THE HOLY BIBLE
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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZECHIEL
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the
midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens
were opened, and I saw the visions of God.
2 On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year
of the captivity of king Joachin,
3 The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son
of Bud in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar:
and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
4 And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north:
and a great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness
was about it: and out of the midst thereof, that is, out
of the midst of the fire, as it were the resemblance of
amber:
5 And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living
creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the
likeness of a man in them.
6 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.
7 Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot
was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like
the appearance of glowing brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides: and they bad faces, and wings on the four
sides,
9 And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another.
They turned not when they went: but every one went
straight forward.
10 And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face
of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all
the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all
the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.
11 And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward:
two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their
bodies:
12 And every one of them went straight forward: whither the
impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and
they turned not when they went.
13 And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and
like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running
to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright
fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of
lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon
the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four
faces.
16 And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was
like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one
likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it
were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went by their four parts: and they
turned not when they went.
18 The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful
appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round
about all the four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels also went
together by them: and when the living creatures were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up
with them.
20 Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went
the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it:
for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
21 When those went these went, and when those stood these
stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels also were lifted up together, and followed them:
for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
22 And over the heads of the living creatures was the
likeness of the firmament, as the appearance of crystal
terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads
above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other, every one with two wings covered his
body, and the other was covered in like manner.
24 And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of
many waters, as it were the voice of the most high God:
when they walked, it was like the voice of a multitude,
like the noise of an army, and when they stood, their
wings were let down.
25 For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was
over their heads, they stood, and let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire
stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was a likeness
as of the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the
appearance of fire within it round about: from his loins
and upward, and from his loins downward, I saw as it were
the resemblance of fire shining round about.
28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on
a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness
round about.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 2
1 This was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the
Lord. And I saw, and I fell upon my face, and I heard the
voice of one that spoke. And he said to me: Son of man,
stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me after that he spoke to me,
and he set me upon my feet: and I heard him speaking to
me,
3 And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of
Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from
me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant
even unto this day.
4 And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face,
and of an obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God:
5 If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will
forbear, for they are a provoking house: and they shall
know that there hath been a prophet in the midst of them.
6 And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid
of their words: for thou art among unbelievers and
destroyers, and thou dwellest with scorpions. Fear not
their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for
they are a provoking house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words to them, if perhaps they
will hear, and forbear: for they provoke me to anger.
8 But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say to thee: and
do not thou provoke me, as that house provoketh me: open
thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.
9 And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to me, wherein
was a book rolled up: and he spread it before me, and it
was written within and without: and there were written in
it lamentations, and canticles, and woe.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 3
1 And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt
find: eat this book, and go speak to the children of
Israel.
2 And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:
3 And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and
thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which I give
thee. And I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey in my
mouth.
4 And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel,
and thou shalt speak my words to them.
5 For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech,
and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
6 Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown
tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou
wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because
they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel
are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.
8 Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and
thy forehead harder than their foreheads.
9 I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear
them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for
they are a provoking house.
10 And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and
hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:
11 And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the
children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and
shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be they will
hear and will forbear.
12 And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice
of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the
Lord, from his place.
13 And the noise of the wings of the living creatures
striking one against another, and the noise of the wheels
following the living creatures, and the noise of a great
commotion.
14 The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away
in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the
hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.
15 And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new
corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat
where they sat: and I remained there seven days mourning
in the midst of them.
16 And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of
Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and
shalt tell it them from me.
18 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou
declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be
converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked
man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his
blood at thy hand.
19 But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not
converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he
indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
20 Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice,
and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him
warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which
he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require
his blood at thy hand.
21 But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin,
and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou
hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me:
Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak
to thee.
23 And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold
the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I
saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
24 And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet:
and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut
thyself up in the midst of thy house.
25 And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon
thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt
not go forth from the midst of them.
26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy
mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that
reproveth: because they are a provoking house.
27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and
thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that
heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him
forbear: for they are a provoking house.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 4
1 And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it
before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of
Jerusalem.
2 And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a
mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams
round about it.
3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
resolutely against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou
shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign to the house of
Israel.
4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay the
iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to
the number of the days that thou shalt sleep upon it, and
thou shalt take upon thee their iniquity.
5 And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,
according to the number of the days three hundred and
ninety days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house
of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep
again upon thy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee
the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days: a day for it
year, yea, a day for a year I have appointed to thee.
7 And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem,
and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt
prophesy against it.
8 Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt
not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou
hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils,
and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof according to the number of the
days that thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight
twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.
11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of
a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the
ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the
dung that cometh out of a man.
13 And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel Beat
their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will
cast them out.
14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath
not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I
have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn
by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my
mouth.
15 And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung
for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
16 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in
pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water
by measure, and in distress.
17 So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall
against his brother, and they may pine away in their
iniquities.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 5
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth
the hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy
beard: and take thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the
hair.
2 A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the
city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the
siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in
pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third
part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out
the sword after them.
3 And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind
them in the skirt of thy cloak.
4 And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in
the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and
out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of
Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her
in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about
her.
6 And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more
wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than
the countries that are round about her: for they have cast
off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have
surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have
not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my
judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of
the nations that are round about you:
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against
thee, and I myself will execute judgments in the midst of
thee in the sight of the Gentiles.
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the
like to which I will do no more, because of all thy
abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will
execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole
remnant into every wind.
11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast
violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with ail
thy abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my
eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and
shall be consumed with famine in the midst of thee: and a
third part of thee shall fall by the sword round about
thee: and a third part of thee will I scatter into every
wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my
indignation to rest upon them, and I will be comforted:
and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my
zeal, when I shall have accomplished my indignation in
them.
14 And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every
one that passeth by.
15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and
an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about
thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in
anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.
16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the
grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and
which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather
together famine against you: and I will break among you
the staff of bread.
17 And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto
utter destruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass
through thee, and I will bring in the sword upon thee. I
the Lord have spoken it.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 6
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Israel,
and prophesy against them.
3 And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
God: Thus Faith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the
hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will
bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high
places.
4 And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be
broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before
your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of
Israel before your idols: and I will scatter Sour bones
round about your altars,
6 In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid
waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and
destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall
be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and
your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be
defaced.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you
shall know that I am the Lord.
8 And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword
among the nations, when I shall have scattered you,
through the countries.
9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst
the nations to which they are carried captives: because I
have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted
from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after
their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves
because of the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in
vain that I would do this evil to them.
11 Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand, and stamp
with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of
the evils of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by
the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he
that is near, shall fall by the sword: and he that
remaineth, and is besieged, shall die by the famine: and
I will accomplish my indignation upon them.
13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain
shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in
every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and
under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the
place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all
their idols.
14 And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will
make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of
Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 7
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land
of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four
quarters of the land.
3 Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath
upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways:
and I will set all thy abominations against thee.
4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no
pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy
abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall
know that I am the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an
affliction is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against
thee: behold it is come.
7 Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land:
the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of
the joy of mountains.
8 Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and
I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy
crimes.
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but
I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall
be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the
Lord that strike.
10 Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone
forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of
them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise
of them: and there shall be no rest among them.
12 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer
rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the
people thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which he hath
sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the
vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall
not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the
iniquity of his life.
14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none
to go to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the
people thereof.
15 The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine
within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword:
and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the
pestilence, and the famine.
16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they
shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all
of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run
with water.
18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear
shall cover them, and shame shall be upon every face, and
baldness upon all their heads.
19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall
become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not
be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the
Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies
shall not be filled: because it hath been the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into
pride, and have made of it the images of their
abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an
uncleanness to them.
21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil,
and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall
defile it.
22 And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall
violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it,
and defile it.
23 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment
of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.
24 And I will bring the worse of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the
mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary.
25 When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace
and there shall be none.
26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour,
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and
will judge them according to their judgments: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month,
in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and
the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the
Lord God fell there upon me.
2 And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of
fire: from the appearance of his loins, and downward,
fire: and from his loins, and upward, as the appearance of
brightness, as the appearance of amber.
3 And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a
lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the
earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God
into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward
the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke
to jealousy.
4 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the vision which I had seen in the plain.
5 And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards
the way of the north. And I lifted up my eyes towards the
way of the north: and behold on the north side of the gate
of the altar the idol of jealousy in the very entry.
6 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest
thou, what these are doing, the great abominations that
the house of Israel committeth here, that I should depart
far off from my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and
thou shalt see greater abominations.
7 And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw,
and behold a hole in the wall.
8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall. And when
I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations
which they commit here.
10 And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping
things, and of living creatures, the abomination, and all
the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall
all round about.
11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel,
and Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of
them, that stood before the pictures: and every one had a
censer in his hand: and a cloud of smoke went up from the
incense.
12 And he add to me: Surely thou seest. O son of man, what
the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord
seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
13 And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see
greater abominations which these commit.
14 And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord's
house, which looked to the north: and behold women sat
there mourning for Adonis.
15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man:
but turn thee again: and thou shalt see greater
abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the
Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord,
between the porch and the altar, were about five and
twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the
Lord, and their faces to the east: and they adored towards
the rising of the sun.
17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is
this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should
commit these abominations which they have committed here:
because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have
turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a
branch to their nose.
18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye
shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when
they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not
hear them.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 9
1 And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying: The
visitations of the city are at hand, and every one hath a
destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate,
which looketh to the north: and each one had his weapon of
destruction in his hand: and there was one man in the
midst of them clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn
at his reins: and they went in, and stood by the brazen
altar.
3 And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the
cherub, upon which he was, to the threshold of the house:
and he called to the man that was clothed with linen, and
had a writer's inkhorn at his loins.
4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the
city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon
the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the
abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.
5 And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him
through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor
be ye moved with pity.
6 Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and
women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him
not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the
ancient men who mere before the house.
7 And he said to them: Defile the house, and ill the courts
with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew
them that were in the city.
8 And the slaughter being ended I was left: and I fell upon
my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God,
wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by
pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel,
and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled
with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for
they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the
Lord seeth not.
10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have
pity: I will requite their way upon their head.
11 And behold the man that was clothed with linen, that had
the inkhorn at his back, returned the word, saying: I have
done as thou hast commanded me.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 10
1 And saw and behold in the firmament that was over the
heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it
were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne.
2 And he spoke to the man, that was clothed with linen, and
said: Go in between the wheels that are under the
cherubims and fill thy hand with the coals of fire that
are between the cherubims, and pour them out upon the
city. And he went in, in my sight:
3 And the cherubims stood on the right side of the house,
when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
4 And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the
cherub to the threshold of the house: and the house was
filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the
brightness of the glory of the Lord.
5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard even
to the out- ward court as the voice of God Almighty
speaking.
6 And when he had commanded the man that was clothed with
linen, saying: Take fire from the midst of the wheels that
are between the cherubims: he went in and stood beside the
wheel,
7 And one cherub stretched out his arm from the midst of the
cherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims: and
he took, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed
with linen: who took it and went forth.
