EZE 1:1 Now it came about in the thirtieth
year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I
was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the
heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
EZE 1:2 (On the fifth of the month in the
fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,
EZE 1:3 the word of the Lord came expressly
to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of
the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the
hand of the Lord came upon him.)
EZE 1:4 And as I looked, behold, a storm wind
was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire
flashing forth continually and a bright light around
it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in
the midst of the fire.
EZE 1:5 And within it there were figures
resembling four living beings. And this was their
appearance: they had human form.
EZE 1:6 Each of them had four faces and four
wings.
EZE 1:7 And their legs were straight and
their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed
like burnished bronze.
EZE 1:8 Under their wings on their four sides
were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the
four of them,
EZE 1:9 their wings touched one another;
their faces did not turn when they moved, each went
straight forward.
EZE 1:10 As for the form of their faces, each
had the face of a man, all four had the face of a
lion on the right and the face of a bull on the
left, and all four had the face of an eagle.
EZE 1:11 Such were their faces. Their wings
were spread out above; each had two touching another
being, and two covering their bodies.
EZE 1:12 And each went straight forward;
wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go,
without turning as they went.
EZE 1:13 In the midst of the living beings
there was something that looked like burning coals
of fire, like torches darting back and forth among
the living beings. The fire was bright, and
lightning was flashing from the fire.
EZE 1:14 And the living beings ran to and fro
like bolts of lightning.
EZE 1:15 Now as I looked at the living
beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth
beside the living beings, for each of the four of
them.
EZE 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and
their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all
four of them had the same form, their appearance and
workmanship being as if one wheel were within
another.
EZE 1:17 Whenever they moved, they moved in
any of their four directions, without turning as
they moved.
EZE 1:18 As for their rims they were lofty
and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were
full of eyes round about.
EZE 1:19 And whenever the living beings
moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the
living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose
also.
EZE 1:20 Wherever the spirit was about to go,
they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose
close beside them; for the spirit of the living
beings was in the wheels.
EZE 1:21 Whenever those went, these went; and
whenever those stood still, these stood still. And
whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose
close beside them; for the spirit of the living
beings was in the wheels.
EZE 1:22 Now over the heads of the living
beings there was something like an expanse, like the
awesome gleam of crystal, extended over their heads.
EZE 1:23 And under the expanse their wings
were stretched out straight, one toward the other;
each one also had two wings covering their bodies on
the one side and on the other.
EZE 1:24 I also heard the sound of their
wings like the sound of abundant waters as they
went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of
tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they
stood still, they dropped their wings.
EZE 1:25 And there came a voice from above
the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they
stood still, they dropped their wings.
EZE 1:26 Now above the expanse that was over
their heads there was something resembling a throne,
like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which
resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the
appearance of a man.
EZE 1:27 Then I noticed from the appearance
of His loins and upward something like glowing metal
that looked like fire all around within it, and from
the appearance of His loins and downward I saw
something like fire; and there was a radiance around
Him.
EZE 1:28 As the appearance of the rainbow in
the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of
the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of
the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I
saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice
speaking.
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EZE 2:1 Then He said to me, "Son of man,
stand on your feet that I may speak with you!"
EZE 2:2 And as He spoke to me the Spirit
entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him
speaking to me.
EZE 2:3 Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am
sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious
people who have rebelled against Me; they and their
fathers have transgressed against Me to this very
day.
EZE 2:4 "And I am sending you to them who are
stubborn and obstinate children; and you shall say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord God.'
EZE 2:5 "As for them, whether they listen or
not - - for they are a rebellious house - - they
will know that a prophet has been among them.
EZE 2:6 "And you, son of man, neither fear
them nor fear their words, though thistles and
thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions;
neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their
presence, for they are a rebellious house.
EZE 2:7 "But you shall speak My words to them
whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.
EZE 2:8 "Now you, son of man, listen to what
I am speaking to you; do not be rebellious like that
rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am
giving you."
EZE 2:9 Then I looked, behold, a hand was
extended to me; and lo, a scroll was in it.
EZE 2:10 When He spread it out before me, it
was written on the front and back; and written on it
were lamentations, mourning and woe.
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EZE 3:1 Then He said to me, "Son of man, eat
what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the
house of Israel."
EZE 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and He fed me
this scroll.
EZE 3:3 And He said to me, "Son of man, feed
your stomach, and fill your body with this scroll
which I am giving you." Then I ate it, and it was
sweet as honey in my mouth.
EZE 3:4 Then He said to me, "Son of man, go
to the house of Israel and speak with My words to
them.
EZE 3:5 "For you are not being sent to a
people of unintelligible speech or difficult
language, but to the house of Israel,
EZE 3:6 nor to many peoples of unintelligible
speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot
understand. But I have sent you to them who should
listen to you;
EZE 3:7 yet the house of Israel will not be
willing to listen to you, since they are not willing
to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is
stubborn and obstinate.
EZE 3:8 "Behold, I have made your face as
hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as
their foreheads.
EZE 3:9 "Like emery harder than flint I have
made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be
dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious
house."
EZE 3:10 Moreover, He said to me, "Son of
man, take into your heart all My words which I shall
speak to you, and listen closely.
EZE 3:11 "And go to the exiles, to the sons
of your people, and speak to them and tell them,
whether they listen or not, 'Thus says the Lord
God.' "
EZE 3:12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I
heard a great rumbling sound behind me, "Blessed be
the glory of the Lord in His place."
EZE 3:13 And I heard the sound of the wings
of the living beings touching one another, and the
sound of the wheels beside them, even a great
rumbling sound.
EZE 3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took
me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my
spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
EZE 3:15 Then I came to the exiles who lived
beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there
seven days where they were living, causing
consternation among them.
EZE 3:16 Now it came about at the end of
seven days that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
EZE 3:17 "Son of man, I have appointed you a
watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a
word from My mouth, warn them from Me.
EZE 3:18 "When I say to the wicked, 'You
shall surely die'; and you do not warn him or speak
out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he
may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity,
but his blood I will require at your hand.
EZE 3:19 "Yet if you have warned the wicked,
and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his
wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered yourself.
EZE 3:20 "Again, when a righteous man turns
away from his righteousness and commits iniquity,
and I place an obstacle before him, he shall die;
since you have not warned him, he shall die in his
sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall
not be remembered; but his blood I will require at
your hand.
EZE 3:21 "However, if you have warned the
righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and
he does not sin, he shall surely live because he
took warning; and you have delivered yourself."
EZE 3:22 And the hand of the Lord was on me
there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the
plain, and there I will speak to you."
EZE 3:23 So I got up and went out to the
plain; and behold, the glory of the Lord was
standing there, like the glory which I saw by the
river Chebar, and I fell on my face.
EZE 3:24 The Spirit then entered me and made
me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said
to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.
EZE 3:25 "As for you, son of man, they will
put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you
cannot go out among them.
EZE 3:26 "Moreover, I will make your tongue
stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be
dumb, and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they
are a rebellious house.
EZE 3:27 "But when I speak to you, I will
open your mouth, and you will say to them, 'Thus
says the Lord God.' He who hears, let him hear; and
he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a
rebellious house.
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EZE 4:1 "Now you son of man, get yourself a
brick, place it before you, and inscribe a city on
it, Jerusalem.
EZE 4:2 "Then lay siege against it, build a
siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps, and place
battering rams against it all around.
EZE 4:3 "Then get yourself an iron plate and
set it up as an iron wall between you and the city,
and set your face toward it so that it is under
siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house
of Israel.
EZE 4:4 "As for you, lie down on your left
side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on
it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of
days that you lie on it.
EZE 4:5 "For I have assigned you a number of
days corresponding to the years of their iniquity,
three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel.
EZE 4:6 "When you have completed these, you
shall lie down a second time, but on your right
side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I
have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for
each year.
EZE 4:7 "Then you shall set your face toward
the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and
prophesy against it.
EZE 4:8 "Now behold, I will put ropes on you
so that you cannot turn from one side to the other,
until you have completed the days of your siege.
EZE 4:9 "But as for you, take wheat, barley,
beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one
vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you
shall eat it according to the number of the days
that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety
days.
EZE 4:10 "And your food which you eat shall
be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it
from time to time.
EZE 4:11 "And the water you drink will be the
sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it
from time to time.
EZE 4:12 "And you shall eat it as a barley
cake, having baked it in their sight over human
dung."
EZE 4:13 Then the Lord said, "Thus shall the
sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the
nations where I shall banish them."
EZE 4:14 But I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I
have never been defiled; for from my youth until now
I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn
by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my
mouth."
EZE 4:15 Then He said to me, "See, I shall
give you cow's dung in place of human dung over
which you will prepare your bread."
EZE 4:16 Moreover, He said to me, "Son of
man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread
in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and
with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in
horror,
EZE 4:17 because bread and water will be
scarce; and they will be appalled with one another
and waste away in their iniquity.
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EZE 5:1 "As for you, son of man, take a sharp
sword; take and use it as a barber's razor on your
head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and
divide the hair.
EZE 5:2 "One third you shall burn in the fire
at the center of the city, when the days of the
siege are completed. Then you shall take one third
and strike it with the sword all around the city,
and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I
will unsheathe a sword behind them.
EZE 5:3 "Take also a few in number from them
and bind them in the edges of your robes.
EZE 5:4 "And take again some of them and
throw them into the fire, and burn them in the fire;
from it a fire will spread to all the house of
Israel.
EZE 5:5 "Thus says the Lord God, 'This is
Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the
nations, with lands around her.
EZE 5:6 'But she has rebelled against My
ordinances more wickedly than the nations and
against My statutes more than the lands which
surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances
and have not walked in My statutes.'
EZE 5:7 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'Because you have more turmoil than the nations
which surround you, and have not walked in My
statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed
the ordinances of the nations which surround you,'
EZE 5:8 therefore, thus says the Lord God,'
Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will
execute judgments among you in the sight of the
nations.
EZE 5:9 'And because of all your
abominations, I will do among you what I have not
done, and the like of which I will never do again.
EZE 5:10 'Therefore, fathers will eat their
sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for
I will execute judgments on you, and scatter all
your remnant to every wind.
EZE 5:11 'So as I live,' declares the Lord
God,' surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary
with all your detestable idols and with all your
abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My
eye shall have no pity and I will not spare.
EZE 5:12 'One third of you will die by plague
or be consumed by famine among you, one third will
fall by the sword around you, and one third I will
scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword
behind them.
EZE 5:13 'Thus My anger will be spent, and I
will satisfy My wrath on them, and I shall be
appeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have
spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon
them.
EZE 5:14 'Moreover, I will make you a
desolation and a reproach among the nations which
surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.
EZE 5:15 'So it will be a reproach, a
reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the
nations who surround you, when I execute judgments
against you in anger, wrath, and raging rebukes. I,
the Lord, have spoken.
EZE 5:16 'When I send against them the deadly
arrows of famine which were for the destruction of
those whom I shall send to destroy you, then I shall
also intensify the famine upon you, and break the
staff of bread.
EZE 5:17 'Moreover, I will send on you famine
and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of
children; plague and bloodshed also will pass
through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I,
the Lord, have spoken.'"
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EZE 6:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 6:2 "Son of man, set your face toward the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
EZE 6:3 and say,' Mountains of Israel, listen
to the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God
to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the
valleys: "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword
on you, and I will destroy your high places.
EZE 6:4 "So your altars will become desolate,
and your incense altars will be smashed; and I shall
make your slain fall in front of your idols.
EZE 6:5 "I shall also lay the dead bodies of
the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I
shall scatter your bones around your altars.
EZE 6:6 "In all your dwellings, cities will
become waste and the high places will be desolate,
that your altars may become waste and desolate, your
idols may be broken and brought to an end, your
incense altars may be cut down, and your works may
be blotted out.
EZE 6:7 "And the slain will fall among you,
and you will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 6:8 "However, I shall leave a remnant,
for you will have those who escaped the sword among
the nations when you are scattered among the
countries.
EZE 6:9 "Then those of you who escape will
remember Me among the nations to which they will be
carried captive, how I have been hurt by their
adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by
their eyes, which played the harlot after their
idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own
sight for the evils which they have committed, for
all their abominations.
EZE 6:10 "Then they will know that I am the
Lord; I have not said in vain that I would inflict
this disaster on them."'
EZE 6:11 "Thus says the Lord God, 'Clap your
hand, stamp your foot, and say," Alas, because of
all the evil abominations of the house of Israel,
which will fall by sword, famine, and plague!
EZE 6:12 "He who is far off will die by the
plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword,
and he who remains and is besieged will die by the
famine. Thus shall I spend My wrath on them.
EZE 6:13 "Then you will know that I am the
Lord, when their slain are among their idols around
their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of
the mountains, under every green tree, and under
every leafy oak - - the places where they offered
soothing aroma to all their idols.
EZE 6:14 "So throughout all their habitations
I shall stretch out My hand against them and make
the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness
toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the
Lord."'"
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EZE 7:1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came
to me saying,
EZE 7:2 "And you, son of man, thus says the
Lord God to the land of Israel, 'An end! The end is
coming on the four corners of the land.
EZE 7:3 'Now the end is upon you, and I shall
send My anger against you; I shall judge you
according to your ways, and I shall bring all your
abominations upon you.
EZE 7:4 'For My eye will have no pity on you,
nor shall I spare you, but I shall bring your ways
upon you, and your abominations will be among you;
then you will know that I am the Lord!'
EZE 7:5 "Thus says the Lord God, 'A disaster,
unique disaster, behold it is coming!
EZE 7:6 'An end is coming; the end has come!
It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!
EZE 7:7 'Your doom has come to you, O
inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day
is near - - tumult rather than joyful shouting on
the mountains.
EZE 7:8 'Now I will shortly pour out My wrath
on you, and spend My anger against you, judge you
according to your ways, and bring on you all your
abominations.
EZE 7:9 'And My eye will show no pity, nor
will I spare. I will repay you according to your
ways, while your abominations are in your midst;
then you will know that I, the Lord, do the smiting.
EZE 7:10 'Behold, the day! Behold, it is
coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has
budded, arrogance has blossomed.
EZE 7:11 'Violence has grown into a rod of
wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their
multitude, none of their wealth, nor anything
eminent among them.
EZE 7:12 'The time has come, the day has
arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller
mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.
EZE 7:13 'Indeed, the seller will not regain
what he sold as long as they both live; for the
vision regarding all their multitude will not be
averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by
his iniquity.
EZE 7:14 'They have blown the trumpet and
made everything ready, but no one is going to the
battle; for My wrath is against all their multitude.
EZE 7:15 'The sword is outside, and the
plague and the famine are within. He who is in the
field will die by the sword; famine and the plague
will also consume those in the city.
EZE 7:16 'Even when their survivors escape,
they will be on the mountains like doves of the
valleys, all of them mourning, each over his own
iniquity.
EZE 7:17 'All hands will hang limp, and all
knees will become like water.
EZE 7:18 'And they will gird themselves with
sackcloth, and shuddering will overwhelm them; and
shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all
their heads.
EZE 7:19 'They shall fling their silver into
the streets, and their gold shall become an
abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold shall
not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath
of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite, nor
can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has
become an occasion of stumbling.
EZE 7:20 'And they transformed the beauty of
His ornaments into pride, and they made the images
of their abominations and their detestable things
with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing
to them.
EZE 7:21 'And I shall give it into the hands
of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of
the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
EZE 7:22 'I shall also turn My face from
them, and they will profane My secret place; then
robbers will enter and profane it.
EZE 7:23 'Make the chain, for the land is
full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of
violence.
EZE 7:24 'Therefore, I shall bring the worst
of the nations, and they will possess their houses.
I shall also make the pride of the strong ones
cease, and their holy places will be profaned.
EZE 7:25 'When anguish comes, they will seek
peace, but there will be none.
EZE 7:26 'Disaster will come upon disaster,
and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will
seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be
lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.
EZE 7:27 'The king will mourn, the prince
will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the
people of the land will tremble. According to their
conduct I shall deal with them, and by their
judgments I shall judge them. And they will know
that I am the Lord.'"
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EZE 8:1 And it came about in the sixth year,
on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I was
sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting
before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell on me
there.
EZE 8:2 Then I looked, and behold, a likeness
as the appearance of a man; from His loins and
downward there was the appearance of fire, and from
His loins and upward the appearance of brightness,
like the appearance of glowing metal.
EZE 8:3 And He stretched out the form of a
hand and caught me by a lock of my head; and the
Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to
the entrance of the north gate of the inner court,
where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which
provokes to jealousy, was located.
EZE 8:4 And behold, the glory of the God of
Israel was there, like the appearance which I saw in
the plain.
EZE 8:5 Then He said to me, "Son of man,
raise your eyes, now, toward the north." So I raised
my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north
of the altar gate was this idol of jealousy at the
entrance.
EZE 8:6 And He said to me, "Son of man, do
you see what they are doing, the great abominations
which the house of Israel are committing here, that
I should be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will
see still greater abominations."
EZE 8:7 Then He brought me to the entrance of
the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the
wall.
EZE 8:8 And He said to me, "Son of man, now
dig through the wall." So I dug through the wall,
and behold, an entrance.
EZE 8:9 And He said to me, "Go in and see the
wicked abominations that they are committing here."
EZE 8:10 So I entered and looked, and behold,
every form of creeping things and beasts and
detestable things, with all the idols of the house
of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.
EZE 8:11 And standing in front of them were
seventy elders of the house of Israel, with
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them,
each man with his censer in his hand, and the
fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.
EZE 8:12 Then He said to me, "Son of man, do
you see what the elders of the house of Israel are
committing in the dark, each man in the room of his
carved images? For they say, 'The Lord does not see
us; the Lord has forsaken the land.' "
EZE 8:13 And He said to me, "Yet you will see
still greater abominations which they are
committing."
EZE 8:14 Then He brought me to the entrance
of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the
north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping
for Tammuz.
EZE 8:15 And He said to me, "Do you see this,
son of man? Yet you will see still greater
abominations than these."
EZE 8:16 Then He brought me into the inner
court of the Lord's house. And behold, at the
entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the
porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with
their backs to the temple of the Lord and their
faces toward the east; and they were prostrating
themselves eastward toward the sun.
EZE 8:17 And He said to me, "Do you see this,
son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of
Judah to commit the abominations which they have
committed here, that they have filled the land with
violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold,
they are putting the twig to their nose.
