THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
Ezekiel
Part 2 (Chapters 25-48)
25:1: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
25:2: Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,
and prophesy against them;
25:3: And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of
the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha,
against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land
of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah,
when they went into captivity;
25:4: Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the
men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces
in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy
fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
25:5: And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels,
and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
25:6: For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in
heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
25:7: Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand
upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and
I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to
perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD.
25:8: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab
and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the
heathen;
25:9: Therefore, behold, I will open the side of
Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers,
the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
25:10: Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites,
and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be
remembered among the nations.
25:11: And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:12: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom
hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and
hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
25:13: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and
beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they
of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
25:14: And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the
hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according
to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my
vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
25:15: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines
have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful
heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
25:16: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will
cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
25:17: And I will execute great vengeance upon them
with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD,
when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
26:1: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in
the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
26:2: Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people:
she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid
waste:
26:3: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come
up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
26:4: And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus,
and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her,
and make her like the top of a rock.
26:5: It shall be a place for the spreading of nets
in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
26:6: And her daughters which are in the field shall
be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:7: For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings,
from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen,
and companies, and much people.
26:8: He shall slay with the sword thy daughters
in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast
a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
26:9: And he shall set engines of war against thy
walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
26:10: By reason of the abundance of his horses their
dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall
enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made
a breach.
26:11: With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread
down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and
thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
26:12: And they shall make a spoil of thy riches,
and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down
thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay
thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
26:13: And I will cause the noise of thy songs to
cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
26:14: And I will make thee like the top of a rock:
thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built
no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:15: Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not
the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry,
when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
26:16: Then all the princes of the sea shall come
down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off
their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling;
they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment,
and be astonished at thee.
26:17: And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,
and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of
seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all
that haunt it!
26:18: Now shall the isles tremble in the day of
thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled
at thy departure.
26:19: For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall
make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;
when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall
cover thee;
26:20: When I shall bring thee down with them that
descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set
thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old,
with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited;
and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
26:21: I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt
be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be
found again, saith the Lord GOD.
27:1: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
27:2: Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation
for Tyrus;
27:3: And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate
at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for
many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said,
I am of perfect beauty.
27:4: Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy
builders have perfected thy beauty.
27:5: They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees
of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for
thee.
27:6: Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine
oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory,
brought out of the isles of Chittim.
27:7: Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was
that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple
from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
27:8: The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy
mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
27:9: The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof
were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
27:10: They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were
in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet
in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
27:11: The men of Arvad with thine army were upon
thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they
hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made
thy beauty perfect.
27:12: Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the
multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead,
they traded in thy fairs.
27:13: Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants:
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
27:14: They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy
fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
27:15: The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many
isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for
a present horns of ivory and ebony.
27:16: Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude
of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds,
purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
27:17: Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy
merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag,
and honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18: Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude
of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in
the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
27:19: Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied
in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
27:20: Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes
for chariots.
27:21: Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they
occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were
they thy merchants.
27:22: The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were
thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold.
27:23: Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants
of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
27:24: These were thy merchants in all sorts of things,
in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel,
bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
27:25: The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in
thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious
in the midst of the seas.
27:26: Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters:
the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27:27: Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise,
thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of
thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and
in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into
the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
27:28: The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the
cry of thy pilots.
27:29: And all that handle the oar, the mariners,
and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships,
they shall stand upon the land;
27:30: And shall cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their
heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
27:31: And they shall make themselves utterly bald
for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for
thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
27:32: And in their wailing they shall take up a
lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city
is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
27:33: When thy wares went forth out of the seas,
thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the
earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
27:34: In the time when thou shalt be broken by the
seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company
in the midst of thee shall fall.
27:35: All the inhabitants of the isles shall be
astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they
shall be troubled in their countenance.
27:36: The merchants among the people shall hiss
at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
28:1: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
28:2: Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou
hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst
of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set
thine heart as the heart of God:
28:3: Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is
no secret that they can hide from thee:
28:4: With thy wisdom and with thine understanding
thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver
into thy treasures:
28:5: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast
thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because
of thy riches:
28:6: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
28:7: Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon
thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
28:8: They shall bring thee down to the pit, and
thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst
of the seas.
28:9: Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee,
I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of
him that slayeth thee.
28:10: Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
GOD.
28:11: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
28:12: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the
king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou
sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
28:13: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God;
every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and
the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire,
the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that
thou wast created.
28:14: Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;
and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;
thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
28:15: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day
that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
28:16: By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:
and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of
the stones of fire.
28:17: Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I
will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
28:18: Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude
of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore
will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour
thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all them that behold thee.
28:19: All they that know thee among the people shall
be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt
thou be any more.
28:20: Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
28:21: Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and
prophesy against it,
28:22: And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst
of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
28:23: For I will send into her pestilence, and blood
into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst
of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.
