
Ezekiel

   {1:1} Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in
the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river
Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of [1>]God[<1].
{1:2} In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king
Jehoiachin's captivity, {1:3} the word of [2>]Yahweh[<2] came expressly
to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by
the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him. {1:4} I
looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud,
with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its
midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. {1:5} Out
of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their
appearance: they had the likeness of a man. {1:6} Everyone had four
faces, and each one of them had four wings. {1:7} Their feet were
straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's
foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass. {1:8} They had the hands
of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them
had their faces and their wings thus: {1:9} their wings were joined one
to another; they didn't turn when they went; each one went straight
forward. {1:10} As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face
of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right
side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the
four of them also had the face of an eagle. {1:11} Such were their
faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched
another, and two covered their bodies. {1:12} Each one went straight
forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when
they went. {1:13} As for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of
torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the
fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. {1:14} The
living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of
lightning. {1:15} Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel
on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of
it. {1:16} The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a
beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and
their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. {1:17} When they
went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they
went. {1:18} As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the
four of them had their rims full of eyes all around. {1:19} When the
living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living
creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
{1:20} Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit
to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels. {1:21} 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 beside them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels. {1:22} Over the head of the living
creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal
to look on, stretched forth over their heads above. {1:23} Under the
expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one
had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered
on that side, their bodies. {1:24} When they went, I heard the noise of
their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the
Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood,
they let down their wings. {1:25} There was a voice above the expanse
that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.
{1:26} Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of
a throne, as the appearance of a [3>]sapphire[<3] stone; and on the
likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it
above. {1:27} I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire
within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and
from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the
appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him. {1:28} As the
appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so
was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I
fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

    {2:1} He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will
speak with you. {2:2} The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me,
and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me. {2:3} He said
to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of
rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have
transgressed against me even to this very day. {2:4} The children are
impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall
tell them, Thus says the [4>]Lord[<4] Yahweh. {2:5} They, whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious
house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them. {2:6}
You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among
scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their
looks, though they are a rebellious house. {2:7} You shall speak my
words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear;
for they are most rebellious. {2:8} But you, son of man, hear what I
tell you; don't be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your
mouth, and eat that which I give you. {2:9} When I looked, behold, a
hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;
{2:10} He spread it before me: and it was written within and without;
and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.



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

    {4:1} You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before
yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: {4:2} and lay siege
against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it;
set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all
around. {4:3} Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it
shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a
sign to the house of Israel. {4:4} Moreover lie on your left side, and
lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number
of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
{4:5} For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a
number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel. {4:6} Again, when you have
accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear
the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year,
have I appointed it to you. {4:7} You shall set your face toward the
siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy
against it. {4:8} Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn
you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of
your siege. {4:9} Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans,
and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and
make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall
lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.
{4:10} Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
a day: from time to time you shall eat it. {4:11} You shall drink water
by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
{4:12} You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their
sight with dung that comes out of man. {4:13} Yahweh said, Even thus
shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations
where I will drive them. {4:14} Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my
soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I
not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither
came there abominable flesh into my mouth. {4:15} Then he said to me,
Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall
prepare your bread thereon. {4:16} Moreover he said to me, Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall
eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water
by measure, and in dismay: {4:17} that they may want bread and water,
and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

    {5:1} You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a
barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on
your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. {5:2} A
third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when
the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part,
and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter
to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. {5:3} You shall
take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. {5:4} Of
these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire,
and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the
house of Israel. {5:5} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I
have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
{5:6} She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more
than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that
are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my
statutes, they have not walked in them. {5:7} Therefore thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are
around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my
ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that
are around you; {5:8} therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I,
even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of
you in the sight of the nations. {5:9} I will do in you that which I
have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because
of all your abominations. {5:10} Therefore the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I
will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I
scatter to all the winds. {5:11} Therefore as I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your
detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I
also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no
pity. {5:12} A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and
with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third
part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will
scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. {5:13}
Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward
them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I,
Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on
them. {5:14} Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among
the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
{5:15} So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute
judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I,
Yahweh, have spoken it;) {5:16} when I shall send on them the evil
arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to
destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your
staff of bread; {5:17} and I will send on you famine and evil animals,
and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through
you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

    {6:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {6:2} Son of man, set
your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, {6:3}
and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the
watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword
on you, and I will destroy your high places. {6:4} Your altars shall
become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will
cast down your slain men before your idols. {6:5} I will lay the dead
bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter
your bones around your altars. {6:6} In all your dwelling places 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 incense altars may be cut down, and your
works may be abolished. {6:7} The slain shall fall in the midst of you,
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {6:8} Yet will I leave a remnant,
in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations,
when you shall be scattered through the countries. {6:9} Those of you
that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be
carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart,
which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the
prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their
own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their
abominations. {6:10} They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said
in vain that I would do this evil to them. {6:11} Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas!
because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they
shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. {6:12}
He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall
fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the
famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them. {6:13} You shall know
that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols
around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the
mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the
places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols. {6:14} I
will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste,
from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations:
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.



    {7:1} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {7:2} You,
son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end:
the end has come on the four corners of the land. {7:3} Now is the end
on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according
to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. {7:4} My
eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring
your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {7:5} Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. {7:6} An end has come, the end
has come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. {7:7} Your doom has
come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is
near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.
{7:8} Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my
anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I
will bring on you all your abominations. {7:9} My eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways;
and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, do strike. {7:10} Behold, the day, behold, it comes:
your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
{7:11} Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them
shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall
be nothing of value among them. {7:12} The time has come, the day draws
near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is
on all its multitude. {7:13} For the seller shall not return to that
which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching
the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. {7:14} They have blown
the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for
my wrath is on all its multitude. {7:15} The sword is outside, and the
pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with
the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall
devour him. {7:16} But those of those who escape shall escape, and
shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them
moaning, every one in his iniquity. {7:17} All hands shall be feeble,
and all knees shall be weak as water. {7:18} They shall also clothe
themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall
be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. {7:19} They shall
cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean
thing; 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 has been the stumbling block of
their iniquity. {7:20} As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in
majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their
detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an
unclean thing. {7:21} 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
profane it. {7:22} My face will I turn also from them, and they shall
profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane
it. {7:23} Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and
the city is full of violence. {7:24} Therefore I will bring the worst
of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make
the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be
profaned. {7:25} Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and
there shall be none. {7:26} Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor
shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the
law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. {7:27}
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 to
them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge
them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