EZE 8:18 "Therefore, I indeed shall deal in
wrath. My eye will have no pity nor shall I spare;
and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice,
yet I shall not listen to them."
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EZE 9:1 Then He cried out in my hearing with
a loud voice saying, "Draw near, O executioners of
the city, each with his destroying weapon in his
hand."
EZE 9:2 And behold, six men came from the
direction of the upper gate which faces north, each
with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among
them was a certain man clothed in linen with a
writing case at his loins. And they went in and
stood beside the bronze altar.
EZE 9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel
went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the
threshold of the temple. And He called to the man
clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing
case.
EZE 9:4 And the Lord said to him, "Go through
the midst of the city, even through the midst of
Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the
men who sigh and groan over all the abominations
which are being committed in its midst."
EZE 9:5 But to the others He said in my
hearing, "Go through the city after him and strike;
do not let your eye have pity, and do not spare.
EZE 9:6 "Utterly slay old men, young men,
maidens, little children, and women, but do not
touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall
start from My sanctuary." So they started with the
elders who were before the temple.
EZE 9:7 And He said to them, "Defile the
temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!"
Thus they went out and struck down the people in the
city.
EZE 9:8 Then it came about as they were
striking and I alone was left, that I fell on my
face and cried out saying, "Alas, Lord God! Art Thou
destroying the whole remnant of Israel by pouring
out Thy wrath on Jerusalem?"
EZE 9:9 Then He said to me, "The iniquity of
the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great,
and the land is filled with blood, and the city is
full of perversion; for they say, 'The Lord has
forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!'
EZE 9:10 "But as for Me, My eye will have no
pity nor shall I spare, but I shall bring their
conduct upon their heads."
EZE 9:11 Then behold, the man clothed in
linen at whose loins was the writing case reported,
saying, "I have done just as Thou hast commanded
me."
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EZE 10:1 Then I looked, and behold, in the
expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim
something like a sapphire stone, in appearance
resembling a throne, appeared above them.
EZE 10:2 And He spoke to the man clothed in
linen and said, "Enter between the whirling wheels
under the cherubim, and fill your hands with coals
of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them
over the city." And he entered in my sight.
EZE 10:3 Now the cherubim were standing on
the right side of the temple when the man entered,
and the cloud filled the inner court.
EZE 10:4 Then the glory of the Lord went up
from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and
the temple was filled with the cloud, and the court
was filled with the brightness of the glory of the
Lord.
EZE 10:5 Moreover, the sound of the wings of
the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court,
like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
EZE 10:6 And it came about when He commanded
the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from
between the whirling wheels, from between the
cherubim," he entered and stood beside a wheel.
EZE 10:7 Then the cherub stretched out his
hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was
between the cherubim, took some and put it into the
hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and
went out.
EZE 10:8 And the cherubim appeared to have
the form of a man's hand under their wings.
EZE 10:9 Then I looked, and behold, four
wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each
cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like
the gleam of a Tarshish stone.
EZE 10:10 And as for their appearance, all
four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel
were within another wheel.
EZE 10:11 When they moved, they went in any
of their four directions without turning as they
went; but they followed in the direction which they
faced, without turning as they went.
EZE 10:12 And their whole body, their backs,
their hands, their wings, and the wheels were full
of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four
of them.
EZE 10:13 The wheels were called in my
hearing, the whirling wheels.
EZE 10:14 And each one had four faces. The
first face was the face of a cherub, the second face
was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion,
and the fourth the face of an eagle.
EZE 10:15 Then the cherubim rose up. They are
the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.
EZE 10:16 Now when the cherubim moved, the
wheels would go beside them; also when the cherubim
lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the
wheels would not turn from beside them.
EZE 10:17 When the cherubim stood still, the
wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, the
wheels would rise with them; for the spirit of the
living beings was in them.
EZE 10:18 Then the glory of the Lord departed
from the threshold of the temple and stood over the
cherubim.
EZE 10:19 When the cherubim departed, they
lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my
sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood
still at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord's
house. And the glory of the God of Israel hovered
over them.
EZE 10:20 These are the living beings that I
saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar;
so I knew that they were cherubim.
EZE 10:21 Each one had four faces and each
one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form
of human hands.
EZE 10:22 As for the likeness of their faces,
they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen
by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
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EZE 11:1 Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up
and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's house
which faced eastward. And behold, there were
twenty-five men at the entrance of the gate, and
among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah
son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.
EZE 11:2 And He said to me, "Son of man,
these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil
advice in this city,
EZE 11:3 who say,' Is not the time near to
build houses? This city is the pot and we are the
flesh.'
EZE 11:4 "Therefore, prophesy against them,
son of man, prophesy!"
EZE 11:5 Then the Spirit of the Lord fell
upon me, and He said to me, "Say, 'Thus says the
Lord," So you think, house of Israel, for I know
your thoughts.
EZE 11:6 "You have multiplied your slain in
this city, filling its streets with them."
EZE 11:7 'Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the
city are the flesh, and this city is the pot; but I
shall bring you out of it.
EZE 11:8 "You have feared a sword; so I will
bring a sword upon you," the Lord God declares.
EZE 11:9 "And I shall bring you out of the
midst of the city, and I shall deliver you into the
hands of strangers and execute judgments against
you.
EZE 11:10 "You will fall by the sword. I
shall judge you to the border of Israel; so you
shall know that I am the Lord.
EZE 11:11 "This city will not be a pot for
you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I
shall judge you to the border of Israel.
EZE 11:12 "Thus you will know that I am the
Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor
have you executed My ordinances, but have acted
according to the ordinances of the nations around
you."' "
EZE 11:13 Now it came about as I prophesied,
that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my
face and cried out with a loud voice and said,
"Alas, Lord God! Wilt Thou bring the remnant of
Israel to a complete end?"
EZE 11:14 Then the word of the Lord came to
me, saying,
EZE 11:15 "Son of man, your brothers, your
relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house
of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Go far from the
Lord; this land has been given us as a possession.'
EZE 11:16 "Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord
God," Though I had removed them far away among the
nations, and though I had scattered them among the
countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little
while in the countries where they had gone."'
EZE 11:17 "Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord
God," I shall gather you from the peoples and
assemble you out of the countries among which you
have been scattered, and I shall give you the land
of Israel."'
EZE 11:18 "When they come there, they will
remove all its detestable things and all its
abominations from it.
EZE 11:19 "And I shall give them one heart,
and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall
take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give
them a heart of flesh,
EZE 11:20 that they may walk in My statutes
and keep My ordinances, and do them. Then they will
be My people, and I shall be their God.
EZE 11:21 "But as for those whose hearts go
after their detestable things and abominations, I
shall bring their conduct down on their heads,"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 11:22 Then the cherubim lifted up their
wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of
the God of Israel hovered over them.
EZE 11:23 And the glory of the Lord went up
from the midst of the city, and stood over the
mountain which is east of the city.
EZE 11:24 And the Spirit lifted me up and
brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the
exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen
left me.
EZE 11:25 Then I told the exiles all the
things that the Lord had shown me.
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EZE 12:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 12:2 "Son of man, you live in the midst
of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do
not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are
a rebellious house.
EZE 12:3 "Therefore, son of man, prepare for
yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day
in their sight; even go into exile from your place
to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will
understand though they are a rebellious house.
EZE 12:4 "And bring your baggage out by day
in their sight, as baggage for exile. Then you will
go out at evening in their sight, as those going
into exile.
EZE 12:5 "Dig a hole through the wall in
their sight and go out through it.
EZE 12:6 "Load the baggage on your shoulder
in their sight, and carry it out in the dark. You
shall cover your face so that you can not see the
land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of
Israel."
EZE 12:7 And I did so, as I had been
commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the
baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug
through the wall with my hands; I went out in the
dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their
sight.
EZE 12:8 And in the morning the word of the
Lord came to me, saying,
EZE 12:9 "Son of man, has not the house of
Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, 'What are
you doing?'
EZE 12:10 "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord
God," This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem,
as well as all the house of Israel who are in it."'
EZE 12:11 "Say, 'I am a sign to you. As I
have done, so it will be done to them; they will go
into exile, into captivity.'
EZE 12:12 "And the prince who is among them
will load his baggage on his shoulder in the dark
and go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to
bring it out. He will cover his face so that he can
not see the land with his eyes.
EZE 12:13 "I shall also spread My net over
him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I shall
bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans;
yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
EZE 12:14 "And I shall scatter to every wind
all who are around him, his helpers and all his
troops; and I shall draw out a sword after them.
EZE 12:15 "So they will know that I am the
Lord when I scatter them among the nations, and
spread them among the countries.
EZE 12:16 "But I shall spare a few of them
from the sword, the famine, and the pestilence that
they may tell all their abominations among the
nations where they go, and may know that I am the
Lord."
EZE 12:17 Moreover, the word of the Lord came
to me saying,
EZE 12:18 "Son of man, eat your bread with
trembling, and drink your water with quivering and
anxiety.
EZE 12:19 "Then say to the people of the
land, 'Thus says the Lord God concerning the
inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel,"
They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink
their water with horror, because their land will be
stripped of its fulness on account of the violence
of all who live in it.
EZE 12:20 "And the inhabited cities will be
laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. So
you will know that I am the Lord."' "
EZE 12:21 Then the word of the Lord came to
me saying,
EZE 12:22 "Son of man, what is this proverb
you people have concerning the land of Israel,
saying, 'The days are long and every vision fails'?
EZE 12:23 "Therefore say to them, 'Thus says
the Lord God," I will make this proverb cease so
that they will no longer use it as a proverb in
Israel."But tell them," The days draw near as well
as the fulfillment of every vision.
EZE 12:24 "For there will no longer be any
false vision or flattering divination within the
house of Israel.
EZE 12:25 "For I the Lord shall speak, and
whatever word I speak will be performed. It will no
longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious
house, I shall speak the word and perform it,"
declares the Lord God.' "
EZE 12:26 Furthermore, the word of the Lord
came to me saying,
EZE 12:27 "Son of man, behold, the house of
Israel is saying, 'The vision that he sees is for
many years from now, and he prophesies of times far
off.'
EZE 12:28 "Therefore say to them, 'Thus says
the Lord God," None of My words will be delayed any
longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,
"'"declares the Lord God.
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EZE 13:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 13:2 "Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those
who prophesy from their own inspiration, 'Listen to
the word of the Lord!
EZE 13:3 'Thus says the Lord God, "Woe to the
foolish prophets who are following their own spirit
and have seen nothing.
EZE 13:4 "O Israel, your prophets have been
like foxes among ruins.
EZE 13:5 "You have not gone up into the
breaches, nor did you build the wall around the
house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of
the Lord.
EZE 13:6 "They see falsehood and lying
divination who are saying, 'The Lord declares,' when
the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the
fulfillment of their word.
EZE 13:7 "Did you not see a false vision and
speak a lying divination when you said, 'The Lord
declares,' but it is not I who have spoken?"' "
EZE 13:8 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie,
therefore behold, I am against you," declares the
Lord God.
EZE 13:9 "So My hand will be against the
prophets who see false visions and utter lying
divinations. They will have no place in the council
of My people, nor will they be written down in the
register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter
the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the
Lord God.
EZE 13:10 "It is definitely because they have
misled My people by saying, 'Peace!' when there is
no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold,
they plaster it over with #663300wash;
EZE 13:11 so tell those who plaster it over
with #663300wash, that it will fall. A flooding rain
will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a
violent wind will break out.
EZE 13:12 "Behold, when the wall has fallen,
will you not be asked, 'Where is the plaster with
which you plastered it?' "
EZE 13:13 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath.
There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and
hailstones to consume it in wrath.
EZE 13:14 "So I shall tear down the wall
which you plastered over with #663300wash and bring
it down to the ground, so that its foundation is
laid bare; and when it falls, you will be consumed
in its midst. And you will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 13:15 "Thus I shall spend My wrath on the
wall and on those who have plastered it over with
#663300wash; and I shall say to you, 'The wall is
gone and its plasterers are gone,
EZE 13:16 along with the prophets of Israel
who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of
peace for her when there is no peace,' declares the
Lord God.
EZE 13:17 "Now you, son of man, set your face
against the daughters of your people who are
prophesying from their own inspiration. Prophesy
against them,
EZE 13:18 and say,' Thus says the Lord God,
"Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists,
and make veils for the heads of persons of every
stature to hunt down lives! Will you hunt down the
lives of My people, but preserve the lives of others
for yourselves?
EZE 13:19 "And for handfuls of barley and
fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My
people to put to death some who should not die and
to keep others alive who should not live, by your
lying to My people who listen to lies."' "
EZE 13:20 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you
hunt lives there as birds, and I will tear them off
your arms; and I will let them go, even those lives
whom you hunt as birds.
EZE 13:21 "I will also tear off your veils
and deliver My people from your hands, and they will
no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you
will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 13:22 "Because you disheartened the
righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him
grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn
from his wicked way and preserve his life,
EZE 13:23 therefore, you women will no longer
see false visions or practice divination, and I will
deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will
know that I am the Lord."
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EZE 14:1 Then some elders of Israel came to
me and sat down before me.
EZE 14:2 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 14:3 "Son of man, these men have set up
their idols in their hearts, and have put right
before their faces the stumbling block of their
iniquity. Should I be consulted by them at all?
EZE 14:4 "Therefore speak to them and tell
them, 'Thus says the Lord God," Any man of the house
of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts
right before his face the stumbling block of his
iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord
will be brought to give him an answer in the matter
in view of the multitude of his idols,
EZE 14:5 in order to lay hold of the hearts
of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me
through all their idols."'
EZE 14:6 "Therefore say to the house of
Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God," Repent and turn
away from your idols, and turn your faces away from
all your abominations. EZE 14:7 "For anyone
of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay
in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his
idols in his heart, puts right before his face the
stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to
the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the Lord
will be brought to answer him in My own person.
EZE 14:8 "And I shall set My face against
that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I
shall cut him off from among My people. So you will
know that I am the Lord.
EZE 14:9 "But if the prophet is prevailed
upon to speak a word, it is I, the Lord, who have
prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out
My hand against him and destroy him from among My
people Israel.
EZE 14:10 "And they will bear the punishment
of their iniquity; as the iniquity of the inquirer
is, so the iniquity of the prophet will be,
EZE 14:11 in order that the house of Israel
may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile
themselves with all their transgressions. Thus they
will be My people, and I shall be their God,
"'declares the Lord God."
EZE 14:12 Then the word of the Lord came to
me saying,
EZE 14:13 "Son of man, if a country sins
against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I
stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply
of bread, send famine against it, and cut off from
it both man and beast,
EZE 14:14 even though these three men, Noah,
Daniel, and Job were in its midst, by their own
righteousness they could only deliver themselves,
"declares the Lord God.
EZE 14:15 "If I were to cause wild beasts to
pass through the land, and they depopulated it, and
it became desolate so that no one would pass through
it because of the beasts,
EZE 14:16 though these three men were in its
midst, as I live, "declares the Lord God," they
could not deliver either their sons or their
daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the
country would be desolate.
EZE 14:17 "Or if I should bring a sword on
that country and say, 'Let the sword pass through
the country and cut off man and beast from it,'
EZE 14:18 even though these three men were in
its midst, as I live, "declares the Lord God," they
could not deliver either their sons or their
daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
EZE 14:19 "Or if I should send a plague
against that country and pour out My wrath in blood
on it, to cut off man and beast from it,
EZE 14:20 even though Noah, Daniel, and Job
were in its midst, as I live, "declares the Lord
God," they could not deliver either their son or
their daughter. They would deliver only themselves
by their righteousness."
EZE 14:21 For thus says the Lord God, "How
much more when I send My four severe judgments
against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts, and
plague to cut off man and beast from it!
EZE 14:22 "Yet, behold, survivors will be
left in it who will be brought out, both sons and
daughters. Behold, they are going to come forth to
you and you will see their conduct and actions; then
you will be comforted for the calamity which I have
brought against Jerusalem for everything which I
have brought upon it.
EZE 14:23 "Then they will comfort you when
you see their conduct and actions, for you will know
that I have not done in vain whatever I did to it,"
declares the Lord God.
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EZE 15:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 15:2 "Son of man, how is the wood of the
vine better than any wood of a branch which is among
the trees of the forest?
EZE 15:3 "Can wood be taken from it to make
anything, or can men take a peg from it on which to
hang any vessel?
EZE 15:4 "If it has been put into the fire
for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its
ends, and its middle part has been charred, is it
then useful for anything?
EZE 15:5 "Behold, while it is intact, it is
not made into anything. How much less, when the fire
has consumed it and it is charred, can it still be
made into anything!
EZE 15:6 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'As the wood of the vine among the trees of the
forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so
have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
EZE 15:7 and I set My face against them.
Though they have come out of the fire, yet the fire
will consume them. Then you will know that I am the
Lord, when I set My face against them.
EZE 15:8 'Thus I will make the land desolate,
because they have acted unfaithfully,' "declares the
Lord God.
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EZE 16:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 16:2 "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem
her abominations,
EZE 16:3 and say,' Thus says the Lord God to
Jerusalem, "Your origin and your birth are from the
land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite
and your mother a Hittite.
EZE 16:4 "As for your birth, on the day you
were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you
washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed
with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
EZE 16:5 "No eye looked with pity on you to
do any of these things for you, to have compassion
on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open
field, for you were abhorred on the day you were
born.
EZE 16:6 "When I passed by you and saw you
squirming in your blood, I said to you while you
were in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you while you
were in your blood, 'Live!'
EZE 16:7 "I made you numerous like plants of
the field. Then you grew up, became tall, and
reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts
were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were
naked and bare.
EZE 16:8 "Then I passed by you and saw you,
and behold, you were at the time for love; so I
spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness.
I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with
you so that you became Mine," declares the Lord God.
EZE 16:9 "Then I bathed you with water,
washed off your blood from you, and anointed you
with oil.
EZE 16:10 "I also clothed you with
embroidered cloth, and put sandals of porpoise skin
on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and
covered you with silk.
EZE 16:11 "And I adorned you with ornaments,
put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace around
your neck.
EZE 16:12 "I also put a ring in your nostril,
earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your
head.
EZE 16:13 "Thus you were adorned with gold
and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk,
and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey,
and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and
advanced to royalty.
EZE 16:14 "Then your fame went forth among
the nations on account of your beauty, for it was
perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on
you," declares the Lord God.
EZE 16:15 "But you trusted in your beauty and
played the harlot because of your fame, and you
poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who
might be willing.