8 And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a
man's hand under their wings.
9 And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the
cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by
an- other cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to
the sight like the chrysolite stone:
10 And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a
wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
11 And when they went, they went by four ways: and they
turned not when they went: but to the place whither they
first turned, the rest also followed, and did not turn
back.
12 And their whole body, and their necks, and their hands,
and their wings, and the circles were full of eyes, round
about the four wheels.
13 And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
14 And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face, the face of a man: and in the
third was the face of a lion: and in the fourth the face
of an eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living
creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.
16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them:
and when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up
from the earth, the wheels stayed not behind, but were by
them.
17 When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted
up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in
them.
18 And the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of
the temple: and stood over the cherubims.
19 And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from
the earth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also
followed: and it stood in the entry of the east gate of
the house of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel
was over them.
20 This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of
Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they
were cherubims.
21 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and
the likeness of a man's hand was under their wings.
22 And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same
faces which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their
looks, and the impulse of every one to go straight
forward.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 11
1 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east
gate of the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the
rising of the sun: and behold in the entry of the gate
five and twenty men: and I saw in the midst of them
Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias,
princes of the people.
2 And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that
study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,
3 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the
caldron, and we the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of
man.
5 And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me:
Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house
of Israel, for I know the thoughts of your heart.
6 You have killed a great many in this city, and you have
filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you
have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, and
this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the
midst thereof.
8 You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon
you, saith the Lord God.
9 And I will cast you out of the midst thereof, and I will
deliver you into the hand of the enemies, and I will
execute judgments upon you.
10 You shall fall by the sword: I will judge you in the
borders of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
11 This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not
be as flesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the
borders of Israel.
12 And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have
not walked in my commandments, and have not done my
judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of
the nations that; are round about you.
13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the
son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and
cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O
Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of
Israel?
14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
15 Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and
all the house of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants
of Jerusalem have said: Get ye far from the Lord, the land
is given in possession to us.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed
them far off among the Gentiles, and because I have
scattered them among the countries: I will be to them a
little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.
17 Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the Lord God: I will
gather you from among the peoples, and assemble you out of
the countries wherein you are scattered, and I will give
you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the
scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit
in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out
of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my
judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people,
and I may be their God.
21 But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals
and abominations, I will lay their way upon their head,
saith the Lord God.
22 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels
with them: and the glory of the God of Israel was over
them.
23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the
city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of
the city.
24 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea,
to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God:
and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.
25 And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the
Lord, which he had shewn me.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 12
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking
house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to
hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.
3 Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all
necessaries for removing, and remove by day in their
sight: and thou shalt remove out of thy place to another
place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for
they are a provoking house.
4 And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture
of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou
shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one
goeth forth that removeth his dwelling.
5 Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and
thou shalt go forth through it.
6 In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men's
shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou
shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: for I
have set thee for a sign of things to come to the house of
Israel.
7 I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my
goods by day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in
the evening I digged through the wall with my hand: and I
went forth in the dark, and was carried on men's shoulders
in their sight.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning,
saying:
9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking
house, said to thee: What art thou doing?
10 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: This burden
concerneth my prince that is in Jerusalem, and all the
house of Israel, that are among them.
11 Say: I am a sign of things to come to you: as I have done,
so shall it be done to them: they shall be removed from
their dwellings, and go into captivity.
12 And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be
carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they
shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face
shall be covered, that he may not see the ground with his
eyes.
13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken
in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the
land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there
he shall die.
14 And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I
will scatter into every wind: and I will draw out the
sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
dispersed them among the nations, and scattered them in
the countries.
16 And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and
from the famine, and from the pestilence: that they may
declare all their wicked deeds among the nations whither
they shall go: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble: and drink thy water
in hurry and sorrow.
19 And say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord God
to them that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel:
They shall eat their bread in care, and drink their water
in desolation: that the land may become desolate from the
multitude that is therein, for the iniquity of all that
dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste,
and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I
am the Lord.
21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land
of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every
vision shall fail.
23 Say to them therefore: Thus saith the Lord God: I will
make this proverb to cease, neither shall it be any more
a common saying in Israel: and tell them that the days are
at hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful
divination in the midst of the children of Israel.
25 For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall
speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged
any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will
speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.
26 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
27 Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The
vision that this man seeth, is for many days to come: and
this men prophesieth of times afar off.
28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Not one
word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I
shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 13
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, prophesy thou against the prophets of Israel
that prophesy: and thou shalt say to them that prophesy
out of their own heart: Hear ye the word of the Lord:
3 Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that
follow their own spirit, and see nothing.
4 Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.
5 You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set
up a wall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in
the day of the Lord.
6 They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The
Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they
have persisted to confirm what they have said.
7 Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying
divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have
not spoken.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken
vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come
against you, saith the Lord God.
9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain
things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the
council of my people, nor shall they be written in the
writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter
into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the
Lord God.
10 Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and
there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and
they daubed it with dirt without straw.
11 Say to them that daub without tempering, that it shall
fall: for there shall be an overflowing shower, and I will
cause great hailstones to fall violently from above, and
a stormy wind to throw it down.
12 Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to
you: Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I will cause a
stormy wind to break forth in my indignation, and there
shall be an overflowing shower in my anger: and great
hailstones in my wrath to consume.
14 And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with
untempered mortar: and I will make it even with the
ground, and the foundation thereof shall be laid bare: and
it shall fall, and shall be consumed in the midst thereof:
and you shall know that I am the Lord.
15 And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
them that daub it without tempering the mortar, and I will
say to you: The wall is no more, and they that daub it are
no more.
16 Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem,
and that see visions of peace for her: and there is no
peace, saith the Lord God.
17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters
of thy people that prophesy out of their own heart: and do
thou prophesy against them,
18 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to them that sew
cushions under every elbow: and make pillows for the heads
of persons of every age to catch souls: and when they
caught the souls of my people, they gave life to their
souls.
19 And they violated me among my people, for a handful of
barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should
not die, and to save souls alive which should not live,
telling lies to my people that believe lies.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I declare
against your cushions, wherewith you catch flying souls:
and I will tear them off from your arms: and I will let go
the souls that you catch, the souls that should fly.
21 And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver my people
out of your hand, neither shall they be any more in your
hands to be a prey: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to
mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have
strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not
return from his evil way, and live.
23 Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine
divinations any more, and I will deliver my people out of
your hand: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 14
1 And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat
before me.
2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
3 Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in
their hearts, and have set up before their face the
stumblingblock of their iniquity: and shall I answer when
they inquire of me?
4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the
Lord God: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place
his uncleannesses in his heart, and set up the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and shall
come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord
will answer him according to the multitude of his
uncleannesses:
5 That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart,
with which they have departed from me through all their
idols.
6 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
God: Be converted, and depart from your idols, and turn
away your faces from all your abominations.
7 For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger
among the proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself
from me, and place his idols in his heart, and set the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and come
to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord will
answer him by myself.
8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him
an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the
midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
9 And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the
Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth
my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of
my people Israel.
10 And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the
iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of
the prophet be.
11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but may be
my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord of
hosts.
12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
13 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to
transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon
it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I
will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast
out of it.
14 And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in
it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice,
saith the Lord of hosts.
15 And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land
to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none
that can pass because of the beasts:
16 If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith the
Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: but
they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be made
desolate.
17 Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the
sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast
out of it:
18 And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live,
saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they themselves alone shall be delivered.
19 Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour
out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it
man and beast:
20 And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as
I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son
nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls
by their justice.
21 For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon
Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the
famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to
destroy out of it man and beast,
22 Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved,
who shall bring away their sons and daughters: behold they
shall come among you, and you shall see their way, and
their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the
evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all things
that I have brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways,
and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done
without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord
God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 15
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine,
out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees
of the forests?
3 Shall wood be taken of if, to do any work, or shall a pin
be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?
4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath
consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is
reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work?
5 Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much
less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall
any work be made of it?
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among
the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to
be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go out
from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know
that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against
them.
8 And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and
desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the
Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 16
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem:
Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy
father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.
4 And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy
navel wits not cut, neither wast thou washed with water
for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with
clouts.
5 No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for
thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out
upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul,
in the day that thou wast born.
6 And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under
foot in thy own blood. and I said to thee when thou wast
in thy blood: Live: I have said to thee: Live in thy
blood.
7 I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and
thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and
camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned,
and thy hair grew: and thou wast naked, and full of
confusion.
8 And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time
was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee,
and covered thy ignominy. And I swore to thee, and I
entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and
thou becamest mine.
9 And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood
from thee: and I anointed thee with oil.
10 And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shed thee with
violet coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine
linen, and clothed thee with fine garments.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on
thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.
12 And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy
ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
13 And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast
clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many
colours: thou didst eat fine hour, and honey, and oil, and
wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a
queen.
14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy
beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I
had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself
to every passenger, to be his.
16 And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places
sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot
upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be
hereafter.
17 And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my
silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of
men, and hast committed fornication with them.
18 And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and
coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense
before them.
19 And my bread which I gave thee, the fine flour, and oil,
and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast set before them
for a sweet odour; and it was done, saith the Lord God.
20 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou
hast borne to me: and best sacrificed the same to them to
be devoured. Is thy fornication small?
21 Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them,
consecrating them by fire.
22 And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou
hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast
naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy
own blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to
thee, saith the Lord God)
24 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest
thee a brothel house in every street.
25 At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy
prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable:
and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by,
and hast multiplied thy fornications.
26 And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy
fornications to provoke me.
27 Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will
take away thy justification: and I will deliver thee up to
the will of the daughters of the Philistines that hate
thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way.
28 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians,
because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst
played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not
contented.
29 Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of
Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast then
satisfied.
30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord God:
seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless
prostitute?
31 Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of
every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every
street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth
her price,
32 But as an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her
husband.
33 Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire
to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come
to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.
34 And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of
women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be
no such fornication: for in that thou gavest rewards, and
didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in
thee.
35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.
36 Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been
poured out, and thy shame discovered through thy
fornications with thy lovers, and with the idols of thy
abominations, by the blood of thy children whom thou
gavest them:
37 Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom
thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved,
with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them
together against thee on every side, and will discover thy
shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy
nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed
blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy.
39 And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall
destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and
they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away
the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full
of disgrace.
40 And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall
stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their
swords.
41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall
execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women:
and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no
hire any more.
42 And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy
shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no
more.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,
but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also
have turned thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God,
and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all
thy abominations.
44 Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use
this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is
her daughter.
45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband,
and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters,
who cast off their husbands, and their children: your
mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.
46 And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that
dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.
47 But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou
done a little less than they according to their
wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things
than they in all thy ways
48 as I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself,
and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and
thy daughters.
49 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her,
and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their
hand to the needy, and to the poor.
50 And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before
me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.
51 And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast
surpassed them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy
sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.
52 Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast
surpassed thy sisters with thy sine, doing more wickedly
than they: for they are justified above thee, therefore be
thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, thou that hast
justified thy sisters.