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

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

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

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

   {12:1} The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying, {12:2} Son of
man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to
see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are
a rebellious house. {12:3} Therefore, you son of man, prepare your
stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and you shall move
from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they are a rebellious house. {12:4} You shall bring
forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving; and you
shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth
into exile. {12:5} Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your
stuff out that way. {12:6} In their sight you shall bear it on your
shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, so
that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house
of Israel. {12:7} I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff
by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall
with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my
shoulder in their sight. {12:8} In the morning came the word of Yahweh
to me, saying, {12:9} Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the
rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing? {12:10} Say to them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden concerns the prince in
Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. {12:11}
Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them;
they shall go into exile, into captivity. {12:12} The prince who is
among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth:
they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover
his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes. {12:13} My
net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I
will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he
not see it, though he shall die there. {12:14} I will scatter toward
every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I
will draw out the sword after them. {12:15} They shall know that I am
Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them
through the countries. {12:16} 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 nations where they come; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh. {12:17} Moreover the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, {12:18} Son of man, eat your bread with quaking,
and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness; {12:19} and
tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their
bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land
may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of
all those who dwell therein. {12:20} The cities that are inhabited
shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall
know that I am Yahweh. {12:21} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{12:22} Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails? {12:23}
Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this
proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel;
but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every
vision. {12:24} For there shall be no more any false vision nor
flattering divination within the house of Israel. {12:25} For I am
Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be
performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious
house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord
Yahweh. {12:26} Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {12:27}
Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he
sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far
off. {12:28} Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: None of my
words shall be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak
shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

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

   {15:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {15:2} Son of man,
what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is
among the trees of the forest? {15:3} Shall wood be taken of it to make
any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
{15:4} Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured
both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for any work?
{15:5} Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be
meet for any work! {15:6} Therefore thus says 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 Jerusalem. {15:7} I will
set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the
fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set
my face against them. {15:8} I will make the land desolate, because
they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

   {17:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {17:2} Son of man, put
forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; {17:3} and
say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long
feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon,
and took the top of the cedar: {17:4} he cropped off the topmost of the
young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a
city of merchants. {17:5} He took also of the seed of the land, and
planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set
it as a willow tree. {17:6} It grew, and became a spreading vine of low
stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under
him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth
sprigs. {17:7} There was also another great eagle with great wings and
many feathers: and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and
shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation,
that he might water it. {17:8} It was planted in a good soil by many
waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear
fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. {17:9} Say, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off
its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may
wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from
its roots. {17:10} Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall
it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither
in the beds where it grew. {17:11} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, {17:12} Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know
what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to
Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him
to Babylon: {17:13} and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant
with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty
of the land; {17:14} that the kingdom might be base, that it might not
lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
{17:15} But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the
covenant, and yet escape? {17:16} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath
he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of
Babylon he shall die. {17:17} Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty
army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds
and build forts, to cut off many persons. {17:18} For he has despised
the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand,
and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape. {17:19}
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he
has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it
on his own head. {17:20} I will spread my net on him, and he shall be
taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into
judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against
me. {17:21} All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword,
and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you
shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it. {17:22} Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set
it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one,
and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain: {17:23} 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 birds of every wing; in the shade of its branches shall they
dwell. {17:24} 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.

   {18:1} The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, {18:2} What do
you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth
are set on edge? {18:3} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not
have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel. {18:4} Behold,
all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the
son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die. {18:5} But if a man is
just, and does that which is lawful and right, {18:6} and has not eaten
on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has
come near to a woman in her impurity, {18:7} and has not wronged any,
but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by
robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked
with a garment; {18:8} he who has not given forth on interest, neither
has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has
executed true justice between man and man, {18:9} has walked in my
statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he
shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh. {18:10} If he fathers a son
who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these
things, {18:11} and who does not any of those [duties], but even has
eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, {18:12} has
wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the
pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed
abomination, {18:13} has given forth on interest, and has taken
increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him. {18:14}
Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which
he has done, and fears, and does not such like; {18:15} who has not
eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife, {18:16}
neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has
taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has
covered the naked with a garment; {18:17} who has withdrawn his hand
from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed
my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the
iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. {18:18} As for his
father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that
which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his
iniquity. {18:19} Yet you say, Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of
the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and
has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
{18:20} The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the
wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. {18:21} But if the wicked
turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes,
and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall
not die. {18:22} None of his transgressions that he has committed shall
be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he
shall live. {18:23} Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?
says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his
way, and live? {18:24} But when the righteous turns away from his
righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the
abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his
righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass
that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them
shall he die. {18:25} Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways
unequal? {18:26} When the righteous man turns away from his
righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity
that he has done shall he die. {18:27} Again, when the wicked man turns
away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is
lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. {18:28} Because he
considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. {18:29} Yet the
house of Israel says, "The way of the Lord is not fair." House of
Israel, aren't my ways fair? Aren't your ways unfair? {18:30} Therefore
I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says
the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. {18:31} Cast away
from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and
make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house
of Israel? {18:32} For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,
says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