EZE 16:16 "And you took some of your clothes,
made for yourself high places of various colors, and
played the harlot on them, which should never come
about nor happen.
EZE 16:17 "You also took your beautiful
jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had
given you, and made for yourself male images that
you might play the harlot with them.
EZE 16:18 "Then you took your embroidered
cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My
incense before them.
EZE 16:19 "Also My bread which I gave you,
fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you, you
would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it
happened," declares the Lord God.
EZE 16:20 "Moreover, you took your sons and
daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you
sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your
harlotries so small a matter?
EZE 16:21 "You slaughtered My children, and
offered them up to idols by causing them to pass
through the fire.
EZE 16:22 "And besides all your abominations
and harlotries you did not remember the days of your
youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in
your blood.
EZE 16:23 "Then it came about after all your
wickedness ( 'Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord
God),
EZE 16:24 that you built yourself a shrine
and made yourself a high place in every square.
EZE 16:25 "You built yourself a high place at
the top of every street, and made your beauty
abominable; and you spread your legs to every
passer-by to multiply your harlotry.
EZE 16:26 "You also played the harlot with
the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and
multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.
EZE 16:27 "Behold now, I have stretched out
My hand against you and diminished your rations. And
I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate
you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are
ashamed of your lewd conduct.
EZE 16:28 "Moreover, you played the harlot
with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied;
you even played the harlot with them and still were
not satisfied.
EZE 16:29 "You also multiplied your harlotry
with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with
this you were not satisfied."' "
EZE 16:30 "How languishing is your heart,"
declares the Lord God, "while you do all these
things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.
EZE 16:31 "When you built your shrine at the
beginning of every street and made your high place
in every square, in disdaining money, you were not
like a harlot.
EZE 16:32 "You adulteress wife, who takes
strangers instead of her husband!
EZE 16:33 "Men give gifts to all harlots, but
you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them
to come to you from every direction for your
harlotries.
EZE 16:34 "Thus you are different from those
women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the
harlot as you do, because you give money and no
money is given you; thus you are different."
EZE 16:35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word
of the Lord.
EZE 16:36 Thus says the Lord God, "Because
your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness
uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers
and with all your detestable idols, and because of
the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,
EZE 16:37 therefore, behold, I shall gather
all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even
all those whom you loved and all those whom you
hated. So I shall gather them against you from every
direction and expose your nakedness to them that
they may see all your nakedness.
EZE 16:38 "Thus I shall judge you, like women
who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I
shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
EZE 16:39 "I shall also give you into the
hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your
shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of
your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave
you naked and bare.
EZE 16:40 "They will incite a crowd against
you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces
with their swords.
EZE 16:41 "And they will burn your houses
with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight
of many women. Then I shall stop you from playing
the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your
lovers.
EZE 16:42 "So I shall calm My fury against
you, and My jealousy will depart from you, and I
shall be pacified and angry no more.
EZE 16:43 "Because you have not remembered
the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all
these things, behold, I in turn will bring your
conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord
God, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on
top of all your other abominations.
EZE 16:44 "Behold, everyone who quotes
proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you,
saying, 'Like mother, like daughter.'
EZE 16:45 "You are the daughter of your
mother, who loathed her husband and children. You
are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed
their husbands and children. Your mother was a
Hittite and your father an Amorite.
EZE 16:46 "Now your older sister is Samaria,
who lives north of you with her daughters; and your
younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom
with her daughters.
EZE 16:47 "Yet you have not merely walked in
their ways or done according to their abominations;
but, as if that were too little, you acted more
corruptly in all your conduct than they.
EZE 16:48 "As I live," declares the Lord God,
"Sodom, your sister, and her daughters, have not
done as you and your daughters have done.
EZE 16:49 "Behold, this was the guilt of your
sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance,
abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not
help the poor and needy.
EZE 16:50 "Thus they were haughty and
committed abominations before Me. Therefore I
removed them when I saw it.
EZE 16:51 "Furthermore, Samaria did not
commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied
your abominations more than they. Thus you have made
your sisters appear righteous by all your
abominations which you have committed.
EZE 16:52 "Also bear your disgrace in that
you have made judgment favorable for your sisters.
Because of your sins in which you acted more
abominably than they, they are more in the right
than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your
disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear
righteous.
EZE 16:53 "Nevertheless, I will restore their
captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters,
the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and
along with them your own captivity,
EZE 16:54 in order that you may bear your
humiliation, and feel ashamed for all that you have
done when you become a consolation to them.
EZE 16:55 "And your sisters, Sodom with her
daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will
return to their former state, and you with your
daughters will also return to your former state.
EZE 16:56 "As the name of your sister Sodom
was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,
EZE 16:57 before your wickedness was
uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of
the daughters of Edom, and of all who are around
her, of the daughters of the Philistines - - those
surrounding you who despise you.
EZE 16:58 "You have borne the penalty of your
lewdness and abominations," the Lord declares.
EZE 16:59 For thus says the Lord God, "I will
also do with you as you have done, you who have
despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
EZE 16:60 "Nevertheless, I will remember My
covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I
will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
EZE 16:61 "Then you will remember your ways
and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both
your older and your younger; and I will give them to
you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
EZE 16:62 "Thus I will establish My covenant
with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,
EZE 16:63 in order that you may remember and
be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore
because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven
you for all that you have done, "the Lord God
declares.
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EZE 17:1 Now the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 17:2 "Son of man, propound a riddle, and
speak a parable to the house of Israel,
EZE 17:3 saying,' Thus says the Lord God, "A
great eagle with great wings, long pinions and a
full plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and
took away the top of the cedar.
EZE 17:4 "He plucked off the topmost of its
young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants;
he set it in a city of traders.
EZE 17:5 "He also took some of the seed of
the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed
it beside abundant waters; he set it like a willow.
EZE 17:6 "Then it sprouted and became a low,
spreading vine with its branches turned toward him,
but its roots remained under it. So it became a
vine, and yielded shoots and sent out branches.
EZE 17:7 "But there was another great eagle
with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this
vine bent its roots toward him and sent out its
branches toward him from the beds where it was
planted, that he might water it.
EZE 17:8 "It was planted in good soil beside
abundant waters, that it might yield branches and
bear fruit, and become a splendid vine."'
EZE 17:9 "Say, 'Thus says the Lord God," Will
it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off
its fruit, so that it withers - - so that all its
sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great
strength nor by many people can it be raised from
its roots again.
EZE 17:10 "Behold, though it is planted, will
it thrive? Will it not completely wither as soon as
the east wind strikes it - - wither on the beds
where it grew?"' "
EZE 17:11 Moreover, the word of the Lord came
to me saying,
EZE 17:12 "Say now to the rebellious house,
'Do you not know what these things mean?' Say,
'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took
its king and princes, and brought them to him in
Babylon.
EZE 17:13 'And he took one of the royal
family and made a covenant with him, putting him
under oath. He also took away the mighty of the
land,
EZE 17:14 that the kingdom might be in
subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his
covenant, that it might continue.
EZE 17:15 'But he rebelled against him by
sending his envoys to Egypt that they might give him
horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who
does such things escape? Can he indeed break the
covenant and escape?
EZE 17:16 'As I live,' declares the Lord
God,' Surely in the country of the king who put him
on the throne, whose oath he despised, and whose
covenant he broke, in Babylon he shall die.
EZE 17:17 'And Pharaoh with his mighty army
and great company will not help him in the war, when
they cast up mounds and build siege walls to cut off
many lives.
EZE 17:18 'Now he despised the oath by
breaking the covenant, and behold, he pledged his
allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not
escape.' "
EZE 17:19 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My
covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.
EZE 17:20 "And I will spread My net over him,
and he will be caught in My snare. Then I will bring
him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him
there regarding the unfaithful act which he has
committed against Me.
EZE 17:21 "And all the choice men in all his
troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors
will be scattered to every wind; and you will know
that I, the Lord, have spoken."
EZE 17:22 Thus says the Lord God, "I shall
also take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar
and set it out; I shall pluck from the topmost of
its young twigs a tender one, and I shall plant it
on a high and lofty mountain.
EZE 17:23 "On the high mountain of Israel I
shall plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and
bear fruit, and become a stately cedar. And birds of
every kind will nest under it; they will nest in the
shade of its branches.
EZE 17:24 "And all the trees of the field
will know that I am the Lord; I bring down the high
tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree, and
make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have
spoken, and I will perform it."
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EZE 18:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 18:2 "What do you mean by using this
proverb concerning the land of Israel saying, 'The
fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's
teeth are set on edge'?
EZE 18:3 "As I live," declares the Lord God,
"you are surely not going to use this proverb in
Israel anymore.
EZE 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; the
soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is
Mine. The soul who sins will die.
EZE 18:5 "But if a man is righteous, and
practices justice and righteousness,
EZE 18:6 and does not eat at the mountain
shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife, or
approach a woman during her menstrual period - -
EZE 18:7 if a man does not oppress anyone,
but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not
commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry,
and covers the naked with clothing,
EZE 18:8 if he does not lend money on
interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from
iniquity, and executes true justice between man and
man,
EZE 18:9 if he walks in My statutes and My
ordinances so as to deal faithfully - - he is
righteous and will surely live, "declares the Lord
God.
EZE 18:10 "Then he may have a violent son who
sheds blood, and who does any of these things to a
brother
EZE 18:11 (though he himself did not do any
of these things), that is, he even eats at the
mountain shrines, and defiles his neighbor's wife,
EZE 18:12 oppresses the poor and needy,
commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but
lifts up his eyes to the idols, and commits
abomination,
EZE 18:13 he lends money on interest and
takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He
has committed all these abominations, he will surely
be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
EZE 18:14 "Now behold, he has a son who has
observed all his father's sins which he committed,
and observing does not do likewise.
EZE 18:15 "He does not eat at the mountain
shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife,
EZE 18:16 or oppress anyone, or retain a
pledge, or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to
the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing,
EZE 18:17 he keeps his hand from the poor,
does not take interest or increase, but executes My
ordinances, and walks in My statutes; he will not
die for his father's iniquity, he will surely live.
EZE 18:18 "As for his father, because he
practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did
what was not good among his people, behold, he will
die for his iniquity.
EZE 18:19 "Yet you say, 'Why should the son
not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity?'
When the son has practiced justice and
righteousness, and has observed all My statutes and
done them, he shall surely live.
EZE 18:20 "The person who sins will die. The
son will not bear the punishment for the father's
iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment
for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the
righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness
of the wicked will be upon himself.
EZE 18:21 "But if the wicked man turns from
all his sins which he has committed and observes all
My statutes and practices justice and righteousness,
he shall surely live; he shall not die.
EZE 18:22 "All his transgressions which he
has committed will not be remembered against him;
because of his righteousness which he has practiced,
he will live.
EZE 18:23 "Do I have any pleasure in the
death of the wicked," declares the Lord God, "rather
than that he should turn from his ways and live?
EZE 18:24 "But when a righteous man turns
away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and
does according to all the abominations that a wicked
man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds
which he has done will not be remembered for his
treachery which he has committed and his sin which
he has committed; for them he will die.
EZE 18:25 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord
is not right.' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My
way not right? Is it not your ways that are not
right?
EZE 18:26 "When a righteous man turns away
from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies
because of it, for his iniquity which he has
committed he will die.
EZE 18:27 "Again, when a wicked man turns
away from his wickedness which he has committed and
practices justice and righteousness, he will save
his life.
EZE 18:28 "Because he considered and turned
away from all his transgressions which he had
committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
EZE 18:29 "But the house of Israel says, 'The
way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not
right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that
are not right?
EZE 18:30 "Therefore I will judge you, O
house of Israel, each according to his conduct,"
declares the Lord God."Repent and turn away from all
your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become
a stumbling block to you.
EZE 18:31 "Cast away from you all your
transgressions which you have committed, and make
yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why
will you die, O house of Israel?
EZE 18:32 "For I have no pleasure in the
death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord
God."Therefore, repent and live."
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EZE 19:1 "As for you, take up a lamentation
for the princes of Israel,
EZE 19:2 and say,' What was your mother? A
lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.
EZE 19:3 'When she brought up one of her
cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his
prey; He devoured men.
EZE 19:4 'Then nations heard about him; He
was captured in their pit, And they brought him with
hooks To the land of Egypt.
EZE 19:5 'When she saw, as she waited, That
her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And
made him a young lion.
EZE 19:6 'And he walked about among the
lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear
his prey; He devoured men.
EZE 19:7 'And he destroyed their fortified
towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and
its fulness were appalled Because of the sound of
his roaring.
EZE 19:8 'Then nations set against him On
every side from their provinces, And they spread
their net over him; He was captured in their pit.
EZE 19:9 'And they put him in a cage with
hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They
brought him in hunting nets So that his voice should
be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.
EZE 19:10 'Your mother was like a vine in
your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was
fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant
waters.
EZE 19:11 'And it had strong branches fit for
scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above
the clouds So that it was seen in its height with
the mass of its branches.
EZE 19:12 'But it was plucked up in fury; It
was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried
up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that
it withered; The fire consumed it.
EZE 19:13 'And now it is planted in the
wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
EZE 19:14 'And fire has gone out from its
branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So
that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter
to rule.' "This is a lamentation, and has become a
lamentation.
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EZE 20:1 Now it came about in the seventh
year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month,
that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire
of the Lord, and sat before me.
EZE 20:2 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 20:3 "Son of man, speak to the elders of
Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God,"
Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live, "declares
the Lord God," I will not be inquired of by you."'
EZE 20:4 "Will you judge them, will you judge
them, son of man? Make them know the abominations of
their fathers;
EZE 20:5 and say to them,' Thus says the Lord
God, "On the day when I chose Israel and swore to
the descendants 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,
EZE 20:6 on that day I swore to them, to
bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land
that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and
honey, which is the glory of all lands.
EZE 20:7 "And I said to them, 'Cast away,
each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and
do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I
am the Lord your God.'
EZE 20:8 "But they rebelled against Me and
were not willing to listen to Me; they did not cast
away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did
they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I resolved to
pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger
against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
EZE 20:9 "But I acted for the sake of My
name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of
the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I
made Myself known to them by bringing them out of
the land of Egypt.
EZE 20:10 "So I took them out of the land of
Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
EZE 20:11 "And I gave them My statutes and
informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man
observes them, he will live.
EZE 20:12 "And 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.
EZE 20:13 "But the house of Israel rebelled
against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in
My statutes, and they rejected My ordinances, by
which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My
sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to
pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to
annihilate them.
EZE 20:14 "But I acted for the sake of My
name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of
the nations, before whose sight I had brought them
out.
EZE 20:15 "And 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,
EZE 20:16 because they rejected My
ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not
walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for
their heart continually went after their idols.
EZE 20:17 "Yet My eye spared them rather than
destroying them, and I did not cause their
annihilation in the wilderness.
EZE 20:18 "And I said to their children in
the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your
fathers, or keep their ordinances, or defile
yourselves with their idols.
EZE 20:19 'I am the Lord your God; walk in My
statutes, and keep My ordinances, and observe them.
EZE 20:20 'And sanctify My sabbaths; and they
shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may
know that I am the Lord your God.'
EZE 20:21 "But the children rebelled against
Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they
careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man
observes them, he will live; they profaned My
sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on
them, to accomplish My anger against them in the
wilderness.
EZE 20:22 "But I withdrew My hand and acted
for the sake of My name, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight
I had brought them out.
EZE 20:23 "Also I swore to them in the
wilderness that I would scatter them among the
nations and disperse them among the lands,
EZE 20:24 because they had not observed My
ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had
profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were on the
idols of their fathers.
EZE 20:25 "And I also gave them statutes that
were not good and ordinances by which they could not
live;
EZE 20:26 and I pronounced them unclean
because of their gifts, in that they caused all
their first-born to pass through the fire so that I
might make them desolate, in order that they might
know that I am the Lord."'
EZE 20:27 "Therefore, son of man, speak to
the house of Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the
Lord God," Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed
Me by acting treacherously against Me.
EZE 20:28 "When I had brought them into the
land which I swore to give to them, then they saw
every high hill and every leafy tree, and they
offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering. There
also they made their soothing aroma, and there they
poured out their libations.
EZE 20:29 "Then I said to them, 'What is the
high place to which you go?' So its name is called
Bamah to this day."'
EZE 20:30 "Therefore, say to the house of
Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God," Will you defile
yourselves after the manner of your fathers and play
the harlot after their detestable things?
EZE 20:31 "And when you offer your gifts,
when you cause your sons to pass through the fire,
you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to
this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house
of Israel? As I live," declares the Lord God, "I
will not be inquired of by you.
EZE 20:32 "And what comes into your mind will
not come about, when you say: 'We will be like the
nations, like the tribes of the lands, serving wood
and stone.'
EZE 20:33 "As I live," declares the Lord God,
"surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched
arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over
you.
EZE 20:34 "And I shall bring you out from the
peoples and gather you from the lands where you are
scattered, with a mighty hand and with an
outstretched arm and with wrath poured out;
EZE 20:35 and I shall bring you into the
wilderness of the peoples, and there I shall enter
into judgment with you face to face.
EZE 20:36 "As I entered into judgment with
your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt,
so I will enter into judgment with you," declares
the Lord God.
EZE 20:37 "And I shall make you pass under
the rod, and I shall bring you into the bond of the
covenant;
EZE 20:38 and I shall purge from you the
rebels and those who transgress against Me; I shall
bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but
they will not enter the land of Israel. Thus you
will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 20:39 "As for you, O house of Israel,"
thus says the Lord God, "Go, serve everyone his
idols; but later, you will surely listen to Me, and
My holy name you will profane no longer with your
gifts and with your idols.
EZE 20:40 "For on My holy mountain, on the
high mountain of Israel," declares the Lord God,
"there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will
serve Me in the land; there I shall accept them, and
there I shall seek your contributions and the
choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.
EZE 20:41 "As a soothing aroma I shall accept
you, when I bring you out from the peoples and
gather you from the lands where you are scattered;
and I shall prove Myself holy among you in the sight
of the nations.
EZE 20:42 "And you will know that I am the
Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into
the land which I swore to give to your forefathers.
EZE 20:43 "And there you will remember your
ways and all your deeds, with which you have defiled
yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your
own sight for all the evil things that you have
done.