53 And I will bring back and restore them by bringing back
Sodom, with her daughters, and by bringing back Samaria,
and her daughters: and I will bring those that return of
thee in the midst of them.
54 That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded
in all that thou hast done, comforting them.
55 And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to
their ancient state: and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their ancient state: and thou and thy daughters
shall return to your ancient state.
56 And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth, in the
day of thy pride,
57 Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time,
making thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of
all the daughters of Palestine round about thee, that
encompass thee on all sides.
58 Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace, saith
the Lord God.
59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as
thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:
60 And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of
thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting
covenant.
61 And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when
thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger:
and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy
covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord,
63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest
no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I
shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done,
saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 17
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the
house of Israel,
3 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: A large eagle with great
wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came
to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.
4 He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried
it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city
of merchants.
5 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the
ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many
waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.
6 And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low
stature, and the branches thereof looked towards him: and
the roots thereof were under him. So it became a vine, and
grew into branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and
many feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were
her roots towards him, stretched forth her branches to
him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
plantation.
8 It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it
might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might
become a large vine.
9 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then?
shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its
fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and
make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many
people, to pluck it up by the root?
10 Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then? shall it not
be dried up when the burning wind shall touch it, and
shall it not wither in the furrows where it grew?
11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
12 Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things
mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to
Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes
thereof, and carry them with him to Babylon.
13 And he shall take one of the king's seed, and make a
covenant with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he
shall take away the mighty men of the land,
14 That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but
keep his covenant, and observe it.
15 But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to
Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And
shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and
shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?
16 As I live, saith the Lord God: In the place where the king
dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he hath made void,
and whose covenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon
shall he die.
17 And not with a great army, nor with much people shall
Pharao fight against him: when he shall cast up mounts,
and build forts, to cut off many souls.
18 For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and
behold he hath given his hand: and having done all these
things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As I live, I will lay
upon his head the oath he hath despised, and the covenant
he hath broken.
20 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken
in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will
judge him there for the transgression by which he hath
despised me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
sword: and the residue shall be scattered into every wind:
and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken.
22 Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow
of the high cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a
tender twig from the top of the branches thereof, and I
will plant it on a mountain high and eminent.
23 On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it
shall shoot forth into branches, and shall bear fruit, and
it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell
under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the
shadow of the branches thereof.
24 And all the trees of the country shall know that I the
Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low
tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused
the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have
done it.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 18
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What is the
meaning?
2 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the
land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour
grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
3 As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no
more to you a proverb in Israel.
4 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so
also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth,
the same shall die.
5 And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,
6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a
menstruous woman:
7 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge
to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath
given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked
with a garment:
8 Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath
withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true
judgment between man and man:
9 Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to
do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord
God.
10 And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of
blood, and that hath done some one of these things:
11 Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon
the mountains, and that defileth his neighbour's wife:
12 That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by
violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth
up his eyes to idols, that committeth abomination:
13 That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an increase: shall
such a one live? he shall not live. Seeing he hath done
all these detestable things, he shall surely die, his
blood shall be upon him.
14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sine,
which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like
to them:
15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife:
16 And hath not grieved any man, nor withholden the pledge,
nor taken away with violence, but hath given his bread to
the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment:
17 That hath turned away his hand from injuring the poor,
hath not taken usury and increase, but hath executed my
judgments, and hath walked in my commandments: this man
shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but living
he shall live.
18 As for his father, because he oppressed and offered
violence to his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of
his people, behold he is dead in his own iniquity.
19 And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of
his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment
and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them,
living, he shall live.
20 The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall
not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall
not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just
shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
be upon him.
21 But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he
hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do
judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not
die.
22 I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done:
in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.
23 Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord
God, and not that he should be converted from his ways,
and live?
24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice,
and do iniquity according to all the abominations which
the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his
justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in
the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in
his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.
25 And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear
ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not
right, and are not rather your ways perverse?
26 For when the just turneth himself away from his justice,
and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the
injustice that he hath wrought he shall die.
27 And when the wicked turneth himself away from his
wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and
justice: he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all
his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely
live, and not die.
29 And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not
right. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are
not rather your ways perverse?
30 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O
house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do
penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be
your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you
have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and
a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?
32 For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the
Lord God, return ye and live.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel,
2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the
lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young
lions?
3 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a
lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not
without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains
into the land of Egypt.
5 But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was
lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a
lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a
lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
7 He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities:
and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by
the noise of his roaring.
8 And the nations Game together against him on every side
out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him,
in their wounds he was taken.
9 And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains
to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison,
that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains
of Israel.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the
water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many
waters.
11 And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that
bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches:
and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground,
and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods
are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.
13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not
passable, and dry.
14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which
hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong
rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and
it shall be for a lamentation.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 20
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, the tenth day of the month: there came men of the
ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat
before me.
2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel, and say to
them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of
me? As I live, I will not answer you, saith the Lord God.
4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, son of man, declare
to them the abominations of their fathers.
5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when
I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the
house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt,
and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your
God:
6 In that day I lifted up my hand for them, to bring them
out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided
for them, flowing with milk and honey, which excelleth
amongst all lands.
7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals
of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
8 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they
did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes,
neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I
would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my
wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not
be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they
were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring
them out of the land of Egypt.
10 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and
brought them into the desert.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my
judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
12 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them: and that they might know that I am
the Lord that sanctify them.
13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they
walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my
judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and
they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore
that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the
desert, and would consume them.
14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should
be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them
out, in their sight.
15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to
bring them into the land which I had given them flowing
with milk and honey, the best of all lands.
16 Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went
after idols.
17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not:
neither did I consume them in the desert.
18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not
in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their
judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:
19 I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and
observe my judgments, and do them.
20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between
me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your
God.
21 But their children provoked me, they walked not in my
commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which
if a man do, he shell live in them: and they violated my
sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon
them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.
22 But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
that it might not be violated before the nations, out of
which I brought them forth in their sight.
23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to
disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through
the countries:
24 Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off
my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes
had been after the idols of their fathers.
25 Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good,
and judgments, in which they shall not live.
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered
all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.
27 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and
say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this
also your fathers blasphemed me, when they had despised
and contemned me;
28 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted
up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and
every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims:
and there they presented the provocation of their
offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and
poured forth their libations.
29 And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which
you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to
this day.
30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers,
and you commit fornication with their abominations.
31 And you defile yourselves with all your: idols unto this
day, in the offering of your gifts, when you make your
children pass through the fire: and shall I answer you, O
house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not
answer you.
32 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by
which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the
families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you with
a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and I will
gather you out of the countries, in which you are
scattered, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.
36 As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the
land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord
God.
37 And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring
you into the bands of the covenant.
38 And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and
the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they
sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
and you shall know that I am the Lord.
39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord
God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them.
But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy
name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;
40 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith
the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve
me; all of them I say, in the land in which they shall
please me, and there will I require your firstfruits, and
the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications.
41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I
shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have
gathered you out of the lands into which you are
scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of
the nations.
42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
brought you into the land of Israel, into the land for
which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.
43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your
wicked doings with which you have been defiled; and you
shall be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, for
all your wicked deeds which you committed.
44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
done well by you for my own name's sake, and not according
to your evil ways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O
house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and
drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of
the south field.
47 And any to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord:
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in
thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every
dry tree: the dame of the fire shall not be quenched: and
every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to
the north.
48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it,
and it shall not be quenched.
49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth
not this man speak by parables?
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 21
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy
speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against
the land of Israel:
3 And say to the land of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I come against thee, and I will draw forth my sword
out of its sheath, and will cut off in thee the just, and
the wicked.
4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just, and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its
sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the
north.
5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my
sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy
loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou
shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and
every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run
down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done,
saith the Lord God.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Say: The sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished.
10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it
may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou
hast cut down every tree.
11 And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be
handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished,
that it may be in the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry, and howl, 0
son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon
all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are
delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore
upon thy thigh,
13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the
sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.
14 Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy
hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the
sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a
great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed,
15 And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all
their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the
sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for
slaughter.
16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left,
which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.
17 And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my
indignation: I the Lord have spoken.
18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
19 And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of
the king of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of
one land: and with his hand he shall draw lots, he shall
consult at the head of the way of the city.
20 Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath
of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the
strong city.
21 For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head
of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he
inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.
22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set
battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up
the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to
cast up a mount, to build forts.
23 And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle
in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he
will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be
taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have
remembered your iniquity, and have discovered your
prevarications, and your sins have appeared in all your
devices: because, I say, you have remembered, you shall be
taken with the hand.
25 But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is
come that hath been appointed in the time of iniquity:
26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the
crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and
brought down him that was high?
27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but
this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth,
and I will give it him.
28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the
Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning
their reproach, and thou shalt say: sword, O sword, come
out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and
to glitter,
29 Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine
lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are
wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of
iniquity.
30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place
wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire
of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into
the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy
destruction.
32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the
midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord
have spoken it.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 22
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not
judge the city of blood?
3 And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt
say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that
sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may
come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile
herself.
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed:
and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made:
and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought
on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a
reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.
5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee,
shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great
in destruction.
6 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his
arm in thee to shed blood.
7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have
oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have
grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
8 Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my
sabbaths.
9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have
eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed
wickedness in the midst of thee.
10 They have discovered the nakedness of their father in
thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous
woman in thee.
11 And every one hath committed abomination with his
neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly
defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed
his sister the daughter of his father in thee.
12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast
taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed
thy neighbours: and then hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
God.
13 Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which
thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed:
In the midst of thee.
14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail ill the
days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken,
and will do it.
15 And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter
thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy
uncleanness in thee.
16 And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and
thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dress to me: all
these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst
of the furnace: they are become the dress of silver.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all
turned into dress, therefore behold I will gather you
together in the midst of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and
lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire
in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury
and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt
you down.
21 And I will gather you together, and will burn you in the
fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst
thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am
the Lord, when I have poured out my indignation upon you.
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean,
and not rained upon in the day of wrath.
25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof:
like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have
devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have
made many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my
sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and
profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and
the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
27 Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening
the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run
after gains through covetousness.
28 And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the
mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them,
saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not
spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed
robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they
oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.
30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a
hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the
land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.
31 And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of
my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon
their own head, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 23
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man,
there were two women, daughters of one mother.
3 And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth
they committed fornication: there were their breasts
pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were
bruised.
4 And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her
younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and
daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and
Jerusalem is Ooliba.
5 And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on
her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
6 Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful
youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
7 And she committed her fornications with those chosen men,
all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with
the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.
8 Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which
she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in
her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity,
and poured out their fornication upon her.
9 Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her
lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon
whose lust she doted.
10 They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became
infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.
11 And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust
more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the
fornication of her sister.
12 Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the
Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her,
clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode
upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.
13 And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took
one way.
14 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen
men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set
forth in colours,
15 And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed
turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the
captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the
land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,
16 She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she
sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
17 And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed
of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she
was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.
