CHAPTERS 13-24
EZEKIEL#13
1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them
that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
3
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow
their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy
prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not
gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to
stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
6
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and
the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would
confirm the word.
7 Have ye not
seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say,
The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
8
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen
lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
9 And mine hand
shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall
not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the
writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10 ¶ Because, even because they have seduced my people,
saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others
daubed it with untempered morter:
11 Say unto them
which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall
be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy
wind shall rend it.
12 Lo, when the
wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith
ye have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury;
and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in
my fury to consume it.
14 So will I
break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it
down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it
shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
15 Thus will I
accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with
untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they
that daubed it;
16 To wit, the
prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see
visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
17 ¶ Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the
daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy
thou against them,
18 And say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make
kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt
the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
19 And will ye
pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to
slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not
live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
20 Wherefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith
ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms,
and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
21 Your kerchiefs
also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no
more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
22 Because with
lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made
sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from
his wicked way, by promising him life:
23 Therefore ye
shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people
out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
1 ¶ Then came certain of the elders of
Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
3 Son of man,
these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of
their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
4
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and
putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the
prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of
his idols;
5 That I may take
the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged
from me through their idols.
6 Therefore say
unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves
from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
7 For every one
of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him
by myself:
8 And I will set
my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will
cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
9 And if the
prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that
prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the
midst of my people Israel.
10 And they shall
bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet
shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
11 That the house
of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all
their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,
saith the Lord GOD.
12 ¶ The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
13
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously,
then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the
bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast
from it:
14 Though these
three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own
souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
15
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it,
so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
16 Though these
three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be
desolate.
17
Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land;
so that I cut off man and beast from it:
18 Though these
three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
19 Or if I send a
pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20 Though Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver
neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their
righteousness.
21 For thus saith
the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments
upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the
pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
22 Yet, behold,
therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and
daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way
and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought upon it.
23 And they shall
comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I
have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man,
What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the
trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be
taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel
thereon?
4
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the
ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
5 Behold, when it
was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any
work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
6 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; 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.
7 And I will set my
face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall
devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against
them.
8
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
1 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an
Hittite.
4 And as for thy
nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou
washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at
all.
5
None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion
upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy
person, in the day that thou wast born.
6 ¶ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in
thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I
said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
7 I have caused
thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen
great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and
thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
8 Now when I
passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith
the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
9 Then washed I
thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I
anointed thee with oil.
10
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers'
skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11 I decked thee
also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy
neck.
12 And I put a
jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13 Thus wast thou
decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and
broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast
exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
14 And thy renown
went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through
my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
15 ¶ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and
playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on
every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy
garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and
playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also
taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and
madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
18 And tookest
thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine
oil and mine incense before them.
19 My meat also
which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou
hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the
Lord GOD.
20 Moreover thou
hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto
me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy
whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast
slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire
for them?
22 And in all
thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the
days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy
blood.
23 And it came to
pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
24 That thou hast
also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place
in every street.
25 Thou hast
built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be
abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied
thy whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also
committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of
flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
27 Behold,
therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine
ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the
daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast
played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable;
yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
29 Thou hast
moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet
thou wast not satisfied herewith.
30 How weak is
thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
31 In that thou
buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high
place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest
hire;
32 But as a wife
that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
33 They give
gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest
them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
34 And the
contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth
thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
35 ¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered
through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy
abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
37 Behold,
therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and
all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even
gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto
them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
38
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
39 And I will
also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place,
and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy
clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
40
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone
thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
41 And they shall
burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of
many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou
also shalt give no hire any more.
42
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart
from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because thou
hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these
things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith
the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
44 ¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this
proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
45 Thou art thy
mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the
sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine
elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and
thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her
daughters.
47 Yet hast thou
not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but,
as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all
thy ways.
48 As I live,
saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as
thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
49 Behold, this was
the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance
of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the
hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were
haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I
saw good.
51 Neither hath
Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in
all thine abominations which thou hast done.
52 Thou also,
which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast
committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be
thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
53 When I shall
bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the
captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity
of thy captives in the midst of them:
54 That thou
mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou
hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
55 When thy
sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and
Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and
thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
56 For thy sister
Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
57
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of
the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the
Philistines, which despise thee round about.
58 Thou hast
borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
59 For thus saith
the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee
in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant.
61 Then thou
shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters,
thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters,
but not by thy covenant.
62 And I will
establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
63 That thou
mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because
of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, put
forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
3 And say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full
of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest
branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off
the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it
in a city of merchants.