EZE 20:44 "Then 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 or according to your
corrupt deeds, O house of Israel," declares the Lord
God.' "
EZE 20:45 Now the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 20:46 "Son of man, set your face toward
Teman, and speak out against the south, and prophesy
against the forest land of the Negev,
EZE 20:47 and say to the forest of the
Negev,' Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the
Lord God, "Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in
you, and it shall consume every green tree in you,
as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will
not be quenched, and the whole surface from south to
north will be burned by it.
EZE 20:48 "And all flesh will see that I, the
Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."'"
EZE 20:49 Then I said, "Ah Lord God! They are
saying of me, 'Is he not just speaking parables?'"
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EZE 21:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 21:2 "Son of man, set your face toward
Jerusalem, and speak against the sanctuaries, and
prophesy against the land of Israel;
EZE 21:3 and say to the land of Israel,' Thus
says the Lord, "Behold, I am against you; and I
shall draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off
from you the righteous and the wicked.
EZE 21:4 "Because I shall cut off from you
the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword
shall go forth from its sheath against all flesh
from south to north.
EZE 21:5 "Thus all flesh will know that I,
the Lord, have drawn My sword out of its sheath. It
will not return to its sheath again."'
EZE 21:6 "As for you, son of man, groan with
breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their
sight.
EZE 21:7 "And it will come about when they
say to you, 'Why do you groan?' that you will say,
'Because of the news that is coming; and 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 will happen,' declares the
Lord God."
EZE 21:8 Again the word of the Lord came to
me saying,
EZE 21:9 "Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus
says the Lord.' Say, 'A sword, a sword sharpened And
also polished!
EZE 21:10 'Sharpened to make a slaughter,
Polished to flash like lightning!' Or shall we
rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?
EZE 21:11 "And it is given to be polished,
that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and
polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
EZE 21:12 "Cry out and wail, son of man; for
it is against My people, it is against all the
officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the
sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh.
EZE 21:13 "For there is a testing; and what
if even the rod which despises will be no more?"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 21:14 "You therefore, son of man,
prophesy, and clap your hands together; and let the
sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the
slain. It is the sword for the great one slain,
which surrounds them,
EZE 21:15 that their hearts may melt, and
many fall at all their gates. I have given the
glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like
lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for
slaughter.
EZE 21:16 "Show yourself sharp, go to the
right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your
edge is appointed.
EZE 21:17 "I shall also clap My hands
together, and I shall appease My wrath; I, the Lord,
have spoken."
EZE 21:18 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 21:19 "As for you, son of man, make two
ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come;
both of them will go out of one land. And make a
signpost; make it at the head of the way to the
city.
EZE 21:20 "You shall mark a way for the sword
to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah
into fortified Jerusalem.
EZE 21:21 "For the king of Babylon stands at
the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways,
to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults
the household idols, he looks at the liver.
EZE 21:22 "Into his right hand came the
divination, 'Jerusalem,' to set battering rams, to
open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice
with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the
gates, to cast up mounds, to build a siege wall.
EZE 21:23 "And it will be to them like a
false divination in their eyes; they have sworn
solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance,
that they may be seized.
EZE 21:24 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'Because you have made your iniquity to be
remembered, in that your transgressions are
uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins
appear - - because you have come to remembrance, you
will be seized with the hand.
EZE 21:25 'And you, O slain, wicked one, the
prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of
the punishment of the end,'
EZE 21:26 thus says the Lord God,' Remove the
turban, and take off the crown; this will be no more
the same. Exalt that which is low, and abase that
which is high.
EZE 21:27 'A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I shall
make it. This also will be no more, until He comes
whose right it is; and I shall give it to Him.'
EZE 21:28 "And you, son of man, prophesy and
say, 'Thus says the Lord God concerning the sons of
Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say: 'A
sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter,
to cause it to consume, that it may be like
lightning - -
EZE 21:29 while they see for you false
visions, while they divine lies for you - - to place
you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose
day has come, in the time of the punishment of the
end.
EZE 21:30 'Return it to its sheath. In the
place where you were created, in the land of your
origin, I shall judge you.
EZE 21:31 'And I shall pour out My
indignation on you; I shall blow on you with the
fire of My wrath, and I shall give you into the hand
of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
EZE 21:32 'You will be fuel for the fire;
your blood will be in the midst of the land. You
will not be remembered, for I, the Lord, have
spoken.'"
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EZE 22:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 22:2 "And you, son of man, will you
judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause
her to know all her abominations.
EZE 22:3 "And you shall say, 'Thus says the
Lord God," A city shedding blood in her midst, so
that her time will come, and that makes idols,
contrary to her interest, for defilement!
EZE 22:4 "You have become guilty by the blood
which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which
you have made. Thus you have brought your day near
and have come to your years; therefore I have made
you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all
the lands.
EZE 22:5 "Those who are near and those who
are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute,
full of turmoil.
EZE 22:6 "Behold, the rulers of Israel, each
according to his power, have been in you for the
purpose of shedding blood.
EZE 22:7 "They have treated father and mother
lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in
your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have
wronged in you.
EZE 22:8 "You have despised My holy things
and profaned My sabbaths.
EZE 22:9 "Slanderous men have been in you for
the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have
eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they
have committed acts of lewdness.
EZE 22:10 "In you they have uncovered their
fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her who
was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
EZE 22:11 "And one has committed abomination
with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly
defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has
humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
EZE 22:12 "In you they have taken bribes to
shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and
you have injured your neighbors for gain by
oppression, and you have forgotten Me," declares the
Lord God.
EZE 22:13 "Behold, then, I smite My hand at
your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at
the bloodshed which is among you.
EZE 22:14 "Can your heart endure, or can your
hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with
you? I, the Lord, have spoken and shall act.
EZE 22:15 "And I shall scatter you among the
nations, and I shall disperse you through the lands,
and I shall consume your uncleanness from you.
EZE 22:16 "And you will profane yourself in
the sight of the nations, and you will know that I
am the Lord."' "
EZE 22:17 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 22:18 "Son of man, the house of Israel
has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and
tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the
dross of silver.
EZE 22:19 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'Because all of you have become dross, therefore,
behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of
Jerusalem.
EZE 22:20 'As they gather silver and bronze
and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow
fire on it in order to melt it, so I shall gather
you in My anger and in My wrath, and I shall lay you
there and melt you.
EZE 22:21 'And I shall gather you and blow on
you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be
melted in the midst of it.
EZE 22:22 'As silver is melted in the
furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it;
and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out
My wrath on you.' "
EZE 22:23 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 22:24 "Son of man, say to her, 'You are a
land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of
indignation.'
EZE 22:25 "There is a conspiracy of her
prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing
the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken
treasure and precious things; they have made many
widows in the midst of her.
EZE 22:26 "Her priests have done violence to
My law and have profaned My holy things; they have
made no distinction between the holy and the
profane, and they have not taught the difference
between the unclean and the clean; and they hide
their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among
them.
EZE 22:27 "Her princes within her are like
wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and
destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.
EZE 22:28 "And her prophets have smeared
#663300wash for them, seeing false visions and
divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord
God,' when the Lord has not spoken.
EZE 22:29 "The people of the land have
practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they
have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed
the sojourner without justice.
EZE 22:30 "And I searched for a man among
them who should build up the wall and stand in the
gap before Me for the land, that I should not
destroy it; but I found no one.
EZE 22:31 "Thus I have poured out My
indignation on them; I have consumed them with the
fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon
their heads," declares the Lord God.
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EZE 23:1 The word of the Lord came to me
again saying,
EZE 23:2 "Son of man, there were two women,
the daughters of one mother;
EZE 23:3 and they played the harlot in Egypt.
They played the harlot in their youth; there their
breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom
was handled.
EZE 23:4 "And their names were Oholah the
elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine,
and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their
names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
EZE 23:5 "And Oholah played the harlot while
she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after
the Assyrians, her neighbors,
EZE 23:6 who were clothed in purple,
governors and officials, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding on horses.
EZE 23:7 "And she bestowed her harlotries on
them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria;
and with all whom she lusted after, with all their
idols she defiled herself.
EZE 23:8 "And she did not forsake her
harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth
men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin
bosom and poured out their lust on her.
EZE 23:9 "Therefore, I gave her into the hand
of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after
whom she lusted.
EZE 23:10 "They uncovered her nakedness; they
took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her
with the sword. Thus she became a byword among
women, and they executed judgments on her.
EZE 23:11 "Now her sister Oholibah saw this,
yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and
her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her
sister.
EZE 23:12 "She lusted after the Assyrians,
governors and officials, the ones near,
magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses,
all of them desirable young men.
EZE 23:13 "And I saw that she had defiled
herself; they both took the same way.
EZE 23:14 "So she increased her harlotries.
And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the
Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
EZE 23:15 girded with belts on their loins,
with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them
looking like officers, like the Babylonians in
Chaldea, the land of their birth.
EZE 23:16 "And when she saw them she lusted
after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
EZE 23:17 "And the Babylonians came to her to
the bed of love, and they defiled her with their
harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she
became disgusted with them.
EZE 23:18 "And she uncovered her harlotries
and uncovered her nakedness; then I became disgusted
with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister.
EZE 23:19 "Yet she multiplied her harlotries,
remembering the days of her youth, when she played
the harlot in the land of Egypt.
EZE 23:20 "And she lusted after their
paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys
and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
EZE 23:21 "Thus you longed for the lewdness
of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom
because of the breasts of your youth.
EZE 23:22 "Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says
the Lord God, 'Behold I will arouse your lovers
against you, from whom you were alienated, and I
will bring them against you from every side:
EZE 23:23 the Babylonians and all the
Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors
and officials all of them, officers and men of
renown, all of them riding on horses.
EZE 23:24 'And they will come against you
with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a
company of peoples. They will set themselves against
you on every side with buckler and shield and
helmet; and I shall commit the judgment to them, and
they will judge you according to their customs.
EZE 23:25 'And I will set My jealousy against
you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will
remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors
will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and
your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed
by the fire.
EZE 23:26 'They will also strip you of your
clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
EZE 23:27 'Thus I shall make your lewdness
and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to
cease from you, so that you will not lift up your
eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'
EZE 23:28 "For thus says the Lord God,
'Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom
you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were
alienated.
EZE 23:29 'And they will deal with you in
hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked
and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries shall
be uncovered, both your lewdness and your
harlotries.
EZE 23:30 'These things will be done to you
because you have played the harlot with the nations,
because you have defiled yourself with their idols.
EZE 23:31 'You have walked in the way of your
sister; therefore I will give her cup into your
hand.'
EZE 23:32 "Thus says the Lord God, 'You will
drink your sister's cup, Which is deep and wide. You
will be laughed at and held in derision; It contains
much.
EZE 23:33 'You will be filled with
drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and
desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.
EZE 23:34 'And you will drink it and drain
it. Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your
breasts; for I have spoken,' declares the Lord God.
EZE 23:35 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind
your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness
and your harlotries.' "
EZE 23:36 Moreover, the Lord said to me, "Son
of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then
declare to them their abominations.
EZE 23:37 "For they have committed adultery,
and blood is on their hands. Thus they have
committed adultery with their idols and even caused
their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through
the fire to them as food.
EZE 23:38 "Again, they have done this to Me:
they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and
have profaned My sabbaths.
EZE 23:39 "For when they had slaughtered
their children for their idols, they entered My
sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo,
thus they did within My house.
EZE 23:40 "Furthermore, they have even sent
for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was
sent; and lo, they came - - for whom you bathed,
painted your eyes, and decorated yourselves with
ornaments;
EZE 23:41 and you sat on a splendid couch
with a table arranged before it, on which you had
set My incense and My oil.
EZE 23:42 "And the sound of a carefree
multitude was with her; and drunkards were brought
from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And
they put bracelets on the hands of the women and
beautiful crowns on their heads.
EZE 23:43 "Then I said concerning her who was
worn out by adulteries, 'Will they now commit
adultery with her when she is thus?'
EZE 23:44 "But they went in to her as they
would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah
and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
EZE 23:45 "But they, righteous men, will
judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and
with the judgment of women who shed blood, because
they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
EZE 23:46 "For thus says the Lord God, 'Bring
up a company against them, and give them over to
terror and plunder.
EZE 23:47 'And the company will stone them
with stones and cut them down with their swords;
they will slay their sons and their daughters and
burn their houses with fire.
EZE 23:48 'Thus I shall make lewdness cease
from the land, that all women may be admonished and
not commit lewdness as you have done.
EZE 23:49 'And your lewdness will be requited
upon you, and you will bear the penalty of
worshiping your idols; thus you will know that I am
the Lord God.'"
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EZE 24:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth
of the month, saying,
EZE 24:2 "Son of man, write the name of the
day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid
siege to Jerusalem this very day.
EZE 24:3 "And speak a parable to the
rebellious house, and say to them, 'Thus says the
Lord God," Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour
water in it;
EZE 24:4 Put in it the pieces, Every good
piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; Fill it with
choice bones.
EZE 24:5 "Take the choicest of the flock, And
also pile wood under the pot. Make it boil
vigorously. Also seethe its bones in it."
EZE 24:6 'Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Woe to the bloody city, To the pot in which there
is rust And whose rust has not gone out of it! Take
out of it piece after piece, Without making a
choice.
EZE 24:7 "For her blood is in her midst; She
placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on
the ground To cover it with dust.
EZE 24:8 "That it may cause wrath to come up
to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare
rock, That it may not be covered."
EZE 24:9 'Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Woe to the bloody city! I also shall make the pile
great.
EZE 24:10 "Heap on the wood, kindle the fire,
Boil the flesh well, And mix in the spices, And let
the bones be burned.
EZE 24:11 "Then set it empty on its coals, So
that it may be hot, And its bronze may glow, And its
filthiness may be melted in it, Its rust consumed.
EZE 24:12 "She has wearied Me with toil, Yet
her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust
be in the fire!
EZE 24:13 "In your filthiness is lewdness.
Because I would have cleansed you, Yet you are not
clean, You will not be cleansed from your filthiness
again, Until I have spent My wrath on you.
EZE 24:14 "I, the Lord, have spoken; it is
coming and I shall act. I shall not relent, and I
shall not pity, and I shall not be sorry; according
to your ways and according to your deeds I shall
judge you," declares the Lord God.' "
EZE 24:15 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 24:16 "Son of man, behold, I am about to
take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow;
but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and
your tears shall not come.
EZE 24:17 "Groan silently; make no mourning
for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your
shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache,
and do not eat the bread of men."
EZE 24:18 So I spoke to the people in the
morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the
morning I did as I was commanded.
EZE 24:19 And the people said to me, "Will
you not tell us what these things that you are doing
mean for us?"
EZE 24:20 Then I said to them, "The word of
the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 24:21 'Speak to the house of Israel,
"Thus says the Lord God, 'Behold, I am about to
profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the
desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul;
and your sons and your daughters whom you have left
behind will fall by the sword.
EZE 24:22 'And you will do as I have done;
you will not cover your mustache, and you will not
eat the bread of men.
EZE 24:23 'And your turbans will be on your
heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not
mourn, and you will not weep; but you will rot away
in your iniquities, and you will groan to one
another.
EZE 24:24 'Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to
you; according to all that he has done you will do;
when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord
God.' "
EZE 24:25 'As for you, son of man, will it
not be on the day when I take from them their
stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of
their eyes, and their heart's delight, their sons
and their daughters,
EZE 24:26 that on that day he who escapes
will come to you with information for your ears?
EZE 24:27 'On that day your mouth will be
opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be
dumb no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and
they will know that I am the Lord.'"
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EZE 25:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 25:2 "Son of man, set your face toward
the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them,
EZE 25:3 and say to the sons of Ammon,' Hear
the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God,
"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 exile,
EZE 25:4 therefore, behold, I am going to
give you to the sons of the east for a possession,
and they will set their encampments among you and
make their dwellings among you; they will eat your
fruit and drink your milk.
EZE 25:5 "And I shall make Rabbah a pasture
for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for
flocks. Thus you will know that I am the Lord."
EZE 25:6 'For thus says the Lord God,
"Because you have clapped your hands and stamped
your feet and rejoiced with all the scorn of your
soul against the land of Israel,
EZE 25:7 therefore, behold, I have stretched
out My hand against you, and I shall give you for
spoil to the nations. And I shall cut you off from
the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I
shall destroy you. Thus you will know that I am the
Lord."
EZE 25:8 'Thus says the Lord God, "Because
Moab and Seir say, 'Behold, the house of Judah is
like all the nations,'
EZE 25:9 therefore, behold, I am going to
deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its
cities which are on its frontiers, the glory of the
land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
EZE 25:10 and I will give it for a
possession, along with the sons of Ammon, to the
sons of the east, that the sons of Ammon may not be
remembered among the nations.
EZE 25:11 "Thus I will execute judgments on
Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord."
EZE 25:12 'Thus says the Lord God, "Because
Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking
vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and
avenged themselves upon them,"
EZE 25:13 therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and
cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it
waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by
the sword.
EZE 25:14 "And I will lay My vengeance on
Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore,
they will act in Edom according to My anger and
according to My wrath; thus they will know My
vengeance," declares the Lord God.
EZE 25:15 'Thus says the Lord God, "Because
the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken
vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with
everlasting enmity,"
EZE 25:16 therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the
Philistines, even cut off the Cherethites and
destroy the remnant of the seacoast.
EZE 25:17 "And I will execute great vengeance
on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know
that I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance on
them."'"
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EZE 26:1 Now it came about in the eleventh
year, on the first of the month, that the word of
the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 26:2 "Son of man, because Tyre has said
concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the
peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be
filled, now that she is laid waste,'
EZE 26:3 therefore, thus says the Lord God,'
Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring
up many nations against you, as the sea brings up
its waves.
EZE 26:4 'And they will destroy the walls of
Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape
her debris from her and make her a bare rock.
EZE 26:5 'She will be a place for the
spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I
have spoken,' declares the Lord God,' and she will
become spoil for the nations.
EZE 26:6 'Also her daughters who are on the
mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will
know that I am the Lord.' "
EZE 26:7 For thus says the Lord God, "Behold,
I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses,
chariots, cavalry, and a great army.
EZE 26:8 "He will slay your daughters on the
mainland with the sword; and he will make siege
walls against you, cast up a mound against you, and
raise up a large shield against you.
EZE 26:9 "And the blow of his battering rams
he will direct against your walls, and with his axes
he will break down your towers.
EZE 26:10 "Because of the multitude of his
horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your
walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons
and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter
a city that is breached.
