1:1 Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, on the fifth
day of the month, while I was by the river
Chebar among those
who had been made prisoners, that the
heavens were made
open and I saw visions of God.
1:2 On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after
King
Jehoiachin had been
made a prisoner,
1:3 The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the
son
of Buzi, in the land
of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and
the hand of the Lord
was on me there.
1:4 And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the
north, a
great cloud with
flames of fire coming after one another, and a
bright light shining
round about it and in the heart of it was
something coloured
like electrum.
1:5 And in the heart of it were the forms of four living
beings.
And this was what
they were like; they had the form of a man.
1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had
four
wings.
1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides
of
their feet were like
the feet of oxen; and they were shining
like polished brass.
1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the
four
of them had faces on
their four sides.
1:9 They went without turning, every one went straight
forward.
1:10 As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a
man,
and the four of them
had the face of a lion on the right side,
and the four of them
had the face of an ox on the left side,
and the four of them
had the face of an eagle.
1:11 And their wings were separate at the top; two of the
wings
of every one were
joined one to another, and two were covering
their bodies.
1:12 Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the
spirit was to go they
went; they went on without turning.
1:13 And between the living beings it was like burning coals
of
fire, as if flames
were going one after the other between the
living beings; and
the fire was bright, and out of the fire
went thunder-flames.
1:14 And the living beings went out and came back as quickly
as
a thunder-flame.
1:15 Now while I was looking at the four living beings, I
saw
one wheel on the
earth, by the side of the living beings, for
the four of them.
1:16 The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl;
the
four of them had the
same form and design, and they were like a
wheel inside a wheel.
1:17 The four of them went straight forward without turning
to
one side.
1:18 And I saw that they had edges, and their edges, even of
the
four, were full of
eyes round about.
1:19 And when the living beings went on, the wheels went by
their side; and when
the living beings were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels
were lifted up.
1:20 Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels
were lifted up by
their side: for the spirit of the living
beings was in the
wheels.
1:21 When these went on, the others went; and when these
came to
rest, the others came
to rest; and when these were lifted up
from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up by their side: for
the spirit of the
living beings was in the wheels.
1:22 And over the heads of the living beings there was the
form
of an arch, looking
like ice, stretched out over their heads on
high.
1:23 Under the arch their wings were straight, one stretched
out
to another: every one
had two wings covering their bodies on
this side and two
covering their bodies on that side.
1:24 And when they went, the sound of their wings was like
the
sound of great waters
to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler
of all, a sound like
the rushing of an army: when they came to
rest they let down
their wings.
1:25 And there was a voice from the top of the arch which
was
over their heads:
when they came to rest they let down their
wings.
1:26 And on the top of the arch which was over their heads
was
the form of a king's
seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the
form of the seat was
the form of a man seated on it on high.
1:27 And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of
fire
in it and round it,
going up from what seemed to be the middle
of his body; and
going down from what seemed to be the middle
of his body I saw
what was like fire, and there was a bright
light shining round
him.
1:28 Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the
light shining round
him. And this is what the glory of the Lord
was like. And when I
saw it I went down on my face, and the
voice of one talking
came to my ears.
2:1 And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so
that
I may say words to
you.
2:2 And at his words the spirit came into me and put me on
my
feet; and his voice
came to my ears.
2:3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the
children of Israel,
to an uncontrolled nation which has gone
against me: they and
their fathers have been sinners against me
even to this very
day.
2:4 And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am
sending
you to them: and you
are to say to them, These are the words of
the Lord.
2:5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give
ear
(for they are an
uncontrolled people), will see that there has
been a prophet among
them.
2:6 And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their
words,
even if sharp thorns
are round you and you are living among
scorpions: have no
fear of their words and do not be overcome
by their looks, for
they are an uncontrolled people.
2:7 And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to
you
or if they do not:
for they are uncontrolled.
2:8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and
do
not be uncontrolled
like that uncontrolled people: let your
mouth be open and
take what I give you.
2:9 And looking, I saw a hand stretched out to me, and I saw
the
roll of a book in it;
2:10 And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the
front and on the
back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble
were recorded in it.
3:1 And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your
food,
and go and say my
words to the children of Israel.
3:2 And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as
food.
3:3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a
meal
of it and let your
inside be full of this roll which I am
giving you. Then I
took it, and it was sweet as honey in my
mouth.
3:4 And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of
Israel, and say my
words to them.
3:5 For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange
and
whose language is
hard, but to the children of Israel;
3:6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and
whose
language is hard and
whose words are not clear to you. Truly,
if I sent you to them
they would give ear to you.
3:7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for
they have no mind to
give ear to me: for all the children of
Israel have a hard
brow and a stiff heart.
3:8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and
your brow hard
against their brows.
3:9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow:
have
no fear of them and
do not be overcome by their looks, for they
are an uncontrolled
people.
3:10 Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart
all my
words which I am
about to say to you, and let your ears be open
to them.
3:11 And go now to those who have been taken away as
prisoners,
to the children of
your people, and say to them, This is what
the Lord has said; if
they give ear or if they do not.
3:12 Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the
sound
of a great rushing
came to my ears when the glory of the Lord
was lifted up from
his place.
3:13 And there was the sound of the wings of the living
beings
touching one another,
and the sound of the wheels at their
side, the sound of a
great rushing.
3:14 And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went
in
the heat of my
spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on
me.
3:15 Then I came to those who had been taken away as
prisoners,
who were at Telabib
by the river Chebar, and I was seated among
them full of wonder
for seven days.
3:16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came
to
me, saying,
3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children
of
Israel: so give ear
to the word of my mouth, and give them word
from me of their
danger.
3:18 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be
your
fate; and you give
him no word of it and say nothing to make
clear to the
evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he
may be safe; that
same evil man will come to death in his
evil-doing; but I
will make you responsible for his blood.
3:19 But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and
he is
not turned from his
sin or from his evil way, death will
overtake him in his
evil-doing; but your life will be safe.
3:20 Again, when an upright man, turning away from his
righteousness, does
evil, and I put a cause of falling in his
way, death will
overtake him: because you have given him no
word of his danger,
death will overtake him in his evil-doing,
and there will be no
memory of the upright acts which he has
done; but I will make
you responsible for his blood.
3:21 But if you say to the upright man that he is not to do
evil, he will
certainly keep his life because he took note of
your word; and your
life will be safe.
3:22 And the hand of the Lord was on me there; and he said,
Get
up and go out into
the valley and there I will have talk with
you.
3:23 Then I got up and went out into the valley; and I saw
the
glory of the Lord
resting there as I had seen it by the river
Chebar; and I went
down on my face.
3:24 Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and
he
had talk with me and
said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up
inside your house.
3:25 But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you,
prisoning
you in them, and you
will not go out among them:
3:26 And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your
mouth, so that you
have no voice and may not make protests to
them: for they are an
uncontrolled people.
3:27 But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth
open,
and you are to say to
them, This is what the Lord has said: Let
the hearer give ear;
and as for him who will not, let him keep
his ears shut: for
they are an uncontrolled people.
4:1 And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you
and
on it make a picture
of a town, even Jerusalem.
4:2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building
strong
places against it,
and making high an earthwork against it; and
put up tents against
it, placing engines all round it for
smashing down its
walls.
4:3 And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of
iron
between you and the
town: and let your face be turned to it,
and it will be shut
in and you will make an attack on it. This
will be a sign to the
children of Israel.
4:4 Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take
the
sin of the children
of Israel on yourself: for as long as you
are stretched out, so
long will the sin of the children of
Israel be on you.
4:5 For I have had the years of their sin measured for you
by a
number of days, even
three hundred and ninety days: and you
will take on yourself
the sin of the children of Israel.
4:6 And when these days are ended, turning on your right
side,
you are to take on
yourself the sin of the children of Judah:
forty days, a day for
a year, I have had it fixed for you.
4:7 And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut
in,
with your arm
uncovered, and be a prophet against it.
4:8 And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be
stretched
out without turning
from one side to the other till the days of
your attack are
ended.
4:9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different
sorts
of grain, and put
them in one vessel and make bread for
yourself from them;
all the days when you are stretched on your
side it will be your
food.
4:10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels
a
day: you are to take
it at regular times.
4:11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of
a
hin: you are to take
it at regular times.
4:12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before
their
eyes with the waste
which comes out of a man.
4:13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will
have
unclean bread for
their food among the nations where I am
driving them.
4:14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been
unclean,
and I have never
taken as my food anything which has come to a
natural death or has
been broken by beasts, from the time when
I was young even till
now; no disgusting flesh has ever come
into my mouth.
4:15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste
in
place of man's waste,
and you will make your bread ready on it.
4:16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away
from
Jerusalem her
necessary bread: they will take their bread by
weight and with care,
measuring out their drinking-water with
fear and wonder:
4:17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be
wondering at one
another, wasting away in their sin.
5:1 And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a
haircutter's blade,
and making it go over your head and the
hair of your chin:
and take scales for separating the hair by
weight.
5:2 You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the
town, when the days
of the attack are ended; and a third part
you are to take and
give blows with the sword round about it;
and give a third part
for the wind to take away, and let loose
a sword after them.
5:3 And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them
in
your skirts.
5:4 And again take some of these and put them in the fire,
burning them up in
the fire; and say to all the children of
Israel,
5:5 This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I
have
put her among the
nations, and countries are round her on every
side;
5:6 And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more
than
the nations, and
against my rules more than the countries round
her: for they have
given up my orders, and as for my rules,
they have not gone in
the way of them.
5:7 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been
more
uncontrolled than the
nations round about you, and have not
been guided by my
rules or kept my orders, but have kept the
orders of the nations
round about you;
5:8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am
against
you; and I will be
judging among you before the eyes of the
nations.
5:9 And I will do in you what I have not done and will not
do
again, because of all
your disgusting ways.
5:10 For this cause fathers will take their sons for food
among
you, and sons will
make a meal of their fathers; and I will be
judge among you, and
all the rest of you I will send away to
every wind.
5:11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you
have
made my holy place
unclean with all your hated things and all
your disgusting ways,
you will become disgusting to me; my eye
will have no mercy
and I will have no pity.
5:12 A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting
away among you
through need of food; a third will be put to the
sword round about
you; and a third I will send away to every
wind, letting loose a
sword after them.
5:13 So my wrath will be complete and my passion will come
to
rest on them; and
they will be certain that I the Lord have
given the word of
decision, when my wrath against them is
complete.
5:14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among
the
nations round about
you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.
5:15 And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter
words, an example and
a wonder to the nations round about you,
when I give effect to
my judging among you in wrath and in
passion and in
burning protests: I the Lord have said it:
5:16 When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing
destruction, which I
will send to put an end to you; and,
further, I will take
away your necessary food.
5:17 And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts,
and
they will be a cause
of loss to you; and disease and violent
death will go through
you; and I will send the sword on you: I
the Lord have said
it.
6:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
6:2 Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of
Israel, and be a
prophet to them, and say,
6:3 You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the
Lord:
this is what the Lord
has said to the mountains and the hills,
to the waterways and
the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on
you a sword for the
destruction of your high places.
6:4 And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images
will
be broken: and I will
have your dead men placed before your
images.
6:5 And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel
in
front of their
images, sending your bones in all directions
about your altars.
6:6 In all your living-places the towns will become broken
walls, and the high
places made waste; so that your altars may
be broken down and
made waste, and your images broken and
ended, and so that
your sun-images may be cut down and your
works rubbed out.
6:7 And the dead will be falling down among you, and you
will be
certain that I am the
Lord.
6:8 But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword
among the nations,
when you are sent wandering among the
countries.
6:9 And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind
among the nations
where they have been taken away as prisoners,
how I sent punishment
on their hearts which were untrue to me,
and on their eyes
which were turned to their false gods: and
they will be full of
hate for themselves because of the evil
things which they
have done in all their disgusting ways.
6:10 And they will be certain that I am the Lord: not for
nothing did I say
that I would do this evil to them.
6:11 This is what the Lord has said: Give blows with your
hand,
stamping with your
foot, and say, O sorrow! because of all the
evil and disgusting
ways of the children of Israel: for death
will overtake them by
the sword and through need of food and by
disease.
6:12 He who is far away will come to his death by disease;
he
who is near will be
put to the sword; he who is shut up will
come to his death through
need of food; and I will give full
effect to my passion
against them.
6:13 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their
dead
men are stretched
among their images round about their altars
on every high hill,
on all the tops of the mountains, and under
every branching tree,
and under every thick oak-tree, the
places where they
made sweet smells to all their images.
6:14 And my hand will be stretched out against them, making
the
land waste and
unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah,
through all their
living-places: and they will be certain that
I am the Lord.
7:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
7:2 And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said
to
the land of Israel:
An end has come, the end has come on the
four quarters of the
land.
7:3 Now the end has come on you, and I will send my wrath on
you, judging you for
your ways, I will send punishment on you
for all your
disgusting acts.
7:4 My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no
pity:
but I will send the
punishment of your ways on you, and your
disgusting works will
be among you: and you will be certain
that I am the Lord.
7:5 This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil;
see,
it is coming.
7:6 An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on
you.
7:7 The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land:
the
time has come, the
day is near; the day will not be slow in
coming, it will not
keep back.
7:8 Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on
you,
and give full effect
to my wrath against you, judging you for
your ways, and
sending punishment on you for all your
disgusting works.
7:9 My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I
will
send on you the
punishment of your ways, and your disgusting
works will be among
you; and you will see that I am the Lord
who gives punishment.
7:10 See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has
gone
out; the twisted way
is flowering, pride has put out buds.
7:11 Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of
evil; it
will not be slow in
coming, it will not keep back.
7:12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who
gives a
price for goods be
glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:
7:13 For the trader will not go back to the things for which
he
had his price, even
while he is still living:
7:14 And he who has given a price for goods will not get
them,
for my wrath is on
all of them.
7:15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food:
he who is in the open
country will be put to the sword; he who
is in the town will
come to his end through need of food and
disease.
7:16 And those of them who get away safely will go and be in
the
secret places like
the doves of the valleys, all of them will
come to death, every
one in his sin.
7:17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without
strength,
like water.
7:18 And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear
will
be covering them; and
shame will be on all faces, and the hair
gone from all their
heads.
7:19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and
their
gold will be as an
unclean thing; their silver and their gold
will not be able to
keep them safe in the day of the wrath of
the Lord; they will
not get their desire or have food for their
need: because it has
been the cause of their falling into sin.
7:20 As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on
high,
and had made the
images of their disgusting and hated things in
it: for this cause I
have made it an unclean thing to them.
7:21 And I will give it into the hands of men from strange
lands
who will take it by
force, and to the evil-doers of the earth
to have for
themselves; and they will make it unholy.
7:22 And my face will be turned away from them, and they
will
make my secret place
unholy: violent men will go into it and
make it unholy.
7:23 Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of
blood,
and the town is full
of violent acts.
7:24 For this reason I will send the worst of the nations
and
they will take their
houses for themselves: I will make the
pride of their
strength come to an end; and their holy places
will be made unclean.
7:25 Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for
peace,
and there will be no
peace.
7:26 Destruction will come on destruction, and one story
after
another; and the
vision of the prophet will be shamed, and
knowledge of the law
will come to an end among the priests, and
wisdom among the old.
7:27 The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler
will
be clothed with
wonder, and the hands of the people of the land
will be troubled: I
will give them punishment for their ways,
judging them as it is
right for them to be judged; and they
will be certain that
I am the Lord.
8:1 Now in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth
day
of the month, when I
was in my house and the responsible men of
Judah were seated
before me, the hand of the Lord came on me
there.
8:2 And looking, I saw a form like fire; from the middle of
his
body and down there
was fire: and up from the middle of his
body a sort of
shining, like electrum.
8:3 And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the
hair of
my head; and the
wind, lifting me up between the earth and the
heaven, took me in
the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way
into the inner door
facing to the north; where was the seat of
the image of envy.
8:4 And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision
which I saw in the
valley.
8:5 Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be
lifted
up in the direction
of the north; and on looking in the
direction of the
north, to the north of the doorway of the
altar, I saw this
image of envy by the way in.
8:6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are
doing? even the very
disgusting things which the children of
Israel are doing
here, causing me to go far away from my holy
place? but you will
see other most disgusting things.
8:7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and
looking, I
saw a hole in the
wall.
8:8 And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall:
and
after making a hole
in the wall I saw a door.
8:9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting
things which they are
doing here.
8:10 So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living
thing
which goes flat on
the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the
images of the
children of Israel, were pictured round about on
the wall.
8:11 And before them seventy of the responsible men of the
children of Israel
had taken their places, every man with a
vessel for burning
perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of
them was Jaazaniah,
the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke
went up from the
burning perfume.
8:12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the
responsible men of
the children of Israel do in the dark, every
man in his room of
pictured images? for they say, The Lord does
not see us; the Lord
has gone away from the land.
8:13 Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting
things which they do.
8:14 Then he took me to the door of the way into the Lord's
house looking to the
north; and there women were seated weeping
for Tammuz.
8:15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man?
you
will see even more
disgusting things than these.
8:16 And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's
house,
and at the door of
the Temple of the Lord, between the covered
way and the altar,
there were about twenty-five men with their
backs turned to the
Temple of the Lord and their faces turned
to the east; and they
were worshipping the sun, turning to the
east.
8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man?
is it
a small thing to the
children of Judah that they do the
disgusting things
which they are doing here? for they have made
the land full of
violent behaviour, making me angry again and
again: and see, they
put the branch to my nose.
8:18 For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will
not
have mercy, and I will
have no pity.
9:1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said,
Let
the overseers of the
town come near, every man armed.
9:2 And six men came from the way of the higher doorway
looking
to the north, every
man with his axe in his hand: and one man
among them was
clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his
side. And they went
in and took their places by the brass
altar.
