The Apostles' Bible
2005 by Paul Esposito
Eze 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was in the midst of the captivity by the River Chebar; and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Eze 1:2 On the fifth day of the month; this was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoiachin.
Eze 1:3 And the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the River Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me.
Eze 1:4 And I looked, and behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and there was brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.
Eze 1:5 And in the midst as it were the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: the likeness of a man was upon them.
Eze 1:6 And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.
Eze 1:7 And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and there were sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light.
Eze 1:8 And the hand of a man was under their wings on their four sides.
Eze 1:9 And their faces turned not when they went; but each one went straight forward.
Eze 1:10 And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right of the four; and the face of a calf on the left of the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.
Eze 1:11 And the four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.
Eze 1:12 And each one went straight forward: wherever the spirit was going they went, and turned not back.
Eze 1:13 And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.
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Eze 1:15 And I looked, and behold, the four each had one wheel on the ground near the living creatures.
Eze 1:16 And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness; and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel.
Eze 1:17 They went on their four sides; they turned not as they went;
Eze 1:18 neither did their backs turn. And they were high. And I beheld them, and the backs of the four were full of eyes round about.
Eze 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.
Eze 1:20 Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go. The wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.
Eze 1:21 When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them, for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
Eze 1:22 And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.
Eze 1:23 And their wings were spread out under the firmament, reaching one to the other; two wings to each, covering their bodies.
Eze 1:24 And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: and when they stood, their wings were let down.
Eze 1:25 And lo! A voice from above the firmament
Eze 1:26 that was over their head, there was as the appearance of a sapphire stone, and the likeness of a throne upon it. And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above.
Eze 1:27 And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber from the appearance of the loins and upwards, and from the appearance of the loins and under I saw an appearance of fire, and the brightness thereof round about.
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of brightness round about.
Eze 2:1 This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of One speaking. And He said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak to you.
Eze 2:2 And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him speaking to me.
Eze 2:3 And He said to me, Son of Man, I send you forth to the house of Israel, to them that provoke Me; who have provoked Me, they and their fathers to this day.
Eze 2:4 And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord.
Eze 2:5 Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear (for they are a provoking house,) yet they shall know that you are a prophet in the midst of them.
Eze 2:6 And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions), be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for they are a provoking house.
Eze 2:7 And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or fear; for they are a provoking house.
Eze 2:8 And you, son of man, hear Him that speaks to you; be not provoking, as the provoking house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.
Eze 2:9 And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it was a volume of a book.
Eze 2:10 And He unrolled it before me. And in it the front and the back were written upon. And there was written in it lamentations, and mournful songs, and woe.
Eze 3:1 And He said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.
Eze 3:2 So He opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And He said to me, Son of man,
Eze 3:3 your mouth shall eat, and your belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
Eze 3:4 And He said to me, Son of man, go your way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak My words to them.
Eze 3:5 For you are not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Israel;
Eze 3:6 neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words you would not understand; although if I had sent you to such, they would have hearkened to you.
Eze 3:7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to you; for they will not hearken to Me; for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.
Eze 3:8 And behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power.
Eze 3:9 And it shall be continually stronger than a rock be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because they are a provoking house.
Eze 3:10 And He said to me, Son of man, receive into your heart all the words that I have spoken to you, and hear them with your ears.
Eze 3:11 And go your way, go in to the captivity, to the children of your people, and you shall speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.
Eze 3:12 Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place.
Eze 3:13 And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake.
Eze 3:14 And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.
Eze 3:15 Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round to those that dwelt by the River Chebar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.
Eze 3:16 And after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man,
Eze 3:17 I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word from My mouth, and shall threaten them from Me.
Eze 3:18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
Eze 3:19 But if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and you shall deliver your soul.
Eze 3:20 And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
Eze 3:21 But if you warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because you have warned him; and you shall deliver your own soul.
Eze 3:22 And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and He said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shall you be spoken to.
Eze 3:23 And I arose, and went forth to the plain. And behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Eze 3:24 Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut yourself up in the midst of your house.
Eze 3:25 And you, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not come forth of the midst of them.
Eze 3:26 Also I will bind your tongue, and you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover; because they are a provoking house.
Eze 3:27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient; for they are a provoking house.
Eze 4:1 And you, son of man, take a brick, and set it before your face, and portray on it the city, even Jerusalem.
Eze 4:2 And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.
Eze 4:3 And take to yourself an iron pan, and you shall set it for an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.
Eze 4:4 And you shall lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which you shall lie upon it; and you shall bear their iniquities.
Eze 4:5 For I have appointed you their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.
Eze 4:6 And you shall accomplish this, and then you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquities of the house of Judah for forty days: I have appointed you a day for a year.
Eze 4:7 So you shall set your face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shall strengthen your arm, and shall prophesy against it.
Eze 4:8 And behold, I have prepared bonds for you, and you may not turn from your one side to the other, until the days of your siege shall be accomplished.
Eze 4:9 Take also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and grain; and you shall cast them into one earthen vessel, and shall make them into loaves for yourself; and you shall eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days which you sleep on your side.
Eze 4:10 And you shall eat your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat them.
Eze 4:11 And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.
Eze 4:12 And you shall eat them as a barley cake; you shall bake them before their eyes in man's dung.
Eze 4:13 And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles.
Eze 4:14 Then I said, By no means, Lord God of Israel! Surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness, nor have I eaten that which has died of itself, or was torn by beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.
Eze 4:15 And He said to me, Behold, I have given you dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and you shall prepare your loaves upon it.
Eze 4:16 And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in poverty, and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin;
Eze 4:17 that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.
Eze 5:1 And you, son of man, take a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard; and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.
Eze 5:2 A fourth part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege. And you shall take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it. And a fourth part you shall cut with a sword round about it. And a fourth part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze 5:3 And you shall take a few of them, and wrap them in the fold of your garment.
