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Lamsa OT - Ezekiel

 

"1 ¶ NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2 On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, 3 The word of the LORD carne to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon me."

"4 ¶ And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud, and a flaming fire and a brightness was round about it, and out of the midst of it there came as it were a figure out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their legs were straight; and the soles of their feet were like the soles of a calf’s feet; and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass. 8 And they had human hands under their wings on their four sides; and their faces and their wings were on their four sides. 9 Their wings were joined one to another; and when they went, they went straight forward; they turned not when they went. 10 And as for the likeness of their faces, each of the four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side; and each of the four had the face of an ox and the face of an eagle on the left side. 11 And their faces and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of each creature were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And they went every one straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of a lamp going to and fro among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran, but returned not, and their appearance was like a flash of lightning."

"15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold wheels were upon the earth by the side of each of the four living creatures. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of a beryl; and they four had the one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon four sides; and they turned not when they went; and wherever the first one turned to go, the other went after it, and turned not. 18 As for their rims, they were high and they could see; for the rims were full of eyes round about them four. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went with them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the ground, the wheels were lifted up with them. 20 Wheresoever the spirit was to go, they went, and the wheels were lifted up with them; for there was a living spirit in the wheels. 21 When the living creatures went, the wheels went; and when the creatures stood, they stood also; and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up with them; for there was a living spirit in the wheels. 22 And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, resembling pure crystal, stretched out over their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other; over and under; two of them covering their faces and two covering their bodies. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of God, like the sound of speech in a host; and when they stopped, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads; and when they stopped, they let down their wings."

"26 ¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a sapphire stone, as the likeness of a throne; and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above it. 27 And I saw as it were the appearance of God, and the appearance of fire within it round about from his loins and upward; and from his loins and downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire shining round about. 28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in the clouds in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about him. Such was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face and I heard the voice of one who spoke."

"2:1 ¶ AND he said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet and I will speak with you. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and he set me upon my feet, and I heard him that spoke to me. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people who have risen up against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 And they to whom I am sending you are impudent and stubborn children; and you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD God of hosts. 5 Perhaps they will listen and tremble (for they are a rebellious house), and they shall know that you are a prophet among them."

"6 ¶ And you, Son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed by their words, for they will deny you and denounce you; for you dwell among scorpions; fear not their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 7 And you shall speak my words to them; perhaps they will listen and tremble; for they are a rebellious house. 8 But you, Son of man, hear what I say to you; and be not rebellious like that rebellious house: but open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, lo, a scroll of a book was in it. 10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it chants, woes, and lamentations."

"3:1 ¶ MOREOVER he said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, fill your belly with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it and it was in my mouth sweet as honey. 4 And he said to me, Son of man, go to them of the captivity, to the children of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Nor to many peoples whose speech you do not understand. Surely, if I send you to them, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not hearken to me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and stubborn of heart. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart and hear with your ears. 11 And go and get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; perhaps they will listen, and tremble. 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place. 13 I heard also the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them and a noise of a great rushing. 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and carried me away, and I went in the strength of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to the exiles at Tel-akib, who dwelt by the river Chebar, and I stayed there astonished among them seven days."

"16 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came upon me, saying. 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the words of my mouth and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; but you have not warned him, nor have you spoken to warn the sinner from his wicked way, to save his life; the same sinner shall die in his iniquity; and his blood will I require at your hand. 19 But if you warn the sinner, and he turn not from his sin nor from his evil way, he shall die in his sins; but you have delivered your soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, I will lay a stumbling block before him, and he shall die; because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sins and his righteousness which he had done shall not be remembered; and his blood will I require at your hand. 21 Nevertheless, if you warn the righteous man, that he may not sin, and he does not sin, the righteous man shall surely live, because he is warned; and you have delivered your soul."

"22 ¶ And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk to you there. 23 Then I arose and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me and said to me, Go, shut yourself in your house. 25 And you, O Son of man, behold, they shall put chains upon you, and shall bind you with them, that you cannot go out among them. 26 And I will make your tongue cleave to your palate, and you shall be dumb and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD God: He that hears, let him hear; and he that trembles, let him tremble; for they are a rebellious house."

"4:1 ¶ YOU also, O Son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and draw upon it the outline of the city of Jerusalem; 2 And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mount against it; and set some camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take an iron pan, and set it for an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Then lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon that side; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have given you two tasks of iniquities, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; I have appointed you each day for a year. 7 Therefore you shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall prevail, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 And behold, I have laid chains upon you, and you shall not turn from one side to another until you have completed the days of your siege."

