EZEKIEL
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Ezekiel 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the
fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the
2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king
Jehoiachin's captivity,
3 The word of Yahweh came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,
in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was
there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud,
and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and out of the
midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5 Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures.
And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was] like
the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished
brass.
8 And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and
they four had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went;
they went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the
face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the
left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus [were] their faces: and their wings [were] stretched upward; two
[wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their
bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they
went; [and] they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like
burning coals of fire, [and] like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down
among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went
forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of
lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the
living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a
beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work
[was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they turned not when
they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their
rings [were] full of eyes round about them four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the
living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither [was their] spirit to
go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the
living creature [was] in the wheels.
21 When those went, [these] went; and when those stood, [these] stood; and when
those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against
them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature
[was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads
above.
23 And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the
other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two,
which covered on that side, their bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of
great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise
of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over their heads, when
they stood, [and] had let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a
throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the
throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about
within it, from the appearance of His loins even upward, and from the
appearance of His loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire,
and it had brightness round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so
[was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my
face, and I heard a voice of One That spake.
1 And He said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak
unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me when He spake unto me, and set me upon my
feet, that I heard Him That spake unto me.
3 And He said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of
4 For [they are] impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them;
and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they
[are] a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among
them.
6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns [be] with thee, and thou dost dwell among
scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though
they [be] a rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak My words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear: for they [are] most rebellious.
8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like
that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
9 And when I looked, behold, an hand [was] sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a
book [was] therein;
10 And He spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and
[there was] written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
1 Moreover He said unto me, Son of
man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of
2 So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.
3 And He said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels
with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat [it]; and it was in my mouth as
honey for sweetness.
4 And He said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
5 For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, [but] to the house of
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou
canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have
hearkened unto thee.
7 But the house of
8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead
strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not,
neither be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house.
10 Moreover He said unto me, Son of man, all My words that I shall speak unto
thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people,
and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of Yahweh from His place.
13 [I heard] also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched
one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a
great rushing.
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in
the heat of my spirit; but the hand of Yahweh was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore
hear the word at My mouth, and give them warning from Me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not
warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life;
the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require
at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from
his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou
hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness
which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at
thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous sin not,
and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast
delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of Yahweh was there
upon me; and He said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there
talk with thee.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of
Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the
24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me,
and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall
bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt
be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they [are] a rebellious
house.
27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for they [are] a rebellious house.
1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and
portray upon it the city, [even] Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount
against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it
round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it [for] a wall of iron
between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This [shall be] a sign to the
house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the
number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the
iniquity of the house of
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou
shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from
one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and
millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof,
[according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three
hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a
day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time
to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung
that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of
14 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for
from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself,
or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then He said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and
thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover He said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of
bread in
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and
consume away for their iniquity.
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor,
and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee
balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].
2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the
days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite
about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I
will draw out a sword after them.
3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn
them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of
5 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; This [is]
6 And she hath changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and
My statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her: for they have
refused My judgments and My statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Because ye multiplied more than the
nations that [are] round about you, [and] have not walked in My statutes,
neither have kept My judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of
the nations that [are] round about you;
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee,
and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do
any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons
shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole
remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
11 Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh; Surely, because thou hast
defiled My sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither shall Mine eye
spare, neither will I have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall
they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword
round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I
will draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus shall Mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause My fury to rest upon
them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I Yahweh have spoken
[it] in My zeal, when I have accomplished My fury in them.
14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that [are]
round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment
unto the nations that [are] round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in
thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I Yahweh have spoken [it].
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for
[their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee;
and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword
upon thee. I Yahweh have spoken it.
1 And the word of Yahweh came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against
them,
3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; Thus saith
the Lord Yahweh to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the
valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy
your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I
will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcases
of the children of
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high
places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate,
and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and
your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am]
Yahweh.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have [some] that shall escape the
sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the nations whither they
shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which
hath departed from Me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their
idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed
in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I [am] Yahweh, [and that] I have not said in vain
that I would do this evil unto them.
11 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot,
and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall
fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the
famine: thus will I accomplish My fury upon them.
13 Then shall ye know that I [am] Yahweh, when their slain [men] shall be among
their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of
the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place
where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
14 So will I stretch out My hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea,
more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and
they shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying,
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord Yahweh unto the
3 Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send Mine anger upon thee, and
will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine
abominations.
4 And Mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will
recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of
thee: and ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
5 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is
come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out My fury upon thee, and accomplish Mine anger upon
thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for
all thine abominations.
