THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL
King James Version
1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the
fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the
captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw
visions of God.
2 In the fifth
day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
3 The word of the
LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the
land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there
upon him.
4 ¶ And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of
the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was
about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst
of the fire.
5
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one
had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet
were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's
foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
8
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
and they four had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings
were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one
straight forward.
10 As for the
likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on
the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were
their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were
joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
12 And they went
every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went;
and they turned not when they went.
13 As for the
likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of
fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
14 And the living
creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one
wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance
of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four
had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17 When they
went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
18 As for their
rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of
eyes round about them four.
19
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when
the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the
spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels
were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in
the wheels.
21
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when
those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against
them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22 And the
likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the
colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
23
And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the
other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two,
which covered on that side, their bodies.
24 And when they
went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the
voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was
a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had
let down their wings.
26 ¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads
was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon
the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance
of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as
the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even
downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round
about.
28
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so
was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of
the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face,
and I heard a voice of one that spake.
1 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man,
stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered
into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that
spake unto me.
3 And he said
unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious
nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed
against me, even unto this very day.
4 For they are
impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
5 And they,
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet
among them.
6 ¶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither
be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost
dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their
looks, though they be a rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt
speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear:
for they are most rebellious.
8 But thou, son
of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious
house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
9
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of
a book was therein;
10 And he spread
it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written
therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
1 ¶ Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my
mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3 And he said
unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll
that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
4 And he said
unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my
words unto them.
5 For thou art
not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the
house of Israel;
6
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose
words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would
have hearkened unto thee.
7 But the house
of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for
all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy
forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant
harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed
at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he
said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
11 And go, get
thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto
them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear.
12 Then the
spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also
the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and
the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
14 So the spirit
lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to
them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat
where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
16 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I
have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at
my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18 When I say
unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor
speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou
warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a
righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay
a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given
him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done
shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless
if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not
sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy
soul.
22 ¶ And the hand of the LORD was there
upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there
talk with thee.
23 Then I arose,
and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there,
as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
24 Then the
spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
25 But thou, O
son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with
them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
26 And I will make
thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt
not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
27
But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
1 ¶ Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege
against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the
camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
3 Moreover take
thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the
city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of
Israel.
4 Lie thou also
upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it:
according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear
their iniquity.
5 For I have laid
upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the
days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the
house of Israel.
6 And when thou
hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the
iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a
year.
7
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and
thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I
will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to
another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 ¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and
beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in
one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days
that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat
thereof.
10 And thy meat
which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to
time shalt thou eat it.
11
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from
time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt
eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of
man, in their sight.
13 And the LORD
said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I,
Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even
till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said
unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou
shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover he
said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem:
and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water
by measure, and with astonishment:
17 That they may
want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume
away for their iniquity.
1 ¶ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take
thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard:
then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when
the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and
smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind;
and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 Thou shalt also
take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4
Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and
burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house
of Israel.
5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have
set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6 And she hath
changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my
statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have
refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round
about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments,
neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
8 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute
judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do
in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the
like, because of all thine abominations.
10
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the
sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the
whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
11 Wherefore, as
I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with
all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither
will I have any pity.
12 A third part
of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed
in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about
thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a
sword after them.
13
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest
upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have
spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
14 Moreover I
will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about
thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute
judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have
spoken it.
16 When I shall
send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction,
and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send
upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence
and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the
LORD have spoken it.
1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set
thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
3 And say, Ye mountains
of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the
mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold,
I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 And your altars
shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your
slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay
the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars.
6
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high
places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate,
and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and
your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain
shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some
that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered
through the countries.
9 And they that
escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried
captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after
their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have
committed in all their abominations.
10 And they shall
know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this
evil unto them.
11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with
thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil
abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far
off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword;
and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
13 Then shall ye
know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round
about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and
under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did
offer sweet savour to all their idols.
14
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate,
yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations:
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
1 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel;
An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end
come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
4
And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will
recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of
thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come,
the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
7
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the
time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the
mountains.
8 Now will I shortly
pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will
judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine
abominations.
9
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the
midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
10 Behold the
day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed,
pride hath budded.
11
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall
remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be
wailing for them.
12 The time is
come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for
wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller
shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which
shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life.
