The history f EZEKIEL. Israel's rebellions. 9 But I wrought for my name's sake, | luted iny sabbaths: then I said, I would hat it should not be polluted before pour out my fury upon them, to acthe heathen, among whom they were, complish mine anger against them ic in whose sight 1 made myself known the wilderness. unto them, in bringing them forth out|| 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, of the land of Egypt. and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. 10 T Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes,and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my erbbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. 23 I lifted up my hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen and disperse them through the countries : 24 Because they had not executea my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sab baths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good,and judgments whereby they should not live ; 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts,in that theycaused to passthrough the fire all that openeth the womb,that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know thất I am. the LORD. 27 T Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand outo them, Thus saith the Lord God; Yet em in the wilderness, that I would in this your fathers have blasphemed not bring them into the land which Ime, in that they have committed a had given them, flowing with milk trespass against me. and honey, which is the glory of all 28 For when I had brought them into lands : the land, for the which I lifted up my 16 Because they despised my judg-hand to give it to them, then they saw ments, and walked not in my statutes, every high hill, and all the thick trees, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless mine eyes spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wil derness. 13 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers,neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols; 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes,and keepmy judgments, and do them; and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink-offerings. 29 Then I said unto them,What is the bigh place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bam̃ah unto this day. 30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? 20 And hallow my sabbaths; and 21 For when ye offer your gifts,when they shall be a sign between me and ye make your sons to pass through the you, that ye may know that I am the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all LORD your God. your idols, even unto this day: and 21 Notwithstanding the children re-shall I be inquired of by you, O house belled against me: they walked not of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord in my statutes, neither kept my judg- GOD, I will not be inquired of by you. ments to do them, which if a man do, 32 And that which cometh into your he shall even live in them; they pol-jmind shall not be at all, that ye say, A prophecy We will be as the heathen, as the 44 And ye shall know that I am the families of the countries, to serve LORD, when I have wrought with you wood and stone. for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings,O ye bouse of Israel, saith the Lord God. 33 TAs I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched-out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wil derness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 45 ¶ Moreover,the word of the Lond came unto me, saying, 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD: Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall de 36 Like as I pleaded with your favour every green tree in thee, and thers in the wilderness of the kind of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein, 48 And all flesh shall see that 1 the Lond have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that trans- 49 Then said 1, Ah Lord Gon! they gress against me: I will bring them say of me, Doth be not speak paraforth out of the country where theybles? sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know A that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXI. ND the word of the Lond canie unto me, saying, 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus 2 Son of man, set thy face toward saith the Lord Gon, Go ye, serve ye Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward every one his idols,ând hereafter also, the holy places, and prophesy against if ye will not hearken unto me: but the land of Israel, pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols, 40 For in my boly mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,saith the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. 3 And say to the land of Israel,Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath,and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut oll from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 41 I will accept you with your sweet 5 That all flesh may know that I the savour, when I bring you out from the Loud have drawn forth my sword out people, and gather you out of the coun-of his sheath; it shall not return any tries wherein ye have been scattered: more. and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. 42. And ye shall know that I am the Loto, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers. 13 And there shall ye remember your way, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; aud ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes, 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh,and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Gap. A prophecy against the Ammonites. 22 At his right hand was the divina tion of Jerusalem,to appoint captains EZEKIEL. ST Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy, and say, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, lift up the voice with shouting, to apa sword is sharpened, and also fur-boint battering-rams against the gates, Dished: to cast a mount, and to build a fort. 10 It is sharpened to make a sore 23 And it shall be unto them as slaughter; it is furbished that it may false divination in their sight, to them glitter: should we then make mirth? that have sworn oaths: but he will it contemneth the rod of my son, as call to remembrance the iniquity,that every tree. they may be taken. 11 And he hath given it to be fur- 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord bished, that it may be handled: this GOD; Because ye have made your insword is sharpened, and it is furbish-liquity to be remembered, in that you' ed, to give it into the hand of the transgressions are discovered, so that slayer. in all your doings your sins do appear ; 12 Cry and bowl, son of man: for it because, I say, that ye are come to reshall be upon my people, it shall be membrance, ye shall be taken with 1 pon all the princes of Israel : terrors the band. by reason of the sword shall be upou my people, smite therefore upon thy thigh. 25 ¶ And thou, profane wicked. princes of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, 13 Because it is a trial, and what if 26 Thus saith the LordGoD; Remove the sword contemu even the rod? it the diadem, and take off the crown; shall be no more, saith the Lord God. this shall not be the same: exalt him 14 Thou therefore, son of man, that is low, and abase him that is prophesy, and smite thy bands to high. gether, and let the sword be doubled 27 I will overturn, overturn, over The third time, the sword of the slain:[turn it; and it shall be no more, until it is the sword of the great men that he come whose right it is; and 1 will are slain, which entereth into their give it him. privy chambers. 28 T And thou, son of man,prophesy 15 I have set the point of the sword and say, Thus saith the LORD God against all their gates, that their heart concerning the Ammonites, and conmay faint, and their ruins be multi-cerning their reproach; even say thou, plied: Ah! it is made bright, it is The sword, the sword is drawn: for wrapped up for the slaughter. the slaughter it is furbished, to con sume, because of the glittering; 29 While they see vanity unto thee, while they divine a lie unto thee, to to-bring thee upon the necks of them that to are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. 