EZE 26:11 "With the hoofs of his horses he
will trample all your streets. He will slay your
people with the sword; and your strong pillars will
come down to the ground.
EZE 26:12 "Also they will make a spoil of
your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break
down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses,
and throw your stones and your timbers and your
debris into the water.
EZE 26:13 "So I will silence the sound of
your songs, and the sound of your harps will be
heard no more.
EZE 26:14 "And 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,"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 26:15 Thus says the Lord God to Tyre,
"Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your
fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter
occurs in your midst?
EZE 26:16 "Then all the princes of the sea
will go down from their thrones, remove their robes,
and strip off their embroidered garments. They will
clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on
the ground, tremble every moment, and be appalled at
you.
EZE 26:17 "And they will take up a
lamentation over you and say to you, 'How you have
perished, O inhabited one, From the seas, O renowned
city, Which was mighty on the sea, She and her
inhabitants, Who imposed her terror On all her
inhabitants!
EZE 26:18 'Now the coastlands will tremble On
the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands which are
by the sea Will be terrified at your passing.' "
EZE 26:19 For thus says the Lord God, "When I
shall make you a desolate city, like the cities
which are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the
deep over you, and the great waters will cover you,
EZE 26:20 then I shall bring you down with
those who go down to the pit, to the people of old,
and I shall make you dwell in the lower parts of the
earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who
go down to the pit, so that you will not be
inhabited; but I shall set glory in the land of the
living.
EZE 26:21 "I shall bring terrors on you, and
you will be no more; though you will be sought, you
will never be found again," declares the Lord God.
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EZE 27:1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came
to me saying,
EZE 27:2 "And you, son of man, take up a
lamentation over Tyre;
EZE 27:3 and say to Tyre, who dwells at the
entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many
coastlands,' Thus says the Lord God, "O Tyre, you
have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'
EZE 27:4 "Your borders are in the heart of
the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.
EZE 27:5 "They have made all your planks of
fir trees from Senir; They have taken a cedar from
Lebanon to make a mast for you.
EZE 27:6 "Of oaks from Bashan they have made
your oars; With ivory they have inlaid your deck of
boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus.
EZE 27:7 "Your sail was of fine embroidered
linen from Egypt So that it became your
distinguishing mark; Your awning was blue and purple
from the coastlands of Elishah.
EZE 27:8 "The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad
were your rowers; Your wise men, O Tyre, were
aboard; they were your pilots.
EZE 27:9 "The elders of Gebal and her wise
men were with you repairing your seams; All the
ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in
order to deal in your merchandise.
EZE 27:10 "Persia and Lud and Put were in
your army, your men of war. They hung shield and
helmet in you; they set forth your splendor.
EZE 27:11 "The sons of Arvad and your army
were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim
were in your towers. They hung their shields on your
walls, all around; they perfected your beauty.
EZE 27:12 "Tarshish was your customer because
of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with
silver, iron, tin, and lead, they paid for your
wares.
EZE 27:13 "Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they
were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels
of bronze they paid for your merchandise.
EZE 27:14 "Those from Beth-togarmah gave
horses and war horses and mules for your wares.
EZE 27:15 "The sons of Dedan were your
traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory
tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.
EZE 27:16 "Aram was your customer because of
the abundance of your goods; they paid for your
wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine
linen, coral, and rubies.
EZE 27:17 "Judah and the land of Israel, they
were your traders; with the wheat of Minnith, cakes,
honey, oil, and balm they paid for your merchandise.
EZE 27:18 "Damascus was your customer because
of the abundance of your goods, because of the
abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the
wine of Helbon and #663300 wool.
EZE 27:19 "Vedan and Javan paid for your
wares from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet
cane were among your merchandise.
EZE 27:20 "Dedan traded with you in
saddlecloths for riding.
EZE 27:21 "Arabia and all the princes of
Kedar, they were your customers for lambs, rams, and
goats; for these they were your customers.
EZE 27:22 "The traders of Sheba and Raamah,
they traded with you; they paid for your wares with
the best of all kinds of spices, and with all kinds
of precious stones, and gold.
EZE 27:23 "Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders
of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
EZE 27:24 "They traded with you in choice
garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work,
and in carpets of many colors, and tightly wound
cords, which were among your merchandise.
EZE 27:25 "The ships of Tarshish were the
carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled
and were very glorious In the heart of the seas.
EZE 27:26 "Your rowers have brought you Into
great waters; The east wind has broken you In the
heart of the seas.
EZE 27:27 "Your wealth, your wares, your
merchandise, Your sailors, and your pilots, Your
repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise, And
all your men of war who are in you, With all your
company that is in your midst, Will fall into the
heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.
EZE 27:28 "At the sound of the cry of your
pilots The pasture lands will shake.
EZE 27:29 "And all who handle the oar, The
sailors, and all the pilots of the sea Will come
down from their ships; They will stand on the land,
EZE 27:30 And they will make their voice
heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast
dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.
EZE 27:31 "Also they will make themselves
bald for you And gird themselves with sackcloth; And
they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With
bitter mourning.
EZE 27:32 "Moreover, in their wailing they
will take up a lamentation for you And lament over
you: 'Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in
the midst of the sea?
EZE 27:33 'When your wares went out from the
seas, You satisfied many peoples; With the abundance
of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the
kings of earth.
EZE 27:34 'Now that you are broken by the
seas In the depths of the waters, Your merchandise
and all your company Have fallen in the midst of
you.
EZE 27:35 'All the inhabitants of the
coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are
horribly afraid; They are troubled in countenance.
EZE 27:36 'The merchants among the peoples
hiss at you; You have become terrified, And you will
be no more.' "'"
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EZE 28:1 The word of the Lord came again to
me saying,
EZE 28:2 "Son of man, say to the leader of
Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord God," Because your heart
is lifted up And you have said,' I am a god, I sit
in the seat of gods, In the heart of the seas'; Yet
you are a man and not God, Although you make your
heart like the heart of God - -
EZE 28:3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel;
There is no secret that is a match for you.
EZE 28:4 "By your wisdom and understanding
You have acquired riches for yourself, And have
acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
EZE 28:5 "By your great wisdom, by your trade
You have increased your riches, And your heart is
lifted up because of your riches - -
EZE 28:6 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,'
Because you have made your heart Like the heart of
God,
EZE 28:7 Therefore, behold, I will bring
strangers upon you, The most ruthless of the
nations. And they will draw their swords Against the
beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor.
EZE 28:8 'They will bring you down to the
pit, And you will die the death of those who are
slain In the heart of the seas.
EZE 28:9 'Will you still say, "I am a god,"
In the presence of your slayer, Although you are a
man and not God, In the hands of those who wound
you?
EZE 28:10 'You will die the death of the
uncircumcised By the hand of strangers, For I have
spoken!' declares the Lord God! "' "
EZE 28:11 Again the word of the Lord came to
me saying,
EZE 28:12 "Son of man, take up a lamentation
over the king of Tyre, and say to him, 'Thus says
the Lord God," You had the seal of perfection, Full
of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
EZE 28:13 "You were in Eden, the garden of
God; Every precious stone was your covering: The
ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; The beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the
turquoise, and the emerald; And the gold, the
workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in
you. On the day that you were created They were
prepared.
EZE 28:14 "You were the anointed cherub who
covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy
mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the
stones of fire.
EZE 28:15 "You were blameless in your ways
From the day you were created, Until unrighteousness
was found in you.
EZE 28:16 "By the abundance of your trade You
were internally filled with violence, And you
sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From
the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O
covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of
fire.
EZE 28:17 "Your heart was lifted up because
of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason
of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put
you before kings, That they may see you.
EZE 28:18 "By the multitude of your
iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade,
You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have
brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed
you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In
the eyes of all who see you.
EZE 28:19 "All who know you among the peoples
Are appalled at you; You have become terrified, And
you will be no more."' "
EZE 28:20 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 28:21 "Son of man, set your face toward
Sidon, prophesy against her,
EZE 28:22 and say,' Thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I shall be
glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I
am the Lord, when I execute judgments in her, And I
shall manifest My holiness in her.
EZE 28:23 "For I shall send pestilence to her
And blood to her streets, And the wounded will fall
in her midst By the sword upon her on every side;
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 28:24 "And there will be no more for the
house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn
from any round about them who scorned them; then
they will know that I am the Lord God."
EZE 28:25 'Thus says the Lord God, "When I
gather the house of Israel from the peoples among
whom they are scattered, and shall manifest My
holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then
they will live in their land which I gave to My
servant Jacob.
EZE 28:26 "And they will live in it securely;
and they will build houses, plant vineyards, and
live securely, when I execute judgments upon all who
scorn them round about them. Then they will know
that I am the Lord their God."'"
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EZE 29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth
month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the
Lord came to me saying,
EZE 29:2 "Son of man, set your face against
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and
against all Egypt.
EZE 29:3 "Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord
God," Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of
Egypt, The great monster that lies in the midst of
his rivers, That has said,' My Nile is mine, and I
myself have made it.'
EZE 29:4 "And I shall put hooks in your jaws,
And I shall make the fish of your rivers cling to
your scales. And I shall bring you up out of the
midst of your rivers, And all the fish of your
rivers will cling to your scales.
EZE 29:5 "And I shall abandon you to the
wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; You
will fall on the open field; you will not be brought
together or gathered. I have given you for food to
the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
EZE 29:6 "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt
will know that I am the Lord, Because they have been
only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.
EZE 29:7 "When they took hold of you with the
hand, You broke and tore all their hands; And when
they leaned on you, You broke and made all their
loins quake."
EZE 29:8 'Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I shall bring upon you a sword, and I shall
cut off from you man and beast.
EZE 29:9 "And the land of Egypt will become a
desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am
the Lord. Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I
have made it,'
EZE 29:10 therefore, behold, I am against you
and against your rivers, and I will make the land of
Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to
Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.
EZE 29:11 "A man's foot will not pass through
it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through
it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
EZE 29:12 "So I shall make the land of Egypt
a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And
her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid
waste, will be desolate forty years; and I shall
scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse
them among the lands."
EZE 29:13 'For thus says the Lord God, "At
the end of forty years I shall gather the Egyptians
from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
EZE 29:14 "And I shall turn the fortunes of
Egypt and shall make them return to the land of
Pathros, to the land of their origin; and there they
will be a lowly kingdom.
EZE 29:15 "It will be the lowest of the
kingdoms; and it will never again lift itself up
above the nations. And I shall make them so small
that they will not rule over the nations.
EZE 29:16 "And it will never again be the
confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind
the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then
they will know that I am the Lord God."' "
EZE 29:17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in
the first month, on the first of the month, the word
of the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 29:18 "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every
head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed
bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for
the labor that he had performed against it."
EZE 29:19 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I shall give the land of Egypt to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry
off her wealth, and capture her spoil and seize her
plunder; and it will be wages for his army.
EZE 29:20 "I have given him the land of Egypt
for his labor which he performed, because they acted
for Me," declares the Lord God.
EZE 29:21 "On that day I shall make a horn
sprout for the house of Israel, and I shall open
your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that
I am the Lord."
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EZE 30:1 The word of the Lord came again to
me saying,
EZE 30:2 "Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus
says the Lord God," Wail,' Alas for the day!'
EZE 30:3 "For the day is near, Even the day
of the Lord is near; It will be a day of clouds, A
time of doom for the nations.
EZE 30:4 "And a sword will come upon Egypt,
And anguish will be in Ethiopia, When the slain fall
in Egypt, They take away her wealth, And her
foundations are torn down.
EZE 30:5 "Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia,
Libya, and the people of the land that is in league
will fall with them by the sword."
EZE 30:6 'Thus says the Lord, "Indeed, those
who support Egypt will fall, And the pride of her
power will come down; From Migdol to Syene They will
fall within her by the sword," Declares the Lord
God.
EZE 30:7 "And they will be desolate In the
midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be
In the midst of the devastated cities.
EZE 30:8 "And they will know that I am the
Lord, When I set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers
are broken.
EZE 30:9 "On that day messengers will go
forth from Me in ships to frighten secure Ethiopia;
and anguish will be on them as on the day of Egypt;
for, behold, it comes!"
EZE 30:10 'Thus says the Lord God, "I will
also make the multitude of Egypt cease By the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
EZE 30:11 "He and his people with him, The
most ruthless of the nations, Will be brought in to
destroy the land; And they will draw their swords
against Egypt And fill the land with the slain.
EZE 30:12 "Moreover, I will make the Nile
canals dry And sell the land into the hands of evil
men. And I will make the land desolate, And all that
is in it, By the hand of strangers; I, the Lord,
have spoken."
EZE 30:13 'Thus says the Lord God, "I will
also destroy the idols And make the images cease
from Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince
in the land of Egypt; And I will put fear in the
land of Egypt.
EZE 30:14 "And I will make Pathros desolate,
Set a fire in Zoan, And execute judgments on Thebes.
EZE 30:15 "And I will pour out My wrath on
Sin, The stronghold of Egypt; I will also cut off
the multitude of Thebes.
EZE 30:16 "And I will set a fire in Egypt;
Sin will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached,
And Memphis will have distresses daily.
EZE 30:17 "The young men of On and of Pi-beseth
Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into
captivity.
EZE 30:18 "And in Tehaphnehes the day will be
dark When I break there the yoke bars of Egypt. Then
the pride of her power will cease in her; A cloud
will cover her, And her daughters will go into
captivity.
EZE 30:19 "Thus I will execute judgments on
Egypt, And they will know that I am the Lord."' "
EZE 30:20 And it came about in the eleventh
year, in the first month, on the seventh of the
month, that the word of the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 30:21 "Son of man, I have broken the arm
of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not
been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage,
that it may be strong to hold the sword.
EZE 30:22 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will
break his arms, both the strong and the broken; and
I will make the sword fall from his hand.
EZE 30:23 'And I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations and disperse them among the lands.
EZE 30:24 'For I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand;
and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he
will groan before him with the groanings of a
wounded man.
EZE 30:25 'Thus I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will
fall. 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 against the land of Egypt.
EZE 30:26 'When I scatter the Egyptians among
the nations and disperse them among the lands, then
they will know that I am the Lord.'"
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EZE 31:1 And it came about in the eleventh
year, in the third month, on the first of the month,
that the word of the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 31:2 "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and to his multitude, 'Whom are you like in
your greatness?
EZE 31:3 'Behold, Assyria was a cedar in
Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And very high; And its top was among the clouds.
EZE 31:4 'The waters made it grow, the deep
made it high. With its rivers it continually
extended all around its planting place, And it sent
out its channels to all the trees of the field.
EZE 31:5 'Therefore its height was loftier
than all the trees of the field And its boughs
became many and its branches long Because of many
waters as it spread them out.
EZE 31:6 'All the birds of the heavens nested
in its boughs, And under its branches all the beasts
of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived
under its shade.
EZE 31:7 'So it was beautiful in its
greatness, in the length of its branches; For its
roots extended to many waters.
EZE 31:8 'The cedars in God's garden could
not match it; The cypresses could not compare with
its boughs, And the plane trees could not match its
branches. No tree in God's garden could compare with
it in its beauty.
EZE 31:9 'I made it beautiful with the
multitude of its branches, And all the trees of
Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous
of it.
EZE 31:10 'Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Because it is high in stature, and it has set its
top among the clouds, and its heart is haughty in
its loftiness,
EZE 31:11 therefore, I will give it into the
hand of a despot of the nations; he will thoroughly
deal with it. According to its wickedness I have
driven it away.
EZE 31:12 "And alien tyrants of the nations
have cut it down and left it; on the mountains and
in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its
boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the
land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone
down from its shade and left it.
EZE 31:13 "On its ruin all the birds of the
heavens will dwell. And all the beasts of the field
will be on its fallen branches
EZE 31:14 in order that all the trees by the
waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set
their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered
mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they
have all been given over to death, to the earth
beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go
down to the pit."
EZE 31:15 'Thus says the Lord God, "On the
day when it went down to Sheol I caused
lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held
back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped
up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the
trees of the field wilted away on account of it.
EZE 31:16 "I made the nations quake at the
sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol
with those who go down to the pit; and all the
well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of
Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.
EZE 31:17 "They also went down with it to
Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and
those who were its strength lived under its shade
among the nations.
EZE 31:18 "To which among the trees of Eden
are you thus equal in glory and greatness? Yet you
will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the
earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the
sword. So is Pharaoh and all his multitude!
'"declares the Lord God."
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EZE 32:1 And it came about in the twelfth
year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the
month, that the word of the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 32:2 "Son of man, take up a lamentation
over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, 'You
compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you
burst forth in your rivers, And muddied the waters
with your feet, And fouled their rivers.' "
EZE 32:3 Thus says the Lord God, "Now I will
spread My net over you With a company of many
peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.
EZE 32:4 "And I will leave you on the land; I
will cast you on the open field. And I will cause
all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I
will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.
EZE 32:5 "And I will lay your flesh on the
mountains, And fill the valleys with your refuse.
EZE 32:6 "I will also make the land drink the
discharge of your blood, As far as the mountains,
And the ravines shall be full of you.
EZE 32:7 "And when I extinguish you, I will
cover the heavens, and darken their stars; I will
cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon shall not
give its light.
EZE 32:8 "All the shining lights in the
heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness
on your land," Declares the Lord God.
EZE 32:9 "I will also trouble the hearts of
many peoples, when I bring your destruction among
the nations, into lands which you have not known.
EZE 32:10 "And I will make many peoples
appalled at you, and their kings shall be horribly
afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them;
and they shall tremble every moment, every man for
his own life, on the day of your fall."
EZE 32:11 For thus says the Lord God, "The
sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
EZE 32:12 "By the swords of the mighty ones I
will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are
tyrants of the nations, And they shall devastate the
pride of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be
destroyed.
EZE 32:13 "I will also destroy all its cattle
from beside many waters; And the foot of man shall
not muddy them anymore, And the hoofs of beasts
shall not muddy them.
EZE 32:14 "Then I will make their waters
settle, And will cause their rivers to run like
oil," Declares the Lord God.
EZE 32:15 "When I make the land of Egypt a
desolation, And the land is destitute of that which
filled it, When I smite all those who live in it,
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
EZE 32:16 "This is a lamentation and they
shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall
chant it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they
shall chant it," declares the Lord God.
EZE 32:17 And it came about in the twelfth
year, on the fifteenth of the month, that the word
of the Lord came to me saying,
EZE 32:18 "Son of man, wail for the multitude
of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters
of the powerful nations, to the nether world, with
those who go down to the pit;
EZE 32:19 'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go
down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.'