28:24: And there shall be no more a pricking brier
unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are
round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that
I am the Lord GOD.
28:25: Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have
gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are
scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the
heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given
to my servant Jacob.
28:26: And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall
build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD their God.
29:1: In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the
twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
29:2: Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
29:3: Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that
lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is
mine own, and I have made it for myself.
29:4: But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will
cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will
bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish
of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
29:5: And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness,
thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the
open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered:
I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the
fowls of the heaven.
29:6: And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know
that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to
the house of Israel.
29:7: When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou
didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned
upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a
stand.
29:8: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out
of thee.
29:9: And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and
waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath
said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
29:10: Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against
thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and
desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
29:11: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor
foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited
forty years.
29:12: And I will make the land of Egypt desolate
in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities
among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years:
and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the countries.
29:13: Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of
forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither
they were scattered:
29:14: And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt,
and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the
land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
29:15: It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither
shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish
them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
29:16: And it shall be no more the confidence of
the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance,
when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am
the Lord GOD.
29:17: And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth
year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,
29:18: Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every
head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he
no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had
served against it:
29:19: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take
her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
29:20: I have given him the land of Egypt for his
labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for
me, saith the Lord GOD.
29:21: In that day will I cause the horn of the house
of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the
mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
30:1: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
30:2: Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day
30:3: For the day is near, even the day of the LORD
is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
30:4: And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great
pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt,
and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down.
30:5: Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the
mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league,
shall fall with them by the sword.
30:6: Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold
Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down:
from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD.
30:7: And they shall be desolate in the midst of
the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the
midst of the cities that are wasted.
30:8: And they shall know that I am the LORD, when
I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be
destroyed.
30:9: In that day shall messengers go forth from
me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great
pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it
cometh.
30:10: Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make
the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon.
30:11: He and his people with him, the terrible of
the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall
draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
30:12: And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the
land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste,
and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD
have spoken it.
30:13: Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy
the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph;
and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and
I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14: And I will make Pathros desolate, and will
set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
30:15: And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength
of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
30:16: And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have
great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have
distresses daily.
30:17: The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall
fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
30:18: At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened,
when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her
strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall go into captivity.
30:19: Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
30:20: And it came to pass in the eleventh year,
in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
30:21: Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh
king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed,
to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
30:22: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the
strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword
to fall out of his hand.
30:23: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
30:24: And I will strengthen the arms of the king
of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's
arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly
wounded man.
30:25: But I will strengthen the arms of the king
of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they
shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon
the land of Egypt.
30:26: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
31:1: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in
the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,
31:2: Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
31:3: Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high
stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
31:4: The waters made him great, the deep set him
up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and
sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
31:5: Therefore his height was exalted above all
the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his
branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when
he shot forth.
31:6: All the fowls of heaven made their nests in
his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field
bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great
nations.
31:7: Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length
of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
31:8: The cedars in the garden of God could not hide
him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut
trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of
God was like unto him in his beauty.
31:9: I have made him fair by the multitude of his
branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden
of God, envied him.
31:10: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his
top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his
height;
31:11: I have therefore delivered him into the hand
of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him:
I have driven him out for his wickedness.
31:12: And strangers, the terrible of the nations,
have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in
all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken
by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth
are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
31:13: Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven
remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
31:14: To the end that none of all the trees by the
waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their
top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their
height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto
death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children
of men, with them that go down to the pit.
31:15: Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he
went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep
for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters
were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
trees of the field fainted for him.
31:16: I made the nations to shake at the sound of
his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend
into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of
Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether
parts of the earth.
31:17: They also went down into hell with him unto
them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm,
that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
31:18: To whom art thou thus like in glory and in
greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought
down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth:
thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that
be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
32:1: And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in
the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,
32:2: Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of
the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest
forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet,
and fouledst their rivers.
32:3: Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread
out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall
bring thee up in my net.
32:4: Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will
cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls
of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts
of the whole earth with thee.
32:5: And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains,
and fill the valleys with thy height.
32:6: I will also water with thy blood the land wherein
thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be
full of thee.
32:7: And when I shall put thee out, I will cover
the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the
sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
32:8: All the bright lights of heaven will I make
dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord
GOD.
32:9: I will also vex the hearts of many people,
when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the
countries which thou hast not known.
32:10: Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee,
and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall
brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every
moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
32:11: For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of
the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
32:12: By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy
multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and
they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof
shall be destroyed.
32:13: I will destroy also all the beasts thereof
from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble
them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
32:14: Then will I make their waters deep, and cause
their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
32:15: When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate,
and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full,
when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they
know that I am the LORD.
32:16: This is the lamentation wherewith they shall
lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they
shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
32:17: It came to pass also in the twelfth year,
in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
32:18: Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt,
and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous
nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go
down into the pit.
32:19: Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and
be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
32:20: They shall fall in the midst of them that
are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her
and all her multitudes.