9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the
winged ones on which
it was resting, to the doorstep of the
house. And crying out
to the man clothed in linen who had the
writer's inkpot at
his side,
9:4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the
middle of Jerusalem,
and put a mark on the brows of the men who
are sorrowing and
crying for all the disgusting things which
are done in it.
9:5 And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town
after him using your
axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and
have no pity:
9:6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and
virgins,
little children and
women: but do not come near any man who has
the mark on him: and
make a start at my holy place. So they
made a start with the
old men who were before the house.
9:7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the
open
places full of dead:
go forward and send destruction on the
town.
9:8 Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I
went
down on my face, and
crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you
give all the rest of
Israel to destruction in letting loose
your wrath on
Jerusalem?
9:9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel
and
Judah is very, very
great, and the land is full of blood and
the town full of evil
ways: for they say, The Lord has gone
away from the land,
and the Lord does not see.
9:10 And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will
have
no pity, but I will
send the punishment of their ways on their
heads.
9:11 Then the man clothed in linen, who had the inkpot at
his
side, came back and
said, I have done what you gave me orders
to do.
10:1 Then looking, I saw that on the arch which was over the
head of the winged
ones there was seen over them what seemed
like a sapphire
stone, having the form of a king's seat.
10:2 And he said to the man clothed in linen, Go in between
the
wheels, under the
winged ones, and get your two hands full of
burning coals from
between the winged ones and send them in a
shower over the town.
And he went in before my eyes.
10:3 Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of
the
house when the man
went in; and the inner square was full of
the cloud.
10:4 And the glory of the Lord went up from the winged ones
and
came to rest over the
doorstep of the house; and the house was
full of the cloud and
the open square was full of the shining
of the Lord's glory.
10:5 And the sound of the wings of the winged ones was clear
even in the outer
square, like the voice of the Ruler of all.
10:6 And when he gave orders to the man clothed in linen,
saying, Take fire
from between the wheels, from between the
winged ones, then he
went in and took his place at the side of
a wheel.
10:7 And stretching out his hand to the fire which was
between
the winged ones, he
took some of it and went out.
10:8 And I saw the form of a man's hands among the winged
ones
under their wings.
10:9 And looking, I saw four wheels by the side of the
winged
ones, one wheel by
the side of a winged one and another wheel
by the side of
another: and the wheels were like the colour of
a beryl stone to the
eye.
10:10 In form the four of them were all the same, they
seemed
like a wheel inside a
wheel.
10:11 When they were moving, they went on their four sides
without turning; they
went after the head in the direction in
which it was looking;
they went without turning.
10:12 And the edges of the four wheels were full of eyes
round
about.
10:13 As for the wheels, they were named in my hearing, the
circling wheels.
10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the
face
of a winged one, and
the second was the face of a man, and the
third the face of a
lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
10:15 And the winged ones went up on high: this is the
living
being which I saw by
the river Chebar.
10:16 And when the winged ones went, the wheels went by
their
side: and when their
wings were lifted to take them up from the
earth, the wheels
were not turned from their side.
10:17 When they were at rest in their place, these were at
rest;
when they were lifted
up, these went up with them: for the
spirit of life was in
them.
10:18 Then the glory of the Lord went out from the doorstep
of
the house, and came
to rest over the winged ones.
10:19 And the winged ones, lifting up their wings, went up
from
the earth before my
eyes, with the wheels by their side: and
they came to rest at
the east doorway of the Lord's house; and
the glory of the God
of Israel was over them on high.
10:20 This is the living being which I saw under the God of
Israel by the river
Chebar; and it was clear to me that they
were the winged ones.
10:21 Every one had four faces and every one had four wings;
and
hands like a man's
hands were under their wings.
10:22 As for the form of their faces, they were the faces
whose
form I saw by the
river Chebar; when they went, every one of
them went straight
forward.
11:1 And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east
doorway of
the Lord's house,
looking to the east: and at the door I saw
twenty-five men; and
among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of
Azzur, and Pelatiah,
the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.
11:2 Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who
are
designing evil, who
are teaching evil ways in this town:
11:3 Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this
town is the
cooking-pot and we are the flesh.
11:4 For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet,
O
son of man.
11:5 And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to
me,
Say, These are the
words of the Lord: This is what you have
said, O children of
Israel; what comes into your mind is clear
to me.
11:6 You have made great the number of your dead in this
town,
you have made its
streets full of dead men.
11:7 For this reason the Lord has said: Your dead whom you
have
put down in its
streets, they are the flesh, and this town is
the cooking-pot: but
I will make you come out from inside it.
11:8 You have been fearing the sword, and I will send the
sword
on you, says the
Lord.
11:9 I will make you come out from inside the town and will
give
you up into the hands
of men from other lands, and will be
judge among you.
11:10 You will come to your death by the sword; and I will
be
your judge in the
land of Israel; and you will be certain that
I am the Lord.
11:11 This town will not be your cooking-pot, and you will
not
be the flesh inside
it; I will be your judge at the limit of
the land of Israel;
11:12 And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you
have
not been guided by my
rules or given effect to my orders, but
you have been living
by the orders of the nations round about
you.
11:13 Now while I was saying these things, death came to
Pelatiah, the son of
Benaiah. Then falling down on my face and
crying out with a
loud voice, I said, Ah, Lord! will you put an
end to all the rest
of Israel?
11:14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
11:15 Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all
the
children of Israel,
all of them, are those to whom the people
of Jerusalem have
said, Go far from the Lord; this land is
given to us for a
heritage:
11:16 For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said:
Though I have had
them moved far off among the nations, and
though I have sent
them wandering among the countries, still I
have been a safe
place for them for a little time in the
countries where they
have come.
11:17 Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get
you
together from the
peoples, and make you come out of the
countries where you
have been sent in flight, and I will give
you the land of
Israel.
11:18 And they will come there, and take away all the hated
and
disgusting things
from it.
11:19 And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new
spirit in them; and I
will take the heart of stone out of their
flesh and give them a
heart of flesh:
11:20 So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my
orders
and do them: and they
will be to me a people, and I will be to
them a God.
11:21 But as for those whose heart goes after their hated
and
disgusting things, I
will send on their heads the punishment of
their ways, says the
Lord.
11:22 Then the wings of the winged ones were lifted up, and
the
wheels were by their
side; and the glory of the God of Israel
was over them on
high.
11:23 And the glory of the Lord went up from inside the
town,
and came to rest on
the mountain on the east side of the town.
11:24 And the wind, lifting me up, took me in the visions of
God
into Chaldaea, to
those who had been taken away as prisoners.
So the vision which I
had seen went away from me.
11:25 Then I gave an account to those who had been taken
prisoners of all the
things which the Lord had made me see.
12:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
12:2 Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled
people,
who have eyes to see
but see not, and ears for hearing but they
do not give ear; for
they are an uncontrolled people.
12:3 And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get
ready
the vessels of one
who is taken away, and go away from your
place to another
place before their eyes: it may be that they
will see, though they
are an uncontrolled people.
12:4 By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like
those
of one who is taken
away: and go out in the evening before
their eyes, like
those who are taken away as prisoners.
12:5 Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out
through it.
12:6 And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and
go
out in the dark; go
with your face covered: for I have made you
a sign to the
children of Israel.
12:7 And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by
day,
like those of one who
is taken away, and in the evening I made
a hole through the
wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went
out, taking my things
on my back before their eyes.
12:8 And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
12:9 Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people,
said
to you, What are you
doing?
12:10 You are to say to them, This is what the Lord has
said:
This word has to do
with the ruler in Jerusalem and all the
children of Israel in
it.
12:11 Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be
done to
them: they will go
away as prisoners.
12:12 And the ruler who is among them will take his goods on
his
back in the dark and
go out: he will make a hole in the wall
through which to go
out: he will have his face covered so that
he may not be seen.
12:13 And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will
be
taken in my cords:
and I will take him to Babylon to the land
of the Chaldaeans;
but he will not see it, and there death will
come to him.
12:14 And all his helpers round about him and all his armies
I
will send in flight
to every wind; and I will let loose a sword
after them.
12:15 And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I
send
them in flight among
the nations, driving them out through the
countries.
12:16 But a small number of them I will keep from the sword,
from the need of
food, and from disease, so that they may make
clear all their
disgusting ways among the nations where they
come; and they will
be certain that I am the Lord.
12:17 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
12:18 Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your
water with trouble
and care;
12:19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the
Lord
has said about the
people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel:
They will take their
food with care and their drink with
wonder, so that all
the wealth of their land may be taken from
it because of the
violent ways of the people living in it.
12:20 And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land
will become a wonder;
and you will be certain that I am the
Lord.
12:21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
12:22 Son of man, what is this saying which you have about
the
land of Israel, The
time is long and every vision comes to
nothing?
12:23 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has
said: I have made
this saying come to an end, and it will no
longer be used as a
common saying in Israel; but say to them,
The days are near,
and the effect of every vision.
12:24 For there will be no more false visions or smooth use
of
secret arts in Israel.
12:25 For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say
I
will do; it will not
be put off: for in your days, O
uncontrolled people,
I will say the word and do it, says the
Lord.
12:26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
12:27 Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The
vision
which he sees is for
the days which are a long way off, and his
words are of times
still far away.
12:28 Say to them then, This is what the Lord has said: Not
one
of my words will be
put off any longer, but what I say I will
do, says the Lord.
13:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
13:2 Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of
Israel,
and say to those
prophets whose words are the invention of
their hearts, Give
ear to the word of the Lord;
13:3 This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish
prophets who go after
the spirit which is in them and have seen
nothing!
13:4 O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the
waste
places.
13:5 You have not gone up into the broken places or made up
the
wall for the children
of Israel to take your place in the fight
in the day of the
Lord.
13:6 They have seen visions without substance and made use
of
secret arts, who say,
The Lord has said; and the Lord has not
sent them: hoping
that the word would have effect.
13:7 Have you not seen a vision without substance and have
you
not falsely made use
of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has
said; though I have
said nothing?
13:8 So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words
are
without substance and
your visions are false, see, I am against
you, says the Lord.
13:9 And my hand will be against the prophets who see
visions
without substance and
who make false use of secret arts: they
will not be in the
secret of my people, and they will not be
recorded in the list
of the children of Israel, and they will
not come into the
land of Israel; and it will be clear to you
that I am the Lord.
13:10 Because, even because they have been guiding my people
into error, saying,
Peace; when there is no peace; and in the
building of a
division wall they put whitewash on it:
13:11 Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an
overflowing shower;
and you, O ice-drops, will come raining
down; and it will be
broken in two by the storm-wind.
13:12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to
you,
Where is the
whitewash which you put on it?
13:13 For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it
broken
in two by a
storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an
overflowing shower in
my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come
raining angrily down.
13:14 So I will let the wall, which you were covering with
whitewash, be broken
down; I will have it levelled to the earth
so that its base is
uncovered: it will come down, and
destruction will come
on you with it; and it will be clear to
you that I am the
Lord.
13:15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full
measure, and on those
who put whitewash on it; and I will say
to you, Where is the
wall, and where are those who put
whitewash on it?
13:16 Even the prophets of Israel who say words to
Jerusalem,
who see visions of
peace for her when there is no peace, says
the Lord.
13:17 And you, son of man, let your face be turned against
the
daughters of your
people, who are acting the part of prophets
at their pleasure; be
a prophet against them, and say,
13:18 This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the
women
who are stitching
bands on all arms and putting veils on the
heads of those of
every size, so that they may go after souls!
Will you go after the
souls of my people and keep yourselves
safe from death?
13:19 And you have put me to shame among my people for a
little
barley and some bits
of bread, sending death on souls for whom
there is no cause of
death, and keeping those souls living who
have no right to
life, by the false words you say to my people
who give ear to what
is false.
13:20 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against
your
bands with which you
go after souls, and I will violently take
them off their arms;
and I will let loose the souls, even the
souls whom you go
after freely.
13:21 And I will have your veils violently parted in two,
and
will make my people
free from your hands, and they will no
longer be in your
power for you to go after them; and you will
be certain that I am
the Lord.
13:22 Because with your false words you have given pain to
the
heart of the upright
man when I had not made him sad; in order
to make strong the
hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be
turned from his evil
way and get life:
13:23 For this cause you will see no more foolish visions or
make false use of
secret arts: and I will make my people free
from your power; and
you will be certain that I am the Lord.
14:1 Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to
me
and took their seats
before me.
14:2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
14:3 Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into
their hearts and put
before their faces the sin which is the
cause of their fall:
am I to give ear when they come to me for
directions?
14:4 For this cause say to them, These are the words of the
Lord: Every man of
Israel who has taken his false god into his
heart, and put before
his face the sin which is the cause of
his fall, and comes
to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an
answer by myself in
agreement with the number of his false
gods;
14:5 So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of
their hearts, because
they have become strange to me through
their false gods.
14:6 For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are
the
words of the Lord:
Come back and give up your false gods and
let your faces be
turned from your disgusting things.
14:7 When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from
other
lands who are living
in Israel, who has become strange to me,
and takes his false
gods into his heart, and puts before his
face the sin which is
the cause of his fall, comes to the
prophet to get
directions from me; I the Lord will give him an
answer by myself:
14:8 And my face will be turned against that man, and I will
make him a sign and a
common saying, cutting him off from among
my people; and you
will be certain that I am the Lord.
14:9 And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything,
it is
I the Lord by whom he
has been tricked, and I will put out my
hand against him, and
he will be cut off from among my people
Israel.
14:10 And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the
sin
of the prophet will
be the same as the sin of him who goes to
him for directions;
14:11 So that the children of Israel may no longer go
wandering
away from me, or make
themselves unclean with all their
wrongdoing; but they
will be my people, and I will be their
God, says the Lord.
14:12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
14:13 Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does
wrong,
and my hand is
stretched out against it, and the support of its
bread is broken, and
I make it short of food, cutting off man
and beast from it:
14:14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were
in
it, only themselves
would they keep safe by their
righteousness, says
the Lord.
14:15 Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing
destruction and
making it waste, so that no man may go through
because of the
beasts:
14:16 Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says
the
Lord, they would not
keep safe their sons or daughters, but
only themselves, and
the land would be made waste.
14:17 Or if I send a sword against that land, and say,
Sword, go
through the land,
cutting off from it man and beast:
14:18 Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says
the
Lord, they would not
keep safe their sons or daughters, but
only themselves.
14:19 Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my
wrath on it in blood,
cutting off from it man and beast:
14:20 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life,
says
the Lord, they would
not keep son or daughter safe; only
themselves would they
keep safe through their righteousness.
14:21 For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when
I
send my four bitter
punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and
need of food and evil
beasts and disease, cutting off from it
man and beast?
14:22 But truly, there will still be a small band who will
be
safe, even sons and
daughters: and they will come out to you,
and you will see
their ways and their doings: and you will be
comforted about the
evil which I have sent on Jerusalem, even
about everything I
have sent on it.
14:23 They will give you comfort when you see their ways and
their doings: and you
will be certain that not for nothing have
I done all the things
I have done in it, says the Lord.
15:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
15:2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any
branching
tree which is among
the trees of the woods?
15:3 Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a
pin
for hanging any
vessel on?
15:4 See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has
made
a meal of its two
ends and the middle part of it is burned; is
it good for any work?
15:5 Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any
purpose: how much
less, when the fire has made a meal of it and
it is burned, will it
be made into anything?
15:6 For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree
among
the trees of the
woods which I have given to the fire for
burning, so will I
give the people of Jerusalem.
15:7 And my face will be turned against them; and though
they
have come out of the
fire they will be burned up by it; and it
will be clear to you
that I am the Lord when my face is turned
against them.
15:8 And I will make the land a waste because they have done
evil, says the Lord.
16:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting
ways,
16:3 And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem:
Your
start and your birth
was from the land of the Canaanite; an
Amorite was your
father and your mother was a Hittite.
16:4 As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord
was
not cut and you were
not washed in water to make you clean; you
were not salted or
folded in linen bands.
16:5 No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you
or
to be kind to you;
but you were put out into the open country,
because your life was
hated at the time of your birth.
16:6 And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in
your
blood, I said to you,
Though you are stretched out in your
blood, have life;
16:7 And be increased in number like the buds of the field;
and
you were increased
and became great, and you came to the time
of love: your breasts
were formed and your hair was long; but
you were uncovered
and without clothing.
16:8 Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that
your
time was the time of
love; and I put my skirts over you,
covering your
unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made
an agreement with
you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
16:9 Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your
blood and rubbing you
with oil.
16:10 And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather
shoes on your feet,
folding fair linen about you and covering
you with silk.
16:11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on
your
hands and a chain on
your neck.
16:12 And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your
ears
and a beautiful crown
on your head.
16:13 So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and
your
clothing was of the
best linen and silk and needlework; your
food was the best
meal and honey and oil: and you were very
beautiful.
16:14 You were so beautiful that the story of you went out
into
all nations; you were
completely beautiful because of my glory
which I had put on
you, says the Lord.
16:15 But you put your faith in the fact that you were
beautiful, acting
like a loose woman because you were widely
talked of, and
offering your cheap love to everyone who went
by, whoever it might
be.
16:16 And you took your robes and made high places for
yourself
ornamented with every
colour, acting like a loose woman on
them, without shame
or fear.
16:17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which
I
had given to you, and
made for yourself male images, acting
like a loose woman
with them;
16:18 And you took your robes of needlework for their
clothing,
and put my oil and my
perfume before them.
16:19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil
and
honey which I gave
you for your food, you put it before them
for a sweet smell,
says the Lord.
16:20 And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had
by
you, offering even
these to them to be their food. Was your
loose behaviour so
small a thing,
16:21 That you put my children to death and gave them up to
go
through the fire to
them?
16:22 And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had
no
memory of your early
days, when you were uncovered and without
clothing, stretched
out in your blood.
16:23 And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the
Lord,
16:24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every
open
place.
16:25 You put up your high places at the top of every
street,
and made the grace of
your form a disgusting thing, opening
your feet to everyone
who went by, increasing your loose ways.