EZE 32:20 "They shall fall in the midst of
those who are slain by the sword. She is given over
to the sword; they have drawn her and all her
multitudes away.
EZE 32:21 "The strong among the mighty ones
shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of
Sheol, 'They have gone down, they lie still, the
uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'
EZE 32:22 "Assyria is there and all her
company; her graves are round about her. All of them
are slain, fallen by the sword,
EZE 32:23 whose graves are set in the
remotest parts of the pit, and her company is round
about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by
the sword, who spread terror in the land of the
living.
EZE 32:24 "Elam is there and all her
multitude around her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to
the lower parts of the earth, who instilled their
terror in the land of the living, and bore their
disgrace with those who went down to the pit.
EZE 32:25 "They have made a bed for her among
the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are
around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the
sword (although their terror was instilled in the
land of the living), and they bore their disgrace
with those who go down to the pit; they were put in
the midst of the slain.
EZE 32:26 "Meshech, Tubal and all their
multitude are there; their graves surround them. All
of them were slain by the sword uncircumcised,
though they instilled their terror in the land of
the living.
EZE 32:27 "Nor do they lie beside the fallen
heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol
with their weapons of war, and whose swords were
laid under their heads; but the punishment for their
iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of
these heroes was once in the land of the living.
EZE 32:28 "But in the midst of the
uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those
slain by the sword.
EZE 32:29 "There also is Edom, its kings, and
all its princes, who for all their might are laid
with those slain by the sword; they will lie with
the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the
pit.
EZE 32:30 "There also are the chiefs of the
north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in
spite of the terror resulting from their might, in
shame went down with the slain. So they lay down
uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and
bore their disgrace with those who go down to the
pit.
EZE 32:31 "These Pharaoh will see, and he
will be comforted for all his multitude slain by the
sword, even Pharaoh and all his army," declares the
Lord God.
EZE 32:32 "Though I instilled a terror of him
in the land of the living, yet he will be made to
lie down among the uncircumcised along with those
slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude," declares the Lord God.
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EZE 33:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 33:2 "Son of man, speak to the sons of
your people, and say to them, 'If I bring a sword
upon a land, and the people of the land take one man
from among them and make him their watchman;
EZE 33:3 and he sees the sword coming upon
the land, and he blows on the trumpet and warns the
people,
EZE 33:4 then he who hears the sound of the
trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes
and takes him away, his blood will be on his own
head.
EZE 33:5 'He heard the sound of the trumpet,
but did not take warning; his blood will be on
himself. But had he taken warning, he would have
delivered his life.
EZE 33:6 'But if the watchman sees the sword
coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people
are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person
from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his
blood I will require from the watchman's hand.'
EZE 33:7 "Now as for you, son of man, I have
appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so
you will hear a message from My mouth, and give them
warning from Me.
EZE 33:8 "When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked
man, you shall surely die,' and you do not speak to
warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall
die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require
from your hand.
EZE 33:9 "But if you on your part warn a
wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not
turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity; but
you have delivered your life.
EZE 33:10 "Now as for you, son of man, say to
the house of Israel, 'Thus you have spoken, saying,"
Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us,
and we are rotting away in them; how then can we
survive?"'
EZE 33:11 "Say to them, 'As I live!' declares
the Lord God, 'I take no pleasure in the death of
the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his
way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil
ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
EZE 33:12 "And you, son of man, say to your
fellow citizens, 'The righteousness of a righteous
man will not deliver him in the day of his
transgression, and as for the wickedness of the
wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day
when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a
righteous man will not be able to live by his
righteousness on the day when he commits sin.'
EZE 33:13 "When I say to the righteous he
will surely live, and he so trusts in his
righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his
righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same
iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.
EZE 33:14 "But when I say to the wicked, 'You
will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and
practices justice and righteousness,
EZE 33:15 if a wicked man restores a pledge,
pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the
statutes which ensure life without committing
iniquity, he will surely live; he shall not die.
EZE 33:16 "None of his sins that he has
committed will be remembered against him. He has
practiced justice and righteousness; he will surely
live.
EZE 33:17 "Yet your fellow citizens say, 'The
way of the Lord is not right,' when it is their own
way that is not right.
EZE 33:18 "When the righteous turns from his
righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall
die in it.
EZE 33:19 "But when the wicked turns from his
wickedness and practices justice and righteousness,
he will live by them.
EZE 33:20 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord
is not right.' O house of Israel, I will judge each
of you according to his ways."
EZE 33:21 Now it came about in the twelfth
year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month,
that the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying,
"The city has been taken."
EZE 33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been
upon me in the evening, before the refugees came.
And He opened my mouth at the time they came to me
in the morning; so my mouth was opened, and I was no
longer speechless.
EZE 33:23 Then the word of the Lord came to
me saying,
EZE 33:24 "Son of man, they who live in these
waste places in the land of Israel are saying,
'Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so
to us who are many the land has been given as a
possession.'
EZE 33:25 "Therefore, say to them, 'Thus says
the Lord God," You eat meat with the blood in it,
lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood.
Should you then possess the land?
EZE 33:26 "You rely on your sword, you commit
abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's
wife. Should you then possess the land? ' "
EZE 33:27 "Thus you shall say to them, 'Thus
says the Lord God," As I live, surely those who are
in the waste places will fall by the sword, and
whoever is in the open field I will give to the
beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the
strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.
EZE 33:28 "And I shall make the land a
desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power
will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be
desolate, so that no one will pass through.
EZE 33:29 "Then they will know that I am the
Lord, when I make the land a desolation and a waste
because of all their abominations which they have
committed."'
EZE 33:30 "But as for you, son of man, your
fellow citizens who talk about you by the walls and
in the doorways of the houses, speak to one another,
each to his brother, saying, 'Come now, and hear
what the message is which comes forth from the
Lord.'
EZE 33:31 "And they come to you as people
come, and sit before you as My people, and hear your
words, but they do not do them, for they do the
lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their
heart goes after their gain.
EZE 33:32 "And behold, you are to them like a
sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and
plays well on an instrument; for they hear your
words, but they do not practice them.
EZE 33:33 "So when it comes to pass - - as
surely it will - - then they will know that a
prophet has been in their midst."
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EZE 34:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 34:2 "Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those
shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord God," Woe, shepherds
of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should
not the shepherds feed the flock?
EZE 34:3 "You eat the fat and clothe
yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat
sheep without feeding the flock.
EZE 34:4 "Those who are sickly you have not
strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the
broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have
not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost;
but with force and with severity you have dominated
them.
EZE 34:5 "And they were scattered for lack of
a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of
the field and were scattered.
EZE 34:6 "My flock wandered through all the
mountains and on every high hill, and My flock was
scattered over all the surface of the earth; and
there was no one to search or seek for them."' "
EZE 34:7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the
word of the Lord:
EZE 34:8 "As I live," declares the Lord God,
"surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock
has even become food for all the beasts of the field
for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not
search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed
themselves and did not feed My flock;
EZE 34:9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the
word of the Lord:
EZE 34:10 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I
am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My
sheep from them and make them cease from feeding
sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves
anymore, but I shall deliver My flock from their
mouth, that they may not be food for them."' "
EZE 34:11 For thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek
them out.
EZE 34:12 "As a shepherd cares for his herd
in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so
I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from
all the places to which they were scattered on a
cloudy and gloomy day.
EZE 34:13 "And I will bring them out from the
peoples and gather them from the countries and bring
them to their own land; and I will feed them on the
mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the
inhabited places of the land.
EZE 34:14 "I will feed them in a good
pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the
mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down
in good grazing ground, and they will feed in rich
pasture on the mountains of Israel.
EZE 34:15 "I will feed My flock and I will
lead them to rest," declares the Lord God.
EZE 34:16 "I will seek the lost, bring back
the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen
the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy.
I will feed them with judgment.
EZE 34:17 "And as for you, My flock, thus
says the Lord God, 'Behold, I will judge between one
sheep and another, between the rams and the male
goats.
EZE 34:18 'Is it too slight a thing for you
that you should feed in the good pasture, that you
must tread down with your feet the rest of your
pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear
waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?
EZE 34:19 'And as for My flock, they must eat
what you tread down with your feet, and they must
drink what you foul with your feet!' "
EZE 34:20 Therefore, thus says the Lord God
to them, "Behold, I, even I, will judge between the
fat sheep and the lean sheep.
EZE 34:21 "Because you push with side and
with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your
horns, until you have scattered them abroad,
EZE 34:22 therefore, I will deliver My flock,
and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge
between one sheep and another.
EZE 34:23 "Then I will set over them one
shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them;
he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.
EZE 34:24 "And I, the Lord, will be their
God, and My servant David will be prince among them;
I, the Lord, have spoken.
EZE 34:25 "And I will make a covenant of
peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from
the land, so that they may live securely in the
wilderness and sleep in the woods.
EZE 34:26 "And I will make them and the
places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause
showers to come down in their season; they will be
showers of blessing.
EZE 34:27 "Also the tree of the field will
yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its
increase, and they will be secure on their land.
Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have
broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered
them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
EZE 34:28 "And they will no longer be a prey
to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not
devour them; but they will live securely, and no one
will make them afraid.
EZE 34:29 "And I will establish for them a
renowned planting place, and they will not again be
victims of famine in the land, and they will not
endure the insults of the nations anymore.
EZE 34:30 "Then they will know that I, the
Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the
house of Israel, are My people," declares the Lord
God.
EZE 34:31 "As for you, My sheep, the sheep of
My pasture, you are men, and I am your God,"
declares the Lord God.
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EZE 35:1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came
to me saying,
EZE 35:2 "Son of man, set your face against
Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
EZE 35:3 and say to it,' Thus says the Lord
God, "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I
will stretch out My hand against you, And I will
make you a desolation and a waste.
EZE 35:4 "I will lay waste your cities, And
you will become a desolation. Then you will know
that I am the Lord.
EZE 35:5 "Because you have had everlasting
enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the
power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at
the time of the punishment of the end,
EZE 35:6 therefore, as I live, "declares the
Lord God," I will give you over to bloodshed, and
bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated
bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.
EZE 35:7 "And I will make Mount Seir a waste
and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one
who passes through and returns.
EZE 35:8 "And I will fill its mountains with
its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in
all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall.
EZE 35:9 "I will make you an everlasting
desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 35:10 "Because you have said, 'These two
nations and these two lands will be mine, and we
will possess them,' although the Lord was there,
EZE 35:11 therefore, as I live, "declares the
Lord God," I will deal with you according to your
anger and according to your envy which you showed
because of your hatred against them; so I will make
Myself known among them when I judge you.
EZE 35:12 "Then you will know that I, the
Lord, have heard all your revilings which you have
spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, 'They
are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.'
EZE 35:13 "And you have spoken arrogantly
against Me and have multiplied your words against
Me; I have heard."
EZE 35:14 'Thus says the Lord God, "As all
the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.
EZE 35:15 "As you rejoiced over the
inheritance of the house of Israel because it was
desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a
desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it.
Then they will know that I am the Lord."'
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EZE 36:1 "And you, son of man, prophesy to
the mountains of Israel and say, 'O mountains of
Israel, hear the word of the Lord.
EZE 36:2 'Thus says the Lord God, "Because
the enemy has spoken against you, 'Aha!' and, 'The
everlasting heights have become our possession,'
EZE 36:3 therefore, prophesy and say,' Thus
says the Lord God, "For good cause they have made
you desolate and crushed you from every side, that
you should become a possession of the rest of the
nations, and you have been taken up in the talk and
the whispering of the people."' "
EZE 36:4 'Therefore, O mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord
God to the mountains and to the hills, to the
ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes
and to the forsaken cities, which have become a prey
and a derision to the rest of the nations which are
round about,
EZE 36:5 therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken
against the rest of the nations, and against all
Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a
possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of
soul, to drive it out for a prey."
EZE 36:6 'Therefore, prophesy concerning the
land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the
hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, "Thus says
the Lord God, 'Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy
and in My wrath because you have endured the insults
of the nations.'
EZE 36:7 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
'I have sworn that surely the nations which are
around you will themselves endure their insults.
EZE 36:8 'But you, O mountains of Israel, you
will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for
My people Israel; for they will soon come.
EZE 36:9 'For, behold, I am for you, and I
will turn to you, and you shall be cultivated and
sown.
EZE 36:10 'And I will multiply men on you,
all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities
will be inhabited, and the waste places will be
rebuilt.
EZE 36:11 'And I will multiply on you man and
beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I
will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly
and will treat you better than at the first. Thus
you will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 36:12 'Yes, I will cause men - - My
people Israel - - to walk on you and possess you, so
that you will become their inheritance and never
again bereave them of children.'
EZE 36:13 "Thus says the Lord God, 'Because
they say to you," You are a devourer of men and have
bereaved your nation of children, "
EZE 36:14 therefore, you will no longer
devour men, and no longer bereave your nation of
children,' declares the Lord God.
EZE 36:15 "And I will not let you hear
insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear
disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you
cause your nation to stumble any longer," declares
the Lord God.' "
EZE 36:16 Then the word of the Lord came to
me saying,
EZE 36:17 "Son of man, when the house of
Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it
by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me
was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
EZE 36:18 "Therefore, I poured out My wrath
on them for the blood which they had shed on the
land, because they had defiled it with their idols.
EZE 36:19 "Also I scattered them among the
nations, and they were dispersed throughout the
lands. According to their ways and their deeds I
judged them.
EZE 36:20 "When they came to the nations
where they went, they profaned My holy name, because
it was said of them, 'These are the people of the
Lord; yet they have come out of His land.'
EZE 36:21 "But I had concern for My holy
name, which the house of Israel had profaned among
the nations where they went.
EZE 36:22 "Therefore, say to the house of
Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God," It is not for your
sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but
for My holy name, which you have profaned among the
nations where you went.
EZE 36:23 "And I will vindicate the holiness
of My great name which has been profaned among the
nations, which you have profaned in their midst.
Then the nations will know that I am the Lord,"
declares the Lord God, "when I prove Myself holy
among you in their sight.
EZE 36:24 "For I will take you from the
nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring
you into your own land.
EZE 36:25 "Then 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.
EZE 36:26 "Moreover, I will give you a new
heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will
remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give
you a heart of flesh.
EZE 36:27 "And I will put My Spirit within
you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you
will be careful to observe My ordinances.
EZE 36:28 "And you will live in the land that
I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My
people, and I will be your God.
EZE 36:29 "Moreover, I will save you from all
your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and
multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.
EZE 36:30 "And I will multiply the fruit of
the tree and the produce of the field, that you may
not receive again the disgrace of famine among the
nations.
EZE 36:31 "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 your abominations.
EZE 36:32 "I am not doing this for your
sake," declares the Lord God, "let it be known to
you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O
house of Israel!"
EZE 36:33 'Thus says the Lord God, "On the
day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I
will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste
places will be rebuilt.
EZE 36:34 "And the desolate land will be
cultivated instead of being a desolation in the
sight of everyone who passed by.
EZE 36:35 "And they will say, 'This desolate
land has become like the garden of Eden; and the
waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and
inhabited.'
EZE 36:36 "Then the nations that are left
round about you will know that I, the Lord, have
rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was
desolate; I, the Lord, have spoken and will do it."
EZE 36:37 'Thus says the Lord God, "This also
I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for
them: I will increase their men like a flock.
EZE 36:38 "Like the flock for sacrifices,
like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed
feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the
Lord."'"
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Chapter 37
EZE 37:1 The hand of the Lord was upon me,
and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and
set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was
full of bones.
EZE 37:2 And He caused me to pass among them
round about, and behold, there were very many on the
surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.
EZE 37:3 And He said to me, "Son of man, can
these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, Thou
knowest."
EZE 37:4 Again He said to me, "Prophesy over
these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the
word of the Lord.'
EZE 37:5 "Thus says the Lord God to these
bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you
that you may come to life.
EZE 37:6 'And I will put sinews on you, make
flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and put
breath in you that you may come alive; and you will
know that I am the Lord.' "
EZE 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded;
and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold,
a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its
bone.
EZE 37:8 And I looked, and behold, sinews
were on them, and flesh grew, and skin covered them;
but there was no breath in them.
EZE 37:9 Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the
breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath,
'Thus says the Lord God," Come from the four winds,
O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come
to life."' "
EZE 37:10 So I prophesied as He commanded me,
and the breath came into them, and they came to
life, and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great
army.
EZE 37:11 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 has
perished. We are completely cut off.'
EZE 37:12 "Therefore prophesy, and say to
them, 'Thus says the Lord God," 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.
EZE 37:13 "Then 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.
EZE 37:14 "And I will put My Spirit within
you, and you will come to life, and I will place you
on your own land. Then you will know that I, the
Lord, have spoken and done it," declares the Lord.'
"
EZE 37:15 The word of the Lord came again to
me saying,
EZE 37:16 "And you, son of man, take for
yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and
for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take
another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the
stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his
companions.'
EZE 37:17 "Then join them for yourself one to
another into one stick, that they may become one in
your hand.
EZE 37:18 "And when the sons of your people
speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us
what you mean by these?'
EZE 37:19 say to them,' Thus says the Lord
God, "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."'
EZE 37:20 "And the sticks on which you write
will be in your hand before their eyes.
EZE 37:21 "And say to them, 'Thus says the
Lord God," Behold, I will take the sons of Israel
from among the nations where they have gone, and I
will gather them from every side and bring them into
their own land;
EZE 37:22 and I will make them one nation in
the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king
will be king for all of them; and they will no
longer be two nations, and they will no longer be
divided into two kingdoms.
EZE 37:23 "And they will no longer defile
themselves with their idols, or with their
detestable things, or with any of their
transgressions; but I will deliver them from all
their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and
will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I
will be their God.
EZE 37:24 "And My servant David will be king
over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and
they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My
statutes, and observe them.
EZE 37:25 "And they shall live on the land
that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your
fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and
their sons, and their sons' sons, forever; and David
My servant shall be their prince forever.
EZE 37:26 "And I will make a covenant of
peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant
with them. And I will place them and multiply them,
and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.
EZE 37:27 "My dwelling place also will be
with them; and I will be their God, and they will be
My people.
EZE 37:28 "And the nations will know that I
am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary
is in their midst forever."'"
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Chapter 38
EZE 38:1 And the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
EZE 38:2 "Son of man, set your face toward
Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
EZE 38:3 and say,' Thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal.
