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.