"9 ¶ And take for yourself wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and rye, and put them in one vessel, and make for yourself bread of them; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. 10 And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 And you shall drink water by measure, a sixth part of a hin; from time to time shall you drink. 12 And you shall eat it as if you ate barley cakes, having baked it in their sight with the dung that comes out of men. 13 And the LORD said, Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the Gentiles, whither I shall drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah LORD God! behold, I have never defiled myself; and from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces by wild beasts; neither has unclean meat entered into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, Lo, I have given you oxen’s dung instead of men’s dung, that you shall bake your bread with it. 16 Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight; and when thirsty, they shall drink water by measure; 17 And they shall lack bread and water, and they shall perish one with another, and shall be consumed in their iniquity."

"5:1 ¶ AND you, Son of man, take a sharp sword, like a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard; then take scales to weigh it, and divide the hair into three parts. 2 A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of your siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and cut it with the sword, going round about the city; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword, after Israel. 3 And you shall take from thence a few of the hairs and bind them in the skirt of your cloak. 4 Then take some of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for from them shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel."

"5 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, with all the cities round about her. 6 For she has exchanged my judgments for wickedness from the Gentiles, and my commandments for statutes from the cities that are round about her; for they have rejected my statutes and they have not walked in my commandments. 7 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have regarded the statutes which you took from nations round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in you that which I have never done before, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore the parents shall eat their children in the midst of you, and the children shall eat their parents; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, as I live, says the LORD God, Because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will scatter you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity. 12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall my anger be poured out, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted; and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have poured out my anger upon them. 14 Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So you shall be a reproach and a taunt, an example of punishment and a horror to the nations that are round about you, when I have executed judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. 16 When I shall send upon you my grievous arrows of famine, which shall be for your destruction and which I will send to destroy you: I will increase the famine upon you, and will break the staff of your grain. 17 And I will send upon you famine and fierce beasts, and they shall devour you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I the LORD have spoken it."

"6:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, 3 And say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God; Thus says the LORD God to the mountains and to the hills, to the valleys and to the brooks: Behold, I am bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 Your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the house of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, that your altars may be destroyed and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and made desolate, and your images may be cut down, and your works may cease. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"8 ¶ Yet I will leave a remnant of you among the nations, those of you who shall escape the sword and are scattered through the cities. 9 And those who escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they are carried captives; when I have destroyed their corrupt hearts, for they have departed from me, and with their eyes have gone astray after their idols; and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."

"11 ¶ Thus says the LORD God, Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 He that is far off shall die of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remains and that escapes shall die by famine; thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain shall be among their idols round about their altars upon every high hill and upon all the tops of the mountains and under every green tree and under every thick terebinth, the place where they did offer incense to all their idols. 14 So I will stretch out my hand against them and will make the land desolate and waste, more than the wilderness of Diblath, throughout all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"7:1 ¶ MOREOVER the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Also, Son of man, thus says the LORD God to the land of Israel: The end is come upon the land of Israel, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end is come upon you, and I will pour out my wrath upon you, and I will judge you according to your ways and will recompense you all your abominations. 4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will recompense you according to your ways, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus says the LORD God: Behold, an evil is coming for every evil which you have committed. 6 An end is coming, and it shall afflict you. 7 The dawn of destruction is come upon you, O you inhabitant of the land; the time is come, the day of trouble is near. 8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon you, and I will pour out my anger upon you; and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will recompense you according to your ways; and your abominations shall remain in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who has smitten you. 10 Behold the day is come, the dawn is gone forth; the staff has blossomed, the shame has budded. 11 Violence has grown upon the staff of the wicked; none of them shall remain, neither their disturbances nor their works; nor shall I cease from punishing them. 12 The time is come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller regret; for wrath is upon all their substance. 13 For the buyer shall not return to the seller, for they will not be living; for catastrophe shall not spare any of their possessions; neither shall a man spare his life by means of his corruptness. 14 They have blown the trumpet, and made all ready; but there is none that goes to battle; for my wrath is upon all their substance. 15 The sword is in the streets, pestilence and famine in the houses; he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour."