Eze 5:4 And you shall take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire. From there shall come forth fire, and you shall say to the whole house of Israel,
Eze 5:5 Thus says the Lord: This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.
Eze 5:6 And you shall declare My ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and My statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her, because they have rejected My ordinances, and have not walked in My statutes.
Eze 5:7 Therefore thus says the Lord: Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and you have not walked in My statutes, nor kept My ordinances, no, you have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus says the Lord:
Eze 5:8 Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
Eze 5:9 And I will do in you things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all your abominations.
Eze 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat their children in the midst of you, and children shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter all that are left of you to the four winds.
Eze 5:11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled My holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; My eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.
Eze 5:12 A fourth part of you shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of you shall be consumed in the midst of you with famine; and as for another fourth part of you, I will scatter them to all the winds; and a fourth part of you shall fall by the sword round about you, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze 5:13 And My wrath and My anger shall be accomplished upon them: and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy, when I have accomplished My anger upon them.
Eze 5:14 And I will make you desolate, and your daughters round about you, in the sight of everyone that passes through.
Eze 5:15 And you shall be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about you, when I have executed judgments in you in the vengeance of My wrath. I, the Lord, have spoken.
Eze 5:16 And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.
Eze 5:17 So I will send forth against you famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon you; and I will bring a sword upon you round about. I, the Lord, have spoken.
Eze 6:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 6:2 Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them;
Eze 6:3 and you shall say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests: Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.
Eze 6:4 And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Eze 6:5 And I will scatter your bones round about your altars,
Eze 6:6 and in all your habitations; the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste, that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.
Eze 6:7 And slain men shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 6:8 When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when you are scattered in the countries,
Eze 6:9 then those of you that escape among the nations where they were carried captive shall remember Me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from Me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
Eze 6:10 And they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken.
Eze 6:11 Thus says the Lord: Clap with your hand, and stamp with your foot and say, Aha, aha! For all the abominations of the house of Israel; they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.
Eze 6:12 He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine; and I will accomplish My anger upon them.
Eze 6:13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savor to all their idols.
Eze 6:14 And I will stretch out My hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Diblah, in all their habitations; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 7:1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Also, you, son of man, say,
Eze 7:2 Thus says the Lord: An end has come to the land of Israel, the end has come on the four corners of the land.
Eze 7:3 Now the end has come upon you, and I will send judgment upon you: and I will take vengeance on your ways, and will recompense all your abominations upon you.
Eze 7:4 My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy, for I will recompense your way upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 7:5 For thus says the Lord; Behold, the end has come.
Eze 7:6 The end has come on you,
Eze 7:7 the inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day has drawn near, not with tumult, nor with pangs.
Eze 7:8 Now I will pour out My anger upon you near at hand, and I will accomplish My wrath on you: and I will judge you for your ways, and recompense all your abominations upon you.
Eze 7:9 My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord that strikes you.
Eze 7:10 Behold, the day of the Lord! Although the rod has blossomed,
Eze 7:11 pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste.
Eze 7:12 The time has come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.
Eze 7:13 For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye of hope to his life.
Eze 7:14 Sound the trumpet, and pass sentence on all together.
Eze 7:15 There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword, and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.
Eze 7:16 But they that escape among them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains, and I will slay all the rest, everyone for his iniquities.
Eze 7:17 All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.
Eze 7:18 And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head.
Eze 7:19 Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled; for it was the punishment of their iniquities.
Eze 7:20 As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations; therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.
Eze 7:21 And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.
Eze 7:22 And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.
Eze 7:23 And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.
Eze 7:24 And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.
Eze 7:25 And though propitiation shall come, and one shall seek peace, yet there shall be none.
Eze 7:26 There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Eze 7:27 The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble. I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord came upon me.
Eze 8:2 And I looked, and behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards there was fire, and from his loins upwards there was as the appearance of amber.
Eze 8:3 And He stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.
Eze 8:4 And behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.
Eze 8:5 And He said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, I looked from the north toward the eastern gate.
Eze 8:6 And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what these people do? They commit great abominations here, so that I should keep away from My sanctuary; and you shall see even greater iniquities.
Eze 8:7 And He brought me to the porch of the court.
Eze 8:8 And He said to me, Son of man, dig. So I dug, and behold, there was a door.
Eze 8:9 And He said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practice here.
Eze 8:10 So I went in and looked, and I beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.
Eze 8:11 And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechoniah the son of Shaphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.
Eze 8:12 And He said to me, You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber; because they have said, The Lord does not see; the Lord has forsaken the earth.
Eze 8:13 And He said to me, You shall see even greater iniquities than these.
Eze 8:14 And He brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and behold there were women sitting there lamenting for Tammuz.
Eze 8:15 And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen; but you shall yet see evil practices even greater then these.
Eze 8:16 And He brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.
Eze 8:17 And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen this. Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to practice the iniquities which they have practiced here? For they have filled the land with iniquity; and behold, these are as scorners.
Eze 8:18 Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.
Eze 9:1 Then He called out in my ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgment of the city has drawn near. And each had the weapons of destruction in his hand.
Eze 9:2 And behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one's axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to his feet, and a sapphire belt was on his loins. And they came in and stood near the bronze altar.
Eze 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel that was upon them went up from the cherubim to the porch of the house. And He called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the belt on his loins;
Eze 9:4 and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.
Eze 9:5 And He said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, neither have mercy.
Eze 9:6 Utterly slay old man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom is the mark: begin at My sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.
Eze 9:7 And He said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and strike.
Eze 9:8 And it came to pass as they were striking, that I fell upon my face and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! Will You destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out Your wrath upon Jerusalem?
Eze 9:9 Then He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah has become exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness; because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it.
Eze 9:10 Therefore My eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.
Eze 9:11 And behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girded with the belt about his loins, answered and said, I have done as You have commanded me.
Eze 10:1 Then I looked, and behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there was a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.
Eze 10:2 And He said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubim, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.
Eze 10:3 And the cherubim stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Eze 10:4 Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubim to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.