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

   {20:1} It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the
tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to
inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me. {20:2} The word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, {20:3} Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell
them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have
come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by
you. {20:4} Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause
them to know the abominations of their fathers; {20:5} and tell them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to
the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the
land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;
{20:6} in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land
of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with
milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. {20:7} I said to them,
Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile
yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God. {20:8} But
they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they each didn't
throw away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the
idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
{20:9} But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned
in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I
made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of
Egypt. {20:10} So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
and brought them into the wilderness. {20:11} I gave them my statutes,
and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in
them. {20:12} Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who
sanctifies them. {20:13} But the house of Israel rebelled against me in
the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my
ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths
they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in
the wilderness, to consume them. {20:14} But I worked for my name's
sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in
whose sight I brought them out. {20:15} Moreover also I swore to them
in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I
had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands; {20:16} because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in
my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their
idols. {20:17} Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy
them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. {20:18}
I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes
of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile
yourselves with their idols. {20:19} I am Yahweh your God: walk in my
statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; {20:20} and make my
Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you
may know that I am Yahweh your God. {20:21} But the children rebelled
against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances
to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my
Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish
my anger against them in the wilderness. {20:22} Nevertheless I
withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them
forth. {20:23} Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would
scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the
countries; {20:24} because they had not executed my ordinances, but had
rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were
after their fathers' idols. {20:25} Moreover also I gave them statutes
that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
{20:26} and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to
pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh. {20:27}
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers
blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
{20:28} For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to
give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and
they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant
aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings. {20:29} Then I
said to them, What does the high place where you go mean? So its name
is called Bamah to this day. {20:30} Therefore tell the house of
Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves in the way
of your fathers? and do you play the prostitute after their
abominations? {20:31} and when you offer your gifts, when you make your
sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your
idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel?
As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;
{20:32} and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in
that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the
countries, to serve wood and stone. {20:33} As I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and
with wrath poured out, will I be king over you: {20:34} and I will
bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the
countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out; {20:35} and I will bring
you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into
judgment with you face to face. {20:36} Like as I entered into judgment
with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I
enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh. {20:37} I will
cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of
the covenant; {20:38} and I will purge out from among you the rebels,
and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the
land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {20:39} As for you, house of
Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go, serve everyone his idols, and
hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you
shall no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols. {20:40} For
in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the
Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me
in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your
offerings, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy
things. {20:41} As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you
out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of
the nations. {20:42} You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall
bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to
give to your fathers. {20:43} There you shall remember your ways, and
all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have
committed. {20:44} You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt
with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor
according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord
Yahweh. {20:45} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {20:46} Son of
man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the
south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
{20:47} and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus
says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall
devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
be burnt thereby. {20:48} All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have
kindled it; it shall not be quenched. {20:49} Then I said, Ah Lord
Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?

   {21:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {21:2} Son of man, set
your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the
sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel; {21:3} and tell
the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and
will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you
the righteous and the wicked. {21:4} Seeing then that I will cut off
from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go
forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
{21:5} and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my
sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more. {21:6} Sigh
therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with
bitterness you will sigh before their eyes. {21:7} It shall be, when
they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the
news, for it comes; 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 comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
{21:8} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {21:9} Son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is
sharpened, and also furbished; {21:10} it is sharpened that it may make
a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then
make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree. {21:11} It is
given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is
sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the
killer. {21:12} Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is
on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with
my people; strike therefore on your thigh. {21:13} For there is a
trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says
the Lord Yahweh. {21:14} You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and
strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third
time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one
who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms. {21:15} I have
set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may
melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning,
it is pointed for slaughter. {21:16} Gather yourselves together, go to
the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face
is set. {21:17} I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause
my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. {21:18} The word of Yahweh
came to me again, saying, {21:19} Also, you son of man, appoint two
ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall
come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the
head of the way to the city. {21:20} You shall appoint a way for the
sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in
Jerusalem the fortified. {21:21} For the king of Babylon stood at the
parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he
shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked
in the liver. {21:22} In his right hand was the divination [for]
Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the
gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts. {21:23} It shall be to them
as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but
he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. {21:24} Therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be
remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all
your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you
shall be taken with the hand. {21:25} You, deadly wounded wicked one,
the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity
of the end, {21:26} thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and
take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which
is low, and abase that which is high. {21:27} I will overturn,
overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose
right it is; and I will give it [him]. {21:28} You, son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of
Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is
drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that
it may be as lightning; {21:29} while they see for you false visions,
while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked
who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity
of the end. {21:30} Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place
where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
{21:31} I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with
the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish
men, skillful to destroy. {21:32} You shall be for fuel to the fire;
your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered
no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

   {22:1} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {22:2} You,
son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause
her to know all her abominations. {22:3} You shall say, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time
may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! {22:4}
You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are
defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your
days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore have I
made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
{22:5} Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock
you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult. {22:6} Behold, the princes
of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed
blood. {22:7} In you have they set light by father and mother; in the
midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you
have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. {22:8} You have
despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. {22:9}
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have
eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed
lewdness. {22:10} In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness;
in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. {22:11}
One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has
lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his
sister, his father's daughter. {22:12} In you have they taken bribes to
shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily
gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the
Lord Yahweh. {22:13} Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your
dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in
the midst of you. {22:14} Can your heart endure, or can your hands be
strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken
it, and will do it. {22:15} I will scatter you among the nations, and
disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness
out of you. {22:16} You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of
the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {22:17} The word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, {22:18} Son of man, the house of Israel has
become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in
the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. {22:19}
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have all become dross,
therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
{22:20} As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into
the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I
gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and
melt you. {22:21} Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire
of my wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. {22:22} As silver is
melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst;
and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
{22:23} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {22:24} Son of man, tell
her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of
indignation. {22:25} There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its
midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls;
they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many
in its midst. {22:26} Her priests have done violence to my law, and
have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the
holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between
the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths,
and I am profaned among them. {22:27} Her princes in its midst are like
wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that
they may get dishonest gain. {22:28} Her prophets have plastered for
them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them,
saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. {22:29}
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery;
yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the
foreigner wrongfully. {22:30} I sought for a man among them, who should
build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I
should not destroy it; but I found none. {22:31} Therefore have I
poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire
of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord
Yahweh.

   {23:1} The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, {23:2} Son of
man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: {23:3} and they
played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their
youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the
bosom of their virginity. {23:4} Their names were Oholah the elder, and
Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and
daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem
Oholibah. {23:5} Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and
she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, {23:6} who
were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable
young men, horsemen riding on horses. {23:7} She bestowed her
prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on
whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. {23:8}
Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in
her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her
virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her. {23:9}
Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of
the Assyrians, on whom she doted. {23:10} These uncovered her
nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed
with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed
judgments on her. {23:11} Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she
more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were
more than the prostitution of her sister. {23:12} She doted on the
Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
{23:13} I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. {23:14} She
increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, {23:15} dressed with
girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of
them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in
Chaldea, the land of their birth. {23:16} As soon as she saw them she
doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. {23:17} The
Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with
their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was
alienated from them. {23:18} So she uncovered her prostitution, and
uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as
my soul was alienated from her sister. {23:19} Yet she multiplied her
prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had
played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. {23:20} She doted on their
paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is
like the issue of horses. {23:21} Thus you called to memory the
lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians
for the breasts of your youth. {23:22} Therefore, Oholibah, thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from
whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every
side: {23:23} the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and
Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors
and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding
on horses. {23:24} They shall come against you with weapons, chariots,
and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves
against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around; and I will
commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to
their judgments. {23:25} I will set my jealousy against you, and they
shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your
ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your
sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the
fire. {23:26} They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away
your beautiful jewels. {23:27} Thus will I make your lewdness to cease
from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so
that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any
more. {23:28} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you
into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom
your soul is alienated; {23:29} and they shall deal with you in hatred,
and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare;
and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your
lewdness and your prostitution. {23:30} These things shall be done to
you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and
because you are polluted with their idols. {23:31} You have walked in
the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.
{23:32} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup,
which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it
contains much. {23:33} You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your
sister Samaria. {23:34} You shall even drink it and drain it out, and
you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts;
for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. {23:35} Therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your
back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.
{23:36} Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah
and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations. {23:37} For they
have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their
idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their
sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be
devoured. {23:38} Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled
my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. {23:39}
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came
the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have
they done in the midst of my house. {23:40} Furthermore you have sent
for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold,
they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and
decorate yourself with ornaments, {23:41} and sit on a stately bed,
with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my
oil. {23:42} The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and
with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness;
and they put bracelets on their hands [twain], and beautiful crowns on
their heads. {23:43} Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now
will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them]. {23:44}
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to
Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. {23:45} Righteous men, they
shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the
judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and
blood is in their hands. {23:46} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will
bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back
and forth and robbed. {23:47} The company shall stone them with stones,
and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and
their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. {23:48} Thus will
I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught
not to do after your lewdness. {23:49} They shall recompense your
lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you
shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