32:21: The strong among the mighty shall speak to
him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are
gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
32:22: Asshur is there and all her company: his graves
are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
32:23: Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit,
and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen
by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
32:24: There is Elam and all her multitude round
about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which
are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth,
which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have
they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
32:25: They have set her a bed in the midst of the
slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him:
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror
was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their
shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst
of them that be slain.
32:26: There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain
by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the
living.
32:27: And they shall not lie with the mighty that
are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with
their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their
heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though
they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
32:28: Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of
the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with
the sword.
32:29: There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes,
which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the
sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that
go down to the pit.
32:30: There be the princes of the north, all of
them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain;
with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their
shame with them that go down to the pit.
32:31: Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted
over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by
the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32:32: For I have caused my terror in the land of
the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all
his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
33:1: Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
33:2: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people,
and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the
people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for
their watchman:
33:3: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land,
he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
33:4: Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet,
and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away,
his blood shall be upon his own head.
33:5: He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took
not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh
warning shall deliver his soul.
33:6: But if the watchman see the sword come, and
blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword
come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in
his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
33:7: So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman
unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at
my mouth, and warn them from me.
33:8: When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou
shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from
his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood
will I require at thine hand.
33:9: Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his
way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
33:10: Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the
house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions
and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should
we then live?
33:11: Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD,
I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked
turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways;
for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
33:12: Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children
of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver
him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of
the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth
from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live
for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
33:13: When I shall say to the righteous, that he
shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit
iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but
for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
33:14: Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt
surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful
and right;
33:15: If the wicked restore the pledge, give again
that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
33:16: None of his sins that he hath committed shall
be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right;
he shall surely live.
33:17: Yet the children of thy people say, The way
of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
33:18: When the righteous turneth from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
33:19: But if the wicked turn from his wickedness,
and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
33:20: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
33:21: And it came to pass in the twelfth year of
our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month,
that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying,
The city is smitten.
33:22: Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the
evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth,
until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and
I was no more dumb.
33:23: Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
33:24: Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes
of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited
the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
33:25: Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your
idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
33:26: Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination,
and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess
the land?
33:27: Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall
by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to
the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in
the caves shall die of the pestilence.
33:28: For I will lay the land most desolate, and
the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel
shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
33:29: Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when
I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations
which they have committed.
33:30: Also, thou son of man, the children of thy
people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the
doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his
brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that
cometh forth from the LORD.
33:31: And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words,
but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much
love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
33:32: And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely
song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
33:33: And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will
come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
34:1: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
34:2: Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds
of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD
unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do
feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
34:3: Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the
wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
34:4: The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither
have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that
which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was
driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with
force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
34:5: And they were scattered, because there is no
shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field,
when they were scattered.
34:6: My sheep wandered through all the mountains,
and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all
the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
34:7: Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the
LORD;
34:8: As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because
my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast
of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds
search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed
not my flock;
34:9: Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of
the LORD;
34:10: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and
cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the
shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock
from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
34:11: For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even
I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
34:12: As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the
day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek
out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they
have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
34:13: And I will bring them out from the people,
and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their
own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers,
and in all the inhabited places of the country.
34:14: I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon
the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall
they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed
upon the mountains of Israel.
34:15: I will feed my flock, and I will cause them
to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
34:16: I will seek that which was lost, and bring
again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which
was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will
destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
34:17: And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the
rams and the he goats.
34:18: Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have
eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet
the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters,
but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
34:19: And as for my flock, they eat that which ye
have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have
fouled with your feet.
34:20: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them;
Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between
the lean cattle.
34:21: Because ye have thrust with side and with
shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye
have scattered them abroad;
34:22: Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall
no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
34:23: And I will set up one shepherd over them,
and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them,
and he shall be their shepherd.
34:24: And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant
David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
34:25: And I will make with them a covenant of peace,
and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they
shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
34:26: And I will make them and the places round
about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come
down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
34:27: And the tree of the field shall yield her
fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall
be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when
I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out
of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
34:28: And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,
neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall
dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
34:29: And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither
bear the shame of the heathen any more.
34:30: Thus shall they know that I the LORD their
God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are
my people, saith the Lord GOD.
34:31: And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture,
are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
35:1: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
35:2: Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir,
and prophesy against it,
35:3: And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand
against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
35:4: I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt
be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
35:5: Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and
hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of
the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their
iniquity had an end:
35:6: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith
thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
35:7: Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate,
and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
35:8: And I will fill his mountains with his slain
men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers,
shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
35:9: I will make thee perpetual desolations, and
thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
35:10: Because thou hast said, These two nations
and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it;
whereas the LORD was there:
35:11: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD,
I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine
envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and
I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
35:12: And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and
that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against
the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they
are given us to consume.