"16 ¶ But those of them who escape shall escape on the mountains, and they shall take refuge like doves in the crags; all of them shall die every one in his own iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak. 18 The people shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all heads. 19 They shall cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall be despised; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bellies; because this is their torment on account of their iniquity. 20 And the beauty of their ornaments, which they made with excellency for the images and altars of their abominations, I have made, therefore, to be despised; 21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 And I will turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my sanctuary, and robbers shall enter into it and defile it."

"23 ¶ And they shall attack it with bricks; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of iniquity. 24 Therefore I will bring shepherds of Gentiles, and they shall possess their houses; I will also make the excellency of the mighty ones to cease; and the Gentiles shall possess their sanctuary. 25 Indignation is coming; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then they shall seek a vision from the prophets; but the law shall perish from the priests, and counsel from the elders. 27 The king shall sit in mourning and the prince shall be clothed with desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble; I will do to them according to their evil way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"8:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, that the hand of the LORD God fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and 1o, a likeness as of the appearance of fire; from the loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, brightness, as the appearance of God. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and caught me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in a vision of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north; where stood the image of lust, which provokes to lust. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain. 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the way of the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the way of the north, and behold, on the north side of the east gate stood the statue of lust in the entrance. 6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, even the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, for they have gone far off from my sanctuary? But turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations which they are doing."

"7 ¶ And he brought me in to the door of the court; and I looked, and behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, Son of man, dig in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold, there I found a door. 9 And he said to me, Go in and see the abominations and wicked things that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, and they were standing before him every man his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, do you see the thing which the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his secret chamber? For they say, The LORD does not see us; because the LORD has forsaken the earth."

"13 ¶ He said also to me, Turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations that they are doing. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, Do you see this, O Son of man? Turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, there stood about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, Do you see this, O Son of man? Is it a little thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with iniquity, and have returned to provoke me to anger; and they sneer at me. 18 Therefore I will also deal in my fury; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

"9:1 ¶ AND he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Come near, O you avengers of the city, every man with his destroying weapons in his hand. 2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which looks toward the north, and every man had his destroying weapons in his hand; and there was a man among them clothed with linen, and his loins were girded with girdles of sapphire; and they went in and stood beside the bronze altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub which stood on the corner of the house. And he called to the man who was clothed with linen and whose loins were girded with girdles of sapphire; 4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who are tormented on account of all the abominations and evil things that are done in the midst thereof."

"5 ¶ And to those who were with him he said in my sight, Go after him through the city and destroy; let not your eyes spare, nor have pity; 6 Slay utterly old and young, both virgins and little children and women; but touch not any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elders who stood in front of the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain; then go forth and slay in the city. 8 And it came to pass, when they had slain them, I was left; and I fell upon my face and cried with a loud voice mournfully, and said, Ah LORD God, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel? Wilt thou pour out thy fury upon Jerusalem? 9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, the land is full of blood and the city full of treachery; for they said, The LORD has forsaken the earth and the LORD does not see us. 10 And as for me, I will have no mercy upon them, nor will I have pity; but I will recompense their evil ways upon their head. 11 And behold, the man clothed with linen answered, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me."

"10:1 ¶ THEN I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them something with the appearance of a sapphire stone, and the form of a throne. 2 And the voice spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherubim; and fill your hand with the coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight. 3 Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of God went up from the cherub that stood over the threshhold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory. 5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God when he speaks. 6 And it came to pass, when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; he went in and stood beside the wheels. 7 Then one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man who was clothed with linen, who took it and went out."

"8 ¶ And I looked, and behold, there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man’s hand under their wings. 9 And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like the color of beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearance and the form, the four of them were alike, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the first one went they followed it, they turned not as they went. 12 And their whole body and their backs and their hands and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes when they turned on their sides. 13 And as for the wheels, he called them Rolling Wheels, in my presence. 14 And every one of them had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the same living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels also went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up also; when the cherubim lifted their wings, the wheels also lifted up with them; for the spirit of life was in them. 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from the corner of the temple, and stood over the cherubim. 19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight; when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 20 These were the living creatures that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubim. 21 Each one had four faces, and each one four wings; and the likeness of a man’s hand was under their wings. 22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were like the same faces that I saw by the river Chebar, and their appearance was the same; they went every one straight forward."