5 He took also of
the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
6 And it grew,
and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him,
and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth
branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also
another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold,
this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward
him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
8 It was planted
in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it
might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say thou, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots
thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all
the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it
up by the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold,
being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east
wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
11
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the
rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the
king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the
princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
13 And hath taken
of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken
an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
14 That the
kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of
his covenant it might stand.
15 But he
rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might
give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?
16 As I live,
saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him
king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the
midst of Babylon he shall die.
17 Neither shall
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the
war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he
despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand,
and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my
covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own
head.
20 And I will
spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him
to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath
trespassed against me.
21 And all his
fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know
that I the LORD have spoken it.
22 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the
highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top
of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and
eminent:
23
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall
bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall
dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they
dwell.
24 And all the
trees of the field shall know that I the LORD 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 the LORD have spoken and have done it.
1 ¶ The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
2 What mean ye,
that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
3
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to
use this proverb in Israel.
4 Behold, all
souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine:
the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
5 But if a man be
just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes
to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife,
neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
7 And hath not
oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by
violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
8 He that hath
not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath
withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and
man,
9 Hath walked in
my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
10 ¶ If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of
blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
11 And that doeth
not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled
his neighbour's wife,
12
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not
restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed
abomination,
13 Hath given
forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not
live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall
be upon him.
14
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he
hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
15 That hath not
eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
16 Neither hath
oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath
covered the naked with a garment,
17 That hath
taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase,
hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for
the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by
violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall
die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say ye,
Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done
that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done
them, he shall surely live.
20
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity
of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him.
21 ¶ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that
he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his
transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in
his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any
pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he
should return from his ways, and live?
24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the
wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall
not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that
he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of
Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26 When a
righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and
dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
27 Again, when
the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed,
and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he
considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29 Yet saith the
house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not
my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30 ¶ Therefore I will judge you, O
house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent,
and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your
ruin.
31 Cast away from
you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new
heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
1 ¶ Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes
of Israel,
2 And say, What
is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought
up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey;
it devoured men.
4 The nations
also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains
unto the land of Egypt.
5
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she
took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6 And he went up
and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the
prey, and devoured men.
7 And he knew
their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his
roaring.
8 Then the
nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net
over him: he was taken in their pit.
9 And they put
him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him
into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 ¶ Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by
the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11 And she had
strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was
exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was
plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up
her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
13 And now she is
planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14
And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her
fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a
lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
1 ¶ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders
of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
2 Then came the
word of the LORD unto me, saying,
3 Son of man,
speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge
them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of
their fathers:
5 ¶ And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day
when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of
Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt,
when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
6 In the day that
I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into
a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the
glory of all lands:
7
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his
eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your
God.
8 But they
rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast
away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of
Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought
for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among
whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them
forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 ¶ Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land
of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
11 And I gave
them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall
even live in them.
12 Moreover also
I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know
that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
13
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they
walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do,
he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said,
I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought
for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen,
in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Yet also I
lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into
the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the
glory of all lands;
16 Because they
despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted
my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless
mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in
the wilderness.
18 But I said
unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your
fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their
idols:
19
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and
do them;
20 And hallow my
sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I
am the LORD your God.
21
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man
do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would
pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I
withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
23 I lifted up
mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the
heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
24 Because they
had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted
my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
25
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments
whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted
them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that
openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might
know that I am the LORD.
27 ¶ Therefore, son of man, speak unto
the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this
your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against
me.
28 For when I had
brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to
them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and
poured out there their drink offerings.
29 Then I said
unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is
called Bamah unto this day.
30
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye
polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their
abominations?
31 For when ye
offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute
yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will
not be enquired of by you.
32 And that which
cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the
heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
33 ¶ As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out,
will I rule over you:
34 And I will
bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein
ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with
fury poured out.
35 And I will bring
you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I
pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I
plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
37 And I will
cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the
covenant:
38
And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress
against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and
they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
39 As for you, O
house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols,
and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in mine
holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there
will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits
of your oblations, with all your holy things.
41
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the
people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and
I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
42 And ye shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into
the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
43
And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye
have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your
evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not
according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings,
O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
45 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man,
set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy
against the forest of the south field;
47 And say to the
forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree
in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all
faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
48 And all flesh
shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
49 Then said I,
Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set
thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and
prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the
land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and
will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the
righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then
that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my
sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5
That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of
his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore,
thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before
their eyes.
7 And it shall
be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart
shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all
knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass,
saith the Lord GOD.
8 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened,
and also furbished:
10 It is
sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should
we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
11 And he hath
given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and
it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be
upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my
people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
13 Because it is
a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith
the Lord GOD.
14
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together,
and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the
sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy
chambers.