Eze 10:5 And the sound of the wings of the Cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of Almighty God speaking.
Eze 10:6 And it came to pass, when He gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.
Eze 10:7 And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took it, and went out.
Eze 10:8 And I saw the cherubim having the likeness of men's hands under their wings.
Eze 10:9 And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubim, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.
Eze 10:10 And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
Eze 10:11 When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went.
Eze 10:12 And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.
Eze 10:13 And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing.
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Eze 10:15 And the cherubim were the same living creatures which I saw by the River Chebar.
Eze 10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went, and they were close to them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.
Eze 10:17 When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them, because the spirit of life was in them.
Eze 10:18 Then the glory of the Lord departed from the house, and went up on the cherubim.
Eze 10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.
Eze 10:20 This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
Eze 10:21 Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands.
Eze 10:22 And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the River Chebar: and they went each straight forward.
Eze 11:1 Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of the Lord, that looks eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate were about twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jechoniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the leaders of the people.
Eze 11:2 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city;
Eze 11:3 who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Eze 11:4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man.
Eze 11:5 And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, say; Thus says the Lord: Thus have you said, O house of Israel: and I know the devices of your spirit.
Eze 11:6 You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled your ways with slain men.
Eze 11:7 Therefore thus says the Lord: Your dead whom you have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Eze 11:8 You fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord.
Eze 11:9 And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Eze 11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Eze 11:13 And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Lord! Will you utterly destroy the remnant of Israel?
Eze 11:14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 11:15 Son of man, your brethren, and the men of your captivity, and all the house of Israel have come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance.
Eze 11:16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.
Eze 11:17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands in which I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.
Eze 11:18 And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations from it, and all its iniquities from it.
Eze 11:19 And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh;
Eze 11:20 that they may walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Eze 11:21 And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, says the Lord.
Eze 11:22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Eze 11:23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which was in front of the city.
Eze 11:24 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw.
Eze 11:25 And I spoke to the captivity all the words of the Lord, which He had shown me.
Eze 12:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the iniquities of those who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not; because they are a provoking house.
Eze 12:3 You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that they are a provoking house.
Eze 12:4 And you shall carry forth your baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes; and you shall go forth at evening, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.
Eze 12:5 Dig for yourself into the wall of the house, and you shall pass through it in their sight.
Eze 12:6 You shall be lifted up on men's shoulders, and shall go forth in secret; you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground, because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.
Eze 12:7 And I did thus according to all that He commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and I went out secretly; I was taken up on men's shoulders before them.
Eze 12:8 And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying,
Eze 12:9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to you, What are you doing?
Eze 12:10 Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:
Eze 12:11 say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him; they shall go into banishment and captivity.
Eze 12:12 And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig, so that he may go forth thereby; he shall cover his face, so that he may not be seen by anyone, and he himself shall not see the ground.
Eze 12:13 And I will spread out My net upon him, and he shall be caught in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
Eze 12:14 And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them;
Eze 12:15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them into the countries.
Eze 12:16 And I will leave among them a few men in number spared from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations where they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 12:17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with torment and affliction.
Eze 12:19 And you shall say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains, for all that dwell in it are ungodly.
Eze 12:20 And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 12:21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 12:22 Son of man, what is your parable on the land of Israel, that you say, The days are long, and the vision has perished?
Eze 12:23 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord: I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall by no means use this parable again; for you shall say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
Eze 12:24 For there shall no more be any false vision, nor anyone prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.
Eze 12:25 For I the Lord will speak My words; I will speak and perform them, and will delay no more, for in your days, O provoking house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord.
Eze 12:26 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 12:27 Son of man, behold, the provoking house of Israel boldly say, The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesies for times afar off.
Eze 12:28 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord: Henceforth none of My words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, says the Lord.
Eze 13:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and you shall prophesy, and shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord:
Eze 13:3 Thus says the Lord: Woe to them that prophesy out of their own heart, and who see nothing at all.
Eze 13:4 Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.
Eze 13:5 They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say,
Eze 13:6 In the day of the Lord, have not stood, seeing false visions, prophesying vanities, who say, The Lord says, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began to try to confirm the word.
Eze 13:7 Have you not seen a false vision, and spoken vain prophecies?
Eze 13:8 And therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord.
Eze 13:9 And I will stretch forth My hand against the prophets that see false visions, and those that utter vanities. They shall not partake of the instruction of My people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 13:10 Because they have caused My people to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it it shall fall.
Eze 13:11 Say to them that plaster it, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.
Eze 13:12 And lo! The wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster with which you plastered it?
Eze 13:13 Therefore thus says the Lord: I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in My wrath; and in My fury I will bring on great hailstones for complete destruction.
Eze 13:14 And I will break down the wall which you have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and you shall be consumed with rebukes; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 13:15 And I will accomplish My wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it,
Eze 13:16 even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord.
Eze 13:17 And you, son of man, set your face firmly against the daughters of your people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them.
Eze 13:18 And you shall say, Thus says the Lord: Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make handkerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of My people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.
Eze 13:19 And they have dishonored Me before My people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while you speak to a people hearing vain speeches.
Eze 13:20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against your pillows, whereby you there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which you pervert, to scatter them.
Eze 13:21 And I will tear your handkerchiefs, and will rescue My people out of your hands, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 13:22 Because you have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and that in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:
Eze 13:23 therefore you shall not see false visions, and you shall no more utter prophecies; but I will deliver My people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 14:1 And there came to me men of the people of Israel, of the elders, and sat before me.
Eze 14:2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 14:3 Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?
Eze 14:4 Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled,
Eze 14:5 that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from Me in their thoughts.
Eze 14:6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Be converted, and turn from your evil practices, and from all your sins, and turn your faces back again.
Eze 14:7 For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from Me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me; I the Lord will answer him, according to the things in which he is entangled.
Eze 14:8 And I will set My face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 14:9 And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.