18 And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her
disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul
was alienated from her sister.
19 For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days
of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land
of Egypt.
20 And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose
flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the
issue of horses.
21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when
thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy
virginity broken.
22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will
raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul
hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against
thee round about.
23 The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the
nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the
Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and
rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.
24 And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot
and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed
against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler,
and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee by their judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall
execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose
and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword:
they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy
residue shall be devoured by fire.
26 And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away
the instruments of thy glory.
27 And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy
fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither
shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt
any more.
28 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee
into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands
with whom thy soul hath been glutted.
29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall
take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked,
and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication
shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
30 They have done these things to thee, because thou hast
played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast
defiled with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will give
her cup into thy hand.
32 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's
cup, deep, and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and
scorn, which containeth very much.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with
the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria.
34 And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the
dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou
shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith
the Lord God.
35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast
forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear
thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
36 And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou
judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them
their wicked deeds?
37 Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in
their hands, and they have committed fornication with
their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore
to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.
38 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my
sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols,
and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it:
they did these things even in the midst of my house.
40 They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent
a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst
wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned
with women's ornaments.
41 Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked
before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my
ointment.
42 And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing:
and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and
that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their
hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now
will this woman still continue in her fornication.
44 And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in
unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
45 They therefore are k just men: these shall judge them as
adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are
judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in
their hands.
46 For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them,
and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
47 And lee the people stone them with stones, and let them be
stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and
daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
48 And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all
women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness
of them.
49 And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you
shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that
I am the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 24
1 And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in
the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:
2 Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the
king of Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.
3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the
provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:
Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it.
4 Heap together into if the pieces thereof, every good
piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full
of bones.
5 Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of
bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and
the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of
it.
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city,
to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone
out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot
fallen upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it
upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the
ground, that it might be covered with dust.
8 And that I might bring my indignation upon her, and take
my vengeance: I have shed her blood upon the smooth rock,
that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city,
of which I will make a great bonfire.
10 Heap together the bones, which I will burn with Are: the
flesh shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall
be sodden, and the bones shall be consumed.
11 Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot,
and the brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of
it be melted in the midst thereof, and let the rust of it
be consumed.
12 Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is
not gone out, not even by fire.
13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: be- cause I desired to
cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy
filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause
my indignation to rest in thee.
14 I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will
do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I
will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to
thy doings, saith the Lord.
15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
16 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes
with a stroke: and thou shalt not lament, nor weep:
neither shall thy tears run down.
17 Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the
tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet,
and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners.
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died
in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had
commanded me.
19 And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what
these things mean that thou doest?
20 And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your
realm, and the thing that your eyes de sire, and for which
your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you
have left, shall fall by the sword.
22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your
faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.
23 You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your
feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine
away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with
his brother.
24 And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a sign of things to
come: according to all that he hath done, so shall you do,
when this shall come to pass: and you shall know that I am
the Lord God.
25 And thou, O son of man, behold in the day wherein I will
take away from them their strength, and the joy of their
glory, and the desire of their eyes, upon which their
souls rest, their sons and their daughters.
26 In that day when he that escapeth shall come to thee, to
tell thee:
27 In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened to him that
hath escaped, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no
more: and thou shalt be unto them for a sign of things to
come, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 25
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon,
and thou shalt prophesy of them.
3 And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the
word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because
thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was
profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid
waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led
into captivity:
4 Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of the east for
an inheritance, and they shall place their sheepcotes in
thee, and shall set up their tents in thee: they shall eat
thy fruits: and they shall drink thy milk.
5 And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the
children of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you
shall know that I am the Lord.
6 For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy
hands and stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with
all thy heart against the land of Israel:
7 Therefore behold I: will stretch forth my hand upon thee,
and will deliver thee to be the spoil of nations, and will
cut thee off from among the people, and destroy thee out
of the lands, and break thee in pieces: and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord.
8 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said:
Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations:
9 Therefore behold I will open the shoulder of Moab from the
cities, from his cities, I say, and his borders, the noble
cities of the land of Bethiesimoth, and Beelmeon, and
Cariathaim,
10 To the people of the east with the children of Ammon, and
I will give it them for an inheritance: that there may be
no more any remembrance of the children of Ammon among the
nations.
11 And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
12 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance
to revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath
greatly offended, and hath sought revenge of them:
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my
hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and
beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they
that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my
people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my
wrath, and my fury: and they shall know my vengeance,
saith the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have
taken vengeance, and have revenged themselves with all
their mind, destroying and satisfying old enmities:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will stretch
forth my hand upon the Philistines, and will kill the
killers, and will destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them, rebuking
them in fury: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when
I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 26
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of
the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the
gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I
shall be filled, now she is laid waste.
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against
thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to
thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.
4 And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy
the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her,
and make her like a smooth rock.
5 She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the
sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she
shall be a spoil to the nations.
6 Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain
by the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against
Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings,
from the north, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen,
and companies, and much people.
8 Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with
the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall
cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the
buckler against thee.
9 And he shall set engines of mar and battering rams against
thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.
10 By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall
cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in
at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is
destroyed.
11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy
streets: thy people he shall kill with the sword, and thy
famous statues shall fall to the ground.
12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of
thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and
pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones
and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.
13 And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and
the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.
14 And I will make thee like a naked rock, then shalt be a
drying place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any
more: for I have spoken it, saith. the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands
shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy
slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their
broidered garments, and be clothed with astonishment: they
shall sit on the ground, and with amazement shall wonder
at thy sudden fall.
17 And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall sag to
thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea,
renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy
inhabitants whom all did dread?
18 Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy
terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled
because no one cometh out of thee.
19 For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall make thee a
desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited: and
shall bring the deep upon thee, and many waters shall
cover thee:
20 And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend
into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee
in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of
old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that
thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the
land of the living,
21 I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and
if thou be sought for, thou shalt not be found any more
for ever, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 27
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for
Tyre:
3 And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea,
being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith
the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect
beauty,
4 And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that
built thee, have perfected thy beauty:
5 With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea
planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee
masts.
6 They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they
have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with
things brought from the islands of Italy.
7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to
be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of
Elisa, were made thy covering.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy
rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished
mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the
ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.
10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy
soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the
helmet in thee for thy ornament.
11 The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round
about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up
their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy
beauty.
12 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a
multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin,
and lead.
13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they
brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.
14 From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and
horsemen, and mules to thy market.
15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the
traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of
ivory and ebony.
16 The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of
thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and
broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in
thy market.
17 Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with
the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil,
and rosin in thy fairs.
18 The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of
thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich
wine, in wool of the best colour.
19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts
wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
20 The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the
merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with
lambs, and rants, and kids.
22 The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants:
with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold,
which they set forth in thy market.
23 Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba,
Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.
24 They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of
blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious
riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they
had cedars also in thy merchandise.
25 The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise:
and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in
the heart of the sea.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south
wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.
27 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture,
thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were
chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in
thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee:
shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.
28 Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of
thy pilots.
29 And all that handled the oar shall come down from their
ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall
stand upon the land:
30 And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice, and
shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their
heads, and shall be sprinkled with ashes.
31 And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall
be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee
with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.
32 And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and snail
lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become
silent in the midst of the sea?
33 Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst
fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches,
and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.
34 Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the
bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in
the midst of thee is fallen.
35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee:
and all their kings being struck with the storm have
changed their countenance.
36 The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art
brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 28
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord
God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said:
I am God, and T sit in the chair of God in the heart of
the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set
thy heart as if it were the heart of God.
3 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from
thee.
4 In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself
strong: and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures.
5 By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou
hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up
with thy strength.
6 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is
lifted up as the heart of God:
7 Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers the
strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile
thy beauty.
8 They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt
die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the
sea.
9 Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God;
whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them
that slay thee?
10 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man,
take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:
12 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the
seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in
beauty.
13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every
precious stone teas thy covering: the sardius, the topaz,
and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the
beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald:
gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared
in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set
thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the
midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy
creation, until iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were
filled with iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and I cast
thee out from the mountain of God, and destroyed thee, O
covering cherub, out of the midst of the stones of fire.
17 And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou best
lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the
ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that
they might behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy
iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore
I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, to
devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes upon the earth
in the sight of all that see thee.
19 All that shall see thee among the nations, shall be
astonished at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou
shalt never be any more.
20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
21 Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt
prophesy of it,
22 And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come
against thee, Sidon, and I will be glorified in the midst
of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I
shall execute judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in
her.
23 And I will send into her pestilence, and blood in her
streets: and they shall fall being slain by the sword on
all sides in the midst thereof: and they shall know that
I am the Lord.
24 And the house of Israel shall have no more a
stumblingblock of bitterness, nor a thorn causing pain on
every side round about them, of them that are against
them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
25 Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall have gathered
together the house of Israel out of the people among whom
they are scattered: I will be sanctified in them before
the Gentiles: and they shall dwell in their own land,
which I gave to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell therein secure, and they shall build
houses, and shall plant vineyards, and shall dwell with
confidence, when I shall have executed judgments upon all
that are their enemies round about: and they shall know
that I am the Lord their God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 29
1 In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of
the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and
thou shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:
3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come
against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that
liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is
mine, and I made myself.
4 But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the
fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw
thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy fish
shall stick to thy scales.
5 And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the
fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the
earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together:
I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and
to the fowls of the air.
6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the
Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the
house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst
break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned
upon thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all their loins.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring
the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of
thee.
9 And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a
wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord:
because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made
10 Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and
I will make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted
by the sword, from the tower of Syene, even to the borders
of Ethiopia.
11 The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall
the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be
inhabited during forty years.
12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of
the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the
midst of the cities that are destroyed, and they shall be
desolate for forty gears: and I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries.
13 For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I
will gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they
had been scattered.
14 And I will bring hack the captivity of Egypt, and will
place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their
nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:
15 It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall
no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish
them that they shall rule no more over the nations.
16 And they shall be no more a confidence to the house of
Israel, teaching iniquity, that they may flee, and follow
them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in
the first month, in the first of the month: that the word
of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his
army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: and there hath
been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the
service that he rendered me against
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set
Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt:
and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty
thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it
shall be wages for his army.
20 And for the service that he hath done me against it: I
have given him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured
for me, saith the Lord God.
21 In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel,
and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them:
and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 30
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:
3 For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a
cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations.
4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be
dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt,
and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the
foundations thereof shall be destroyed.
5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the
crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the
covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall
fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down:
from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the
sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that
are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst
of the cities that are wasted.
8 And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have
set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be
destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in
ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there
shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it
shall certainly come.
10 Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of
Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the strongest of nations,
shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw
their swords upon Egypt: and shall fill the land with the
slain.
12 And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will
deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay
waste the land and all that is therein by the hands of
strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.
13 Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols,
and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there
shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will
cause a terror in the land of Egypt.