16:26 And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours,
great of
flesh; increasing
your loose ways, moving me to wrath.
16:27 Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you,
cutting
down your fixed
amount, and I have given you up to the desire
of your haters, the
daughters of the Philistines who are shamed
by your loose ways.
16:28 And you went with the Assyrians, because of your
desire
which was without
measure; you were acting like a loose woman
with them, and still
you had not enough.
16:29 And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the
land of Chaldaea, and
still you had not enough.
16:30 How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that
you
do all these things,
the work of a loose and overruling woman;
16:31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every
street, and your high
place in every open place; though you
were not like a loose
woman in getting together your payment.
16:32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of
her
husband!
16:33 They give payment to all loose women: but you give
rewards
to your lovers,
offering them payment so that they may come to
you on every side for
your cheap love.
16:34 And in your loose behaviour you are different from
other
women, for no one
goes after you to make love to you: and
because you give
payment and no payment is given to you, in
this you are
different from them.
16:35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice
of
the Lord:
16:36 This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean
behaviour was let
loose and your body uncovered in your loose
ways with your lovers
and with your disgusting images, and for
the blood of your
children which you gave to them;
16:37 For this cause I will get together all your lovers
with
whom you have taken
your pleasure, and all those to whom you
have given your love,
with all those who were hated by you; I
will even make them
come together against you on every side,
and I will have you
uncovered before them so that they may see
your shame.
16:38 And you will be judged by me as women are judged who
have
been untrue to their
husbands and have taken life; and I will
let loose against you
passion and bitter feeling.
16:39 I will give you into their hands, and your arched room
will be overturned
and your high places broken down; they will
take your clothing
off you and take away your fair jewels: and
when they have done,
you will be uncovered and shamed.
16:40 And they will get together a meeting against you,
stoning
you with stones and
wounding you with their swords.
16:41 And they will have you burned with fire, sending
punishments on you
before the eyes of great numbers of women;
and I will put an end
to your loose ways, and you will no
longer give payment.
16:42 And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end,
and
my bitter feeling
will be turned away from you, and I will be
quiet and will be
angry no longer.
16:43 Because you have not kept in mind the days when you
were
young, but have been
troubling me with all these things; for
this reason I will
make the punishment of your ways come on
your head, says the
Lord, because you have done this evil thing
in addition to all
your disgusting acts.
16:44 See, in every common saying about you it will be said,
As
the mother is, so is
her daughter.
16:45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is
turned
in disgust from her
husband and her children; and you are the
sister of your
sisters who were turned in disgust from their
husbands and their
children: your mother was a Hittite and your
father an Amorite.
16:46 Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left
hand,
she and her
daughters: and your younger sister, living at your
right hand, is Sodom
and her daughters.
16:47 Still you have not gone in their ways or done the
disgusting things
which they have done; but, as if that was
only a little thing,
you have gone deeper in evil than they in
all your ways.
16:48 By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never
did,
she or her daughters,
what you and your daughters have done.
16:49 Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a
full measure of food,
and the comforts of wealth in peace, were
seen in her and her
daughters, and she gave no help to the poor
or to those in need.
16:50 They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to
me:
and so I took them
away as you have seen.
16:51 And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have
made
the number of your
disgusting acts greater than theirs, making
your sisters seem
more upright than you by all the disgusting
things which you have
done.
16:52 And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you
have
given the decision
for your sisters; through your sins, which
are more disgusting
than theirs, they are more upright than
you: truly, you will
be shamed and made low, for you have made
your sisters seem
upright.
16:53 And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of
Sodom
and her daughters,
and the fate of Samaria and her daughters,
and your fate with
theirs.
16:54 So that you will be shamed and made low because of all
you
have done, when I
have mercy on you.
16:55 And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go
back to
their first
condition, and Samaria and her daughters will go
back to their first
condition, and you and your daughters will
go back to your first
condition.
16:56 Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the
day
of your pride,
16:57 Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become
like
her a word of shame
to the daughters of Edom and all who are
round about you, the
daughters of the Philistines who put shame
on you round about.
16:58 The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting
ways
has come on you, says
the Lord.
16:59 For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you
as
you have done, you
who, putting the oath on one side, have let
the agreement be
broken.
16:60 But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with
you
in the days when you
were young, and I will make with you an
eternal agreement.
16:61 Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome
with
shame, when I take
your sisters, the older and the younger, and
give them to you for
daughters, but not by your agreement.
16:62 And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be
certain that I am the
Lord:
16:63 So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at
a
loss, never opening
your mouth because of your shame; when you
have my forgiveness
for all you have done, says the Lord.
17:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
17:2 Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a
comparison
for the children of
Israel,
17:3 And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle
with
great wings, full of
long feathers of different colours, came
to Lebanon, and took
the top of the cedar:
17:4 Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took
it to
the land of Canaan,
and put it in a town of traders.
17:5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it
in
fertile earth,
placing it by great waters; he put it in like a
willow-tree.
17:6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and
widely
stretching, whose
branches were turned to him and its roots
were under him: so it
became a vine, putting out branches and
young leaves.
17:7 And there was another eagle with great wings and thick
feathers: and now
this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent
out its branches in
his direction from the bed where it was
planted, so that he
might give it water.
17:8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so
that
it might put out
branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.
17:9 Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well?
will
he not have its roots
pulled up and its branches cut off, so
that all its young
leaves may become dry and it may be pulled
up by its roots?
17:10 And if it is planted will it do well? will it not
become
quite dry at the
touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed
where it was planted?
17:11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
17:12 Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things
not
clear to you? Say to
them, See, the king of Babylon came to
Jerusalem and took
its king and its rulers away with him to
Babylon;
17:13 And he took one of the sons of the king and made an
agreement with him;
and he put him under an oath, and took away
the great men of the
land:
17:14 So that the kingdom might be made low with no power of
lifting itself up,
but might keep his agreement to be his
servants.
17:15 But he went against his authority in sending
representatives to
Egypt to get from them horses and a great
army. Will he do
well? will he be safe who does such things? if
the agreement is
broken will he be safe?
17:16 By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the
king
who made him king,
whose oath he put on one side and let his
agreement with him be
broken, even in Babylon he will come to
his death.
17:17 And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will
be
no help to him in the
war, when they put up earthworks and make
strong walls for the
cutting off of lives:
17:18 For he put his oath on one side in letting the
agreement
be broken; and though
he had given his hand to it, he did all
these things; he will
not get away safe.
17:19 And so the Lord has said, By my life, truly, for my
oath
which he put on one
side, and my agreement which has been
broken, I will send
punishment on his head.
17:20 My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be
taken in my cords,
and I will send him to Babylon, and there I
will be his judge for
the wrong which he has done against me.
17:21 All his best fighting-men will be put to the sword,
and
the rest will be sent
away to every wind: and you will be
certain that I the
Lord have said it.
17:22 This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take
the
highest top of the
cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off
from the highest of
his young branches a soft one, I will have
it planted on a high
and great mountain;
17:23 It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it
will
put out branches and
have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it
all birds of every
sort will make their living-place, resting
in the shade of its
branches.
17:24 And it will be clear to all the trees of the field
that I
the Lord have made
low the high tree and made high the low
tree, drying up the
green tree and making the dry tree full of
growth; I the Lord
have said it and have done it.
18:1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
18:2 Why do you make use of this saying about the land of
Israel, The fathers
have been tasting bitter grapes and the
children's teeth are
on edge?
18:3 By my life, says the Lord, you will no longer have this
saying in Israel.
18:4 See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so
the
soul of the son is
mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's
soul.
18:5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing
righteousness,
18:6 And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or
given
worship to the images
of the children of Israel; if he has not
had connection with
his neighbour's wife, or come near to a
woman at the time
when she is unclean;
18:7 And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the
debtor what is his,
and has taken no one's goods by force, and
has given food to him
who was in need of it, and clothing to
him who was without
it;
18:8 And has not given his money out at interest or taken
great
profits, and, turning
his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith
between man and man,
18:9 And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws
and
done them: he is
upright, life will certainly be his, says the
Lord.
18:10 If he has a son who is a thief, a taker of life, who
does
any of these things,
18:11 Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has
had
connection with his
neighbour's wife,
18:12 Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need,
and
taken property by
force, and has not given back to one in his
debt what is his, and
has given worship to images and has done
disgusting things,
18:13 And has given out his money at interest and taken
great
profits: he will
certainly not go on living: he has done all
these disgusting
things: death will certainly be his fate; his
blood will be on him.
18:14 Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins
which
he has done, and in
fear does not do the same:
18:15 Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food,
or
given worship to the
images of the children of Israel, and has
not had connection
with his neighbour's wife,
18:16 Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in
his
debt, or taken goods
by force, but has given food to him who
was in need of it, and
clothing to him who was without it;
18:17 Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not
taken
interest or great
profits, who has done my orders and been
guided by my rules:
he will certainly not be put to death for
the evil-doing of his
father; life will certainly be his.
18:18 As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by
force, and did what
is not good among his people, truly, death
will overtake him in
his evil-doing.
18:19 But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment
for
the evil-doing of the
father? When the son has done what is
ordered and right,
and has kept my rules and done them, life
will certainly be
his.
18:20 The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son
will
not be made
responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or
the father for the
evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of
the upright will be
on himself, and the evil-doing of the
evil-doer on himself.
18:21 But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins
which
he has done, keeps my
rules and does what is ordered and right,
life will certainly
be his; death will not be his fate.
18:22 Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in
memory against him:
in the righteousness which he has done he
will have life.
18:23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer?
says
the Lord: am I not
pleased if he is turned from his way so that
he may have life?
18:24 But when the upright man, turning away from his
righteousness, does
evil, like all the disgusting things which
the evil man does,
will he have life? Not one of his upright
acts will be kept in
memory: in the wrong which he has done and
in his sin death will
overtake him.
18:25 But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give
ear,
now, O children of Israel;
is my way not equal? are not your
ways unequal?
18:26 When the upright man, turning away from his
righteousness,
does evil, death will
overtake him; in the evil which he has
done death will
overtake him.
18:27 Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil
he
has done, does what
is ordered and right, he will have life for
his soul.
18:28 Because he had fear and was turned away from all the
wrong
which he had done,
life will certainly be his, death will not
be his fate.
18:29 But still the children of Israel say, The way of the
Lord
is not equal. O
children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are
not your ways
unequal?
18:30 For this cause I will be your judge, O children of
Israel,
judging every man by
his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be
turned from all your
sins; so that they may not be the cause of
your falling into
evil.
18:31 Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done
sin;
and make for
yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are
you desiring death, O
children of Israel?
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom
death
comes, says the Lord:
be turned back then, and have life.
19:1 Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel,
and
say,
19:2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions,
stretched out among
the young lions she gave food to her little
ones.
19:3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her
care,
and became a young
lion, learning to go after beasts for his
food; and he took men
for his meat.
19:4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the
hole
they had made: and,
pulling him with hooks, they took him into
the land of Egypt.
19:5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and
gone,
she took another of
her little ones and made him into a young
lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a
young
lion, learning to go
after beasts for his food; and he took men
for his meat.
19:7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste
their towns; and the
land and everything in it became waste
because of the loud
sound of his voice.
19:8 Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms
round
about: their net was
stretched over him and he was taken in the
hole they had made.
19:9 They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to
the
king of Babylon; they
put him in the strong place so that his
voice might be
sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.
19:10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by
the
waters: she was
fertile and full of branches because of the
great waters.
19:11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for
the
rulers, and it became
tall among the clouds and it was seen
lifted up among the
number of its branches.
19:12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on
the
earth; the east wind
came, drying her up, and her branches were
broken off; her
strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of
it.
19:13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and
unwatered country.
19:14 And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the
destruction of her
branches, so that there is no strong rod in
her to be the ruler's
rod of authority. This is a song of
grief, and it was for
a song of grief.
20:1 Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth
month,
on the tenth day of
the month, that certain of the responsible
men of Israel came to
get directions from the Lord and were
seated before me.
20:2 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
20:3 Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This
is
what the Lord has
said: Have you come to get directions from
me? By my life, says
the Lord, you will get no directions from
me.
20:4 Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be
their
judge? make clear to
them the disgusting ways of their fathers,
20:5 And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the
day
when I took Israel
for myself, when I made an oath to the seed
of the family of
Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in
the land of Egypt,
saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord
your God;
20:6 In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land
of
Egypt into a land
which I had been searching out for them, a
land flowing with
milk and honey, the glory of all lands:
20:7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away
the
disgusting things to
which his eyes are turned, and do not make
yourselves unclean
with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your
God.
20:8 But they would not be controlled by me, and did not
give
ear to me; they did
not put away the disgusting things to which
their eyes were
turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I
said I would let
loose my passion on them to give full effect
to my wrath against
them in the land of Egypt.
20:9 And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it
might not be made
unclean before the eyes of the nations among
whom they were, and
before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of
myself, by taking
them out of the land of Egypt.
20:10 So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took
them
into the waste land.
20:11 And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my
orders,
which, if a man keeps
them, will be life to him.
20:12 And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign
between
me and them, so that
it might be clear that I, who make them
holy, am the Lord.
20:13 But the children of Israel would not be controlled by
me
in the waste land:
they were not guided by my rules, and they
were turned away from
my orders, which, if a man does them,
will be life to him;
and they had no respect for my Sabbaths:
then I said that I
would let loose my passion on them in the
waste land, and put
an end to them.
20:14 And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it
might not be made
unclean in the eyes of the nations, before
whose eyes I had
taken them out.
20:15 And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land,
that I would not take
them into the land which I had given
them, a land flowing
with milk and honey, the glory of all
lands;
20:16 Because they were turned away from my orders, and were
not
guided by my rules,
and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for
their hearts went
after their images.
20:17 But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from
destruction and did
not put an end to them completely in the
waste land.
20:18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not
be
guided by the rules
of your fathers or keep their orders or
make yourselves
unclean with their images:
20:19 I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep
my
orders and do them:
20:20 And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign
between
me and you so that it
may be clear to you that I am the Lord
your God.
20:21 But the children would not be controlled by me; they
were
not guided by my
rules, and they did not keep and do my orders,
which, if a man does
them, will be life to him; and they had no
respect for my
Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my
passion on them to
give full effect to my wrath against them in
the waste land.
20:22 And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it
might not be made
unclean in the eyes of the nations, before
whose eyes I had
taken them out.
20:23 Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that
I
would send them
wandering among the nations, driving them out
among the countries;
20:24 Because they had not done my orders, but had been
turned
away from my rules,
and had not given respect to my Sabbaths,
and their eyes were
turned to the images of their fathers.
20:25 And further, I gave them rules which were not good and
orders in which there
was no life for them;
20:26 I made them unclean in the offerings they gave,
causing
them to make every
first child go through the fire, so that I
might put an end to
them.
20:27 For this cause, son of man, say to the children of
Israel,
This is what the Lord
has said: In this your fathers have
further put shame on
my name by doing wrong against me.
20:28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made
an
oath to give to them,
then they saw every high hill and every
branching tree and
made their offerings there, moving me to
wrath by their
offerings; and there the sweet smell of their
offerings went up and
their drink offerings were drained out.
20:29 Then I said to them, What is this high place where you
go
to no purpose? And it
is named Bamah to this day.
20:30 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is
what
the Lord has said:
Are you making yourselves unclean as your
fathers did? are you
being untrue to me by going after their
disgusting works?
20:31 And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to
go
through the fire, you
make yourselves unclean with all your
images to this day;
and will you come to me for directions, O
children of Israel?
By my life, says the Lord, you will get no
direction from me.
20:32 And that which comes into your minds will never take
place; when you say,
We will be like the nations, like the
families of the
countries, servants of wood and stone;
20:33 By my life, says the Lord, truly, with a strong hand
and
with an outstretched
arm and with burning wrath let loose, I
will be King over
you:
20:34 And I will take you out from the peoples and get you
together out of the
countries where you are wandering, with a
strong hand and with
an outstretched arm and with burning wrath
let loose:
20:35 And I will take you into the waste land of the
peoples,
and there I will take
up the cause with you face to face.
20:36 As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste
land
of the land of Egypt,
so will I take up the cause with you says
the Lord.
20:37 And I will make you go under the rod and will make you
small in number:
20:38 Clearing out from among you all those who are
uncontrolled
and who are sinning
against me; I will take them out of the
land where they are
living, but they will not come into the
land of Israel: and
you will be certain that I am the Lord.
20:39 As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said:
Let
every man completely
put away his images and give ear to me:
and let my holy name
no longer be shamed by your offerings and
your images.
20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of
Israel,
says the Lord, there
all the children of Israel, all of them,
will be my servants
in the land; there I will take pleasure in
them, and there I
will be worshipped with your offerings and
the first-fruits of
the things you give, and with all your holy
things.
20:41 I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when
I
take you out from the
peoples and get you together from the
countries where you
have been sent in flight; and I will make
myself holy in you
before the eyes of the nations.
20:42 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I
take
you into the land of
Israel, into the country which I made an
oath to give to your
fathers.
20:43 And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the
things you did to
make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter
hate for yourselves
because of all the evil things you have
done.
20:44 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I
take
you in hand for the
honour of my name, and not for your evil
ways or your unclean
doings, O children of Israel, says the
Lord.
20:45 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
20:46 Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let
your
words be dropped to
the south, and be a prophet against the
woodland of the
South;
20:47 And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the
words of the Lord:
this is what the Lord has said: See, I will
have a fire lighted
in you, for the destruction of every green
tree in you and every
dry tree: the flaming flame will not be
put out, and all
faces from the south to the north will be
burned by it.
20:48 And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it
lighted: it will not
be put out.
20:49 Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a
maker
of stories?
21:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
21:2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let
your
words be dropped in
the direction of her holy place, and be a
prophet against the
land of Israel;
21:3 And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of
the
Lord: See, I am
against you, and I will take my sword out of
its cover, cutting
off from you the upright and the evil.