Eze 14:10 And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass,
Eze 14:11 that the house of Israel may not go astray from Me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions; so shall they be My people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.
Eze 14:12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 14:13 Son of man, if a land shall sin against Me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out My hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it.
Eze 14:14 And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they alone would be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.
Eze 14:15 If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it is ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts;
Eze 14:16 and if these three men should be in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.
Eze 14:17 Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast;
Eze 14:18 though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves.
Eze 14:19 Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out My wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast;
Eze 14:20 and should Noah, Daniel, and Job be in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.
Eze 14:21 Thus says the Lord: And if I even send upon Jerusalem My four severe judgments the sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it both man and beast;
Eze 14:22 yet behold, there shall be men left in it, those that escaped, who shall lead forth of it sons and daughters behold, they shall go forth to you, and you shall see their ways and their thoughts, and you shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even all the evils which I have brought upon it.
Eze 14:23 And they shall comfort you, because you shall see their ways and their thoughts; and you shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord.
Eze 15:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 15:2 And you, son of man of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?
Eze 15:3 Will they take wood from it to make it fit for work? Will they take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon it?
Eze 15:4 It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly ruined of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for any work?
Eze 15:5 Not even while it is yet whole will it be useful for any work; if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be fit for work?
Eze 15:6 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Eze 15:7 And I will set My face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and yet fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set My face against them.
Eze 15:8 And I will give up the land to ruin, because they have utterly transgressed, says the Lord.
Eze 16:1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 16:2 Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;
Eze 16:3 and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem: Your root and your birth are of the land of Canaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
Eze 16:4 And as for your birth in the day in which you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither were you salted with salt, neither were you swathed in swaddling-bands.
Eze 16:5 Nor did My eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day in which you were born.
Eze 16:6 And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, Let there be life out of your blood;
Eze 16:7 increase; I have made you as the springing grass of the field. So you increased and grew, and entered into great cities: your breasts were set, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and bare.
Eze 16:8 And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, it was your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore an oath to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine.
Eze 16:9 And I washed you in water, and washed your blood from you, and anointed you with oil.
Eze 16:10 And I clothed you with embroidered garments, and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk,
Eze 16:11 and decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace on your neck.
Eze 16:12 And I put a pendant in your nose, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.
Eze 16:13 So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour and oil and honey, and became extremely beautiful.
Eze 16:14 And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.
Eze 16:15 But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by.
Eze 16:16 And you took of your garments, and made for yourself idols of needlework, and went a-whoring after them; therefore you shall never come in, nor shall the like take place.
Eze 16:17 And you took your fair ornaments of My gold and of My silver, of what I gave you, and you made for yourself male images, and you committed harlotry with them.
Eze 16:18 And you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set before them My oil and My incense.
Eze 16:19 And you took My bread which I gave you, (yea, I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor; yes, it was so, says the Lord.
Eze 16:20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and sacrificed these to them to be destroyed. You went a-whoring as if that were little,
Eze 16:21 and slain your children, and gave them up, in offering them up as a sacrifice.
Eze 16:22 This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and lived, though defiled in your blood.
Eze 16:23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, says the Lord,
Eze 16:24 that you built yourself a house of fornication, and made a public place for yourself in every street;
Eze 16:25 and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled your beauty, and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication.
Eze 16:26 And you went a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbors, great of flesh; and went a-whoring, often to provoke Me to anger.
Eze 16:27 And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver you up to the will of those that hate you, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned.
Eze 16:28 And you went a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even then were you satisfied; yea, you went a-whoring, and were not satisfied.
Eze 16:29 And you multiplied your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied.
Eze 16:30 Why should I make a covenant with your daughter, says the Lord, while you do all these things, the works of a harlot? And you have gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with your daughters.
Eze 16:31 You have built a house of harlotry at the head of every road, and have set up your high place in every street; and you became as a harlot gathering payments.
Eze 16:32 An adulteress resembles you, taking rewards of her husband.
Eze 16:33 She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yea, you loaded them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication.
Eze 16:34 And there has happened in you perverseness in your fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with you, in that you give payments over and above, and payments were not given to you; and thus perverseness happened in you.
Eze 16:35 Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
Eze 16:36 Thus says the Lord: Because you have poured forth your money, therefore your shame shall be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities, and for the blood of your children which you have given to them.
Eze 16:37 Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame.
Eze 16:38 And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy.
Eze 16:39 And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare.
Eze 16:40 And they shall bring multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones, and pierce you with their swords.
Eze 16:41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women; and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give you rewards.
Eze 16:42 So will I slacken My fury against you, and My jealousy shall be removed from you, and I will rest, and be no more careful for you.
Eze 16:43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you grieved Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord; for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your other iniquities.
Eze 16:44 These are all the things they have spoken against you in a proverb, saying,
Eze 16:45 As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Eze 16:46 Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Eze 16:47 Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways.
Eze 16:48 As I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Eze 16:49 Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze 16:50 And they boasted, and worked iniquities before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.
Eze 16:51 Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed.
Eze 16:52 You therefore bear your punishment, for that you have corrupted your sisters by your sins which you have committed beyond them; and you have made them appear more righteous than yourself: you therefore be ashamed, and bear your dishonor, in that you have justified your sisters.
Eze 16:53 And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them;
Eze 16:54 that you may bear your punishment, and be dishonored for all that you have done in provoking Me to anger.
Eze 16:55 And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you were at the beginning.
Eze 16:56 And surely your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the days of your pride;
Eze 16:57 before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, even of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about.
Eze 16:58 As for your ungodliness and your iniquities, you have borne them, says the Lord.
Eze 16:59 Thus says the Lord: I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My covenant.
Eze 16:60 And I will remember My covenant, made with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
Eze 16:61 Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonored when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones, and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant.
Eze 16:62 And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the Lord,
Eze 16:63 that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.
Eze 17:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 17:2 Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:
Eze 17:3 and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Lebanon and he took the choice branches of the cedar;
Eze 17:4 he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Canaan; he laid them up in a walled city.
