Noyes Translation
1869 by George Noyes
Eze 1:1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Eze 1:2 On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoiachin,
Eze 1:3 the word of Jehovah came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldaeans, by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.
Eze 1:4 ¶ And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came from the north, a great cloud, and a mass of fire; and a brightness was round about it, and in the midst of it the appearance of bright brass, in the midst of the fire.
Eze 1:5 And in the midst of it were the forms of four living creatures. And this was their appearance. They had the form of a man.
Eze 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Eze 1:7 And their feet were upright; and the sole of their feet was as the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like polished brass.
Eze 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, and all four had faces and wings.
Eze 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not about when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Eze 1:10 As for the form of their faces, all four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side, and all four had the face of an ox on the left side, and all four had also the face of an eagle.
Eze 1:11 Thus were their faces. And their wings were expanded upward; two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies.
Eze 1:12 And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went, and they turned not about when they went.
Eze 1:13 And the appearance of the living creatures was as coals of fire, burning like torches; and the fire moved about among the living creatures, and shone forth brightly; and out of the fire came forth lightning.
Eze 1:14 And the living creatures ran backward and forward like a flash of lightning.
Eze 1:15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, there stood a wheel upon the earth by each of the living creatures, with its four sides.
Eze 1:16 The appearance of the wheels, and their work, was like that of a chrysolite, and all four had one form, and their appearance and their work was as if a wheel had been within a wheel.
Eze 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides, and they turned not about when they went.
Eze 1:18 As for their felloes, they were high and terrible; and their felloes were full of eyes round about upon all four of them.
Eze 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Eze 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, whithersoever the spirit was to go; and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Eze 1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Eze 1:22 And over the heads of the living creatures was the appearance of a firmament, like crystal, terrible, spread out over their heads above.
Eze 1:23 And under the firmament were their wings upright, the one toward the other; and every one had two, which covered his body.
Eze 1:24 And I heard the sound of their wings, as the sound of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, when they went,––a sound like the noise of a host. And when they stood still, they let down their wings.
Eze 1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament, that was over their heads; and they stood still, and let down their wings.
Eze 1:26 ¶ And above the firmament over their heads was an appearance like a sapphire–stone, the form of a throne; and upon the form of the throne there was a form like that of a man above.
Eze 1:27 And I saw what had the appearance of bright brass, what had the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins and upward. And from the appearance of his loins downward I saw what had the appearance of fire, and its brightness was round about him.
Eze 1:28 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 glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one who spoke.
Eze 2:1 ¶ And he said to me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak with thee.
Eze 2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me upon my feet; and I heard him that spake with me.
Eze 2:3 And he said to me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious nation, that hath rebelled against me; they and their fathers have rebelled against me to this very day.
Eze 2:4 Brazen–faced and stiff–hearted are the sons to whom I send thee. And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 2:5 And whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, yet shall they know that a prophet is in the midst of them.
Eze 2:6 ¶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and of their words be not afraid, though they be briers and thorns toward thee, and though thou dwell among scorpions; be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
Eze 2:7 Speak thou my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.
Eze 2:8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say to thee! Be not thou rebellious, like that rebellious house. Open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.
Eze 2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and lo, a book–roll was therein.
Eze 2:10 And he spread it before me, and it was written within and without. And therein was written lamentation and mourning and woe.
Eze 3:1 ¶ And he said to me, Son of man, eat that which thou findest; eat this roll, and go, speak to the house of Israel!
Eze 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the roll to eat.
Eze 3:3 And he said to me, Son of man, let thy stomach eat, and fill thy body with this roll which I give thee! Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Eze 3:4 And he said to me: Son of man, go, get thee to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them!
Eze 3:5 For not to a people of a dark speech and a hard language art thou sent, but to the house of Israel;
Eze 3:6 not to many nations of a dark speech and a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Truly, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened to thee.
Eze 3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee, for they will not hearken to me. For the whole house of Israel is brazen–faced and stiff–hearted.
Eze 3:8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Eze 3:9 As an adamant, harder than flint, have I made thy forehead; fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks; for they are a rebellious house.
Eze 3:10 Moreover, he said to me: Son of man, all my words, which I shall speak to thee, receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears!
Eze 3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, to the children of thy people, and speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Eze 3:12 Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound, as of a great rushing, saying, "Praised be the majesty of Jehovah from his place!"
Eze 3:13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures, that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even a noise of a great rushing.
Eze 3:14 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 Jehovah was strong upon me.
Eze 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel–abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar; and I dwelt where they dwelt; I even dwelt astonished among them seven days.
Eze 3:16 ¶ And at the end of seven days, the word of Jehovah came to me, and said:
Eze 3:17 Son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me!
Eze 3:18 When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die! and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he may live, that wicked man shall die for his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
Eze 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Eze 3:20 Again, when a righteous man turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and I lay a stumbling–block before him, and he shall die because thou hast not given him warning, he will die for his sin; and his righteousness which he hath done will not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
Eze 3:21 Yet if thou warn the righteous man, that he sin not, and the righteous man doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he hath received warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.
Eze 3:22 ¶ And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me, and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and there will I speak with thee.
Eze 3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain, and lo, the glory of Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
Eze 3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet. And he spake with me, and said to me: Go, shut thyself within thy house.
Eze 3:25 And behold, O son of man, bands shall be put upon thee, and thou shalt be bound therewith; and thou shalt not go out among them.
Eze 3:26 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.
Eze 3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that will hear, let him hear, and he that will forbear, let him forbear; for they are a rebellious house.
Eze 4:1 ¶ And thou, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem.
Eze 4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a tower against it, and cast up a mound against it; set a camp also against it, and place battering–rams against it round about.
Eze 4:3 Moreover, take thou an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it, that it may be besieged; and lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Eze 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Eze 4:5 But for the years of their iniquity I appoint thee days, three hundred and ninety days; so long shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Eze 4:6 And when thou hast brought them to an end, then lie upon thy right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have appointed thee a day for a year.
Eze 4:7 And set thy face against besieged Jerusalem, and uncover thine arm, and prophesy against it!
Eze 4:8 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.
Eze 4:9 ¶ Take thou also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and put them into one vessel, and make thereof thy bread for the number of days that thou shalt lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Eze 4:10 And thy food which thou eatest shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Eze 4:11 Thou shalt also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.
Eze 4:12 Thou shalt also eat barley–cakes; and with dung that cometh out of man shalt thou bake them in their sight.
Eze 4:13 And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their polluted food among the nations, whither I will drive them.
Eze 4:14 Then said I: Ah! Lord Jehovah, behold, I have never been polluted; for from my youth until now have I not eaten that which died of itself, or was torn in pieces; neither hath unclean food come into my mouth.
Eze 4:15 Then he said to me: Behold, I give thee cow’s dung for man’s dung; and with that shalt thou prepare thy food.
Eze 4:16 And he said to me: Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight and with care, and they shall drink water by measure and in amazement;
Eze 4:17 so that they shall be in want of bread and water, and be astonished one at another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Eze 5:1 ¶ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp instrument, even a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thy head and thy beard; and take thee weighing–balances, and divide the hair.
Eze 5:2 A third part shalt thou burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part and smite it round about with the sword; and a third part shalt thou scatter in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze 5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a small number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Eze 5:4 And of these again take some and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire. From them shall a fire come forth upon the whole house of Israel.