"11:1 ¶ MOREOVER the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which looks eastward; and I beheld at the entrance of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then the LORD said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city, 3 Saying, We have built houses in the midst of it; the city is the caldron, and we are the meat. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O Son of man. 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says the LORD God: Thus have you desired, O house of Israel; for I know the inclination of your thought. 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. 7 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the LORD God. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst of it and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and I will execute judgments upon you. 10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the meat in the midst of it; but I will judge you in the border of Israel; 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have followed after the ordinances of the Gentiles that are round about you. 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah, LORD God! wilt thou make full end of the remnant of Israel?"

"14 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 15 Son of man, your brethren, your brethren, even your kindred, who are in your captivity, and all the house of Israel shall be annihilated, for the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said to them, Get you far from the LORD; to us is this land given for an inheritance. 16 Therefore say, Thus says the LORD God: I will cast them far off among the Gentiles, and I will scatter them among the countries, nevertheless I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries where they have gone. 17 Therefore say, Thus says the LORD God: I will gather you from among the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and shall remove from it all its idols and all its abominations. 19 And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh, 20 That they may walk in my commandments and keep my ordinances and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for those whose heart followed after their images and abominations, I will recompense their evil ways upon their own heads, says the LORD God."

"22 ¶ Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 24 Then the spirit lifted me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into the land of Chaldea to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen departed from me. 25 Then I spoke to those of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me."

"12:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not; who have ears to hear and hear not; for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, Son of man, prepare for yourself the things which are necessary for captivity, and go into the captivity by day in their sight; go from your own place to another place, so that they may see, because they are a rebellious house. 4 Then bring out your belongings by day in their sight, as though they were the necessary things for captivity; and you shall go forth in the evening like those who go forth into captivity. 5 Make a breach through the wall in their sight and go forth through it. 6 Take the luggage on your shoulder and go forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you may not see the ground; for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel. 7 And I did as he had commanded me: I brought forth my luggage by day as one who carries luggage into captivity, and in the evening I made a breach through the wall and went forth in the dark, carrying my luggage upon my shoulder in their sight. 8 And the word of the LORD came upon me in the morning, saying, 9 Son of man, if the children of the rebellious house of Israel should say to you, What are you doing? 10 Say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Even so shall the prince carry such luggage in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel with him. 11 Say to them, I am a sign to you; just as I have done, so shall it be done to you; you shall go into captivity. 12 And the leader who is among you shall carry his luggage upon his shoulder, and shall go forth in the dark, and shall make a breach through the wall and go out through it; he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground. 13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be caught in it; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see the land, and there shall he die. 14 And I will scatter towards every wind all that are about him to help him and give him strength; and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will spare a few men of them from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles whither they go; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

"17 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fear of scarcity; 19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the LORD God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and concerning the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fear of lack, and drink their water with terror, for the land shall be desolate from all that is therein, because of the iniquity of all those who dwell in it. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"21 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision shall fall? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the LORD God: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand when every vision shall come true. 24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor doubtful divination among the children of Israel. 25 For I am the LORD; I have spoken, and the word which I speak I shall perform it; and I shall no more delay it; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and will perform it, says the LORD God. 26 Again the word of the LORD came upon me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, the children of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for the distant future, and he prophesies of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God: There shall none of my words be delayed any more, but the word which I have spoken I shall soon fulfil, says the LORD God."

"13:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy to the people, and say to them who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of the LORD; 3 Thus says the LORD God: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own pride, for they have not seen any vision! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the ruins. 5 You have not gone up to build the breaches, neither have you made up a hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 6 For they say, Thus says the LORD; and the LORD has not sent them; and they persist in confirming a false word. 7 Indeed you have seen a vain vision, and you have spoken a lying divination, and yet you say, The LORD said it; although I have not spoken. 8 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Because you have seen false visions and spoken lies; therefore, behold, I am against you, says the LORD God. 9 And my hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations; they shall not remain in the midst of my people, neither shall they be written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they return to the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD God."

"10 ¶ Because they have deceived my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and when the people built up a wall, they daubed it with untempered mortar in such a manner that it shall fall. 11 Say to those who daubed it in such a manner that it shall fall, Behold, I will bring a violent rain which will sweep everything away, and hailstones shall fall, and a whirlwind; 12 And the wall shall be breached and shall fall; and it shall be said to you, Where is the mortar with which you daubed it? 13 Therefore thus says the LORD God: I will bring a whirlwind in my wrath; and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So I will demolish the wall that you have daubed and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be laid bare, and you shall be defeated and consumed in the midst of it; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have daubed it with untempered mortar so that it shall be said to you, Where is the wall? Where are those who daubed it? 16 Such are the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the LORD God."