   {24:1} Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
[day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {24:2} Son
of man, write the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of
Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. {24:3} Utter a parable
to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set
on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it: {24:4} gather
its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder;
fill it with the choice bones. {24:5} Take the choice of the flock, and
also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil
well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst. {24:6} Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust
is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece
after piece; No lot is fallen on it. {24:7} For her blood is in the
midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the
ground, to cover it with dust. {24:8} That it may cause wrath to come
up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it
should not be covered. {24:9} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe
to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. {24:10} Heap on
the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the
broth, and let the bones be burned. {24:11} Then set it empty on its
coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its
filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed. {24:12}
She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go
forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire. {24:13} In your
filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't
cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more,
until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest. {24:14} I, Yahweh,
have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back,
neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways,
and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord
Yahweh. {24:15} Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {24:16} Son
of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with
a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your
tears run down. {24:17} Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the
dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and
don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. {24:18} So I spoke to
the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the
morning as I was commanded. {24:19} The people said to me, Won't you
tell us what these things are to us, that you do so? {24:20} Then I
said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {24:21} Speak to
the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane
my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and
that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you
have left behind shall fall by the sword. {24:22} You shall do as I
have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
{24:23} Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet:
you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your
iniquities, and moan one toward another. {24:24} Thus Ezekiel shall be
a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When
this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {24:25} You,
son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that
whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, {24:26}
that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear
it with your ears? {24:27} In that day your mouth will be opened to him
who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will
be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

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

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

   {27:1} The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, {27:2} You, son
of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; {27:3} and tell Tyre, you who
dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to
many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am
perfect in beauty. {27:4} Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders have perfected your beauty. {27:5} They have made all
your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from
Lebanon to make a mast for you. {27:6} Of the oaks of Bashan have they
made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
from the islands of Kittim. {27:7} Of fine linen with embroidered work
from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for a banner; blue
and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning. {27:8} The
inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre,
were in you, they were your pilots. {27:9} The old men of Gebal and the
wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships
of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
{27:10} Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they
hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
{27:11} The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,
and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your
walls all around; they have perfected your beauty. {27:12} Tarshish was
your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with
silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares. {27:13} Javan,
Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons
of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise. {27:14} They of the
house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and war horses and
mules. {27:15} The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands
were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of
ivory and ebony. {27:16} Syria was your merchant by reason of the
multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds,
purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
{27:17} Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they
traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and
honey, and oil, and balm. {27:18} Damascus was your merchant for the
multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds
of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. {27:19} Vedan and
Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and
calamus, were among your merchandise. {27:20} Dedan was your trafficker
in precious cloths for riding. {27:21} Arabia, and all the princes of
Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and
goats, in these were they your merchants. {27:22} The traffickers of
Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your
wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and
gold. {27:23} Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba,
Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers. {27:24} These were your
traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work,
and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar,
among your merchandise. {27:25} The ships of Tarshish were your
caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very
glorious in the heart of the seas. {27:26} Your rowers have brought you
into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the
seas. {27:27} Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your
mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the
dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you,
with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the
heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. {27:28} At the sound of the
cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake. {27:29} All who handled the
oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down
from their ships; they shall stand on the land, {27:30} and shall cause
their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall
cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
{27:31} and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with
bitter mourning. {27:32} In their wailing they shall take up a
lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like
Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
{27:33} When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many
peoples; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your
riches and of your merchandise. {27:34} In the time that you were
broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and
all your company fell in your midst. {27:35} All the inhabitants of the
islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid;
they are troubled in their face. {27:36} The merchants among the
peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore
have any being.

   {28:1} The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, {28:2} Son of
man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your
heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of
God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you
set your heart as the heart of God--{28:3} behold, you are wiser than
Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; {28:4} by your
wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and
have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; {28:5} by your great
wisdom [and] by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your
heart is lifted up because of your riches--{28:6} therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
{28:7} therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible
of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of
your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. {28:8} They shall
bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are
slain, in the heart of the seas. {28:9} Will you yet say before him who
kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him
who wounds you. {28:10} You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by
the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
{28:11} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {28:12} Son of
man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect
in beauty. {28:13} You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious
stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper,
[7>]sapphire[<7], turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of
pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
{28:14} You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so
that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down
in the midst of the stones of fire. {28:15} You were perfect in your
ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was
found in you. {28:16} By the abundance of your traffic they filled the
midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast
you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. {28:17} Your
heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your
wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I
have laid you before kings, that they may see you. {28:18} By the
multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic,
you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a
fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you
to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. {28:19}
All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you:
you have become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
{28:20} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {28:21} Son of man, set
your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, {28:22} and say, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be
glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh,
when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in
her. {28:23} For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword
on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. {28:24}
There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a
hurting thorn of any that are around them, that scorned them; and they
shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {28:25} Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples
among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the
sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I
gave to my servant Jacob. {28:26} They shall dwell securely therein;
yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell
securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them
despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.