Eze 5:5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; in the midst of the nations have I set her, and countries are round about her.
Eze 5:6 But she hath wickedly resisted my ordinances more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries, that are round about her. For they have refused my ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.
Eze 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have been rebellious more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances, but have done according to the ordinances of the nations which are round about you,
Eze 5:8 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments against thee in the sight of the nations.
Eze 5:9 I will do to thee that which I have not yet done, and the like of which I shall not do again, because of all thine iniquities.
Eze 5:10 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 I will scatter the whole remnant of thee to all the winds.
Eze 5:11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, because thou hast polluted my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also withdraw mine eye from thee; neither will I spare, neither will I have any pity.
Eze 5:12 A third part of thee shall die by the pestilence, or be consumed with hunger in the midst of thee; and a third part shall die by the sword round about thee; and a third part will I scatter to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will satiate my fury upon them, and receive satisfaction; and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it in my zeal, when I shall have accomplished my fury upon them.
Eze 5:14 Moreover, I will make thee a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Eze 5:15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a reviling, and a warning, and an astonishment to the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments upon thee in anger, and in fury, and in furious rebukes; ––I, Jehovah, have spoken it; ––
Eze 5:16 when I shall send upon you the evil arrows of famine which bring destruction, which I send to destroy you, and increase the famine upon you, and break your staff of bread.
Eze 5:17 And I will send upon you famine, and evil beasts, which shall make thee childless; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and the sword will I bring upon thee. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Eze 6:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 6:2 Son of man, set thy face against the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them!
Eze 6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah! Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the plains and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring the sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places;
Eze 6:4 and your altars shall be desolate, and your sun–images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Eze 6:5 And I will lay the carcasses of the sons of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Eze 6:6 In all places where ye dwell shall the cities be laid waste, and the high places be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken, and cease, and your sun–images may be cut down, and your works may be destroyed.
Eze 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 6:8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall have escaped the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
Eze 6:9 And they of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, when I have broken their whorish heart which departed from me, and their eyes which went lusting after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Eze 6:10 Then shall they know that I am Jehovah, and that I have not said in vain, that I would do all this evil to them.
Eze 6:11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Smite upon thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence shall they fall.
Eze 6:12 He that is far off shall die by pestilence, and he that is near shall fall by the sword, and he that remaineth and is preserved shall die by famine. Thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
Eze 6:13 Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, upon all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, in every place where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.
Eze 6:14 So will I stretch out my hand against 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 Jehovah.
Eze 7:1 ¶ Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 7:2 Thou son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the land of Israel:––
Eze 7:3 The end cometh, the end cometh, Upon the four corners of the land! Now cometh the end upon thee! For I will send my anger upon thee, And will judge thee according to thy ways, And will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
Eze 7:4 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 Jehovah.
Eze 7:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an unheard–of evil, behold, it cometh!
Eze 7:6 The end cometh, the end cometh! It awaketh against thee, behold, it cometh!
Eze 7:7 Thy fate cometh upon thee, thou that dwellest in the land! The time is come, The day of tumult is near, When no sound of joy shall be upon the mountains.
Eze 7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, And accomplish mine anger against thee; And I will judge thee according to thy ways, And recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
Eze 7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will recompense thee according to thy ways, And thine abominations shall come upon thee; And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, smite you.
Eze 7:10 Behold, the day, behold, it cometh! The destiny draweth near; The rod hath blossomed, pride hath flourished.
Eze 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, none of their multitude, none of their crowd; Nor shall there be wailing for them.
Eze 7:12 The time cometh, the day draweth near! Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn; For wrath is against their whole multitude.
Eze 7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, Though he be yet alive; For the vision against their whole multitude shall not return void, And none that liveth in his iniquity shall strengthen himself
Eze 7:14 "Blow ye the trumpet, and let all be ready!" Yet none goeth to the battle; For mine anger is against their whole multitude.
Eze 7:15 The sword is without, and pestilence and famine within; He that is in the field shall die by the sword; And he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Eze 7:16 ¶ And those of them that escape shall be upon the mountains like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Eze 7:17 All hands shall be feeble, And all knees shall flow with water.
Eze 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, And horror shall cover them. And upon all their faces shall be shame, And upon all their heads baldness.
Eze 7:19 Their silver shall they cast into the streets, And their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of Jehovah; Their hunger shall not be satisfied, Nor their body filled with it; For it was the stumbling–block of their iniquity.
Eze 7:20 For the beauty of their ornaments they turned into pride, And the images of their abominations and of their detestable things they made with it; Therefore will I make it to them as an unclean thing.
Eze 7:21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the earth for a spoil, And they shall pollute it.
Eze 7:22 And I will turn my face from them, So that my secret place shall be polluted; Robbers shall enter into it, and pollute it.
Eze 7:23 ¶ Make a chain! For the land is full of blood–guiltiness, And the city is full of violence.
Eze 7:24 Therefore will I bring the most cruel among the nations, And they shall possess your houses; I will also make the pride of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.
Eze 7:25 Destruction cometh; And they shall seek peace, and not find it.
Eze 7:26 Calamity shall come upon calamity, And rumor shall be upon rumor; And they shall seek a vision from the prophet in vain; Instruction shall perish from the priests, And counsel from the elders.
Eze 7:27 The king shall mourn, And the prince shall be clothed with amazement; And the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them, And they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 8:1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.
Eze 8:2 And I looked, and lo, a form having the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins downward, of fire; and from his loins upward, of a bright light, like the splendor of shining brass.
Eze 8:3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my 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 stood the idol of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Eze 8:4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.
Eze 8:5 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes toward the north! And I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, northward from the gate of the altar was this idol of jealousy, at the entrance.
Eze 8:6 And he said to me: Son of man, seest thou what they do? Great are the abominations which the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary. But thou shalt yet again see great abominations.
Eze 8:7 ¶ And he brought me to the door of the court, and I looked, and behold, a hole in the wall.
Eze 8:8 And he said to me, Son of man, break now through the wall. And when I had broken through the wall, behold, a door.
Eze 8:9 And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations which they practise here.
Eze 8:10 So I went in and saw, and behold, every form of creeping things, and of abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Eze 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, standing in the midst of them, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Eze 8:12 Then said he to me: Son of man, seest thou what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each one in his image–chamber? For they say, "Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land."
Eze 8:13 ¶ And he said to me, Thou shalt yet again see the great abominations which they practise.
Eze 8:14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Jehovah, which was toward the north, and behold, there sat women, weeping for Thammuz.
Eze 8:15 And he said to me, Seest thou this, O son of man? Thou shalt yet again see greater abominations than these.
Eze 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and behold, at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they bowed themselves eastward toward the sun.
Eze 8:17 And he said to me: Seest thou, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah, that they commit the abominations which they commit here, that they fill the land with violence, and continually provoke me to anger? And behold, they put the blanch to their nostrils.
Eze 8:18 Therefore will I also deal with them 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.
Eze 9:1 ¶ He cried also, in my hearing, with a loud voice, saying: Bring ye near the punishments of the city, every one his weapon of destruction in his hand.
Eze 9:2 And lo, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which looketh toward the north, every one with his slaughter–weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s ink–horn by his side; and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
Eze 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub upon which it was to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s ink–horn by his side;
Eze 9:4 and Jehovah said to 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 wail for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
Eze 9:5 ¶ And to the others he said, in my hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite! let not your eyes spare, neither have ye pity!
