of
her
cubs.
\par }{\QB He
became
a
young
lion.
\par }{\Q He learnt
to catch
the
prey.
\par }{\QB He
devoured
men.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}The
nations
also
heard
of
him.
\par }{\QB He
was
taken
in
their
pit;
\par }{\QB and
they
brought
him
with
hooks
to
the
land
of
Egypt.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{5}“ ‘Now
when
she
saw
that
she
had
waited,
\par }{\QB and
her
hope
was
lost,
\par }{\Q then
she
took
another
of
her
cubs,
\par }{\QB and
made
him
a
young
lion.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}He
went
up
and
down amongst
the
lions.
\par }{\QB He
became
a
young
lion.
\par }{\Q He learnt
to catch
the
prey.
\par }{\QB He
devoured
men.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}He
knew
their palaces,
\par }{\QB and laid waste
their
cities.
\par }{\Q The
land
was
desolate
with
its
fullness,
\par }{\QB because
of
the
noise
of
his
roaring.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Then
the
nations attacked
him
on
every
side
from
the
provinces.
\par }{\QB They
spread
their
net
over
him.
\par }{\QB He
was
taken
in
their
pit.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}They
put
him
in
a
cage
with
hooks,
\par }{\QB and
brought
him
to
the
king
of
Babylon.
\par }{\Q They
brought
him
into strongholds,
\par }{\QB so
that
his
voice
should
no
more
be
heard
on
the
mountains
of
Israel.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}“ ‘Your
mother
was
like
a
vine
in
your
blood,
planted
by
the
waters.
\par }{\QB It
was
fruitful
and
full
of
branches
by
reason
of
many
waters.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}It
had
strong
branches
for
the sceptres
of
those who
ruled.
\par }{\QB Their
stature
was
exalted amongst
the thick boughs.
\par }{\Q They
were
seen
in
their
height
\par }{\QB with
the
multitude
of
their
branches.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}But
it
was
plucked
up
in
fury.
\par }{\QB It
was
cast
down
to
the
ground,
\par }{\Q and
the
east
wind
dried
up
its
fruit.
\par }{\QB Its
strong
branches
were broken
off
and
withered.
\par }{\QB The
fire
consumed
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Now it
is
planted
in
the
wilderness,
\par }{\QB in
a
dry
and
thirsty
land.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Fire
has
gone
out
of
its
branches.
\par }{\QB It
has
devoured
its
fruit,
\par }{\QB so
that
there
is
in
it
no
strong
branch
to
be
a sceptre
to
rule.’
\par }{\MM This
is
a
lamentation,
and
shall
be
for
a
lamentation.”

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
seventh
year,
in
the
fifth
month,
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
some
of
the
elders
of
Israel
came
to enquire
of
the
LORD,
and
sat
before
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{3}“Son
of
man,
speak
to
the
elders
of
Israel,
and
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Is
it
to enquire
of
me
that
you
have
come?
As
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “I
will
not
be enquired
of
by
you.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“Will
you
judge
them,
son
of
man?
Will
you
judge
them? Cause
them
to
know
the
abominations
of
their
fathers.
\VS{5}Tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “In
the
day
when
I
chose
Israel,
and
swore
to
the
offspring
of
the
house
of
Jacob,
and
made
myself
known
to
them
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
when
I
swore
to
them,
saying, ‘I
am
the
LORD
your
God;’
\VS{6}in
that
day
I
swore
to
them
to
bring
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
into
a
land
that
I
had searched
out
for
them,
flowing
with
milk
and
honey,
which
is
the glory
of
all
lands.
\VS{7}I
said
to
them, ‘Each
of
you
throw
away
the
abominations
of
his
eyes.
Don’t
defile
yourselves
with
the
idols
of
Egypt.
I
am
the
LORD
your
God.’
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘ “But
they
rebelled
against
me
and wouldn’t
listen
to
me.
They
didn’t
all
throw
away
the
abominations
of
their
eyes.
They
also
didn’t
forsake
the
idols
of
Egypt.
Then
I
said
I
would
pour
out
my
wrath
on
them,
to
accomplish
my
anger
against
them
in
the
middle
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}But
I
worked
for
my
name’s
sake,
that
it
should
not
be
profaned
in
the
sight
of
the
nations amongst
which
they
were,
in
whose
sight
I
made
myself
known
to
them
in
bringing
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{10}So
I caused
them
to
go
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
and
brought
them
into
the
wilderness.
\VS{11}I
gave
them
my
statutes
and
showed
them
my
ordinances,
which
if
a
man
does,
he
will live
in
them.
\VS{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
who
sanctifies
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘ “But
the
house
of
Israel
rebelled
against
me
in
the
wilderness.
They
didn’t
walk
in
my
statutes
and
they
rejected
my
ordinances,
which
if
a
man keeps,
he
shall
live
in
them.
They
greatly
profaned
my
Sabbaths.
Then
I
said
I
would
pour
out
my
wrath
on
them
in
the
wilderness,
to
consume
them.
\VS{14}But
I
worked
for
my
name’s
sake,
that
it
should
not
be
profaned
in
the
sight
of
the
nations,
in
whose
sight
I
brought
them
out.
\VS{15}Moreover
also
I
swore
to
them
in
the
wilderness
that
I
would
not
bring
them
into
the
land
which
I
had
given
them,
flowing
with
milk
and
honey,
which
is
the glory
of
all
lands,
\VS{16}because
they
rejected
my
ordinances,
and
didn’t
walk
in
my
statutes,
and
profaned
my
Sabbaths;
for
their
heart
went
after
their
idols.
\VS{17}Nevertheless
my
eye
spared
them,
and
I
didn’t
destroy
them.
I
didn’t
make
a
full
end
of
them
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{18}I
said
to
their
children
in
the
wilderness, ‘Don’t walk
in
the
statutes
of
your
fathers.
Don’t
observe
their
ordinances
or
defile
yourselves
with
their
idols.
\VS{19}I
am
the
LORD
your
God. Walk
in
my
statutes,
keep
my
ordinances,
and
do
them.
\VS{20}Make
my
Sabbaths
holy.
They
shall
be
a
sign
between
me
and
you,
that
you
may
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
your
God.’
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“ ‘ “But
the
children
rebelled
against
me.
They
didn’t
walk
in
my
statutes,
and
didn’t
keep
my
ordinances
to
do
them,
which
if
a
man
does,
he
shall
live
in
them.
They
profaned
my
Sabbaths.
Then
I
said
I
would
pour
out
my
wrath
on
them,
to
accomplish
my
anger
against
them
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{22}Nevertheless
I
withdrew
my
hand
and
worked
for
my
name’s
sake,
that
it
should
not
be
profaned
in
the
sight
of
the
nations,
in
whose
sight
I
brought
them
out.
\VS{23}Moreover
I
swore
to
them
in
the
wilderness,
that
I would
scatter
them amongst
the
nations
and
disperse
them
through
the
countries,
\VS{24}because
they
had
not executed
my
ordinances,
but
had
rejected
my
statutes,
and
had
profaned
my
Sabbaths,
and
their
eyes
were
after
their
fathers’
idols.
\VS{25}Moreover
also
I
gave
them
statutes
that
were
not
good,
and
ordinances
in which
they
couldn’t
live.
\VS{26}I polluted
them
in
their own
gifts,
in
that
they
caused
all
that opens
the
womb
to
pass
through
the fire,
that
I
might
make
them
desolate,
to
the end
that
they
might
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“Therefore,
son
of
man,
speak
to
the
house
of
Israel,
and
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Moreover,
in
this
your
fathers
have
blasphemed
me,
in
that
they
have
committed
a
trespass
against
me.
\VS{28}For
when
I
had
brought
them
into
the
land
which
I
swore
to
give
to
them,
then
they
saw
every
high
hill
and
every thick
tree,
and
they
offered
there
their
sacrifices,
and
there
they
presented
the provocation
of
their
offering.
There
they
also
made
their pleasant
aroma,
and
there
they poured
out
their drink
offerings.
\VS{29}Then
I
said
to
them, ‘What
does
the
high
place
where
you
go mean?’
So
its
name
is
called
Bamah\FTNT{*}{{\FR 20:29 }
“Bamah” means “High Place”.}
to
this
day.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“Therefore
tell
the
house
of
Israel, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Do
you pollute
yourselves
in
the
way
of
your
fathers?
Do
you
play
the
prostitute
after
their
abominations?
\VS{31}When
you
offer
your
gifts,
when
you
make
your
sons
pass
through
the
fire,
do
you pollute
yourselves
with
all
your
idols
to
this
day?
Should
I
be enquired
of
by
you,
house
of
Israel?
As
I
live,
says
the
Lord
GOD,
I
will
not
be enquired
of
by
you!
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“ ‘ “That
which
comes
into
your
mind
will
not
be
at
all,
in
that
you
say, ‘We
will
be
as
the
nations,
as
the
families
of
the
countries,
to
serve
wood
and
stone.’
\VS{33}As
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “surely
with
a
mighty
hand,
with
an
outstretched
arm,
and
with
wrath
poured
out,
I
will
be
king
over
you.
\VS{34}I
will
bring
you
out
from
the
peoples,
and
will
gather
you
out
of
the
countries
in
which
you
are
scattered
with
a
mighty
hand,
with
an
outstretched
arm,
and
with
wrath
poured
out.
\VS{35}I
will
bring
you
into
the
wilderness
of
the
peoples,
and
there
I
will
enter
into judgement
with
you
face
to
face.
\VS{36}Just
as
I
entered
into judgement
with
your
fathers
in
the
wilderness
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
so
I
will
enter
into judgement
with
you,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{37}“I
will cause
you
to
pass
under
the
rod,
and
I
will
bring
you
into
the
bond
of
the
covenant.
\VS{38}I
will
purge
out
from amongst
you
the
rebels
and
those
who disobey
me.
I
will
bring
them
out
of
the
land
where
they live,
but
they
shall
not
enter
into
the
land
of
Israel.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{39}“ ‘As
for
you,
house
of
Israel,
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Go,
everyone
serve
his
idols,
and hereafter
also,
if
you
will
not
listen
to
me;
but
you
shall
no
more
profane
my
holy
name
with
your
gifts
and
with
your
idols.
\VS{40}For
in
my
holy
mountain,
in
the
mountain
of
the
height
of
Israel,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “there
all
the
house
of
Israel,
all
of
them,
shall
serve
me
in
the
land.
There
I
will
accept
them,
and
there
I
will
require
your
offerings
and
the
first
fruits
of
your
offerings,
with
all
your
holy
things.
\VS{41}I
will
accept
you
as
a pleasant
aroma
when
I
bring
you
out
from
the
peoples
and
gather
you
out
of
the
countries
in
which
you
have
been
scattered.
I
will
be
sanctified
in
you
in
the
sight
of
the
nations.
\VS{42}You
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
when
I
bring
you
into
the
land
of
Israel,
into
the
country
which
I
swore
to
give
to
your
fathers.
\VS{43}There
you
will
remember
your
ways,
and
all
your
deeds
in
which
you
have polluted
yourselves.
Then
you
will loathe
yourselves
in
your
own
sight
for
all
your evils
that
you
have
committed.
\VS{44}You
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
when
I
have dealt
with
you
for
my
name’s
sake,
not according
to
your
evil
ways,
nor according
to
your
corrupt doings,
you
house
of
Israel,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{45}The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
\VS{46}“Son of man, set your face towards the south, and preach towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the south.
\VS{47}Tell the forest of the south, ‘Hear the LORD’s word: The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burnt by it.
\VS{48}All flesh will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{49}Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face towards Jerusalem,
and
preach towards
the sanctuaries,
and
prophesy
against
the
land
of Israel.
\VS{3}Tell
the
land
of Israel, ‘The
LORD
says: “Behold,
I
am
against
you,
and
will draw
my sword
out
of
its sheath,
and
will cut
off
from
you
the righteous
and
the wicked.
\VS{4}Seeing
then
that
I
will cut off
from
you
the righteous
and
the wicked,
therefore
my sword
will
go
out
of
its sheath
against
all
flesh
from
the south
to
the north.
\VS{5}All flesh
will know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have drawn
my sword out
of
its sheath.
It
will
not return
any
more.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“Therefore sigh,
you son
of man.
You
shall sigh
before
their eyes
with
a broken heart\FTNT{*}{{\FR 21:6 }
literally, the breaking of your thighs}
and
with bitterness.
\VS{7}It
shall
be,
when
they ask
you, ‘Why do
you sigh?’
that
you
shall
say, ‘Because
of
the news,
for
it
comes! Every heart
will melt, all hands
will
be feeble, every spirit
will faint,
and all knees
will
be weak
as water. Behold,
it
comes,
and
it
shall
be done, says
the Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{9}“Son
of
man, prophesy,
and say, ‘The
LORD
says:
\par }{\Q “A
sword!
A
sword!
\par }{\QB It
is sharpened,
\par }{\QB and
also polished.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}It
is sharpened
that
it
may
make
a slaughter.
\par }{\QB It
is polished
that
it
may
be
as lightning.
\par }{\Q Should
we
then
make mirth?
\par }{\QB The rod
of
my son condemns
every tree.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}It
is given
to
be polished,
\par }{\QB that
it
may
be handled.
\par }{\Q The sword
is sharpened.
\par }{\QB Yes,
it
is polished
\par }{\QB to give
it into
the hand
of
the killer.” ’
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Cry
and wail, son
of
man;
\par }{\QB for
it
is
on
my
people.
\par }{\QB It
is
on
all
the princes
of Israel.
\par }{\Q They
are
delivered
over
to
the sword
with
my
people.
\par }{\QB Therefore beat
your thigh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{13}“For
there
is
a trial.
What
if even
the rod
that condemns
will
be no more?”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}“You
therefore,
son
of
man,
prophesy,
\par }{\QB and strike
your hands
together.
\par }{\Q Let
the
sword
be doubled
the third time,
\par }{\QB the
sword
of
the fatally wounded.
\par }{\Q It
is
the
sword
of
the great
one
who
is fatally wounded,
\par }{\QB which enters
into
their rooms.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}I
have set
the threatening sword
against
all
their gates,
\par }{\QB that
their heart
may melt,
\par }{\QB and
their stumblings
be multiplied.
\par }{\Q Ah!
It
is
made
as
lightning.
\par }{\QB It
is pointed
for
slaughter.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}Gather
yourselves together.
\par }{\QB Go
to
the right.
\par }{\Q Set
yourselves
in array.
\par }{\QB Go
to
the
left,
\par }{\QB wherever
your face
is
set.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}I
will
also
strike
my hands
together,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
cause
my wrath
to
rest.
\par }{\QB I,
the LORD,
have
spoken
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}The LORD’s word
came
to
me
again, saying,
\VS{19}“Also,
you
son
of
man, appoint
two ways,
that
the
sword
of
the king
of Babylon
may come.
They
both
will come
out
of
one land,
and mark
out
a place. Mark
it
out
at
the head
of
the way
to
the
city.
\VS{20}You
shall
appoint
a
way
for
the
sword
to come
to Rabbah
of
the children
of Ammon,
and
to Judah
in
Jerusalem
the fortified.
\VS{21}For
the king
of Babylon stood at
the parting
of
the
way, at
the
head
of
the two ways,
to use divination.
He shook
the arrows back
and forth.
He consulted
the teraphim.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 21:21 }
teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.}
He looked
in
the liver.
\VS{22}In
his
right
hand
was
the lot
for Jerusalem,
to
set battering rams,
to open
the mouth
in
the
slaughter,
to lift
up
the voice
with shouting,
to
set battering rams
against
the gates,
to
cast
up mounds,
and
to build forts.
\VS{23}It
will
be
to
them
as
a false divination
in
their sight,
who
have sworn oaths
to
them;
but
he brings iniquity
to memory,
that
they
may
be
taken.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“Therefore
the Lord
GOD says: ‘Because
you
have caused
your iniquity
to
be remembered,
in
that
your transgressions
are uncovered,
so
that
in
all
your doings
your sins appear;
because
you
have
come
to memory,
you
will
be
taken
with
the
hand.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked
one,
the prince
of Israel,
whose day
has
come,
in
the time
of
the iniquity
of
the end,
\VS{26}the Lord
GOD says: “Remove
the turban,
and
take
off
the crown.
This
will
not
be
as
it
was. Exalt
that which
is low,
and humble
that which
is high.
\VS{27}I
will overturn, overturn, overturn
it. This also
will
be no
more,
until
he
comes whose
right
it
is;
and
I
will
give
it.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“You, son
of man, prophesy
and say, ‘The Lord GOD says
this concerning
the children
of Ammon,
and concerning
their reproach:
\par }{\Q “A sword!
A sword
is drawn!
\par }{\QB It
is polished
for
the slaughter,
\par }{\Q to
cause
it
to devour,
\par }{\QB that
it
may
be
as lightning;
\par }{\Q \VS{29}while
they
see
for
you false visions,
\par }{\QB while
they divine lies
to
you,
\par }{\Q to
lay
you
on
the necks
of
the wicked
who
are deadly wounded,
\par }{\QB whose day
has
come
in
the time
of
the
iniquity
of
the end.
\par }{\Q \VS{30}Cause
it
to
return
into
its sheath.
\par }{\QB In
the
place
where
you
were created,
\par }{\QB in
the land
of
your birth,
I
will judge
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}I
will pour out
my indignation
on
you.
\par }{\QB I
will blow
on
you
with
the fire
of
my wrath.
\par }{\Q I
will deliver
you
into
the hand
of brutish
men,
\par }{\QB skilful
to destroy.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}You
will
be
for fuel
to
the fire.
\par }{\QB Your blood
will
be
in
the middle
of
the land.
\par }{\Q You
will
be remembered
no
more;
\par }{\QB for
I,
the LORD,
have
spoken
it.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“You,
son
of
man,
will
you
judge?
Will
you
judge
the
bloody
city?
Then cause
her
to
know
all
her
abominations.
\VS{3}You shall
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “A
city
that
sheds
blood
within
herself,
that
her
time
may
come,
and
that
makes
idols
against
herself
to
defile
her!
\VS{4}You
have
become
guilty
in
your
blood
that
you
have
shed,
and
are
defiled
in
your
idols
which
you
have
made!
You
have
caused
your
days
to
draw
near,
and
have
come
to
the end
of
your
years.
Therefore
I
have
made
you
a
reproach
to
the
nations,
and
a
mocking
to
all
the
countries.
\VS{5}Those
who
are
near
and
those
who
are
far
from
you
will
mock
you,
you infamous
one,
full
of
tumult.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘ “Behold,
the
princes
of
Israel,
everyone
according
to
his
power,
have
been
in
you
to
shed
blood.
\VS{7}In
you
have
they
treated
father
and
mother
with
contempt.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 22:7 }
Literally,
made light of father and mother.} Amongst
you
they
have oppressed
the
foreigner.
In
you
they
have
wronged
the
fatherless
and
the
widow.
\VS{8}You
have
despised
my
holy
things,
and
have
profaned
my
Sabbaths.
\VS{9}Slanderous
men
have
been
in
you
to
shed
blood.
In
you
they
have
eaten
on
the
mountains.
They
have
committed
lewdness amongst
you.
\VS{10}In
you
have
they
uncovered
their
fathers’
nakedness.
In
you
have
they humbled
her
who
was
unclean
in
her
impurity.
\VS{11}One
has
committed
abomination
with
his neighbour’s
wife,
and
another
has
lewdly
defiled
his
daughter-in-law.
Another
in
you
has humbled
his
sister,
his
father’s
daughter.
\VS{12}In
you
have
they
taken
bribes
to
shed
blood.
You
have
taken
interest
and
increase,
and
you
have greedily gained
of
your neighbours
by
oppression,
and
have
forgotten
me,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘ “Behold,
therefore
I
have
struck
my
hand
at
your
dishonest
gain
which
you
have
made,
and
at
the
blood
which
has
been
shed
within
you.
\VS{14}Can
your
heart
endure,
or
can
your
hands
be
strong,
in
the
days
that
I
will
deal
with
you?
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it,
and
will
do
it.
\VS{15}I
will
scatter
you amongst
the
nations,
and
disperse
you
through
the
countries.
I
will purge
your filthiness
out
of
you.
\VS{16}You
will
be
profaned
in
yourself
in
the
sight
of
the
nations.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{18}“Son
of
man,
the
house
of
Israel
has
become
dross
to
me.
All
of
them
are
bronze,
tin,
iron,
and
lead
in
the
middle
of
the
furnace.
They
are
the
dross
of
silver.
\VS{19}Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Because
you
have
all
become
dross,
therefore,
behold,
I
will
gather
you
into
the
middle
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{20}As
they
gather
silver,
bronze,
iron,
lead,
and
tin
into
the
middle
of
the
furnace,
to
blow
the
fire
on
it,
to
melt
it,
so
I
will
gather
you
in
my
anger
and
in
my
wrath,
and
I
will lay
you
there
and
melt
you.
\VS{21}Yes,
I
will
gather
you,
and
blow
on
you
with
the
fire
of
my
wrath,
and
you
will be
melted
in
the
middle
of
it.
\VS{22}As
silver
is
melted
in
the
middle
of
the
furnace,
so
you
will
be
melted
in
the
middle
of
it;
and
you
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have
poured
out
my
wrath
on
you.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{24}“Son
of
man,
tell
her, ‘You
are
a
land
that
is
not
cleansed
nor rained
on
in
the
day
of
indignation.’
\VS{25}There
is
a
conspiracy
of
her
prophets
within
it,
like
a
roaring
lion
ravening
the
prey.
They
have
devoured
souls.
They
take
treasure
and
precious
things.
They
have
made
many
widows
within
it.
\VS{26}Her
priests
have
done
violence
to
my
law
and
have
profaned
my
holy
things.
They
have
made
no
distinction
between
the
holy
and
the
common,
neither
have
they caused men
to
discern
between
the
unclean
and
the
clean,
and
have
hidden
their
eyes
from
my
Sabbaths.
So
I am
profaned amongst
them.
\VS{27}Her
princes
within
it
are
like
wolves
ravening
the
prey,
to
shed
blood
and
to
destroy
souls,
that
they
may
get
dishonest
gain.
\VS{28}Her
prophets
have
plastered
for
them
with whitewash, seeing
false
visions,
and
divining
lies
to
them,
saying, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says,’
when
the
LORD
has
not
spoken.
\VS{29}The
people
of
the
land
have used
oppression
and exercised
robbery. Yes,
they
have troubled
the
poor
and
needy,
and
have
oppressed
the
foreigner wrongfully.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“I
sought
for
a
man amongst
them
who
would
build
up
the
wall
and
stand
in
the
gap
before
me
for
the
land,
that
I
would
not
destroy
it;
but
I
found
no
one.
\VS{31}Therefore
I
have
poured
out
my
indignation
on
them.
I
have
consumed
them
with
the
fire
of
my
wrath.
I
have
brought
their own
way
on
their
heads,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
again
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
there
were
two
women,
the
daughters
of
one
mother.
\VS{3}They
played
the
prostitute
in
Egypt.
They
played
the
prostitute
in
their
youth.
Their
breasts
were
fondled
there,
and
their youthful
nipples
were caressed
there.
\VS{4}Their
names
were
Oholah
the
elder,
and
Oholibah
her
sister.
They
became mine,
and
they
bore
sons
and
daughters.
As
for
their
names,
Samaria
is
Oholah,
and
Jerusalem
Oholibah.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“Oholah
played
the
prostitute
when she was
mine. She doted
on
her
lovers,
on
the Assyrians
her neighbours,
\VS{6}who were
clothed
with
blue—governors
and
rulers,
all
of
them
desirable
young
men,
horsemen
riding
on
horses.
\VS{7}She
gave
herself
as
a prostitute
to
them,
all
of
them
the
choicest
men
of
Assyria.
She
defiled
herself
with
the
idols
of
whoever
she
lusted
after.
\VS{8}She
hasn’t
left
her prostitution
since
leaving
Egypt;
for
in
her
youth
they
lay
with
her.
They caressed
her youthful
nipples
and
they
poured
out
their prostitution
on
her.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Therefore
I
delivered
her
into
the
hand
of
her
lovers,
into
the
hand
of
the Assyrians
on
whom
she doted.
\VS{10}These
uncovered
her
nakedness.
They
took
her
sons
and
her
daughters,
and
they
killed
her
with
the
sword. She
became
a
byword amongst
women;
for
they executed judgements
on
her.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“Her
sister
Oholibah
saw this, yet she
was
more
corrupt
in
her lusting
than she,
and
in
her prostitution which
was
more
depraved
than
the prostitution
of
her
sister.
\VS{12}She
lusted
after
the Assyrians,
governors
and
rulers—her neighbours,
clothed most gorgeously,
horsemen
riding
on
horses,
all
of
them
desirable
young
men.
\VS{13}I
saw
that
she
was
defiled.
They
both went
the
same
way.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“She
increased
her prostitution;
for she
saw
men
portrayed
on
the
wall,
the
images
of
the
Chaldeans
portrayed
with
red,
\VS{15}dressed
with
belts
on
their waists,
with
flowing
turbans
on
their
heads,
all
of
them
looking
like princes,
after
the
likeness
of
the
Babylonians
in
Chaldea,
the
land
of
their
birth.
\VS{16}As soon
as she saw
them, she
lusted
after
them
and
sent
messengers
to
them
into
Chaldea.
\VS{17}The Babylonians
came
to
her
into
the
bed
of
love,
and
they
defiled
her
with
their prostitution. She
was polluted
with
them,
and
her
soul
was
alienated
from
them.
\VS{18}So
she
uncovered
her prostitution
and
uncovered
her
nakedness.
Then
my
soul
was
alienated
from
her,
just
like
my
soul
was
alienated
from
her
sister.
\VS{19}Yet
she
multiplied
her prostitution,
remembering
the
days
of
her
youth,
in
which
she
had
played
the
prostitute
in
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{20}She
lusted
after
their
lovers,
whose
flesh
is
as
the
flesh
of
donkeys,
and
whose
issue
is
like
the
issue
of
horses.
\VS{21}Thus
you called
to memory
the
lewdness
of
your
youth,
in
the caressing
of
your
nipples
by
the
Egyptians
because
of
your youthful
breasts.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Therefore,
Oholibah,
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
raise
up
your
lovers
against
you,
from
whom
your
soul
is
alienated,
and
I
will
bring
them
against
you
on
every
side:
\VS{23}the
Babylonians
and
all
the
Chaldeans,
Pekod,
Shoa,
Koa,
and
all
the Assyrians
with
them;
all
of
them
desirable
young
men,
governors
and
rulers, princes
and
men
of
renown,
all
of
them
riding
on
horses.
\VS{24}They
will
come
against
you
with
weapons,
chariots,
and
wagons,
and
with
a
company
of
peoples.
They
will
set
themselves
against
you
with
buckler,
shield,
and
helmet
all
around.
I
will
commit
the judgement
to
them,
and
they
will
judge
you
according
to
their judgements.
\VS{25}I
will
set
my
jealousy
against
you,
and
they
will
deal
with
you
in
fury.
They
will
take
away
your
nose
and
your
ears.
Your remnant
will
fall
by
the
sword.
They
will
take
your
sons
and
your
daughters;
and
the
rest
of
you
will
be
devoured
by
the
fire.
\VS{26}They will
also
strip
you
of
your
clothes
and
take
away
your
beautiful
jewels.
\VS{27}Thus
I
will
make
your
lewdness
to
cease
from
you,
and
remove
your
prostitution
from
the
land
of
Egypt,
so
that
you
will
not
lift
up
your
eyes
to
them,
nor
remember
Egypt
any
more.’
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“For
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
deliver
you
into
the
hand
of
them
whom
you
hate,
into
the
hand
of
them
from
whom
your
soul
is
alienated.
\VS{29}They
will
deal
with
you
in
hatred,
and
will
take
away
all
your labour,
and
will
leave
you
naked
and
bare.
The
nakedness
of
your prostitution
will
be
uncovered,
both
your
lewdness
and
your prostitution.
\VS{30}These
things
will
be
done
to
you
because
you
have
played
the
prostitute
after
the
nations,
and
because
you
are polluted
with
their
idols.
\VS{31}You
have
walked
in
the
way
of
your
sister; therefore
I
will
give
her
cup
into
your
hand.’
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q ‘You
will
drink
of
your
sister’s
cup,
\par }{\QB which
is
deep
and large.
\par }{\Q You
will
be ridiculed
and
held
in derision.
\par }{\QB It
contains
much.
\par }{\Q \VS{33}You
will
be
filled
with
drunkenness
and
sorrow,
\par }{\QB with
the
cup
of astonishment
and
desolation,
\par }{\QB with
the
cup
of
your
sister
Samaria.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}You
will
even
drink
it
and
drain
it
out.
\par }{\QB You
will
gnaw
the
broken pieces
of
it,
\par }{\QB and
will
tear
your
breasts;
\par }{\MM for
I
have
spoken
it,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{35}“Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Because
you
have
forgotten
me
and
cast
me
behind
your
back,
therefore
you
also
bear
your
lewdness
and
your prostitution.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{36}The
LORD
said moreover
to
me: “Son
of
man,
will
you
judge
Oholah
and
Oholibah?
Then
declare
to
them
their
abominations.
\VS{37}For
they
have
committed
adultery,
and
blood
is
in
their
hands.
They
have
committed
adultery
with
their
idols.
They
have
also
caused
their
sons,
whom
they
bore
to
me,
to
pass
through
the fire
to
them
to
be devoured.
\VS{38}Moreover
this
they
have
done
to
me:
they
have
defiled
my
sanctuary
in
the
same
day,
and
have
profaned
my
Sabbaths.
\VS{39}For
when
they
had
slain
their
children
to
their
idols,
then
they
came
the
same
day
into
my
sanctuary
to
profane
it;
and
behold,
they
have
done
this
in
the
middle
of
my
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{40}“Furthermore
you sisters
have
sent
for
men
who
come
from
far
away,
to
whom
a
messenger
was
sent,
and
behold,
they
came;
for
whom
you
washed
yourself,
painted
your
eyes, decorated
yourself
with
ornaments,
\VS{41}and
sat
on
a stately
bed,
with
a
table prepared
before
it, whereupon
you
set
my
incense
and
my
oil.
\par }{\PP \VS{42}“The
voice
of
a
multitude being
at
ease
was
with
her.
With
men
of
the common sort
were
brought
drunkards
from
the
wilderness;
and
they
put
bracelets
on
their
hands,
and
beautiful
crowns
on
their
heads.
\VS{43}Then
I
said
of
her
who
was old
in
adulteries, ‘Now
they
will
play
the
prostitute
with
her,
and
she
with
them.’
\VS{44}They
went
in
to
her,
as
they
go
in
to
a
prostitute.
So
they
went
in
to
Oholah
and
to
Oholibah,
the
lewd
women.
\VS{45}Righteous
men
will
judge
them
with
the judgement
of
adulteresses
and
with
the judgement
of women
who
shed
blood,
because
they
are
adulteresses,
and
blood
is
in
their
hands.
\par }{\PP \VS{46}“For
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘I
will
bring
up
a mob
against
them,
and
will
give
them
to
be tossed
back
and
forth
and robbed.
\VS{47}The
company
will
stone
them
with
stones
and dispatch
them
with
their
swords.
They
will
kill
their
sons
and
their
daughters,
and
burn
up
their
houses
with
fire.
\par }{\PP \VS{48}“ ‘Thus
I
will cause
lewdness
to
cease
out
of
the
land,
that
all
women
may
be
taught
not
to
be
lewd
like
you.
\VS{49}They
will recompense
your
lewdness
on
you,
and
you
will
bear
the
sins
of
your
idols.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Again,
in
the
ninth
year,
in
the
tenth
month,
in
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
write
the
name
of
the
day,
this
same
day.
The
king
of
Babylon drew close
to
Jerusalem
this
same
day.
\VS{3}Utter
a
parable
to
the
rebellious
house,
and
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says,
\par }{\Q “Put
the cauldron
on
the fire.
\par }{\QB Put
it
on,
\par }{\QB and
also
pour
water
into
it.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}Gather
its
pieces
into
it,
\par }{\QB even
every
good
piece:
\par }{\QB the
thigh
and
the
shoulder.
\par }{\QB Fill
it
with
the
choice
bones.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Take
the
choice
of
the
flock,
\par }{\QB and
also
a
pile
of
wood
for
the
bones
under
the cauldron.
\par }{\Q Make
it
boil
well.
\par }{\QB Yes, let
its
bones
be
boiled
within
it.”
\par }{\MM \VS{6}“ ‘Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Woe
to
the
bloody
city,
\par }{\QB to
the cauldron
whose
rust
is
in
it,
\par }{\QB and
whose
rust
hasn’t
gone
out
of
it!
\par }{\Q Take
out
of
it
piece
after
piece
\par }{\QB without casting
lots
for
it.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}“ ‘ “For
the
blood
she
shed
is
in
the
middle
of
her.
\par }{\QB She
set
it
on
the
bare
rock.
\par }{\Q She
didn’t
pour
it
on
the
ground,
\par }{\QB to
cover
it
with
dust.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}That
it
may
cause
wrath
to
come
up
to
take
vengeance,
\par }{\QB I
have
set
her
blood
on
the
bare
rock,
\par }{\QB that
it should
not
be
covered.”
\par }{\MM \VS{9}“ ‘Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Woe
to
the
bloody
city!
\par }{\QB I
also
will
make
the
pile
great.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Heap
on
the
wood.
\par }{\QB Make
the
fire hot.
\par }{\Q Boil
the
meat
well.
\par }{\QB Make
the broth thick,
\par }{\QB and let
the
bones
be burnt.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}Then
set
it
empty
on
its
coals,
\par }{\QB that
it
may be
hot,
\par }{\Q and
its
bronze
may
burn,
\par }{\QB and
that
its filthiness
may be molten
in
it,
\par }{\QB that
its
rust
may be
consumed.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}She
is
weary
with
toil;
\par }{\QB yet
her
great
rust,
\par }{\QB rust
by
fire,
doesn’t
leave
her.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘ “In
your filthiness
is
lewdness.
Because
I
have
cleansed
you
and
you weren’t
cleansed,
you
won’t
be
cleansed
from
your filthiness
any
more,
until
I
have caused
my
wrath towards
you
to
rest.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“ ‘ “I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it.
It
will happen,
and
I
will
do
it.
I
won’t
go
back.
I
won’t
spare.
I
won’t
repent. According
to
your
ways
and according
to
your doings,
they
will
judge
you,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Also
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{16}“Son
of
man,
behold,
I
will
take
away
from
you
the
desire
of
your
eyes
with
one stroke;
yet
you
shall
neither
mourn
nor
weep,
neither
shall
your
tears run down.
\VS{17}Sigh,
but
not aloud.
Make
no
mourning
for
the
dead.
Bind
your headdress
on
you,
and
put
your
sandals
on
your
feet.
Don’t
cover
your lips,
and
don’t
eat mourner’s
bread.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}So
I
spoke
to
the
people
in
the
morning,
and
at
evening
my
wife
died.
So
I
did
in
the
morning
as
I
was
commanded.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}The
people
asked
me, “Won’t
you
tell
us
what
these
things mean
to
us,
that
you
act
like
this?”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Then
I
said
to
them, “The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{21}‘Speak
to
the
house
of
Israel, “The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
profane
my
sanctuary,
the
pride
of
your
power,
the
desire
of
your
eyes,
and
that
which
your
soul pities;
and
your
sons
and
your
daughters
whom
you
have
left behind
will
fall
by
the
sword.
\VS{22}You
will
do
as
I
have
done.
You
won’t
cover
your lips
or
eat mourner’s
bread.
\VS{23}Your
turbans
will
be
on
your
heads,
and
your
sandals
on
your
feet.
You
won’t
mourn
or
weep;
but
you
will pine
away
in
your
iniquities,
and moan
one towards
another.
\VS{24}Thus
Ezekiel
will
be
a
sign
to
you; according
to
all
that
he
has
done,
you
will
do.
When
this
comes,
then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
Lord
GOD.’ ” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“You,
son
of
man, shouldn’t
it
be
in
the
day
when
I
take
from
them
their
strength,
the
joy
of
their
glory,
the
desire
of
their
eyes,
and
that whereupon
they set
their
heart—their
sons
and
their
daughters—
\VS{26}that
in
that
day
he
who escapes
will
come
to
you,
to cause
you
to
hear
it
with
your
ears?
\VS{27}In
that
day
your
mouth
will
be
opened
to
him
who
has escaped,
and
you
will
speak
and
be
no
more
mute.
So
you
will
be
a
sign
to
them.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.”