14 And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a
fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.
15 And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the
strength of Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of
Alexandria.
16 And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain
like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid
waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses.
17 The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by
the sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
18 And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall
break there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her
power shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall be led into captivity.
19 And I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
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 to me, saying:
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao king of Egypt:
and behold it is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied up
with clothes, and swathed with linen, that it might
recover strength, and hold the sword.
22 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against
Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his
strong arm, which is already broken: and I will cause the
sword to fall out of his hand:
23 And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter
them through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
will put my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms
of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly being slain
before his face.
25 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
the arms of Pharao shall fall: and they shall know that I
am the Lord, when I shall have given my sword into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall have stretched
it forth upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will
scatter them through the countries, and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 31
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month,
the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came
to me, saying:
2 Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his
people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with
fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and
his top was elevated among the thick boughs.
4 The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the
streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent
forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.
5 Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of
the country: and his branches were multiplied, and his
boughs were elevated because of many waters.
6 And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of
the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts
of the forest brought forth their young under his
branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his
shadow.
7 And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the
spreading of his branches: for his root was near great
waters.
8 The cedars in the paradise of God wars not higher than he,
the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the
plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree
in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.
9 For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches:
and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise
of God, envied him.
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because he was exalted
in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his
heart was lifted up in his height:
11 I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of
the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out
according to his wickedness.
12 And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut
him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his
boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall
be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people
of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.
13 All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the
beasts of the field were among his branches.
14 For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall
exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops
among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of
them that are watered stand up in their height: for they
are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the
earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that
go down into the pit.
15 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to
hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep:
and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters:
Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field
trembled.
16 I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I
brought him down to hell with them that descend into the
pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in
Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were
comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
17 For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that
are slain by the sword: and the arm of every one shall sit
down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty
among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down
with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the
earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and
all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 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 to me, saying:
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of
Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the
nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst
push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the
waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their
streams.
3 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my
net over thee with the multitude of many people, and I
will draw thee up in my net.
4 And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee
away into the open field: and I will cause all the fowls
of the air to dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts
of all the earth with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill
thy hills with thy corruption,
6 And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon
the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
7 And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out,
and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the
sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee:
and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord
God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the land,
saith the Lord God.
9 And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people,
when I shall have brought in thy destruction among the
nations upon the lands, which thou knowest not.
10 And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and
their kings shell be horribly afraid for thee, when my
sword shall begin to fly upon their faces: and they shall
be astonished on a sudden, every one for his own life, in
the day of their ruin.
11 For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon thee,
12 By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy
multitude: all these nations are invincible: and they
shall waste the pride of Egypt, and the multitude thereof
shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof that were
beside the great waters: and the foot of man shall trouble
them no more, neither shall the hoof of beasts trouble
them.
14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their
rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:
15 When I shall have made the land of Egypt desolate: and the
land shall be destitute of her fulness, when I shall have
struck all the inhabitants thereof: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
16 This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith:
the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith: for
Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they shall lament
therewith, saith the Lord God.
17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth
day of the month that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
18 Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of
Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of
the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with
them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the
uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with
the sword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down,
and all her people.
21 The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to him
from the midst of hell, they that went down with his
helpers, and slept uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves are
round about him, all of them slain, and that fell by the
sword.
23 Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of the pit: and
his multitude lay round about his grave: all of them
slain, and fallen by the sword, they that heretofore
spread terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave,
all of them slain, and fallen by the sword; that went down
uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth: that
caused their terror in the land of the living, and they
have borne their shame with them that go down into the
pit.
25 In the midst of the slain they have set him a bed among
all his people: their graves are round about him: all
these are uncircumcised, and slain by the sword: for they
spread their terror in the land of the living, and have
borne their shame with them that descend into the pit:
they are laid in the midst of the slain.
26 There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their multitude:
their graves are round about him: all of them
uncircumcised and slain, and fallen by the sword: though
they spread their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them
that fell uncircumcised, that went down to hell with their
weapons, and laid their swords under their heads, and
their iniquities were in their bones, because they were
the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 So thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shalt sleep with them that are slain by
the sword.
29 There is Edom, and her kings, and all her princes, who
with their army are joined with them that are slain by the
sword: and have slept with the uncircumcised, and with
them that go down into the pit.
30 There are all the princes of the north, and all the
hunters: who were brought down with the slain, fearing,
and con- founded in their strength: who slept
uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and
have borne their shame with them that go down into the
pit.
31 Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all his
multitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all
his army, saith the Lord God:
32 Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living,
and he hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with
them that are slain by the sword: Pharao and all his
multitude, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 33
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say
to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people
of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him
a watchman over them:
3 And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the
trumpet, and tell the people:
4 Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever
he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come,
and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not look to
himself, his blood shall be upon him: but if he look to
himself, he shall save his life.
6 And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not
the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and
the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he
indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require
his blood at the hand of the watchman.
7 So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the
house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from
my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.
8 When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely
die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from
his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I
will require his blood at thy hand.
9 But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted
from his ways, and he be not converted from his way: he
shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy
soul.
10 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel:
Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins
are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then can we
live?
11 Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not
the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his
way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and
why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy
people: The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in
what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness of the
wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever he shall
turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be able
to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin.
13 Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live,
and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his
justices shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity, which he
hath committed, in the same shall he die.
14 And if I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die:
and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and
justice,
15 And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what
he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and
do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not
die.
16 None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be
imputed to him: he hath done judgment and justice, he
shall surely live.
17 And the children of thy people have said: The way of the
Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.
18 For when the just shall depart from his justice, and
commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
19 And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and
shall do judgments, and justice: be shall live in them.
20 And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will
judge every one of you according to his ways, O house of
Israel.
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
there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying:
The city is laid waste.
22 And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening,
before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till
he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being opened,
I was silent no more.
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the
land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he
inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us
in possession.
25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God, You that
eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your
uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the
land by inheritance?
26 You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations,
and every one hath defiled his neighbour's wife; and shall
you possess the land by inheritance?
27 Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I live,
they that dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall by the
sword: and he that is in the field, shall be given to the
beasts to be devoured: and they that are in holds, and
caves, shall die of the pestilence.
28 And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and
the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains
of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass
by them.
29 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
made their land waste and desolate, for all their
abominations which they have committed.
30 And thou son of man: the children of thy people, that talk
of thee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and
speak one to another each men to his neighbour, saying:
Come, and let us hear what is the word that cometh forth
from the Lord.
31 And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in, and
my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them
not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and
their heart goeth after their covetousness.
32 And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung with
a sweet and agreeable voice: and they hear thy words, and
do them not.
33 And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, (for
behold it is coming,) then shall they know that a prophet
bath been among them.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 34
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel:
prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord
God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves:
should not the hocks be fed by the shepherds?
3 You ate the milk, end you clothed yourselves with the
wool, and you killed that which was fat: but my flock you
did not feed.
4 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was
sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have
not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not
brought again, neither have you sought that which was
lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high
hand.
5 And my sheep were scattered, because there was no
shepherd: and they became the prey of all the beasts of
the field, and were scattered.
6 My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every
high hill: and my flocks mere scattered upon the face of
the earth, and there was none that sought them, there was
none, I say, that sought them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
8 As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have
been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all
the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd:
for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks:
9 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
10 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the
shepherds, I will require my hock at their hand, and I
will cause them to cease from feeding the flock any more,
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more: and
I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and it shall no
more be meat for them.
11 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my
sheep, and will visit them.
12 As the shepherd visiteth his hock in the day when he shall
be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will
I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the
places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and
dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and will
gather them out of the countries, and will bring them to
their own land: and I will feed them in the mountains of
Israel, by the rivers, and in all the habitations of the
land.
14 I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their
pastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there
shall they rest on the green grass, and be fed in fat
pastures upon the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them to lie down,
saith the Lord God.
16 I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven
away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which
was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and
that which was fat and strong I will preserve: and I will
feed them in judgment.
17 And as for you, O my flocks, thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I judge between cattle and cattle, of rams and of
he goats.
18 Was it not enough for you to feed upon good pastures? but
you must also tread down with your feet the residue of
your pastures: and when you drank the dearest water, you
troubled the rest with your feet.
19 And my sheep were fed with that which you had trodden with
your feet: and they drank what your feet had troubled.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God to you: Behold, I myself
will judge between the fat cattle and the lean.
21 Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck
all the weak cattle with your horns, till they were
scattered abroad:
22 I will save my dock, and it shall be no more a spoil, and
I will judge between cattle and cattle.
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.
24 And I the Lord will be their God: and my servant David the
prince in the midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it.
25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will
cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they
that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the
forests.
26 And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and
I will send down the rain in its season, there shall be
showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be in their
land without fear: and they shall know that I am the Lord,
when I shall have broken the bonds of their yoke, and
shall have delivered them out of the hand of those that
rule over them.
28 And they shall be no more for a spoil to the nations,
neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them: but
they shall dwell securely without any terror.
29 And I will raise up for them a bud of renown: and they
shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither
shall they bear any more the reproach of the Gentiles.
30 And they shall know that I the Lord their God am with
them, and that they are my people the house of Israel:
saith the Lord God.
31 And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and
I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 35
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
concerning it, and say to it:
3 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount
Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I
will make thee desolate and waste.
4 I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and
thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
5 Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut
up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the
time of their affliction, in the time of their last
iniquity.
6 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver
thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas
thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
7 And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will
take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.
8 And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain:
in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they
shall fall that are slain with the sword.
9 I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities
shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord God.
10 Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands
shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance:
whereas the Lord was there.
11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do
according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which
thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made
known by them, when I shall have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy
reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of
Israel, saying: They are desolate, they are given to us to
consume.
13 And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have
derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall
rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.
15 As thou best rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee:
thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea:
and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 36
1 And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel,
and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord:
2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said of
you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an
inheritance.
3 Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on
every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the
nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the
reproach of the people:
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 brooks, and to the valleys, and to
desolate places, and ruinous walls, and to the cities that
are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of
the nations round about.
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal
I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom,
who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance
with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and
have cast it out to lay it waste.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say
to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to
the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken
in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne
the shame of the Gentiles.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my
hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall
themselves bear their shame.
8 But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for
they are at hand to come.
9 For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall
be ploughed and sown.
10 And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of
Israel: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous
places shall be repaired.
11 And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and
they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle
you as from the beginning, and will give you greater
gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.
12 And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they
shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt
be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be
without them.
13 Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art
a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:
14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nor destroy thy
nation any more, saith the Lord God:
15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
nations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the
people, nor lose thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.
16 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own
land, they defiled it with their ways, and with their
doings: their way was before me like the uncleanness of a
menstruous woman.
18 And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood
which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols
they defiled it.
19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they are
dispersed through the countries: I have judged them
according to their ways, and their devices.
20 And when they entered among the nations whither they went,
they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This
is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of
his land.
21 And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of
Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they went
in.