14 They have
blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my
wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is
without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 ¶ But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall
be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one
for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall
be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall
cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver
and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the
LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it
is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 As for the
beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their
abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it
far from them.
21 And I will
give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I
turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers
shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 ¶ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes,
and the city is full of violence.
24
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess
their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy
places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction
cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief shall
come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall
they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest,
and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall
mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the
people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and
according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
1 ¶ And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of
Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the
appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as
the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
3 And he put
forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit
lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that
looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy.
4 And, behold,
the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in
the plain.
5 Then said he unto
me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north.
So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the
gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 He said
furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off
from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
7 ¶ And he brought me to the door of the court; and when
I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
8 Then said he
unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall,
behold a door.
9
And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they
do here.
10 So I went in
and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and
all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
11
And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of
Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every
man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then said he
unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do
in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
13 ¶ He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou
shalt see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he
brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the
north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet
again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought
me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the
temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty
men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces
toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
17 Then he said
unto me, Hast thou seen this, O 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and,
lo, they put the branch to their nose.
18
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither
will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will
I not hear them.
1 ¶ He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying,
Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And, behold,
six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and
every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed
with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood
beside the brasen altar.
3
And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man
clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
4 And the LORD
said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
5 ¶ And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye
after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye
pity:
6 Slay utterly
old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near
any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
7 And he said
unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.
And they went forth, and slew in the city.
8 And it came to
pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face,
and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9 Then said he
unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the
land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The
LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
10 And as for me
also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
11 And, behold,
the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the
matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
1 ¶ Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was
above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it
were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
2 And he spake
unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under
the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims,
and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
3
Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man
went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 Then the glory
of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house;
and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the
brightness of the LORD'S glory.
5
And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court,
as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
6 And it came to
pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire
from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood
beside the wheels.
7
And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto
the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the
hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
8 ¶ And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a
man's hand under their wings.
9
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by
one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the
wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
10 And as for
their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the
midst of a wheel.
11
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they
went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned
not as they went.
12 And their
whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels,
were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
13
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
14 And every one
had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face
was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the
face of an eagle.
15 And the
cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
16 And when the
cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their
wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside
them.
17 When they stood,
these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves
also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
18 Then the glory
of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the
cherubims.
19 And the cherubims
lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they
went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of
the God of Israel was over them above.
20 This is the
living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and
I knew that they were the cherubims.
21 Every one had
four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the
hands of a man was under their wings.
22 And the
likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar,
their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
1 ¶ Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto
the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and
behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah
the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 Then said he
unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked
counsel in this city:
3
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the
caldron, and we be the flesh.
4 Therefore
prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the Spirit
of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus
have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into
your mind, every one of them.
6 Ye have
multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with
the slain.
7 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are
the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared
the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
9 And I will
bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of
strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10
Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
11 This city
shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof;
but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And ye shall
know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither
executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are
round about you.
13 And it came to
pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I
down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt
thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
15 Son of man,
thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of
Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get
you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
16 Therefore say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among
the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I
be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble
you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the
land of Israel.
18
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable
things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will
give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take
the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may
walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for
them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their
abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord
GOD.
22 ¶ Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the
wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above.
23 And the glory
of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain
which is on the east side of the city.
24 Afterwards the
spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into
Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
25 Then I spake
unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
1 ¶ The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have
eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a
rebellious house.
3 Therefore, thou
son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight;
and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
4 Then shalt thou
bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou
shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
5 Dig thou
through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight
shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight:
thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee
for a sign unto the house of Israel.
7 And I did so as
I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and
in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the
twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
8
And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
9 Son of man,
hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest
thou?
10 Say thou unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem,
and all the house of Israel that are among them.
11
Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them:
they shall remove and go into captivity.
12 And the prince
that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go
forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his
face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
13
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare:
and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not
see it, though he shall die there.
14 And I will
scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his
bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
15
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among
the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
16 But I will
leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the
pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen
whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
17 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came
to me, saying,
18 Son of man,
eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with
carefulness;
19 And say unto
the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness,
and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be
desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that
dwell therein.
20 And the cities
that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
21 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22
Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel,
saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
23 Tell them
therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they
shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at
hand, and the effect of every vision.
24
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Israel.
25 For I am the
LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it
shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say
the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
26
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
27 Son of man,
behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many
days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.
28 Therefore say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged
any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith
the Lord GOD.