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face towards
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
prophesy
against
them.
\VS{3}Tell
the
children
of
Ammon, ‘Hear
the
word
of
the
Lord
GOD!
The
Lord
GOD
says, “Because
you
said, ‘Aha!’
against
my
sanctuary
when
it
was
profaned,
and
against
the
land
of
Israel
when
it
was
made
desolate,
and
against
the
house
of
Judah
when
they
went
into captivity,
\VS{4}therefore,
behold,
I
will
deliver
you
to
the
children
of
the
east
for
a
possession.
They
will
set
their
encampments
in
you
and
make
their
dwellings
in
you.
They
will
eat
your
fruit
and
they
will
drink
your
milk.
\VS{5}I
will
make
Rabbah
a stable
for
camels
and
the
children
of
Ammon
a
resting
place
for
flocks.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.”
\VS{6}For
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Because
you
have
clapped
your
hands,
stamped
with
the
feet,
and
rejoiced
with
all
the
contempt
of
your
soul
against
the
land
of
Israel,
\VS{7}therefore,
behold,
I
have
stretched
out
my
hand
on
you,
and
will
deliver
you
for
a plunder
to
the
nations.
I
will
cut
you
off
from
the
peoples,
and
I
will
cause
you
to
perish
out
of
the
countries.
I
will
destroy
you.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Because
Moab
and
Seir
say, ‘Behold,
the
house
of
Judah
is
like
all
the
nations,’
\VS{9}therefore,
behold,
I
will
open
the
side
of
Moab
from
the
cities,
from
his
cities which
are
on
its frontiers,
the glory
of
the
country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon,
and
Kiriathaim,
\VS{10}to
the
children
of
the
east,
to go
against
the
children
of
Ammon;
and
I
will
give
them
for
a
possession,
that
the
children
of
Ammon
may
not
be
remembered amongst
the
nations.
\VS{11}I
will execute judgements
on
Moab.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Because
Edom
has dealt against
the
house
of
Judah
by
taking
vengeance,
and
has greatly offended,
and
taken
revenge
on
them,”
\VS{13}therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says, “I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
on
Edom,
and
will
cut
off
man
and
animal
from
it;
and
I
will
make
it desolate
from
Teman.
They
will
fall
by
the
sword
even
to
Dedan.
\VS{14}I
will
lay
my
vengeance
on
Edom
by
the
hand
of
my
people
Israel.
They
will
do
in
Edom
according
to
my
anger
and
according
to
my
wrath.
Then
they
will
know
my
vengeance,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Because
the
Philistines
have
taken
revenge,
and
have
taken
vengeance
with
contempt
of
soul
to
destroy
with
perpetual
hostility,”
\VS{16}therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says, “Behold,
I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
on
the
Philistines,
and
I
will
cut
off
the
Cherethites,
and
destroy
the
remnant
of
the
sea
coast.
\VS{17}I
will
execute
great
vengeance
on
them
with
wrathful
rebukes.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
when
I
lay
my
vengeance
on
them.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
eleventh
year,
in
the
first
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
because
Tyre
has
said
against
Jerusalem, ‘Aha!
She
is
broken!
She
who
was
the
gateway
of
the
peoples
has
been
returned
to
me.
I
will
be replenished,
now
that
she
is laid waste;’
\VS{3}therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says, ‘Behold,
I
am
against
you,
Tyre,
and
will cause
many
nations
to
come
up
against
you,
as
the
sea causes
its
waves
to
come
up.
\VS{4}They
will
destroy
the
walls
of
Tyre,
and
break
down
her
towers.
I
will
also
scrape
her
dust
from
her,
and
make
her
a
bare
rock.
\VS{5}She
will
be
a
place
for
the spreading
of
nets
in
the
middle
of
the
sea;
for
I
have
spoken
it,’
says
the
Lord
GOD. ‘She
will
become
plunder
for
the
nations.
\VS{6}Her
daughters
who
are
in
the
field
will
be
slain
with
the
sword.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“For
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
on
Tyre
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
king
of
kings,
from
the
north,
with
horses,
with
chariots,
with
horsemen,
and
an
army
with
many
people.
\VS{8}He
will
kill
your
daughters
in
the
field
with
the
sword.
He
will
make forts
against
you,
cast
up
a mound
against
you,
and
raise
up
the buckler
against
you.
\VS{9}He
will
set
his
battering engines
against
your
walls,
and
with
his
axes
he
will
break
down
your
towers.
\VS{10}By reason
of
the
abundance
of
his
horses,
their
dust
will
cover
you.
Your
walls
will
shake
at
the
noise
of
the
horsemen,
of
the
wagons,
and
of
the
chariots,
when
he
enters
into
your
gates,
as men
enter
into
a
city which
is
broken
open.
\VS{11}He
will
tread
down
all
your
streets
with
the
hoofs
of
his
horses.
He
will
kill
your
people
with
the
sword.
The
pillars
of
your
strength
will
go
down
to
the
ground.
\VS{12}They
will
make
a
plunder
of
your
riches
and
make
a
prey
of
your
merchandise.
They
will
break
down
your
walls
and
destroy
your
pleasant
houses.
They
will
lay
your
stones,
your
timber,
and
your
dust
in
the
middle
of
the
waters.
\VS{13}I
will cause
the
noise
of
your
songs
to
cease.
The
sound
of
your
harps
won’t
be
heard
any
more.
\VS{14}I
will
make
you
a
bare
rock.
You
will
be
a
place
for
the spreading
of
nets.
You
will
be
built
no
more;
for
I
the
LORD
have
spoken
it,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“The
Lord
GOD
says
to
Tyre: ‘Won’t
the
islands
shake
at
the
sound
of
your
fall,
when
the
wounded
groan,
when
the
slaughter
is made
within
you?
\VS{16}Then
all
the
princes
of
the
sea
will
come
down
from
their
thrones,
and lay
aside
their
robes,
and
strip
off
their
embroidered
garments.
They
will
clothe
themselves
with
trembling.
They
will
sit
on
the
ground,
and
will
tremble
every
moment,
and
be
astonished
at
you.
\VS{17}They
will
take
up
a
lamentation
over
you,
and
tell
you,
\par }{\Q “How
you
are
destroyed,
\par }{\QB who
were
inhabited
by seafaring
men,
\par }{\Q the renowned
city,
\par }{\QB who
was
strong
in
the
sea,
\par }{\Q she
and
her
inhabitants,
\par }{\QB who
caused
their
terror
to
be
on
all
who
lived
there!”
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Now
the
islands
will
tremble
in
the
day
of
your
fall.
\par }{\QB Yes,
the
islands
that
are
in
the
sea
will
be
dismayed
at
your
departure.’
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“For
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘When
I
make
you
a desolate
city,
like
the
cities
that
are
not
inhabited,
when
I
bring
up
the
deep
on
you,
and
the
great
waters
cover
you,
\VS{20}then
I
will
bring
you
down
with those
who
descend
into
the
pit,
to
the
people
of
old
time,
and
will
make
you
dwell
in
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth,
in
the
places
that
are desolate
of
old,
with those
who
go
down
to
the
pit,
that
you
be
not
inhabited;
and
I
will
set glory
in
the
land
of
the
living.
\VS{21}I
will
make
you
a
terror,
and
you
will
no
more
have
any being.
Though
you
are
sought
for,
yet
you
will
never
be
found
again,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.”