21:4 Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut
off
from you, for this
cause my sword will go out from its cover
against all flesh
from the south to the north:
21:5 And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my
sword
out of its cover: and
it will never go back.
21:6 Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a
bitter heart make
sounds of grief before their eyes.
21:7 And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of
grief? then say,
Because of the news, for it is coming: and
every heart will
become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and
every spirit will be
burning low, and all knees will be turned
to water: see, it is
coming and it will be done, says the Lord.
21:8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
21:9 Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of
the
Lord: Say, A sword, a
sword which has been made sharp and
polished:
21:10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished
so
that it may be like a
thunder-flame: ...
21:11 And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be
taken in the hand: he
has made the sword sharp, he has had it
polished, to put it
into the hand of him who gives death.
21:12 Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of
man:
for it has come on my
people, it has come on all the rulers of
Israel: fear of the
sword has come on my people: for this cause
give signs of grief.
21:13 ...
21:14 So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands
together with a loud
sound, and give two blows with the sword,
and even three; it is
the sword of those who are wounded, even
the sword of the
wounded; the great sword which goes round
about them.
21:15 In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of
those who are falling
may be increased, I have sent death by
the sword against all
their doors: you are made like a flame,
you are polished for
death.
21:16 Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your
edge
is ordered.
21:17 And I will put my hands together with a loud sound,
and I
will let my wrath
have rest: I the Lord have said it.
21:18 And the word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
21:19 And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that
the
sword of the king of
Babylon may come; let the two of them come
out of one land: and
let there be a pillar at the top of the
road:
21:20 Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to
come
to Rabbah in the land
of the children of Ammon, and to Judah
and to Jerusalem in
the middle of her.
21:21 For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting
of
the ways, at the top
of the two roads, to make use of secret
arts: shaking the
arrows this way and that, he put questions to
the images of his
gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead
beasts.
21:22 At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give
orders for
destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines
of war against the
doors, lifting up earthworks, building
walls.
21:23 And this answer given by secret arts will seem false
to
those who have given
their oaths and have let them be broken:
but he will keep the
memory of evil-doing so that they may be
taken.
21:24 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have
made
your evil-doing come
to mind by the uncovering of your
wrongdoing, causing
your sins to be seen in all your
evil-doings; because
you have come to mind, you will be taken
in them.
21:25 And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of
Israel,
whose day has come in
the time of the last punishment;
21:26 This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy
head-dress, take off
the crown: this will not be again: let
that which is low be
lifted up, and that which is high be made
low.
21:27 I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned:
this
will not be again
till he comes whose right it is; and I will
give it to him.
21:28 And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what
the
Lord has said about
the children of Ammon and about their
shame: Say, A sword,
even a sword let loose, polished for
death, to make it
shining so that it may be like a flame:
21:29 Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts
gives a false answer,
to put it on the necks of evil-doers who
are wounded to death,
whose day has come, in the time of the
last punishment.
21:30 Go back into your cover. In the place where you were
made,
in the land from
which you were taken, I will be your judge.
21:31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you,
breathing
out on you the fire
of my wrath: and I will give you up into
the hands of men like
beasts, trained to destruction.
21:32 You will be food for the fire; your blood will be
drained
out in the land;
there will be no more memory of you: for I the
Lord have said it.
22:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
22:2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a
judge of the town of
blood? then make clear to her all her
disgusting ways.
22:3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A
town
causing blood to be
drained out in her streets so that her time
may come, and making
images in her to make her unclean!
22:4 You are responsible for the blood drained out by you,
and
you are unclean
through the images which you have made; and you
have made your day
come near, and the time of your judging has
come; for this cause
I have made you a name of shame to the
nations and a cause
of laughing to all countries.
22:5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will
make
sport of you; your
name is unclean, you are full of sounds of
fear.
22:6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family,
have
been causing death in
you.
22:7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother;
in
you they have been
cruel to the man from a strange land; in you
they have done wrong
to the child without a father and to the
widow.
22:8 You have made little of my holy things, and have made
my
Sabbaths unclean.
22:9 In you there are men who say evil of others, causing
death;
in you they have
taken the flesh with the blood for food; in
your streets they
have put evil designs into effect.
22:10 In you they have let the shame of their fathers be
seen;
in you they have done
wrong to a woman at the time when she was
unclean.
22:11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with
his
neighbour's wife; and
another has made his daughter-in-law
unclean; and another
has done wrong to his sister, his father's
daughter.
22:12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood;
you
have taken interest
and great profits, and you have taken away
your neighbours'
goods by force, and have not kept me in mind,
says the Lord.
22:13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath
against your taking
of goods by force and against the blood
which has been
flowing in you.
22:14 Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the
days
when I take you in
hand? I the Lord have said it and will do
it.
22:15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and
wandering among the
countries; and I will completely take away
out of you everything
which is unclean.
22:16 And you will be made low before the eyes of the
nations;
and it will be clear
to you that I am the Lord.
22:17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
22:18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like
the
poorest sort of waste
metal to me: they are all silver and
brass and tin and
iron and lead mixed with waste.
22:19 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all
become waste metal,
see, I will get you together inside
Jerusalem.
22:20 As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin
together inside the
oven, heating up the fire on it to make it
soft; so will I get
you together in my wrath and in my passion,
and, heating the fire
with my breath, will make you soft.
22:21 Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my
wrath, and you will
become soft in it.
22:22 As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become
soft in it; and you
will be certain that I the Lord have let
loose my passion on
you.
22:23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no
rain or
thunderstorm has come
in the day of wrath.
22:25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion
violently
taking his food; they
have made a meal of souls; they have
taken wealth and
valued property; they have made great the
number of widows in
her.
22:26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law;
they have made my
holy things unclean: they have made no
division between what
is holy and what is common, and they have
not made it clear
that the unclean is different from the clean,
and their eyes have
been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not
honoured among them.
22:27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking
their
food; putting men to
death and causing the destruction of
souls, so that they
may get their profit.
22:28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing
foolish
visions and making
false use of secret arts, saying, This is
what the Lord has
said, when the Lord has said nothing.
22:29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly,
taking
men's goods by force;
they have been hard on the poor and those
in need, and have done
wrong to the man from a strange land.
22:30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make
up
the wall and take his
station in the broken place before me for
the land, so that I
might not send destruction on it: but there
was no one.
22:31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an
end to
them in the fire of
my wrath: I have made the punishment of
their ways come on
their heads, says the Lord.
23:1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one
mother:
23:3 They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they
were
young their behaviour
was loose: there their breasts were
crushed, even the
points of their young breasts were crushed.
23:4 Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her
sister: and they
became mine, and gave birth to sons and
daughters. As for
their names, Samaria is Oholah, and
Jerusalem, Oholibah.
23:5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was
full
of desire for her
lovers, even for the Assyrians, her
neighbours,
23:6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of
them
young men to be
desired, horsemen seated on horses.
23:7 And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the
noblest men of
Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the
images of all who
were desired by her.
23:8 And she has not given up her loose ways from the time
when
she was in Egypt; for
when she was young they were her lovers,
and by them her young
breasts were crushed, and they let loose
on her their unclean
desire.
23:9 For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her
lovers,
into the hands of the
Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.
23:10 By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons
and
daughters and put her
to death with the sword: and she became a
cause of wonder to
women; for they gave her the punishment
which was right.
23:11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was
even
more unmeasured, and
her loose behaviour was worse than that of
her sister.
23:12 She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and
rulers, her
neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on
horses, all of them
young men to be desired.
23:13 And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them
went the same way.
23:14 And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men
pictured on a wall,
pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in
bright red,
23:15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses
hanging round their
heads, all of them looking like rulers,
like the Babylonians,
the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.
23:16 And when she saw them she was full of desire for them,
and
sent servants to them
in Chaldaea.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
and
made her unclean with
their loose desire, and she became
unclean with them,
and her soul was turned from them.
23:18 So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame
uncovered: then my
soul was turned from her as it had been
turned from her
sister.
23:19 But still she went on the more with her loose
behaviour,
keeping in mind the
early days when she had been a loose woman
in the land of Egypt.
23:20 And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh
is
like the flesh of
asses and whose seed is like the seed of
horses.
23:21 And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early
years come back to
mind, when her young breasts were crushed by
the Egyptians.
23:22 For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has
said: See, I will
make your lovers come up against you, even
those from whom your
soul is turned away in disgust; and I will
make them come up
against you on every side;
23:23 The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa
and
Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them: young men to be desired,
captains and rulers
all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours,
all of them on
horseback.
23:24 And they will come against you from the north on
horseback, with
war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they
will put themselves
in order against you with breastplate and
body-cover and metal
head-dress round about you: and I will
make them your
judges, and they will give their decision
against you as seems
right to them.
23:25 And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and
they will take you in
hand with passion; they will take away
your nose and your
ears, and the rest of you will be put to the
sword: they will take
your sons and daughters, and the rest of
you will be burned up
in the fire.
23:26 And they will take all your clothing off you and take
away
your ornaments.
23:27 So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose
behaviour which came
from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will
never be lifted up to
them again, and you will have no more
memory of Egypt.
23:28 For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give
you
up into the hands of
those who are hated by you, into the hands
of those from whom
your soul is turned away in disgust:
23:29 And they will take you in hand with hate, and take
away
all the fruit of your
work, and let you be unveiled and without
clothing: and the
shame of your loose behaviour will be
uncovered, your evil
designs and your loose ways.
23:30 They will do these things to you because you have been
untrue to me, and
have gone after the nations, and have become
unclean with their
images.
23:31 You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will
give
her cup into your
hand.
23:32 This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink
from
your sister's cup,
which is deep and wide: you will be laughed
at and looked down
on, more than you are able to undergo.
23:33 You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of
wonder and
destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
23:34 And after drinking it and draining it out, you will
take
the last drops of it
to the end, pulling off your breasts: for
I have said it, says
the Lord.
23:35 So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have
not
kept me in your
memory, and because your back has been turned
to me, you will even
undergo the punishment of your evil
designs and your
loose ways.
23:36 Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the
judge of Oholibah?
then make clear to her the disgusting things
she has done.
23:37 For she has been false to me, and blood is on her
hands,
and with her images
she has been untrue; and more than this,
she made her sons,
whom she had by me, go through the fire to
them to be burned up.
23:38 Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made
my
holy place unclean
and has made my Sabbaths unclean.
23:39 For when she had made an offering of her children to
her
images, she came into
my holy place to make it unclean; see,
this is what she has
done inside my house.
23:40 And she even sent for men to come from far away, to
whom a
servant was sent, and
they came: for whom she was washing her
body and painting her
eyes and making herself fair with
ornaments.
23:41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put
ready before it on
which she put my perfume and my oil.
23:42 ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful
crowns
on her head.
23:43 Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.
23:44 And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman:
so
they went in to
Oholibah, the loose woman.
23:45 And upright men will be her judges, judging her as
false
wives and women who
take lives are judged; because she has been
untrue to me and blood
is on her hands.
23:46 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a
great
meeting of the people
come together against her, and will send
on her shaking fear
and take everything from her.
23:47 And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will
put
an end to her with
their swords; they will put her sons and
daughters to death
and have her house burned up with fire.
23:48 And I will put an end to evil in all the land,
teaching
all women not to do
as you have done.
23:49 And I will send on you the punishment of your evil
ways,
and you will be
rewarded for your sins with your images: and
you will be certain
that I am the Lord.
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,
24:2 Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king
of
Babylon let loose the
weight of his attack against Jerusalem on
this very day.
24:3 And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and
say
to them, This is what
the Lord has said: Put on the
cooking-pot, put it
on the fire and put water in it:
24:4 And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good
part,
the leg and the top
part of it: make it full of the best bones.
24:5 Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see
that its bits are
boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside
it.
24:6 For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the
town
of blood, the
cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has
never been made
clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to
come on it.
24:7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open
rock
not draining it on to
the earth so that it might be covered
with dust;
24:8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give
punishment, she has
put her blood on the open rock, so that it
may not be covered.
24:9 For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the
town of
blood! and I will
make great the burning mass.
24:10 Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the
flesh
well, and making the
soup thick, and let the bones be burned.
24:11 And I will put her on the coals so that she may be
heated
and her brass burned,
so that what is unclean in her may become
soft and her waste be
completely taken away.
24:12 I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the
waste which is in her
has not come out, it has an evil smell.
24:13 As for your unclean purpose: because I have been
attempting to make
you clean, but you have not been made clean
from it, you will not
be made clean till I have let loose my
passion on you in
full measure.
24:14 I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will
not
go back or have
mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in
the measure of your
ways and of your evil doings you will be
judged, says the
Lord.
24:15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
24:16 Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your
eyes
by disease: but let
there be no sorrow or weeping or drops
running from your
eyes.
24:17 Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for
your
dead, put on your
head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let
not your lips be
covered, and do not take the food of those in
grief.
24:18 So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the
evening death took my
wife; and in the morning I did what I had
been ordered to do.
24:19 And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to
us
the sense of these
things; is it for us you do them?
24:20 Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
24:21 Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I
will make my holy
place unclean, the pride of your strength,
the pleasure of your
eyes, and the desire of your soul; and
your sons and
daughters, who did not come with you here, will
be put to the sword.
24:22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips
or
taking the food of
those in grief.
24:23 And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your
shoes
on your feet: there
will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will
be wasting away in
the punishment of your evil-doing, and you
will be looking at
one another in wonder.
24:24 And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has
done
you will do: when
this takes place, you will be certain that I
am the Lord.
24:25 And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in
the
day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their
glory, the desire of
their eyes, and that on which their hearts
are fixed, and their
sons and daughters.
24:26 In that day, one who has got away safe will come to
you to
give you news of it.
24:27 In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got
away safe, and you
will say words to him and your lips will no
longer be shut: so
you will be a sign to them and they will be
certain that I am the
Lord.
25:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
25:2 Son of man, let your face be turned to the children of
Ammon, and be a
prophet against them:
25:3 And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word
of
the Lord; this is what
the Lord has said: Because you said,
Aha! against my holy
place when it was made unclean, and
against the land of
Israel when it was made waste, and against
the people of Judah
when they were taken away as prisoners;
25:4 For this cause I will give you up to the children of
the
east for their
heritage, and they will put their tent-circles
in you and make their
houses in you; they will take your fruit
for their food and
your milk for their drink.
25:5 And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and
the
children of Ammon a
resting-place for flocks: and you will be
certain that I am the
Lord.
25:6 For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of
joy
with your hands,
stamping your feet, and have been glad,
putting shame with
all your soul on the land of Israel;
25:7 For this cause my hand has been stretched out against
you,
and I will give up
your goods to be taken by the nations; I
will have you cut off
from the peoples and will put an end to
you among the
countries: I will give you up to destruction; and
you will be certain
that I am the Lord.
25:8 This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir
are
saying, See, the
people of Judah are like all the nations;
25:9 For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be
uncovered,
and his towns on
every side, the glory of the land,
Beth-jeshimoth,
Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.
25:10 To the children of the east I have given her for a
heritage, as well as
the children of Ammon, so that there may
be no memory of her
among the nations:
25:11 And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see
that I
am the Lord.
25:12 This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken
his
payment from the
people of Judah, and has done great wrong in
taking payment from
them;
25:13 The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out
against
Edom, cutting off
from it man and beast: and I will make it
waste, from Teman
even as far as Dedan they will be put to the
sword.
25:14 I will take payment from Edom because of my people
Israel;
and I will take Edom
in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and
they will have
experience of my reward, says the Lord.
25:15 This is what the Lord has said: Because the
Philistines
have taken payment,
with the purpose of causing shame and
destruction with
unending hate;
25:16 The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out
against the
Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and
sending destruction
on the rest of the sea-land.
25:17 And I will take great payment from them with acts of
wrath; and they will
be certain that I am the Lord when I send
my punishment on
them.
26:1 Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the
month,
the word of the Lord
came to me, saying,
26:2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem,
Aha,
she who was the
doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned
over to them; she who
was full is made waste;
26:3 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against
you, O
Tyre, and will send
up a number of nations against you as the
sea sends up its
waves.
26:4 And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and
have its towers
broken: and I will take even her dust away from
her, and make her an
uncovered rock
26:5 She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in
the
middle of the sea;
for I have said it, says the Lord: and her
goods will be given
over to the nations.
26:6 And her daughters in the open country will be put to
the
sword: and they will
be certain that I am the Lord.
26:7 For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up
from the north
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings,
against Tyre, with
horses and war-carriages and with an army
and great numbers of
people.
26:8 He will put to the sword your daughters in the open
country: he will make
strong walls against you and put up an
earthwork against
you, arming himself for war against you.
26:9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls,
and
your towers will be
broken down by his axes.
26:10 Because of the number of his horses you will be
covered
with their dust: your
walls will be shaking at the noise of the
horsemen and of the
wheels and of the war-carriages, when he
comes through your
doorways, as into a town which has been
broken open.
26:11 Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his
horses: he will put
your people to the sword, and will send
down the pillars of
your strength to the earth.
26:12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off
with
the goods with which
you do trade: they will have your walls
broken down and all
the houses of your desire given up to
destruction: they
will put your stones and your wood and your
dust deep in the
water.
26:13 I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the
sound of your
instruments of music will be gone for ever.
26:14 I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place
for
the stretching out of
nets; there will be no building you up
again: for I the Lord
have said it, says the Lord.
26:15 This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the
sea-lands be shaking
at the sound of your fall, when the
wounded give cries of
pain, when men are put to the sword in
you?
26:16 Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from
their
high seats, and put
away their robes and take off their
clothing of
needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief,
they will take their
seats on the earth, shaking with fear
every minute and
overcome with wonder at you.
26:17 And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say
to
you, What destruction
has come on you, how are you cut off from
the sea, the noted
town, which was strong in the sea, she and
her people, causing
the fear of them to come on all the dry
land!