Eze 17:5 And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.
Eze 17:6 And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that its branches appeared on it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.
Eze 17:7 And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws. And behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and its roots were turned towards him, and it sent forth its branches towards him, that he might water it together with the growth of its plantation.
Eze 17:8 It thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that it might become a great vine.
Eze 17:9 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Shall it prosper? Shall not the roots of its tender stem and its fruit be blighted? Yea, all its early shoots shall be dried up, and that not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear it up from its roots.
Eze 17:10 And behold, it thrives; shall it prosper? Shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? It shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.
Eze 17:11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying,
Eze 17:12 Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know you not what these things were? Say to them, Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them home to Babylon.
Eze 17:13 And he shall take of the royal seed, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath; and he shall take the princes of the land,
Eze 17:14 that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.
Eze 17:15 And if he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that they may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? Shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? And shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?
Eze 17:16 As I live, says the Lord, verily in the place where the king is that made him king, who dishonored My oath, and who broke My covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.
Eze 17:17 And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.
Eze 17:18 Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.
Eze 17:19 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: As I live, surely My oath which he has profaned, and My covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.
Eze 17:20 And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.
Eze 17:21 In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter his remnant to every wind, and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.
Eze 17:22 For thus says the Lord: I will even take of the choice branches of the cedar from the top thereof, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain;
Eze 17:23 and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar. And every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow; its branches shall be restored.
Eze 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.
Eze 18:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 18:2 Son of man, what do you mean by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?
Eze 18:3 As I live, says the Lord, surely this parable shall no more be spoken in Israel.
Eze 18:4 For all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are Mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
Eze 18:5 But the righteous man, who executes judgment and righteousness,
Eze 18:6 who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbor's wife, and shall not draw near to her that is removed,
Eze 18:7 and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;
Eze 18:8 and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,
Eze 18:9 and has walked in My commandments and kept My ordinances, to do them the righteous man shall surely live, says the Lord.
Eze 18:10 And if he beget a mischievous son, shedding blood and committing sins,
Eze 18:11 who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor's wife,
Eze 18:12 and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has worked iniquities,
Eze 18:13 has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has done all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Eze 18:14 And if he beget a son, and the son see all his father's sins which he has done, and fear, and not do according to them,
Eze 18:15 and if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
Eze 18:16 and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,
Eze 18:17 and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has worked righteousness, and walked in My ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.
Eze 18:18 But if his father should grievously afflict or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of My people, and shall die in his iniquity.
Eze 18:19 But you will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgment and mercy, has kept all My statues, and done them, he shall surely live.
Eze 18:20 But the soul that sins shall die; and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.
Eze 18:21 And if the transgressor shall turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all My commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall no means die.
Eze 18:22 None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered; in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.
Eze 18:23 Shall I in any way desire the death of the sinner, says he Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?
Eze 18:24 But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has done, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered; in his trespass in which he has trespassed, and in his sins in which he has sinned, in them shall he die.
Eze 18:25 Yet you have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel: will not My way be straight? Is your way straight?
Eze 18:26 When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall even die in it.
Eze 18:27 And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul,
Eze 18:28 and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not My way right, O house of Israel? Is not your way wrong?
Eze 18:30 I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness in which you have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I desire not the death of him that dies, says the Lord.
Eze 19:1 Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,
Eze 19:2 and say, Why has your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? In the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
Eze 19:3 And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
Eze 19:4 And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.
Eze 19:5 And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope for him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.
Eze 19:6 And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
Eze 19:7 And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
Eze 19:8 Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him; he was taken in their pit.
Eze 19:9 And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.
Eze 19:10 Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water; her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.
Eze 19:11 And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of other trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.
Eze 19:12 But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice branches; vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.
Eze 19:13 And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.
Eze 19:14 And fire has gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race has become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
Eze 20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.
Eze 20:2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord.
Eze 20:4 Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? Testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers,
Eze 20:5 and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with My hand, saying, I am the Lord your God;
Eze 20:6 in that day I helped them with My hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.
Eze 20:7 And I said to them, Let everyone cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Eze 20:8 But they revolted against Me, and would not hearken to Me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them, to accomplish My wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.
Eze 20:9 But I acted so that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
Eze 20:10 And I brought them into the wilderness.
Eze 20:11 And I gave them My commandments, and made known to them My ordinances, all which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them.
Eze 20:12 And I gave them My Sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between Me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them.
Eze 20:13 And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected My ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Eze 20:14 But I acted so that My name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.
Eze 20:15 But I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands;
Eze 20:16 because they rejected My ordinances, and walked not in My commandments, but profaned My Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
Eze 20:17 Yet My eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
Eze 20:18 And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.
Eze 20:19 I am the Lord your God; walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them;
Eze 20:20 and hallow My Sabbaths, and let them be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
Eze 20:21 But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.
Eze 20:22 But I acted so that My name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.
Eze 20:23 I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;
Eze 20:24 because they kept not My ordinances, and rejected My commandments, and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.
Eze 20:25 So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.
Eze 20:26 And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.
Eze 20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: In this too have your fathers provoked Me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against Me.
Eze 20:28 Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there sweet-smelling savors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
Eze 20:29 And I said to them, What is Bamah, that you go in there? And they called its name Bamah, until this day.
Eze 20:30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Do you pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do you go a-whoring after their abominations,
Eze 20:31 and do you pollute yourselves with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.
Eze 20:32 And it shall not be as you say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.
Eze 20:33 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.
Eze 20:34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands in which you were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.
Eze 20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.
Eze 20:36 As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, says the Lord.
Eze 20:37 And I will cause you to pass under My rod, and I will bring you in by number.
Eze 20:38 And I will separate from among you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord, even the Lord.
Eze 20:39 And as for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, even the Lord: Put away each one his evil practices, and hereafter if you hearken to Me, then shall you no more profane My holy name by your gifts and by devices.