9 And Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense
thee according to thy ways and thine abominations [that] are in the midst of
thee; and ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh That smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath
blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them [shall remain],
nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing
for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the
seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were
yet alive: for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude thereof, [which]
shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the
battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that
[is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he that [is] in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as] water.
18 They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the
day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill
their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty: but they made the
images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein:
therefore have I set it far from them.
21 And I will give it into the
hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil;
and they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute My secret
[place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of
violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess
their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy
places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall be] none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then
shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the
priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and
the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them
after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they
shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth
[day] of the month, [as] I sat in mine house, and the elders of
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the
appearance of His loins even downward, fire; and from His loins even upward, as
the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
3 And He put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and
the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the
visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward
the north; where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to
jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the
vision that I saw in the plain.
5 Then said He unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the
north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward
at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the
great abominations that the house of
7 And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole
in the wall.
8 Then said He unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged
in the wall, behold a door.
9 And He said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do
here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of
12 Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the
house of
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater
abominations that they do.
14 Then He brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which [was]
toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then said He unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? turn thee yet
again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
16 And He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house, and, behold, at
the door of the
17 Then He said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light
thing to the house of
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity: and though they cry in Mine ears with a loud voice, [yet] will I not
hear them.
1 He cried also in mine ears with a
loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near,
even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward
the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them
[was] clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went
in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon He
was, to the threshold of the house. And He called to the man clothed with
linen, which [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;
4 And Yahweh said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst
of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that
cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
5 And to the others He said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city,
and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but
come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at My sanctuary. Then
they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.
7 And He said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain:
go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I
fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! wilt Thou destroy all
the residue of
9 Then said He unto me, The iniquity of the house of
10 And as for Me also, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
[but] I will recompense their way upon their head.
11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which [had] the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as Thou hast commanded me.
1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of
the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne.
2 And He spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the
wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from
between the cherubims, and scatter [them] over the city. And he went in in my
sight.
3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in;
and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 Then the glory of Yahweh went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the
threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court
was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.
5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as
the voice of the Almighty God when He speaketh.
6 And it came to pass, [that] when He had commanded the man clothed with linen,
saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he
went in, and stood beside the wheels.
7 And [one] cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the
fire that [was] between the cherubims, and took [thereof], and put [it] into
the hands of [him that was] clothed with linen: who took [it], and went out.
8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their
wings.
9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one
cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels
[was] as the colour of a beryl stone.
10 And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel
had been in the midst of a wheel.
11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they
went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned
not as they went.
12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and
the wheels, [were] full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four
had.
13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel!
14 And every one had four faces: the first face [was] the face of a cherub, and
the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and
the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw
by the
16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims
lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned
not from beside them.
17 When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted
up themselves [also]: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.
18 Then the glory of Yahweh departed from off the threshold of the house, and
stood over the cherubims.
19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my
sight: when they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them, and [every one]
stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God
of Israel [was] over them above.
20 This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the
21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness
of the hands of a man [was] under their wings.
22 And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up,
and brought me unto the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looketh eastward:
and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw
Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the
people.
2 Then said He unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men that devise mischief,
and give wicked counsel in this city:
3 Which say, [It is] not near; let
us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith
Yahweh; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come
into your mind, [every one of] them.
6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets
thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Your slain whom ye have laid in the
midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and this [city is] the caldron: but I will
bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord
Yahweh.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands
of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of
11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the
midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh: for ye have not walked in My statutes,
neither executed My judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen
that [are] round about you.
13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah
died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah
Lord Yahweh! wilt Thou make a full end of the remnant of
14 Again the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and
all the house of
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Although I have cast them far off
among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet
will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; I will even gather you from the
people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and
I will give you the
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable
things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and
I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of
flesh:
20 That they may walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them:
and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
21 But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable
things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own
heads, saith the Lord Yahweh.
22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and
the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.
23 And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon
the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.
24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit
of God into
25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had
shewed me.
1 The word of Yahweh also came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes
to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a
rebellious house.
3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by
day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in
their sight: it may be they will consider, though they [be] a rebellious house.
4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for
removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth
into captivity.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear [it] upon [thy] shoulders, [and] carry [it]
forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground:
for I have set thee [for] a sign unto the house of
7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff
for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I
brought [it] forth in the twilight, [and] I bare [it] upon [my] shoulder in
their sight.
8 And in the morning came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, hath not the house of
10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; This burden [concerneth] the
prince in
11 Say, I [am] your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them:
they shall remove [and] go into captivity.
12 And the prince that [is] among them shall bear upon [his] shoulder in the
twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out
thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with [his] eyes.