Eze 9:6 The old man, the youth, the virgin, little children and women, slay and destroy; but come not near any one upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then began they at the elders that were before the house.
Eze 9:7 And he said to them, Pollute the house, and fill the courts with the slain, then go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
Eze 9:8 And while they were smiting them, I alone was left; and I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the remnant of Israel, while thou pourest out thy fury upon Jerusalem?
Eze 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness. For they say, "Jehovah hath forsaken the land"; and, "Jehovah seeth not."
Eze 9:10 Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. Their way will I recompense upon their head.
Eze 9:11 And lo, the man clothed with linen, who had the ink–horn by his side, returned answer, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
Eze 10:1 ¶ Then I looked, and lo, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubs there appeared over them as it were a sapphire–stone, in form like a throne;
Eze 10:2 and He spake to the man that was clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels under the cherub, and fill thy hands with coals of fire, which are between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in before my eyes.
Eze 10:3 Now the cherubs stood upon the right side of the house when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Eze 10:4 And the glory of Jehovah was lifted up from the cherub to the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of Jehovah.
Eze 10:5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubs was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God, the Almighty, when he speaketh.
Eze 10:6 And when he commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubs, he went in and stood beside the wheels.
Eze 10:7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubs to the fire that was between the cherubs, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen, who took it, and went out.
Eze 10:8 ¶ And there was seen in the cherubs the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
Eze 10:9 And when I looked, behold, four wheels were by the cherubs, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like that of a chrysolite.
Eze 10:10 And as to their appearance, all four had one form, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
Eze 10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not about when they went; but to the place whither the head looked they followed it, they turned not about when they went.
Eze 10:12 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 which they four had.
Eze 10:13 And as to these wheels, each one of them in my hearing was called Whirlwind.
Eze 10:14 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.
Eze 10:15 And the cherubs were lifted up. They were the living creatures which I saw by the river Chebar.
Eze 10:16 And when the cherubs went, the wheels went with them; and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels turned not away from their side.
Eze 10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these were liked up with them. For the spirit of the living creatures was in them.
Eze 10:18 Then the glory of Jehovah departed from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubs.
Eze 10:19 And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight, as they went out, and the wheels were beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Eze 10:20 They were the living creatures which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubs.
Eze 10:21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings, and the form of a man’s hand was under their wings.
Eze 10:22 And as for the form of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They went every one straight forward.
Eze 11:1 ¶ Then the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the house of Jehovah, that looketh toward the east; and behold, at the entrance of the gate were five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Eze 11:2 Then said He to me: These are the men that devise mischief, and form evil designs in this city;
Eze 11:3 who say, "The time is not near that we should build houses. This city is the caldron, and we are the flesh."
Eze 11:4 Therefore, prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!
Eze 11:5 And the spirit of Jehovah fell upon me, and he said to me, Speak: Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel! For I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
Eze 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Eze 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain, whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but you will I bring forth out of the midst of it.
Eze 11:8 Ye have feared the sword, and the sword will I bring upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and execute judgments upon you.
Eze 11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; on the borders of Israel will I judge you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof. On the borders of Israel will I judge you,
Eze 11:12 that ye may know that I am Jehovah, in whose statutes ye have not walked, and whose ordinances ye have not observed, but have done according to the manners of the nations, that are round about you.
Eze 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah, wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Eze 11:14 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy near kindred, and the whole house of Israel, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, "Remove ye far from Jehovah; to us is the land given in possession!"
Eze 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Though I have cast them far off among the nations, and scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them as a sanctuary for a short time in the countries whither they are come.
Eze 11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will gather you from the nations, and assemble you from the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Eze 11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof.
Eze 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take out of them the heart of stone, and will give them a heart of flesh,
Eze 11:20 that they may walk in my statutes, and observe my ordinances, and keep them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh according to the pleasure of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 11:22 ¶ Then did the cherubs lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Eze 11:23 And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
Eze 11:24 Then the spirit took me up, and brought me to Chaldaea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God. And the vision which I had seen went up from me.
Eze 11:25 Then I spake to them of the captivity all the words of Jehovah which he had showed me.
Eze 12:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
Eze 12:3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing from the land; and remove by day in their sight, and remove from thy place to another place before their eyes. It may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
Eze 12:4 And carry forth thy stuff, as stuff for removing, by day in their sight, and go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
Eze 12:5 Before their eyes break thou through the wall, and carry forth thereby.
Eze 12:6 In their sight bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight. Cover thy face, so that thou see not the ground; for I have made thee a sign to the house of Israel.
Eze 12:7 And I did as I was commanded, I carried forth my stuff, as stuff for removing from the land, by day; and in the evening I broke through the wall with my hand; I carried it forth in the twilight; I took it upon my shoulder before their eyes.
Eze 12:8 And the word of Jehovah came to me in the morning, and said:
Eze 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to thee, "What doest thou?"
Eze 12:10 Say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that is therein.
Eze 12:11 Say, I am your sign. As I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall remove and go into captivity.
Eze 12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth. They shall break through the wall to carry forth thereby; he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
Eze 12:13 I will also spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, into the land of the Chaldaeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
Eze 12:14 And all that are round about him to help him, and all his bands, will I scatter to every wind; and I will draw out the sword after them.
Eze 12:15 And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them in the countries.
Eze 12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen, whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 12:17 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Eze 12:19 and say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel; their bread shall they eat with carefulness, and their water shall they drink with astonishment; that their land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of them that dwell in it.
Eze 12:20 And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate, that ye may know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 12:21 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 12:22 Son of man, what meaneth that proverb which ye have in the land of Israel, saying, "The days are delayed, and every vision faileth"?
Eze 12:23 Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel. But say to them, The days are at hand, and what is declared in every vision.
Eze 12:24 For there shall be no longer any vain vision or deceptive divination within the house of Israel.
Eze 12:25 For I am Jehovah; I speak, and the word which I speak shall come to pass; it shall no more be delayed. In your own days, ye rebellious house, will I speak the word and perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 12:26 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, "The vision which he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of times that are far off."
Eze 12:28 Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of my words be deferred any more; what I speak shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 13:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say to them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of Jehovah!
Eze 13:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Eze 13:4 Thy prophets, O Israel, are like the foxes in the deserts.
Eze 13:5 Ye have not gone up into the breaches, nor built a wall around the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of Jehovah.
Eze 13:6 They see falsehood, and lying divination. They say, "Jehovah hath spoken," when Jehovah hath not sent them; and they cause men to hope for the fulfilment of the word.
Eze 13:7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, and said, "Jehovah hath spoken," when I have not spoken?
Eze 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken falsehood and have seen a lie, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 13:9 My hand shall be against the prophets that see falsehood and divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the register of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 13:10 ¶ Because, yea, because they seduce my people, and say, "Peace!" when there is no peace; and one buildeth up a wall, and, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar;
Eze 13:11 say to them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall; there shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Eze 13:12 So when the wall is fallen, shall not men say to you, "Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?"
Eze 13:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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.
Eze 13:14 Thus I will break down the wall which ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and will bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered; it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof, that ye may know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 13:15 Thus will I accomplish my fury upon the wall, and upon them that daubed it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor they that daubed it;
Eze 13:16 even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 13:17 ¶ Likewise, son of man, set thou thy face against the daughters of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them.