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
again
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“You,
son
of
man,
take
up
a
lamentation
over
Tyre;
\VS{3}and
tell
Tyre, ‘You
who
dwell
at
the entry
of
the
sea,
who
are
the
merchant
of
the
peoples
to
many
islands,
the
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “You,
Tyre,
have
said,
\par }{\QB ‘I
am
perfect
in
beauty.’
\par }{\Q \VS{4}Your
borders
are
in
the
heart
of
the
seas.
\par }{\QB Your
builders
have
perfected
your
beauty.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}They
have
made
all
your
planks
of
cypress
trees
from
Senir.
\par }{\QB They
have
taken
a
cedar
from
Lebanon
to
make
a
mast
for
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}They
have
made your oars
of
the
oaks
of
Bashan.
\par }{\QB They
have
made your benches
of
ivory inlaid
in cypress wood
from
the
islands
of
Kittim.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Your
sail
was
of
fine
linen
with
embroidered
work
from
Egypt,
\par }{\QB that
it might
be
to
you
for
a
banner.
\par }{\QB Blue
and
purple
from
the
islands
of
Elishah
was
your
awning.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}The
inhabitants
of
Sidon
and
Arvad
were
your rowers.
\par }{\QB Your
wise
men,
Tyre,
were
in
you.
\par }{\QB They
were
your
pilots.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}The
old
men
of
Gebal
\par }{\QB and
its
wise
men
were
your
repairers
of
ship
seams
in
you.
\par }{\Q All
the
ships
of
the
sea
with
their mariners
were
in
you
\par }{\QB to
deal
in
your
merchandise.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}“ ‘ “Persia,
Lud,
and
Put
were
in
your
army,
\par }{\QB your
men
of
war.
\par }{\Q They
hung
the
shield
and
helmet
in
you.
\par }{\QB They
showed
your beauty.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}The
men
of
Arvad
with
your
army
were
on
your
walls
all
around,
\par }{\QB and
valiant
men
were
in
your
towers.
\par }{\Q They
hung
their
shields
on
your
walls
all
around.
\par }{\QB They
have
perfected
your
beauty.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“ ‘ “Tarshish
was
your
merchant
by reason
of
the
multitude
of
all
kinds
of
riches.
They
traded
for
your
wares
with
silver,
iron,
tin,
and
lead.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘ “Javan,
Tubal,
and
Meshech
were
your
traders.
They
traded
the
persons
of
men
and
vessels
of
bronze
for
your
merchandise.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“ ‘ “They
of
the
house
of
Togarmah
traded
for
your
wares
with
horses, war
horses,
and
mules.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“ ‘ “The
men
of
Dedan
traded
with
you.
Many
islands
were
the
market
of
your
hand.
They
brought
you
horns
of
ivory
and
ebony
in exchange.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ ‘ “Syria
was
your
merchant
by reason
of
the
multitude
of
your handiworks. They
traded
for
your
wares
with
emeralds,
purple,
embroidered
work,
fine
linen,
coral,
and
rubies.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“ ‘ “Judah
and
the
land
of
Israel
were
your
traders.
They
traded
wheat
of
Minnith, confections,
honey,
oil,
and
balm
for
your
merchandise.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“ ‘ “Damascus
was
your
merchant
for
the
multitude
of
your handiworks
by reason
of
the
multitude
of
all
kinds
of
riches,
with
the
wine
of
Helbon,
and
white
wool.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“ ‘ “Vedan
and
Javan
traded
with yarn
for
your
wares;
wrought
iron,
cassia,
and
calamus
were amongst
your
merchandise.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“ ‘ “Dedan was your
merchant in precious saddle blankets for
riding.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“ ‘ “Arabia
and
all
the
princes
of
Kedar
were
your favourite dealers
in
lambs,
rams,
and
goats.
In
these,
they
were
your
merchants.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“ ‘ “The
traders
of
Sheba
and
Raamah
were
your
traders.
They
traded
for
your
wares
with
the
best
of
all
spices,
all
precious
stones,
and
gold.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“ ‘ “Haran,
Canneh,
Eden, the
traders
of
Sheba,
Asshur
and
Chilmad, were your
traders.
\VS{24}These
were your
traders in
choice wares, in wrappings
of
blue
and
embroidered
work,
and in cedar chests
of rich clothing
bound with
cords, amongst your
merchandise.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}“ ‘ “The
ships
of
Tarshish
were
your caravans
for
your
merchandise.
\par }{\QB You
were replenished
\par }{\QB and
made
very
glorious
in
the
heart
of
the
seas.
\par }{\Q \VS{26}Your rowers
have
brought
you
into
great
waters.
\par }{\QB The
east
wind
has
broken
you
in
the
heart
of
the
seas.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}Your
riches,
your
wares,
your
merchandise,
\par }{\QB your mariners,
your
pilots,
your
repairers
of ship
seams,
\par }{\Q the
dealers
in
your
merchandise,
\par }{\QB and
all
your
men
of
war
who
are
in
you,
\par }{\Q with
all
your
company
which
is amongst
you,
\par }{\QB will
fall
into
the
heart
of
the
seas
in
the
day
of
your
ruin.
\par }{\Q \VS{28}At
the
sound
of
the
cry
of your
pilots,
\par }{\QB the
pasture
lands
will
shake.
\par }{\Q \VS{29}All
who
handle
the oars,
\par }{\QB the mariners
and
all
the
pilots
of
the
sea,
\par }{\QB will
come
down
from
their
ships.
\par }{\Q They
will
stand
on
the
land,
\par }{\QB \VS{30}and
will cause
their
voice
to
be
heard
over
you,
\par }{\QB and
will
cry
bitterly.
\par }{\Q They
will
cast
up
dust
on
their
heads.
\par }{\QB They
will
wallow
in
the
ashes.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}They
will
make
themselves
bald
for
you,
\par }{\QB and clothe
themselves
with
sackcloth.
\par }{\Q They
will
weep
for
you
in
bitterness
of
soul,
\par }{\QB with
bitter
mourning.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}In
their wailing
they
will
take
up
a
lamentation
for
you,
\par }{\QB and
lament
over
you, saying,
\par }{\Q ‘Who
is
there
like
Tyre,
\par }{\QB like
her
who
is
brought
to silence
in
the
middle
of
the
sea?’
\par }{\Q \VS{33}When
your
wares
came
from
the
seas,
\par }{\QB you
filled
many
peoples.
\par }{\Q You
enriched
the
kings
of
the
earth
\par }{\QB with
the
multitude
of
your
riches
and
of
your
merchandise.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}In
the
time
that
you
were
broken
by
the
seas,
\par }{\QB in
the
depths
of
the
waters,
\par }{\QB your
merchandise
and
all
your
company
fell
within
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{35}All
the
inhabitants
of
the
islands
are
astonished
at
you,
\par }{\QB and
their
kings
are horribly afraid.
\par }{\QB They
are
troubled
in
their
face.
\par }{\Q \VS{36}The
merchants amongst
the
peoples
hiss
at
you.
\par }{\QB You
have
come
to
a terrible end,
\par }{\QB and
you
will
be
no
more.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
again
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
tell
the
prince
of
Tyre, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Because
your
heart
is lifted
up,
\par }{\QB and
you
have
said, ‘I
am
a
god,
\par }{\Q I
sit
in
the
seat
of
God,
\par }{\QB in
the
middle
of
the
seas;’
\par }{\Q yet
you
are
man,
\par }{\QB and
no
god,
\par }{\QB though
you
set
your
heart
as
the
heart
of
a
god—
\par }{\Q \VS{3}behold,
you
are
wiser
than
Daniel.
\par }{\QB There
is
no
secret
that
is
hidden
from
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}By
your
wisdom
and
by
your
understanding
you have gotten yourself
riches,
\par }{\QB and have gotten
gold
and
silver
into
your
treasuries.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}By your
great
wisdom
\par }{\QB and
by your trading
you have
increased your
riches,
\par }{\QB and your
heart
is lifted up
because
of your
riches—”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Because
you
have
set
your
heart
as
the
heart
of
God,
\par }{\QB \VS{7}therefore,
behold,
I
will
bring
strangers
on
you,
\par }{\QB the terrible
of
the
nations.
\par }{\Q They
will draw
their
swords
against
the
beauty
of
your
wisdom.
\par }{\QB They
will
defile
your brightness.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}They
will
bring
you
down
to
the
pit.
\par }{\QB You
will
die
the
death
of those who
are
slain
\par }{\QB in
the
heart
of
the
seas.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}Will
you
yet
say
before
him
who
kills
you, ‘I
am God’?
\par }{\QB But
you
are
man,
and
not
God,
\par }{\QB in
the
hand
of
him
who wounds
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}You
will
die
the
death
of
the
uncircumcised
\par }{\QB by
the
hand
of
strangers;
\par }{\QB for
I
have
spoken
it,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{11}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{12}“Son
of
man,
take
up
a
lamentation
over
the
king
of
Tyre,
and
tell
him, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “You
were
the
seal
of
full measure,
\par }{\QB full
of
wisdom,
\par }{\QB and
perfect
in
beauty.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}You
were
in
Eden,
\par }{\QB the
garden
of
God.
\par }{\Q Every
precious
stone adorned
you:
\par }{\QB ruby,
topaz, emerald,
\par }{\QB chrysolite,
onyx,
jasper,
\par }{\QB sapphire,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 28:13 }
or, lapis lazuli
}
turquoise,
and
beryl.
\par }{\Q Gold
work
of
tambourines
\par }{\QB and
of pipes
was
in
you.
\par }{\QB They
were
prepared
in
the
day
that
you
were
created.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}You
were
the
anointed
cherub
who covers.
\par }{\QB Then
I
set
you
up
on
the
holy
mountain
of
God.
\par }{\QB You
have
walked
up
and
down
in
the
middle
of
the
stones
of
fire.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}You
were
perfect
in
your
ways
from
the
day
that
you
were
created,
\par }{\QB until
unrighteousness
was
found
in
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}By
the
abundance
of
your commerce,
your insides
were
filled
with
violence,
\par }{\QB and
you
have
sinned.
\par }{\Q Therefore I
have cast
you
as
profane
out
of
God’s
mountain.
\par }{\QB I
have
destroyed
you, covering
cherub,
\par }{\QB from
the
middle
of
the
stones
of
fire.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}Your
heart
was lifted
up
because
of
your
beauty.
\par }{\QB You
have
corrupted
your
wisdom
by
reason
of
your splendour.
\par }{\Q I
have
cast
you
to
the
ground.
\par }{\QB I
have
laid
you
before
kings,
\par }{\QB that
they
may
see
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}By
the
multitude
of
your
iniquities,
\par }{\QB in
the
unrighteousness
of
your commerce,
\par }{\QB you
have
profaned
your
sanctuaries.
\par }{\Q Therefore
I
have
brought
out
a
fire
from
the
middle
of
you.
\par }{\QB It
has
devoured
you.
\par }{\Q I
have
turned
you
to
ashes
on
the
earth
\par }{\QB in
the
sight
of
all
those
who
see
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}All
those
who
know
you amongst
the
peoples
will
be
astonished
at
you.
\par }{\QB You
have
become
a
terror,
\par }{\QB and
you
will exist
no
more.” ’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{20}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{21}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face towards
Sidon,
and
prophesy
against
it,
\VS{22}and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
am
against
you,
Sidon.
\par }{\QB I
will
be
glorified amongst
you.
\par }{\Q Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
\par }{\QB when
I
have executed judgements
in
her,
\par }{\QB and
am
sanctified
in
her.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}For
I
will
send
pestilence
into
her,
\par }{\QB and
blood
into
her
streets.
\par }{\Q The
wounded
will
fall
within
her,
\par }{\QB with
the
sword
on
her
on
every
side.
\par }{\QB Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“ ‘ “There
will
no
longer
be
a pricking
brier
to
the
house
of
Israel,
nor
a hurting
thorn
of
any
that
are
around
them
that scorned
them.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
Lord
GOD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “When
I
have
gathered
the
house
of
Israel
from
the
peoples amongst
whom
they
are
scattered,
and am shown
as
holy amongst
them
in
the
sight
of
the
nations,
then
they
will
dwell
in
their
own
land
which
I
gave
to
my
servant
Jacob.
\VS{26}They
will
dwell
in
it
securely.
Yes,
they
will
build
houses,
plant
vineyards,
and
will
dwell
securely
when
I
have executed judgements
on
all
those
around
them
who
have
treated
them
with contempt.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
their
God.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
tenth
year,
in
the
tenth
month,
on
the twelfth
day
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face
against
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
and
prophesy
against
him
and
against
all
Egypt.
\VS{3}Speak
and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
am
against
you,
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
\par }{\QB the
great
monster
that
lies
in
the
middle
of
his
rivers,
\par }{\Q that
has
said, ‘My
river
is
my own,
\par }{\QB and
I
have
made
it
for
myself.’
\par }{\Q \VS{4}I
will
put
hooks
in
your
jaws,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
make
the
fish
of
your
rivers
stick
to
your
scales.
\par }{\Q I
will
bring
you
up
out
of
the
middle
of
your
rivers,
\par }{\QB with
all
the
fish
of
your
rivers which
stick
to
your
scales.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}I’ll
cast
you
out
into
the
wilderness,
\par }{\QB you
and
all
the
fish
of
your
rivers.
\par }{\Q You’ll
fall
on
the
open
field.
\par }{\QB You
won’t
be
brought
together
or
gathered.
\par }{\Q I
have
given
you
for
food
to
the
animals
of
the
earth
\par }{\QB and
to
the
birds
of
the
sky.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘ “All
the
inhabitants
of
Egypt
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
because
they
have
been
a
staff
of
reed
to
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{7}When
they
took
hold
of
you
by
your
hand,
you
broke
and
tore
all
their
shoulders.
When
they
leaned
on
you,
you
broke
and paralysed
all
of
their thighs.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
will
bring
a
sword
on
you,
and
will
cut
off
man
and
animal
from
you.
\VS{9}The
land
of
Egypt
will
be
a
desolation
and
a
waste.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP “ ‘ “Because
he
has
said, ‘The
river
is mine,
and
I
have
made
it,’
\VS{10}therefore,
behold,
I
am
against
you
and
against
your
rivers.
I
will
make
the
land
of
Egypt
an
utter
waste
and
desolation,
from
the tower
of Seveneh
even
to
the
border
of
Ethiopia.
\VS{11}No
foot
of
man
will
pass
through
it,
nor
will
any
animal
foot
pass
through
it.
It
won’t
be
inhabited
for
forty
years.
\VS{12}I
will
make
the
land
of
Egypt
a
desolation
in
the
middle
of
the
countries
that
are
desolate.
Her
cities amongst
the
cities
that
are
laid
waste
will
be
a
desolation
forty
years.
I
will
scatter
the
Egyptians amongst
the
nations,
and
will
disperse
them
through
the
countries.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘For
the
Lord
GOD
says: “At
the
end
of
forty
years
I
will
gather
the
Egyptians
from
the
peoples
where
they
were
scattered.
\VS{14}I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
Egypt,
and
will
cause
them
to
return
into
the
land
of
Pathros,
into
the
land
of
their birth.
There
they
will
be
a
lowly
kingdom.
\VS{15}It
will
be
the
lowest
of
the
kingdoms.
It
won’t
lift itself
up
above
the
nations
any
more.
I
will
diminish
them
so
that
they
will
no
longer
rule
over
the
nations.
\VS{16}It
will
no
longer
be
the
confidence
of
the
house
of
Israel,
bringing
iniquity
to memory,
when
they
turn
to
look
after
them.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
Lord
GOD.” ’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{17}It
came
to
pass
in
the twenty-seventh
year,
in
the
first
month,
in
the
first
day
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{18}“Son
of
man,
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
caused
his
army
to
serve
a
great
service
against
Tyre.
Every
head
was
made
bald,
and
every
shoulder
was worn;
yet
he
had
no
wages,
nor
did
his
army,
from
Tyre,
for
the
service
that
he
had
served
against
it.
\VS{19}Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
give
the
land
of
Egypt
to
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon.
He
will
carry
off
her
multitude,
take
her
plunder,
and
take
her
prey.
That
will
be
the
wages
for
his
army.
\VS{20}I
have
given
him
the
land
of
Egypt
as
his payment
for
which
he
served,
because
they
worked
for
me,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“In
that
day
I
will
cause
a
horn
to
sprout
for
the
house
of
Israel,
and
I
will
open
your
mouth amongst
them.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.”