15 I have set the
point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and
their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go thee one
way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face
is set.
17 I will also
smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have
said it.
18 ¶ The word of the LORD came unto me
again, saying,
19 Also, thou son
of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come:
both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it
at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way,
that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah
in Jerusalem the defenced.
21 For the king
of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use
divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in
the liver.
22 At his right
hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting,
to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a
fort.
23 And it shall
be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn
oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered,
in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your
sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be
taken with the hand.
25 And thou,
profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an
end,
26
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this
shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will
overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose
right it is; and I will give it him.
28 ¶ And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their
reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is
furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they
see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon
the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause
it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast
created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will
pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my
wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be
for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt
be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
1 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?
yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
3 Then say thou,
Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her
time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
4 Thou art become
guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy
days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee
a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5 Those that be
near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and
much vexed.
6
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to
shed blood.
7 In thee have
they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by
oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the
widow.
8 Thou hast
despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
9
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat
upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
10 In thee have
they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that
was set apart for pollution.
11 And one hath
committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath
lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his
sister, his father's daughter.
12 In thee have
they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou
hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me,
saith the Lord GOD.
13
Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which
thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
14 Can thine
heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with
thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
15 And I will
scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
16 And thou shalt
take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD.
17 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man,
the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even
the dross of silver.
19 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will
gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather
silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace,
to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in
my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
21 Yea, I will
gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted
in the midst thereof.
22 As silver is
melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof;
and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
23 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
24 Son of man,
say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the
day of indignation.
25 There is a
conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening
the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst
thereof.
26 Her priests have
violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no
difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference
between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths,
and I am profaned among them.
27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to
shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her
prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining
lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and
have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger
wrongfully.
30 And I sought
for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap
before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have
I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them
with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,
saith the Lord GOD.
1 ¶ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man,
there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their
youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of
their virginity.
4 And the names
of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and
they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah,
and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah
played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians her neighbours,
6 Which were
clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
horsemen riding upon horses.
7
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the
chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she
defiled herself.
8 Neither left
she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and
they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I
have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians,
upon whom she doted.
10 These
discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her
with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11 ¶ And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more
corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her
sister in her whoredoms.
12 She doted upon
the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously,
horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And that she
increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
15 Girded with
girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of
them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16 And as soon as
she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them
into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians
came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and
she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
18 So she
discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was
alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she
multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus thou
calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the
Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22 ¶ Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom
thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
23 The
Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers,
great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
24
And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and
with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and
helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge
thee according to their judgments.
25 And I will set
my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant
shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy
residue shall be devoured by the fire.
26 They shall
also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
27 Thus will I
make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from
the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor
remember Egypt any more.
28 For thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou
hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
29 And they shall
deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy
whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30 I will do
these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and
because thou art polluted with their idols.
31 Thou hast
walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
32 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be
laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
33 Thou shalt be
filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the
sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith
the Lord GOD.
35 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy
back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
36 ¶ The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt
thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their
abominations;
37 That they have
committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they
committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to
pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
38 Moreover this
they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same
day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39 For when they
had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my
sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine
house.
40 And
furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash
thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
41 And satest
upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set
mine incense and mine oil.
42 And a voice of
a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common
sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their
hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43 Then said I
unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her,
and she with them?
44 Yet they went
in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
45 And the
righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and
after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and
blood is in their hands.
46 For thus saith
the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give
them to be removed and spoiled.
47 And the
company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they
shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
48 Thus will I
cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
49 And they shall
recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
1 ¶ Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the
tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man,
write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set
himself against Jerusalem this same day.
3 And utter a
parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
4
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and
the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
5 Take the choice
of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let
them seethe the bones of it therein.
6 Wherefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum
is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece;
let no lot fall upon it.
7 For her blood
is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not
upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
8 That it might cause
fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the
top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire
great.
10 Heap on wood,
kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be
burned.
11
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be
hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the
scum of it may be consumed.
12 She hath
wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her
scum shall be in the fire.
13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast
not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have
caused my fury to rest upon thee.
14 I the LORD
have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back,
neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord
GOD.
15 ¶ Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man,
behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet
neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
17 Forbear to
cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy
lips, and eat not the bread of men.
18 So I spake
unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the
morning as I was commanded.
19 And the people
said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that
thou doest so?
20 Then I
answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Speak unto the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary,
the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your
soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
22 And ye shall
do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
23 And your tires
shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor
weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward
another.
24 Thus Ezekiel
is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when
this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
25 Also, thou 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 minds, their sons and their daughters,
26 That he that
escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine
ears?
27 In that day
shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be
no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.