22 Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus
saith the Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do
this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake,
which you have profaned among the nations whither you
went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned
among the Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst
of them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord,
saith the Lord of hosts, when I shall be sanctified in you
before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will
gather you together out of all the countries, and will
bring you into your own land.
25 And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be
cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you
from all your idols.
26 And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit
within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of
your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will
cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my
judgments, and do them.
28 And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your
fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your
God.
29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I
will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no
famine upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the held, that you bear no more the reproach
of famine among the nations.
31 And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings
that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked
deeds shall displease you.
32 It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the
Lord God, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed
at your own ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse
you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities
to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places,
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was
waste in the sight of all that passed by,
35 They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as
a garden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned,
and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled and fenced.
36 And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall
know that I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and
planted what was desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and
done it.
37 Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house
of Israel find me, that I will do it for them: I will
multiply them as a flock of men,
38 As a holy dock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
feasts: so shall the waste cities be full of flocks of
men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 37
1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in
the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a
plain that was full of bones.
2 And he led me about through them on every side: now they
were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were
exceeding dry.
3 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones
shall live? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and
say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will
send spirit into you, and you shall live.
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to
grow over you, and will cover you with skin: and I will
give you spirit and you shall live, and you shall know
that I am the Lord.
7 And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I
prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and
the bones came together, each one to its joint.
8 And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up
upon them: and the skin was stretched out over them, but
there was no spirit in them.
9 And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son
of man, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God:
Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these
slain, and let them live again.
10 And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit
came into them, and they lived: and they stood up upon
their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the
house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our
hope is lost, and we are cut off.
12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you
out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you
into the land of Israel.
13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of
your graves, O my people:
14 And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live,
and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you
shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith
the Lord God:
15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
16 And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it:
Of Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and
take another stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick
of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of his
associates.
17 And join them one to the other into one stick, and they
shall become one in thy hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee,
saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?
19 Say to 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 that are associated with him, and I
will put them together with the stick of Juda, and will
make them one stick: and they shall be one in his hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy
hand, before their eyes.
21 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from the midst
of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather
them on every side, and will bring them to their own land.
22 And I will make them one nation in the land on the
mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them
all: and they shall no more be two nations, neither shall
they be divided any more into two kingdoms.
23 Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor
with their abominations, nor with all their iniquities:
and I will save them out of all the places in which they
have sinned, and I will cleanse them: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God.
24 And my servant David shall be king over them, and they
shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments,
and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my
servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall
dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's
children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their
prince for ever.
26 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be
an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish
them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in
the midst of them for ever.
27 And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the
sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the
midst of them for ever.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 38
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,
the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of
him,
3 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come
against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Mosoch and
Thubal.
4 And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy
jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and ail thy army,
horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a
great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords.
5 The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with
shields and helmets.
6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the
northern parts and all his strength, and many peoples with
thee.
7 Prepare and make thyself ready, and all thy multitude that
is assembled about thee, and be thou commander over them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years
thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the
sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the
mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but
it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they
shall all of them dwell securely in
9 And thou shalt go up and come like a storm, and like a
cloud to cover the land, thou and all thy bands and many
people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter
into thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous
design.
11 And thou shalt say: I will go up to the land which is
without a wall, I will come to them that are at rest, and
dwell securely: all these dwell without a wall, they have
no bars nor gates:
12 To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to lay thy hand
upon them that had been wasted, and afterwards restored,
and upon the people that is gathered together out of the
nations, which hath begun to possess and to dwell in the
midst of the earth.
13 Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis, and all the
lions thereof shall say to thee: Art thou come to take
spoils? behold, thou hast gathered thy multitude to take
a prey, to take silver, and gold, and to carry away goods
and substance, and to take rich spoils.
14 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy and say to Cog: Thus
saith the Lord God: Shalt thou not know, in that day, when
my people of Israel shall dwell securely?
15 And then shalt come out of thy place from the northern
parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding
upon horses, a great company and a mighty army.
16 And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud,
to cover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and
I will bring thee upon my land: that the nations may know
me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou then art he, of whom I have
spoken in the days of old, by my servants the prophets of
Israel, who prophesied in the days of those times that I
would bring thee upon them.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day of the
coming of Gog upon the land of Israel, saith the Lord God,
that my indignation shall come up in my wrath.
19 And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the fire of my anger,
that in that day there shall be a great commotion upon the
land of Israel:
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air,
and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the ground, and all men that are upon the
face of the earth, shall be moved at my presence: and the
mountains shall be thrown down, and the hedges shall fall,
and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call in the sword against him in all my
mountains, saith the Lord God: every man's sword shall be
pointed against his brother.
22 And I will judge him with pestilence, and with blood, and
with violent rain, and vast hailstones: I will rain fire
and brimstone upon him, and upon his army, and upon the
many nations that are with him.
23 And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I
will be known in the eyes of many nations: and they shall
know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 39
1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Cog, and say: Thus
saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, O Cog,
the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.
2 And I will turn thee round, and I will lead thee out, and
will make thee go up from the northern parts: and will
bring thee upon the mountains of Israel.
3 And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will
cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all
thy bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have
given thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and to every
fowl, and to the beasts of the earth to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: for I have
spoken it, saith the Lord God.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell
confidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am
the Lord.
7 And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my
people Israel, and my holy name shall be profaned no more:
and the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy
One of Israel.
8 Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the Lord God: this
is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of
Israel, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, the
shields, and the spears, the bows and the arrows, and the
handstaves and the pikes: and they shall burn them with
fire seven years.
10 And they shall not bring wood out of the countries, nor
cut down out of the forests: for they shall burn the
weapons with fire, and shall make a prey of them to whom
they had been a prey, and they shall rob those that robbed
them, saith the Lord God.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give
Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of
the passengers on the east of the sea, which shall cause
astonishment in them that pass by: and there shall they
bury Cog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called
the valley of the multitude of Cog.
12 And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months
to cleanse the land.
13 And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it
shall be unto them a noted day, wherein I was glorified,
saith the Lord God.
14 And they shall appoint men to go continually about the
land, to bury and to seek out them that were remaining
upon the face of the earth, that they may cleanse it: and
after seven months they shall begin to seek.
15 And they shall go about passing through the land: and when
they shall see the bone of a man, they shall set up a sign
by it, till the buriers bury it in the valley of the
multitude of Cog.
16 And the name of the city shall be Amona, and they shall
cleanse the land.
17 And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every
fowl, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the
field: Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from
every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great
victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and
drink blood.
18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink
the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of
lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are
well fed and fat.
19 And you shall eat the fat till you be full, and shall
drink blood till you be drunk of the victim which I shall
slay for you.
20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses, and
mighty horsemen, and all the men of war, saith the Lord
God.
21 And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations
shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand
that I have laid upon them.
22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord
their God from that day and forward.
23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were
made captives for their iniquity, because they forsook me,
and I hid my face from them: and I delivered them into the
hands of their enemies, and they fell all by the sword.
24 I have dealt with them according to their uncleanness, and
wickedness, and hid my face from them.
25 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now will I bring back
the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on all the
house of Israel: and I will be jealous for my holy name.
26 And they shall bear their confusion, and all the
transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against
me, when they shall dwell in their land securely fearing
no man:
27 And I shall have brought them back from among the nations,
and shall have gathered them together out of the lands of
their enemies, and shall be sanctified in them, in the
sight of many nations.
28 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because
I caused them to be carried away among the nations; and I
have gathered them together unto their own land, and have
not left any of them there.
29 And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have
poured out my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith
the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 40
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the
beginning of the year, the tenth day of the month, the
fourteenth year after the city was destroyed: in the
selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he
brought me thither.
2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of
Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain: upon which
there was as the building of a city, bending towards the
south.
3 And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line
of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and
he stood in the gate.
4 And this man said to me: Son of man, see with thy eyes,
and hear with thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I
shall shew thee: for thou art brought hither that they may
be shewn to thee: declare all that thou seest, to the
house of Israel.
5 And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house
round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six
cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of
the building one reed, and the height one reed.
6 And he came to the gate that looked toward the east, and
he went up the steps thereof: and he measured the breadth
of the threshold of the gate one reed, that is, one
threshold was one reed broad:
7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed
broad: and between the little chambers were five cubits:
8 And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate
within, was one reed.
9 And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and
the front thereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate
was inward.
10 And the little chambers of the gate that looked eastward
were three on this side, and three on that side: all three
were of one measure, and the fronts of one measure, on
both parts.
11 And he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate
ten cubits: and the length of the gate thirteen cubits:
12 And the border before the little chambers one cubit: and
one cubit was the border on both sides: and the little
chambers were six cubits on this side and that side.
13 And he measured the gate from the roof of one little
chamber to the roof of another, in breadth five and twenty
cubits: door against door.
14 He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the
court of the gate on every side round about.
15 And before the face of the gate which reached even to the
face of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits.
16 And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their
fronts, which were within the gate on every side round
about: and in like, manner there wore also in the porches
windows round about within, and before the fronts the
representation of palm trees.
17 And he brought me into the outward court, and behold there
were chambers, and a pavement of stone in the court round
about: thirty chambers encompassed the pavement.
18 And the pavement in the front of the gates according to
the length of the gates was lower.
19 And he measured the breadth from the face of the lower
gate to the front of the inner court without, a hundred
cubits to the east, and to the north.
20 He measured also both the length and the breadth of the
gate of the outward court, which looked northward.
21 And the little chambers thereof three on this side, and
three on that side: and the front thereof, and the porch
thereof according to the measure of the former gate, fifty
cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
22 And the windows thereof, and the porch, and the gravings
according to the measure of the gate that looked to the
east, and they went up to it by seven steps, and a porch
was before it.
23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate
of the north, and that of the ease: and he measured from
gate to gate a hundred cubits.
24 And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold
the gate that looked to the south: and he measured the
front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the
former measures.
25 And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as
the other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.
26 And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch
before the doors thereof: and there were graven palm
trees, one on this side, and another on that side in the
front thereof.
27 And there was a gate of the inner court towards the south:
and he measured from gate to gate towards the south, a
hundred cubits.
28 And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate:
and he measured the gate according to the former measures.
29 The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the
porch thereof with the same measures: and the windows
thereof, and the porch thereof round about it was fifty
cubits in length, and five and twenty cubits in breadth.
30 And the porch round about was five and twenty cubits long,
and five cubits broad.
31 And the porch thereof to the outward court, and the palm
trees thereof in the front: and there were eight steps to
go up to It.
32 And he brought me into the inner court by the way of the
east: and he measured the gate according to the former
measures.
33 The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the
porch thereof as before: and the windows thereof, and the
porches thereof round about it was fifty cubits long, and
five and twenty cubits broad.
34 And the porch thereof, that is, of the outward court: and
the graven palm trees in the front thereof on this side
and on that side: and the going up thereof was by eight
steps.
35 And he brought me into the gate that looked to the north:
and he measured according to the former measures.
36 The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the
porch thereof, and the windows thereof round about it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
37 And the porch thereof looked to the outward court: and the
graving of palm trees in the front thereof was on this
side and on that side: and the going up to it was by eight
steps.