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
again
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
prophesy,
and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “Wail, ‘Alas
for
the
day!’
\par }{\QB \VS{3}For
the
day
is
near,
\par }{\QB even
the
LORD’s
day
is
near.
\par }{\Q It
will
be
a
day
of
clouds,
\par }{\QB a
time
of
the
nations.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}A
sword
will
come
on
Egypt,
\par }{\QB and
anguish
will
be
in
Ethiopia,
\par }{\QB when
the
slain
fall
in
Egypt.
\par }{\Q They
take
away
her
multitude,
\par }{\QB and
her
foundations
are
broken
down.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ ‘ “Ethiopia,
Put,
Lud,
all
the mixed
people, Cub,
and
the
children
of
the
land
that
is
allied
with
them,
will
fall
with
them
by
the
sword.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘The
LORD
says:
\par }{\Q “They
also
who
uphold
Egypt
will
fall.
\par }{\QB The
pride
of
her
power
will
come
down.
\par }{\Q They
will
fall
by
the
sword
in
it
from
the tower
of Seveneh,”
\par }{\QB says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}“They
will
be
desolate
in
the
middle
of
the
countries
that
are
desolate.
\par }{\QB Her
cities
will
be amongst
the
cities
that
are wasted.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}They
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
\par }{\QB when
I
have
set
a
fire
in
Egypt,
\par }{\QB and
all
her
helpers
are destroyed.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘ “In
that
day
messengers
will
go
out
from
before
me
in
ships
to
make
the careless Ethiopians
afraid.
There
will
be
anguish
on
them,
as
in
the
day
of
Egypt;
for,
behold,
it
comes.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “I
will
also
make
the
multitude
of
Egypt
to
cease,
\par }{\QB by
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}He
and
his
people
with
him,
\par }{\QB the terrible
of
the
nations,
\par }{\Q will
be
brought
in
to
destroy
the
land.
\par }{\QB They
will draw
their
swords
against
Egypt,
\par }{\QB and
fill
the
land
with
the
slain.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}I
will
make
the
rivers
dry,
\par }{\QB and
will
sell
the
land
into
the
hand
of
evil men.
\par }{\Q I
will
make
the
land
desolate,
\par }{\QB and
all
that
is therein,
\par }{\QB by
the
hand
of
foreigners.
\par }{\QB I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\Q “I
will
also
destroy
the
idols,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
cause
the
images
to
cease
from
Memphis.
\par }{\Q There
will
be
no
more
a
prince
from
the
land
of
Egypt.
\par }{\QB I
will
put
a
fear
in
the
land
of
Egypt.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}I
will
make
Pathros
desolate,
\par }{\QB and
will
set
a
fire
in
Zoan,
\par }{\QB and
will
execute judgements
on
No.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}I
will
pour
my
wrath
on Sin,
\par }{\QB the
stronghold
of
Egypt.
\par }{\QB I
will
cut
off
the
multitude
of No.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}I
will
set
a
fire
in
Egypt
\par }{\QB Sin
will
be
in great
anguish.
\par }{\Q No
will
be
broken
up.
\par }{\QB Memphis
will
have adversaries
in
the
daytime.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}The
young
men
of
Aven
and
of Pibeseth
will
fall
by
the
sword.
\par }{\QB They
will
go
into
captivity.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}At
Tehaphnehes
also
the
day
will withdraw
itself,
\par }{\QB when
I
break
the
yokes
of
Egypt
there.
\par }{\Q The
pride
of
her
power
will
cease
in
her.
\par }{\QB As
for
her,
a
cloud
will
cover
her,
\par }{\QB and
her
daughters
will go
into
captivity.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Thus
I
will execute judgements
on
Egypt.
\par }{\QB Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.” ’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{20}In
the
eleventh
year,
in
the
first
month,
in
the
seventh
day
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{21}“Son
of
man,
I
have
broken
the
arm
of
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt.
Behold,
it
has
not
been
bound
up,
to apply medicines,
to
put
a
bandage
to
bind
it,
that
it
may become
strong
to
hold
the
sword.
\VS{22}Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
am
against
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
and
will
break
his
arms,
the
strong
arm,
and
that
which
was
broken.
I
will cause
the
sword
to
fall
out
of
his
hand.
\VS{23}I
will
scatter
the
Egyptians amongst
the
nations,
and
will
disperse
them
through
the
countries.
\VS{24}I
will
strengthen
the
arms
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
put
my
sword
in
his
hand;
but
I
will
break
the
arms
of
Pharaoh,
and
he
will
groan
before
the
king
of
Babylon
with
the
groaning
of
a
mortally
wounded man.
\VS{25}I
will
hold
up
the
arms
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
but
the
arms
of
Pharaoh
will
fall
down.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
when
I
put
my
sword
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
stretches
it
out
on
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{26}I
will
scatter
the
Egyptians amongst
the
nations
and
disperse
them
through
the
countries.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
eleventh
year,
in
the
third
month,
in
the
first
day
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
tell
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
and
his
multitude:
\par }{\Q ‘Whom
are
you
like
in
your
greatness?
\par }{\Q \VS{3}Behold,
the Assyrian
was
a
cedar
in
Lebanon
\par }{\QB with
beautiful
branches,
\par }{\Q and
with
a forest-like
shade,
\par }{\QB of
high
stature;
\par }{\QB and
its
top
was amongst
the thick
boughs.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}The
waters nourished
it.
\par }{\QB The
deep
made
it
to
grow.
\par }{\Q Its
rivers
ran
all
around
its plantation.
\par }{\QB It
sent
out
its channels
to
all
the
trees
of
the
field.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Therefore
its
stature
was
exalted
above
all
the
trees
of
the
field;
\par }{\QB and
its
boughs
were
multiplied.
\par }{\Q Its
branches became
long
by
reason
of
many
waters,
\par }{\QB when
it
spread
them
out.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}All
the
birds
of
the
sky
made
their
nests
in
its
boughs.
\par }{\QB Under
its
branches,
all
the
animals
of
the
field
gave
birth
to
their young.
\par }{\QB All
great
nations
lived
under
its
shadow.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Thus
it
was
beautiful
in
its
greatness,
\par }{\QB in
the
length
of
its
branches;
\par }{\QB for
its
root
was
by
many
waters.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}The
cedars
in
the
garden
of
God could
not hide
it.
\par }{\QB The
cypress
trees
were
not
like
its
branches.
\par }{\Q The pine
trees
were
not
like
its
branches;
\par }{\QB nor
was
any
tree
in
the
garden
of
God
like
it
in
its
beauty.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}I
made
it
beautiful
by
the
multitude
of
its
branches,
\par }{\QB so
that
all
the
trees
of
Eden,
\par }{\QB that
were
in
the
garden
of
God,
envied
it.’
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Therefore
thus
said
the
Lord
GOD: ‘Because
he
is
exalted
in
stature,
and
he
has
set
his
top amongst
the thick branches,
and
his
heart
is
lifted
up
in
his
height,
\VS{11}I
will
deliver
him
into
the
hand
of
the mighty
one
of
the
nations.
He
will
surely
deal
with
him.
I
have
driven
him
out
for
his
wickedness.
\VS{12}Foreigners,
the
tyrants
of
the
nations,
have
cut
him
off
and
have
left
him.
His
branches
have
fallen
on
the
mountains
and
in
all
the
valleys,
and
his
boughs
are
broken
by
all
the watercourses
of
the
land.
All
the
peoples
of
the
earth
have
gone
down
from
his
shadow
and
have
left
him.
\VS{13}All
the
birds
of
the
sky
will
dwell
on
his
ruin,
and
all
the
animals
of
the
field
will
be
on
his
branches,
\VS{14}to
the end
that
none
of
all
the
trees
by
the
waters exalt themselves
in
their
stature,
and
don’t
set
their
top amongst
the thick boughs.
Their mighty
ones
don’t
stand
up
on
their
height,
even
all
who
drink
water;
for
they
are
all
delivered
to
death,
to
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth, amongst
the
children
of
men,
with
those
who
go
down
to
the
pit.’
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘In
the
day
when
he
went
down
to
Sheol,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 31:15 }
Sheol is the place of the dead.}
I
caused
a
mourning.
I
covered
the
deep
for
him,
and
I
restrained
its
rivers.
The
great
waters
were
stopped.
I
caused
Lebanon
to
mourn
for
him,
and
all
the
trees
of
the
field fainted
for
him.
\VS{16}I
made
the
nations
to
shake
at
the
sound
of
his
fall,
when
I cast
him
down
to
Sheol\FTNT{†}{{\FR 31:16 }
Sheol is the place of the dead.}
with
those
who
descend
into
the
pit.
All
the
trees
of
Eden,
the
choice
and
best
of
Lebanon,
all
that
drink
water,
were
comforted
in
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth.
\VS{17}They
also
went
down
into
Sheol
with
him
to
those
who
are
slain
by
the
sword;
yes,
those
who
were
his
arm,
who
lived
under
his
shadow
in
the
middle
of
the
nations.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“ ‘To
whom
are
you
thus
like
in
glory
and
in
greatness amongst
the
trees
of
Eden? Yet
you
will
be
brought
down
with
the
trees
of
Eden
to
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth.
You
will
lie
in
the
middle
of
the
uncircumcised,
with
those
who
are
slain
by
the
sword.
\par }{\PP “ ‘This
is
Pharaoh
and
all
his
multitude,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.”

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twelfth
year,
in
the twelfth
month,
in
the
first
day
of
the
month, “the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}‘Son
of
man,
take
up
a
lamentation
over
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
and
tell
him,
\par }{\Q “You
were likened
to
a
young
lion
of
the
nations;
\par }{\QB yet
you
are
as
a monster
in
the
seas.
\par }{\Q You
broke
out
with
your
rivers,
\par }{\QB and troubled
the
waters
with
your
feet,
\par }{\QB and fouled
their
rivers.”
\par }{\Q \VS{3}The
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\QB “I
will
spread
out
my
net
on
you
with
a
company
of
many
peoples.
\par }{\QB They
will
bring
you
up
in
my
net.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}I
will
leave
you
on
the
land.
\par }{\QB I
will
cast
you
out
on
the
open
field,
\par }{\Q and
will cause
all
the
birds
of
the
sky
to
settle
on
you.
\par }{\QB I
will
satisfy
the
animals
of
the
whole
earth
with
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}I
will
lay
your
flesh
on
the
mountains,
\par }{\QB and
fill
the
valleys
with
your height.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}I
will also
water
the
land
in
which
you swim
with
your
blood,
\par }{\QB even
to
the
mountains.
\par }{\QB The watercourses
will
be
full
of
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}When
I
extinguish
you,
I
will
cover
the
heavens
\par }{\QB and
make
its
stars
dark.
\par }{\Q I
will
cover
the
sun
with
a
cloud,
\par }{\QB and
the
moon
won’t
give
its
light.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}I
will
make
all
the
bright
lights
of
the
sky
dark
over
you,
\par }{\QB and
set
darkness
on
your
land,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}“I
will
also
trouble
the
hearts
of
many
peoples,
\par }{\QB when
I
bring
your
destruction amongst
the
nations,
\par }{\QB into
the
countries
which
you
have
not
known.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Yes,
I
will
make
many
peoples amazed
at
you,
\par }{\QB and
their
kings
will
be horribly
afraid
for
you,
\par }{\Q when
I brandish
my
sword
before
them.
\par }{\QB They
will
tremble
at
every
moment,
\par }{\Q every
man
for
his
own
life,
\par }{\QB in
the
day
of
your
fall.”
\par }{\Q \VS{11}For
the
Lord
GOD
says:
\par }{\QB “The
sword
of
the
king
of
Babylon
will
come
on
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}I
will cause
your
multitude
to
fall
by
the
swords
of
the
mighty.
\par }{\QB They
are
all
the
ruthless
of
the
nations.
\par }{\Q They
will
bring
the
pride
of
Egypt
to
nothing,
\par }{\QB and
all
its
multitude
will
be
destroyed.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}I
will
destroy
also
all
its
animals
from
beside
many
waters.
\par }{\QB The
foot
of
man
won’t trouble
them
any
more,
\par }{\QB nor
will
the
hoofs
of
animals trouble
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Then
I
will make
their
waters clear,
\par }{\QB and cause
their
rivers
to run like
oil,”
\par }{\QB says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}“When
I
make
the
land
of
Egypt
desolate
and
waste,
\par }{\QB a
land
destitute
of
that
of
which
it
was
full,
\par }{\Q when
I
strike
all
those
who
dwell therein,
\par }{\QB then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ ‘ “This
is
the
lamentation
with
which
they
will
lament.
The
daughters
of
the
nations
will
lament
with
this.
They
will
lament
with
it
over
Egypt,
and
over
all
her
multitude,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{17}Also
in
the twelfth
year,
in
the fifteenth
day
of
the
month,
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{18}“Son
of
man,
wail
for
the
multitude
of
Egypt,
and cast
them
down,
even
her
and
the
daughters
of
the famous
nations,
to
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth,
with
those
who
go
down
into
the
pit.
\VS{19}Whom
do
you pass
in
beauty?
Go
down,
and be
laid
with
the
uncircumcised.
\VS{20}They
will
fall amongst
those
who
are
slain
by
the
sword. She
is
delivered
to
the
sword.
Draw
her
away
with
all
her
multitudes.
\VS{21}The
strong amongst
the
mighty
will
speak
to
him out
of
the
middle
of
Sheol\FTNT{*}{{\FR 32:21 }
Sheol is the place of the dead.}
with those
who
help
him.
They
have
gone
down.
The
uncircumcised
lie
still,
slain
by
the
sword.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Asshur
is
there
with
all
her
company.
Her
graves
are
all
around
her.
All
of
them
are
slain,
fallen
by
the
sword,
\VS{23}whose
graves
are
set
in
the uttermost
parts
of
the
pit,
and
her
company
is
around
her
grave,
all
of
them
slain,
fallen
by
the
sword,
who
caused
terror
in
the
land
of
the
living.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“There
is
Elam
and
all
her
multitude
around
her
grave;
all
of
them
slain,
fallen
by
the
sword,
who
have
gone
down
uncircumcised
into
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth,
who
caused
their
terror
in
the
land
of
the
living,
and
have
borne
their
shame
with
those
who
go
down
to
the
pit.
\VS{25}They
have
made Elam
a
bed amongst
the
slain
with
all
her
multitude.
Her
graves
are
around
her,
all
of
them
uncircumcised,
slain
by
the
sword;
for
their
terror
was
caused
in
the
land
of
the
living,
and
they
have
borne
their
shame
with
those
who
go
down
to
the
pit.
He
is
put amongst
those
who
are
slain.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“There
is
Meshech,
Tubal,
and
all
their
multitude.
Their
graves
are
around
them,
all
of
them
uncircumcised, slain
by
the
sword;
for
they
caused
their
terror
in
the
land
of
the
living.
\VS{27}They
will
not
lie
with
the
mighty
who
are
fallen
of
the
uncircumcised,
who
have
gone
down
to
Sheol
with
their
weapons
of
war
and
have
laid
their
swords
under
their
heads.
Their
iniquities
are
on
their
bones;
for
they
were
the
terror
of
the
mighty
in
the
land
of
the
living.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“But
you
will
be
broken amongst
the
uncircumcised,
and
will
lie
with those who
are
slain
by
the
sword.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“There
is
Edom,
her
kings,
and
all
her
princes,
who
in
their
might
are
laid
with
those
who
are
slain
by
the
sword.
They
will
lie
with
the
uncircumcised,
and
with
those
who
go
down
to
the
pit.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“There
are
the princes
of
the
north,
all
of
them,
and
all
the
Sidonians,
who
have
gone
down
with
the
slain.
They
are
put
to
shame
in
the
terror
which
they
caused
by
their
might.
They
lie
uncircumcised
with
those
who
are
slain
by
the
sword,
and
bear
their
shame
with
those
who
go
down
to
the
pit.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}“Pharaoh
will
see
them
and
will
be
comforted
over
all
his
multitude,
even
Pharaoh
and
all
his
army,
slain
by
the
sword,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{32}“For
I
have
put
his
terror
in
the
land
of
the
living.
He
will
be
laid amongst
the
uncircumcised,
with
those
who
are
slain
by
the
sword,
even
Pharaoh
and
all
his
multitude,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
speak
to
the
children
of
your
people,
and
tell
them, ‘When
I
bring
the
sword
on
a
land,
and
the
people
of
the
land
take
a
man
from amongst
them,
and
set
him
for
their
watchman,
\VS{3}if,
when
he
sees
the
sword
come
on
the
land,
he
blows
the
trumpet
and warns
the
people,
\VS{4}then whoever
hears
the
sound
of
the
trumpet
and
doesn’t
heed
the warning,
if
the
sword
comes
and
takes
him
away,
his
blood
will
be
on
his
own
head.
\VS{5}He
heard
the
sound
of
the
trumpet
and
didn’t
take warning.
His
blood
will
be
on
him; whereas
if
he
had
heeded
the warning,
he
would
have
delivered
his
soul.
\VS{6}But
if
the
watchman
sees
the
sword
come
and
doesn’t
blow
the
trumpet,
and
the
people aren’t
warned,
and
the
sword
comes
and
takes
any
person
from amongst
them,
he
is
taken
away
in
his
iniquity,
but
his
blood
I
will
require
at
the
watchman’s
hand.’
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“So
you,
son
of
man,
I
have
set
you
a
watchman
to
the
house
of
Israel.
Therefore
hear
the
word
from
my
mouth,
and
give
them warnings
from
me.
\VS{8}When
I
tell
the
wicked, ‘O
wicked
man,
you
will
surely
die,’
and
you
don’t
speak
to
warn
the
wicked
from
his
way,
that
wicked
man
will
die
in
his
iniquity,
but
I
will
require
his
blood
at
your
hand.
\VS{9}Nevertheless,
if
you
warn
the
wicked
of
his
way
to
turn
from
it,
and
he
doesn’t
turn
from
his
way;
he
will
die
in
his
iniquity,
but
you
have
delivered
your
soul.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“You,
son
of
man,
tell
the
house
of
Israel: ‘You
say
this, “Our
transgressions
and
our
sins
are
on
us,
and
we pine
away
in
them.
How
then
can
we
live?” ’
\VS{11}Tell
them, ‘ “As
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “I
have
no
pleasure
in
the
death
of
the
wicked,
but
that
the
wicked
turn
from
his
way
and
live.
Turn,
turn
from
your
evil
ways!
For
why
will
you
die,
house
of
Israel?” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“You,
son
of
man,
tell
the
children
of
your
people, ‘The
righteousness
of
the
righteous
will
not
deliver
him
in
the
day
of
his disobedience.
And
as
for
the
wickedness
of
the
wicked,
he
will
not
fall
by
it
in
the
day
that
he
turns
from
his
wickedness;
neither
will
he
who
is
righteous
be
able
to
live
by
it
in
the
day
that
he
sins.
\VS{13}When
I
tell
the
righteous
that
he
will
surely
live,
if
he
trusts
in
his
righteousness
and
commits
iniquity,
none
of
his
righteous
deeds
will
be
remembered;
but
he
will
die
in
his
iniquity
that
he
has
committed.
\VS{14}Again,
when
I
say
to
the
wicked, “You
will
surely
die,” if
he
turns
from
his
sin
and
does
that which
is lawful
and
right,
\VS{15}if
the
wicked
restore
the
pledge,
give
again
that
which
he
had
taken
by
robbery,
walk
in
the
statutes
of
life,
committing
no
iniquity,
he
will
surely
live.
He
will
not
die.
\VS{16}None
of
his
sins
that
he
has
committed
will
be
remembered
against
him.
He
has
done
that
which
is lawful
and
right.
He
will
surely
live.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“ ‘Yet
the
children
of
your
people
say, “The
way
of
the
Lord
is
not fair;”
but
as
for
them,
their
way
is
not fair.
\VS{18}When
the
righteous
turns
from
his
righteousness
and
commits
iniquity,
he
will
even
die therein.
\VS{19}When
the
wicked
turns
from
his
wickedness
and
does
that
which
is lawful
and
right,
he
will
live
by
it.
\VS{20}Yet
you
say, “The
way
of
the
Lord
is
not fair.”
House
of
Israel,
I
will
judge
every
one
of
you after
his
ways.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{21}In
the twelfth
year
of
our captivity,
in
the
tenth
month,
in
the
fifth
day
of
the
month,
one
who
had escaped
out
of
Jerusalem
came
to
me,
saying, “The
city
has
been
defeated!”
\VS{22}Now
the
LORD’s
hand
had
been
on
me
in
the
evening,
before
he
who
had escaped
came;
and
he
had
opened
my
mouth
until
he
came
to
me
in
the
morning;
and
my
mouth
was
opened,
and
I
was
no
longer
mute.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{24}“Son
of
man,
those
who
inhabit
the
waste
places
in
the
land
of
Israel
speak,
saying, ‘Abraham
was
one,
and
he inherited
the
land;
but
we
are
many.
The
land
is
given
us
for
inheritance.’
\VS{25}Therefore
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “You
eat
with
the
blood,
and
lift
up
your
eyes
to
your
idols,
and
shed
blood.
So
should
you
possess
the
land?
\VS{26}You
stand
on
your
sword,
you work
abomination,
and
every
one
of
you
defiles
his neighbour’s
wife.
So
should
you
possess
the
land?” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“You
shall
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “As
I
live,
surely
those
who
are
in
the
waste
places
will
fall
by
the
sword.
I
will
give
whoever
is
in
the
open
field
to
the
animals
to
be
devoured,
and
those
who
are
in
the strongholds
and
in
the
caves
will
die
of
the
pestilence.
\VS{28}I
will
make
the
land
a
desolation
and
an astonishment.
The
pride
of
her
power
will
cease.
The
mountains
of
Israel
will
be
desolate,
so
that
no
one
will
pass
through.
\VS{29}Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
when
I
have
made
the
land
a
desolation
and
an astonishment
because
of
all
their
abominations
which
they
have
committed.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“As
for
you,
son
of
man,
the
children
of
your
people
talk
about
you
by
the
walls
and
in
the
doors
of
the
houses,
and
speak
to
one
another,
everyone
to
his
brother,
saying, ‘Please
come
and
hear
what
the
word
is
that
comes
out
from
the
LORD.’
\VS{31}They
come
to
you
as
the
people
come,
and
they
sit
before
you
as
my
people,
and
they
hear
your
words,
but
don’t
do
them;
for
with
their
mouth
they
show
much love,
but
their
heart
goes
after
their
gain.
\VS{32}Behold,
you
are
to
them
as
a very lovely
song
of
one
who
has
a pleasant
voice,
and
can
play
well
on
an instrument;
for
they
hear
your
words,
but
they
don’t
do
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“When
this
comes
to
pass—behold,
it
comes—then
they
will
know
that
a
prophet
has
been amongst
them.”