16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. 17 I will also smite my hands gether, and I will cause my fury rest: I the LORD have said it. 18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 30 Shall I cause it to return into bis sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: be made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. 31 And 1 will pour out mine indig. nation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and de liver thee into the hand of brutish 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire: thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remeni bered: for I the Lond have spoken it. CHAP. XXII. OREOVERthewordof the LORD M came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge,wilt thou judge the bloody city yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. sins in Jerusalem. tries, and will consume thy filthinese out of thee. 16 And thou shalt take thine inherit ance in thyself in the sight of the hea then, and thou shalt know that I am the Loan. 17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, the house of Israel 4 Thou art become guilty in thy is to me become dross: all they are olood that thou hast shed; and hast brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in defiled thyself in thine idols which the midst of the furnace; they are even thou hast made; and thou hast caused the dross of silver. thy days to draw near, and art come 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord even unto thy years: therefore have I GOD; Because ye are all become dross, made thee a reproach unto the bea-behold, therefore I will gather you then, and a mocking to all countries. into the midst of Jerusalem 5 Those that be near, and those that 30 As they gather silver, and brass, be far from thee, shall mock thee, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the which art infamous and much vexed.[midst of the furnace, to blow the fire 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every upon it, to melt it; so will I gather one were in thee to their power to you in mine anger and in my fury, shed blood. and I will leave you there, and mel 7 In thee have they set light by fa-you. ther and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. S Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. 9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood; and in thee they eat upon the mountains; in the midst of tbee they commit lewdness. 10 In thee have they discovered their father's nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. 21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof, 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you. 23 T And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the laud that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 11 And one hath committed abomi- 25 There is a conspiracy of her pronation with his neighbour's wife; and phets in the midst thereof, like a roar. another hath lewdly defiled his daugh- ing lion ravening the prey; they have ter-in-law; and another in thee hath devoured souls; they have taken the bumbled his sister, his father's daugh-treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the ter. 12 In thee have they taken gifts to midst thereof. shed blood; thou hast taken usury and 26 Her priests have violated my law, increase, and thou hast greedily gain-and have profaned my holy things: ed of thy neighbours by extortion,and they have put no difference between hast forgotten me,saith the Lord Gon. the holy and profane, neither have 13 T Behold, therefore 1 bave smit-they showed difference between the ten my hand at thy dishonest gain unclean and the clean, and have hid which thou hast made, and at thy their eyes from my sabbaths, and 1 blood which hath been in the midst of am profaned among them. thee. 14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hauds be strong, in the days that 1 shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it. 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed 16 And I will scatter thee among the them with untempered mortar, seeing heathen, and disperse thee in the coun-vanity, and divining lies unto them, EZEKIEL Aholah and Akotibah. The whoredoms of enying, Thus saith the LordGoD,when] 11 And when her sister Aholibab the Lond hath not spoken. saw this, she was more corrupt in her 29 The people of the land have used inordinate love than she, and in her oppression, and exercised robbery,and whoredoms more than her sister in have vexed the poor and needy: yea,[her whoredoms. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled that they took both one way: they have oppressed the stranger 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her wrongfully. neighbours, captains and rulers cloth30 And I sought for a man amonged most gorgeously, horsemen riding them, that should make up the hedge, upon horses, all of them desirable and stand in the gap before me for the young men. and, that I should not destroy it: but £ found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine. 14 And that she increased her whoreindignation upon them; I have con-doms: for when she saw men portraysuined them with the fire of my wrath:ed upon the wall, the images of the their own way have I recompensed Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXIII. THE THE word of the Lonocame again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two wo men, the daughters of one mother: 3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. to 15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes look to, after the manner of the Babyionians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity; 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chal dea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her 4 And the names of them were Abo-into the bed of love, and they defiled Jab the elder, and Abolibah her sister: her with their whoredom; and ske and they were mine, and they bare was polluted with them, and her sous and daughters. Thus were then mind was alienated from them. names; Samariah is Aholah, and Je-| 18 So she discovered her whoredonis. rusalem Aholibah. and discovered her nakedness: then 5 Aud Abolahı played the harlot my mind was alienated from her, when she was mine; and she doted like as my mind was alienated from on her lovers, on the Assyrians her her sister. neighbours, 19 Yet she multiplied her whore 6 Which were clothed with blue,doms, in calling to remembrance the captains and rulers, all of them de-days of her youth, wherein she had sirable young men, horsemen riding played the harlot in the land of Egypt. upou horses. 20 For she doted upon their para 7 Thus she committed her whore-mours, whose flesh is as the flesh of doms with them, with all them that asses, and whose issue is like the issue were the chosen men of Assyria, and of horses. with all on whom she doted; with all 21 Thus thou calledst to remem their idols she defiled herself. brance the lewdness of thy youth, in 8 Neither left she her whoredoms bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for brought from Egypt: for in her youth the paps of thy youth. they lay with her, and they bruised 22 T Therefore, O Aholibah, Thus the breasts of her virginity, and pour-saith the Lord Goo, Behold, I will ed their whoredom upon her. raise up thy lovers against thee, from 9 Wherefore I have delivered her whom thy mind is alienated, and I into the band of her lovers, into the will bring them against thee on every hand of the Assyrians, upon whom side: she doted. 23 The Babylonians, and all the 10 These discovered her nakedness: Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa,and Koa, they took her sons and her daughters, and all the Assyrians with them: ali and slew her with the sword: and she of them desirable young men, captams became famous among women; for and rulers, great lords and renowned, they had executed judgment upon her. [all of then riding upon horses. |