26:18 Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your
fall;
and all the ships on
the sea will be overcome with fear at your
going.
26:19 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a
waste town, like the
towns which are unpeopled; when I make the
deep come upon you,
covering you with great waters.
26:20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down
into
the underworld, to
the people of the past, causing your
living-place to be in
the deepest parts of the earth, in places
long unpeopled, with
those who go down into the deep, so that
there will be no one
living in you; and you will have no glory
in the land of the
living.
26:21 I will make you a thing of fear, and you will come to
an
end: even if you are
looked for, you will not be seen again for
ever, says the Lord.
27:1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
27:2 And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;
27:3 And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of
the
sea, trading for the
peoples with the great sea-lands, these
are the words of the
Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship
completely beautiful.
27:4 Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of
the
seas, they have made
you completely beautiful.
27:5 They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir:
they have taken
cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for
your sails.
27:6 Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving
blades; they have
made your floors of ivory and boxwood from
the sea-lands of
Kittim.
27:7 The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your
sail,
stretched out to be a
flag for you; blue and purple from the
sea-lands of Elishah
gave you shade.
27:8 The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the
wise
men of Zemer were in
you; they were guiding your ships;
27:9 The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in
you,
making your boards
watertight: all the ships of the sea with
their seamen were in
you trading in your goods.
27:10 Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of
war,
hanging up their
body-covers and head-dresses of war in you:
they gave you your
glory.
27:11 The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and
were
watchmen in your
towers, hanging up their arms on your walls
round about; they
made you completely beautiful.
27:12 Tarshish did business with you because of the great
amount
of your wealth; they
gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your
goods.
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave
living men and brass
vessels for your goods.
27:14 The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and
transport beasts for
your goods.
27:15 The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of
sea-lands did
business with you: they gave you horns of ivory
and ebony as an
offering.
27:16 Edom did business with you because of the great number
of
things which you
made; they gave emeralds, purple, and
needlework, and the
best linen and coral and rubies for your
goods.
27:17 Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they
gave
grain of Minnith and
sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume
for your goods.
27:18 Damascus did business with you because of the great
amount
of your wealth, with
wine of Helbon and white wool.
27:19 ... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices
for
your goods.
27:20 Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of
horses.
27:21 Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with
you;
in lambs and sheep
and goats, in these they did business with
you.
27:22 The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you;
they
gave the best of all
sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of
great price and gold
for your goods.
27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and
all
the Medes:
27:24 These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls
of
blue and needlework,
and in chests of coloured cloth, corded
with cords and made
of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with
you.
27:25 Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and
you
were made full, and great
was your glory in the heart of the
seas.
27:26 Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you
have
been broken by the
east wind in the heart of the seas.
27:27 Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do
trade, your seamen
and those guiding your ships, those who make
your boards
watertight, and those who do business with your
goods, and all your
men of war who are in you, with all who
have come together in
you, will go down into the heart of the
seas in the day of
your downfall.
27:28 At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the
boards
of the ship will be
shaking.
27:29 And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are
expert
at guiding a ship
through the sea, will come down from their
ships and take their
places on the land;
27:30 And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying
bitterly they will
put dust on their heads, rolling themselves
in the dust:
27:31 And they will have the hair of their heads cut off
because
of you, and will put
haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you
with bitter grief in
their souls, even with bitter sorrow.
27:32 And in their weeping they will make a song of grief
for
you, sorrowing over
you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has
come to an end in the
deep sea?
27:33 When your goods went out over the seas, you made
numbers
of peoples full; the
wealth of the kings of the earth was
increased with your
great wealth and all your goods.
27:34 Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep
waters,
your goods and all
your people will go down with you.
27:35 All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with
wonder
at you, and their
kings are full of fear, their faces are
troubled.
27:36 Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of
surprise at you; you
have become a thing of fear, you have come
to an end for ever.
28:1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
28:2 Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the
Lord
has said: Because
your heart has been lifted up, and you have
said, I am a god, I
am seated on the seat of God in the heart
of the seas; but you
are man and not God, though you have made
your heart as the
heart of God:
28:3 See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret
which is
deeper than your knowledge:
28:4 By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power
for
yourself, and put
silver and gold in your store-houses:
28:5 By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is
increased, and your
heart is lifted up because of your power:
28:6 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made
your heart as the
heart of God,
28:7 See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among
the
nations: they will
let loose their swords against your bright
wisdom, they will
make your glory a common thing.
28:8 They will send you down to the underworld, and your
death
will be the death of
those who are put to the sword in the
heart of the seas.
28:9 Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your
life, I am God? but
you are man and not God in the hands of
those who are
wounding you.
28:10 Your death will be the death of those who are without
circumcision, by the
hands of men from strange lands: for I
have said it, says
the Lord.
28:11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
28:12 Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre,
and
say to him, This is
what the Lord has said: You are all-wise
and completely
beautiful;
28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of
great
price was your
clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl,
the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and
the carbuncle: your
store-houses were full of gold, and things
of great price were
in you; in the day when you were made they
were got ready.
28:14 I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you
on
the mountain of God;
you went up and down among the stones of
fire.
28:15 There has been no evil in your ways from the day when
you
were made, till sin
was seen in you.
28:16 Through all your trading you have become full of
violent
ways, and have done
evil: so I sent you out shamed from the
mountain of God; the
winged one put an end to you from among
the stones of fire.
28:17 Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful,
you
made your wisdom evil
through your sin: I have sent you down,
even to the earth; I
have made you low before kings, so that
they may see you.
28:18 By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have
made
your holy places
unclean; so I will make a fire come out from
you, it will make a meal
of you, and I will make you as dust on
the earth before the
eyes of all who see you.
28:19 All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will
be
overcome with wonder
at you: you have become a thing of fear,
and you will never be
seen again.
28:20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
28:21 Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a
prophet against it,
and say,
28:22 These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against
you, O
Zidon; and I will get
glory for myself in you: and they will be
certain that I am the
Lord, when I send my punishments on her,
and I will be seen to
be holy in her.
28:23 And I will send on her disease and blood in her
streets;
and the wounded will
be falling in the middle of her, and the
sword will be against
her on every side; and they will be
certain that I am the
Lord.
28:24 And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points
wounding the children
of Israel, or a thorn troubling them
among any who are
round about them, who put shame on them; and
they will be certain
that I am the Lord.
28:25 This is what the Lord has said: When I have got
together
the children of
Israel from the peoples among whom they are
wandering, and have
been made holy among them before the eyes
of the nations, then
they will have rest in the land which is
theirs, which I gave
to my servant Jacob
28:26 And they will be safe there, building houses and
planting
vine-gardens and
living without fear; when I have sent my
punishments on all
those who put shame on them round about
them; and they will
be certain that I am the Lord their God.
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth
day
of the month, the
word of the Lord came to me, saying,
29:2 Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh,
king
of Egypt, and be a
prophet against him and against all Egypt:
29:3 Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am
against you, Pharaoh,
king of Egypt, the great river-beast
stretched out among
his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is
mine, and I have made
it for myself.
29:4 And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of
your
streams will be
hanging from your skin; and I will make you
come up out of your
streams, with all the fish of your streams
hanging from your
skin.
29:5 And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all
the
fish of your streams:
you will go down on the face of the land;
you will not be taken
up or put to rest in the earth; I have
given you for food to
the beasts of the field and the birds of
the heaven.
29:6 And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I
am
the Lord, because you
have been a false support to the children
of Israel.
29:7 When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were
crushed so that their
arms were broken: and when they put their
weight on you for
support, you were broken and all their
muscles gave way.
29:8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a
sword
on you, cutting off
from you man and beast.
29:9 And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and
they
will be certain that
I am the Lord: because he has said, The
Nile is mine, and I
made it.
29:10 See, then, I am against you and against your streams,
and
I will make the land
of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol
to Syene, even as far
as the edge of Ethiopia.
29:11 No foot of man will go through it and no foot of
beast,
and it will be
unpeopled for forty years.
29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the
countries
which are made waste,
and her towns will be unpeopled among the
towns which have been
made waste, for forty years: and I will
send the Egyptians in
flight among the nations and wandering
through the
countries.
29:13 For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of
forty
years I will get the
Egyptians together from the peoples where
they have gone in
flight:
29:14 I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make
them come back into
the land of Pathros, into the land from
which they came; and
there they will be an unimportant kingdom.
29:15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again
will it be lifted up
over the nations: I will make them small,
so that they may not
have rule over the nations.
29:16 And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children
of
Israel, causing sin
to come to mind when their eyes are turned
to them: and they
will be certain that I am the Lord.
29:17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on
the
first day of the
month, the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his
army
do hard work against
Tyre, and the hair came off every head and
every arm was rubbed
smooth: but he and his army got no payment
out of Tyre for the
hard work which he had done against it.
29:19 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the
land of Egypt to
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take
away her wealth, and
take her goods by force and everything
which is there; and
this will be the payment for his army.
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for
his
hard work, because
they were working for me, says the Lord.
29:21 In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the
children of Israel,
and I will let your words come freely among
them, and they will
be certain that I am the Lord.
30:1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
30:2 Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words
of
the Lord: Give a cry,
Aha, for the day!
30:3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day
of
cloud; it will be the
time of the nations.
30:4 And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be
in
Ethiopia, when they
are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they
will take away her
wealth and her bases will be broken down.
30:5 Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and
Libya
and the children of
the land of the Cherethites will all be put
to death with them by
the sword.
30:6 This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt
will have a fall, and
the pride of her power will come down:
from Migdol to Syene
they will be put to the sword in it, says
the Lord.
30:7 And she will be made waste among the countries which
have
been made waste, and
her towns will be among the towns which
are unpeopled.
30:8 And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I
have
put a fire in Egypt
and all her helpers are broken.
30:9 In that day men will go out quickly to take the news,
causing fear in
untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come
on them as in the day
of Egypt; for see, it is coming.
30:10 This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to
great
numbers of the people
of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar,
king of Babylon.
30:11 He and the people with him, causing fear among the
nations, will be sent
for the destruction of the land; their
swords will be let
loose against Egypt and the land will be
full of dead.
30:12 And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give
the
land into the hands
of evil men, causing the land and
everything in it to
be wasted by the hands of men from a
strange country: I
the Lord have said it.
30:13 This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I
will give up the
images to destruction and put an end to the
false gods in Noph;
never again will there be a ruler in the
land of Egypt: and I
will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14 And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in
Zoan,
and send my
punishments on No.
30:15 I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of
Egypt, cutting off
the mass of the people of No.
30:16 And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting
in
pain, and No will be
broken into, as by the onrush of waters.
30:17 The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the
sword: and these
towns will be taken away prisoners.
30:18 And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the
yoke
of Egypt is broken
there, and the pride of her power comes to
an end: as for her,
she will be covered with a cloud, and her
daughters will be
taken away prisoners.
30:19 And I will send my punishments on Egypt: and they will
be
certain that I am the
Lord.
30:20 Now in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the
seventh day of the
month, the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
30:21 Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has
been
broken by me, and no
band has been put round it to make it
well, no band has
been twisted round it to make it strong for
gripping the sword.
30:22 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against
Pharaoh, king of
Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be
broken; and I will
make the sword go out of his hand.
30:23 And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the
nations
and wandering through
the countries.
30:24 And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon
strong,
and will put my sword
in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be
broken, and he will
give cries of pain before him like the
cries of a man
wounded to death.
30:25 And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon
strong,
and the arms of
Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be
certain that I am the
Lord, when I put my sword into the hand
of the king of
Babylon and it is stretched out against the land
of Egypt.
30:26 And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the
nations
and wandering through
the countries; and they will be certain
that I am the Lord.
31:1 Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the
first
day of the month, the
word of the Lord came to me, saying,
31:2 Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his
people; Whom are you
like in your great power?
31:3 See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick
growth,
giving shade and very
tall; and its top was among the clouds.
31:4 It got strength from the waters and the deep made it
tall:
its streams went
round about its planted land and it sent out
its waterways to all
the trees of the field.
31:5 In this way it became taller than all the trees of the
field; and its
branches were increased and its arms became long
because of the great waters.
31:6 In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest,
and
under its arms all
the beasts of the field gave birth to their
young, and great
nations were living in its shade.
31:7 So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so
long, for its root
was by great waters.
31:8 No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the
fir-trees were not
like its branches, and plane-trees were as
nothing in comparison
with its arms; no tree in the garden of
God was so beautiful.
31:9 I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that
all
the trees in the
garden of God were full of envy of it.
31:10 For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall,
and
has put his top among
the clouds, and his heart is full of
pride because he is
so high,
31:11 I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of
the
nations; he will
certainly give him the reward of his sin,
driving him out.
31:12 And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among
the
nations, after
cutting him off, have let him be: on the
mountains and in all
the valleys his branches have come down;
his arms are broken
by all the waterways of the land; all the
peoples of the earth
have gone from his shade, and have let him
be.
31:13 All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his
broken
stem where it is
stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of
the field will be on
his branches:
31:14 In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up
in
their growth, putting
their tops among the clouds; and that no
trees which are
watered may take their place on high: for they
are all given up to
death, to the lowest parts of the earth
among the children of
men, with those who go down to the
underworld.
31:15 This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes
down
to the underworld, I
will make the deep full of grief for him;
I will keep back her
streams and the great waters will be
stopped: I will make
Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of
the field will be
feeble because of him.
31:16 I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his
fall, when I send him
down to the underworld with those who go
down into the deep:
and on earth they will be comforting
themselves, all the
trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even
all the watered ones.
31:17 And they will go down with him to the underworld, to
those
who have been put to
the sword; even those who were his
helpers, living under
his shade among the nations
31:18 Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with
the
trees of Eden into
the lowest parts of the earth: there you
will be stretched out
among those without circumcision, with
those who were put to
the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his
people, says the
Lord.
32:1 And it came about in the twelfth year, in the twelfth
month, on the first
day of the month, that the word of the Lord
came to me, saying,
32:2 Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of
Egypt, and say to
him, Young lion of the nations, destruction
has come on you; and
you were like a sea-beast in the seas,
sending out bursts of
water, troubling the waters with your
feet, making their
streams dirty.
32:3 This is what the Lord has said: My net will be
stretched
out over you, and I
will take you up in my fishing-net.
32:4 And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will
send
you out violently
into the open field; I will let all the birds
of heaven come to
rest on you and will make the beasts of all
the earth full of
you.
32:5 And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make
the
valleys full of your
blood.
32:6 And the land will be watered with your blood, and the
waterways will be
full of you.
32:7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be
covered
and its stars made
dark; I will let the sun be covered with a
cloud and the moon
will not give her light.
32:8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over
you,
and put dark night on
your land, says the Lord.
32:9 And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled,
when
I send your prisoners
among the nations, into a country which
is strange to you.
32:10 And I will make a number of peoples overcome with
wonder
at you, and their
kings will be full of fear because of you,
when my sword is
waved before them: they will be shaking every
minute, every man
fearing for his life, in the day of your
fall.
32:11 For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the
king
of Babylon will come
on you.
32:12 I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of
the
fall of your people;
all of them men to be feared among the
nations: and they
will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all
its people will come
to destruction.
32:13 And I will put an end to all her beasts which are by
the
great waters, and
they will never again be troubled by the foot
of man or by the feet
of beasts.
32:14 Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers
will
be flowing like oil,
says the Lord.
32:15 When I make Egypt an unpeopled waste, cutting off from
the
land all the things in
it; when I send punishment on all those
living in it, then it
will be clear to them that I am the Lord.
32:16 It is a song of grief, and people will give voice to
it,
the daughters of the
nations will give voice to it, even for
Egypt and all her
people, says the Lord.
32:17 And in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the
month, the word of
the Lord came to me, saying,
32:18 Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the
people of Egypt and
send them down, even you and the daughters
of the nations; I
will send them down into the lowest parts of
the earth, with those
who go down into the underworld.
32:19 Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take
your
rest among those
without circumcision,
32:20 Among those who have been put to the sword: they will
give
a resting-place with
them to all their people.
32:21 The strong among the great ones will say to him from
the
underworld, Are you
more beautiful than any? go down, you and
your helpers, and
take your rest among those without
circumcision, and
those who have been put to the sword.
32:22 There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last
resting-place: all of
them put to death by the sword:
32:23 Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the
underworld, who were
a cause of fear in the land of the living.
32:24 There is Elam and all her people, round about her last
resting-place: all of
them put to death by the sword, who have
gone down without
circumcision into the lowest parts of the
earth, who were a
cause of fear in the land of the living, and
are put to shame with
those who go down to the underworld:
32:25 They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all
her
people are round
about her resting-place: all of them without
circumcision, put to
death with the sword; for they were a
cause of fear in the
land of the living, and are put to shame
with those who go
down to the underworld: they have been given
a place among those
who have been put to the sword.
32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round
about
her last
resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put
to death by the
sword; for they were a cause of fear in the
land of the living.
32:27 And they have been put to rest with the fighting men
who
came to their end in
days long past, who went down to the
underworld with their
instruments of war, placing their swords
under their heads,
and their body-covers are over their bones;
for their strength
was a cause of fear in the land of the
living.
32:28 But you will have your bed among those without
circumcision, and
will be put to rest with those who have been
put to death with the
sword.
32:29 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have
been given a
resting-place with those who were put to the
sword: they will be
resting among those without circumcision,
even with those who
go down to the underworld.
32:30 There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and
all
the Zidonians, who
have gone down with those who have been put
to the sword: they
are shamed on account of all the fear caused
by their strength;
they are resting there without circumcision,
among those who have
been put to the sword, and are put to
shame with those who
go down to the underworld.
32:31 Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of
all
his people: even
Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the
sword, says the Lord.
32:32 For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he
will
be put to rest among
those without circumcision, with those who
have been put to
death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
people, says the
Lord.
33:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
33:2 Son of man, give a word to the children of your people,
and
say to them, When I
make the sword come on a land, if the
people of the land
take a man from among their number and make
him their watchman:
33:3 If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by
sounding
the horn he gives the
people news of their danger;
33:4 Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does
not
take note of it, will
himself be responsible for his death, if
the sword comes and
takes him away.
33:5 On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note;
his
blood will be on him;
for if he had taken note his life would
have been safe.
33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not
give a note on the
horn, and the people have no word of the
danger, and the sword
comes and takes any person from among
them; he will be
taken away in his sin, but I will make the
watchman responsible
for his blood.
33:7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the
children of Israel;
and you are to give ear to the word of my
mouth and give them
news from me of their danger.
33:8 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly
overtake
you; and you say
nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the
danger of his way;
death will overtake that evil man in his
evil-doing, but I
will make you responsible for his blood.
33:9 But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of
his
way for the purpose
of turning him from it, and he is not
turned from his way,
death will overtake him in his evil-doing,
but your life will be
safe.
33:10 And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel,
You
say, Our wrongdoing
and our sins are on us and we are wasting
away in them; how
then may we have life?
33:11 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no
pleasure
in the death of the
evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he
is turned from his
way and has life: be turned, be turned from
your evil ways; why
are you looking for death, O children of
Israel?
33:12 And you, son of man, say to the children of your
people,
The righteousness of
the upright man will not make him safe in
the day when he does
wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man
will not be the cause
of his fall in the day when he is turned
from his evil-doing;
and the upright man will not have life
because of his
righteousness in the day when he does evil.
33:13 When I say to the upright that life will certainly be
his;
if he puts his faith
in his righteousness and does evil, not
one of his upright
acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil
he has done, death
will overtake him.
33:14 And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly
be
your fate; if he is
turned from his sin and does what is
ordered and right;
33:15 If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back
what is his, and
gives back what he had taken by force, and is
guided by the rules of
life, doing no evil; life will certainly
be his, death will
not overtake him.
33:16 Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in
mind
against him: he has
done what is ordered and right, life will
certainly be his.
33:17 But the children of your people say, The way of the
Lord
is not equal: when it
is they whose way is not equal.
33:18 When the upright man, turning away from his
righteousness,
does evil, death will
overtake him in it.
33:19 And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing,
does what is ordered
and right, he will get life by it.
33:20 And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O
children of Israel, I
will be your judge, giving to everyone
the reward of his
ways.
33:21 Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away
prisoners, in the
tenth month, on the fifth day of the month,
one who had got away
in flight from Jerusalem came to me,
saying, The town has
been taken.
33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the
evening,
before the man who
had got away came to me; and he made my
mouth open, ready for
his coming to me in the morning; and my
mouth was open and I
was no longer without voice.
33:23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
33:24 Son of man, those who are living in these waste places
in
the land of Israel
say, Abraham was but one, and he had land
for his heritage: but
we are a great number; the land is given
to us for our
heritage.
33:25 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has
said: You take your
meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted
up to your images,
and you are takers of life: are you to have
the land for your
heritage?
33:26 You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting
things, everyone
takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have
the land for your
heritage?
33:27 This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has
said, By
my life, truly, those
who are in the waste places will be put
to the sword, and him
who is in the open field I will give to
the beasts for their
food, and those who are in the strong
places and in holes
in the rocks will come to their death by
disease.
33:28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of
wonder,
and the pride of her
strength will come to an end; and the
mountains of Israel
will be made waste so that no one will go
through.
33:29 Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I
have
made the land a waste
and a cause of wonder, because of all the
disgusting things
which they have done,
33:30 And as for you, son of man, the children of your
people
are talking together
about you by the walls and in the doorways
of the houses, saying
to one another, Come now, give ear to the
word which comes from
the Lord.
33:31 And they come to you as my people come, and are seated
before you as my
people, hearing your words but doing them not:
for deceit is in
their mouth and their heart goes after profit
for themselves.
33:32 And truly you are to them like a love song by one who
has
a very pleasing voice
and is an expert player on an instrument:
for they give ear to
your words but do them not.
33:33 And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it
will be clear to them
that a prophet has been among them.
34:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
34:2 Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the
flock
of Israel, and say to
them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the
word of the Lord: A
curse is on the keepers of the flock of
Israel who take the
food for themselves! is it not right for
the keepers to give
the food to the sheep?
34:3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you
put
the fat beasts to
death, but you give the sheep no food.
34:4 You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well
that which was ill;
you have not put bands on the broken or got
back that which had
been sent away or made search for the
wandering ones; and
the strong you have been ruling cruelly.
34:5 And they were wandering in every direction because
there
was no keeper: and
they became food for all the beasts of the
field.
34:6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all
the
mountains and on
every high hill: my sheep went here and there
over all the face of
the earth; and no one was troubled about
them or went in
search of them.
34:7 For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the
word of the Lord:
34:8 By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have
been taken away, and
my sheep became food for all the beasts of
the field, because
there was no keeper, and my keepers did not
go in search of the
sheep, but the keepers took food for
themselves and gave
my sheep no food;
34:9 For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear
to
the word of the Lord;
34:10 This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the
keepers of the flock,
and I will make search and see what they
have done with my
sheep, and will let them be keepers of my
sheep no longer; and
the keepers will no longer get food for
themselves; I will
take my sheep out of their mouths so that
they may not be food
for them.
34:11 For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I,
will
go searching and
looking for my sheep.
34:12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is
among
his wandering sheep,
so I will go looking for my sheep, and
will get them safely
out of all the places where they have been
sent wandering in the
day of clouds and black night.
34:13 And I will take them out from among the peoples, and
get
them together from
the countries, and will take them into their
land; and I will give
them food on the mountains of Israel by
the water-streams and
wherever men are living in the country.
34:14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and
their
safe place will be
the mountains of the high place of Israel:
there they will take
their rest in a good place, and on fat
grass-land they will
take their food on the mountains of
Israel.
34:15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give
them
rest, says the Lord.
34:16 I will go in search of that which had gone wandering
from
the way, and will get
back that which had been sent in flight,
and will put bands on
that which was broken, and give strength
to that which was
ill: but the fat and the strong I will give
up to destruction; I
will give them for their food the
punishment which is
theirs by right.
34:17 And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I
will
be judge between
sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the
he-goats.
34:18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your
food
on good grass-land
while the rest of your grass-land is stamped
down under your feet?
and that after drinking from clear waters
you make the rest of
the waters dirty with your feet?
34:19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has
been stamped on by
your feet, and their drink the water which
has been made dirty
by your feet.
34:20 For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I,
even
I, will be judge
between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.
34:21 Because you have been pushing with side and leg,
pushing
the diseased with
your horns till they were sent away in every
direction;
34:22 I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be
taken away, and I
will be judge between sheep and sheep.
34:23 And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give
them
food, even my servant
David; he will give them food and be
their keeper.
34:24 And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David
their ruler; I the
Lord have said it.
34:25 And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and
will
put an end to evil
beasts through all the land: and they will
be living safely in
the waste land, sleeping in the woods.
34:26 And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will
make the shower come
down at the right time; there will be
showers of blessing.
34:27 And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the
earth will give its
increase, and they will be safe in their
land; and they will
be certain that I am the Lord, when I have
had their yoke broken
and have given them salvation from the
hands of those who
made them servants.
34:28 And their goods will no longer be taken by the
nations,
and they will not
again be food for the beasts of the earth;
but they will be
living safely and no one will be a cause of
fear to them.
34:29 And I will give them planting-places of peace, and
they
will no longer be
wasted from need of food or put to shame by
the nations.
34:30 And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am
with
them, and that they,
the children of Israel, are my people,
says the Lord.
34:31 And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and
I
am your God, says the
Lord.
35:1 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
35:2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and
be a
prophet against it,
35:3 And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I
am
against you, O Mount
Seir, and my hand will be stretched out
against you, and I
will make you a waste and a cause for
wonder.
35:4 I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a
waste;
and you will be
certain that I am the Lord.
35:5 Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have
given up the children
of Israel to the power of the sword in
the time of their
trouble, in the time of the punishment of the
end:
35:6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you
have
been sinning through
blood, blood will come after you.
35:7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a
waste,
cutting off from it
all comings and goings.
35:8 I will make his mountains full of those who have been
put
to death; in your
valleys and in all your water-streams men
will be falling by
the sword.
35:9 I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be
unpeopled: and you
will be certain that I am the Lord.
35:10 Because you have said, The two nations and the two
countries are to be
mine, and we will take them for our
heritage; though the
Lord was there:
35:11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do
to
you as you have done
in your wrath and in your envy, which you
have made clear in
your hate for them; and I will make clear to
you who I am when you
are judged by me.
35:12 And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of
all
the bitter things
which you have said against the mountains of
Israel, saying, They
have been made waste, they are given to us
to take for our
heritage.
35:13 And you have made yourselves great against me with
your
mouths, increasing
your words against me; and it has come to my
ears.
35:14 This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad
over
my land when it was a
waste, so will I do to you:
35:15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom,
even
all of it: and you
will be certain that I am the Lord.
36:1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains
of
Israel, and say, You
mountains of Israel, give ear to the word
of the Lord:
36:2 This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has
said
against you, Aha!
and, The old waste places are our heritage,
we have taken them:
36:3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the
Lord
has said: Because,
even because they have been glad over you
and put you to shame
on every side, because you have become a
heritage for the rest
of the nations, and you are taken up on
the lips of talkers
and in the evil talk of the people:
36:4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to
the
word of the Lord;
this is what the Lord has said to the
mountains and to the
hills, to the streams and to the valleys,
to the unpeopled
wastes and to the towns where no one is
living, from which
the goods have been taken and which have
been put to shame by
the rest of the nations who are round
about:
36:5 For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of
my
bitter feeling I have
said things against the rest of the
nations and against
all Edom, who have taken my land as a
heritage for
themselves with the joy of all their heart, and
with bitter envy of
soul have made attacks on it:
36:6 For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel,
and
say to the mountains
and to the hills, to the streams and to
the valleys, This is
what the Lord has said: Truly, in my
bitter feeling and in
my wrath I have said these things,
because you have
undergone the shame of the nations:
36:7 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an
oath
that the nations
which are round about you are themselves to
undergo the shame
which they have put on you.
36:8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your
branches
and give your fruit
to my people Israel; for they are ready to
come.
36:9 For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you,
and
you will be ploughed
and planted:
36:10 And I will let your numbers be increased, all the
children
of Israel, even all
of them: and the towns will be peopled and
the waste places will
have buildings;
36:11 Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will
have
offspring and be
fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as
you were before, and
will do more for you than at the first:
and you will be
certain that I am the Lord.
36:12 Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men,
even my
people Israel; they
will have you for a heritage and you will
be theirs, and never
again will you take their children from
them.
36:13 This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to
you,
You, O land, are the
destruction of men, causing loss of
children to your
nation;
36:14 For this reason you will no longer take the lives of
men
and will never again
be the cause of loss of children to your
nation, says the
Lord.
36:15 And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to
your
ears, and no longer
will you be looked down on by the peoples,
says the Lord.
36:16 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
36:17 Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in
their land, they made
it unclean by their way and their acts:
their way before me
was as when a woman is unclean at the time
when she is kept
separate.
36:18 So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom
they
had violently put to
death in the land, and because they had
made it unclean with
their images:
36:19 And I sent them in flight among the nations and
wandering
through the
countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for
their way and their
acts.
36:20 And when they came among the nations, wherever they
went,
they made my holy
name unclean, when it was said of them, These
are the people of the
Lord who have gone out from his land.
36:21 But I had pity for my holy name which the children of
Israel had made
unclean wherever they went.
36:22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is
what
the Lord has said: I
am doing this, not because of you, O
children of Israel,
but because of my holy name, which you have
made unclean among
the nations wherever you went.
36:23 And I will make holy my great name which has been made
unclean among the
nations, which you have made unclean among
them; and it will be
clear to the nations that I am the Lord,
says the Lord, when I
make myself holy in you before their
eyes.
36:24 For I will take you out from among the nations, and
get
you together from all
the countries, and take you into your
land.
36:25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be
clean: from all your
unclean ways and from all your images I
will make you clean.
36:26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
in
you: I will take away
the heart of stone from your flesh, and
give you a heart of
flesh.
36:27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be
guided
by my rules, and you
will keep my orders and do them.
36:28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave
to
your fathers; and you
will be to me a people, and I will be to
you a God.
36:29 And I will make you free from all your unclean ways:
and
at my voice the grain
will come up and be increased, and I will
not let you be short
of food.
36:30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field
fuller produce, and
no longer will you be shamed among the
nations for need of
food.
36:31 And at the memory of your evil ways and your
wrongdoings,
you will have bitter
hate for yourselves because of your
evil-doings and your
disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
36:32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let
it be
clear to you, and be
shamed and made low because of your ways,
O children of Israel.
36:33 This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make
you
clean from all your
evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled
and there will be
building on the waste places.
36:34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place
of
being a waste in the
eyes of everyone who went by.
36:35 And they will say, This land which was waste has
become
like the garden of
Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and
wasted and pulled
down are walled and peopled.
36:36 Then the rest of the nations round about you will be
certain that I the
Lord am the builder of the places which were
pulled down and the
planter of that which was waste: I the Lord
have said it, and I
will do it.
36:37 This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel
will again make
prayer to me for this, that I may do it for
them; I will make
them increased with men like a flock.
36:38 Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of
Jerusalem
at her fixed feasts,
so the unpeopled towns will be made full
of men: and they will
be certain that I am the Lord.
37:1 The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out
in
the spirit of the
Lord and put me down in the middle of the
valley; and it was
full of bones;
37:2 And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that
there was a very
great number of them on the face of the wide
valley, and they were
very dry.
37:3 And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these
bones to come to
life? And I made answer, and said, It is for
you to say, O Lord.
37:4 And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones,
and
say to them, O you
dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.
37:5 This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I
will
make breath come into
you so that you may come to life;
37:6 And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on
you,
and put skin over
you, and breath into you, so that you may
have life; and you
will be certain that I am the Lord.
37:7 So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words
there
was a shaking of the
earth, and the bones came together, bone
to bone.
37:8 And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and
flesh
came up, and they
were covered with skin: but there was no
breath in them.
37:9 And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet,
son of man, and say
to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from
the four winds, O
wind, breathing on these dead so that they
may come to life.
37:10 And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came
into
them, and they came
to life and got up on their feet, a very
great army.
37:11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all
the
children of Israel:
and see, they are saying, Our bones have
become dry our hope
is gone, we are cut off completely.
37:12 For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is
what
the Lord has said:
See, I am opening the resting-places of your
dead, and I will make
you come up out of your resting-places, O
my people; and I will
take you into the land of Israel.
37:13 And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my
opening
the resting-places of
your dead and making you come up out of
your resting-places,
O my people.
37:14 And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come
to
life, and I will give
you a rest in your land: and you will be
certain that I the
Lord have said it and have done it, says the
Lord.
37:15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
37:16 And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it,
For
Judah and for the
children of Israel who are in his company:
then take another
stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick
of Ephraim, and all
the children of Israel who are in his
company:
37:17 Then, joining them one to another, make them one
stick, so
that they may be one
in your hand.
37:18 And when the children of your people say to you, Will
you
not make clear to us
what these things have to do with us?
37:19 Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See,
I
am taking the stick
of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of
Israel who are in his company; and I will put
it on the stick of
Judah and make them one stick, and they will
be one in my hand.
37:20 And the sticks with your writing on them will be in
your
hand before their
eyes.
37:21 And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See,
I
am taking the
children of Israel from among the nations where
they have gone, and
will get them together on every side, and
take them into their
land:
37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the
mountains of Israel;
and one king will be king over them all:
and they will no
longer be two nations, and will no longer be
parted into two
kingdoms:
37:23 And they will no longer make themselves unclean with
their
images or with their
hated things or with any of their sins:
but I will give them
salvation from all their turning away in
which they have done
evil, and will make them clean; and they
will be to me a
people, and I will be to them a God.
37:24 And my servant David will be king over them; and they
will
all have one keeper:
and they will be guided by my orders and
will keep my rules
and do them.
37:25 And they will be living in the land which I gave to
Jacob,
my servant, in which
your fathers were living; and they will go
on living there, they
and their children and their children's
children, for ever:
and David, my servant, will be their ruler
for ever.
37:26 And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it
will
be an eternal
agreement with them: and I will have mercy on
them and make their
numbers great, and will put my holy place
among them for ever.
37:27 And my House will be over them; and I will be to them
a
God, and they will be
to me a people.
37:28 And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel
holy am the Lord, when
my holy place is among them for ever.
38:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
38:2 Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the
land of Magog, the
ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a
prophet against him,
38:3 And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am
against
you, O Gog, ruler of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
38:4 And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth
and
make you come out
with all your army, horses and horsemen, all
of them in full
war-dress, a great force with breastplate and
body-cover, all of
them armed with swords:
38:5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with
body-cover and metal
head-dress:
38:6 Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the
inmost parts of the
north, with all his forces: a great number
of peoples with you.
38:7 Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces
who
are with you, and be
ready for my orders.
38:8 After a long time you will get your orders: in the last
years you will come
into the land which has been given back
from the sword, which
has been got together out of a great
number of peoples, on
the mountains of Israel which have ever
been a waste: but it
has been taken out from the peoples and
they will be living,
all of them, without fear of danger.
38:9 And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you
will be
like a cloud covering
the land, you and all your forces, and a
great number of
peoples with you.
38:10 This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will
come
about that things
will come into your mind, and you will have
thoughts of an evil
design:
38:11 And you will say, I will go up to the land of small
unwalled towns; I
will go to those who are quiet, living, all
of them, without fear
of danger, without walls or locks or
doors:
38:12 To take their property by force and go off with their
goods; turning your
hand against the waste places which now are
peopled, and against
the people who have been got together out
of the nations, who
have got cattle and goods for themselves,
who are living in the
middle of the earth.