38 And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the
gates: there they washed the holocaust.
39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side,
and two tables on that side: that the holocaust, and the
sin offering, and the trespass offering might be slain
thereon.
40 And on the outward side, which goeth up to the entry of
the gate that looketh toward the north, were two tables.
and at the other side before the porch of the gate were
two tables.
41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that
side: at the sides of the gate were eight tables, upon
which they slew the victims.
42 And the four tables for the holocausts were made of square
stones: one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a
half broad, and one cubit high: to lay the vessels upon,
in which the holocaust and the victim is slain.
43 And the borders of them were of one handbreadth, turned
inwards round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of
the offering.
44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the
singing men in the inner court, which was on the side of
the gate that looketh to the north: and their prospect was
towards the south, one at the side of the east gate, which
looketh toward the north.
45 And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the
south shall be for the priests that watch in the wards of
the temple.
46 But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be
for the priests that watch over the ministry of the altar.
These are the sons of Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi,
come near to the Lord, to minister to him.
47 And he measured the court a hundred cubits long, and a
hundred cubits broad foursquare: and the altar that was
before the face of the temple.
48 And he brought me into the porch of the temple: and he
measured the porch five cubits on this side, and five
cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate three
cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
49 And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the
breadth eleven cubits, and there were eight, steps to go
up to it. And there were pillars in the fronts: one on
this side, and another on that side.
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1 And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the
fronts six cubits broad on this side, and six cubits on
that side, the breadth of the tabernacle.
2 And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits: and the sides
of the gate five cubits on this side, and five cubits on
that side: and he measured the length thereof forty
cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3 Then going inward he measured the front of the gate two
cubits: and the gate six cubits, and the breadth of the
gate seven cubits.
4 And he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits, before the face of the temple: and
he said to me: This is the holy of holies.
5 And 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.
6 And the side chambers one by another, were twice
thirty-three: and they bore outwards, that they might
enter in through the wall of the house in the sides round
about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of the
temple.
7 And there was a broad passage round about, going up by
winding stairs, and it led into the upper loft of the
temple all round: therefore was the temple broader in the
higher parts: and so from the lower parts they went to the
higher by the midst.
8 And I saw in the house the height round about, the
foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of
a reed the space of six cubits:
9 And the thickness of the wall for the side chamber
without, which was five cubits: and the inner house was
within the side chambers of the house.
10 And between the chambers was the breadth of twenty cubits
round about the house on every side.
11 And the door of the side chambers was turned towards the
place of prayer: one door was toward the north, and
another door was toward the south: and the breadth of the
place for prayer, was five cubits round about.
12 And the building that was separate, and turned to the way
that looked toward the sea, was seventy cubits broad: and
the wall of the building, five cubits thick round about:
and ninety cubits long.
13 And he measured the length of the house, a hundred cubits:
and the separate building, and the walls thereof, a
hundred cubits in length.
14 And the breadth before the face of the house, and of the
separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.
15 And he measured the length of the building over against
it, which was separated at the back of it: and the
galleries on both sides a hundred cubits: and the inner
temple, and the porches of the court.
16 The thresholds, and the oblique windows, and the galleries
round about on three sides, over against the threshold of
every one, and floored with wood all round about: and the
ground was up to the windows, and the windows were shut
over the doors.
17 And even to the inner house, and without all the wall
round about within and without, by measure.
18 And there were cherubims and palm trees wrought, so that
a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every
cherub had two faces.
19 The face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side,
and the face of a lion was toward the palm tree on the
other side: set forth through all the house round about.
20 From the ground even to the upper parts of the gate, were
cherubims and palm trees wrought in the wall of the
temple.
21 The threshold was foursquare, and the face of the
sanctuary, sight to sight.
22 The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length
thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof were of wood. And he
said to me: This is the table before the Lord.
23 And there were two doors in the temple, and in the
sanctuary.
24 And in the two doors on both sides were two little doors,
which were folded within each other: for there were two
wickets on both sides of the doors.
25 And there were cherubims also wrought in the doors of the
temple, and the figures of palm trees, like as were made
on the walls: for which cause also the planks were thicker
in the front of the porch without.
26 Upon which were the oblique windows, and the
representation of palm trees on this side, and on that
side in the sides of the porch, according to the sides of
the house, and the breadth of the walls.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 42
1 And he brought me forth into the outward court by the way
that leadeth to the north, and he brought me into the
chamber that was over against the separate building, and
over against the house toward the north.
2 In the face of the north door was the length of a hundred
cubits, and the breadth of fifty cubits.
3 Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and
over against the pavement of the outward court that was
paved with stone, where there was a gallery joined to a
triple gallery.
4 And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad,
looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And
their doors were toward the north.
5 Where were the store chambers lower above: because they
bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them
from the lower parts, and from the midst of the building.
6 For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as
the pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above
out of the lower places, and out of the middle places,
fifty cubits from the ground.
7 And the outward wall that went about by the chambers,
which were towards the outward court on the forepart of
the chambers, was fifty cubits long.
8 For the length of the chambers of the outward court was
fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the
temple, a hundred cubits.
9 And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the
east, for them that went into them out of the outward
court.
10 In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was
toward the east, over against the separate building, and
there were chambers before the building.
11 And the way before them was like the chambers which were
toward the north: they wore as long as they, and as broad
as they: and all the going is to them, and their fashions,
and their doors were alike.
12 According to the doors of the chambers that were towards
the south: there was a door in the head of the way, which
way was before the porch, separated towards the east as
one entereth in.
13 And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the
chambers of the south, which are before the separate
building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests
shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of
holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the
offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy
place.
14 And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not
go out of the holy places into the outward court: but
there they shall lay their vestments, wherein they
minister, for they are holy: and they shall put on other
garments, and so they shall go forth to the people.
15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house,
he brought me out by the way of the gate that looked
toward the east: and he measured it on every side round
about.
16 And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed,
five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
17 And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed round about.
18 And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed round about.
19 And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed.
20 By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every
side round about, five hundred cubits long and five
hundred cubits broad, making a separation between the
sanctuary and the place of the people.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 43
1 And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the
east.
2 And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the
way of the east: and his voice was like the noise of many
waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.
3 And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I
had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the
appearance was according to the vision which I had seen by
the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
4 And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by the
way of the gate that looked to the east.
5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner
court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of
the Lord.
6 And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and the
man that stood by me,
7 Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the
place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst
of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of
Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their
kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses of their
kings, and by the high places.
8 They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and
their posts by my posts: and there was but a wall between
me and them: and they profaned my holy name by the
abominations which they committed: for which reason I
consumed them in my wrath.
9 Now therefore let them put away their fornications, and
the carcasses of their kings far from me: and I will dwell
in the midst of them for ever.
10 But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the
temple, and let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and
let them measure the building:
11 And be ashamed of all that they have done. Shew them the
form of the house, and of the fashion thereof, the goings
out and the comings in, and the whole plan thereof, and
all its ordinances, and all its order, and all its laws,
and thou shalt write it in their sight: that they may keep
the whole form thereof, and its ordinances, and do them.
12 This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain:
All its border round about is most holy: this then is the
law of the house.
13 And these are the measures of the altar by the truest
cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom
thereof was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and the
border thereof unto its edge, and round about, one
handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar.
14 And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim two
cubits, and the breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser
brim to the greater brim four cubits, and the breadth of
one cubit.
15 And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel
upward were four horns.
16 And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits
broad, foursquare, with equal sides.
17 And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits
broad in the four corners thereof: and the crown round
about it was half a cubit, and the bottom of it one cubit
round about: and its steps turned toward the east.
18 And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith the Lord God:
These are the ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever
it shall be made: that holocausts may be offered upon it,
and blood poured out.
19 And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites, that
are of the race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the
Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the herd for sin.
20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt put it upon
the four horns thereof, and upon the four corners of the
brim, and upon the crown round about: and thou shalt
cleanse, and expiate it.
21 And thou shalt take the calf, that is offered for sin: and
thou shalt burn him in a separate place of the house
without the sanctuary.
22 And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without
blemish for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they
expiated it with the calf.
23 And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation
thereof, thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without
blemish, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
24 And thou shalt offer them in the sight of the Lord: and
the priests shall put salt upon them, and shall offer them
a holocaust to the Lord.
25 Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sill daily: they
shall offer also a calf of the herd, and a ram of the
flock without blemish.
26 Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse
it: and they shall consecrate it.
27 And the days being, expired, on the eighth day and
thenceforward, the priests shall offer your holocausts
upon the altar, and the peace offerings: and I will be
pacified towards you, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 44
1 And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it
was shut.
2 And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall
not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because
the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it
shall be shut
3 For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat
bread before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the
porch of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.
4 And he brought me by the way of the north gate, in the
sight of the house: and I saw, and behold the glory of the
Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell on my face.
5 And the Lord said to me: Son of man, attend with thy
heart, and behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears,
all that I say to thee concerning all the ceremonies of
the house of the Lord, and concerning all the laws
thereof: and mark well the ways of the temple, with all
the goings out of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh
me: Thus saith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings
suffice you, O house of Israel:
7 In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in
heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary,
and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat,
and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your
wicked doings.
8 And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but
you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.
9 Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in
heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my
sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the
children of Israel.
10 Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the
children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me
after their idols, and have borne their iniquity:
11 They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of
the gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they
shall slay the holocausts, and the victims of the people:
and they shall stand in their sight, to minister to them.
12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and
were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel:
therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the
Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:
13 And they shall not come near to me to do the office of
priest to me, neither shall they come near to any of my
holy things that are by the holy of holies: but they shall
bear their shame, and their wickednesses which they have
committed.
14 And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the
service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept
the ceremonies or my sanctuary, when the children of
Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me, to
minister to me: and they shall stand before me, to offer
me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God.
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come
near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my
ceremonies.
17 And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner
court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither
shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in
the gates of the inner court and within.
18 They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen
breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with
any thing that causeth sweat.
19 And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the
people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the
sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other
garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with
their vestments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long heir:
but they shall only poll their heads.
21 And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the
inner court.
22 Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is
divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the
house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is,
the widow of a priest.
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy
and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean
and unclean.
24 And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in
my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws,
and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my
sabbaths.
25 And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be
defiled, only their father and mother, and son and
daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had
another husband: for whom they may become unclean.
26 And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him
seven days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the
inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he
shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God.
28 And they shall have no inheritance, I am their
inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in
Israel, for I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass:
and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the
libations of all things that are offered, shall be the
priest's: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats
to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy
house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of
itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 45
1 And when you shall begin to divide the land by lot,
separate ye firstfruits to the Lord, a portion of the land
to be holy, in length twenty-five thousand and in breadth
ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the borders thereof
round about.
2 And there shall be for the sanctuary on every side five
hundred by five hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty
cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.
3 And with this measure thou shalt measure the length of
five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand,
and in it shall be the temple and the holy of holies.
4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the
ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to the ministry
of the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and
for the holy place of the sanctuary.