   {29:1} In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of
the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {29:2} "Son of man,
set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him
and against all Egypt. {29:3} Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great
monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river
is my own, and I have made it for myself.' {29:4} I will put hooks in
your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your
scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with
all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. {29:5} I'll
cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your
rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought together,
nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and
to the birds of the sky. {29:6} All the inhabitants of Egypt will know
that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house
of Israel. {29:7} When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke,
and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke,
and paralyzed all of their thighs." {29:8} Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and
animal from you. {29:9} The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a
waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, 'The
river is mine, and I have made it;' {29:10} therefore, behold, I am
against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt
an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the
border of Ethiopia. {29:11} No foot of man shall pass through it, nor
foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited
forty years. {29:12} I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the
midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the
cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I
will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries." {29:13} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the
end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where
they were scattered; {29:14} and I will bring back the captivity of
Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the
land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom. {29:15} It
shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift
itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall
no more rule over the nations. {29:16} It shall be no more the
confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when
they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord
Yahweh."'" {29:17} It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in
the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, {29:18} Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his
army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. {29:19}
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her
multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the
wages for his army. {29:20} I have given him the land of Egypt as his
recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the
Lord Yahweh. {29:21} In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to
the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in
their midst; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

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

   {31:1} It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in
the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, {31:2} Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? {31:3} Behold, the
Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a
forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick
boughs. {31:4} The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its
rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to
all the trees of the field. {31:5} Therefore its stature was exalted
above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and
its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them]
forth. {31:6} All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs;
and under its branches all the animals of the field brought forth their
young; and all great nations lived under its shadow. {31:7} Thus was it
beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root
was by many waters. {31:8} The cedars in the garden of God could not
hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees
were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it
in its beauty. {31:9} I made it beautiful by the multitude of its
branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of
God, envied it. {31:10} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because
you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick
boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; {31:11} I will even
deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall
surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness. {31:12}
Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left
him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all
the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left
him. {31:13} On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all
the animals of the field shall be on his branches; {31:14} to the end
that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their
stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their
mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for
they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in
the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
{31:15} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to
[8>]Sheol[<8] I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused
Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for
him. {31:16} I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when
I cast him down to [9>]Sheol[<9] with those who descend into the pit;
and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that
drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. {31:17}
They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the
sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in
the midst of the nations. {31:18} To whom are you thus like in glory
and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down
with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie
in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the
sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

   {32:1} It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{32:2} Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you
are as a monster in the seas; and you broke out with your rivers, and
troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. {32:3}
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a
company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net. {32:4}
I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will
satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. {32:5} I will lay your
flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. {32:6} I
will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the
mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you. {32:7} When I
shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars
dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give
its light. {32:8} All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark
over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh. {32:9} I
will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your
destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not
known. {32:10} Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their
kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword
before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his
own life, in the day of your fall. {32:11} For thus says the Lord
Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you. {32:12} By
the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; the
terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing
the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed. {32:13} I
will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters; neither
shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals
trouble them. {32:14} Then will I make their waters clear, and cause
their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh. {32:15} When I
shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of
that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell
therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh. {32:16} This is the
lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations
shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall
they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh. {32:17} It happened also
in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, that the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, {32:18} Son of man, wail for the
multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of
the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go
down into the pit. {32:19} Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be
laid with the uncircumcised. {32:20} They shall fall in the midst of
those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw
her away and all her multitudes. {32:21} The strong among the mighty
shall speak to him out of the midst of [10>]Sheol[<10] with those who
help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised,
slain by the sword. {32:22} Asshur is there and all her company; her
graves are all around her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
{32:23} whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her
company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
who caused terror in the land of the living. {32:24} There is Elam and
all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the
earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have
borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. {32:25} They have
set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her
graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have
borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the
midst of those who are slain. {32:26} There is Meshech, Tubal, and all
their multitude; their graves are around them; all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the
land of the living. {32:27} They shall not lie with the mighty who are
fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their
weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their
iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty
in the land of the living. {32:28} But you shall be broken in the midst
of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the
sword. {32:29} There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in
their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall
lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
{32:30} There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they
caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised
with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those
who go down to the pit. {32:31} Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be
comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain
by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. {32:32} For I have put his terror
in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the
uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and
all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

   {34:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {34:2} Son of man,
prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even
to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of
Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
{34:3} You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill
the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. {34:4} You haven't
strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick,
neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you
brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that
which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
{34:5} They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they
became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. {34:6}
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill:
yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there
was none who searched or sought. {34:7} Therefore, you shepherds, hear
the word of Yahweh: {34:8} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely
because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the
animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and
didn't feed my sheep; {34:9} therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of
Yahweh: {34:10} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the
shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to
cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that
they may not be food for them. {34:11} For thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them
out. {34:12} As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is
among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep;
and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day. {34:13} I will bring them out
from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring
them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of
Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the
country. {34:14} I will feed them with good pasture; and on the
mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they
lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the
mountains of Israel. {34:15} I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep,
and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh. {34:16} I will
seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that
which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed
them in justice. {34:17} As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male
goats. {34:18} Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the
good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of
your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul
the residue with your feet? {34:19} As for my sheep, they eat that
which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you
have fouled with your feet. {34:20} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh
to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the
lean sheep. {34:21} Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and
push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them
abroad; {34:22} therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more
be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. {34:23} I will set
up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant
David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. {34:24} I,
Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I,
Yahweh, have spoken it. {34:25} I will make with them a covenant of
peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they
shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. {34:26}
I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will
cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of
blessing. {34:27} The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of
their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made
slaves of them. {34:28} They shall no more be a prey to the nations,
neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall
dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. {34:29} I will raise
up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed
with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any
more. {34:30} They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them,
and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord
Yahweh. {34:31} You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I
am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.



