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,