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
prophesy
against
the
shepherds
of
Israel.
Prophesy,
and
tell
them,
even
the
shepherds, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Woe
to
the
shepherds
of
Israel
who
feed
themselves! Shouldn’t
the
shepherds
feed
the
sheep?
\VS{3}You
eat
the
fat.
You
clothe
yourself
with
the
wool.
You kill
the fatlings,
but
you
don’t
feed
the
sheep.
\VS{4}You
haven’t
strengthened
the diseased.
You
haven’t
healed
that which
was
sick.
You
haven’t
bound
up
that which
was
broken.
You
haven’t
brought
back
that which
was
driven
away.
You
haven’t
sought
that which
was
lost,
but
you
have ruled
over
them
with
force
and
with rigor.
\VS{5}They
were
scattered,
because
there
was
no
shepherd.
They
became
food
to
all
the
animals
of
the
field,
and
were
scattered.
\VS{6}My
sheep
wandered
through
all
the
mountains
and
on
every
high
hill. Yes,
my
sheep
were
scattered
on
all
the
surface
of
the
earth.
There
was
no
one
who
searched
or
sought.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘Therefore,
you
shepherds,
hear
the
LORD’s
word:
\VS{8}“As
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “surely
because
my
sheep
became
a
prey,
and
my
sheep
became
food
to
all
the
animals
of
the
field,
because
there
was
no
shepherd,
and
my
shepherds
didn’t
search
for
my
sheep,
but
the
shepherds fed themselves,
and
didn’t
feed
my
sheep,
\VS{9}therefore,
you
shepherds,
hear
the
LORD’s
word!”
\VS{10}The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
am
against
the
shepherds.
I
will
require
my
sheep
at
their
hand,
and
cause
them
to
cease
from feeding
the
sheep.
The
shepherds
won’t
feed themselves
any
more.
I
will
deliver
my
sheep
from
their
mouth,
that
they
may
not
be
food
for
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ ‘For
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
myself,
even
I,
will
search
for
my
sheep,
and
will
seek
them
out.
\VS{12}As
a
shepherd
seeks
out
his
flock
in
the
day
that
he
is amongst
his
sheep
that
are
scattered abroad,
so
I
will
seek
out
my
sheep.
I
will
deliver
them
out
of
all
places
where
they
have
been
scattered
in
the
cloudy
and
dark
day.
\VS{13}I
will
bring
them
out
from
the
peoples,
and
gather
them
from
the
countries,
and
will
bring
them
into
their own
land.
I
will
feed
them
on
the
mountains
of
Israel,
by
the watercourses,
and
in
all
the
inhabited
places
of
the
country.
\VS{14}I
will
feed
them
with
good
pasture,
and
their fold
will
be
on
the
mountains
of
the
height
of
Israel.
There
they
will
lie
down
in
a
good fold.
They
will
feed
on rich
pasture
on
the
mountains
of
Israel.
\VS{15}I
myself
will
be
the
shepherd
of
my
sheep,
and
I
will cause
them
to
lie
down,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{16}“I
will
seek
that which
was
lost,
and
will
bring
back
that which
was
driven
away,
and
will
bind
up
that which
was
broken,
and
will
strengthen
that which
was
sick;
but
I
will
destroy
the fat
and
the
strong.
I
will
feed
them
in
justice.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“As
for
you,
O
my
flock,
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Behold,
I
judge
between
sheep
and
sheep,
the
rams
and
the
male
goats.
\VS{18}Does
it seem
a
small
thing
to
you
to
have fed
on
the
good
pasture,
but
you
must
tread
down
with
your
feet
the residue
of
your
pasture?
And
to
have
drunk
of
the
clear
waters,
but
must
you foul
the residue
with
your
feet?
\VS{19}As
for
my
sheep,
they eat
that which
you
have trodden
with
your
feet,
and
they
drink
that which
you
have fouled
with
your
feet.’
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says
to
them: ‘Behold,
I,
even
I,
will
judge
between
the fat
sheep
and
the
lean
sheep.
\VS{21}Because
you
thrust
with
side
and
with
shoulder,
and
push
all
the diseased
with
your
horns,
until
you
have
scattered
them
abroad,
\VS{22}therefore
I
will
save
my
flock,
and
they
will
no
more
be
a
prey.
I
will
judge
between
sheep
and
sheep.
\VS{23}I
will
set
up
one
shepherd
over
them,
and
he
will
feed
them,
even
my
servant
David.
He
will
feed
them,
and
he
will
be
their
shepherd.
\VS{24}I,
the
LORD,
will
be
their
God,
and
my
servant
David
prince amongst
them.
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“ ‘I
will
make
with
them
a
covenant
of
peace,
and
will cause
evil
animals
to
cease
out
of
the
land.
They
will
dwell
securely
in
the
wilderness
and
sleep
in
the
woods.
\VS{26}I
will
make
them
and
the
places
around
my
hill
a
blessing.
I
will
cause
the
shower
to
come
down
in
its
season.
There
will
be
showers
of
blessing.
\VS{27}The
tree
of
the
field
will
yield
its
fruit,
and
the
earth
will
yield
its
increase,
and
they
will
be
secure
in
their
land.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
when
I
have
broken
the
bars
of
their
yoke,
and
have
delivered
them
out
of
the
hand
of
those
who
made
slaves
of
them.
\VS{28}They
will
no
more
be
a
prey
to
the
nations,
neither
will
the
animals
of
the
earth
devour
them;
but
they
will
dwell
securely,
and
no
one
will
make
them
afraid.
\VS{29}I
will
raise
up
to
them
a plantation
for
renown,
and
they
will
no
more
be consumed
with
famine
in
the
land,
and
not
bear
the
shame
of
the
nations
any
more.
\VS{30}They
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
their
God
am
with
them,
and
that
they,
the
house
of
Israel,
are
my
people,
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{31}You
my
sheep,
the
sheep
of
my
pasture,
are
men,
and
I
am
your
God,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.”

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face
against
Mount
Seir,
and
prophesy
against
it,
\VS{3}and
tell
it, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
am
against
you,
Mount
Seir,
and
I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
against
you.
I
will
make
you
a
desolation
and
an astonishment.
\VS{4}I
will
lay
your
cities
waste,
and
you
will
be
desolate.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ ‘ “Because
you
have
had
a
perpetual
hostility,
and
have
given
over
the
children
of
Israel
to
the
power
of
the
sword
in
the
time
of
their
calamity,
in
the
time
of
the
iniquity
of
the
end,
\VS{6}therefore,
as
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “I
will
prepare
you
for
blood,
and
blood
will
pursue
you.
Since
you
have
not
hated
blood,
therefore
blood
will
pursue
you.
\VS{7}Thus
I
will
make
Mount
Seir
an astonishment
and
a
desolation.
I
will
cut
off
from
it
him who
passes
through
and
him who
returns.
\VS{8}I
will
fill
its
mountains
with
its
slain.
The
slain
with
the
sword
will
fall
in
your
hills
and
in
your
valleys
and
in
all
your watercourses.
\VS{9}I
will
make
you
a
perpetual
desolation,
and
your
cities
will
not
be
inhabited.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘ “Because
you
have
said, ‘These
two
nations
and these
two
countries
will
be mine,
and
we
will
possess
it,’
although
the
LORD
was
there,
\VS{11}therefore,
as
I
live,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “I
will
do according
to
your
anger,
and according
to
your
envy
which
you
have
shown
out
of
your
hatred against
them;
and
I
will
make
myself
known amongst
them
when
I
judge
you.
\VS{12}You
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have
heard
all
your insults
which
you
have
spoken
against
the
mountains
of
Israel,
saying, ‘They
have
been
laid
desolate.
They
have
been
given
to
us
to devour.’
\VS{13}You
have
magnified
yourselves
against
me
with
your
mouth,
and
have
multiplied
your
words
against
me.
I
have
heard
it.”
\VS{14}The
Lord
GOD
says: “When
the
whole
earth
rejoices,
I
will
make
you
desolate.
\VS{15}As
you
rejoiced
over
the
inheritance
of
the
house
of
Israel
because
it
was
desolate,
so
I
will
do
to
you.
You
will
be
desolate,
Mount
Seir,
and
all
Edom,
even
all
of
it.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}You,
son
of
man,
prophesy
to
the
mountains
of
Israel,
and
say, “You
mountains
of
Israel,
hear
the
LORD’s
word.
\VS{2}The
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Because
the
enemy
has
said
against
you, “Aha!”
and, “The
ancient
high
places
are ours
in
possession!” ’
\VS{3}therefore
prophesy,
and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Because,
even
because
they
have
made
you
desolate,
and swallowed
you
up
on
every
side,
that
you might
be
a
possession
to
the residue
of
the
nations,
and
you
are
taken
up
in
the
lips
of talkers,
and
the
evil
report
of
the
people;”
\VS{4}therefore,
you
mountains
of
Israel,
hear
the
word
of
the
Lord
GOD:
The
Lord
GOD
says
to
the
mountains
and
to
the
hills,
to
the watercourses
and
to
the
valleys,
to
the
desolate
wastes
and
to
the
cities
that
are forsaken,
which
have
become
a
prey
and
derision
to
the residue
of
the
nations
that
are
all
around;
\VS{5}therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “Surely
in
the
fire
of
my
jealousy
I
have
spoken
against
the residue
of
the
nations,
and
against
all
Edom,
that
have
appointed
my
land
to
themselves
for
a
possession
with
the
joy
of
all
their
heart,
with
despite
of
soul,
to
cast
it
out
for
a
prey.” ’
\VS{6}Therefore
prophesy
concerning
the
land
of
Israel,
and
tell
the
mountains,
the
hills,
the watercourses
and
the
valleys, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
have
spoken
in
my
jealousy
and
in
my
wrath,
because
you
have
borne
the
shame
of
the
nations.”
\VS{7}Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: “I
have
sworn, ‘Surely
the
nations
that
are
around
you
will
bear
their
shame.’
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘ “But
you,
mountains
of
Israel,
you
shall shoot
out
your
branches
and
yield
your
fruit
to
my
people
Israel;
for
they
are
at
hand
to
come.
\VS{9}For,
behold,
I
am
for
you,
and
I
will come
to
you,
and
you
will
be tilled
and
sown.
\VS{10}I
will
multiply
men
on
you,
all
the
house
of
Israel,
even
all
of
it.
The
cities
will
be
inhabited
and
the
waste
places
will
be
built.
\VS{11}I
will
multiply
man
and
animal
on
you.
They
will
increase
and
be
fruitful.
I
will cause
you
to
be
inhabited
as
you
were
before,
and
you
will
do
better
than
at
your beginnings.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\VS{12}Yes,
I
will
cause
men
to walk
on
you,
even
my
people
Israel.
They
will
possess
you,
and
you
will
be
their
inheritance,
and
you
will
never
again
bereave
them
of
their
children.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Because
they
say
to
you, ‘You
are
a
devourer
of
men,
and
have
been
a bereaver
of
your
nation;’
\VS{14}therefore
you
shall
devour
men
no
more,
and
not
bereave
your
nation
any
more,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{15}“I
won’t
let
you
hear
the
shame
of
the
nations
any
more.
You
won’t
bear
the
reproach
of
the
peoples
any
more,
and
you
won’t cause
your
nation
to
stumble
any
more,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Moreover
the
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{17}“Son
of
man,
when
the
house
of
Israel
lived
in
their
own
land,
they
defiled
it
by
their
ways
and
by
their
deeds.
Their
way
before
me
was
as
the
uncleanness
of
a
woman
in
her
impurity.
\VS{18}Therefore
I
poured
out
my
wrath
on
them
for
the
blood
which
they
had
poured
out
on
the
land,
and
because
they
had
defiled
it
with
their
idols.
\VS{19}I
scattered
them amongst
the
nations,
and
they
were
dispersed
through
the
countries.
I
judged
them according
to
their
way
and according
to
their
deeds.
\VS{20}When
they
came
to
the
nations
where
they
went,
they
profaned
my
holy
name,
in
that
men
said
of
them, ‘These
are
the
LORD’s
people,
and
have
left
his
land.’
\VS{21}But
I
had
respect
for
my
holy
name,
which
the
house
of
Israel
had
profaned amongst
the
nations
where
they
went.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Therefore
tell
the
house
of
Israel, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “I
don’t
do
this
for
your
sake,
house
of
Israel,
but
for
my
holy
name,
which
you
have
profaned amongst
the
nations
where
you
went.
\VS{23}I
will
sanctify
my
great
name,
which
has
been
profaned amongst
the
nations,
which
you
have
profaned amongst
them.
Then
the
nations
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “when
I
am proven
holy
in
you
before
their
eyes.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“ ‘ “For
I
will
take
you
from amongst
the
nations
and
gather
you
out
of
all
the
countries,
and
will
bring
you
into
your own
land.
\VS{25}I
will
sprinkle
clean
water
on
you,
and
you
will
be
clean.
I
will
cleanse
you
from
all
your filthiness
and
from
all
your
idols.
\VS{26}I
will
also
give
you
a
new
heart,
and
I
will
put
a
new
spirit
within
you.
I
will
take
away
the stony
heart
out
of
your
flesh,
and
I
will
give
you
a
heart
of
flesh.
\VS{27}I
will
put
my
Spirit
within
you,
and
cause
you
to walk
in
my
statutes.
You
will
keep
my
ordinances
and
do
them.
\VS{28}You
will
dwell
in
the
land
that
I
gave
to
your
fathers.
You
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
your
God.
\VS{29}I
will
save
you
from
all
your
uncleanness.
I
will
call
for
the
grain
and
will
multiply
it,
and
lay
no
famine
on
you.
\VS{30}I
will
multiply
the
fruit
of
the
tree
and
the
increase
of
the
field,
that
you
may
receive
no
more
the
reproach
of
famine amongst
the
nations.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}“ ‘ “Then
you
will
remember
your
evil
ways,
and
your
deeds
that
were
not
good;
and
you
will loathe
yourselves
in
your
own
sight
for
your
iniquities
and
for
your
abominations.
\VS{32}I
don’t
do
this
for
your
sake,”
says
the
Lord
GOD. “Let
it
be
known
to
you.
Be
ashamed
and
confounded
for
your
ways,
house
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “In
the
day
that
I
cleanse
you
from
all
your
iniquities,
I
will cause
the
cities
to
be
inhabited
and
the
waste
places
will
be
built.
\VS{34}The
land
that
was
desolate
will
be tilled
instead
of
being
a
desolation
in
the
sight
of
all
who
passed
by.
\VS{35}They
will
say, ‘This
land
that
was
desolate
has
become
like
the
garden
of
Eden.
The
waste,
desolate,
and
ruined
cities
are
fortified
and
inhabited.’
\VS{36}Then
the
nations
that
are
left
around
you
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have
built
the
ruined
places
and
planted
that
which
was
desolate.
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it,
and
I
will
do
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{37}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “For
this,
moreover,
I
will
be enquired
of
by
the
house
of
Israel,
to
do
it
for
them:
I
will
increase
them
with
men
like
a
flock.
\VS{38}As
the
flock
for sacrifice,
as
the
flock
of
Jerusalem
in
her
appointed
feasts,
so
the waste
cities
will
be
filled
with
flocks
of
men.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.’ ”

\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
hand
was
on
me,
and
he
brought
me
out
in
the
LORD’s
Spirit,
and
set
me
down
in
the
middle
of
the
valley;
and
it
was
full
of
bones.
\VS{2}He caused
me
to
pass
by
them
all
around;
and
behold,
there
were
very
many
in
the
open
valley,
and
behold,
they
were
very
dry.
\VS{3}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
can
these
bones
live?”
\par }{\PP I
answered, “Lord
GOD,
you
know.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Again
he
said
to
me, “Prophesy
over
these
bones,
and
tell
them, ‘You
dry
bones,
hear
the
LORD’s
word.
\VS{5}The
Lord
GOD
says
to
these
bones: “Behold,
I
will cause
breath
to
enter
into
you,
and
you
will
live.
\VS{6}I
will
lay
sinews
on
you,
and
will
bring
up
flesh
on
you,
and
cover
you
with
skin,
and
put
breath
in
you,
and
you
will
live.
Then
you
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}So
I
prophesied
as
I
was
commanded.
As
I
prophesied,
there
was
a
noise,
and
behold,
there
was
an
earthquake.
Then
the
bones
came
together,
bone
to
its
bone.
\VS{8}I
saw,
and,
behold,
there
were
sinews
on
them,
and
flesh
came
up,
and
skin
covered
them
above;
but
there
was
no
breath
in
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Then
he
said
to
me, “Prophesy
to
the
wind,
prophesy,
son
of
man,
and
tell
the
wind, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Come
from
the
four
winds,
breath,
and
breathe
on
these
slain,
that
they
may
live.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}So
I
prophesied
as
he
commanded
me,
and
the
breath
came
into
them,
and
they
lived,
and
stood
up
on
their
feet,
an
exceedingly
great
army.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Then
he
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
these
bones
are
the
whole
house
of
Israel.
Behold,
they
say, ‘Our
bones
are
dried
up,
and
our
hope
is
lost.
We
are
completely
cut
off.’
\VS{12}Therefore
prophesy,
and
tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
will
open
your
graves,
and cause
you
to
come
up
out
of
your
graves,
my
people;
and
I
will
bring
you
into
the
land
of
Israel.
\VS{13}You
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
when
I
have
opened
your
graves
and caused
you
to
come
up
out
of
your
graves,
my
people.
\VS{14}I
will
put
my
Spirit
in
you,
and
you
will
live.
Then
I
will
place
you
in
your own
land;
and
you
will
know
that
I,
the
LORD,
have
spoken
it
and
performed
it,”
says
the
LORD.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{15}The
LORD’s
word
came
again
to
me,
saying,
\VS{16}“You,
son
of
man,
take
one
stick
and
write
on
it, ‘For
Judah,
and
for
the
children
of
Israel
his
companions.’
Then
take
another
stick,
and
write
on
it, ‘For
Joseph,
the
stick
of
Ephraim,
and
for
all
the
house
of
Israel
his
companions.’
\VS{17}Then
join
them
for
yourself
to
one
another
into
one
stick,
that
they
may
become
one
in
your
hand.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“When
the
children
of
your
people
speak
to
you,
saying, ‘Won’t
you
show
us
what
you mean
by
these?’
\VS{19}tell
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
will
take
the
stick
of
Joseph,
which
is
in
the
hand
of
Ephraim,
and
the
tribes
of
Israel
his
companions;
and
I
will
put
them
with
it,
with
the
stick
of
Judah,
and
make
them
one
stick,
and
they
will
be
one
in
my
hand.
\VS{20}The
sticks
on
which
you
write
will
be
in
your
hand
before
their
eyes.” ’
\VS{21}Say
to
them, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
will
take
the
children
of
Israel
from amongst
the
nations
where
they
have
gone,
and
will
gather
them
on
every
side,
and
bring
them
into
their own
land.
\VS{22}I
will
make
them
one
nation
in
the
land,
on
the
mountains
of
Israel.
One
king
will
be
king
to
them
all.
They
will
no
longer
be
two
nations.
They
won’t
be
divided
into
two
kingdoms
any
more
at
all.
\VS{23}They
won’t
defile
themselves
any
more
with
their
idols,
nor
with
their
detestable
things,
nor
with
any
of
their
transgressions;
but
I
will
save
them
out
of
all
their
dwelling
places
in
which
they
have
sinned,
and
will
cleanse
them.
So
they
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“ ‘ “My
servant
David
will
be
king
over
them.
They
all
will
have
one
shepherd.
They
will
also walk
in
my
ordinances
and
observe
my
statutes,
and
do
them.
\VS{25}They
will
dwell
in
the
land
that
I
have
given
to
Jacob
my
servant,
in
which
your
fathers
lived.
They
will
dwell therein,
they,
and
their
children,
and
their
children’s
children,
forever.
David
my
servant
will
be
their
prince
forever.
\VS{26}Moreover
I
will
make
a
covenant
of
peace
with
them.
It
will
be
an
everlasting
covenant
with
them.
I
will
place
them,
multiply
them,
and
will
set
my
sanctuary amongst
them
forever
more.
\VS{27}My tent
also
will
be
with
them.
I
will
be
their
God,
and
they
will
be
my
people.
\VS{28}The
nations
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
who
sanctifies
Israel,
when
my
sanctuary
is amongst
them
forever
more.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Son
of
man,
set
your
face towards
Gog,
of
the
land
of
Magog,
the
prince
of Rosh,
Meshech,
and
Tubal,
and
prophesy
against
him,
\VS{3}and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
am
against
you,
Gog,
prince
of Rosh,
Meshech,
and
Tubal.
\VS{4}I
will
turn
you
around,
and
put
hooks
into
your
jaws,
and
I
will
bring
you
out,
with
all
your
army,
horses
and
horsemen,
all
of
them
clothed
in
full armour,
a
great
company
with
buckler
and
shield,
all
of
them handling
swords;
\VS{5}Persia,
Cush,
and
Put
with
them,
all
of
them
with
shield
and
helmet;
\VS{6}Gomer,
and
all
his hordes;
the
house
of
Togarmah
in
the uttermost
parts
of
the
north,
and
all
his hordes—even
many
peoples
with
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘ “Be
prepared, yes,
prepare
yourself,
you,
and
all
your
companies
who
are
assembled
to
you,
and
be
a
guard
to
them.
\VS{8}After
many
days
you
will
be
visited.
In
the
latter
years
you
will
come
into
the
land
that
is
brought
back
from
the
sword,
that
is
gathered
out
of
many
peoples,
on
the
mountains
of
Israel,
which
have
been
a
continual
waste;
but
it
is
brought
out
of
the
peoples
and
they
will
dwell
securely,
all
of
them.
\VS{9}You
will
ascend.
You
will
come
like
a storm.
You
will
be
like
a
cloud
to
cover
the
land,
you
and
all
your hordes,
and
many
peoples
with
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “It
will
happen
in
that
day
that
things
will
come
into
your
mind,
and
you
will
devise
an
evil
plan.
\VS{11}You
will
say, ‘I
will
go
up
to
the
land
of
unwalled
villages.
I
will
go
to
those
who
are
at
rest,
who
dwell
securely,
all
of
them
dwelling
without
walls,
and
having
neither
bars
nor
gates,
\VS{12}to
take
the
plunder
and
to
take
prey;
to
turn
your
hand
against
the
waste
places
that
are
inhabited,
and
against
the
people
who
are
gathered
out
of
the
nations,
who
have gotten
livestock
and
goods,
who
dwell
in
the middle
of
the
earth.’
\VS{13}Sheba,
Dedan,
and
the
merchants
of
Tarshish,
with
all
its
young
lions,
will
ask
you, ‘Have
you
come
to
take
the
plunder?
Have
you
assembled
your
company
to
take
the
prey,
to
carry
away
silver
and
gold,
to
take
away
livestock
and
goods,
to
take
great
plunder?’ ” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Therefore,
son
of
man,
prophesy,
and
tell
Gog, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “In
that
day
when
my
people
Israel
dwells
securely,
will
you
not
know
it?
\VS{15}You
will
come
from
your
place
out
of
the uttermost
parts
of
the
north,
you,
and
many
peoples
with
you,
all
of
them
riding
on
horses,
a
great
company
and
a
mighty
army.
\VS{16}You
will
come
up
against
my
people
Israel
as
a
cloud
to
cover
the
land.
It
will
happen
in
the
latter
days
that
I
will
bring
you
against
my
land,
that
the
nations
may
know
me
when
I
am
sanctified
in
you,
Gog,
before
their
eyes.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Are
you
he
of
whom
I
spoke
in
old
time
by
my
servants
the
prophets
of
Israel,
who
prophesied
in
those
days
for
years
that
I
would
bring
you
against
them?
\VS{18}It
will
happen
in
that
day,
when
Gog
comes
against
the
land
of
Israel,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “that
my
wrath
will
come
up
into
my
nostrils.
\VS{19}For
in
my
jealousy
and
in
the
fire
of
my
wrath
I
have
spoken.
Surely
in
that
day
there
will
be
a
great
shaking
in
the
land
of
Israel,
\VS{20}so
that
the
fish
of
the
sea,
the
birds
of
the
sky,
the
animals
of
the
field,
all
creeping
things
who
creep
on
the
earth,
and
all
the
men
who
are
on
the
surface
of
the
earth
will
shake
at
my
presence.
Then
the
mountains
will
be
thrown
down,
the
steep
places
will
fall,
and
every
wall
will
fall
to
the
ground.
\VS{21}I
will
call
for
a
sword
against
him
to
all
my
mountains,”
says
the
Lord
GOD. “Every
man’s
sword
will
be
against
his
brother.
\VS{22}I
will
enter
into judgement
with
him
with
pestilence
and
with
blood.
I
will
rain
on
him,
on
his hordes,
and
on
the
many
peoples
who
are
with
him,
torrential
rains
with
great
hailstones,
fire,
and sulphur.
\VS{23}I
will
magnify
myself
and
sanctify
myself,
and
I
will
make
myself
known
in
the
eyes
of
many
nations.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.” ’