Eze 20:40 For upon My holy mountain, on the high mountain, says the Lord, even the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve Me forever. And there will I accept you, and there will I have respect to your firstfruits, and the firstfruits of your offerings, in all your holy things.
Eze 20:41 I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savor, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries in which you have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations.
Eze 20:42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers.
Eze 20:43 And you shall there remember your ways, and your devices in which you defiled yourselves; and you shall bewail yourselves for all your wickedness.
Eze 20:44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that My name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, says the Lord.
Eze 20:45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 20:46 Son of man, set your face against Thaman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Negev,
Eze 20:47 and you shall say to the forest of Negev, Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, even the Lord: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour in you every green tree, and every dry tree. The flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north.
Eze 20:48 And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
Eze 20:49 And I said, Not so, O Lord God! They say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable?
Eze 21:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 21:2 Therefore prophesy, son of man, set your face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and you shall prophesy against the land of Israel,
Eze 21:3 and you shall say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and I will draw forth My sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of you the transgressor and the unrighteous.
Eze 21:4 Because I will destroy out of you the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall My sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north;
Eze 21:5 and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth My sword out of its sheath: it shall not return anymore.
Eze 21:6 And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your loins; you shall even groan heavily in their sight.
Eze 21:7 And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to you, Why do you groan? That you shall say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, says the Lord.
Eze 21:8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,
Eze 21:10 that you may slay victims; be sharpened, that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.
Eze 21:11 And He made it ready for His hand to hold. The sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer.
Eze 21:12 Cry out and howl, son of man: for this sword has come upon My people, this sword has come upon all the princes of Israel: they shall be as strangers: judgment with the sword has come upon My people; therefore clap your hands, for sentence has been passed;
Eze 21:13 and what if even the tribe be rejected? It shall not be, says the Lord God.
Eze 21:14 And you, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is the sword of the slain, the great sword of the slain; and you shall strike them with amazement, lest the heart should faint,
Eze 21:15 and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate they are given up to the slaughter of the sword; it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering.
Eze 21:16 And go on, sharpen yourself on the right and on the left, wherever your face may set itself.
Eze 21:17 And I also will clap My hands, and let loose My fury. The Lord has spoken it.
Eze 21:18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 21:19 And you, son of man, appoint for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth from one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the city, you shall set it at the top of the road,
Eze 21:20 that the sword may enter in upon Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof.
Eze 21:21 For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old road, at the head of the two roads, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to inquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims.
Eze 21:22 On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts.
Eze 21:23 And he was to them as one using divination before them, and he himself recounting his iniquities, that they might be borne in mind.
Eze 21:24 Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have caused your iniquities to be remembered, in the discovery of your wickedness, so that your sins should be seen, in all your wickedness and in your evil practices; because you have caused remembrance of them, in these shall you be taken.
Eze 21:25 And you, O profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day, even and end, has come in a sea of iniquity, thus says the Lord:
Eze 21:26 You have taken off the turban and put on the crown, it shall not have such another after it: you have abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.
Eze 21:27 Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it; woe to it. Such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver it to him.
Eze 21:28 And you, son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and you shall say, O sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that you may gleam.
Eze 21:29 While you are seeing vain visions, and while you are prophesying falsehoods, to bring yourself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day has come, even an end, in a season of iniquity.
Eze 21:30 Turn, rest not in this place in which you were born: in your own land will I judge you.
Eze 21:31 And I will pour out My wrath upon you, I will blow upon you with the fire of My wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction.
Eze 21:32 You shall be fuel for fire; your blood shall be in the midst of your land; there shall be no remembrance at all of you: for I the Lord have spoken it.
Eze 22:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 22:2 And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? Yea, declare to her all her iniquities.
Eze 22:3 And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;
Eze 22:4 in their blood which you have shed, you have transgressed; and in your devices which you have formed, you have polluted yourself; and you have brought near your days, and have brought on the time of your years; therefore have I made you a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,
Eze 22:5 to those near you, and to those far away; and they shall mock you, you that are notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities.
Eze 22:6 Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.
Eze 22:7 In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.
Eze 22:8 And they have set at nought My holy things, and in you they have profaned My Sabbaths.
Eze 22:9 There are robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains; they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you.
Eze 22:10 In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.
Eze 22:11 They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.
Eze 22:12 In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.
Eze 22:13 And if I shall smite My hand at your iniquities which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,
Eze 22:14 shall your heart endure? Shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.
Eze 22:15 And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries, and your uncleanness shall be removed out of you.
Eze 22:16 And I will give heritages in you in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 22:17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 22:18 Son of man, behold, the house of Israel has become to Me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.
Eze 22:19 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
Eze 22:20 As silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in My wrath, and I will gather and melt you.
Eze 22:21 And I will blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Eze 22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst thereof; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My wrath upon you.
Eze 22:23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 22:24 Son of man, say to her: You are the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon you in the day of wrath;
Eze 22:25 whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.
Eze 22:26 Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
Eze 22:27 Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.
Eze 22:28 And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.
Eze 22:29 That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.
Eze 22:30 And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before Me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not.
Eze 22:31 So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.
Eze 23:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
Eze 23:3 and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth. There their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.
Eze 23:4 And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were Mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Samaria was Oholah, and Jerusalem was Oholibah.
Eze 23:5 And Oholah went a-whoring from Me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,
Eze 23:6 clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses.
Eze 23:7 And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.
Eze 23:8 And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.
Eze 23:9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
Eze 23:10 They uncovered her shame; they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.
Eze 23:11 And her sister Oholibah saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.
Eze 23:12 She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men.
Eze 23:13 And I saw that they were defiled, that the two had one way.
Eze 23:14 And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,
Eze 23:15 having variegated belts on their loins, having also richly dyed turbans upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.
Eze 23:16 And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.
Eze 23:17 And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.
Eze 23:18 And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame. And My soul was alienated from her, even as My soul was alienated from her sister.