"17 ¶ Likewise, you Son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, and say to them, 18 Thus says the LORD God: Woe to the women who embroider wristlets and make coverings for every head and for every type of person to snare the souls of men! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save your own souls? 19 You have polluted my people for a handful of barley and a piece of bread, to kill persons who were not guilty of death, and to save the lives of those who should not live, and you have lied to a people who listen to lies. 20 Wherefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against your embroidered garments with which you hunt the souls of the people, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will set free the souls of those that you hunt, and I will cause them to fly. 21 And I will tear your robes, and will deliver my people out of your hands, and they shall be no more delivered into your hands to be hunted; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sorrowful; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that they did not return from their wicked ways and live. 23 Therefore you shall no longer see false visions, nor work divinations any more; for I will deliver my people from your hands; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

"14:1 ¶ THEN came certain of the elders of Israel to me to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me. 2 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; I will seek vengeance from them. 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be a witness against him because of the multitude of his idols, 5 That I may take the house of Israel in the imagination of their own hearts, because they have departed from me through all their idols. 6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: Repent, and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell in Israel, who departs from me and sets up idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to a prophet to inquire of him, I the LORD will be a witness against him; 8 And I will pour out my anger against that man, and I will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And when a prophet shall err and speak a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall both bear the punishment of their iniquity; the punishment of him who seeks to inquire shall be like the punishment of the prophet, 11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the LORD God."

"12 ¶ The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 13 Son of man, if a land should sin against me and commit iniquity before me, then I will stretch out my hand against it, and will break the staff of its wheat; and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast from it; 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in the land, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the LORD God. 15 And if I should send vicious beasts against the land, and they destroy it so that it become desolate, so that no man could pass through because of the wild beasts; 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; but they alone would be delivered and the land would be made desolate. 17 Or if I should bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through that land, and I destroy man and beast from it; 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. 19 Or if I should send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, and destroy from it man and beast; 20 Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; but they would only deliver themselves by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the LORD God: How much more when I send four sore judgments upon Jerusalem: the sword and famine and vicious beasts and pestilence, to destroy from it man and beast. 22 Yet there shall be left in it those who will be delivered, who will bring forth sons and daughters; and even they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their ways and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the LORD God."

"15:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, What shall happen to the wood of the vine more than to any wood, or to any branch of the trees which are among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken from the vine to make anything from it? Or do men take a peg from it to hang vessels on it? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; and when the fire has consumed both ends of it and the middle of it is burned, is it good for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was not useful for implements; how much less shall it be useful when the fire has devoured it and it is destroyed? 6 Therefore thus says the LORD God: As I have given the wood of the vine among all the trees of the forest to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will pour out my anger against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall consume them; and you shall know that I am the LORD, when I pour out my anger against them. 8 And I will make the land desolate and a horror because they have committed iniquity, says the LORD God."

"16:1 ¶ AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations, 3 And say, Thus says the LORD God to Jerusalem: Your root and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 And as for the one who bore you, in the day you were born she did not cut your navel, neither did she wash you with water nor did she salt your body with salt nor wrap you in swaddling clothes at all. 5 Nor did her eye have pity upon you, to do any of these things to you and to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person on the day that you were born."

"6 ¶ And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your own blood, I said to you as you lay thus wallowing in your blood, Live, 7 And multiply like the grass of the field. And you have increased and grown great; then you went into the cities. Your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, you had reached the marriage age; and I spread my hand over you and covered your nakedness; yea, I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the LORD God, and you became mine. 9 Then I bathed you with water, and I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered clothes, and shod you with shoes; and I girded your loins with fine linen and clothed you with silk. 11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace on your neck. 12 And I put a jewel on your forehead and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were decked with gold and gems, and you were clothed with fine linen and purple and embroidered cloth; and you ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you became exceedingly beautiful, and you grew prosperous among the kingdoms. 14 And your renown went forth among the Gentiles for your beauty, because of the beautiful crown of my glory which I put upon you, says the LORD God."