Eze 13:18 And say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew cushions for all elbows, and make pillows for heads of every stature, to ensnare men to destruction! Will ye hunt the lives of my people, and shall ye save your own?
Eze 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley, and for pieces of bread, slaying them that should not die, and saving them alive that should not live, by lying to my people, who hearken to your lies?
Eze 13:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will set myself against the cushions with which ye ensnare men to destruction, so that they shall escape you; and I will tear them from your arms, and make them free whom ye would ensnare, so that they shall escape you.
Eze 13:21 Your pillows also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand to be ensnared, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 13:22 Because with lies ye have made sad the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life;
Eze 13:23 therefore shall ye no more see falsehood, nor divine divinations; but I will deliver my people out of your hand, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 14:1 ¶ Now certain men of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.
Eze 14:2 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and have put the stumbling–block of their iniquity before their face; shall I hear them when they inquire of me?
Eze 14:4 Therefore speak with them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling–block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet,––I, Jehovah, will answer him according to the multitude of his idols;
Eze 14:5 that I may lay hold of the house of Israel in their hearts, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Eze 14:6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Turn ye, even turn yourselves from your idols, and from all your abominations turn ye your faces!
Eze 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling–block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire of me through him,––I, Jehovah, will answer him by myself.
Eze 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 14:9 And when the prophet is deceived when he speaketh anything, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet; and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Eze 14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that inquireth of him;
Eze 14:11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 14:12 ¶ Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 14:13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me, and grievously transgresseth, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
Eze 14:14 though these three men were in it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they should deliver only themselves by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 14:15 When I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, and it be desolate so that none passeth through it because of the beasts,
Eze 14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
Eze 14:17 Or when I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land so that I cut off from it man and beast,
Eze 14:18 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
Eze 14:19 Or when I send a pestilence upon that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Eze 14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should deliver only themselves by their righteousness.
Eze 14:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more, when I send my four grievous judgments against Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Eze 14:22 Yet behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come forth to you, and ye shall see their way and their doings, and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all which I have brought upon her.
Eze 14:23 They shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings; and ye shall know that not without cause I have done all that I have done to her, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 15:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 15:2 Son of man, what is the wood of the vine more than any wood,––a branch, that is among the trees of the forest?
Eze 15:3 Shall wood be taken from it to be wrought into any work? Or will men take a pin of it to hang a vessel upon?
Eze 15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it then fit for any work?
Eze 15:5 Behold, when it was whole, nothing could be made of it; how much less can anything be made of it when the fire hath devoured it and it is burned!
Eze 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give to it the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Eze 15:7 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 Jehovah, when I set my face against them.
Eze 15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have grievously trespassed, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 16:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Eze 16:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thine origin and thy nativity were of the land of Canaan. Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
Eze 16:4 And as to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water so as to be cleansed. Thou wast not sprinkled with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling–clothes.
Eze 16:5 No eye pitied thee, to do to thee any of these things, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out into the open field, so as to loathe thyself, on the day thou wast born.
Eze 16:6 ¶ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee in danger of being trodden under foot in thy blood, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live! yea, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live!
Eze 16:7 I caused thee to increase like the plant of the field, and thou didst grow, and become tall, and didst attain to distinguished charms. Thy breasts swelled, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Eze 16:8 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee, behold, it was thy time, the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and I swore to thee, and entered into covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.
Eze 16:9 Then I washed thee with water, yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
Eze 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and gave thee shoes of seal’s skin, and wrapped thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.
Eze 16:11 And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain upon thy neck.
Eze 16:12 And I put a jewel in thy nostril, and ear–rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
Eze 16:13 Thus wast thou adorned with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work. Fine flour and honey and oil didst thou eat; and thou wast exceedingly beautiful, and didst prosper so as to become a queen.
Eze 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 16:15 ¶ But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst lavish thy fornications on every one that passed by; his was it.
Eze 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst make thee high places, spread with divers colors, and didst play the harlot thereon, the like things to which shall not come to pass, neither shall they be.
Eze 16:17 Thou didst take also thy fair jewels of my gold and my silver, which I gave thee, and didst make to thyself images of men, and didst commit fornication with them;
Eze 16:18 and thou didst take thy broidered garments and cover them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Eze 16:19 My food also, which I gave thee, fine flour and oil and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst set it before them with a sweet savor; even thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 16:20 Moreover thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou didst bear to me, and these didst thou sacrifice to them to be devoured. Was it not enough for thee to commit fornication,
Eze 16:21 that thou didst slay my children, and deliver them up to cause them to pass through the fire to them?
Eze 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy fornications, thou didst not remember the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and in danger of being trampled under foot in thy blood.
Eze 16:23 And it came to pass, after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)
Eze 16:24 that thou didst build for thee an arched place, and make thee a high place in every street;
Eze 16:25 at every head of the way didst thou build thy high place, and didst make thy beauty to be abhorred, and didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and didst multiply thy fornications.
Eze 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, having great members, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me to anger.
Eze 16:27 Therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against thee, and have diminished thine allowance, and delivered thee to the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Eze 16:28 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldst not be satisfied.
Eze 16:29 Thou hast also multiplied thy fornication with the land of Canaan, even to Chaldaea; and yet wast thou not satisfied therewith.
Eze 16:30 How faint was thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, that thou didst all those things which an imperious whorish wife doeth,
Eze 16:31 in that thou didst build thine arched place at the head of every way, and make thy high place in every street! Thou wast not like a harlot, who scoffeth at her hire,
Eze 16:32 but as an adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
Eze 16:33 To all women that commit fornication men give a reward; but thou gavest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hiredst them to come to thee from every side to commit fornication with thee.
Eze 16:34 Thou wast the reverse of other women in thy fornications. None followed after thee to commit fornication, but thou gavest the reward, and no reward was given thee,––therefore thou wast the reverse.
Eze 16:35 ¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah!
Eze 16:36 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy treasure was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered for fornication before thy lovers, and all thine abominable idols, and because of the blood of thy children, which thou didst give to them,
Eze 16:37 therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers, to whom thou wast pleasing, all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated, I will gather them against thee round about, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
Eze 16:38 And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and I will cause thy blood to flow in fury and jealousy.
Eze 16:39 And I will give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine arched place, and break down thy high places. They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and leave thee naked and bare.
Eze 16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords;
Eze 16:41 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 shalt give hire no more.
Eze 16:42 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.
Eze 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, so that thou shalt not commit this wickedness in addition to all thy abominations.
Eze 16:44 ¶ Behold, all they that use proverbs shall utter this proverb concerning thee: "As the mother, so the daughter."
Eze 16:45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, that loathed their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Eze 16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, with her daughters, that dwelleth at thy left hand; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom, with her daughters.
Eze 16:47 Yet thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations: that was disdained by you, as a very little thing; thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
Eze 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom, thy sister, hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, thy sister: in pride, superabundance, and careless ease did she live, she and her daughters, and the hand of the poor and needy she did not strengthen;
Eze 16:50 and they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away when I saw it.
Eze 16:51 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.
Eze 16:52 Now, therefore, bear thou thy shame, to which thou hast condemned thy sisters, since by thy sins which thou hast committed, more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou. Yea, be thou confounded and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
Eze 16:53 Yet I will bring them back from their captivity, even Sodom and her daughters from their captivity, and Samaria and her daughters from their captivity; thee also will I bring back from thy captivity in the midst of them;
Eze 16:54 that thou mayst bear thy shame, and mayst be confounded on account of all which thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.