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

   {36:1} You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and
say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh. {36:2} Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The
ancient high places are ours in possession; {36:3} therefore prophesy,
and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have
made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might
be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in
the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; {36:4}
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the
watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the
cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the
residue of the nations that are all around; {36:5} therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken
against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have
appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all
their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. {36:6}
Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the
mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in
my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations: {36:7}
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the
nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame. {36:8} But
you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
{36:9} For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you
shall be tilled and sown; {36:10} and I will multiply men on you, all
the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited,
and the waste places shall be built; {36:11} and I will multiply on you
man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will
cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better
[to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
{36:12} Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you
shall no more henceforth bereave them of children. {36:13} Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men,
and have been a bereaver of your nation; {36:14} therefore you shall
devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord
Yahweh; {36:15} neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the
nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more,
neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord
Yahweh. {36:16} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {36:17}
Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they
defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as
the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. {36:18} Therefore I poured
out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the
land, and because they had defiled it with their idols; {36:19} and I
scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the
countries: according to their way and according to their doings I
judged them. {36:20} When they came to the nations, where they went,
they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the
people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land. {36:21} But I had
respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among
the nations, where they went. {36:22} Therefore tell the house of
Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake,
house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among
the nations, where you went. {36:23} I will sanctify my great name,
which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord
Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. {36:24}
For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all
the countries, and will bring you into your own land. {36:25} I will
sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. {36:26} I will
also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and
I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you
a heart of flesh. {36:27} I will put my Spirit within you, and cause
you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do
them. {36:28} You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. {36:29} I will save
you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will
multiply it, and lay no famine on you. {36:30} I will multiply the
fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive
no more the reproach of famine among the nations. {36:31} Then you
shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and
you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and
for your abominations. {36:32} Nor for your sake do I [this], says the
Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your
ways, house of Israel. {36:33} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day
that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to
be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. {36:34} The land
that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the
sight of all who passed by. {36:35} They shall say, This land that was
desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate
and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. {36:36} Then the nations
that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the
ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have
spoken it, and I will do it. {36:37} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For
this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it
for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. {36:38} As the
flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts,
so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh.

   {37:1} The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the
Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it
was full of bones. {37:2} He caused me to pass by them all around: and
behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were
very dry. {37:3} He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I
answered, Lord Yahweh, you know. {37:4} Again he said to me, Prophesy
over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of
Yahweh. {37:5} Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will
cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. {37:6} I will lay
sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin,
and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. {37:7} So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came
together, bone to its bone. {37:8} I saw, and, behold, there were
sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but
there was no breath in them. {37:9} Then he said to me, Prophesy to the
wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain,
that they may live. {37:10} So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an
exceedingly great army. {37:11} Then he said to me, Son of man, these
bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are
dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. {37:12} Therefore
prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open
your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people;
and I will bring you into the land of Israel. {37:13} You shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to
come up out of your graves, my people. {37:14} I will put my Spirit in
you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you
shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says
Yahweh. {37:15} The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, {37:16}
You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for
the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and
write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house
of Israel his companions: {37:17} and join them for you one to another
into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. {37:18} When the
children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show
us what you mean by these? {37:19} tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand
of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put
them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
and they shall be one in my hand. {37:20} The sticks whereon you write
shall be in your hand before their eyes. {37:21} Say to them, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among
the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land: {37:22} and I will make them one
nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be
king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall
they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; {37:23} neither
shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their
detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will
save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned,
and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their
God. {37:24} My servant David shall be king over them; and they all
shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and
observe my statutes, and do them. {37:25} They shall dwell in the land
that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and
they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their
children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their
prince for ever. {37:26} Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place
them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst
forevermore. {37:27} My tent also shall be with them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people. {37:28} The nations shall know
that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in
their midst forevermore.

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

   {39:1} You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech,
and Tubal: {39:2} and I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and
will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I
will bring you on the mountains of Israel; {39:3} and I will strike
your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out
of your right hand. {39:4} You shall fall on the mountains of Israel,
you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give
you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the
field to be devoured. {39:5} You shall fall on the open field; for I
have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. {39:6} I will send a fire on
Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh. {39:7} My holy name will I make known in the
midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be
profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the
Holy One in Israel. {39:8} Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says
the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken. {39:9}
Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make
fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers,
the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they
shall make fires of them seven years; {39:10} so that they shall take
no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for
they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who
plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
{39:11} It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place
for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east
of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall
they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley
of Hamon Gog. {39:12} Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying
them, that they may cleanse the land. {39:13} Yes, all the people of
the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day
that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh. {39:14} They shall set
apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land,
and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on
the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months
shall they search. {39:15} Those who pass through the land shall pass
through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by
it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
{39:16} Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they
cleanse the land. {39:17} You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my
sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the
mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. {39:18}
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of
them fatlings of Bashan. {39:19} You shall eat fat until you be full,
and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have
sacrificed for you. {39:20} You shall be filled at my table with horses
and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord
Yahweh. {39:21} I will set my glory among the nations; and all the
nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid on them. {39:22} So the house of Israel shall know that I am
Yahweh their God, from that day and forward. {39:23} The nations shall
know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity;
because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I
gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them
by the sword. {39:24} According to their uncleanness and according to
their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
{39:25} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the
captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I
will be jealous for my holy name. {39:26} They shall bear their shame,
and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when
they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them
afraid; {39:27} when I have brought them back from the peoples, and
gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in
the sight of many nations. {39:28} They shall know that I am Yahweh
their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the
nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave
none of them any more there; {39:29} neither will I hide my face any
more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh.

   {40:1} In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the
beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the
fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the
hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there. {40:2} In the
visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down
on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on
the south. {40:3} He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man,
whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax
in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. {40:4} The
man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your
ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the
intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all
that you see to the house of Israel. {40:5} Behold, a wall on the
outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed
six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the
thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. {40:6}
Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its
steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and
the other threshold, one reed broad. {40:7} Every lodge was one reed
long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five
cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward
the house was one reed. {40:8} He measured also the porch of the gate
toward the house, one reed. {40:9} Then measured he the porch of the
gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the
gate was toward the house. {40:10} The lodges of the gate eastward were
three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one
measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
{40:11} He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits;
and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; {40:12} and a border
before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on
that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side. {40:13} He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge
to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against
door. {40:14} He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached]
to the posts, around the gate. {40:15} [From] the forefront of the gate
at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were
fifty cubits. {40:16} There were closed windows to the lodges, and to
their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and
windows were around inward; and on [each] post were palm trees. {40:17}
Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms
and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the
pavement. {40:18} The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable
to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. {40:19} Then he
measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the
forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the
east and on the north. {40:20} The gate of the outer court whose
prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.
{40:21} The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that
side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first
gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
{40:22} The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it,
were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east;
and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.
{40:23} There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other]
gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to
gate one hundred cubits. {40:24} He led me toward the south; and
behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its
arches according to these measures. {40:25} There were windows in it
and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. {40:26} There were seven
steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm
trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.
{40:27} There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he
measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. {40:28}
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
measured the south gate according to these measures; {40:29} and its
lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and
there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty
cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. {40:30} There were arches
all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad. {40:31} The
arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its
posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps. {40:32} He brought me into
the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to
these measures; {40:33} and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches,
according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its
arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits
broad. {40:34} The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm
trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent
to it had eight steps. {40:35} He brought me to the north gate: and he
measured [it] according to these measures; {40:36} its lodges, its
posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the
length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. {40:37}
The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its
posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight
steps. {40:38} A room with its door was by the posts at the gates;
there they washed the burnt offering. {40:39} In the porch of the gate
were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill
thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass
offering. {40:40} On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the
entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other
side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. {40:41}
Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the
side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices].
{40:42} There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a
cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit
high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the
burnt offering and the sacrifice. {40:43} The hooks, a handbreadth
long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh
of the offering. {40:44} Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the
singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate;
and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east
gate having the prospect toward the north. {40:45} He said to me, This
room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the
keepers of the duty of the house; {40:46} and the room whose prospect
is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the
altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi
come near to Yahweh to minister to him. {40:47} He measured the court,
one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and
the altar was before the house. {40:48} Then he brought me to the porch
of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this
side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was
three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. {40:49} The
length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits;
even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars
by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