13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I
will bring him to
14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that [are] about him to help him,
and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I [am] Yahweh, when I shall scatter them among the
nations, and disperse them in the countries.
16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from
the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen
whither they come; and they shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
17 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling
and with carefulness;
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh of the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, [and] of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with
carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be
desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that
dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be
desolate; and ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
21 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what [is] that proverb [that] ye have in the
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; I will make this proverb to
cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them,
The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within
the house of
25 For I [am] Yahweh: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come
to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house,
will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Yahweh.
26 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
27 Son of man, behold, [they of] the house of
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; There shall none of My
words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done,
saith the Lord Yahweh.
1 And the word of Yahweh came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of
Yahweh;
3 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their
own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, Yahweh saith: and Yahweh
hath not sent them: and they have made [others] to hope that they would confirm
the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination,
whereas ye say, Yahweh saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen
lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord Yahweh.
9 And Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine
lies: they shall not be in the assembly of My people, neither shall they be
written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into
the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord Yahweh.
10 Because, even because they have seduced My people, saying, Peace; and [there
was] no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with
untempered [mortar]:
11 Say unto them which daub [it]
with untempered [morter], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend
[it].
12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where [is] the
daubing wherewith ye have daubed [it]?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; I will even rend [it] with a stormy
wind in My fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in Mine anger, and
great hailstones in [My] fury to consume [it].
14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [morter],
and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be
discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof:
and ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
15 Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have
daubed it with untempered [morter], and will say unto you, The wall [is] no
[more], neither they that daubed it;
16 [To wit], the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and
which see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, saith the Lord
Yahweh.
17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people,
which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
18 And say, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to
all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls!
Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and will ye save the souls alive [that
come] unto you?
19 And will ye pollute Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces
of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive
that should not live, by your lying to My people that hear [your] lies?
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Behold, I [am] against your pillows,
wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from
your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make
[them] fly.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver My people out of your hand, and
they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I [am]
Yahweh.
22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have
not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not
return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will
deliver My people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh.
1 Then came certain of the elders of
2 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at
all by them?
4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh;
Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and
putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the
prophet; I Yahweh will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his
idols;
5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all
estranged from Me through their idols.
6 Therefore say unto the house of
7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in
Israel, which separateth himself from Me, and setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning Me; I Yahweh will answer him
by Myself:
8 And I will set My face against that man, and will make him a sign and a
proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and ye shall know
that I [am] Yahweh.
9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I Yahweh have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will
destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.
10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the
prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh [unto him];
11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from Me, neither be polluted
any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be My people, and I
may be their God, saith the Lord Yahweh.
12 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against Me by trespassing grievously, then
will I stretch out Mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread
thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should
deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Yahweh.
15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so
that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
16 [Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered,
but the land shall be desolate.
17 Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land;
so that I cut off man and beast from it:
18 Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered
themselves.
19 Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out My fury upon it in
blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord
Yahweh, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver
their own souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus saith the Lord Yahweh; How much more when I send My four sore
judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and
the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth,
[both] sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall
see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil
that I have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] concerning all that I have brought
upon it.
23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye
shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith
the Lord Yahweh.
1 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch
which is among the trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to
hang any vessel thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends
of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work?
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be
meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; As the vine tree among the trees of the
forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants
of
7 And I will set My face against them; they shall go out from [one] fire, and
[another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh, when I
set My face against them.
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
saith the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16
1 Again the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh unto
4 And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut,
neither wast thou washed in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at
all, nor swaddled at all.
5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon
thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person,
in the day that thou wast born.
6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said
unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee [when thou
wast] in thy blood, Live.
7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast
increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: [thy]
breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou [wast] naked and
bare.
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the
time of love; and I spread My skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea,
I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord
Yahweh, and thou becamest Mine.
9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from
thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin,
and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a
chain on thy neck.
12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
beautiful crown upon thine head.
13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment [was of] fine
linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and
oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it [was]
perfect through My comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord
Yahweh.
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of
thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his
it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with
divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: [the like things] shall not
come, neither shall it be [so].
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I
had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom
with them,
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set
Mine oil and Mine incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, [wherewith]
I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and [thus] it
was, saith the Lord Yahweh.
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne
unto Me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of
thy whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast slain My children, and delivered them to cause them to pass
through [the fire] for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the
days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy
blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the
Lord Yahweh;)
24 [That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee
an high place in every street.
25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy
beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by,
and multiplied thy whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours,
great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke Me to anger.
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over thee, and have
diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee unto the will of them that
hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be
satisfied.
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the
31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and
makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in
that thou scornest hire;
32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead
of her husband!