Eze 16:55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
Eze 16:56 And yet Sodom, thy sister, was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride
Eze 16:57 before thy wickedness was discovered, as in the time of thy reproach from the daughters of Syria, and from all that were round about her, and from the daughters of the Philistines, who despised thee round about.
Eze 16:58 Thy wickedness and thine abominations must thou now bear, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 16:59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will do to thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath and hast broken the covenant.
Eze 16:60 ¶ But I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.
Eze 16:61 Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger, and I shall give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy observance of thy covenant.
Eze 16:62 But I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;
Eze 16:63 that thou mayst remember and be confounded, and not open thy mouth any more for shame, when I forgive thee all which thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 17:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Eze 17:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle, with great wings, with long feathers, full of plumage, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of a cedar.
Eze 17:4 He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
Eze 17:5 He took also one of the shoots of the land, and put it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow–tree.
Eze 17:6 And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and whose roots were under him. It became a vine, that brought forth branches, and shot forth boughs.
Eze 17:7 There was also another great eagle, with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, that he might water it from the beds where it was planted.
Eze 17:8 And yet it was planted in a good soil, by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, and be a goodly vine.
Eze 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall not he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it wither? In all the leaves of its branching shall it wither; even without a mighty arm, or many people, shall he pluck it up by the roots.
Eze 17:10 Yea, behold, it is planted; but shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? It shall wither in the beds where it grew.
Eze 17:11 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? Say, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes, and led them with him to Babylon,
Eze 17:13 and took one of the king’s offspring, and made a covenant with him, and took an oath of him, and the mighty of the land he took away,
Eze 17:14 that the kingdom might be brought low, so as not to lift itself up; that the covenant might be kept, and stand.
Eze 17:15 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? Shall he break the covenant and be delivered?
Eze 17:16 As I live saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon shall he die.
Eze 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great multitude accomplish anything for him in war, when they shall cast up mounds, and build forts to cut off many persons,
Eze 17:18 he hath despised the oath, and broken the covenant; behold, he hath given the hand, and yet done all these things; he shall not escape!
Eze 17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine oath, which he hath despised, and my covenant, which he hath broken, will I recompense upon his own head.
Eze 17:20 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 contend with him there for his trespass which he hath committed against me.
Eze 17:21 And all his fugitives with all his hosts shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered to all the winds; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Eze 17:22 ¶ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I also will take from the top of the high cedar, and will get it; and from the highest of its twigs will I crop a tender one, and plant it upon a high and lofty mountain.
Eze 17:23 Upon a high mountain 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 birds of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.
Eze 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree; that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree green. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and will do it.
Eze 18:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah came to me again, saying:
Eze 18:2 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"?
Eze 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Eze 18:4 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.
Eze 18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right;
Eze 18:6 if he eat not upon the mountains, and lift not up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and defile not his neighbor’s wife, and come not near a woman during her uncleanness;
Eze 18:7 if he oppress not any, if he restore to the debtor his pledge, spoil none by violence, give his bread to the hungry, and cover the naked with a garment;
Eze 18:8 if he give not forth upon usury, and take not increase; if he withdraw his hand from iniquity, and give true judgment between man and man;
Eze 18:9 if he walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, to deal uprightly,––he is just; he shall surely live, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 18:10 ¶ But if he have a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth to his brother any of these things,
Eze 18:11 and doeth not all those duties, but eateth upon the mountains, and defileth his neighbor’s wife,
Eze 18:12 oppresseth the poor and needy, spoileth by violence, restoreth not the pledge, lifteth up his eyes to idols, and committeth abomination,
Eze 18:13 giveth forth upon usury, and taketh increase, shall he live? No! he shall not live. He hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Eze 18:14 Yet lo, if he have a son that seeth all the sins which his father committed, that seeth them and doeth not such like,
Eze 18:15 that eateth not upon the mountains, nor lifteth up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defileth his neighbor’s wife,
Eze 18:16 nor oppresseth any, nor taketh a pledge, nor spoileth by violence, but giveth his food to the hungry, and covereth the naked with a garment,
Eze 18:17 keepeth back his hand from the poor, and taketh no usury or increase, keepeth my commandments, and walketh in my statutes, he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.
Eze 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, he shall die for his iniquity.
Eze 18:19 Yet say ye, "Why? Doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?" When the son doeth that which is lawful and right, keepeth all my statutes and doeth them, he shall surely live.
Eze 18:20 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.
Eze 18:21 ¶ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 18:22 None of his transgressions which he hath committed shall be remembered unto him; for his righteousness, which he hath done, he shall live.
Eze 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord Jehovah, and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Eze 18:24 But when the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations which the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; for his trespass which he hath trespassed, and for his sin which he hath sinned, for them shall he die.
Eze 18:25 Yet ye say, "The way of the Lord is not right." Hear now, O house of Israel! "Is not my way right?" Is it not your ways that are not right?
Eze 18:26 When a righteous man turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and on this account dieth, for his iniquity which he hath done doth he die.
Eze 18:27 And when the wicked man turneth from his iniquity which he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Eze 18:28 Because he considereth and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, "The way of the Lord is not right." O house of Israel, are not my ways right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
Eze 18:30 ¶ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Turn ye, turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not be your ruin.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye have committed, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit! For why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah. Wherefore turn yourselves and live!
Eze 19:1 ¶ Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Eze 19:2 and say:––How lay thy mother at ease, a lioness among lions! Among young lions she nourished her whelps;
Eze 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps; He became a young lion, And he learned to seize the prey; he devoured men.
Eze 19:4 And when the nations heard of him, he was taken in their pit, And they brought him with nose–rings to the land of Egypt.
Eze 19:5 And when she saw that she waited in vain, and that her hope was lost, She took another of her whelps, and she made him a young lion.
Eze 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, And he learned to seize the prey; he devoured men.
Eze 19:7 He knew their widows, and laid waste their cities, And the land was desolate, and all that was therein, before the voice of his roaring.
Eze 19:8 Then the nations set themselves against him on every side from the provinces, And spread their net over him; He was taken in their pit.
Eze 19:9 And they put him with nose rings into a cage, And carried him to the king of Babylon. And they carried him to a stronghold, That his voice might be heard no more Upon the mountains of Israel.
Eze 19:10 ¶ Thy mother was like a vine planted like thyself by the waters; She was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters;
Eze 19:11 She had strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And her stature was high among the thick branches, So that she was conspicuous in her height, And the multitude of her branches.
Eze 19:12 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.
Eze 19:13 And now she is planted in the desert, In a dry and thirsty land.
Eze 19:14 And a fire is gone forth out of a rod of her branches, Which hath devoured her fruit, So that she hath no strong rod for a ruler’s sceptre. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
Eze 20:1 ¶ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.
Eze 20:2 Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying:
Eze 20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.
Eze 20:4 Punish them, punish them, son of man, cause them to know the abominations of their fathers, and say to them,
Eze 20:5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the time when I chose Israel, I lifted up my hand to the race of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I lifted up my hand to them, and said, I am Jehovah, your God.
Eze 20:6 At that time I lifted up my hand to them, that I would bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had looked out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
Eze 20:7 And I said to them, Cast ye away from you every one the abomination of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt! I am Jehovah, your God.