EZE 38:4 "And I will turn you about, and put
hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and
all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them
splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and
shield, all of them wielding swords;
EZE 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Put with them,
all of them with shield and helmet;
EZE 38:6 Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah
from the remote parts of the north with all its
troops - - many peoples with you.
EZE 38:7 "Be prepared, and prepare yourself,
you and all your companies that are assembled about
you, and be a guard for them.
EZE 38:8 "After many days you will be
summoned; in the latter years you will come into the
land that is restored from the sword, whose
inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to
the mountains of Israel which had been a continual
waste; but its people were brought out from the
nations, and they are living securely, all of them.
EZE 38:9 "And you will go up, you will come
like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the
land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with
you."
EZE 38:10 'Thus says the Lord God, "It will
come about on that day, that thoughts will come into
your mind, and you will devise an evil plan,
EZE 38:11 and you will say,' I will go up
against the land of unwalled villages. I will go
against those who are at rest, that live securely,
all of them living without walls, and having no bars
or gates,
EZE 38:12 to capture spoil and to seize
plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places
which are now inhabited, and against the people who
are gathered from the nations, who have acquired
cattle and goods, who live at the center of the
world.'
EZE 38:13 "Sheba, and Dedan, and the
merchants of Tarshish, with all its villages, will
say to you, 'Have you come to capture spoil? Have
you assembled your company to seize plunder, to
carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and
goods, to capture great spoil?' "'
EZE 38:14 "Therefore, prophesy, son of man,
and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord God," On that
day when My people Israel are living securely, will
you not know it?
EZE 38:15 "And you will come from your place
out of the remote parts of the north, you and many
peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a
great assembly and a mighty army;
EZE 38:16 and you will come up against My
people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It
will come about in the last days that I shall bring
you against My land, in order that the nations may
know Me when I shall be sanctified through you
before their eyes, O Gog."
EZE 38:17 'Thus says the Lord God, "Are you
the one of whom I spoke in former days through My
servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in
those days for many years that I would bring you
against them?
EZE 38:18 "And it will come about on that
day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,"
declares the Lord God, "that My fury will mount up
in My anger.
EZE 38:19 "And in My zeal and in My blazing
wrath I declare that on that day there will surely
be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
EZE 38:20 "And the fish of the sea, the birds
of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the
creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the
men who are on the face of the earth will shake at
My presence; the mountains also will be thrown down,
the steep pathways will collapse, and every wall
will fall to the ground.
EZE 38:21 "And I shall call for a sword
against him on all My mountains," declares the Lord
God."Every man's sword will be against his brother.
EZE 38:22 "And with pestilence and with blood
I shall enter into judgment with him; and I shall
rain on him, and on his troops, and on the many
peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with
hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
EZE 38:23 "And I shall magnify Myself,
sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight
of many nations; and they will know that I am the
Lord."'
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Chapter 39
EZE 39:1 "And you, son of man, prophesy
against Gog, and say, 'Thus says the Lord God,"
Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal;
EZE 39:2 and I shall turn you around, drive
you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the
north, and bring you against the mountains of
Israel.
EZE 39:3 "And I shall strike your bow from
your left hand, and dash down your arrows from your
right hand.
EZE 39:4 "You shall fall on the mountains of
Israel, you and all your troops, and the peoples who
are with you; I shall give you as food to every kind
of predatory bird and beast of the field.
EZE 39:5 "You will fall on the open field;
for it is I who have spoken," declares the Lord God.
EZE 39:6 "And I shall send fire upon Magog
and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and
they will know that I am the Lord.
EZE 39:7 "And My holy name I shall make known
in the midst of My people Israel; and I shall not
let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the
nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One
in Israel.
EZE 39:8 "Behold, it is coming and it shall
be done," declares the Lord God."That is the day of
which I have spoken.
EZE 39:9 "Then those who inhabit the cities
of Israel will go out, and make fires with the
weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers,
bows and arrows, war clubs and spears and for seven
years they will make fires of them.
EZE 39:10 "And they will not take wood from
the field or gather firewood from the forests, for
they will make fires with the weapons; and they will
take the spoil of those who despoiled them, and
seize the plunder of those who plundered them,"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 39:11 "And it will come about on that day
that I shall give Gog a burial ground there in
Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the
sea, and it will block off the passers-by. So they
will bury Gog there with all his multitude, and they
will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.
EZE 39:12 "For seven months the house of
Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the
land.
EZE 39:13 "Even all the people of the land
will bury them; and it will be to their renown on
the day that I glorify Myself," declares the Lord
God.
EZE 39:14 "And they will set apart men who
will constantly pass through the land, burying those
who were passing through, even those left on the
surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At
the end of seven months they will make a search.
EZE 39:15 "And as those who pass through the
land pass through and anyone sees a man's bone, then
he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have
buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
EZE 39:16 "And even the name of the city will
be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land."'
EZE 39:17 "And as for you, son of man, thus
says the Lord God, 'Speak to every kind of bird and
to every beast of the field," Assemble and come,
gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am
going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on
the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and
drink blood.
EZE 39:18 "You shall eat the flesh of mighty
men, and drink the blood of the princes of the
earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and
bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
EZE 39:19 "So you will eat fat until you are
glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk, from
My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
EZE 39:20 "And you will be glutted at My
table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men
and all the men of war," declares the Lord God.
EZE 39:21 "And I shall set My glory among the
nations; and all the nations will see My judgment
which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid
on them.
EZE 39:22 "And the house of Israel will know
that I am the Lord their God from that day onward.
EZE 39:23 "And the nations will know that the
house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity
because they acted treacherously against Me, and I
hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand
of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the
sword.
EZE 39:24 "According to their uncleanness and
according to their transgressions I dealt with them,
and I hid My face from them."' "
EZE 39:25 Therefore thus says the Lord God,
"Now I shall restore the fortunes of Jacob, and have
mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I shall be
jealous for My holy name.
EZE 39:26 "And they shall forget their
disgrace and all their treachery which they
perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on
their own land with no one to make them afraid.
EZE 39:27 "When I bring them back from the
peoples and gather them from the lands of their
enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in
the sight of the many nations.
EZE 39:28 "Then they will know that I am the
Lord their God because I made them go into exile
among the nations, and then gathered them again to
their own land; and I will leave none of them there
any longer.
EZE 39:29 "And I will not hide My face from
them any longer, for I shall have poured out My
Spirit on the house of Israel," declares the Lord
God.
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Chapter 40
EZE 40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our
exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of
the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was
taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was
upon me and He brought me there.
EZE 40:2 In the visions of God He brought me
into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high
mountain; and on it to the south there was a
structure like a city.
EZE 40:3 So He brought me there; and behold,
there was a man whose appearance was like the
appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a
measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in
the gateway.
EZE 40:4 And the man said to me, "Son of man,
see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give
attention to all that I am going to show you; for
you have been brought here in order to show it to
you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you
see."
EZE 40:5 And behold, there was a wall on the
outside of the temple all around, and in the man's
hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of
which was a cubit and a handbreadth. So he measured
the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height,
one rod.
EZE 40:6 Then he went to the gate which faced
east, went up its steps, and measured the threshold
of the gate, one rod in width; and the other
threshold was one rod in width.
EZE 40:7 And the guardroom was one rod long
and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between
the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the
porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.
EZE 40:8 Then he measured the porch of the
gate facing inward, one rod.
EZE 40:9 And he measured the porch of the
gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two
cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.
EZE 40:10 And the guardrooms of the gate
toward the east numbered three on each side; the
three of them had the same measurement. The side
pillars also had the same measurement on each side.
EZE 40:11 And he measured the width of the
gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate,
thirteen cubits.
EZE 40:12 And there was a barrier wall one
cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side;
and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each
side.
EZE 40:13 And he measured the gate from the
roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other,
a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the
door opposite.
EZE 40:14 And he made the side pillars sixty
cubits high; the gate extended round about to the
side pillar of the courtyard.
EZE 40:15 And from the front of the entrance
gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was
fifty cubits.
EZE 40:16 And there were shuttered windows
looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side
pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for
the porches. And there were windows all around
inside; and on each side pillar were palm tree
ornaments.
EZE 40:17 Then he brought me into the outer
court, and behold, there were chambers and a
pavement, made for the court all around; thirty
chambers faced the pavement.
EZE 40:18 And the pavement (that is, the
lower pavement) was by the side of the gates,
corresponding to the length of the gates.
EZE 40:19 Then he measured the width from the
front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior
of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east and
on the north.
EZE 40:20 And as for the gate of the outer
court which faced the north, he measured its length
and its width.
EZE 40:21 And it had three guardrooms on each
side; and its side pillars and its porches had the
same measurement as the first gate. Its length was
fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
EZE 40:22 And its windows, and its porches,
and its palm tree ornaments had the same
measurements as the gate which faced toward the
east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its
porch was in front of them.
EZE 40:23 And the inner court had a gate
opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate
on the east; and he measured a hundred cubits from
gate to gate.
EZE 40:24 Then he led me toward the south,
and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and
he measured its side pillars and its porches
according to those same measurements.
EZE 40:25 And the gate and its porches had
windows all around like those other windows; the
length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five
cubits.
EZE 40:26 And there were seven steps going up
to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it
had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on
each side.
EZE 40:27 And the inner court had a gate
toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate
toward the south, a hundred cubits.
EZE 40:28 Then he brought me to the inner
court by the south gate; and he measured the south
gate according to those same measurements.
EZE 40:29 Its guardrooms also, its side
pillars, and its porches were according to those
same measurements. And the gate and its porches had
windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and
twenty-five cubits wide.
EZE 40:30 And there were porches all around,
twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
EZE 40:31 And its porches were toward the
outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its
side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.
EZE 40:32 And he brought me into the inner
court toward the east. And he measured the gate
according to those same measurements.
EZE 40:33 Its guardrooms also, its side
pillars, and its porches were according to those
same measurements. And the gate and its porches had
windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and
twenty-five cubits wide.
EZE 40:34 And its porches were toward the
outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its
side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had
eight steps.
EZE 40:35 Then he brought me to the north
gate; and he measured it according to those same
measurements,
EZE 40:36 with its guardrooms, its side
pillars, and its porches. And the gate had windows
all around; the length was fifty cubits and the
width twenty-five cubits.
EZE 40:37 And its side pillars were toward
the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its
side pillars on each side, and its stairway had
eight steps.
EZE 40:38 And a chamber with its doorway was
by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse
the burnt offering.
EZE 40:39 And in the porch of the gate were
two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the
burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt
offering.
EZE 40:40 And on the outer side, as one went
up to the gateway toward the north, were two tables;
and on the other side of the porch of the gate were
two tables.
EZE 40:41 Four tables were on each side next
to the gate; or, eight tables on which they
slaughter sacrifices.
EZE 40:42 And for the burnt offering there
were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half
long, a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high,
on which they lay the instruments with which they
slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
EZE 40:43 And the double hooks, one
handbreadth in length, were installed in the house
all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the
offering.
EZE 40:44 And from the outside to the inner
gate were chambers for the singers in the inner
court, one of which was at the side of the north
gate, with its front toward the south, and one at
the side of the east gate facing toward the north.
EZE 40:45 And he said to me, "This is the
chamber which faces toward the south, intended for
the priests who keep charge of the temple;
EZE 40:46 but the chamber which faces toward
the north is for the priests who keep charge of the
altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the
sons of Levi come near to the Lord to minister to
Him."
EZE 40:47 And he measured the court, a
perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred
cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the
temple.
EZE 40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of
the temple and measured each side pillar of the
porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of
the gate was three cubits on each side.
EZE 40:49 The length of the porch was twenty
cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and at the
stairway by which it was ascended were columns
belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.
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Chapter 41
EZE 41:1 Then he brought me to the nave and
measured the side pillars; six cubits wide on each
side was the width of the side pillar.
EZE 41:2 And the width of the entrance was
ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five
cubits on each side. And he measured the length of
the nave, forty cubits, and the width, twenty
cubits.
EZE 41:3 Then he went inside and measured
each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the
doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the
doorway, seven cubits.
EZE 41:4 And he measured its length, twenty
cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the
nave; and he said to me, "This is the most holy
place."
EZE 41:5 Then he measured the wall of the
temple, six cubits; and the width of the side
chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on
every side.
EZE 41:6 And the side chambers were in three
stories, one above another, and thirty in each
story; and the side chambers extended to the wall
which stood on their inward side all around, that
they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the
wall of the temple itself.
EZE 41:7 And the side chambers surrounding
the temple were wider at each successive story.
Because the structure surrounding the temple went
upward by stages on all sides of the temple,
therefore the width of the temple increased as it
went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest
story to the highest by way of the second story.
EZE 41:8 I saw also that the house had a
raised platform all around; the foundations of the
side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in
height.
EZE 41:9 The thickness of the outer wall of
the side chambers was five cubits. But the free
space between the side chambers belonging to the
temple
EZE 41:10 and the outer chambers was twenty
cubits in width all around the temple on every side.
EZE 41:11 And the doorways of the side
chambers toward the free space consisted of one
doorway toward the north and another doorway toward
the south; and the width of the free space was five
cubits all around.
EZE 41:12 And the building that was in front
of the separate area at the side toward the west was
seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building
was five cubits thick all around, and its length was
ninety cubits.
EZE 41:13 Then he measured the temple, a
hundred cubits long; the separate area with the
building and its walls were also a hundred cubits
long.
EZE 41:14 Also the width of the front of the
temple and that of the separate areas along the east
side totaled a hundred cubits.
EZE 41:15 And he measured the length of the
building along the front of the separate area behind
it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits;
he also measured the inner nave and the porches of
the court.
EZE 41:16 The thresholds, the latticed
windows, and the galleries round about their three
stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with
wood all around, and from the ground to the windows
(but the windows were covered),
EZE 41:17 over the entrance, and to the inner
house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all
around inside and outside, by measurement.
EZE 41:18 And it was carved with cherubim and
palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and
cherub, and every cherub had two faces,
EZE 41:19 a man's face toward the palm tree
on one side, and a young lion's face toward the palm
tree on the other side; they were carved on all the
house all around.
EZE 41:20 From the ground to above the
entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as
well as on the wall of the nave.
EZE 41:21 The doorposts of the nave were
square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the
appearance of one doorpost was like that of the
other.
EZE 41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits
high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its
base, and its sides were of wood. And he said to me,
"This is the table that is before the Lord."
EZE 41:23 And the nave and the sanctuary each
had a double door.
EZE 41:24 And each of the doors had two
leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door
and two leaves for the other.
EZE 41:25 Also there were carved on them, on
the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like
those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold
of wood on the front of the porch outside.
EZE 41:26 And there were latticed windows and
palm trees on one side and on the other, on the
sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of
the house and the thresholds.
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Chapter 42
EZE 42:1 Then he brought me out into the
outer court, the way toward the north; and he
brought me to the chamber which was opposite the
separate area and opposite the building toward the
north.
EZE 42:2 Along the length, which was a
hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was
fifty cubits.
EZE 42:3 Opposite the twenty cubits which
belonged to the inner court, and opposite the
pavement which belonged to the outer court, was
gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.
EZE 42:4 And before the chambers was an inner
walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits;
and their openings were on the north.
EZE 42:5 Now the upper chambers were smaller
because the galleries took more space away from them
than from the lower and middle ones in the building.
EZE 42:6 For they were in three stories and
had no pillars like the pillars of the courts;
therefore the upper chambers were set back from the
ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.
EZE 42:7 As for the outer wall by the side of
the chambers, toward the outer court facing the
chambers, its length was fifty cubits.
EZE 42:8 For the length of the chambers which
were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and
behold, the length of those facing the temple was a
hundred cubits.
EZE 42:9 And below these chambers was the
entrance on the east side, as one enters them from
the outer court.
EZE 42:10 In the thickness of the wall of the
court toward the east, facing the separate area and
facing the building, there were chambers.
EZE 42:11 And the way in front of them was
like the appearance of the chambers which were on
the north, according to their length so was their
width; and all their exits were both according to
their arrangements and openings.
EZE 42:12 And corresponding to the openings
of the chambers which were toward the south was an
opening at the head of the way, the way in front of
the wall toward the east, as one enters them.
EZE 42:13 Then he said to me, "The north
chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite
the separate area, they are the holy chambers where
the priests who are near to the Lord shall eat the
most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy
things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and
the guilt offering; for the place is holy.
EZE 42:14 "When the priests enter, then they
shall not go out into the outer court from the
sanctuary without laying there their garments in
which they minister, for they are holy. They shall
put on other garments; then they shall approach that
which is for the people."
EZE 42:15 Now when he had finished measuring
the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the
gate which faced toward the east, and measured it
all around.
EZE 42:16 He measured on the east side with
the measuring reed five hundred reeds, by the
measuring reed.
EZE 42:17 He measured on the north side five
hundred reeds by the measuring reed.
EZE 42:18 On the south side he measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
EZE 42:19 He turned to the west side, and
measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
EZE 42:20 He measured it on the four sides;
it had a wall all around, the length five hundred
and the width five hundred, to divide between the
holy and the profane.
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Chapter 43
EZE 43:1 Then he led me to the gate, the gate
facing toward the east;
EZE 43:2 and behold, the glory of the God of
Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His
voice was like the sound of many waters; and the
earth shone with His glory.
EZE 43:3 And it was like the appearance of
the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw
when He came to destroy the city. And the visions
were like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar;
and I fell on my face.
EZE 43:4 And the glory of the Lord came into
the house by the way of the gate facing toward the
east.
EZE 43:5 And the Spirit lifted me up and
brought me into the inner court; and behold, the
glory of the Lord filled the house.
EZE 43:6 Then I heard one speaking to me from
the house, while a man was standing beside me.
EZE 43:7 And 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 among the sons of
Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not
again defile My holy name, neither they nor their
kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their
kings when they die,
EZE 43:8 by setting their threshold by My
threshold, and their door post beside My door post,
with only the wall between Me and them. And they
have defiled My holy name by their abominations
which they have committed. So I have consumed them
in My anger.
EZE 43:9 "Now let them put away their
harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me;
and I will dwell among them forever.
EZE 43:10 "As for you, son of man, describe
the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be
ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure
the plan.
EZE 43:11 "And if they are ashamed of all
that they have done, make known to them the design
of the house, its structure, its exits, its
entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and
all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that
they may observe its whole design and all its
statutes, and do them.