   {41:1} He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six
cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was the breadth of the tent. {41:2} The breadth of the entrance
was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the
one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its
length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. {41:3} Then went
he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the
entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
{41:4} He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty
cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy
place. {41:5} Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and
the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on
every side. {41:6} The side rooms were in three stories, one over
another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which
belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might
have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house. {41:7}
The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and
higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around
the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and
so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle
[room]. {41:8} I saw also that the house had a raised base all around:
the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.
{41:9} The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the
outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the
side rooms that belonged to the house. {41:10} Between the rooms was a
breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side. {41:11} The
doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door
toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of
the place that was left was five cubits all around. {41:12} The
building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west
was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits
thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. {41:13} So he measured
the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the
building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; {41:14} also the
breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the
east, one hundred cubits. {41:15} He measured the length of the
building before the separate place which was at its back, and its
galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits;
and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; {41:16} the
thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their
three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all
around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were
covered), {41:17} to [the space] above the door, even to the inner
house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside,
by measure. {41:18} It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a
palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two
faces; {41:19} so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree
on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on
the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house all around:
{41:20} from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees
made: thus was the wall of the temple. {41:21} As for the temple, the
door posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the
appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple]. {41:22} The
altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and
its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said
to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh. {41:23} The temple and
the sanctuary had two doors. {41:24} The doors had two leaves [apiece],
two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for
the other. {41:25} There were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was
a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. {41:26} There
were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other
side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house,
and the thresholds.

   {42:1} Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the
separate place, and which was over against the building toward the
north. {42:2} Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north
door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. {42:3} Over against the twenty
[cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the
pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery
in the third story. {42:4} Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits'
breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the
north. {42:5} Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took
away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the
building. {42:6} For they were in three stories, and they didn't have
pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was
straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. {42:7}
The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer
court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. {42:8} For the
length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and
behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. {42:9} From under
these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from
the outer court. {42:10} In the thickness of the wall of the court
toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building,
there were rooms. {42:11} The way before them was like the appearance
of [the way of] the rooms which were toward the north; according to
their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both
according to their fashions, and according to their doors. {42:12}
According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a
door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall
toward the east, as one enters into them. {42:13} Then he said to me,
The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate
place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to
Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most
holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the
trespass offering; for the place is holy. {42:14} When the priests
enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer
court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister;
for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall
approach to that which pertains to the people. {42:15} Now when he had
made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the
way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all
around. {42:16} He measured on the east side with the measuring reed
five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. {42:17} He
measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed
all around. {42:18} He measured on the south side five hundred reeds
with the measuring reed. {42:19} He turned about to the west side, and
measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. {42:20} He
measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five
hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between
that which was holy and that which was common.

   {43:1} Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks
toward the east. {43:2} Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many
waters; and the earth shined with his glory. {43:3} It was according to
the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision
that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like
the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
{43:4} The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east. {43:5} The Spirit took me up, and
brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled
the house. {43:6} I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a
man stood by me. {43:7} He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place
of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell
in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel
shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by
their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their
high places; {43:8} in their setting of their threshold by my
threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but]
the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by
their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed
them in my anger. {43:9} Now let them put away their prostitution, and
the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in their
midst forever. {43:10} You, son of man, show the house to the house of
Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them
measure the pattern. {43:11} If they be ashamed of all that they have
done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and
its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its
ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their
sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances,
and do them. {43:12} This is the law of the house: on the top of the
mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is
the law of the house. {43:13} These are the measures of the altar by
cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a
cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span;
and this shall be the base of the altar. {43:14} From the bottom on the
ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one
cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four
cubits, and the breadth a cubit. {43:15} The upper altar shall be four
cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
{43:16} The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad,
square in the four sides of it. {43:17} The ledge shall be fourteen
[cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border
about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around;
and its steps shall look toward the east. {43:18} He said to me, Son of
man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar
in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon,
and to sprinkle blood thereon. {43:19} You shall give to the priests
the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to
minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.
{43:20} You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of
it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around:
thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. {43:21} You shall
also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the
appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. {43:22} On the
second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with
the bull. {43:23} When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer
a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
blemish. {43:24} You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests
shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt
offering to Yahweh. {43:25} Seven days you shall prepare every day a
goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a
ram out of the flock, without blemish. {43:26} Seven days shall they
make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate
it. {43:27} When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on
the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt
offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept
you, says the Lord Yahweh.