\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“You,
son
of
man,
prophesy
against
Gog,
and
say, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Behold,
I
am
against
you,
Gog,
prince
of Rosh,
Meshech,
and
Tubal.
\VS{2}I
will
turn
you
around,
will
lead
you
on,
and
will
cause
you
to
come
up
from
the uttermost
parts
of
the
north;
and
I
will
bring
you
onto
the
mountains
of
Israel.
\VS{3}I
will
strike
your
bow
out
of
your
left
hand,
and
will cause
your
arrows
to
fall
out
of
your
right
hand.
\VS{4}You
will
fall
on
the
mountains
of
Israel,
you,
and
all
your hordes,
and
the
peoples
who
are
with
you.
I
will
give
you
to
the ravenous
birds
of
every sort
and
to
the
animals
of
the
field
to
be devoured.
\VS{5}You
will
fall
on
the
open
field,
for
I
have
spoken
it,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{6}“I
will
send
a
fire
on
Magog
and
on
those
who
dwell
securely
in
the
islands.
Then
they
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘ “I
will
make
my
holy
name
known amongst
my
people
Israel.
I
won’t allow
my
holy
name
to
be
profaned
any
more.
Then
the
nations
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD,
the
Holy
One
in
Israel.
\VS{8}Behold,
it
comes,
and
it
will
be
done,”
says
the
Lord
GOD. “This
is
the
day
about
which
I
have
spoken.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘ “Those
who
dwell
in
the
cities
of
Israel
will
go
out
and
will
make
fires
of
the
weapons
and
burn
them, both
the
shields
and
the bucklers,
the
bows
and
the
arrows,
and
the
war
clubs
and
the
spears,
and
they
will
make
fires
with
them
for
seven
years;
\VS{10}so
that
they
will
take
no
wood
out
of
the
field,
and
not
cut
down
any
out
of
the
forests;
for
they
will
make
fires
with
the
weapons.
They
will
plunder
those
who
plundered
them,
and rob
those
who
robbed
them,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ ‘ “It
will
happen
in
that
day,
that
I
will
give
to
Gog
a
place
for
burial
in
Israel,
the
valley
of
those
who
pass
through
on
the
east
of
the
sea;
and
it
will stop
those
who
pass
through.
They
will
bury
Gog
and
all
his
multitude
there,
and
they
will
call
it ‘The
valley
of Hamon Gog’.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“ ‘ “The
house
of
Israel
will
be
burying
them
for
seven
months,
that
they
may
cleanse
the
land.
\VS{13}Yes,
all
the
people
of
the
land
will
bury
them;
and
they
will
become
famous
in
the
day
that
I
will
be
glorified,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“ ‘ “They
will
set
apart
men
of
continual employment
who
will
pass
through
the
land.
Those
who
pass
through
will
go
with
those
who
bury
those
who
remain
on
the
surface
of
the
land,
to
cleanse
it.
After
the
end
of
seven
months
they
will
search.
\VS{15}Those
who
search
through
the
land
will
pass
through;
and
when
anyone
sees
a
man’s
bone,
then
he
will
set
up
a sign
by
it,
until
the undertakers
have
buried
it
in
the
valley
of Hamon Gog.
\VS{16}Hamonah
will
also
be
the
name
of
a
city. Thus
they
will
cleanse
the
land.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“You,
son
of
man,
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Speak
to
the
birds
of
every sort,
and
to
every
animal
of
the
field, “Assemble
yourselves,
and
come;
gather
yourselves
on
every
side
to
my
sacrifice
that
I
sacrifice
for
you,
even
a
great
sacrifice
on
the
mountains
of
Israel,
that
you
may
eat
meat
and
drink
blood.
\VS{18}You
shall
eat
the
flesh
of
the
mighty,
and
drink
the
blood
of
the
princes
of
the
earth,
of
rams,
of
lambs,
and
of
goats,
of
bulls,
all
of
them
fatlings
of
Bashan.
\VS{19}You
shall
eat
fat until
you
are full,
and
drink
blood until
you
are
drunk,
of
my
sacrifice
which
I
have
sacrificed
for
you.
\VS{20}You
shall
be
filled
at
my
table
with
horses
and
charioteers,
with
mighty
men,
and
with
all
men
of
war,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.’
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“I
will
set
my
glory amongst
the
nations.
Then
all
the
nations
will
see
my judgement
that
I
have executed,
and
my
hand
that
I
have
laid
on
them.
\VS{22}So
the
house
of
Israel
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
their
God,
from
that
day
and
forward.
\VS{23}The
nations
will
know
that
the
house
of
Israel
went
into
captivity
for
their
iniquity,
because
they trespassed
against
me,
and
I
hid
my
face
from
them;
so
I
gave
them
into
the
hand
of
their adversaries,
and
they
all
fell
by
the
sword.
\VS{24}I
did
to
them according
to
their
uncleanness
and according
to
their
transgressions.
I
hid
my
face
from
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“Therefore
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘Now
I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
Jacob
and
have
mercy
on
the
whole
house
of
Israel.
I
will
be
jealous
for
my
holy
name.
\VS{26}They
will
forget
their
shame
and
all
their trespasses
by
which
they
have trespassed
against
me,
when
they
dwell
securely
in
their
land.
No
one
will
make
them
afraid
\VS{27}when
I
have
brought
them
back
from
the
peoples,
gathered
them
out
of
their enemies’
lands,
and am shown
holy amongst
them
in
the
sight
of
many
nations.
\VS{28}They
will
know
that
I
am
the
LORD
their
God,
in
that
I
caused
them
to
go
into
captivity amongst
the
nations,
and
have
gathered
them
to
their own
land.
Then
I
will
leave
none
of
them
captive
any
more.
\VS{29}I
won’t
hide
my
face
from
them
any
more,
for
I
have
poured
out
my
Spirit
on
the
house
of
Israel,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.”

\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twenty-fifth
year
of
our captivity,
in
the
beginning
of
the
year,
in
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
in
the fourteenth
year
after
the
city
was
struck,
in
the
same
day,
the
LORD’s
hand
was
on
me,
and
he
brought
me
there.
\VS{2}In
the
visions
of
God
he
brought
me
into
the
land
of
Israel,
and
set
me
down
on
a
very
high
mountain,
on
which
was something
like
the frame
of
a
city
to
the
south.
\VS{3}He
brought
me
there;
and,
behold,
there
was
a
man
whose
appearance
was
like
the
appearance
of
bronze,
with
a
line
of
flax
in
his
hand
and
a
measuring
reed;
and
he
stood
in
the
gate.
\VS{4}The
man
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
see
with
your
eyes,
and
hear
with
your
ears,
and
set
your
heart
on
all
that
I
will
show
you;
for
you
have
been
brought
here
so
that
I
may
show
them
to
you.
Declare
all
that
you
see
to
the
house
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Behold,
there
was
a
wall
on
the
outside
of
the
house
all
around,
and
in
the
man’s
hand
a
measuring
reed
six
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 40:5 }
A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres. A handbreadth is about 4.3 inches or 11 centimetres, so the long cubit described here would be about 22.3 inches or 57 centimetres long. Thus, a 6 long cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards 26.6 inches or about 3.42 metres long.}
long,
of
a
cubit
and
a
hand
width
each.
So
he
measured
the
thickness
of
the
building,
one
reed;
and
the
height,
one
reed.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
he
came
to
the
gate
which looks towards
the
east,
and
went
up
its
steps.
He
measured
the threshold
of
the
gate,
one
reed
wide;
and
the
other threshold,
one
reed
wide.
\VS{7}Every lodge
was
one
reed
long
and
one
reed
wide.
Between
the lodges
was
five
cubits.
The threshold
of
the
gate
by
the
porch
of
the
gate towards
the
house
was
one
reed.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}He
measured
also
the
porch
of
the
gate towards
the
house,
one
reed.
\VS{9}Then
he
measured
the
porch
of
the
gate,
eight
cubits;
and
its posts,
two
cubits;
and
the
porch
of
the
gate
was towards
the
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}The
side rooms
of
the
gate eastward
were
three
on this
side,
and
three
on
that
side.
The
three
of
them
were
of
one measure.
The posts
had
one measure
on this
side
and
on
that
side.
\VS{11}He
measured
the
width
of
the
opening
of
the
gate,
ten
cubits;
and
the
length
of
the
gate,
thirteen
cubits;
\VS{12}and
a
border
before
the lodges,
one
cubit
on this
side,
and
a
border,
one
cubit
on that
side;
and
the
side rooms,
six
cubits
on this
side,
and
six
cubits
on that
side.
\VS{13}He
measured
the
gate
from
the
roof
of
the
one
side
room
to
the
roof
of
the
other,
a
width
of
twenty-five
cubits,
door
against
door.
\VS{14}He
also
made posts,
sixty
cubits;
and
the
court reached
to
the posts,
around
the
gate.
\VS{15}From
the forefront
of
the
gate
at
the
entrance
to
the forefront
of
the
inner
porch
of
the
gate
were
fifty
cubits.
\VS{16}There
were closed
windows
to
the
side
rooms,
and
to
their posts
within
the
gate
all
around,
and
likewise
to
the arches.
Windows
were
around inward.
Palm
trees
were
on
each post.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
he
brought
me
into
the
outer
court.
Behold,
there
were
rooms
and
a
pavement
made
for
the
court
all
around.
Thirty
rooms
were
on
the
pavement.
\VS{18}The
pavement
was
by
the
side
of
the
gates,
corresponding
to
the
length
of
the
gates, even
the
lower
pavement.
\VS{19}Then
he
measured
the
width
from
the forefront
of
the
lower
gate
to
the forefront
of
the
inner
court
outside,
one
hundred
cubits, both
on
the
east
and
on
the
north.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}He
measured
the
length
and
width
of
the
gate
of
the
outer
court
which
faces towards
the
north.
\VS{21}The lodges
of
it
were
three
on this
side
and
three
on
that
side.
Its posts
and
its arches
were
the same
as
the
measure
of
the
first
gate:
its
length
was
fifty
cubits,
and
the
width
twenty-five
cubits.
\VS{22}Its
windows,
its arches,
and
its
palm
trees
were
the same
as
the measure
of
the
gate
which
faces towards
the
east.
They
went
up
to
it
by
seven
steps.
Its arches
were
before
them.
\VS{23}There
was
a
gate
to
the
inner
court facing
the
other
gate,
on
the
north
and
on
the
east.
He
measured
one
hundred
cubits
from
gate
to
gate.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}He led me towards
the
south;
and
behold,
there
was
a
gate towards
the
south.
He
measured
its posts
and
its arches according
to
these measurements.
\VS{25}There
were
windows
in
it
and
in
its arches
all
around,
like
the
other
windows:
the
length
was
fifty
cubits,
and
the
width
twenty-five
cubits.
\VS{26}There
were
seven
steps
to go
up
to
it,
and
its arches
were
before
them.
It
had
palm
trees,
one
on this
side,
and
another
on
that
side,
on
its posts.
\VS{27}There
was
a
gate
to
the
inner
court towards
the
south.
He
measured
one
hundred
cubits
from
gate
to
gate towards
the
south.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}Then
he
brought
me
to
the
inner
court
by
the
south
gate.
He
measured
the
south
gate
according
to
these measurements;
\VS{29}with
its lodges,
its posts,
and
its arches, according
to
these measurements.
There
were
windows
in
it
and
in
its arches
all
around.
It
was
fifty
cubits
long,
and
twenty-five
cubits
wide.
\VS{30}There
were arches
all
around,
twenty-five
cubits
long
and
five
cubits
wide.
\VS{31}Its arches
were towards
the
outer
court.
Palm
trees
were
on its posts.
The
ascent
to it
had
eight
steps.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}He
brought
me
into
the
inner
court towards
the
east.
He
measured
the
gate
according
to
these measurements;
\VS{33}with
its lodges,
its posts,
and
its arches, according
to
these measurements.
There
were
windows
in
it
and
in
its arches
all
around.
It
was
fifty
cubits
long,
and
twenty-five
cubits
wide.
\VS{34}Its arches
were towards
the
outer
court.
Palm
trees
were
on its posts
on this
side
and
on
that
side.
The
ascent
to it
had
eight
steps.
\par }{\PP \VS{35}He
brought
me
to
the
north
gate,
and
he
measured
it
according
to
these measurements—
\VS{36}its lodges,
its posts,
and
its arches. There
were
windows
in
it
all
around.
The
length
was
fifty
cubits
and
the
width
twenty-five
cubits.
\VS{37}Its posts
were towards
the
outer
court.
Palm
trees
were
on its posts
on this
side
and
on
that
side.
The
ascent
to it
had
eight
steps.
\par }{\PP \VS{38}A
room
with
its
door
was
by
the posts
at
the
gates.
They
washed
the
burnt offering
there.
\VS{39}In
the
porch
of
the
gate
were
two
tables
on this
side
and
two
tables
on
that
side,
on which
to
kill
the
burnt
offering,
the
sin
offering,
and
the trespass
offering.
\VS{40}On
the
one
side
outside,
as
one
goes
up
to
the
entry
of
the
gate towards
the
north,
were
two
tables;
and
on
the
other
side,
which
belonged
to
the
porch
of
the
gate,
were
two
tables.
\VS{41}Four
tables
were
on this
side,
and
four
tables
on
that
side,
by
the
side
of
the
gate:
eight
tables,
on which
they
killed
the sacrifices.
\VS{42}There
were
four
cut
stone
tables
for
the
burnt
offering,
a
cubit
and
a
half
long,
a
cubit
and
a
half
wide,
and
one
cubit
high.
They laid
the
instruments
with
which
they
killed
the
burnt
offering
and
the
sacrifice
on
them.
\VS{43}The hooks,
a hand width
long,
were
fastened
within
all
around.
The
meat
of
the
offering
was
on
the
tables.
\par }{\PP \VS{44}Outside
of
the
inner
gate
were
rooms
for
the
singers
in
the
inner
court,
which
was
at
the
side
of
the
north
gate.
They
faced towards
the
south.
One
at
the
side
of
the
east
gate
faced towards
the
north.
\VS{45}He
said
to
me, “This
room,
which
faces towards
the
south,
is
for
the
priests
who
perform
the
duty
of
the
house.
\VS{46}The
room
which
faces towards
the
north
is
for
the
priests
who
perform
the
duty
of
the
altar.
These
are
the
sons
of
Zadok,
who
from amongst
the
sons
of
Levi
come
near
to
the
LORD
to
minister
to
him.”
\VS{47}He
measured
the
court,
one
hundred
cubits
long
and
one
hundred
cubits
wide,
square.
The
altar
was
before
the
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{48}Then
he
brought
me
to
the
porch
of
the
house,
and
measured
each post
of
the
porch,
five
cubits
on
this
side,
and
five
cubits
on
that
side.
The
width
of
the
gate
was
three
cubits
on
this
side
and
three
cubits
on
that
side.
\VS{49}The
length
of
the
porch
was
twenty
cubits
and
the
width
eleven
cubits, even
by
the
steps
by
which
they
went
up
to
it.
There
were
pillars
by
the
posts,
one
on
this
side,
and
another
on
that
side.