EZE 43:12 "This is the law of the house: its
entire area on the top of the mountain all around
shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the
house.
EZE 43:13 "And these are the measurements of
the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a
handbreadth): the base shall be a cubit, and the
width a cubit, and its border on its edge round
about one span; and this shall be the height of the
base of the altar.
EZE 43:14 "And from the base on the ground to
the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width
one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger
ledge shall be four cubits, and the width one cubit.
EZE 43:15 "And the altar hearth shall be four
cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend
upwards four horns.
EZE 43:16 "Now the altar hearth shall be
twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its
four sides.
EZE 43:17 "And the ledge shall be fourteen
cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the
border around it shall be half a cubit, and its base
shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall
face the east."
EZE 43:18 And He said to me, "Son of man,
thus says the Lord God, 'These are the statutes for
the altar on the day it is built, to offer burnt
offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.
EZE 43:19 'And you shall give to the
Levitical priests who are from the offspring of
Zadok, who draw near to Me to minister to Me,'
declares the Lord God,' a young bull for a sin
offering.
EZE 43:20 'And you shall take some of its
blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four
corners of the ledge, and on the border round about;
thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
EZE 43:21 'You shall also take the bull for
the sin offering; and it shall be burned in the
appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
EZE 43:22 'And on the second day you shall
offer a male goat without blemish for a sin
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they
cleansed it with the bull.
EZE 43:23 'When you have finished cleansing
it, you shall present a young bull without blemish
and a ram without blemish from the flock.
EZE 43:24 'And you shall present them before
the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them,
and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to
the Lord.
EZE 43:25 'For seven days you shall prepare
daily a goat for a sin offering; also a young bull
and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be
prepared.
EZE 43:26 'For seven days they shall make
atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they
consecrate it.
EZE 43:27 'And when they have completed the
days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward,
the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the
altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept
you,' declares the Lord God."
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Chapter 44
EZE 44:1 Then He brought me back by the way
of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the
east; and it was shut.
EZE 44:2 And the Lord said to me, "This gate
shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one
shall enter by it, for the Lord God of Israel has
entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.
EZE 44:3 "As for the prince, he shall sit in
it as prince to eat bread before the Lord; he shall
enter by way of the porch of the gate, and shall go
out by the same way."
EZE 44:4 Then He brought me by way of the
north gate to the front of the house; and I looked,
and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house
of the Lord, and I fell on my face.
EZE 44:5 And the Lord said to me, "Son of
man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with
your ears all that I say to you concerning all the
statutes of the house of the Lord and concerning all
its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house,
with all exits of the sanctuary.
EZE 44:6 "And you shall say to the rebellious
ones, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord
God," Enough of all your abominations, O house of
Israel,
EZE 44:7 when you brought in foreigners,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh,
to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house,
when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for
they made My covenant void - - this in addition to
all your abominations.
EZE 44:8 "And you have not kept charge of My
holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners
to keep charge of My sanctuary."
EZE 44:9 'Thus says the Lord God, "No
foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised
in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the
sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.
EZE 44:10 "But the Levites who went far from
Me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me
after their idols, shall bear the punishment for
their iniquity.
EZE 44:11 "Yet they shall be ministers in My
sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the
house and ministering in the house; they shall
slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for
the people, and they shall stand before them to
minister to them.
EZE 44:12 "Because they ministered to them
before their idols and became a stumbling block of
iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have
sworn against them," declares the Lord God, "that
they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.
EZE 44:13 "And they shall not come near to Me
to serve as a priest to Me, nor come near to any of
My holy things, to the things that are most holy;
but they shall bear their shame and their
abominations which they have committed.
EZE 44:14 "Yet I will appoint them to keep
charge of the house, of all its service, and of all
that shall be done in it.
EZE 44:15 "But the Levitical priests, the
sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when
the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come
near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand
before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood,"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 44:16 "They shall enter My sanctuary;
they shall come near to My table to minister to Me
and keep My charge.
EZE 44:17 "And it shall be that when they
enter at the gates of the inner court, they shall be
clothed with linen garments; and wool shall not be
on them while they are ministering in the gates of
the inner court and in the house.
EZE 44:18 "Linen turbans shall be on their
heads, and linen undergarments shall be on their
loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything
which makes them sweat.
EZE 44:19 "And when they go out into the
outer court, into the outer court to the people,
they shall put off their garments in which they have
been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers;
then they shall put on other garments that they may
not transmit holiness to the people with their
garments. EZE 44:20 "Also they shall not
shave their heads, yet they shall not let their
locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of
their heads.
EZE 44:21 "Nor shall any of the priests drink
wine when they enter the inner court.
EZE 44:22 "And they shall not marry a widow
or a divorced woman but shall take virgins from the
offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is
the widow of a priest.
EZE 44:23 "Moreover, they shall teach My
people the difference between the holy and the
profane, and cause them to discern between the
unclean and the clean.
EZE 44:24 "And in a dispute they shall take
their stand to judge; they shall judge it according
to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and
My statutes in all My appointed feasts, and sanctify
My sabbaths.
EZE 44:25 "And they shall not go to a dead
person to defile themselves; however, for father,
for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or
for a sister who has not had a husband, they may
defile themselves.
EZE 44:26 "And after he is cleansed, seven
days shall elapse for him.
EZE 44:27 "And on the day that he goes into
the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in
the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 44:28 "And it shall be with regard to an
inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance;
and you shall give them no possession in Israel - -
I am their possession.
EZE 44:29 "They shall eat the grain offering,
the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every
devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
EZE 44:30 "And the first of all the first
fruits of every kind and every contribution of every
kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the
priests; you shall also give to the priest the first
of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your
house.
EZE 44:31 "The priests shall not eat any bird
or beast that has died a natural death or has been
torn to pieces.
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Chapter 45
EZE 45:1 "And when you shall divide by lot
the land for inheritance, you shall offer an
allotment to the Lord, a holy portion of the land;
the length shall be the length of 25,000 cubits, and
the width shall be 10,000. It shall be holy within
all its boundary round about.
EZE 45:2 "Out of this there shall be for the
holy place a square round about five hundred by five
hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its open space
round about.
EZE 45:3 "And from this area you shall
measure a length of 25,000 cubits, and a width of
10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the
most holy place.
EZE 45:4 "It shall be the holy portion of the
land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of
the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the
Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a
holy place for the sanctuary.
EZE 45:5 "And an area 25,000 cubits in length
and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the
ministers of the house, and for their possession
cities to dwell in.
EZE 45:6 "And you shall give the city
possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000
cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holy
portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
EZE 45:7 "And the prince shall have land on
either side of the holy allotment and the property
of the city, adjacent to the holy allotment and the
property of the city, on the west side toward the
west and on the east side toward the east, and in
length comparable to one of the portions, from the
west border to the east border.
EZE 45:8 "This shall be his land for a
possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer
oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of
the land to the house of Israel according to their
tribes."
EZE 45:9 'Thus says the Lord God, "Enough,
you princes of Israel; put away violence and
destruction, and practice justice and righteousness.
Stop your expropriations from My people," declares
the Lord God.
EZE 45:10 "You shall have just balances, a
just ephah, and a just bath.
EZE 45:11 "The ephah and the bath shall be
the same quantity, so that the bath may contain a
tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer;
their standard shall be according to the homer.
EZE 45:12 "And the shekel shall be twenty
gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and
fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.
EZE 45:13 "This is the offering that you
shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of
wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;
EZE 45:14 and the prescribed portion of oil
(namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from
each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten
baths are a homer);
EZE 45:15 and one sheep from each flock of
two hundred from the watering places of Israel - -
for a grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for
peace offerings, to make atonement for them,
"declares the Lord God.
EZE 45:16 "All the people of the land shall
give to this offering for the prince in Israel.
EZE 45:17 "And it shall be the prince's part
to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings,
and the libations, at the feasts, on the new moons,
and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of
the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin
offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering,
and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the
house of Israel."
EZE 45:18 'Thus says the Lord God, "In the
first month, on the first of the month, you shall
take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the
sanctuary.
EZE 45:19 "And the priest shall take some of
the blood from the sin offering and put it on the
door posts of the house, on the four corners of the
ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of
the inner court.
EZE 45:20 "And thus you shall do on the
seventh day of the month for everyone who goes
astray or is naive; so you shall make atonement for
the house.
EZE 45:21 "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.
EZE 45:22 "And on that day the prince shall
provide for himself and all the people of the land a
bull for a sin offering.
EZE 45:23 "And during the seven days of the
feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the
Lord seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on
every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily
for a sin offering.
EZE 45:24 "And he shall provide as a grain
offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram,
and a hin of oil with an ephah.
EZE 45:25 "In the seventh month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall
provide like this, seven days for the sin offering,
the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the
oil."
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Chapter 46
EZE 46:1 'Thus says the Lord God, "The gate
of the inner court facing east shall be shut the six
working days; but it shall be opened on the sabbath
day, and opened on the day of the new moon.
EZE 46:2 "And the prince shall enter by way
of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by
the post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide
his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he
shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then
go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the
evening.
EZE 46:3 "The people of the land shall also
worship at the doorway of that gate before the Lord
on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
EZE 46:4 "And the burnt offering which the
prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day
shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without
blemish;
EZE 46:5 and the grain offering shall be an
ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the
lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of
oil with an ephah.
EZE 46:6 "And on the day of the new moon he
shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six
lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.
EZE 46:7 "And he shall provide a grain
offering, an ephah with the bull, and an ephah with
the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able,
and a hin of oil with an ephah.
EZE 46:8 "And when the prince enters, he
shall go in by way of the porch of the gate and go
out by the same way.
EZE 46:9 "But when the people of the land
come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who
enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go
out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by
way of the south gate shall go out by way of the
north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate
by which he entered but shall go straight out.
EZE 46:10 "And when they go in, the prince
shall go in among them; and when they go out, he
shall go out.
EZE 46:11 "And at the festivals and the
appointed feasts the grain offering shall be an
ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with
the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin
of oil with an ephah.
EZE 46:12 "And when the prince provides a
freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace
offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the
gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he
shall provide his burnt offering and his peace
offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he
shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he
goes out.
EZE 46:13 "And you shall provide a lamb a
year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the
Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.
EZE 46:14 "Also you shall provide a grain
offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an
ephah, and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the
fine flour, a grain offering to the Lord continually
by a perpetual ordinance.
EZE 46:15 "Thus they shall provide the lamb,
the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning,
for a continual burnt offering."
EZE 46:16 'Thus says the Lord God, "If the
prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of
his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their
possession by inheritance.
EZE 46:17 "But if he gives a gift from his
inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his
until the year of liberty; then it shall return to
the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons';
it shall belong to them.
EZE 46:18 "And the prince shall not take from
the people's inheritance, thrusting them out of
their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance
from his own possession so that My people shall not
be scattered, anyone from his possession."' "
EZE 46:19 Then he brought me through the
entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into
the holy chambers for the priests, which faced
north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme
rear toward the west.
EZE 46:20 And he said to me, "This is the
place where the priests shall boil the guilt
offering and the sin offering, and where they shall
bake the grain offering, in order that they may not
bring them out into the outer court to transmit
holiness to the people."
EZE 46:21 Then he brought me out into the
outer court and led me across to the four corners of
the court; and behold, in every corner of the court
there was a small court.
EZE 46:22 In the four corners of the court
there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and
thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same
size.
EZE 46:23 And there was a row of masonry
round about in them, around the four of them, and
boiling places were made under the rows round about.
EZE 46:24 Then he said to me, "These are the
boiling places where the ministers of the house
shall boil the sacrifices of the people."
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Chapter 47
EZE 47:1 Then he brought me back to the door
of the house; and behold, water was flowing from
under the threshold of the house toward the east,
for the house faced east. And the water was flowing
down from under, from the right side of the house,
from south of the altar.
EZE 47:2 And he brought me out by way of the
north gate and led me around on the outside to the
outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And
behold, water was trickling from the south side.
EZE 47:3 When the man went out toward the
east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand
cubits, and he led me through the water, water
reaching the ankles.
EZE 47:4 Again he measured a thousand and led
me through the water, water reaching the knees.
Again he measured a thousand and led me through the
water, water reaching the loins.
EZE 47:5 Again he measured a thousand; and it
was a river that I could not ford, for the water had
risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could
not be forded.
EZE 47:6 And he said to me, "Son of man, have
you seen this?" Then he brought me back to the bank
of the river.
EZE 47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, on
the bank of the river there were very many trees on
the one side and on the other.
EZE 47:8 Then he said to me, "These waters go
out toward the eastern region and go down into the
Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to
flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become
fresh.
EZE 47:9 "And it will come about that every
living creature which swarms in every place where
the river goes, will live. And there will be very
many fish, for these waters go there, and the others
become fresh; so everything will live where the
river goes.
EZE 47:10 "And it will come about that
fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to
Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of
nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds,
like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.
EZE 47:11 "But its swamps and marshes will
not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
EZE 47:12 "And by the river on its bank, on
one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of
trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, and
their fruit will not fail. They will bear every
month because their water flows from the sanctuary,
and their fruit will be for food and their leaves
for healing."
EZE 47:13 Thus says the Lord God, "This shall
be the boundary by which you shall divide the land
for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of
Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.
EZE 47:14 "And you shall divide it for an
inheritance, each one equally with the other; for I
swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land
shall fall to you as an inheritance.
EZE 47:15 "And this shall be the boundary of
the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea by
the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
EZE 47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is
between the border of Damascus and the border of
Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of
Hauran.
EZE 47:17 "And the boundary shall extend from
the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and
on the north toward the north is the border of
Hamath. This is the north side.
EZE 47:18 "And the east side, from between
Hauran, Damascus, Gilead, and the land of Israel,
shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the
eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east
side.
EZE 47:19 "And the south side toward the
south shall extend from Tamar as far as the waters
of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, and to
the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the
south.
EZE 47:20 "And the west side shall be the
Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite
Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.
EZE 47:21 "So you shall divide this land
among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
EZE 47:22 "And it will come about that you
shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among
yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your
midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they
shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of
Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with
you among the tribes of Israel.
EZE 47:23 "And it will come about that in the
tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall
give him his inheritance," declares the Lord God.
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Chapter 48
EZE 48:1 "Now these are the names of the
tribes: from the northern extremity, beside the way
of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at
the border of Damascus, toward the north beside
Hamath, running from east to west, Dan, one portion.
EZE 48:2 "And beside the border of Dan, from
the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.
EZE 48:3 "And beside the border of Asher,
from the east side to the west side, Naphtali, one
portion.
EZE 48:4 "And beside the border of Naphtali,
from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one
portion.
EZE 48:5 "And beside the border of Manasseh,
from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one
portion.
EZE 48:6 "And beside the border of Ephraim,
from the east side to the west side, Reuben, one
portion.
EZE 48:7 "And beside the border of Reuben,
from the east side to the west side, Judah, one
portion.
EZE 48:8 "And beside the border of Judah,
from the east side to the west side, shall be the
allotment which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits
in width, and in length like one of the portions,
from the east side to the west side; and the
sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.
EZE 48:9 "The allotment that you shall set
apart to the Lord shall be 25,000 cubits in length,
and 10,000 in width.
EZE 48:10 "And the holy allotment shall be
for these, namely for the priests, toward the north
25,000 cubits in length, toward the west 10,000 in
width, toward the east 10,000 in width, and toward
the south 25,000 in length; and the sanctuary of the
Lord shall be in its midst.
EZE 48:11 "It shall be for the priests who
are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept
My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
EZE 48:12 "And it shall be an allotment to
them from the allotment of the land, a most holy
place, by the border of the Levites.
EZE 48:13 "And alongside the border of the
priests the Levites shall have 25,000 cubits in
length and 10,000 in width. The whole length shall
be 25,000 cubits and the width 10,000.
EZE 48:14 "Moreover, they shall not sell or
exchange any of it, or alienate this choice portion
of land; for it is holy to the Lord.
EZE 48:15 "And the remainder, 5,000 cubits in
width and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use
for the city, for dwellings and for open spaces; and
the city shall be in its midst.
EZE 48:16 "And these shall be its
measurements: the north side 4,500 cubits, the south
side 4,500 cubits, the east side 4,500 cubits, and
the west side 4,500 cubits.
EZE 48:17 "And the city shall have open
spaces: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250
cubits, on the east 250 cubits, and on the west 250
cubits.
EZE 48:18 "And the remainder of the length
alongside the holy allotment shall be 10,000 cubits
toward the east, and 10,000 toward the west; and it
shall be alongside the holy allotment. And its
produce shall be food for the workers of the city.
EZE 48:19 "And the workers of the city, out
of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
EZE 48:20 "The whole allotment shall be
25,000 by 25,000 cubits; you shall set apart the
holy allotment, a square, with the property of the
city.
EZE 48:21 "And the remainder shall be for the
prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy
allotment and of the property of the city; in front
of the 25,000 cubits of the allotment toward the
east border and westward in front of the 25,000
toward the west border, alongside the portions, it
shall be for the prince. And the holy allotment and
the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of
it.
EZE 48:22 "And exclusive of the property of
the Levites and the property of the city, which are
in the middle of that which belongs to the prince,
everything between the border of Judah and the
border of Benjamin shall be for the prince.
EZE 48:23 "As for the rest of the tribes:
from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one
portion.
EZE 48:24 "And beside the border of Benjamin,
from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one
portion.
EZE 48:25 "And beside the border of Simeon,
from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one
portion.
EZE 48:26 "And beside the border of Issachar,
from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one
portion.
EZE 48:27 "And beside the border of Zebulun,
from the east side to the west side, Gad, one
portion.
EZE 48:28 "And beside the border of Gad, at
the south side toward the south, the border shall be
from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the
brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.
EZE 48:29 "This is the land which you shall
divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an
inheritance, and these are their several portions,"
declares the Lord God.
EZE 48:30 "And these are the exits of the
city: on the north side, 4,500 cubits by
measurement,
EZE 48:31 shall be the gates of the city,
named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward
the north: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of
Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
EZE 48:32 "And on the east side, 4,500
cubits, shall be three gates: the gate of Joseph,
one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan,
one.
EZE 48:33 "And on the south side, 4,500
cubits by measurement, shall be three gates: the
gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the
gate of Zebulun, one.
EZE 48:34 "On the west side, 4,500 cubits,
shall be three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate
of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
EZE 48:35 "The city shall be 18,000 cubits
round about; and the name of the city from that day
shall be, 'The Lord is there.'"