"15 ¶ But you trusted in your own beauty and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one who passed by; 16 And you took some of my garments and decorated the high places for yourself, and played the harlot upon them; they shall not be brought back, neither shall they be yours. 17 You have also taken your costly jewels of gold and silver which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them; 18 And you took your embroidered garments and covered them; and you have set my oil and my incense before them. 19 And the food which I gave you, the fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you have set before them for a sweet savor; says the LORD God. 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you have sacrificed to them for food. These things you did besides your whoredoms, 21 That you have slaughtered my children, and offered them to the idols after you had been ravished by them. 22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and lay wallowing in blood. 23 And after all your wickedness, woe, woe to you! says the LORD God; 24 You have built yourself a house of idols, and made yourself altars in every street. 25 You have built yourself small temples for idol worship at every head of the way, and defiled your beauty and exposed yourself to every one that passed by, and multiplied your fornications. 26 You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, who have large male organs; and you have multiplied your fornications, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and have abolished your ordinances and delivered you into the hand of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who rebuked you because of your ways of whoredom. 28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, and yet you were not satisfied. 29 You have moreover multiplied your fornications in the land of Canaan and in Chaldea; and yet, even with them you were not satisfied. 30 How shall I judge you, O daughter, says the LORD God, seeing that you did all these things, the works of a whore and a rebellious woman? 31 In that you built your notorious shrines at the head of every way, and set your altars in every street; and yet you were not as clever as a harlot who charges a price; 32 And even not as clever as a whorish wife who takes a price from strangers. 33 Men pay a price to all harlots; but instead you pay a price to all your lovers and bribe them with your whoredom, that they may come to you from every side round about you. 34 So you are different from other women in your whoredoms, in that you pay others a price, and no one pays a price to you."

"35 ¶ Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD; 36 Thus says the LORD God: Because you have practiced divination and exposed your nakedness through your whoredoms with your lovers, and because of all the idols of your abominations and the blood of your children which you offered to them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those you have loved, with all those you have hated; I will even gather them against you from every side and will expose your nakedness in their presence, and they shall see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you with the judgment of an adulteress, and as those who shed blood are judged; and I will deliver you to slaughter and to fury and indignation. 39 And I will also deliver you into their hands, and shall demolish your brothels and tear down the houses of your idols; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your precious jewels and leave you naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up multitudes of people against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn you in the midst of fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire to your lovers any more. 42 So will I make my wrath to rest upon you, and my indignation shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be no more angry. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have provoked me in all these things; behold, therefore I have also recompensed your evil ways upon your head, says the LORD God, because you have committed abomination and fornication."

"44 ¶ Behold, every one who uses a proverb shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 You are your mother’s daughter, who deserted her husband and her children; and you are the sister of women who deserted their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand with her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters. 47 Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but in a very little time you became more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the LORD God, Sodom your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this is the iniquity of Sodom your proud sister: she and her daughters had abundant food and lived in tranquillity, but she did not help the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty and committed evil before me; therefore when I saw these things in them I overthrew them. 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have outdone your sisters in all your abominations which you have committed. 52 You also shall endure the shame because you have outdone your sisters in your sins, and have polluted yourself more than they; they are more righteous than you; you must be confounded also and bear your shame, for your sisters are more righteous than you. 53 I will bring back their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; then I will cause the captivity of your exiles to be carried among them, 54 That you may bear shame and be confounded in all that you have done to provoke my anger. 55 When your sister Sodom, with her daughters, shall be restored to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall be restored to their former state, then you and your daughters shall be restored to your former state. 56 For your sister Sodom was not a proverb in your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 Before your wickedness was exposed, as she was at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Edom, when all the daughters of the Philistines who were round about her used to despise her. 58 Now you bear your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD God. 59 For thus says the LORD God: I will even deal with you as you have done, because you have despised my oaths and nullified my covenant."

"60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you shall remember your evil ways and be ashamed, when I take your sisters, the elder and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not because of your covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD, 63 Because you shall remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, for I have forgiven you for all that you have done, says the LORD God."