35:13: Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against
me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
35:14: Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth
rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
35:15: As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of
the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto
thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even
all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
36:1: Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains
of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
LORD:
36:2: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy
hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours
in possession:
36:3: Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you
up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue
of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and
are an infamy of the people:
36:4: Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the
word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate
wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey
and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
36:5: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in
the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the
heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land
into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful
minds, to cast it out for a prey.
36:6: Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel,
and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and
to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken
in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame
of the heathen:
36:7: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted
up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall
bear their shame.
36:8: But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot
forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel;
for they are at hand to come.
36:9: For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn
unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
36:10: And I will multiply men upon you, all the
house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited,
and the wastes shall be builded:
36:11: And I will multiply upon you man and beast;
and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you
after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your
beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
36:12: Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even
my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt
be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave
them of men.
36:13: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say
unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
36:14: Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither
bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
36:15: Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the
shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach
of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to
fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
36:16: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
36:17: Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their
doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed
woman.
36:18: Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the
blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith
they had polluted it:
36:19: And I scattered them among the heathen, and
they were dispersed through the countries: according to their
way and according to their doings I judged them.
36:20: And when they entered unto the heathen, whither
they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them,
These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his
land.
36:21: But I had pity for mine holy name, which the
house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
36:22: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel,
but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the
heathen, whither ye went.
36:23: And I will sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst
of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith
the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
36:24: For I will take you from among the heathen,
and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your
own land.
36:25: Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all
your idols, will I cleanse you.
36:26: A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
36:27: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause
you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do them.
36:28: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave
to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your
God.
36:29: I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:
and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no
famine upon you.
36:30: And I will multiply the fruit of the tree,
and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach
of famine among the heathen.
36:31: Then shall ye remember your own evil ways,
and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves
in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
36:32: Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord
GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your
own ways, O house of Israel.
36:33: Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I
shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause
you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
36:34: And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas
it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
36:35: And they shall say, This land that was desolate
is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate
and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36:36: Then the heathen that are left round about
you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant
that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will
do it.
36:37: Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this
be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will
increase them with men like a flock.
36:38: As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem
in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
37:1: The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried
me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst
of the valley which was full of bones,
37:2: And caused me to pass by them round about:
and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo,
they were very dry.
37:3: And he said unto me, Son of man, can these
bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
37:4: Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these
bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the
LORD.
37:5: Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold,
I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
37:6: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring
up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in
you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
37:7: So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as
I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the
bones came together, bone to his bone.
37:8: And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh
came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there
was no breath in them.
37:9: Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind,
prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these
slain, that they may live.
37:10: So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their
feet, an exceeding great army.
37:11: Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones
are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are
dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
37:12: Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves,
and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into
the land of Israel.
37:13: And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when
I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out
of your graves,
37:14: And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall
live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know
that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
37:15: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
37:16: Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick,
and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his
companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph,
the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
37:17: And join them one to another into one stick;
and they shall become one in thine hand.
37:18: And when the children of thy people shall
speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest
by these?
37:19: Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him,
even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in mine hand.
37:20: And the sticks whereon thou writest shall
be in thine hand before their eyes.
37:21: And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and
bring them into their own land:
37:22: And I will make them one nation in the land
upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them
all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they
be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
37:23: Neither shall they defile themselves any more
with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any
of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their
dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
37:24: And David my servant shall be king over them;
and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in
my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
37:25: And they shall dwell in the land that I have
given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt;
and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and
their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall
be their prince for ever.
37:26: Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will
place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the
midst of them for evermore.
37:27: My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea,
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
37:28: And the heathen shall know that I the LORD
do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of
them for evermore.
38:1: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
38:2: Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land
of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy
against him,
38:3: And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I
am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
38:4: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses
and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even
a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords:
38:5: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all
of them with shield and helmet:
38:6: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah
of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee.
38:7: Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself,
thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be
thou a guard unto them.
38:8: After many days thou shalt be visited: in the
latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back
from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the
mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought
forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
38:9: Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou
shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands,
and many people with thee.
38:10: Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come
to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind,
and thou shalt think an evil thought:
38:11: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land
of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates,
38:12: To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn
thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and
upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have
gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
38:13: Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou
come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take
a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and
goods, to take a great spoil?
38:14: Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto
Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel
dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
38:15: And thou shalt come from thy place out of
the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them
riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
38:16: And thou shalt come up against my people of
Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen
may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
their eyes.
38:17: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom
I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel,
which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
against them?
38:18: And it shall come to pass at the same time
when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
38:19: For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking
in the land of Israel;
38:20: So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls
of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face
of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall
be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall
shall fall to the ground.
38:21: And I will call for a sword against him throughout
all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall
be against his brother.
38:22: And I will plead against him with pestilence
and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands,
and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain,
and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
38:23: Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself;
and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
39:1: Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against
Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
39:2: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the
sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north
parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
39:3: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand,
and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
39:4: Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel,
thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will
give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts
of the field to be devoured.