   {44:1} Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the
sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. {44:2} Yahweh
said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither
shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has
entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. {44:3} As for the prince,
he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall
enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way
of the same. {44:4} Then he brought me by the way of the north gate
before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled
the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face. {44:5} Yahweh said to me,
Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears
all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of
Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with
every exit of the sanctuary. {44:6} You shall tell the rebellious, even
to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel,
let it suffice you of all your abominations, {44:7} in that you have
brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you
offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my
covenant, [to add] to all your abominations. {44:8} You have not
performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my
duty in my sanctuary for yourselves. {44:9} Thus says the Lord Yahweh,
No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall
enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children
of Israel. {44:10} But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel
went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear
their iniquity. {44:11} Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the
house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. {44:12}
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a
stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I
lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall
bear their iniquity. {44:13} They shall not come near to me, to execute
the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and
their abominations which they have committed. {44:14} Yet will I make
them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for
all that shall be done therein. {44:15} But the priests the Levites,
the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the
children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to
minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat
and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh: {44:16} they shall enter into my
sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and
they shall keep my instruction. {44:17} It shall be that, when they
enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in
the gates of the inner court, and within. {44:18} They shall have linen
tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists;
they shall not clothe themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.
{44:19} When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer
court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they
minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other
garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
{44:20} Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to
grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. {44:21}
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the
inner court. {44:22} Neither shall they take for their wives a widow,
nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the
house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. {44:23} They
shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. {44:24} In
a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances
shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all
my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy. {44:25} They
shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or
for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who
has had no husband, they may defile themselves. {44:26} After he is
cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. {44:27} In the day that
he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.
{44:28} They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you
shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. {44:29}
They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the
trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
{44:30} The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every
offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest:
you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a
blessing to rest on your house. {44:31} The priests shall not eat of
anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.

   {45:1} Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of
the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand
[reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all
its border all around. {45:2} Of this there shall be for the holy place
five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square all
around; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around. {45:3} Of this
measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a
breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is
most holy. {45:4} It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the
priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to
Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for
the sanctuary. {45:5} Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand
in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a
possession to themselves, [for] twenty rooms. {45:6} You shall appoint
the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five
thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it
shall be for the whole house of Israel. {45:7} [Whatever is] for the
prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy
offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy
offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side
westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to
one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. {45:8} In
the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the
house of Israel according to their tribes. {45:9} Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and
spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,
says the Lord Yahweh. {45:10} You shall have just balances, and a just
[11>]ephah,[<11] and a just bath. {45:11} The ephah and the bath shall
be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a
[12>]homer[<12], and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure
shall be after the homer. {45:12} The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be
your mina. {45:13} This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth
part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth
part of an ephah from a homer of barley; {45:14} and the set portion of
oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor,
[which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
{45:15} and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the
well-watered pastures of Israel--for a meal offering, and for a burnt
offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the
Lord Yahweh. {45:16} All the people of the land shall give to this
offering for the prince in Israel. {45:17} It shall be the prince's
part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink
offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in
all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the
sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the
peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. {45:18}
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first [month], in the first [day] of
the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; and you shall
cleanse the sanctuary. {45:19} The priest shall take of the blood of
the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the
four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of
the inner court. {45:20} So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the
month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you shall
make atonement for the house. {45:21} In the first [month], in the
fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of
seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. {45:22} On that day shall
the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a
bull for a sin offering. {45:23} The seven days of the feast he shall
prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
{45:24} He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an
ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. {45:25} In the seventh
[month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do
the like the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to
the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according
to the oil.



   {46:1} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that
looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the
Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall
be opened. {46:2} The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the
gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests
shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall
worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the
gate shall not be shut until the evening. {46:3} The people of the land
shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths
and on the new moons. {46:4} The burnt offering that the prince shall
offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish
and a ram without blemish; {46:5} and the meal offering shall be an
ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to
give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. {46:6} On the day of the new moon
it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram;
they shall be without blemish: {46:7} and he shall prepare a meal
offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the
lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. {46:8}
When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of
the gate, and he shall go forth by its way. {46:9} But when the people
of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who
enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the
way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate
shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the
way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth straight before
him. {46:10} The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; and
when they go out, he shall go out. {46:11} In the feasts and in the
solemnities the meal offering shall be an [13>]ephah[<13] for a bull,
and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a
hin of oil to an ephah. {46:12} When the prince shall prepare a
freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill
offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward
the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and
after his going forth one shall shut the gate. {46:13} You shall
prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to
Yahweh daily: morning by morning you shall prepare it. {46:14} You
shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth
part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the
fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual
ordinance. {46:15} Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal
offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt
offering. {46:16} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift
to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons;
it is their possession by inheritance. {46:17} But if he give of his
inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year
of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his
inheritance, it shall be for his sons. {46:18} Moreover the prince
shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out of their
possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own
possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his
possession. {46:19} Then he brought me through the entry, which was at
the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked
toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part
westward. {46:20} He said to me, This is the place where the priests
shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, [and] where they
shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them forth into the
outer court, to sanctify the people. {46:21} Then he brought me forth
into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the
court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
{46:22} In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of
one measure. {46:23} There was a wall around in them, around the four,
and boiling places were made under the walls all around. {46:24} Then
he said to me, These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the
house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.



   {47:1} He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold,
waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for
the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came
down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the
altar. {47:2} Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward,
and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of
[the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters
on the right side. {47:3} When the man went forth eastward with the
line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to
pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. {47:4} Again
he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters,
waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and
caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the waist.
{47:5} Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river that I
could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a
river that could not be passed through. {47:6} He said to me, Son of
man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return
to the bank of the river. {47:7} Now when I had returned, behold, on
the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the
other. {47:8} Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the
eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go
toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to
issue forth; and the waters shall be healed. {47:9} It shall happen,
that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the
rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of
fish; for these waters have come there, and [the waters of the sea]
shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
{47:10} It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi
even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their
fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many. {47:11} But the miry places of it, and its marshes,
shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt. {47:12} By the
river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree
for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it
shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out
of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for
healing. {47:13} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border,
by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the
twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions. {47:14} You
shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to
your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance. {47:15}
This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great
sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; {47:16} Hamath,
Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the
border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
{47:17} The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of
Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is
the north side. {47:18} The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and
Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north]
border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
{47:19} The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the
waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
This is the south side southward. {47:20} The west side shall be the
great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance
of Hamath. This is the west side. {47:21} So you shall divide this land
to you according to the tribes of Israel. {47:22} It shall happen, that
you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens
who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall
be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall
have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. {47:23} It shall
happen, that in what tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him
his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.



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





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

[2] {1:3} "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all
caps) in other translations.

[3] {1:26} or, lapis lazuli

[4] {2:4} The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."

[5] {3:7} Literally, have a hard forehead

[6] {10:1} or, lapis lazuli

[7] {28:13} or, lapis lazuli

[8] {31:15} Sheol is the place of the dead.

[9] {31:16} Sheol is the place of the dead.

[10] {32:21} Sheol is the place of the dead.

[11] {45:10} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

[12] {45:11} 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels

[13] {46:11} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