"17:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel, 3 And say, Thus says the LORD God: A great eagle with large wings and long pinions and fully developed claws, and thickly feathered, came to Lebanon and took the choicest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the topmost of its tender twigs, and carried it to the land of Canaan; and he set it in a city of merchants. 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in uncultivated land; he placed it by many waters, and then set a watchman over it. 6 And it sprang up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature, so that its branches turned toward him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches and shot forth tendrils. 7 And, behold, there was also another great eagle with large wings and many claws: and, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its tendrils toward him, that he might water the soil where it was planted. 8 For it was planted in a good field, by many waters that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit and become a goodly vine. 9 Say now, Thus says the LORD God: It shall not prosper, but its roots shall be cut off, and its fruit shall dry up; and all the foliage which it has put forth shall wither; and it will not require a strong arm, nor many people to pluck it up by its roots. 10 Yea, behold, being planted, it shall not prosper; when the east wind strikes it, it shall wither in the soil where it grew. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12 Say now to the rebellious house, Do you know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is coming to Jerusalem, and he shall take the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon; 13 And he shall take one of the offspring of the royal family, and make a covenant with him and take an oath of him; and he shall carry away the rulers of the land, so that they may not boast again, 14 That the kingdom might be humbled, and that they might keep his covenant, and stand by him. 15 But he shall revolt against the king of Babylon, and shall send his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. But he who does such things shall not prosper, nor shall he be delivered. 16 As I live, says the LORD God, surely in the very place where dwells the king of Babylon, who made him king and he despised my oath and nullified my covenant, even in the midst of Babylon, he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh fight against him with a great army nor with many horses, but by casting up mounds and building forts shall he destroy many lives. 18 Because he has despised the oaths and nullified the covenant, he shall surrender, but he shall not be delivered, because he has done all these things. 19 Therefore thus says the LORD God: As I live, because he has despised my oaths and nullified my covenant, I will punish him for it. 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in it, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, and judge him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. 21 And all his noble men and all his friends shall fall by the sword, and those that remain shall be scattered to all the winds; and you shall know that I the LORD have spoken it."

"22 ¶ Thus says the LORD God: I will also take one of the choicest branches of the highest cedar, and I will clip it; I will crop off from the top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon high and lofty mountains; 23 On the mountains of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they rest. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have made dry the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I the LORD have spoken and have done it."

"18:1 ¶ THE word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, why do you use this proverb in the land of Israel, saying, The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, says the LORD God, this proverb shall never be used again in Israel. 4 Because all souls are mine; the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die. 5 But if a man be righteous and do justice and righteousness, 6 And has not eaten the meat sacrificed to idols on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols and the altars of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, nor has come near a menstruous woman, 7 And has not oppressed any man, and has not harmed any one, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 8 He has not lent money with usury, neither has loaned with a discount; has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man; 9 Has walked in my commandments, and has kept my judgments, and has done justice; he who does so is a righteous man and shall surely live, says the LORD God."

"10 ¶ If he begets a son who is a wicked man, a shedder of blood, and he does any one of these evil things, 11 And eats the meat sacrificed to idols on the mountains, and defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 Oppresses the poor and needy, extorts from his neighbor, restores not the pledge to its owner, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination, 13 Lends money with usury, and takes a discount; shall he then live? He shall not live: because he has done all these evil things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. 14 But if he begets a son, who sees all the sins that his father had committed, and shall not do likewise, 15 And who shall not eat meat sacrificed to the idols on the mountains, neither shall lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; shall defile not his neighbor’s wife, 16 Oppresses no man, takes no pledge from any one, extorts no one, but shall give his bread to the hungry and cover the naked with a garment; 17 Who does not refuse to help the poor, who charges no usury or discount, executes my judgments, and walks in my commandments; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed and extorted from his brother and did nothing that is good among his people, lo, he is dead in his own sins. 19 And if they should say, Why does not the son bear the sins of his father? say to them, Because the son has done that which is lawful and right and has kept all my commandments, he shall surely live. 20 The soul that sins, that soul shall die. The son shall not bear the sins of his father, neither shall the father bear the sins of his son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."

"21 ¶ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his sins which he has committed, they shall not be remembered against him; but in the righteousness which he has done shall he live. 23 I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, says the LORD God; but rather that he should return from his evil ways and live. 24 But if the righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and abominations like those that the sinner has done, all the righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered to him, but in the iniquity which he has committed and in the sins that he has sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet you say, The ways of the LORD are not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel; my ways are fair, but it is your ways that are not fair. 26 If a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, in the iniquity that he has committed shall he die. 27 But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he has committed and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 And if he considers and turns away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, The ways of the LORD are not fair. O house of Israel, my ways are fair, but it is your ways that are not fair."

"30 ¶ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the LORD God. Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that your sins may not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all the iniquities which you have committed; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, so that you may not die, O house of Israel. 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of any one who dies, says the LORD God; wherefore repent and live."