38:13 Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all
her
traders, will say to
you, Have you come to take our goods? have
you got your armies together
to take away our property by
force? to take away
silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go
off with great
wealth?
38:14 For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to
Gog,
These are the words
of the Lord: In that day, when my people
Israel are living
without fear of danger, will you not be moved
against them?
38:15 And you will come from your place in the inmost parts
of
the north, you and a
great number of peoples with you, all of
them on horseback, a
great force and a strong army:
38:16 And you will come up against my people Israel, like a
cloud covering the
land; and it will come about, in the last
days, that I will
make you come against my land, so that the
nations may have
knowledge of me when I make myself holy in
you, O Gog, before
their eyes.
38:17 This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I
gave
them word in earlier
times by my servants, the prophets of
Israel, who in those
days went on saying, year after year, that
I would make you come
up against them.
38:18 And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up
against the land of
Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will
come up, and my
passion and my bitter feeling.
38:19 For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in
that
day there will be a
great shaking in the land of Israel;
38:20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven
and
the beasts of the
field and everything moving on the earth, and
all the men who are
on the face of the earth, will be shaking
before me, and the
mountains will be overturned and the high
places will come
down, and every wall will come falling down to
the earth.
38:21 And I will send to all my mountains for a sword
against
him, says the Lord:
every man's sword will be against his
brother.
38:22 And I will take up my cause against him with disease
and
with blood; and I
will send down on him and on his forces and
on the peoples who
are with him, an overflowing shower and
great ice-drops,
fire, and burning.
38:23 And I will make my name great and make myself holy,
and I
will make myself
clear to a number of nations; and they will be
certain that I am the
Lord.
39:1 And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say,
These are the words
of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog,
ruler of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal:
39:2 And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make
you
come up from the
inmost parts of the north; I will make you
come on to the
mountains of Israel:
39:3 And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand
and your arrows
falling from your right hand.
39:4 On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and
all
your forces and the
peoples who are with you: I will give you
to cruel birds of
every sort and to the beasts of the field to
be their food.
39:5 You will come down in the open field: for I have said
it,
says the Lord.
39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are
living in the
sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain
that I am the Lord.
39:7 And I will make clear my holy name among my people
Israel;
I will no longer let
my holy name be made unclean: and the
nations will be
certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in
Israel.
39:8 See, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord;
this
is the day of which I
have given word.
39:9 And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go
out
and make fires of the
instruments of war, burning the
body-covers and the
breastplates, the bows and the arrows and
the sticks and the
spears, and for seven years they will make
fires of them:
39:10 And they will take no wood out of the field or have
any
cut down in the
woods; for they will make their fires of the
instruments of war:
and they will take by force the property of
those who took their
property, and go off with the goods of
those who took their
goods, says the Lord.
39:11 And it will come about in those days, that I will give
to
Gog a last
resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of
Abarim on the east of
the sea: and those who go through will be
stopped: and there
Gog and all his people will be put to rest,
and the place will be
named, The valley of Hamon-gog.
39:12 And the children of Israel will be seven months
putting
them in the earth, so
as to make the land clean.
39:13 And all the people of the land will put them in the
earth;
and it will be to
their honour in the day when I let my glory
be seen, says the
Lord.
39:14 And they will put on one side men to do no other work
but
to go through the
land and put in the earth the rest of those
who are still on the
face of the land, to make it clean: after
seven months are
ended they are to make a search.
39:15 And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a
man's
bone, he is to put up
a sign by the place till those who are
doing the work have
put it in the earth in the valley of
Hamon-gog.
39:16 And there they will put all the army of Gog in the
earth.
So they will make the
land clean.
39:17 And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said:
Say
to the birds of every
sort and to all the beasts of the field,
Get together and
come; come together on every side to the
offering which I am
putting to death for you, a great offering
on the mountains of
Israel, so that you may have flesh for your
food and blood for
your drink.
39:18 The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and
your
drink the blood of
the princes of the earth, of sheep and
lambs, of he-goats,
of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.
39:19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full,
and
drinking the blood
till you are overcome with it, of my
offering which I have
put to death for you.
39:20 At my table you will have food in full measure, horses
and
war-carriages, great
men and all the men of war, says the Lord.
39:21 And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the
nations will see my
punishments which I have put into effect,
and my hand which I
have put on them.
39:22 So the children of Israel will be certain that I am
the
Lord their God, from
that day and for the future.
39:23 And it will be clear to the nations that the children
of
Israel were taken
away prisoners for their evil-doing; because
they did wrong
against me, and my face was covered from them:
so I gave them up
into the hands of their attackers, and they
all came to their end
by the sword.
39:24 In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins,
so I
did to them; and I
kept my face covered from them.
39:25 For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the
fate
of Jacob be changed,
and I will have mercy on all the children
of Israel, and will
take care of the honour of my holy name.
39:26 And they will be conscious of their shame and of all
the
wrong which they have
done against me, when they are living in
their land with no
sense of danger and with no one to be a
cause of fear to
them;
39:27 When I have taken them back from among the peoples and
got
them together out of
the lands of their haters, and have made
myself holy in them
before the eyes of a great number of
nations.
39:28 And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God,
because I sent them
away as prisoners among the nations, and
have taken them
together back to their land; and I have not let
one of them be there
any longer.
39:29 And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I
have sent the
out-flowing of my spirit on the children of
Israel, says the
Lord.
40:1 In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away
prisoners, in the
first month of the year, on the tenth day of
the month, in the
fourteenth year after the town was taken, on
the very same day,
the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took
me there.
40:2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of
Israel,
and put me down on a
very high mountain, on which there was, as
it seemed, a building
like a town opposite me.
40:3 He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass,
with
a linen cord in his
hand and a measuring rod: and he was
stationed in the doorway.
40:4 And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes
and
give hearing with
your ears, and take to heart everything I am
going to let you see;
for in order that I might let you see
them, you have come
here: and give an account of all you see to
the children of
Israel.
40:5 And there was a wall on the outside of the house all
round,
and in the man's hand
there was a measuring rod six cubits long
by a cubit and a
hand's measure: so he took the measure of the
building from side to
side, one rod; and from base to top, one
rod.
40:6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and
went
up by its steps; and
he took the measure of the doorstep, one
rod wide.
40:7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod
wide; and the space between
the rooms was five cubits; the
doorstep of the
doorway, by the covered way of the doorway
inside, was one rod.
40:8 And he took the measure of the covered way of the
doorway
inside,
40:9 Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered
way
of the doorway was
inside.
40:10 And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on
this side and three
on that; all three were of the same size;
and the uprights on
this side and on that were of the same
size.
40:11 And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway,
ten
cubits wide; and the
way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;
40:12 And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this
side
and a cubit on that
side; and the rooms six cubits on this side
and six cubits on
that.
40:13 And he took the measure of the doorway from the back
of
one room to the back
of the other, twenty-five cubits across,
from door to door.
40:14 And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty
cubits;
and opening from the
covered way of the doorway was the open
square round about.
40:15 And from before the opening of the doorway to before
the
inner covered way of
the doorway was fifty cubits.
40:16 And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows
inside the doorway
all round, and in the same way the covered
way had windows all
round on the inside: and on every upright
there were
palm-trees.
40:17 Then he took me into the outer square, and there were
rooms and a stone
floor made for the open square all round:
there were thirty
rooms on the stone floor.
40:18 And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways,
and
was as wide as the
doorways were long, even the lower floor.
40:19 Then he took the measure of the square across, from
before
the lower doorway
inside to before the inner doorway outside,
one hundred cubits.
And he took me in the direction of the
north,
40:20 And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking
to
the north; and he
took the measure of it to see how wide and
how long it was.
40:21 And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on
that; its uprights
and its covered ways were the same size as
those of the first
doorway: it was fifty cubits long and
twenty-five cubits
wide.
40:22 And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways,
and
its palm-trees, were
the same as those of the doorway looking
to the east; and
there were seven steps up to it; and the
covered way went
inside.
40:23 And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite
the
doorway on the north,
like the doorway on the east; and he took
the measure from
doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.
40:24 And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway
looking
to the south: and he
took the measure of its rooms and its
uprights and its
covered ways by these measures.
40:25 And there were windows in it and in the covered way
all
round, like the other
windows: it was fifty cubits long and
twenty-five cubits
wide.
40:26 And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered
way
went inside: and it
had palm-trees, one on this side and one on
that, on its
uprights.
40:27 And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to
the
south: he took the
measure from doorway to doorway to the
south, a hundred
cubits.
40:28 Then he took me to the inner square by the south
doorway:
and he took the
measure of the south doorway by these measures;
40:29 And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered
ways,
by these measures:
40:30 And there were windows in it and in the covered way
all
round: it was fifty
cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
40:31 The covered way was on the side nearest the outer
square;
and there were
palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight
steps going up to it.
40:32 And he took me into the inner square facing the east:
and
he took the measure
of the doorway by these measures;
40:33 And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its
covered
ways, by these
measures: and there were windows in it and in
the covered way round
about: it was fifty cubits long and
twenty-five cubits
wide.
40:34 And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer
square; there were
palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and
on that: and there
were eight steps going up to it.
40:35 And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the
measure of it by
these measures;
40:36 Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the
same
measures, and its
covered way had windows all round: it was
fifty cubits long and
twenty-five cubits wide.
40:37 Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer
square;
there were palm-trees
on the uprights, on this side and on
that: and there were
eight steps going up to it.
40:38 And there was a room with a door in the covered way of
the
doorway, where the
burned offering was washed.
40:39 And in the covered way of the doorway there were two
tables on this side
and two tables on that side, on which the
burned offering and
the sin-offering and the offering for error
were put to death:
40:40 On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the
opening of the
doorway, were two tables.
40:41 There were four tables on one side and four tables on
the
other, by the side of
the doorway; eight tables, on which they
put to death the
beasts for the offerings.
40:42 And there were four tables for the burned offering,
made
of cut stone, one and
a half cubits long, one and a half cubits
wide and a cubit
high, where the instruments were placed which
were used for putting
to death the burned offering and the
beasts for the
offerings.
40:43 And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand:
and
on the tables was the
flesh of the offerings.
40:44 And he took me into the inner square, and there were
two
rooms in the inner
square, one at the side of the north
doorway, facing
south; and one at the side of the south
doorway, facing
north.
40:45 And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the
priests who have the
care of the house.
40:46 And the room facing north is for the priests who have
the
care of the altar:
these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among
the sons of Levi,
come near to the Lord to do the work of his
house.
40:47 And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred
cubits long and a
hundred cubits wide, being square; and the
altar was in front of
the house.
40:48 Then he took me to the covered way before the house,
and
took the measure of
its uprights, five cubits on one side and
five cubits on the
other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits
wide; and the
side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on
one side and three
cubits on the other.
40:49 The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve
cubits
wide, and they went
up to it by ten steps; and there were
pillars by the
uprights, one on one side and one on the other.
41:1 And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of
the
uprights, six cubits
wide on one side and six cubits wide on
the other.
41:2 And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side
walls of the
door-opening were five cubits on one side and five
cubits on the other:
and it was forty cubits long and twenty
cubits wide.
41:3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights
of
the door-opening, two
cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits;
and the side-walls of
the door-opening were seven cubits on one
side and seven cubits
on the other.
41:4 And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty
cubits wide in front
of the Temple: and he said to me, This is
the most holy place.
41:5 Then he took the measure of the wall of the house,
which
was six cubits; and
of the side-rooms round the house, which
were four cubits
wide.
41:6 And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times
thirty; there were
inlets in the wall of the house for the
side-rooms round
about, for supports in the wall of the house.
41:7 The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the
house, by the amount
of the space let into the wall up round
about the house,
because of the inlets in the house; and one
went up from the
lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from
the middle to the
upper floor.
41:8 And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round;
the
bases of the
side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits
high.
41:9 The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was
five
cubits thick: and
there was a free space of five cubits between
the side-rooms of the
house.
41:10 And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide
all
round the house.
41:11 And the free space had doors opening from the
side-rooms,
one door on the north
and one door on the south: and the free
space was five cubits
wide all round.
41:12 And the building which was in front of the separate
place
at the side to the
west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of
the building was five
cubits thick all round and ninety cubits
long.
41:13 And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred
cubits long; and the
separate place and the building with its
walls was a hundred
cubits long;
41:14 And the east front of the house and of the separate
place
was a hundred cubits
wide.
41:15 And he took the measure of the building in front of
the
separate place which
was at the back of it, and the pillared
walks on one side and
on the other side; they were a hundred
cubits long; and the
Temple and the inner part and its outer
covered way were
covered in;
41:16 And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all
three of them were of
shakiph-wood all round from the level of
the earth up to the
windows;
41:17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as
the
inner house, and to
the outside and on the wall all round,
inside and outside.
41:18 And it had pictured forms of winged beings and
palm-trees;
a palm-tree between
two winged ones, and every winged one had
two faces;
41:19 So that there was the face of a man turned to the
palm-tree on one
side, and the face of a young lion on the
other side: so it was
made all round the house.
41:20 From earth level up to the windows there were winged
ones
and palm-trees
pictured on the wall.
41:21 ...
41:22 The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high
and
two cubits long; it
had angles, and its base and sides were of
wood; and he said to
me, This is the table which is before the
Lord.
41:23 The Temple had two doors.
41:24 And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had
two
turning leaves, two
for one and two for the other.
41:25 And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees,
as
on the walls; and a
... of wood was on the front of the covered
way outside.
41:26 And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one
side
and on the other, on
the sides of the covered way: and the
side-rooms of the
house and the ...
42:1 And he took me out into the inner square in the
direction
of the north: and he
took me into the rooms which were opposite
the separate place
and opposite the building to the north.
42:2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and
fifty
cubits wide,
42:3 Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of
the
inner square, and
opposite the stone floor of the outer square.
There were covered
ways facing one another on the third floor.
42:4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide
and a
hundred cubits long;
and their doors were facing north.
42:5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways
took up more space
from these than from the lower and middle
rooms.
42:6 For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars
like
the pillars of the
outer square; so the highest was narrower
than the lowest and
middle floors from the earth level.
42:7 And the wall which went outside by the side of the
rooms,
in the direction of
the outer square in front of the rooms, was
fifty cubits long.
42:8 For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits
long:
and in front of the
Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.
42:9 And under these rooms was the way in from the east
side, as
one goes into them
from the outer square at the head of the
outer wall.
42:10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the
separate place and in
front of the building there were rooms.
42:11 And there was a walk in front of them like that by the
rooms on the north;
they were equally long and wide; and the
ways out of them were
the same in design and had the same sort
of doors.
42:12 And under the rooms on the south was a door at the
head of
the outer wall in the
direction of the east as one goes in.
42:13 And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms
in
front of the separate
place are the holy rooms, where the
priests who come near
the Lord take the most holy things for
their food: there the
most holy things are placed, with the
meal offering and the
sin-offering and the offering for error;
for the place is
holy.
42:14 When the priests go in, they may not go out of the
holy
place into the outer
square, and there they are to put the
robes in which they
do the work of the Lord's house, for they
are holy: and they
have to put on other clothing before they
come near that which
has to do with the people.
42:15 And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner
house, he took me out
to the doorway looking to the east, and
took its measure all
round.
42:16 He went round and took the measure of it on the east
side
with the measuring
rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all
round.
42:17 And he went round and took the measure of it on the
north
side with the
measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the
rod all round.
42:18 And he went round and took the measure of it on the
south
side with the
measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the
rod all round.
42:19 And he went round and took the measure of it on the
west
side with the
measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the
rod all round.
42:20 He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a
wall
all round, five
hundred long and five hundred wide, separating
what was holy from
what was common.
43:1 And he took me to the doorway looking to the east:
43:2 And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming
from
the way of the east:
and his voice was like the sound of great
waters, and the earth
was shining with his glory.
43:3 And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had
seen
when he came for the
destruction of the town: and like the
vision which I saw by
the river Chebar; and I went down on my
face.
43:4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the
way of
the doorway looking
to the east.
43:5 And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner
square; and I saw
that the house was full of the glory of the
Lord.
43:6 And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from
inside the house; and
the man was by my side.
43:7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where
the
seat of my power is
and the resting-place of my feet, where I
will be among the
children of Israel for ever: and no longer
will the people of
Israel make my holy name unclean, they or
their kings, by their
loose ways and by the dead bodies of
their kings;
43:8 By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the
pillar of
their door by the
pillar of my door, with only a wall between
me and them; and they
have made my holy name unclean by the
disgusting things
which they have done: so in my wrath I sent
destruction on them.
43:9 Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies
of
their kings far from
me, and I will be among them for ever.
43:10 You, son of man, give the children of Israel an
account of
this house, so that
they may be shamed because of their
evil-doing: and let
them see the vision of it and its image.
43:11 And they will be shamed by what they have done; so
give
them the knowledge of
the form of the house and its structure,
and the ways out of
it and into it, and all its laws and its
rules, writing it
down for them: so that they may keep all its
laws and do them.
43:12 This is the law of the house: On the top of the
mountain
all the space round
it on every side will be most holy. See,
this is the law of
the house.
43:13 And these are the measures of the altar in cubits:
(the
cubit being a cubit
and a hand's measure;) its hollow base is a
cubit high and a
cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as
wide as a
hand-stretch all round it:
43:14 And from the base on the earth level to the lower
shelf,
the altar is two
cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the
smaller shelf to the
greater shelf it is four cubits high and a
cubit wide.
43:15 And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up
from
the fireplace are the
horns, a cubit high.
43:16 And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve
cubits
wide, square on its
four sides.
43:17 And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen
cubits
wide, on its four
sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the
base of it is a cubit
all round, and its steps are facing the
east.
43:18 And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said,
These are the rules
for the altar, when they make it, for the
offering of burned
offerings on it and the draining out of the
blood.