5 And five and twenty thousand of length, and ten thousand
of breadth shall be for the Levites, that minister in the
house: they shall possess twenty store chambers.
6 And you shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long,
according to the separation of the sanctuary, for the
whole house of Israel.
7 For the prince also on the one side and on the other side,
according to the separation of the sanctuary, and
according to the possession of the city, over against the
separation of the sanctuary, and over against the
possession of the city: from the side of the sea even to
the sea, and from the side of the east; even to the east.
And the length according to every part from the west
border to the east border.
8 He shall have a portion of the lead in Israel: and the
princes shall no more rob my people: but they shall give
the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes:
9 Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of
Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute
judgment and justice, separate your confines from my
people, saith the Lord God.
10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just
bate.
11 The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure:
that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and
the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be
equal according to the measure of a core.
12 And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sides, and
five and twenty sides, and fifteen sides make a mna.
13 And these are the firstfruits, which you shall take: the
sixth part of an ephi of a core of wheat, and the sixth
part of an ephi of a core of barley.
14 The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part
of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill
a core.
15 And one ram out of a flock of two hundred, of those that
Israel feedeth for sacrifice, and for holocausts, and for
peace offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the
Lord God.
16 All the people of the land shall be bound to these
firstfruits for the prince in Israel.
17 And the prince shall give the holocaust, and the
sacrifice, and the libations on the feasts, and on the new
moons, and on the sabbaths, and on all the solemnities of
the house of Israel: he shall offer the sacrifice for sin,
and the holocaust, and the peace offerings to make
expiation for the house of Israel.
18 Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of
the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without
blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.
19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering: and he shall put it on the posts of the house,
and on the four corners of the brim of the altar, and on
the posts of the gate of the inner court.
20 And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of the month, for
every one that hath been ignorant, and hath been deceived
by error, and thou shalt make expiation for the house.
21 In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you
shall observe the solemnity of the pasch: seven days
unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22 And the prince on that day shall offer for himself, and
for all the people of the land, a calf for sin.
23 And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for
a holocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams
without blemish daily for seven days: and for sin a he
goat daily.
24 And he shall offer the sacrifice of an ephi for every
calf, and an ephi for every ram: and a hin of oil for
every ephi.
25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month,
in the solemn feast, he shall do the like for the seven
days: as well in regard to the sin offering, as to the
holocaust, and. the sacrifice, and the
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 46
1 Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that
looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on
which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be
opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be
opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the
gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of
the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and
his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold
of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be
shut till the evening.
3 And the people of the land shall adore at the door of that
gate before the Lord on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons.
4 And the holocaust that the prince shall offer to the Lord
on the sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish,
and a ram without blemish.
5 And the sacrifice of an ephi for a ram: but for the lambs
what sacrifice his hand shall allow: and a hin of oil for
every ephi.
6 And on the day of the new moon a calf of the herd without
blemish: and the six lambs, and the rams shall be without
blemish.
7 And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi for a calf, an
ephi also for a ram: but for the lambs, as his hand shall
find: and a hin of oil for every ephi.
8 And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way
of the porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.
9 But when the people of the land shall go in before the
Lord in the solemn feasts, he that goeth in by the north
gate to adore, shall go out by the way of the south gate:
and he that; goeth in by the way of the south gate, shall
go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not return
by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go
out at that over against it.
10 And the prince in the midst of them, shall go in when they
go in, and go out when they go out.
11 And in the fairs, and in the solemnities there shall be
the sacrifice of an ephi to a calf, and an ephi to a ram:
and to the lambs, the sacrifice shall be as his hand shall
find: and a hin of oil to every ephi.
12 But when the prince shall offer a voluntary holocaust, or
voluntary peace offerings to the Lord: the gate that
looketh towards the east shall be opened to him, and he
shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings, as it
is wont to be done on the sabbath day: and he shall go
out, and the gate shall be shut after he is gone forth.
13 And he shall offer every day for a holocaust to the Lord,
a lamb of the same year without blemish: he shall offer it
always in the morning.
14 And he shall offer the sacrifice for it morning by
morning, the sixth part of ephi: and the third part of a
bin of oil be mingled with the fine hour: a to the Lord by
ordinance continual and everlasting.
15 He shall offer the lamb, and the sacrifice, and the oil
morning by morning: an everlasting holocaust.
16 Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince give a gift to any
of his sons: the inheritance of it shall go to his
children, they shall possess it by inheritance.
17 But if he give a legacy out of his inheritance to one of
his servants, it shall be his until the year of release,
and it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance
shall go to his sons.
18 And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance
by violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own
possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that
my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.
19 And he brought me in by the entry that was at the side of
the gate, into the chambers of the sanctuary that were for
the priests, which looked toward the north. And there was
a place bending to the west.
20 And he said to me: This is the place where the priests
shall boil the sin offering, and the trespass offering:
where they shall dress the sacrifice, that they may not
bring it out into the outward court, and the people be
sanctified.
21 And he brought me into the outward court, and he led me
about by the four corners of the court: and behold there
was a little court in the corner of the court, to every
corner of the court there was a little court.
22 In the four corners of the court were little courts
disposed, forty cubits long, and thirty broad, all the
four were of one measure.
23 And there was a wall round about compassing the four
little courts, and there were kitchens built under the
rows round about.
24 And he said to me: This is the house of the kitchens
wherein the ministers of the house of the Lord shall boil
the victims of the people.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 47
1 And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and
behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house
looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the
right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
2 And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he
caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to
the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran
out waters on the right side.
3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went out
towards the east, he measured a thousand cubits: and he
brought me through the water up to the ankles.
4 And again he measured a thousand, and he brought me
through the water up to the knees.
5 And he measured a thousand. and he brought me through the
water up to the loins. And he measured a thousand, and it
was a torrent, which I could not pass over: for the waters
were risen so as to make a deep torrent, which could not
be passed over.
6 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man.
And he brought me out, and he caused me to turn to the
bank of the torrent.
7 And when I had turned myself, behold on the bank of the
torrent were very many trees on both sides.
8 And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward
the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the
plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go
out, and the waters shall be healed.
9 And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the
torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes
in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and
they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which
the torrent shall come.
10 And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from
Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets:
there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the
fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:
11 But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they
shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into
saltpits.
12 And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides
shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not
fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month
shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters
thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits
thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for
medicine.
13 Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you
shall possess the land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion.
14 And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his
brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it
to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a
possession.
15 And this is the border of the land: toward the north side,
from the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to
Sedada,
16 Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is between the border of
Damascus and the border of Emath, the house of Tichon,
which is by the border of Auran.
17 And the border from the sea even to the court of Enan,
shall be the border of Damascus, and from the north to the
north: the border of Emath, this is the north side.
18 And the east side is from the midst of Auran, and from the
midst of Damascus, and from the midst of Galaad, and from
the midst of the land of Israel, Jordan making the bound
to the east sea, and thus you shall measure the east side.
19 And the south side southward is from Thamar even to the
waters of contradiction of Cades: and the torrent even to
the great sea: and this is the south side southward.
20 And the side toward the sea, is the great sea from the
borders straight on, till thou come to Emath: this is the
side of the sea.
21 And you shall divide this land unto you by the tribes of
Israel:
22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you,
and to the strangers that shall come over to you, that
shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you
as men of the same country born among the children of
Israel: they shall divide the possession with you in the
midst of the tribes of Israel.
23 And in what tribe soever the stranger shall be, there
shall you give him possession, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 48
1 And these are the names of the tribes from the borders of
the north, by the way of Hethalon, as they go to Emath,
the court of Enan the border of Damascus northward, by the
way of Emath. And from the east side thereof to the sea,
shall be one portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side even to the
side of the sea, one portion for Aser:
3 And by the border of Aser, from the east side even to the
side of the sea, one portion for Nephthali.
4 And by the border of Nephthali, from the east side even to
the side of the sea, one portion for Manasses.
5 And by the border of Manasses, from the east side even to
the side of the sea, one portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to
the side of the sea, one portion for Ruben.
7 And by the border of Ruben, from the east side even to the
side of the sea, one portion for Juda.
8 And by the border of Juda, from the east side even to the
side of the sea, shall be the firstfruits which you shall
set apart, five and twenty thousand in breadth, and in
length, as every one of the portions from the east side to
the side of the sea: and the sanctuary shall be in the
midst thereof.
9 The firstfruits which you shall set apart for the Lord:
shall be the length of five and twenty thousand, and the
breadth of ten thousand.
10 And these shall be the firstfruits of the sanctuary for
the priests: toward the north five and twenty thousand in
length, and toward the sea ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the east also 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.
11 The sanctuary shall be for the priests of the sons of
Sadoc, who kept my ceremonies, and went not astray when
the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites also
went astray.
12 And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits
of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites.
13 And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders
of the priests 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.
14 And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither
shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because
they are sanctified to the Lord.
15 But the five thousand that remain 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.
16 And these are the measures thereof: on the north side four
thousand and five hundred: and on the south side four
thousand and five hundred: and on the east side four
thousand and five hundred: and on the west side four
thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be to the north two
hundred and fifty, and to the south two hundred and fifty,
and to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the sea two
hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length by the firstfruits of the
sanctuary, ten thousand toward the east, and ten thousand
toward the west, shall be as the firstfruits of the
sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for bread to
them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city, shall serve it out of all
the tribes of Israel.
20 All the firstfruits, of five and twenty thousand, by five
and twenty thousand foursquare, shall be set apart for the
firstfruits of the sanctuary, and for the possession of
the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince on every side of
the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and of the possession of
the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the
firstfruits unto the east border: toward the sea also over
against the five and twenty thousand, unto the border of
the sea, shall likewise be the portion of the prince: and
the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and the sanctuary of the
temple shall be in the midst thereof.
22 And from the possession of the Levites, and from the
possession of the city which ale in the midst of the
prince's portions: what shall be to the border of Juda,
and to the border of Benjamin, shall also belong to the
prince.
23 And for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the
west side, one portion for Benjamin.
24 And over against the border of Benjamin, from the east
side to the west side, one portion for Simeon.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the
west side, one portion for Issachar.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the
west side, one portion for Zabulon.
27 And by the border of Zabulon, from the east side to the
side of the sea, one portion for Gad.
28 And by the border of Gad, the south side southward: and
the border shah be from Thamar, even to the waters of
contradiction of Cades, the inheritance over against the
great sea.
29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the
tribes of Israel: and these are the portions of them,
saith the Lord God.
30 And these are the goings out of the city: on the north
side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.
31 And the gates of the city according to the names of the
tribes of Israel, three gates on the north side, the gate
of Ruben one, the gate of Juda one, the gate of Levi one.
32 And at the east side, four thousand and five hundred: and
three gates, the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin
one, the gate of Dan one.
33 And at the south side, thou shalt measure four thousand
and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Simeon one,
the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zabulon one.
34 And at the west side, four thousand and five hundred, and
their three gates, the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser
one, the gate of Nephthali one.
35 Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of
the city from that day, The Lord is there.
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