Eze 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me; they did not cast away every one the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out my fury upon them, that I would accomplish mine anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Eze 20:9 But I acted for my name’s sake, that it might not be polluted in the sight of the nations, in the midst of whom they were; and before their eyes I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Eze 20:10 ¶ And I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and led them into the wilderness.
Eze 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and made known to them my laws, through which the man that keepeth them shall live.
Eze 20:12 Also I gave them my sabbaths, that they might be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I, Jehovah, sanctify them.
Eze 20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the desert; they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my laws, through which the man that keepeth them shall live, and my sabbaths they greatly polluted. Then I said that I would pour out my fury upon them in the desert, to consume them.
Eze 20:14 But I acted for my name’s sake, that it might not be polluted before the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Eze 20:15 Yet I lifted up my hand to them in the desert, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, the beauty of all lands;
Eze 20:16 because they despised my laws, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Eze 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them, so that I did not destroy them; neither did I make an end of them in the desert.
Eze 20:18 And I said to their sons in the desert, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols!
Eze 20:19 I am Jehovah, your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them.
Eze 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah, your God.
Eze 20:21 But the sons rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept they my ordinances to do them, through which the man that doeth them shall live, and they polluted my sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out my fury upon them, and accomplish mine anger upon them in the desert.
Eze 20:22 Nevertheless I held back my hand, and acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Eze 20:23 I also lifted up my hand against them in the desert, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries,
Eze 20:24 because they did not observe mine ordinances, but despised my statutes, and polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after the idols of their fathers.
Eze 20:25 Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances by which they should not live.
Eze 20:26 And I polluted them in their offerings, in that they caused every first–born child to pass through the fire, that I might destroy them, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 20:27 ¶ Therefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers dishonored me, and trespassed against me.
Eze 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up my hand, that I would give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick tree’s, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented their provoking oblation, and there they brought their sweet savor, and there they poured out their drink–offerings.
Eze 20:29 Then I said to them, What is the high place to which ye go? And it is called The High Place unto this day.
Eze 20:30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers, and do ye commit fornication according to their abominations,
Eze 20:31 and by offering your gifts, and causing your sons to pass through the fire,––are ye polluted with all your idols even to this day, and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you!
Eze 20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not come to pass, when ye say, "We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, worshipping wood and stone."
Eze 20:33 ¶ As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out will I rule over you.
Eze 20:34 And I will bring you forth from the nations, and gather you from the countries, wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Eze 20:35 And I will bring you into the desert of the nations, and there will I contend with you face to face.
Eze 20:36 Even as I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so also will I contend with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
Eze 20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me; out of the country where they sojourn will I bring them forth, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve ye every one his idols in future also, if ye will not obey me! But pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts and your idols!
Eze 20:40 For upon my holy mountain, upon the lofty mountain of Israel, there shall all the house of Israel, all that are in the land, serve me; there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your oblations, with all things which ye consecrate to me.
Eze 20:41 I will accept you as a sweet savor, when I bring you forth from the nations, and gather you from the countries, wherein ye have been scattered, and will through you be honored before the eyes of the nations.
Eze 20:42 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country concerning which I lifted up my hand, that I would give it to your fathers.
Eze 20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been polluted; and ye shall loathe yourselves for all your evil deeds which ye have committed.
Eze 20:44 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 20:45 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word against the South, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
Eze 20:47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah! Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle in thee a fire, which shall devour every green tree and every dry tree within thee; the fierce flame shall not be quenched, and all parts from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Eze 20:48 And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
Eze 20:49 And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah, they say of me, "Doth he not speak in parables?"
Eze 21:1 ¶ Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying:
Eze 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Eze 21:3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Eze 21:4 Seeing then that I cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.
Eze 21:5 And all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
Eze 21:6 Thou, therefore, O son of man, sigh! With the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness, sigh before their eyes!
Eze 21:7 And when they shall say to thee, "Wherefore sighest thou?" thou shalt say, "For the rumor, because it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall fail, and all knees shall flow with water. Behold it cometh, it shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Jehovah."
Eze 21:8 ¶ Also the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, The sword, the sword is sharpened and furbished.
Eze 21:10 It is sharpened, that it may make sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter. Or shall we make mirth? The staff of my son despiseth every rod.
Eze 21:11 And he gave it to be furbished that it might be handled. The sword is sharpened and furbished, to be given into the hand of the slayer.
Eze 21:12 Cry and howl, son of man! for it cometh upon my people, upon all the princes of Israel. They are given up to the sword with my people. Therefore smite upon thy thigh.
Eze 21:13 The trial is made. And what if even the contemning staff should be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 21:14 Thou, therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together! for twice, yea thrice, cometh the sword, a sword of slaughter, a sword of great slaughter, that besetteth them on every side.
Eze 21:15 That their hearts may faint, and their overthrown may be multiplied, I have set the terror of the sword against all their gates. Ah, how is it made to glitter, polished for slaughter!
Eze 21:16 Unite thyself, smite to the right, prepare thyself, smite to the left, whithersoever thine edge is turned!
Eze 21:17 I also will smite my hands together, and cause mine anger to cease. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Eze 21:18 ¶ The word of Jehovah came to me again, saying:
Eze 21:19 Do thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways by which the sword of the king of Babylon may come; from one land shall both of them come; and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
Eze 21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come towards Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, and towards Judah, to Jerusalem, the fenced city.
Eze 21:21 For the king of Babylon shall stand at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shall shake together his arrows, he shall consult the teraphim, he shall look at the liver.
Eze 21:22 In his right hand shall be the lot: Jerusalem, to set battering–rams, to open the mouth with the war–cry, to lift up the voice in shouting, to set battering–rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, to build a tower.
Eze 21:23 And this shall appear a false divination in their sight, because they swore oaths to them. But he shall call to remembrance their iniquity, that they may be taken.
Eze 21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye make your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear,––because, I say, ye bring yourselves into remembrance, ye shall be taken with that hand.
Eze 21:25 And thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day cometh in the time when iniquity bringeth destruction!
Eze 21:26 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will remove the diadem, and take away the crown! This shall no more be this. I exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
Eze 21:27 I will destroy, destroy, destroy it; and it shall be no more until he come to whom the right belongeth, and to whom I will give it.
Eze 21:28 ¶ And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon and their scorn; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn; to slay, to consume, is it furbished, so that it glittereth;
Eze 21:29 while they see deceit for thee, and prophesy falsehood, that it may bring thee to the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day cometh in the time when iniquity bringeth destruction.
Eze 21:30 Return the sword into its sheath! In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity, I will judge thee,
Eze 21:31 and I will pour upon thee my indignation, I will blow upon thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hands of brutal men, skilful to destroy.
Eze 21:32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; men shall no more remember thee. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Eze 22:1 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 22:2 Punish, punish, son of man, the city of blood, and show her all her abominations, and say,
Eze 22:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: O city that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come, and makest idols to defile thyself!
Eze 22:4 Through the blood which thou sheddest thou bringest guilt upon thyself, and through the idols which thou makest thou pollutest thyself, and thou causest thy days to draw near, and comest to thy years. Therefore do I make thee a reproach to the nations, and a derision to all countries.
Eze 22:5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee as infamous, full of confusion.
Eze 22:6 Behold the princes of Israel are engaged every one according to his strength within thee to shed blood.