39:5: Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
39:6: And I will send a fire on Magog, and among
them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that
I am the LORD.
39:7: So will I make my holy name known in the midst
of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name
any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy
One in Israel.
39:8: Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the
Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
39:9: And they that dwell in the cities of Israel
shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both
the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the
handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire
seven years:
39:10: So that they shall take no wood out of the
field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall
burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled
them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
39:11: And it shall come to pass in that day, that
I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley
of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the
noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all
his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
39:12: And seven months shall the house of Israel
be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
39:13: Yea, all the people of the land shall bury
them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be
glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
39:14: And they shall sever out men of continual
employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers
those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after
the end of seven months shall they search.
39:15: And the passengers that pass through the land,
when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,
till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
39:16: And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah.
Thus shall they cleanse the land.
39:17: And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord
GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the
field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every
side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh,
and drink blood.
39:18: Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and
drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs,
and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
39:19: And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and
drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed
for you.
39:20: Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses
and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith
the Lord GOD.
39:21: And I will set my glory among the heathen,
and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed,
and my hand that I have laid upon them.
39:22: So the house of Israel shall know that I am
the LORD their God from that day and forward.
39:23: And the heathen shall know that the house
of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they
trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and
gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by
the sword.
39:24: According to their uncleanness and according
to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face
from them.
39:25: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will
I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the
whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
39:26: After that they have borne their shame, and
all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me,
when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
39:27: When I have brought them again from the people,
and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified
in them in the sight of many nations;
39:28: Then shall they know that I am the LORD their
God, which cause them to be led into captivity among the heathen:
but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none
of them any more there.
39:29: Neither will I hide my face any more from
them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD.
40:1: In the five and twentieth year of our captivity,
in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in
the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame
day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
40:2: In the visions of God brought he me into the
land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which
was as the frame of a city on the south.
40:3: And he brought me thither, and, behold, there
was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass,
with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he
stood in the gate.
40:4: And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart
upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might
shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that
thou seest to the house of Israel.
40:5: And behold a wall on the outside of the house
round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits
long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth
of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
40:6: Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward
the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold
of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold
of the gate, which was one reed broad.
40:7: And every little chamber was one reed long,
and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five
cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate
within was one reed.
40:8: He measured also the porch of the gate within,
one reed.
40:9: Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight
cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the
gate was inward.
40:10: And the little chambers of the gate eastward
were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were
of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and
on that side.
40:11: And he measured the breadth of the entry of
the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
40:12: The space also before the little chambers
was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that
side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and
six cubits on that side.
40:13: He measured then the gate from the roof of
one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five
and twenty cubits, door against door.
40:14: He made also posts of threescore cubits, even
unto the post of the court round about the gate.
40:15: And from the face of the gate of the entrance
unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
40:16: And there were narrow windows to the little
chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and
likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and
upon each post were palm trees.
40:17: Then brought he me into the outward court,
and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court
round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
40:18: And the pavement by the side of the gates
over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
40:19: Then he measured the breadth from the forefront
of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without,
an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
40:20: And the gate of the outward court that looked
toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth
thereof.
40:21: And the little chambers thereof were three
on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and
the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the
length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
40:22: And their windows, and their arches, and their
palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward
the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches
thereof were before them.
40:23: And the gate of the inner court was over against
the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured
from gate to gate an hundred cubits.
40:24: After that he brought me toward the south,
and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts
thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
40:25: And there were windows in it and in the arches
thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:26: And there were seven steps to go up to it,
and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees,
one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
40:27: And there was a gate in the inner court toward
the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south
an hundred cubits.
40:28: And he brought me to the inner court by the
south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these
measures;
40:29: And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures:
and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about:
it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
40:30: And the arches round about were five and twenty
cubits long, and five cubits broad.
40:31: And the arches thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going
up to it had eight steps.
40:32: And he brought me into the inner court toward
the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
40:33: And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures:
and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round
about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
40:34: And the arches thereof were toward the outward
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side,
and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
40:35: And he brought me to the north gate, and measured
it according to these measures;
40:36: The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof,
and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the
length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:37: And the posts thereof were toward the utter
court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side,
and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
40:38: And the chambers and the entries thereof were
by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
40:39: And in the porch of the gate were two tables
on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the
burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
40:40: And at the side without, as one goeth up to
the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other
side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
40:41: Four tables were on this side, and four tables
on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon
they slew their sacrifices.
40:42: And the four tables were of hewn stone for
the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and
an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the
instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
40:43: And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened
round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
40:44: And without the inner gate were the chambers
of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the
north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the
side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
40:45: And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect
is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge
of the house.
40:46: And the chamber whose prospect is toward the
north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar:
these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come
near to the LORD to minister unto him.
40:47: So he measured the court, an hundred cubits
long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that
was before the house.