"19:1 ¶ MOREOVER, you Son of man, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, What is your mother? O whelp of lions! she crouched among lions, she reared her whelps among young lions. 3 And one of her whelps grew up and became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; and he devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of his fame; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with a bridle to the land of Egypt. 5 Now when his mother saw that she had suffered and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey and devoured men. 7 Then he walked in his strength and ravaged cities and laid waste the land in its fulness by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations gathered together against him from the provinces round about him, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; and he threw him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel."

"10 ¶ Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And she had strong rods for scepters of the rulers upon the great branches, and their stature rose up higher among its shoots, and their height was seen and the multitude of their tendrils. 12 But it was plucked up in fury and was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed it. 13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a thirsty and dry land. 14 And fire is gone out from its choice branches and has devoured its fruit, so that no strong rod was found in it, or a branch to become a ruler’s scepter. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."

"20:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came in to inquire of the LORD and sat down before me. 2 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not give you an answer. 4 You judge them, you judge them, O Son of man! and declare to them the abominations of their fathers;"

"5 ¶ And say to them, Thus says the LORD God: In the day when I chose Israel and swore by lifting up my hand to the descendants of the house of Jacob and revealed myself to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them and said to them, I am the LORD your God; 6 On that day I swore to them to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had given to them, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 7 And I said to them, Cast away every man his image from before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God. 8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the images from before their sight, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them and accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 But I pitied them for my name’s sake, that it should not be defiled among the Gentiles, in whose sight I revealed myself to them to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt."

"10 ¶ Wherefore I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my commandments and showed them my judgments, which if a man do he shall live by them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not walk in my commandments, and they despised my judgments, which if a man would do, he would live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness and destroy them. 14 But I pitied them for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose presence I brought them out. 15 So I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 16 Because they despised my judgments and polluted my sabbaths exceedingly; for their hearts went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless my eve spared them and I did not destroy them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. 18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments nor defile yourselves with their idols; 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them: 20 And hallow my sabbaths: and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Notwithstanding the children of Israel rebelled against me; they did not walk in my commandments, neither did they keep my judgments to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall live by them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them and accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 But I pitied them for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose presence I brought them out. 23 But I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them through the countries; 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my commandments and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. 25 Wherefore I gave them statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they could not live; 26 And I let them defile themselves through their own gifts, when they offered their first-born as sacrifices: that I might destroy them and that they might know that I am the LORD."

"27 ¶ Therefore, Son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them. Thus says the LORD God: Yet in this very manner your fathers have blasphemed before me in their iniquity which they dealt treacherously against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land that I had sworn to give them, then they saw every high hill and every shady tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offerings; there they also made their sweet savor and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, What is the shrine to which you go? And its name is called Shrine of Idols to this day. 30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: You have defiled yourselves after the manner of your fathers and you go astray after their idols; 31 And you offer your gift offerings and make your sons to pass through the fire; you have polluted yourselves with your idols, even to this day; and yet you wish to inquire of me, O house of Israel? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not give you an answer. 32 And that which is in your mind shall not come to pass at all, for you say, We will be like the Gentiles and like the families of the earth, to serve wood and stones."

"33 ¶ As I live, says the LORD God, surely with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out will I rule over you. 34 And I will bring you out from the Gentiles, and will gather you out of the countries wherein you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with a fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the Gentiles, and there will I judge you face to face. 36 Just as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the LORD God. 37 And I will cause you to be subject to my scepter, and will bring you into the discipline of the covenant; 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the LORD God: If you will not hearken to me, go then and serve every one his own idols, but pollute not my holy name any more with your gift offerings and with your idols. 40 For on my holy mountain, even in the mountain height of Israel, says the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me perfectly; there will I be pleased with them, and there will I require their offerings and the first fruits of their harvest and the choicest of their gift offerings with all their holy things. 41 I will accept you with a sweet savor, when I bring you out from among the Gentiles and gather you out of the cities wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the Gentiles. 42 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers. 43 And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings by which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evils that you have committed. 44 And you shall know that I am the LORD who had pity upon you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the LORD God,"

"45 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and look southward and prophesy against the forest which is in the south; 47 And say to the forest which is in the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the flaming fire shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched. 49 Then said I, Ah LORD God! Behold, they will say to me, You speak in parables."

"21:1 ¶ AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and look at their holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you; I will draw my sword out of its sheath and will destroy from you the righteous and the sinner. 4