Eze 23:19 And you multiplied your fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of your youth, in which you committed harlotry in Egypt,
Eze 23:20 and you doted upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and their members as the members of horses.
Eze 23:21 And you looked upon the iniquity of your youth, the things which you did in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth.
Eze 23:22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about,
Eze 23:23 the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.
Eze 23:24 And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against you round about; and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgements.
Eze 23:25 And I will bring upon you My jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and shall cast down your remnant with the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters, and fire shall devour your remnant.
Eze 23:26 And they shall strip you of your clothing, and take away your ornaments.
Eze 23:27 So I will turn back your ungodliness from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt; and you shall not lift up your eyes upon them, and shall no more remember Egypt.
Eze 23:28 Wherefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated.
Eze 23:29 And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare; and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed. And your ungodliness and your fornication
Eze 23:30 has brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and defiled yourself with their devices.
Eze 23:31 You walked in the way of your sister; and I will put her cup into your hands.
Eze 23:32 Thus says the Lord: Drink your sister's cup, deep and large and full, to cause complete drunkenness.
Eze 23:33 And you shall be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of your sister Samaria,
Eze 23:34 drink it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons; for I have spoken it, says the Lord.
Eze 23:35 Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have forgotten Me, and have cast Me behind your back, therefore receive the reward of your ungodliness and your fornication.
Eze 23:36 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, will you not judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their iniquities?
Eze 23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to Me.
Eze 23:38 So long too as they did these things to Me, they defiled My sanctuary, and profaned My Sabbaths.
Eze 23:39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into My sanctuary to profane it; and whereas they did thus in the midst of My house,
Eze 23:40 and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately you washed yourself, and painted your eyes and adorned yourself with ornaments,
Eze 23:41 and sat on a prepared bed, and before it there was a table set out, and as for My incense and My oil, they rejoiced in them,
Eze 23:42 and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads.
Eze 23:43 Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? And has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot?
Eze 23:44 And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, to work iniquity.
Eze 23:45 And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
Eze 23:46 Thus says the Lord God: Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.
Eze 23:47 And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.
Eze 23:48 And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.
Eze 23:49 And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the guilt of your devices, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 24:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,
Eze 24:2 Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day, on which the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem, even from this day.
Eze 24:3 And speak a parable to the provoking house, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Set on the caldron, and pour water into it,
Eze 24:4 and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,
Eze 24:5 which are taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them; her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.
Eze 24:6 Therefore thus says the Lord: O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.
Eze 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock; I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;
Eze 24:8 that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken; I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.
Eze 24:9 Therefore thus says the Lord: I will also make the firebrand great,
Eze 24:10 and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away;
Eze 24:11 and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,
Eze 24:12 and her abundant scum may not come forth from her.
Eze 24:13 Her scum shall become shameful, because you defiled yourself; and what if you shall be purged no more until I have accomplished My wrath?
Eze 24:14 I the Lord have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do it; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge you, says the Lord, according to your ways, and according to your devices. Therefore will I judge you according to your bloodshed, and according to your devices will I judge you, you unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one.
Eze 24:15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 24:16 Son of man, behold I take from you the desire of your eyes by violence. You shall not lament, neither shall you weep.
Eze 24:17 You shall groan for blood, and have mourning upon your loins; your hair shall not be braided upon you, and your sandals shall be on your feet; you shall by no means be comforted by their lips, and you shall not eat the bread of men.
Eze 24:18 And I spoke to the people in the morning, as He commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.
Eze 24:19 And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are that you do?
Eze 24:20 Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 24:21 Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.
Eze 24:22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not be comforted at their mouth, and you shall not eat the bread of men.
Eze 24:23 And your hair shall be upon your head, and your shoes on your feet; neither shall you at all lament or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and shall comfort everyone his brother.
Eze 24:24 And Ezekiel shall be for a sign to you: according to all that I have done shall you do, when these things shall come; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 24:25 And you, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters,
Eze 24:26 that in that day he that escapes shall come to you, to tell it to you in your ears?
Eze 24:27 In that day your mouth shall be opened to him that escapes; you shall speak, and shall be no longer dumb; and you shall be for a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 25:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 25:2 Son of man, set your face steadfastly against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
Eze 25:3 and you shall say to the children of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord: Forasmuch as you have rejoiced against My sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste, and against the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;
Eze 25:4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in you with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in you; they shall eat your fruits, and they shall drink your milk.
Eze 25:5 And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels' pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 25:6 For thus says the Lord: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with your foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel;
Eze 25:7 therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy you from among the peoples, and I will completely cut you off from out of the countries; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 25:8 Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the houses of Israel and Judah like all the other nations?
Eze 25:9 Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Beth Jeshimoth above the fountain of the city, by the seaside.
Eze 25:10 I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of Ammon.
Eze 25:11 And I will execute vengeance on Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 25:12 Thus says the Lord: Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;
Eze 25:13 therefore thus says the Lord: I will also stretch out My hand upon Edom, and will utterly destroy out of it both man and beast, and I will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Teman shall fall by the sword.
Eze 25:14 And I will execute My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel; and they shall deal in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath, and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord.
Eze 25:15 Therefore thus says the Lord: Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy the Israelites to a man;
Eze 25:16 therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will stretch out My hand upon the Philistines, and will utterly destroy the Cretans, and will cut off the remnant that dwell by the seacoast.
Eze 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought 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 of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 26:2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed the nations are destroyed; she has turned to me; she that was full is made desolate.
Eze 26:3 Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea comes up with its waves.
Eze 26:4 And they shall cast down the walls of Tyre, and shall cast down your towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.
Eze 26:5 She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets, for I have spoken it, says the Lord; and it shall be a spoil for the nations.
Eze 26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 26:7 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will bring up against you, O Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.
Eze 26:8 He shall slay your daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against you, and build forts around you, and carry a rampart round against you, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against you.
Eze 26:9 He shall cast down with his swords your walls and your towers.