43:19 You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the
seed of
Zadok, who come near
to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a
young ox for a
sin-offering.
43:20 You are to take some of its blood and put it on the
four
horns and on the four
angles of the shelf and on the edge all
round: and you are to
make it clean and free from sin.
43:21 And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and
have
it burned in the
special place ordered for it in the house,
outside the holy
place.
43:22 And on the second day you are to have a he-goat
without
any mark on it
offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make
the altar clean as
they did with the young ox.
43:23 And after you have made it clean, let a young ox
without a
mark be offered, and
a male sheep from the flock without a
mark.
43:24 And you are to take them before the Lord, and the
priests
will put salt on
them, offering them up for a burned offering
to the Lord.
43:25 Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a
sin-offering: and let
them give in addition a young ox and a
male sheep from the
flock without any mark on them.
43:26 For seven days they are to make offerings to take away
sin
from the altar and to
make it clean; so they are to make it
holy.
43:27 And when these days have come to an end, then on the
eighth day and after,
the priests will make your burned
offerings on the
altar and your peace-offerings; and I will
take pleasure in you,
says the Lord.
44:1 And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy
place,
looking to the east;
and it was shut.
44:2 And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it
is
not to be open, and
no man is to go in by it, because the Lord,
the God of Israel,
has gone in by it; and it is to be shut.
44:3 But the ruler will be seated there to take his food
before
the Lord; he will go
in by the covered way to the door, and
will come out by the
same way.
44:4 And he took me to the north doorway in front of the
house;
and, looking, I saw
that the house of the Lord was full of the
glory of the Lord;
and I went down on my face.
44:5 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and
let
your eyes see and
your ears be open to everything I say to you
about all the rules
of the house of the Lord and all its laws;
and take note of the
ways into the house and all the ways out
of the holy place.
44:6 And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is
what the Lord has
said: O you children of Israel, let it be
enough for you, among
the disgusting things which you have
done,
44:7 To have let men from strange lands, without
circumcision of
heart or flesh, come
into my holy place, making my house
unclean; and to have
made the offering of my food, even the fat
and the blood; and in
addition to all your disgusting ways, you
have let my agreement
be broken.
44:8 And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you
have
put them as keepers
to take care of my work in my holy place.
44:9 For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange
land, without
circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who
are living among the
children of Israel, is to come into my
holy place.
44:10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when
Israel
went out of the right
way, turning away from me to go after
their images; their
punishment will come on them.
44:11 But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and
overseers
at the doors of the
house, doing the work of the house: they
will put to death the
burned offering and the beasts offered
for the people, and
they will take their place before them as
their servants.
44:12 Because they did this work for them before their
images,
and became a cause of
sin to the children of Israel; for this
cause my hand has
been lifted up against them, says the Lord,
and their punishment
will be on them.
44:13 And they will not come near me to do the work of
priests
to me, or come near
any of my holy things, or the things which
are most holy: but
their shame will be on them, and the
punishment for the
disgusting things which they have done.
44:14 But I will make them responsible for the care of the
house
and all its work and
everything which is done in it.
44:15 But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took
care
of my holy place when
the children of Israel were turned away
from me, they are to
come near me to do my work, they will take
their places before
me, offering to me the fat and the blood,
says the Lord;
44:16 They are to come into my holy place and they are to
come
near to my table, to
do my work and have the care of my house.
44:17 And when they come in by the doorways of the inner
square,
they are to be
clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool
on them while they
are doing my work in the doorway of the
inner square and
inside the house.
44:18 They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and
linen trousers on
their legs, and they are to have nothing
round them to make
their skin wet with heat.
44:19 And when they go out into the outer square to the
people,
they are to take off
the robes in which they do the work of
priests, and put them
away in the holy rooms, and put on other
clothing, so that the
people may not be made holy by their
robes.
44:20 They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads,
and
they are not to let
their hair get long, but they are to have
the ends of their
hair cut.
44:21 The priests are not to take wine when they go into the
inner square.
44:22 And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman
whose
husband has put her
away: but they may take virgins of the seed
of Israel, or a widow
who is the widow of a priest.
44:23 And they are to make clear to my people the division
between what is holy
and what is common, and to give them the
knowledge of what is
clean and what is unclean.
44:24 In any cause, they are to be in the position of
judges,
judging in harmony
with my decisions: they are to keep my laws
and my rules in all
my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my
Sabbaths holy.
44:25 They are not to come near any dead person so as to
become
unclean: but for a
father or mother or son or daughter or
brother or for a
sister who has no husband, they may make
themselves unclean.
44:26 And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be
numbered for him.
44:27 And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to
do
the work of the holy
place, he is to make his sin-offering,
says the Lord.
44:28 And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage:
you
are to give them no
property in Israel; I am their property.
44:29 Their food is to be the meal offering and the
sin-offering
and the offering for
error; and everything given specially to
the Lord in Israel
will be theirs.
44:30 And the best of all the first-fruits of everything,
and
every offering which
is lifted up of all your offerings, will
be for the priests:
and you are to give the priest the first of
your bread-making, so
causing a blessing to come on your house.
44:31 The priests may not take for food any bird or beast
which
has come to a natural
death or whose death has been caused by
another animal.
45:1 And when you are making a distribution of the land, by
the
decision of the Lord,
for your heritage, you are to make an
offering to the Lord
of a part of the land as holy: it is to be
twenty-five thousand
long and twenty thousand wide: all the
land inside these
limits is to be holy.
45:2 Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred
wide
is to be for the holy
place, with a space of fifty cubits all
round it.
45:3 And of this measure, let a space be measured,
twenty-five
thousand long and ten
thousand wide: in it there will be the
holy place, even the
most holy.
45:4 This holy part of the land is to be for the priests,
the
servants of the holy
place, who come near to the Lord to do his
work; it is to be a
place for their houses and for grass-land
and for cattle.
45:5 A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten
thousand
wide is to be for the
Levites, the servants of the house, a
property for
themselves, for towns for their living-places.
45:6 And as the property for the town you are to have a part
five thousand wide
and twenty-five thousand long, by the side
of the offering of
the holy part of the land: this is to be for
all the children of
Israel.
45:7 And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and
on
the other side of the
holy offering and of the property of the
town, in front of the
holy offering and in front of the
property of the town
on the west of it and on the east:
measured in the same
line as one of the parts of the land, from
its limit on the west
to its limit on the east of the land.
45:8 And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers
will
no longer be cruel
masters to my people; but they will give the
land as a heritage to
the children of Israel by their tribes.
45:9 This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for
you,
O rulers of Israel:
let there be an end of violent behaviour
and wasting; do what
is right, judging uprightly; let there be
no more driving out
of my people, says the Lord.
45:10 Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
45:11 The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure,
so
that the bath is
equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to
a tenth of a homer:
the unit of measure is to be a homer.
45:12 And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels
are
five, and ten shekels
are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty
shekels
45:13 This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an
ephah
out of a homer of
wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer
of barley;
45:14 And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a
bath
from the cor, for ten
baths make up the cor;
45:15 And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred,
from
all the families of
Israel, for a meal offering and for a
burned offering and
for peace-offerings, to take away their
sin, says the Lord.
45:16 All the people are to give this offering to the ruler.
45:17 And the ruler will be responsible for the burned
offering
and the meal offering
and the drink offering, at the feasts and
the new moons and the
Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the
children of Israel:
he will give the sin-offering and meal
offering and burned
offering and the peace-offerings, to take
away the sin of the
children of Israel.
45:18 This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on
the
first day of the
month, you are to take a young ox without any
mark on him, and you
are to make the holy place clean.
45:19 And the priest is to take some of the blood of the
sin-offering and put
it on the uprights at the sides of the
doors of the house,
and on the four angles of the shelf of the
altar, and on the
sides of the doorway of the inner square.
45:20 And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month
for
everyone who is in
error and for the feeble-minded: you are to
make the house free
from sin.
45:21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month,
you are to have the
Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened
bread is to be your
food.
45:22 And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and
for
all the people of the
land an ox for a sin-offering.
45:23 And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a
burned
offering to the Lord,
seven oxen and seven sheep without any
mark on them, every
day for seven days; and a he-goat every day
for a sin-offering.
45:24 And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every
ox
and an ephah for
every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah.
45:25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the
month,
at the feast, he is
to give the same for seven days; the
sin-offering, the
burned offering, the meal offering, and the
oil as before.
46:1 This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the
inner
square looking to the
east is to be shut on the six working
days; but on the
Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of
the new moon it is to
be open.
46:2 And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of
the
outer doorway
outside, and take his place by the pillar of the
doorway, and the
priests will make his burned offering and his
peace-offerings and
he will give worship at the doorstep of the
doorway; then he will
go out, and the door will not be shut
till the evening.
46:3 And the people of the land are to give worship at the
door
of that doorway
before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new
moons.
46:4 And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the
ruler on
the Sabbath day is to
be six lambs without a mark on them and a
male sheep without a
mark;
46:5 And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep,
and
for the lambs
whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to
an ephah.
46:6 And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox
of
the herd without a
mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep,
all without a mark:
46:7 And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox
and
an ephah for the
sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able
to give, and a hin of
oil to an ephah.
46:8 And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the
covered way of the
doorway, and he is to go out by the same
way.
46:9 But when the people of the land come before the Lord at
the
fixed feasts, he who
comes in by the north doorway to give
worship is to go out
by the south doorway; and he who comes in
by the south doorway
is to go out by the north doorway: he is
not to come back by
the doorway through which he went in, but
is to go straight
before him.
46:10 And the ruler, when they come in, is to come among
them,
and is to go out when
they go out.
46:11 At the feasts and the fixed meetings the meal
offerings
are to be an ephah
for an ox, and an ephah for a male sheep,
and for the lambs
whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil
to an ephah.
46:12 And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned
offering or a
peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the
doorway looking to
the east is to be made open for him, and he
is to make his burned
offering and his peace-offerings as he
does on the Sabbath
day: and he will go out; and the door will
be shut after he has
gone out.
46:13 And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark
on
it for a burned
offering to the Lord every day: morning by
morning you are to
give it.
46:14 And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal
offering
with it, a sixth of
an ephah and a third of a hin of oil
dropped on the best
meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord
at all times by an
eternal order.
46:15 And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering
and
the oil, morning by
morning, for a burned offering at all
times.
46:16 This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a
property to any of
his sons, it is his heritage and will be the
property of his sons;
it is theirs for their heritage.
46:17 And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his
servants, it will be
his till the year of making free, and then
it will go back to
the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and
is to be theirs.
46:18 And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of
the
people, driving them
out of their property; he is to give a
heritage to his sons
out of the property which is his: so that
my people may not be
sent away from their property.
46:19 And he took me through by the way in at the side of
the
doorway into the holy
rooms which are the priests', looking to
the north: and I saw
a place at the side of them to the west.
46:20 And he said to me, This is the place where the
offering
for error and the
sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the
priests, and where
the meal offering is to be cooked in the
oven; so that they
may not be taken out into the outer square
to make the people
holy.
46:21 And he took me out into the outer square and made me
go by
the four angles of
the square; and I saw that in every angle of
the open square there
was a space shut in.
46:22 In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty
cubits long and thirty
wide; the four were of the same size.
46:23 And there was a line of wall all round inside them,
round
all four, and
boiling-places were made under it all round
about.
46:24 And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where
the
offering of the people
is cooked by the servants of the house.
47:1 And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw
that waters were
flowing out from under the doorstep of the
house on the east,
for the house was facing east: and the
waters came down from
under, from the right side of the house,
on the south side of
the altar.
47:2 And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go
round to the outside
of the doorway looking to the east; and I
saw waters running
slowly out on the south side.
47:3 And the man went out to the east with the line in his
hand,
and after measuring a
thousand cubits, he made me go through
the waters, which
came over my feet.
47:4 And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go
through the waters
which came up to my knees. Again, measuring
a thousand, he made
me go through the waters up to the middle
of my body.
47:5 Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a
river
which it was not
possible to go through: for the waters had
become deep enough
for swimming, a river it was not possible to
go through.
47:6 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then
he
took me to the
river's edge.
47:7 And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river
a
very great number of
trees on this side and on that.
47:8 And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the
east
part of the land and
down into the Arabah; and they will go to
the sea, and the
waters will be made sweet.
47:9 And it will come about that every living and moving
thing,
wherever their streams
come, will have life; and there will be
very much fish
because these waters have come there and have
been made sweet: and
everything wherever the river comes will
have life.
47:10 And fishermen will take up their places by it: from
En-gedi as far as
En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching
out of nets; the fish
will be of every sort, like the fish of
the Great Sea, a very
great number.
47:11 The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet;
they
will be given up to
salt.
47:12 And by the edge of the river, on this side and on
that,
will come up every
tree used for food, whose leaves will ever
be green and its
fruit will not come to an end: it will have
new fruit every
month, because its waters come out from the
holy place: the fruit
will be for food and the leaf will make
well those who are
ill.
47:13 This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits
by
which you will take
up your heritage in the land among the
twelve tribes of
Israel: Joseph is to have two parts.
47:14 And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave
my
oath to your fathers
to give it to you: for this land is to be
your heritage.
47:15 And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north
side, from the Great
Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far
as the way into
Hamath;
47:16 To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the
limit of
Damascus and the
limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit
of Hauran.
47:17 And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of
Hazar-enon; and the
limit of Damascus is to the north, and on
the north is the
limit of Hamath. This is the north side.
47:18 And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is
between Hauran and
Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of
Israel the Jordan
will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar.
This is the east
side.
47:19 And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as
far
as the waters of
Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to
the Great Sea. This
is the south side, on the south.
47:20 And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the
limit on
the south to a point
opposite the way into Hamath. This is the
west side.
47:21 You will make a division of the land among you, tribe
by
tribe.
47:22 And you are to make a distribution of it, by the
decision
of the Lord, for a
heritage to you and to the men from other
lands who are living
among you and who have children in your
land: they will be
the same to you as if they were Israelites
by birth, they will
have their heritage with you among the
tribes of Israel.
47:23 In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is
living,
there you are to give
him his heritage, says the Lord.
48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north
end,
from the west on the
way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in
the direction of
Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the
north, by Hamath; and
on the limit from the east side to the
west side: Dan, one
part.
48:2 And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west
side: Asher, one
part.
48:3 And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the
west
side: Naphtali, one
part.
48:4 And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the
west side: Manasseh,
one part.
48:5 And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the
west side: Ephraim,
one part.
48:6 And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the
west
side: Reuben, one
part.
48:7 And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the
west
side: Judah, one
part.
48:8 And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the
west
side, will be the
offering which you are to make, twenty-five
thousand wide, and as
long as one of the parts, from the east
side to the west
side: and the holy place will be in the middle
of it.
48:9 The offering you will give to the Lord is to be
twenty-five
thousand long and
twenty-five thousand wide.
48:10 And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering
is
to be twenty-five
thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide
to the west, ten
thousand wide to the east and twenty-five
thousand long to the
south; and the holy place of the Lord will
be in the middle of
it.
48:11 For the priests who have been made holy, those of the
sons
of Zadok who kept the
orders I gave them, who did not go out of
the right way when
the children of Israel went from the way, as
the Levites did,
48:12 Even for them will be the offering from the offering
of
the land, a thing
most holy, on the limit of the land given to
the Levites.
48:13 And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal
to
the limit of the
priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten
thousand wide, all of
it together to be twenty-five thousand
long and twenty
thousand wide.
48:14 And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or
give
it in exchange; and
the part of the land given to the Lord is
not to go into other
hands: for it is holy to the Lord.
48:15 And the other five thousand, measured from side to
side,
in front of the
twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use,
for the town, for
living in and for a free space: and the town
will be in the middle
of it.
48:16 And these will be its measures: the north side, four
thousand five
hundred, and the south side, four thousand five
hundred, and on the
east side, four thousand five hundred, and
on the west side,
four thousand five hundred.
48:17 And the town will have a free space on the north of
two
hundred and fifty, on
the south of two hundred and fifty, on
the east of two
hundred and fifty, and on the west of two
hundred and fifty.
48:18 And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering,
will be ten thousand
to the east and ten thousand to the west:
and its produce will
be for food for the workers of the town.
48:19 It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the
tribes of Israel.
48:20 The size of the offering all together is to be
twenty-five
thousand by
twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy
offering a square,
together with the property of the town.
48:21 And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and
on
that side of the holy
offering and of the property of the town,
in front of the
twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the
east limit, and to
the west, in front of the twenty-five
thousand, as far as
the west limit, and of the same measure as
those parts; it will
be the property of the prince: and the
holy offering and
holy place of the house will be in the middle
of it.
48:22 And the property of the Levites and the property of
the
town will be in the
middle of the prince's property; between
the limit of Judah's
part and the limit of Benjamin's part will
be for the prince.
48:23 And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side
to
the west side:
Benjamin, one part.
48:24 And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to
the
west side: Simeon,
one part.
48:25 And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the
west
side: Issachar, one
part.
48:26 And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to
the
west side: Zebulun,
one part.
48:27 And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the
west side: Gad one
part.
48:28 And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the
south of it, the
limit will be from Tamar to the waters of
Meribath-kadesh, to
the stream, to the Great Sea.
48:29 This is the land of which distribution is to be made
by
the decision of the
Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their
heritage, and these
are their heritages, says the Lord.
48:30 And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north
side, four thousand
five hundred by measure;
48:31 And the doors of the town are to be named by the names
of
the tribes of Israel;
three doors on the north, one for Reuben,
one for Judah, one
for Levi;
48:32 And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by
measure, and three
doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one
for Dan;
48:33 And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by
measure, and three
doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one
for Zebulun;
48:34 At the west side, four thousand five hundred by
measure,
with their three
doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for
Naphtali.
48:35 It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name
of
the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.