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers,
and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
34 And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas
none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and
no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh:
36 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the
idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them;
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken
pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast
hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy
nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine
eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also
of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee
with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee
in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the
harlot, and thou also shalt give to hire any more.
42 So will I make My fury toward thee to rest, and My jealousy shall depart
from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted Me
in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon
[thine] head, saith the Lord Yahweh: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness
above all thine abominations.
44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee,
saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.
45 Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children;
and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their
children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister [is]
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their
abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted
more than they in all thy ways.
48 [As] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh,
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread,
and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she
strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me: therefore I took
them away as I saw [good].
51 Neither hath
52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins
that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous
than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
justified thy sisters.
53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [will I bring
again] the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that
thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
55 When thy sisters,
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of
the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of
the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith Yahweh.
59 For thus saith the Lord Yahweh; I will even deal with thee as thou hast
done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with thee in the days of thy youth,
and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for
daughters, but not by thy covenant.
62 And I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I [am]
Yahweh:
63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any
more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou
hast done, saith the Lord Yahweh.
1 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; A great eagle with great wings,
longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and
took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of
traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he
placed [it] by great waters, [and] set it [as] a willow tree.
6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine,
and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and,
behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches
toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up
the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall
wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people
to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither,
when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these [things mean]? tell [them],
Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king
thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath
taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that
by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
16 [As] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place [where] the king
[dwelleth] that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he
brake, [even] with him in the midst of
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great company make for him
in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given
his hand, and hath done all these [things], he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; [As] I live, surely Mine oath that he
hath despised, and My covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense
upon his own head.
20 And I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I
will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that
he hath trespassed against Me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they
that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I
Yahweh have spoken [it].
22 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; I will also take of the highest branch of the
high cedar, and will set [it]; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs
a tender one, and will plant [it] upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring
forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell
all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I Yahweh have brought down
the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and
have made the dry tree to flourish: I Yahweh have spoken and have done [it].
1 The word of Yahweh came unto me again, saying,
2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the
3 [As] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh, ye shall not have [occasion] any more to
use this proverb in
4 Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of
the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6 [And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife,
neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge,
hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath
covered the naked with a garment;
8 He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase,
[that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment
between man and man,
9 Hath walked in My statutes, and hath kept My judgments, to deal truly; he [is]
just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Yahweh.
10 If he beget a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] doeth
the like to [any] one of these [things],
11 And that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the
mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not
restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed
abomination,
13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he
shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his
blood shall be upon him.
14 Now, lo, [if] he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath
done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
15 [That] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath
spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered
the naked with a garment,
17 [That] hath taken off his hand from the poor, [that] hath not received usury
nor increase, hath executed My judgments, hath walked in My statutes; he shall
not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18 [As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by
violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, lo, even he
shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the
son hath done that which is lawful and right, [and] hath kept all My statutes,
and hath done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of
the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and
keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned
unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? Saith the Lord
Yahweh: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man]
doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be
mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet ye say, The way of Yahweh is not equal. Hear now, O house of
26 When a righteous [man] turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath
committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul
alive.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he
hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29 Yet saith the house of
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed;
and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
Yahweh: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye.
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
2 And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she
nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned
to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought
him with chains unto the
5 Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took
another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned
to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the
land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread
their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of
10 Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was
fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her
stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height
with the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the
east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the
fire consumed them.
13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her
fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule. This [is] a
lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
1 And it came to pass in the seventh
year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the
elders of
2 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord Yahweh; Are ye come to enquire of Me? [As] I live, saith the Lord
Yahweh, I will not be enquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]? cause them to know
the abominations of their fathers:
5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; In the day when I chose
Israel, and lifted up Mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made
Myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up Mine hand unto
them, saying, I [am] Yahweh your God;
6 In the day [that] I lifted up Mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the
land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and
honey, which [is] the glory of all lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes,
and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] Yahweh your God.
8 But they rebelled against Me, and would not hearken unto Me: they did not
every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake
the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out My fury upon them, to
accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for My name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the
heathen, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made Myself known unto them,
in bringing them forth out of the
10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the
11 And I gave them My statutes, and shewed them My judgments, which [if] a man
do, he shall even live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave them My sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them,
that they might know that I [am] Yahweh That sanctify them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness: they walked
not in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which [if] a man do, he
shall even live in them; and My sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I
would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for My name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the
heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Yet also I lifted up My hand
unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I
had given [them], flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all
lands;
16 Because they despised My judgments, and walked not in My statutes, but
polluted My sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless Mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make
an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the
statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile
yourselves with their idols:
19 I [am] Yahweh your God; walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do
them;
20 And hallow My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye
may know that I [am] Yahweh your God.