40:48: And he brought me to the porch of the house,
and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side,
and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was
three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
40:49: The length of the porch was twenty cubits,
and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps
whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts,
one on this side, and another on that side.
41:1: Afterward he brought me to the temple, and
measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six
cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
41:2: And the breadth of the door was ten cubits;
and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and
five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof,
forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
41:3: Then went he inward, and measured the post
of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth
of the door, seven cubits.
41:4: So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits;
and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said
unto me, This is the most holy place.
41:5: After he measured the wall of the house, six
cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round
about the house on every side.
41:6: And the side chambers were three, one over
another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which
was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they
might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
41:7: And there was an enlarging, and a winding about
still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the
house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth
of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest
chamber to the highest by the midst.
41:8: I saw also the height of the house round about:
the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits.
41:9: The thickness of the wall, which was for the
side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left
was the place of the side chambers that were within.
41:10: And between the chambers was the wideness
of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
41:11: And the doors of the side chambers were toward
the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another
door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left
was five cubits round about.
41:12: Now the building that was before the separate
place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and
the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and
the length thereof ninety cubits.
41:13: So he measured the house, an hundred cubits
long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls
thereof, an hundred cubits long;
41:14: Also the breadth of the face of the house,
and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
41:15: And he measured the length of the building
over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries
thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits,
with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
41:16: The door posts, and the narrow windows, and
the galleries round about on their three stories, over against
the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up
to the windows, and the windows were covered;
41:17: To that above the door, even unto the inner
house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and
without, by measure.
41:18: And it was made with cherubims and palm trees,
so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every
cherub had two faces;
41:19: So that the face of a man was toward the palm
tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the
palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house
round about.
41:20: From the ground unto above the door were cherubims
and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
41:21: The posts of the temple were squared, and
the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance
of the other.
41:22: The altar of wood was three cubits high, and
the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said
unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.
41:23: And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
41:24: And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning
leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other
door.
41:25: And there were made on them, on the doors
of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon
the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch
without.
41:26: And there were narrow windows and palm trees
on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch,
and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
42:1: Then he brought me forth into the utter court,
the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that
was over against the separate place, and which was before the
building toward the north.
42:2: Before the length of an hundred cubits was
the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
42:3: Over against the twenty cubits which were for
the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the
utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
42:4: And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits
breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the
north.
42:5: Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the
galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the
middlemost of the building.
42:6: For they were in three stories, but had not
pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was
straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
42:7: And the wall that was without over against
the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers,
the length thereof was fifty cubits.
42:8: For the length of the chambers that were in
the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were
an hundred cubits.
42:9: And from under these chambers was the entry
on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
42:10: The chambers were in the thickness of the
wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place,
and over against the building.
42:11: And the way before them was like the appearance
of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they,
and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according
to their fashions, and according to their doors.
42:12: And according to the doors of the chambers
that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way,
even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one
entereth into them.
42:13: Then said he unto me, The north chambers and
the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they
be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD
shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most
holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and
the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
42:14: When the priests enter therein, then shall
they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there
they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they
are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach
to those things which are for the people.
42:15: Now when he had made an end of measuring the
inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect
is toward the east, and measured it round about.
42:16: He measured the east side with the measuring
reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
42:17: He measured the north side, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed round about.
42:18: He measured the south side, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed.
42:19: He turned about to the west side, and measured
five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
42:20: He measured it by the four sides: it had a
wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad,
to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
43:1: Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the
gate that looketh toward the east:
43:2: And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel
came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise
of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
43:3: And it was according to the appearance of the
vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when
I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
43:4: And the glory of the LORD came into the house
by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
43:5: So the spirit took me up, and brought me into
the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
house.
43:6: And I heard him speaking unto me out of the
house; and the man stood by me.
43:7: And he said unto me, Son of man, the place
of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will
dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my
holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they,
nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their
kings in their high places
43:8: In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds,
and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them,
they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that
they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
43:9: Now let them put away their whoredom, and the
carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the
midst of them for ever.
43:10: Thou son of man, shew the house to the house
of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let
them measure the pattern.
43:11: And if they be ashamed of all that they have
done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof,
and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all
the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the
forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their
sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and do them.
43:12: This is the law of the house; Upon the top
of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most
holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
43:13: And these are the measures of the altar after
the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the
bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border
thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this
shall be the higher place of the altar.
43:14: And from the bottom upon the ground even to
the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit;
and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be
four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
43:15: So the altar shall be four cubits; and from
the altar and upward shall be four horns.
43:16: And the altar shall be twelve cubits long,
twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
43:17: And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long
and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border
about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be
a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
43:18: And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith
the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day
when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and
to sprinkle blood thereon.
43:19: And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites
that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister
unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
43:20: And thou shalt take of the blood thereof,
and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of
the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse
and purge it.