\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
brought
me
to
the
nave
and
measured
the posts,
six
cubits
wide
on
the
one
side
and
six
cubits
wide
on
the
other
side, which
was
the
width
of
the
tent.
\VS{2}The
width
of
the
entrance
was
ten
cubits,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 41:2 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.}
and
the
sides
of
the
entrance were
five
cubits
on
the
one
side,
and
five
cubits
on
the
other
side.
He
measured
its
length,
forty
cubits,
and
the
width,
twenty
cubits.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Then
he
went inward
and
measured
each post
of
the
entrance,
two
cubits;
and
the
entrance,
six
cubits;
and
the
width
of
the
entrance,
seven
cubits.
\VS{4}He
measured
its
length,
twenty
cubits,
and
the
width,
twenty
cubits,
before
the
nave.
He
said
to
me, “This
is
the
most
holy
place.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
he
measured
the
wall
of
the
house,
six
cubits;
and
the
width
of
every
side
room,
four
cubits,
all
around
the
house
on
every
side.
\VS{6}The
side
rooms
were
in
three storeys,
one
over
another,
and
thirty
in
each
story.
They
entered
into
the
wall
which
belonged
to
the
house
for
the
side
rooms
all
around,
that
they
might
be supported
and
not
penetrate
the
wall
of
the
house.
\VS{7}The
side
rooms
were
wider
on
the
higher levels,
because
the
walls
were narrower
at
the
higher levels.
Therefore
the
width
of
the
house increased
upward;
and
so
one
went
up
from
the
lowest level
to
the highest
through
the
middle level.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}I
saw also
that
the
house had
a
raised base
all
around.
The foundations
of
the
side
rooms
were
a
full
reed
of
six great
cubits.
\VS{9}The
thickness
of
the
outer
wall
of
the
side
rooms
was
five
cubits.
That
which
was
left
was
the
place
of
the
side
rooms
that belonged
to
the
house.
\VS{10}Between
the
rooms
was
a
width
of
twenty
cubits
around
the
house
on
every
side.
\VS{11}The
doors
of
the
side
rooms
were towards
an open
area
that
was
left,
one
door towards
the
north,
and
another
door towards
the
south.
The
width
of
the open
area
was
five
cubits
all
around.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}The
building
that
was
before
the
separate
place
at
the
side towards
the
west
was
seventy
cubits
wide;
and
the
wall
of
the
building
was
five
cubits
thick
all
around,
and
its
length
ninety
cubits.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}So
he
measured
the
temple,
one
hundred
cubits
long;
and
the
separate
place,
and
the
building,
with
its
walls,
one
hundred
cubits
long;
\VS{14}also
the
width
of
the
face
of
the
temple,
and
of
the
separate
place towards
the
east,
one
hundred
cubits.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}He
measured
the
length
of
the
building
before
the
separate place
which
was
at
its
back,
and
its galleries
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
side,
one
hundred
cubits
from
the
inner
temple,
and
the
porches
of
the
court,
\VS{16}the
thresholds,
and
the
closed
windows,
and
the galleries
around
on
their
three storeys,
opposite
the threshold,
with
wood ceilings
all
around,
and
from
the
ground
up
to
the
windows, (now
the
windows
were
covered),
\VS{17}to
the space
above
the
door,
even
to
the
inner
house,
and
outside,
and
by
all
the
wall
all
around
inside
and
outside,
by measure.
\VS{18}It
was
made
with
cherubim
and
palm
trees.
A
palm
tree
was
between
cherub
and
cherub,
and every
cherub
had
two
faces,
\VS{19}so
that
there
was
the
face
of
a
man towards
the
palm
tree
on
the
one
side,
and
the
face
of
a
young
lion towards
the
palm
tree
on
the
other
side.
It
was
made
like
this
through
all
the
house
all
around.
\VS{20}Cherubim
and
palm
trees
were
made
from
the
ground
to
above
the
door.
The
wall
of
the
temple
was
like
this.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}The
door
posts
of
the
nave
were
squared.
As
for
the
face
of
the
nave,
its
appearance
was
as
the
appearance
of
the
temple.
\VS{22}The
altar
was
of
wood,
three
cubits
high,
and
its
length
two
cubits.
Its
corners,
its
base,
and
its
walls
were
of
wood.
He
said
to
me, “This
is
the
table
that
is
before
the
LORD.”
\VS{23}The
temple
and
the
sanctuary
had
two
doors.
\VS{24}The
doors
had
two
leaves
each,
two turning
leaves:
two
for
the
one
door,
and
two
leaves
for
the
other.
\VS{25}There
were
made
on
them,
on
the
doors
of
the
nave,
cherubim
and
palm
trees,
like
those
made
on
the
walls.
There
was
a
threshold
of
wood
on
the
face
of
the
porch
outside.
\VS{26}There
were closed
windows
and
palm
trees
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
side,
on
the
sides
of
the
porch. This
is how
the
side
rooms
of
the
temple
and
the
thresholds
were arranged.

\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
he
brought
me
out
into
the
outer
court,
the
way towards
the
north.
Then
he
brought
me
into
the
room
that
was
opposite
the
separate
place,
and
which
was
opposite
the
building towards
the
north.
\VS{2}Facing
the
length
of
one
hundred
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 42:2 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.}
was
the
north
door,
and
the
width
was
fifty
cubits.
\VS{3}Opposite
the
twenty cubits
which belonged
to
the
inner
court,
and
opposite
the
pavement
which belonged
to
the
outer
court,
was
gallery
against
gallery
in
the
three storeys.
\VS{4}Before
the
rooms
was
a
walk
of
ten cubits’
width inward,
a
way
of
one
cubit;
and
their
doors
were towards
the
north.
\VS{5}Now
the
upper
rooms
were shorter;
for
the galleries
took
away
from
these
more
than
from
the
lower
and
the
middle
in
the
building.
\VS{6}For
they
were
in
three storeys,
and
they didn’t
have
pillars
as
the
pillars
of
the courts.
Therefore
the uppermost
was
set
back
more
than
the
lowest
and
the
middle
from
the
ground.
\VS{7}The
wall
that
was
outside
by
the
side
of
the
rooms, towards
the
outer
court
before
the
rooms,
was
fifty
cubits
long.
\VS{8}For
the
length
of
the
rooms
that
were
in
the
outer
court
was
fifty
cubits.
Behold,
those
facing
the
temple
were
one
hundred
cubits.
\VS{9}From
under
these
rooms
was
the
entry
on
the
east
side,
as
one
goes
into
them
from
the
outer
court.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}In
the
thickness
of
the
wall
of
the
court towards
the
east,
before
the
separate place,
and
before
the
building, there
were
rooms.
\VS{11}The
way
before
them
was
like
the
appearance
of
the
rooms
which
were towards
the
north.
Their
length
and
width
were
the
same.
All
their
exits
had
the
same arrangement
and
doors.
\VS{12}Like
the
doors
of
the
rooms
that
were towards
the
south
was
a
door
at
the
head
of
the
way, even
the
way directly
before
the
wall towards
the
east,
as
one
enters
into
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Then
he
said
to
me, “The
north
rooms
and
the
south
rooms,
which
are
opposite
the
separate
place,
are
the
holy
rooms,
where
the
priests
who
are
near
to
the
LORD
shall
eat
the
most
holy
things.
There
they
shall lay
the
most
holy
things,
with
the
meal
offering,
the
sin
offering,
and
the trespass
offering;
for
the
place
is
holy.
\VS{14}When
the
priests
enter
in,
then
they
shall
not
go
out
of
the
holy
place
into
the
outer
court until
they
lay
their
garments
in
which
they
minister
there;
for
they
are
holy.
Then
they
shall
put
on
other
garments,
and
shall
approach
that
which
is
for
the
people.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Now
when
he
had
finished
measuring
the
inner
house,
he
brought
me
out
by
the
way
of
the
gate
which
faces towards
the
east,
and
measured
it
all
around.
\VS{16}He
measured
on
the
east
side
with
the
measuring
reed
five hundred
reeds,
with
the
measuring
reed
all
around.
\VS{17}He
measured
on
the
north
side
five
hundred
reeds
with
the
measuring
reed
all
around.
\VS{18}He
measured
on
the
south
side
five
hundred
reeds
with
the
measuring
reed.
\VS{19}He
turned
about
to
the
west
side,
and
measured
five
hundred
reeds
with
the
measuring
reed.
\VS{20}He
measured
it
on
the
four
sides.
It had
a
wall
around
it,
the
length
five
hundred cubits,
and
the
width
five
hundred cubits,
to
make
a
separation
between
that
which
was
holy
and
that
which
was
common.

\par }\Chap{43}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Afterward
he brought
me
to
the
gate, even
the
gate
that looks towards
the
east.
\VS{2}Behold,
the
glory
of
the
God
of
Israel
came
from
the
way
of
the
east.
His
voice
was
like
the
sound
of
many
waters;
and
the
earth
was illuminated
with
his
glory.
\VS{3}It
was
like
the
appearance
of
the
vision
which
I
saw,
even
according
to
the
vision
that
I
saw
when
I
came
to
destroy
the
city;
and
the visions
were
like
the
vision
that
I
saw
by
the
river
Chebar;
and
I
fell
on
my
face.
\VS{4}The
LORD’s
glory
came
into
the
house
by
the
way
of
the
gate
which
faces towards
the
east.
\VS{5}The
Spirit
took
me
up
and
brought
me
into
the
inner
court;
and
behold,
the
LORD’s
glory
filled
the
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}I
heard
one
speaking
to
me
out
of
the
house,
and
a
man
stood
by
me.
\VS{7}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
this
is
the
place
of
my
throne
and
the
place
of
the
soles
of
my
feet,
where
I
will
dwell amongst
the
children
of
Israel
forever.
The
house
of
Israel
will
no
more
defile
my
holy
name,
neither
they
nor
their
kings,
by
their
prostitution
and
by
the
dead
bodies
of
their
kings
in
their
high
places;
\VS{8}in
their
setting
of
their threshold
by
my threshold
and
their
door
post
beside
my
door
post.
There
was
a
wall
between
me
and
them;
and
they
have
defiled
my
holy
name
by
their
abominations
which
they
have
committed.
Therefore
I
have
consumed
them
in
my
anger.
\VS{9}Now
let
them
put
away
their
prostitution,
and
the
dead
bodies
of
their
kings
far
from
me.
Then
I
will
dwell amongst
them
forever.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“You,
son
of
man,
show
the
house
to
the
house
of
Israel,
that
they
may
be
ashamed
of
their
iniquities;
and
let
them
measure
the
pattern.
\VS{11}If
they
are
ashamed
of
all
that
they
have
done,
make
known
to
them
the form
of
the
house,
its fashion,
its
exits,
its
entrances,
its structure,
all
its
ordinances,
all
its forms,
and
all
its
laws;
and
write
it
in
their
sight,
that
they
may
keep
the
whole form
of
it,
and
all
its
ordinances,
and
do
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“This
is
the
law
of
the
house.
On
the
top
of
the
mountain
the
whole limit
around
it
shall
be
most
holy.
Behold,
this
is
the
law
of
the
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“These
are
the measurements
of
the
altar
by
cubits (the
cubit\FTNT{*}{{\FR 43:13 }
A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres. A hand width is about 4.3 inches or 11 cm.}
is
a
cubit
and
a hand
width):
the
bottom
shall
be
a
cubit,
and
the
width
a
cubit,
and
its
border
around
its
edge
a
span;\FTNT{†}{{\FR 43:13 }
A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)}
and
this
shall
be
the
base
of
the
altar.
\VS{14}From
the
bottom
on
the
ground
to
the
lower
ledge
shall
be
two
cubits,
and
the
width
one
cubit;
and
from
the
lesser
ledge
to
the
greater
ledge
shall
be
four
cubits,
and
the
width
a
cubit.
\VS{15}The upper
altar shall be
four
cubits;
and
from
the
altar
hearth
and
upward there shall be
four
horns.
\VS{16}The
altar
hearth shall be
twelve cubits
long
by
twelve
wide,
square
in its
four
sides.
\VS{17}The
ledge
shall be
fourteen
cubits
long
by
fourteen
wide
in
its
four
sides;
and
the
border
about
it
shall be
half
a
cubit;
and
its
bottom
shall be
a
cubit
around;
and
its
steps
shall
look towards
the
east.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
the
Lord
GOD
says: ‘These
are
the
ordinances
of
the
altar
in
the
day
when
they
make
it,
to
offer
burnt
offerings
on
it,
and
to
sprinkle
blood
on
it.
\VS{19}You
shall
give
to
the
Levitical
priests
who
are
of
the
offspring
of
Zadok,
who
are
near
to
me,
to
minister
to
me,’
says
the
Lord
GOD, ‘a
young
bull
for
a
sin
offering.
\VS{20}You
shall
take
of
its
blood
and
put
it
on
its
four
horns,
and
on
the
four
corners
of
the
ledge,
and
on
the
border
all
around.
You
shall
cleanse
it
and
make
atonement
for
it
that
way.
\VS{21}You
shall
also
take
the
bull
of
the
sin offering,
and
it
shall
be
burnt
in
the
appointed
place
of
the
house,
outside
of
the
sanctuary.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“On
the
second
day
you
shall
offer
a
male
goat
without
defect
for
a
sin
offering;
and
they
shall
cleanse
the
altar,
as
they
cleansed
it
with
the
bull.
\VS{23}When
you
have
finished
cleansing
it,
you
shall
offer
a
young
bull
without
defect
and
a
ram
out
of
the
flock
without
defect.
\VS{24}You
shall
bring
them
near
to
the
LORD,
and
the
priests
shall
cast
salt
on
them,
and
they
shall
offer
them
up
for
a
burnt
offering
to
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“Seven
days
you
shall
prepare
every
day
a
goat
for
a
sin
offering.
They
shall
also
prepare
a
young
bull
and
a
ram
out
of
the
flock,
without
defect.
\VS{26}Seven
days
shall
they
make
atonement
for
the
altar
and
purify
it.
So
shall
they consecrate
it.
\VS{27}When
they
have
accomplished
the
days,
it
shall
be
that
on
the
eighth
day
and
onward,
the
priests
shall
make
your
burnt
offerings
on
the
altar
and
your
peace
offerings.
Then
I
will
accept
you,’
says
the
Lord
GOD.”

\par }\Chap{44}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
he
brought
me
back
by
the
way
of
the
outer
gate
of
the
sanctuary,
which looks towards
the
east;
and
it
was
shut.
\VS{2}The
LORD
said
to
me, “This
gate
shall
be
shut.
It
shall
not
be
opened,
no
man
shall
enter
in
by
it;
for
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
entered
in
by
it.
Therefore
it
shall
be
shut.
\VS{3}As
for
the
prince,
he
shall
sit
in
it
as
prince
to
eat
bread
before
the
LORD.
He
shall
enter
by
the
way
of
the
porch
of
the
gate,
and
shall
go
out
the
same
way.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
he
brought
me
by
the
way
of
the
north
gate
before
the
house;
and
I
looked,
and
behold,
the
LORD’s
glory
filled
the
LORD’s
house;
so
I
fell
on
my
face.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}The
LORD
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
mark
well,
and
see
with
your
eyes,
and
hear
with
your
ears
all
that
I
tell
you
concerning
all
the
ordinances
of
the
LORD’s
house
and
all
its
laws;
and
mark
well
the
entrance
of
the
house,
with
every exit
of
the
sanctuary.
\VS{6}You
shall
tell
the
rebellious,
even
the
house
of
Israel, ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “You
house
of
Israel, let
that
be
enough
of
all
your
abominations,
\VS{7}in
that
you
have
brought
in
foreigners,
uncircumcised
in
heart
and
uncircumcised
in
flesh,
to
be
in
my
sanctuary,
to
profane
it,
even
my
house,
when
you
offer
my
bread,
the
fat
and
the
blood;
and
they
have
broken
my
covenant,
to add
to
all
your
abominations.
\VS{8}You
have
not
performed
the
duty
of
my
holy
things;
but
you
have
set performers
of
my
duty
in
my
sanctuary
for yourselves.”
\VS{9}The
Lord
GOD
says, “No
foreigner,
uncircumcised
in
heart
and
uncircumcised
in
flesh,
shall
enter
into
my
sanctuary,
of
any
foreigners
who
are amongst
the
children
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘ “But
the
Levites
who
went
far
from
me
when
Israel
went
astray,
who
went
astray
from
me
after
their
idols,
they
will
bear
their
iniquity.
\VS{11}Yet
they
shall
be
ministers
in
my
sanctuary,
having
oversight
at
the
gates
of
the
house,
and
ministering
in
the
house.
They
shall
kill
the
burnt offering
and
the
sacrifice
for
the
people,
and
they
shall
stand
before
them
to
minister
to
them.
\VS{12}Because
they
ministered
to
them
before
their
idols,
and
became
a
stumbling
block
of
iniquity
to
the
house
of
Israel,
therefore
I
have
lifted
up
my
hand
against
them,”
says
the
Lord
GOD, “and
they
will
bear
their
iniquity.
\VS{13}They
shall
not
come
near
to
me,
to execute
the office
of
priest
to
me,
nor
to
come
near
to
any
of
my
holy
things,
to
the
things
that
are
most
holy;
but
they
will
bear
their
shame
and
their
abominations
which
they
have
committed.
\VS{14}Yet
I
will
make
them performers
of
the
duty
of
the
house,
for
all
its
service
and
for
all
that
will
be
done therein.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“ ‘ “But
the
Levitical
priests,
the
sons
of
Zadok,
who
performed
the
duty
of
my
sanctuary
when
the
children
of
Israel
went
astray
from
me,
shall
come
near
to
me
to
minister
to
me.
They
shall
stand
before
me
to
offer
to
me
the
fat
and
the
blood,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{16}“They shall
enter
into
my
sanctuary,
and
they shall
come
near
to
my
table,
to
minister
to
me,
and
they shall
keep
my instruction.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“ ‘ “It
will
be
that
when
they
enter
in
at
the
gates
of
the
inner
court,
they
shall
be
clothed
with
linen
garments.
No
wool
shall
come
on
them
while
they
minister
in
the
gates
of
the
inner
court,
and
within.
\VS{18}They
shall
have
linen
turbans
on
their
heads,
and
shall
have
linen trousers
on
their waists.
They
shall
not clothe
themselves
with
anything
that makes
them
sweat.
\VS{19}When
they
go
out
into
the
outer
court,
even
into
the
outer
court
to
the
people,
they
shall
put
off
their
garments
in
which
they
minister
and
lay
them
in
the
holy
rooms.
They
shall
put
on
other
garments,
that
they
not
sanctify
the
people
with
their
garments.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“ ‘ “They
shall
not
shave
their
heads,
or allow
their
locks
to
grow
long.
They
shall
only
cut
off
the
hair
of
their
heads.
\VS{21}None
of
the
priests
shall
drink
wine
when
they
enter
into
the
inner
court.
\VS{22}They
shall
not
take
for
their
wives
a
widow,
or
her
who
is
put
away;
but
they
shall
take
virgins
of
the
offspring
of
the
house
of
Israel,
or
a
widow
who
is
the
widow
of
a
priest.
\VS{23}They
shall
teach
my
people
the difference
between
the
holy
and
the
common,
and cause
them
to
discern
between
the
unclean
and
the
clean.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“ ‘ “In
a
controversy
they
shall
stand
to
judge.
They
shall
judge
it
according
to
my
ordinances.
They
shall
keep
my
laws
and
my
statutes
in
all
my
appointed
feasts.
They
shall
make
my
Sabbaths
holy.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“ ‘ “They
shall
go
in
to
no
dead
person
to
defile themselves;
but
for
father,
or
for
mother,
or
for
son,
or
for
daughter,
for
brother,
or
for
sister
who
has
had
no
husband,
they
may
defile themselves.
\VS{26}After
he
is
cleansed,
they
shall reckon
to
him
seven
days.
\VS{27}In
the
day
that
he
goes
into
the
sanctuary,
into
the
inner
court,
to
minister
in
the
sanctuary,
he
shall
offer
his
sin
offering,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“ ‘They
shall
have
an
inheritance:
I
am
their
inheritance;
and
you
shall
give
them
no
possession
in
Israel.
I
am
their
possession.
\VS{29}They
shall
eat
the
meal
offering,
and
the
sin
offering,
and
the trespass
offering;
and
every
devoted
thing
in
Israel
shall
be
theirs.
\VS{30}The
first
of
all
the
first
fruits
of
every
thing,
and
every
offering
of
everything,
of
all
your
offerings,
shall
be
for
the
priest.
You
shall also
give
to
the
priests
the
first
of
your
dough,
to
cause
a
blessing
to
rest
on
your
house.
\VS{31}The
priests
shall
not
eat
of
anything
that
dies
of itself
or
is
torn,
whether
it
is
bird
or
animal.