Eze 22:7 In thee they set light by father and mother; in thee are they guilty of oppression to the stranger; in thee do they oppress the fatherless and the widow.
Eze 22:8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths.
Eze 22:9 In thee are men who carry tales, that they may shed blood; in thee do they eat upon the mountains; in the midst of thee do they commit lewdness.
Eze 22:10 In thee doth the son uncover the father’s nakedness; in thee do they lie with a woman in her uncleanness.
Eze 22:11 And one committeth abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another, with incestuous lewdness, defileth his daughter–in–law; and in thee another lieth with his sister, his father’s daughter.
Eze 22:12 In thee do they take a reward to shed blood. Thou takest usury and increase, and thou hast enriched thyself from thy neighbor by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 22:13 Therefore, behold, I have smitten my hands together at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at the blood which hath been shed in the midst of thee.
Eze 22:14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the day when I shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.
Eze 22:15 I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thine impurity out of thee;
Eze 22:16 and thou shalt through thyself be profaned before the eyes of the nations, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 22:17 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me; all of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Eze 22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all of you become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
Eze 22:20 As men 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 my anger and in my fury, and I will place you there and melt you.
Eze 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Eze 22:22 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, Jehovah, have poured out my fury upon you.
Eze 22:23 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 22:24 Son of man, say to her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Eze 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her; like a roaring lion tearing the prey, they devour the lives of men; they take possession of treasures, and precious things, and make many widows in the midst of her.
Eze 22:26 Her priests violate my law, and profane my holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and profane, and show not the difference between the clean and the unclean; and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Eze 22:27 Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey. They shed blood, they destroy life, that they may get gain.
Eze 22:28 Her prophets daub for them with untempered mortar, seeing falsehood, and divining to them, saying, "Thus saith the Lord Jehovah," when Jehovah hath not spoken.
Eze 22:29 The people of the land are guilty of oppression, and practise robbery, and distress the poor and needy; yea, they oppress the stranger, and have no justice.
Eze 22:30 I have sought for a man among them that should make a wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I might not destroy it; but I found none.
Eze 22:31 Therefore will I pour out my indignation upon them; I will consume them with the fire of my wrath; I will bring their way upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 23:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah came to me again, saying:
Eze 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother;
Eze 23:3 and they committed fornication in Egypt; in their youth they committed fornication. There they allowed their breasts to be pressed, and their virgin teats to be handled.
Eze 23:4 Their names were Aholah, the elder, and Aholibah, her sister; and they became mine, and bore sons and daughters; as to their names, moreover, Aholah is Samaria, and Aholibah, Jerusalem.
Eze 23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, her neighbors
Eze 23:6 who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen, riding on horses.
Eze 23:7 Thus she committed fornication with them, with all the choice young men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted; with all their idols she defiled herself.
Eze 23:8 Neither forsook she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for they lay with her in her youth, and handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.
Eze 23:9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
Eze 23:10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became famous among women, when they had executed judgment upon her.
Eze 23:11 ¶ And her sister, Aholibah, saw this, but she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Eze 23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians, her neighbors, prefects and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Eze 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled; that they both took one way.
Eze 23:14 But she added to her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, images of Chaldaeans portrayed with vermilion,
Eze 23:15 girded with girdles upon their loins, and having long mitres hanging down from their heads, in their appearance all of them princes, after the manner of the sons of Babylon, of Chaldaea, the land of their nativity;
Eze 23:16 and as soon as she cast her eyes upon them, she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldaea.
Eze 23:17 And the sons of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredoms, and she was polluted with them. She then became alienated from them.
Eze 23:18 So she discovered her fornications, and discovered her nakedness. Then my mind was alienated from her, as it had been alienated from her sister.
Eze 23:19 For she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;
Eze 23:20 for she doted on their paramours, whose members were as the members of asses, and whose issue was as the issue of horses.
Eze 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when thy teats were handled by the Egyptians, on account of the paps of thy youth.
Eze 23:22 ¶ Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against thee thy lovers, from whom thou art alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side,
Eze 23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, prefects, rich men, and nobles, and all the Assyrians with them, all of them desirable young men, prefects and rulers, captains and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.
Eze 23:24 And they shall come against thee with arms, chariots and wheels, and with hosts of people; with buckler and shield and helmet shall they set themselves against thee on every side. And I will commit to them judgment, and they shall punish thee according to their punishments.
Eze 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears, and thy posterity shall fall by the sword. They shall take away thy sons and thy daughters, and thy posterity shall be consumed with fire.
Eze 23:26 They shall also strip thee of thy garments, and take away thy fair jewels.
Eze 23:27 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 thine eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Eze 23:28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thou art alienated.
Eze 23:29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and take away all the fruits of thy labor from thee, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and thy nakedness shall be uncovered, with which thou hast committed lewdness and fornication and foul whoredom.
Eze 23:30 These things will I do to thee, because thou hast committed whoredom with the nations, and hast been polluted with their idols.
Eze 23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.
Eze 23:32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup, which is deep and large; it shall make thee a laughing–stock and a derision, for it containeth much.
Eze 23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of astonishment and amazement is the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Eze 23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and lick the sherds, and thou shalt tear thy breasts. For I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Eze 23:36 ¶ Moreover, Jehovah said to me, Son of man, punish Aholah and Aholibah; yea, declare to them their abominations;
Eze 23:37 that they have committed adultery, and blood is upon their hands, and that with their idols they have committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them for food.
Eze 23:38 This also have they done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Eze 23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came into my sanctuary the same day to profane it; behold, thus have they done in my house.
Eze 23:40 Yea, ye sent for men to come from afar; messengers were sent to them, and behold, they came; for them didst thou wash thyself, and paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments.
Eze 23:41 And thou didst seat thyself upon a stately bed before which a table was prepared, and thereon didst thou set my incense and my oil.
Eze 23:42 Also the voice of a multitude at ease was with her; and together with men from the common multitude were brought deep–drinkers from the desert, who put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Eze 23:43 Then said I concerning her that was worn out with adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, even with her?
Eze 23:44 They went in to her, as men go to a harlot; so went they in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.
Eze 23:45 But righteous men shall judge them, as adulteresses are judged, and as women that shed blood are judged; for they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands.
Eze 23:46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring a great company against them, and will give them up to be harassed and spoiled,
Eze 23:47 and the company shall stone them with stones, and cut them in pieces with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
Eze 23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may take warning, and not follow them in their lewdness.
Eze 23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; that ye may know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 24:1 ¶ Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, and said:
Eze 24:2 Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day. The king of Babylon draweth near to Jerusalem this same day.
Eze 24:3 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Set on a caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it.
Eze 24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Eze 24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and make under it a pile for the bones, and make it boil well, that the bones therein may be seethed.
Eze 24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the city of blood, to the caldron in which is rust, and whose rust goeth not out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
Eze 24:7 For blood is in the midst of her; upon the bare rock hath she shed it; she poured it not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
Eze 24:8 To cause fury and to take vengeance, I have set the blood shed by her upon the bare rock, that it might not be covered.
Eze 24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the city of blood! Now will I make the pile for fire great.
Eze 24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, cook the flesh, put in spices, and let the bones be burned.
Eze 24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals, that its brass may be hot and may burn, and that its impurity may be dissolved in it, and its rust be consumed.
Eze 24:12 It hath wearied me with labors, yet its thick rust goeth not from it; its rust remaineth in the midst of the fire.