43:21: Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin
offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house,
without the sanctuary.
43:22: And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid
of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
43:23: When thou hast made an end of cleansing it,
thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out
of the flock without blemish.
43:24: And thou shalt offer them before the LORD,
and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer
them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
43:25: Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a
goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock,
and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
43:26: Seven days shall they purge the altar and
purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
43:27: And when these days are expired, it shall
be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall
make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings;
and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
44:1: Then he brought me back the way of the gate
of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it
was shut.
44:2: Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall
be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by
it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it,
therefore it shall be shut.
44:3: It is for the prince; the prince, he shall
sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the
way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of
the same.
44:4: Then brought he me the way of the north gate
before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the
LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
44:5: And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark
well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all
that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house
of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering
in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
44:6: And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even
to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of
Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
44:7: In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread,
the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because
of all your abominations.
44:8: And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy
things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.
44:9: Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised
in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary,
of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
44:10: And the Levites that are gone away far from
me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after
their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
44:11: Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the
house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for
the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto
them.
44:12: Because they ministered unto them before their
idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and
they shall bear their iniquity.
44:13: And they shall not come near unto me, to do
the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my
holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their
shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
44:14: But I will make them keepers of the charge
of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall
be done therein.
44:15: But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok,
that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel
went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto
me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and
the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
44:16: They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall
keep my charge.
44:17: And it shall come to pass, that when they
enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed
with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles
they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
44:18: They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads,
and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not
gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
44:19: And when they go forth into the utter court,
even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers,
and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify
the people with their garments.
44:20: Neither shall they shave their heads, nor
suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
44:21: Neither shall any priest drink wine, when
they enter into the inner court.
44:22: Neither shall they take for their wives a
widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of
the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest
before.
44:23: And they shall teach my people the difference
between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between
the unclean and the clean.
44:24: And in controversy they shall stand in judgment;
and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall
keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they
shall hallow my sabbaths.
44:25: And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband,
they may defile themselves.
44:26: And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon
unto him seven days.
44:27: And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary,
unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer
his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
44:28: And it shall be unto them for an inheritance:
I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in
Israel: I am their possession.
44:29: They shall eat the meat offering, and the
sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing
in Israel shall be theirs.
44:30: And the first of all the firstfruits of all
things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations,
shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the
first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in
thine house.
44:31: The priests shall not eat of any thing that
is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
45:1: Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land
for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an
holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five
and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand.
This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
45:2: Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five
hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round
about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
45:3: And of this measure shalt thou measure the
length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand:
and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
45:4: The holy portion of the land shall be for the
priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near
to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses,
and an holy place for the sanctuary.
45:5: And the five and twenty thousand of length,
and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers
of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty
chambers.
45:6: And ye shall appoint the possession of the
city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over
against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the
whole house of Israel.
45:7: And a portion shall be for the prince on the
one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion,
and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the
holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the
west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length
shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border
unto the east border.
45:8: In the land shall be his possession in Israel:
and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of
the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their
tribes.
45:9: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you,
O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment
and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the
Lord GOD.
45:10: Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah,
and a just bath. I
45:11: The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,
that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the
ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be
after the homer.
45:12: And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty
shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
manneh.
45:13: This is the oblation that ye shall offer;
the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall
give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
45:14: Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath
of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor,
which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
45:15: And one lamb out of the flock, out of two
hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering,
and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation
for them, saith the Lord GOD.
45:16: All the people of the land shall give this
oblation for the prince in Israel.
45:17: And it shall be the prince's part to give
burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities
of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and
the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings,
to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
45:18: Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month,
in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock
without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
45:19: And the priest shall take of the blood of
the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and
upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the
posts of the gate of the inner court.
45:20: And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the
month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so
shall ye reconcile the house.
45:21: In the first month, in the fourteenth day
of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten.
45:22: And upon that day shall the prince prepare
for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a
sin offering.
45:23: And seven days of the feast he shall prepare
a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for
a sin offering.
45:24: And he shall prepare a meat offering of an
ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil
for an ephah.
45:25: In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day
of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days,
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering,
and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
46:1: Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner
court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of
the new moon it shall be opened.
46:2: And the prince shall enter by the way of the
porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the
gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his
peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the
gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until
the evening.
46:3: Likewise the people of the land shall worship
at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in
the new moons.
46:4: And the burnt offering that the prince shall
offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without
blemish, and a ram without blemish.
46:5: And the meat offering shall be an ephah for
a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able
to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:6: And in the day of the new moon it shall be
a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they
shall be without blemish.
46:7: And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah
for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according
as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:8: And when the prince shall enter, he shall go
in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth
by the way thereof.
46:9: But when the people of the land shall come
before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the
way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the
south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate
shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return
by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth
over against it.
46:10: And the prince in the midst of them, when
they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
46:11: And in the feast and in the solemnities the
meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and ephah to a ram,
and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah.