21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against Me: they walked not in My
statutes, neither kept My judgments to do them, which [if] a man do, he shall
even live in them; they polluted My sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out My
fury upon them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew Mine hand, and wrought for My name's sake, that it
should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought
them forth.
23 I lifted up Mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter
them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
24 Because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes,
and had polluted My sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments
whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through
[the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the
end that they might know that I [am] Yahweh.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in
that they have committed a trespass against Me.
28 [For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up
Mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick
trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and
poured out there their drink offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the
name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of
31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the
fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall
I be enquired of by you, O house of
32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We
will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and
stone.
33 [As] I live, saith the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the
countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched
out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I
plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the
37 And I will cause you to pass
under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress
against Me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and
they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am]
Yahweh.
39 As for you, O house of
40 For in Mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith
the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land,
serve Me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings,
and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the
people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and
I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
42 And ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh, when I shall bring you into the
43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have
been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your
evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall know that I [am] Yahweh, when I have wrought with you for My
name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt
doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord Yahweh.
45 Moreover the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set thy face toward
the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the
forest of the south field;
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of Yahweh; Thus saith the
Lord Yahweh; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every
green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I Yahweh have kindled it: it shall not be
quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
1 And the word of Yahweh came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the
holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Yahweh; Behold, I [am] against
thee, and will draw forth My sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from
thee the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked,
therefore shall My sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the
south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I Yahweh have drawn forth My sword out of his
sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with
bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou
shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt,
and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees
shall be weak [as] water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass,
saith the Lord Yahweh.
8 Again the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Yahweh; Say, A sword, a sword is
sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of My Son, [as] every
tree.
11 And He hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is
sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon My people, it [shall be] upon
all the princes of
13 Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn even the rod? it
shall be no [more], saith the Lord Yahweh.
14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands together, and
let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the
sword of the great [men that are] slain, which entereth into their privy
chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that [their]
heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied: ah! [it is] made bright, [it
is] wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go thee one way or other, [either] on the right hand, [or] on the left,
whithersoever thy face [is] set
17 I will also smite Mine hands
together, and I will cause My fury to rest: I Yahweh have said [it].
18 The word of Yahweh came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to
21 For the king of
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to
open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint
[battering] rams against the gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that
have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may
be taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Because ye have made your iniquity to
be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your
doings your sins do appear; because, [I say], that ye are come to remembrance,
ye shall be taken with the hand.
25 And thou, profane wicked prince of
26 Thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this
[shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is]
high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no [more], until He
come Whose right it is; and I will give it [Him].
28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh
concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The
sword, the sword [is] drawn: for the slaughter [it is] furbished, to consume,
glittering like lightening:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to
bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is
come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.
30 Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place
where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out Mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in
the fire of My wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, [and]
skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the
land; thou shalt be no [more] remembered: for I Yahweh have spoken [it].
1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying,
2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea,
thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh, The city sheddeth blood in the
midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile
herself.
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled
thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to
draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a
reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5 [Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock thee,
[which art] infamous [and] much vexed.
6 Behold, the princes of
7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have
they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the
fatherless and the widow.
8 Thou hast despised Mine holy things, and hast profaned My sabbaths.
9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the
mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they
humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another
hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his
sister, his father's daughter.
12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and
increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and
hast forgotten Me, saith the Lord Yahweh.
13 Behold, therefore I have smitten Mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou
hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I
shall deal with thee? I Yahweh have spoken [it], and will do [it].
15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the
countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the
heathen, and thou shalt know that I [am] Yahweh.
17 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, the house of
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Because ye are all become dross,
behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of
20 [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the
midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather
[you] in Mine anger and in My fury, and I will leave [you there], and melt you.
21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and ye
shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in
the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I Yahweh have poured out My fury upon
you.
23 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not cleansed, nor
rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 [There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring
lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure
and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned Mine holy things: they
have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed
[difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to
shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity,
and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh
hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have
vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand
in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found
none.
31 Therefore have I poured out Mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them
with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,
saith the Lord Yahweh.
1 The word of Yahweh came again
unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3 And they committed whoredoms in
4 And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and
they were Mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names;
Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers,
on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
6 [Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable
young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them [that were] the
chosen men of
8 Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from
9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of
the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and
slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had
executed judgment upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw [this], she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in [her]
whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians [her] neighbours, captains and rulers clothed
most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both one way,
14 And [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their
heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of
Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent
messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her
with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated
from them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then My mind
was alienated from her, like as My mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her
youth, wherein she