Eze 24:13 In thy filthiness is gross wickedness, because, when I would have cleansed thee, thou wouldst not be cleansed. Thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have quieted my fury toward thee.
Eze 24:14 I, Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
Eze 24:15 ¶ Also the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with one blow; yet thou shalt not mourn, nor weep, nor shall thy tears run down.
Eze 24:17 Sigh thou in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy head–dress upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet; cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of wretched men.
Eze 24:18 So I spake to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Eze 24:19 And the people said to me, Wilt thou not tell us what those things which thou doest denote to us?
Eze 24:20 Then I answered them: The word of Jehovah came to me and said:
Eze 24:21 Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your confidence, the desire of your eyes, and the longing of your souls; and your sons and daughters that are left to you shall fall by the sword.
Eze 24:22 And ye shall do as I have done; ye shall not cover your mouths, nor eat the bread of wretched men;
Eze 24:23 and your head–dresses 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 moan one to another.
Eze 24:24 Thus Ezekiel shall be to you a sign; according to all that he hath done shall ye do, when this cometh; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 24:25 And thou, son of man, behold, in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and the longing of their souls, their sons and their daughters, in that day shall one
Eze 24:26 that is escaped come to thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears.
Eze 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb; and thou shalt be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 25:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying:
Eze 25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Eze 25:3 and say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah! Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou saidst, "Aha!" against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity, therefore,
Eze 25:4 behold, I will deliver thee to the sons of the East for a possession, and they shall set their folds in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
Eze 25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the land of the Ammonites a couching–place for flocks; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 25:6 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with thy feet, and rejoiced with all thy despite from the heart, against the land of Israel,
Eze 25:7 therefore, behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; I will cut thee off from the nations, and cause thee to perish from the countries; I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 25:8 ¶ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir say, "Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,"
Eze 25:9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from his cities, which are on his borders, the glory of the country, Beth–jeshimoth, Baal–meon, and Kiriathaim.
Eze 25:10 To the sons of the East will I give it for a possession, together with the sons of Ammon, that the sons of Ammon may be no more remembered among the nations;
Eze 25:11 and on Moab will I execute judgments, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 25:12 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them,
Eze 25:13 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off from it man and beast; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
Eze 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall deal with Edom according to mine anger, and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 25:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt with revenge, and have taken vengeance, with a despiteful heart, even to destruction, from the old hatred;
Eze 25:16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant upon the sea–coasts.
Eze 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am Jehovah when I lay my vengeance upon them.
Eze 26:1 ¶ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word bf Jehovah came to me, saying:
Eze 26:2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, "Aha! she is broken that was the gate of the nations; now is all transferred to me; I shall be full, now that she is desolate!"
Eze 26:3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
Eze 26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; and I will scrape off her earth from her, and make her like a naked rock.
Eze 26:5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. And she shall be to the nations for a spoil;
Eze 26:6 and her daughters that are upon the land shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Eze 26:7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, a king of kings from the North, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a vast multitude of people.
Eze 26:8 Thy daughters upon the land shall he slay with the sword; and he shall set a tower against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee;
Eze 26:9 and his battering–rams shall be set against thy walls, and thy towers shall he break down with axes.
Eze 26:10 By reason of the great number of his horses, their dust shall cover thee; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he entereth into thy gates, as men enter into a city that is broken through.
Eze 26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; thy people he shall slay with the sword; and the idols of thy strength shall fall to the ground.
Eze 26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy beautiful houses; and thy stones and thy timber and thine earth shall they lay in the midst of the waters.
Eze 26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Eze 26:14 And I will make thee like a naked rock; thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more; for I, Jehovah, have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 26:15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Behold, the isles shall shake at the sound of thy fall, at the groaning of the wounded, and at the slaughter which is made in the midst of thee.
Eze 26:16 And all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their mantles, and put off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling, and sit on the ground, and tremble every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Eze 26:17 And they shall utter a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, "How art thou destroyed, thou that wast peopled from the seas, the renowned city, that wast mighty upon the sea, thou and thine inhabitants, causing terror to all that dwelt near thee!"
Eze 26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall quake at thy departure.
Eze 26:19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee,
Eze 26:20 I will bring thee down to them that have gone down to the pit, to the people of old time, and I will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, amid the ruins of ancient times, with them that have gone down to the pit, that thou be no more inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.
Eze 26:21 I will make thee a desolation, and thou shalt be no more; though thou be sought for, thou shalt be found no more forever, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 27:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying:
Eze 27:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre,
Eze 27:3 and say to Tyre, O thou that didst dwell at the entrance of the sea, the merchant of the nations to many coasts! thus saith the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou hast said, "I am perfect in beauty."
Eze 27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Eze 27:5 They made all thy ship–boards of cypresses of Senir; they took cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
Eze 27:6 Of oaks of Bashan they made thine oars; thy benches they made of ivory inlaid in cedar from the coasts of the Chittaeans.
Eze 27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou didst spread forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the coasts of Elisha were thy covering.
Eze 27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
Eze 27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the skilful men thereof were in thee, thy calkers; all the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee, to traffic in thy merchandise.
Eze 27:10 Persians, and Lydians, and Lybians were in thine army, thy men of war; they hung up the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy glory.
Eze 27:11 The men of Arvad and thine own army were upon thy walls round about, and brave warriors were in thy towers; they hung their shields upon thy walls round about; they made thy beauty perfect.
Eze 27:12 Tarshish trafficked with thee on account of the abundance of all kinds of goods; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they traded in thy fairs.
Eze 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech trafficked with thee; the persons of men and vessels of brass they sold in thy market.
Eze 27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
Eze 27:15 The men of Dedan trafficked with thee; many islands were at hand to thee for trade; they brought thee, for payment, horns of ivory, and ebony–wood.
Eze 27:16 Syria trafficked with thee by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making; with carbuncles, purple and embroidered work, and fine linen, and corals, and rubies, they traded in thy fairs.
Eze 27:17 Judah and the land of Israel trafficked with thee; with wheat of Minnith, and pastry, and syrup, and oil, and balm they traded in thy market.
Eze 27:18 Damascus trafficked with thee on account of the multitude of the wares of thy making, on account of the abundance of all kinds of goods, in the wine of Helbon, and in white wool.
Eze 27:19 Vedan and Javan brought thread to thy market; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet reed were in thy fairs.
Eze 27:20 Dedan brought cloth for riding, in traffic with thee.
Eze 27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were at hand to traffic with thee; they traded with thee in lambs and rams and goats.
Eze 27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah trafficked with thee with all kinds of precious spices, and with all kinds of precious stones, and gold.
Eze 27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad,
Eze 27:24 trafficked with thee in splendid apparel, in mantles of blue and embroidered work, in chests of damask bound with cords and made of cedar, in thy market.
Eze 27:25 The ships of Tarshish were the caravans for thy traffic; and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Eze 27:26 ¶ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Eze 27:27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, and thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the traders in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war within thee, and all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
Eze 27:28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the pastures around thee shall shake.
Eze 27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,
Eze 27:30 and shall cause their voice to be heard for thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast dust upon their heads, and roll themselves in ashes.
Eze 27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth; and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Eze 27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up for thee a lamentation, and shall lament over thee, saying: "What city is like Tyre, like the Destroyed in the midst of the sea?
Eze 27:33 When thy wares went forth from the seas, thou didst satisf