46:12: Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one
shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and
he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as
he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his
going forth one shall shut the gate.
46:13: Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering
unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou
shalt prepare it every morning.
46:14: And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for
it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part
of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering
continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
46:15: Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the
meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt
offering.
46:16: Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give
a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be
his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
46:17: But if he give a gift of his inheritance to
one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty;
after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall
be his sons' for them.
46:18: Moreover the prince shall not take of the
people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their
possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his
own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from
his possession.
46:19: After he brought me through the entry, which
was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests,
which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place
on the two sides westward.
46:20: Then said he unto me, This is the place where
the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering,
where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not
out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
46:21: Then he brought me forth into the utter court,
and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold,
in every corner of the court there was a court.
46:22: In the four corners of the court there were
courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four
corners were of one measure.
46:23: And there was a row of building round about
in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places
under the rows round about.
46:24: Then said he unto me, These are the places
of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil
the sacrifice of the people.
47:1: Afterward he brought me again unto the door
of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold
of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward
the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side
of the house, at the south side of the altar.
47:2: Then brought he me out of the way of the gate
northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate
by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters
on the right side.
47:3: And when the man that had the line in his hand
went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought
me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles.
47:4: Again he measured a thousand, and brought me
through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured
a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
47:5: Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was
a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
47:6: And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou
seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the
brink of the river.
47:7: Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank
of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
47:8: Then said he unto me, These waters issue out
toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into
the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall
be healed.
47:9: And it shall come to pass, that every thing
that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish,
because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed;
and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
47:10: And it shall come to pass, that the fishers
shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall
be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according
to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
47:11: But the miry places thereof and the marishes
thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
47:12: And by the river upon the bank thereof, on
this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose
leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed:
it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because
their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof
shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
47:13: Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the
border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
47:14: And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:
concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your
fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
47:15: And this shall be the border of the land toward
the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men
go to Zedad;
47:16: Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between
the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon,
which is by the coast of Hauran.
47:17: And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan,
the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border
of Hamath. And this is the north side.
47:18: And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran,
and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel
by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the
east side.
47:19: And the south side southward, from Tamar even
to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea.
And this is the south side southward.
47:20: The west side also shall be the great sea
from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is
the west side.
47:21: So shall ye divide this land unto you according
to the tribes of Israel.
47:22: And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide
it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that
sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they
shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of
Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes
of Israel.
47:23: And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe
the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance,
saith the Lord GOD.
48:1: Now these are the names of the tribes. From
the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth
to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the
coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion
for Dan.
48:2: And by the border of Dan, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
48:3: And by the border of Asher, from the east side
even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
48:4: And by the border of Naphtali, from the east
side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
48:5: And by the border of Manasseh, from the east
side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
48:6: And by the border of Ephraim, from the east
side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
48:7: And by the border of Reuben, from the east
side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
48:8: And by the border of Judah, from the east side
unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer
of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as
one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side:
and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
48:9: The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD
shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand
in breadth.
48:10: And for them, even for the priests, shall
be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand
in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and
twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall
be in the midst thereof.
48:11: It shall be for the priests that are sanctified
of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not
astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites
went astray.
48:12: And this oblation of the land that is offered
shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
48:13: And over against the border of the priests
the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and
ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
48:14: And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange,
nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto
the LORD.
48:15: And the five thousand, that are left in the
breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a
profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and
the city shall be in the midst thereof.
48:16: And these shall be the measures thereof; the
north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side
four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand
and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
48:17: And the suburbs of the city shall be toward
the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred
and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward
the west two hundred and fifty.
48:18: And the residue in length over against the
oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and
ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation
of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food
unto them that serve the city.
48:19: And they that serve the city shall serve it
out of all the tribes of Israel.
48:20: All the oblation shall be five and twenty
thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy
oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
48:21: And the residue shall be for the prince, on
the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the
possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand
of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against
the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against
the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation;
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
48:22: Moreover from the possession of the Levites,
and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that
which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border
of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
48:23: As for the rest of the tribes, from the east
side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
48:24: And by the border of Benjamin, from the east
side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
48:25: And by the border of Simeon, from the east
side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
48:26: And by the border of Issachar, from the east
side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
48:27: And by the border of Zebulun, from the east
side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
48:28: And by the border of Gad, at the south side
southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters
of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
48:29: This is the land which ye shall divide by
lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their
portions, saith the Lord GOD.
48:30: And these are the goings out of the city on
the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
48:31: And the gates of the city shall be after the
names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate
of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
48:32: And at the east side four thousand and five
hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of
Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
48:33: And at the south side four thousand and five
hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate
of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
48:34: At the west side four thousand and five hundred,
with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one
gate of Naphtali.
48:35: It was round about eighteen thousand measures:
and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.