Eze 26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots your walls shall be shaken, when he enters into your gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.
Eze 26:11 With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all your streets. He shall slay your people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of your strength.
Eze 26:12 And he shall prey upon your power, and plunder your substance, and shall cast down your walls, and break down your pleasant houses; and he shall cast your stones and your timber and your dust into the midst of your sea.
Eze 26:13 And he shall destroy the multitude of your musicians, and the sound of your psalteries shall be heard no more.
Eze 26:14 And I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built no more; for I the Lord have spoken it, says the Lord.
Eze 26:15 For thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of you?
Eze 26:16 And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered garments; they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over you.
Eze 26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and shall say to you, How are you destroyed from out of the sea, O renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants!
Eze 26:18 And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of your fall.
Eze 26:19 For thus says the Lord God: When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon you,
Eze 26:20 and great waters shall cover you, and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;
Eze 26:21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more forever, says the Lord God.
Eze 27:1 And the word of the Lord came to me saying,
Eze 27:2 And you, son of man, take up a lamentation against Tyre;
Eze 27:3 and you shall say to Tyre that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the merchant of the nations coming from many islands, Thus says the Lord to Tyre: You have said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
Eze 27:4 In the heart of the sea your sons have put beauty upon you for Beelim.
Eze 27:5 Cedar in Senir was employed for you in building; boards of cypress timber were taken out of Lebanon, and wood to make your masts of fir.
Eze 27:6 They made your oars of wood out of the land of Bashan; your sacred utensils they made of ivory, your shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim.
Eze 27:7 Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honor upon you, and to clothe you with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became your coverings.
Eze 27:8 And your princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were your rowers: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, these were your pilots.
Eze 27:9 The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in you, these helped your counsel; and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for you to the utmost west.
Eze 27:10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army. Your warriors hung in you shields and helmets; these gave you your glory.
Eze 27:11 The sons of the Aradians and your army were upon the walls; there were guards in your towers. They hung their quivers on your battlements round about; these completed your beauty.
Eze 27:12 The Carthaginians were your merchants because of the abundance of all your strength; they furnished your market with silver, gold, iron, tin and lead.
Eze 27:13 Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with you in the persons of men, and they gave as your merchandise vessels of brass.
Eze 27:14 Out of the house of Togarmah horses and horsemen furnished the market.
Eze 27:15 The sons of the Dedan were your merchants; from the islands they multiplied your merchandise, even the elephants' tusks: and to them that came to you payed you back,
Eze 27:16 even men as your merchandise, from the multitude of your trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tarshish. Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished your market.
Eze 27:17 Judah and the children of Israel, these were your merchants; in the sale of grain and ointments and cassia; and they gave the best honey and oil and resin, to your trading population.
Eze 27:18 The people of Damascus were your merchants by reason of the abundance of all your power; wine out of Helbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into your market.
Eze 27:19 Out of Uzal came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among your trading population.
Eze 27:20 The people of Dedan were your merchants, with choice cattle for chariots.
Eze 27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, bringing camels, lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you.
Eze 27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, these were your merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones; and they brought gold to your market.
Eze 27:23 Haran and Canneh, these were your merchants: Assyria and Chilmad, were your merchants;
Eze 27:24 bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.
Eze 27:25 Ships were your merchants, in abundance, with your trading population; and you were filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.
Eze 27:26 The rowers have brought you into great waters. The south wind has broken you in the heart of the sea.
Eze 27:27 Your forces and your gain, and that of your traders and your rowers, and your pilots and your counselors, and they that traffic with you, and all your warriors that are in you; and all your company in the midst of you shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of your fall.
Eze 27:28 At the cry of your voice your pilots shall be greatly terrified;
Eze 27:29 and all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.
Eze 27:30 And they shall wail over you with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
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Eze 27:32 And their sons shall take up a lament for you, even a lamentation for Tyre, saying,
Eze 27:33 How large a reward have you gained from the sea? You have filled nations out of your abundance; and out of your mixed merchandise you have enriched all the kings of the earth.
Eze 27:34 Now are you broken in the sea, your traders are in the deep water, and all your company in the midst of you; all your rowers have fallen.
Eze 27:35 All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over you, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.
Eze 27:36 Merchants from the nations have hissed at you; you are utterly destroyed, and shall not be any more forever.
Eze 28:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 28:2 And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God.
Eze 28:3 Are you wiser than Daniel? Or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge?
Eze 28:4 Have you gained power for yourself by your own knowledge or your own prudence, and gathered gold and silver in your treasures?
Eze 28:5 By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.
Eze 28:6 Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you have set your heart as the heart of God;
Eze 28:7 because of this, behold, I will bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge,
Eze 28:8 and they shall bring down your beauty to destruction. And they shall bring you down; and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea.
Eze 28:9 Will you indeed say, I am God, before them that slay you? Seeing you are man, and not God.
Eze 28:10 You shall perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised, for I have spoken it, says the Lord.
Eze 28:11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You were a seal of resemblance, and a crown of beauty.
Eze 28:13 You were in the delight of the paradise of God; you were adorned with every precious stone the sardius, topaz, emerald, carbuncle, sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, ligure, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl and onyx; and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold.
Eze 28:14 From the day that you were created you were with the cherub; I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:15 You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.
Eze 28:16 Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned. Therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted by your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings.
Eze 28:18 Because of the multitude of your sins and the iniquities of your merchandise, I have profaned your sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of you, this shall devour you; and I will make you to be ashes upon your land before all that see you.
Eze 28:19 And all that know you among the nations shall groan over you. You have gone to destruction, and you shall not exist any longer.
Eze 28:20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 28:21 Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,
Eze 28:22 and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in you; and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought judgments in you, and I will be sanctified in you.
Eze 28:23 Blood and death shall be in your streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in you and on every side of you; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 28:24 And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Eze 28:25 Thus says the Lord God: I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations; and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to My servant Jacob.
Eze 28:26 Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely,