\par }\Chap{45}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“ ‘ “Moreover,
when
you
divide
by
lot
the
land
for
inheritance,
you
shall
offer
an
offering
to
the
LORD,
a
holy
portion
of
the
land.
The
length
shall
be
the
length
of
twenty-five
thousand reeds,
and
the
width
shall
be
ten
thousand.
It
shall
be
holy
in
all
its
border
all
around.
\VS{2}Of
this
there
shall
be
a
five
hundred
by
five
hundred
square
for
the
holy
place,
and
fifty
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 45:2 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.}
for
its
pasture
lands
all
around.
\VS{3}Of
this
measure
you shall
measure
a
length
of
twenty-five
thousand,
and
a
width
of
ten
thousand.
In
it shall
be
the
sanctuary, which
is
most
holy.
\VS{4}It
is
a
holy
portion
of
the
land;
it
shall
be
for
the
priests,
the
ministers
of
the
sanctuary,
who
come
near
to
minister
to
the
LORD.
It
shall
be
a
place
for
their
houses
and
a
holy
place
for
the
sanctuary.
\VS{5}Twenty-five
thousand cubits
in
length
and
ten
thousand
in
width
shall
be
for
the
Levites,
the
ministers
of
the
house,
as
a
possession
for
themselves,
for
twenty
rooms.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘ “You
shall
appoint
the
possession
of
the
city
five
thousand cubits
wide
and
twenty-five
thousand
long,
side
by
side
with
the
offering
of
the
holy
portion.
It
shall
be
for
the
whole
house
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘ “What
is
for
the
prince
shall
be
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
side
of
the
holy
allotment
and
of
the
possession
of
the
city,
in
front
of
the
holy
allotment
and
in
front
of
the
possession
of
the
city,
on
the
west
side
westward,
and
on
the
east
side
eastward,
and
in
length
corresponding
to
one
of
the
portions,
from
the
west
border
to
the
east
border.
\VS{8}In
the
land
it
shall
be
to
him
for
a
possession
in
Israel.
My
princes
shall
no
more
oppress
my
people,
but
they
shall
give
the
land
to
the
house
of
Israel according
to
their
tribes.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “Enough
you,
princes
of
Israel!
Remove
violence
and plunder,
and execute
justice
and
righteousness!
Stop dispossessing
my
people!”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{10}“You shall
have
just
balances,
a
just
ephah,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 45:10 }
1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel}
and
a
just
bath.
\VS{11}The
ephah
and
the
bath shall
be
of
one
measure,
that
the
bath
may
contain
one
tenth
of
a homer,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 45:11 }
1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels}
and
the
ephah
one
tenth
of
a homer.
Its
measure shall
be
the
same
as
the homer.
\VS{12}The
shekel\FTNT{§}{{\FR 45:12 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.} shall
be
twenty
gerahs.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 45:12 }
a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains}
Twenty
shekels plus
twenty-five
shekels plus fifteen
shekels shall
be
your mina.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 45:12 }
A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘ “This
is
the
offering
that
you
shall
offer:
the
sixth
part
of
an
ephah
from
a homer
of
wheat,
and
you
shall give
the
sixth
part
of
an
ephah
from
a homer
of
barley,
\VS{14}and
the set
portion
of
oil,
of
the
bath
of
oil,
one
tenth
of
a
bath
out
of
the cor, which
is
ten
baths,
even
a homer (for
ten
baths
are
a homer),\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 45:14 }
1 cor is the same as 1 homer in volume, and is about 211 litres, 55.9 gallons, or 6 bushels. 1 bath is about 21.1 litres, 5.59 gallons, or 2.4 pecks.}
\VS{15}and
one
lamb
of
the
flock
out
of
two
hundred,
from
the well-watered pastures
of
Israel—for
a
meal
offering,
for
a
burnt
offering,
and
for
peace
offerings,
to make
atonement
for
them,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\VS{16}“All
the
people
of
the
land
shall
give
to
this
offering
for
the
prince
in
Israel.
\VS{17}It
shall
be
the prince’s
part
to
give
the
burnt
offerings,
the
meal
offerings,
and
the drink
offerings,
in
the
feasts,
and
on
the
new
moons,
and
on
the
Sabbaths,
in
all
the
appointed
feasts
of
the
house
of
Israel.
He
shall
prepare
the
sin
offering,
the
meal
offering,
the
burnt
offering,
and
the
peace
offerings,
to
make
atonement
for
the
house
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “In
the
first
month,
on
the
first
day
of
the
month,
you
shall
take
a
young
bull
without
defect,
and
you
shall
cleanse
the
sanctuary.
\VS{19}The
priest
shall
take
of
the
blood
of
the
sin
offering
and
put
it
on
the
door
posts
of
the
house,
and
on
the
four
corners
of
the
ledge
of
the
altar,
and
on
the
posts
of
the
gate
of
the
inner
court.
\VS{20}So
you
shall
do
on
the
seventh
day
of
the
month
for
everyone
who errs,
and
for
him
who
is simple.
So
you
shall
make
atonement
for
the
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“ ‘ “In
the
first
month,
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
month,
you
shall
have
the
Passover,
a
feast
of
seven
days;
unleavened
bread
shall
be
eaten.
\VS{22}On
that
day
the
prince
shall
prepare
for
himself
and
for
all
the
people
of
the
land
a
bull
for
a
sin offering.
\VS{23}The
seven
days
of
the
feast
he
shall
prepare
a
burnt
offering
to
the
LORD,
seven
bulls
and
seven
rams
without
defect
daily
the
seven
days;
and
a
male
goat
daily
for
a
sin
offering.
\VS{24}He shall
prepare
a
meal
offering,
an
ephah\FTNT{§}{{\FR 45:24 }
1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel}
for
a
bull,
an
ephah
for
a
ram,
and
a
hin\FTNT{*}{{\FR 45:24 }
A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.}
of
oil
to
an
ephah.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“ ‘ “In
the
seventh
month,
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
month,
during
the
feast,
he
shall
do like
that
for
seven
days.
He
shall
make
the
same provision
for
sin
offering,
the
burnt
offering,
the
meal
offering,
and
the
oil.”

\par }\Chap{46}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “The
gate
of
the
inner
court
that looks towards
the
east
shall
be
shut
the
six
working
days;
but
on
the
Sabbath
day
it
shall
be
opened,
and
on
the
day
of
the
new
moon
it
shall
be
opened.
\VS{2}The
prince
shall
enter
by
the
way
of
the
porch
of
the
gate
outside,
and
shall
stand
by
the
post
of
the
gate;
and
the
priests
shall
prepare
his
burnt
offering
and
his
peace
offerings,
and
he
shall
worship
at
the
threshold
of
the
gate.
Then
he
shall
go
out,
but
the
gate
shall
not
be
shut
until
the
evening.
\VS{3}The
people
of
the
land
shall
worship
at
the
door
of
that
gate
before
the
LORD
on
the
Sabbaths
and
on
the
new
moons.
\VS{4}The
burnt
offering
that
the
prince
shall
offer
to
the
LORD
shall
be
on
the
Sabbath
day,
six
lambs
without
defect
and
a
ram
without
defect;
\VS{5}and
the
meal
offering
shall
be
an
ephah
for
the
ram,
and
the
meal
offering
for
the
lambs
as
he
is
able
to
give,
and
a
hin\FTNT{*}{{\FR 46:5 }
A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.}
of
oil
to
an
ephah.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 46:5 }
1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel}
\VS{6}On
the
day
of
the
new
moon
it
shall
be
a
young
bull
without
defect,
six
lambs,
and
a
ram.
They
shall
be
without
defect.
\VS{7}He
shall
prepare
a
meal
offering:
an
ephah
for
the
bull,
and
an
ephah
for
the
ram,
and
for
the
lambs
according
as
he
is
able,
and
a
hin
of
oil
to
an
ephah.
\VS{8}When
the
prince
enters,
he
shall
go
in
by
the
way
of
the
porch
of
the
gate,
and
he
shall
go
out
by
its
way.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘ “But
when
the
people
of
the
land
come
before
the
LORD
in
the
appointed
feasts,
he
who
enters
by
the
way
of
the
north
gate
to
worship
shall
go
out
by
the
way
of
the
south
gate;
and
he
who
enters
by
the
way
of
the
south
gate
shall
go
out
by
the
way
of
the
north
gate.
He
shall
not
return
by
the
way
of
the
gate
by
which
he
came
in,
but
shall
go
out
straight
before
him.
\VS{10}The
prince shall
go
in
with
them
when
they
go
in.
When
they
go
out,
he shall
go
out.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ ‘ “In
the
feasts
and
in
the
appointed holidays,
the
meal
offering
shall
be
an
ephah\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 46:11 }
1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel}
for
a
bull,
and
an
ephah
for
a
ram,
and
for
the
lambs
as
he
is
able
to
give,
and
a
hin
of
oil
to
an
ephah.
\VS{12}When
the
prince prepares
a
free
will
offering,
a
burnt
offering
or
peace
offerings
as
a
free
will
offering
to
the
LORD,
one
shall
open
for
him
the
gate
that looks towards
the
east;
and
he
shall
prepare
his
burnt
offering
and
his
peace
offerings,
as
he
does
on
the
Sabbath
day.
Then
he
shall
go
out;
and
after
his
going
out
one
shall
shut
the
gate.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘ “You
shall
prepare
a
lamb
a
year
old
without
defect
for
a
burnt
offering
to
the
LORD
daily.
Morning
by
morning
you
shall
prepare
it.
\VS{14}You
shall
prepare
a
meal
offering
with
it
morning
by
morning,
the
sixth
part
of
an
ephah,\FTNT{§}{{\FR 46:14 }
1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel}
and
the
third
part
of
a
hin
of
oil
to
moisten
the
fine
flour;
a
meal
offering
to
the
LORD
continually
by
a
perpetual
ordinance.
\VS{15}Thus
they shall
prepare
the
lamb,
the
meal
offering,
and
the
oil,
morning
by
morning,
for
a
continual
burnt
offering.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ ‘The
Lord
GOD
says: “If
the
prince
gives
a
gift
to
any
of
his
sons,
it
is
his
inheritance.
It
shall
belong
to
his
sons.
It
is
their
possession
by
inheritance.
\VS{17}But
if
he
gives
of
his
inheritance
a
gift
to
one
of
his
servants,
it
shall
be
his
to
the
year
of
liberty;
then
it
shall
return
to
the
prince;
but
as
for
his
inheritance,
it
shall
be
for
his
sons.
\VS{18}Moreover
the
prince
shall
not
take
of
the
people’s
inheritance,
to thrust
them
out
of
their
possession.
He
shall
give
inheritance
to
his
sons
out
of
his
own
possession,
that
my
people
not
each
be
scattered
from
his
possession.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Then
he
brought
me
through
the
entry,
which
was
at
the
side
of
the
gate,
into
the
holy
rooms
for
the
priests,
which
looked towards
the
north.
Behold,
there
was
a
place
on
the
back
part
westward.
\VS{20}He
said
to
me, “This
is
the
place
where
the
priests
shall
boil
the trespass
offering
and
the
sin
offering,
and
where
they
shall
bake
the
meal
offering,
that
they
not
bring
them
out
into
the
outer
court,
to
sanctify
the
people.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Then
he
brought
me
out
into
the
outer
court
and caused
me
to
pass
by
the
four
corners
of
the
court;
and
behold,
in
every
corner
of
the
court
there was
a
court.
\VS{22}In the
four
corners
of the
court
there
were courts
enclosed,
forty cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 46:22 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.}
long
and
thirty
wide. These
four
in the
corners
were the
same
size.
\VS{23}There was
a wall
around
in
them,
around
the
four,
and boiling
places
were
made
under
the walls
all
around.
\VS{24}Then
he
said
to
me, “These
are
the
boiling
houses,
where
the
ministers
of
the
house
shall
boil
the
sacrifice
of
the
people.”

\par }\Chap{47}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
brought
me
back
to
the
door
of
the
temple;
and
behold,
waters
flowed
out
from
under
the
threshold
of
the
temple eastward,
for
the
front
of
the
temple
faced towards
the
east.
The
waters
came
down
from
underneath,
from
the
right
side
of
the
temple,
on
the
south
of
the
altar.
\VS{2}Then
he
brought
me
out
by
the
way
of
the
gate
northward,
and
led
me
around
by
the
way
outside
to
the
outer
gate,
by
the
way
of
the
gate
that looks towards
the
east.
Behold,
waters ran
out
on
the
right
side.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}When
the
man
went
out eastward
with
the line
in
his
hand,
he
measured
one
thousand
cubits,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 47:3 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.}
and
he caused
me
to
pass
through
the
waters,
waters
that
were
to
the ankles.
\VS{4}Again
he
measured one
thousand,
and caused me
to
pass
through
the
waters,
waters
that
were
to
the
knees. Again
he
measured one
thousand,
and caused me
to
pass
through
waters
that
were
to
the
waist.
\VS{5}Afterward
he
measured
one
thousand;
and
it
was
a
river
that
I
could
not
pass
through,
for
the
waters
had
risen,
waters
to
swim
in,
a
river
that
could
not
be walked
through.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}He
said
to
me, “Son
of
man,
have
you
seen
this?”
\par }{\PP Then
he
brought
me
and caused
me
to
return
to
the
bank
of
the
river.
\VS{7}Now
when
I had
returned,
behold,
on
the
bank
of
the
river
were
very
many
trees
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other.
\VS{8}Then
he
said
to
me, “These
waters
flow
out towards
the
eastern
region
and
will
go
down
into
the
Arabah.
Then
they
will
go towards
the
sea
and
flow
into
the
sea
which
will
be made
to
flow
out;
and
the
waters
will
be
healed.
\VS{9}It
will
happen
that
every
living
creature
which
swarms,
in
every
place
where
the rivers
come,
will
live.
Then
there
will
be
a
very
great multitude
of
fish;
for
these
waters
have
come
there,
and
the
waters
of
the sea
will
be
healed,
and
everything
will
live
wherever
the
river
comes.
\VS{10}It
will
happen
that
fishermen
will
stand
by
it.
From En Gedi
even
to En Eglaim
will
be
a
place
for
the spreading
of
nets.
Their
fish
will
be
after
their
kinds,
as
the
fish
of
the
great
sea,
exceedingly
many.
\VS{11}But
its
swamps
marshes
will
not
be
healed.
They
will
be
given
up
to
salt.
\VS{12}By
the
river
banks,
on
both
sides,
will
grow
every
tree
for
food,
whose
leaf
won’t
wither,
neither
will
its
fruit
fail.
It
will
produce
new
fruit
every
month,
because
its
waters
issue
out
of
the
sanctuary.
Its
fruit
will
be
for
food,
and
its
leaf
for
healing.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}The
Lord
GOD
says: “This
shall
be
the
border
by
which
you
shall
divide
the
land
for
inheritance according
to
the
twelve
tribes
of
Israel.
Joseph
shall
have
two
portions.
\VS{14}You
shall
inherit
it,
one
as
well
as
another;
for
I
swore
to
give
it
to
your
fathers.
This
land
will
fall
to
you
for
inheritance.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“This
shall
be
the
border
of
the
land:
\par }{\PP “On
the
north
side,
from
the
great
sea,
by
the
way
of
Hethlon,
to
the
entrance
of
Zedad;
\VS{16}Hamath,
Berothah,
Sibraim (which
is
between
the
border
of
Damascus
and
the
border
of
Hamath),
to Hazer Hatticon,
which
is
by
the
border
of
Hauran.
\VS{17}The
border
from
the
sea
shall
be Hazar Enon
at
the
border
of
Damascus;
and
on
the
north
northward
is
the
border
of
Hamath. This
is
the
north
side.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“The
east
side,
between
Hauran,
Damascus,
Gilead,
and
the
land
of
Israel,
shall
be
the
Jordan;
from
the north
border
to
the
east
sea
you
shall
measure. This
is
the
east
side.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“The
south
side
southward
shall
be
from
Tamar
as
far
as
the
waters
of Meriboth
Kadesh,
to
the
brook,
to
the
great
sea. This
is
the
south
side
southward.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“The
west
side
shall
be
the
great
sea,
from
the
south
border
as
far
as
opposite
the
entrance
of
Hamath.
This
is
the
west
side.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“So
you
shall
divide
this
land
to yourselves according
to
the
tribes
of
Israel.
\VS{22}You
shall
divide
it
by
lot
for
an
inheritance
to
you
and
to
the
aliens
who
live amongst
you,
who
will
father
children amongst
you.
Then
they
shall
be
to
you
as
the
native-born amongst
the
children
of
Israel.
They
shall
have
inheritance
with
you amongst
the
tribes
of
Israel.
\VS{23}In
whatever
tribe
the
stranger
lives,
there
you
shall
give
him
his
inheritance,”
says
the
Lord
GOD.

\par }\Chap{48}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Now
these
are
the
names
of
the
tribes:
From
the
north
end,
beside
the
way
of
Hethlon
to
the
entrance
of
Hamath, Hazar Enan
at
the
border
of
Damascus,
northward
beside
Hamath (and
they
shall
have
their
sides
east
and
west),
Dan,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}“By
the
border
of
Dan,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Asher,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“By
the
border
of
Asher,
from
the
east
side
even
to
the
west
side,
Naphtali,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“By
the
border
of
Naphtali,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Manasseh,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“By
the
border
of
Manasseh,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Ephraim,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“By
the
border
of
Ephraim,
from
the
east
side
even
to
the
west
side,
Reuben,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“By
the
border
of
Reuben,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Judah,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“By
the
border
of
Judah,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
shall
be
the
offering
which
you
shall
offer,
twenty-five
thousand reeds
in
width,
and
in
length
as
one
of
the
portions,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side;
and
the
sanctuary
shall
be
in
the
middle
of
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“The
offering
that
you
shall
offer
to
the
LORD
shall
be
twenty-five
thousand reeds
in
length,
and
ten
thousand
in
width.
\VS{10}For
these, even
for
the
priests,
shall
be
the
holy
offering: towards
the
north
twenty-five
thousand
in
length,
and towards
the
west
ten
thousand
in
width,
and towards
the
east
ten
thousand
in
width,
and towards
the
south
twenty-five
thousand
in
length;
and
the
sanctuary
of
the
LORD
shall
be
in
the
middle
of
it.
\VS{11}It
shall
be
for
the
priests
who
are
sanctified
of
the
sons
of
Zadok,
who
have
kept
my instruction,
who
didn’t
go
astray
when
the
children
of
Israel
went
astray,
as
the
Levites
went
astray.
\VS{12}It
shall
be
to
them
an
offering
from
the
offering
of
the
land,
a
most
holy
thing,
by
the
border
of
the
Levites.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“Alongside
the
border
of
the
priests,
the
Levites
shall
have
twenty-five
thousand cubits
in
length
and
ten
thousand
in
width.
All
the
length
shall
be
twenty-five
thousand,
and
the
width
ten
thousand.
\VS{14}They
shall
sell
none
of
it,
nor
exchange
it,
nor
shall
the
first
fruits
of
the
land
be alienated,
for
it
is
holy
to
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“The
five
thousand cubits
that
are
left
in
the
width,
in
front
of
the
twenty-five
thousand,
shall
be
for
common
use,
for
the
city,
for
dwelling
and
for
pasture
lands;
and
the
city
shall
be
in
the
middle
of
it.
\VS{16}These
shall
be
its measurements:
the
north
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred,
and
the
south
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred,
and
on
the
east
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred,
and
the
west
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred.
\VS{17}The
city shall
have
pasture
lands: towards
the
north
two
hundred
and
fifty,
and towards
the
south
two
hundred
and
fifty,
and towards
the
east
two
hundred
and
fifty,
and towards
the
west
two
hundred
and
fifty.
\VS{18}The
remainder
of
the
length,
alongside
the
holy
offering, shall
be
ten
thousand eastward
and
ten
thousand
westward;
and
it shall
be
alongside
the
holy
offering.
Its
increase shall
be
for
food
to
those
who labour
in
the
city.
\VS{19}Those
who labour
in
the
city,
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
shall
cultivate
it.
\VS{20}All
the
offering shall
be
a
square
of
twenty-five
thousand
by
twenty-five
thousand.
You shall
offer
it
as
a
holy
offering,
with
the
possession
of
the
city.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“The
remainder
shall
be
for
the
prince,
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
of
the
holy
offering
and
of
the
possession
of
the
city;
in
front
of
the
twenty-five
thousand
of
the
offering towards
the
east
border,
and
westward
in
front
of
the
twenty-five
thousand towards
the
west
border,
alongside
the
portions,
it
shall
be
for
the
prince.
The
holy
offering
and
the
sanctuary
of
the
house
shall
be
in
the
middle
of
it.
\VS{22}Moreover,
from
the
possession
of
the
Levites,
and
from
the
possession
of
the
city,
being
in
the
middle
of
that
which
is
the prince’s,
between
the
border
of
Judah
and
the
border
of
Benjamin,
shall
be
for
the
prince.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“As
for
the
rest
of
the
tribes:
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Benjamin,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“By
the
border
of
Benjamin,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Simeon,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“By
the
border
of
Simeon,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Issachar,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“By
the
border
of
Issachar,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Zebulun,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“By
the
border
of
Zebulun,
from
the
east
side
to
the
west
side,
Gad,
one portion.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“By
the
border
of
Gad,
at
the
south
side
southward,
the
border
shall
be
even
from
Tamar
to
the
waters
of Meribath
Kadesh,
to
the
brook,
to
the
great
sea.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“This
is
the
land
which
you
shall
divide
by
lot
to
the
tribes
of
Israel
for
inheritance,
and
these
are
their several
portions,
says
the
Lord
GOD.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“These
are
the
exits
of
the
city:
On
the
north
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred reeds
by measure;
\VS{31}and
the
gates
of
the
city
shall
be
named
after
the
tribes
of
Israel,
three
gates
northward:
the
gate
of
Reuben,
one;
the
gate
of
Judah,
one;
the
gate
of
Levi,
one.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“At
the
east
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred reeds,
and
three
gates: even
the
gate
of
Joseph,
one;
the
gate
of
Benjamin,
one;
the
gate
of
Dan,
one.
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“At
the
south
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred reeds
by measure,
and
three
gates:
the
gate
of
Simeon,
one;
the
gate
of
Issachar,
one;
the
gate
of
Zebulun,
one.
\par }{\PP \VS{34}“At
the
west
side
four
thousand
and
five
hundred reeds,
with their
three
gates:
the
gate
of
Gad,
one;
the
gate
of
Asher,
one;
the
gate
of
Naphtali,
one.
\par }{\PP \VS{35}“It
shall
be
eighteen
thousand reeds
in circumference;
and
the
name
of
the
city
from
that
day
shall
be, ‘The
LORD
is
there.’
\par }