Final desolation of Israel.

EZEKIEL. Repentance of them that escaped.

and they shall loathe themselves for the 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come e; evils which they have committed in all the morning is gone forth; the rod hath their abominations. blossomed, pride hath budded.

10 And they shall know that I am the 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of LORD, and that I have not said in vain wickedness: none of them shall remain, that I would do this evil unto them. nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: 11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite neither shall there be wailing for them. with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, 12 The time is come, the day draweth and say, Alas, for all the evil abominations near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the of the house of Israel for they shall fall seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the by the sword, by the famine, and by the multitude thereof. pestilence.

13 For the seller shall not return to that 12 He that is far off shall die of the which is sold, although they were yet pestilence; and he that is near shall fall alive: for the vision is touching the whole by the sword; and he that remaineth and multitude thereof, which shall not return; is besieged shall die by the famine: thus neither shall any strengthen himself in the will I accomplish my fury upon them. iniquity of his life.

13 Then shall ye know that I am the 14 They have blown the trumpet, even LORD, when their slain men shall be among to make all ready; but none goeth to the their idols round about their altars, upon battle: for my wrath is upon all the mulevery high hill, in all the tops of the moun- titude thereof.

tains, and under every green tree, and 15 The sword is without, and the pestiunder every thick oak, the place where lence and the famine within: he that is in they did offer sweet savour to all their the field shall die with the sword; and he idols. that is in the city, famine and pestilence 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon shall devour him. them, and make the land desolate, yea, 16 But they that escape of them shall more desolate than the wilderness toward escape, and shall be on the mountains like Diblath, in all their habitations: and they doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, shall know that I am the LORD. every one for his iniquity.

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CHAP. VII.

OREOVER the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,

2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

19 They shall cast their silver in the 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and streets, and their gold shall be removed: I will send mine anger upon thee, and will their silver and their gold shall not be able judge thee according to thy ways, and to deliver them in the day of the wrath of will recompense upon thee all thine abo- the LORD: they shall not satisfy their minations.

4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

7 The morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

20 ¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place; for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

23 ¶ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their And mine eye shall not spare, neither houses: I will also make the pomp of the will I have pity: I will recompense thee strong to cease, and their holy places shall according to thy ways, and thine abomina- be defiled.

tions that are in the midst of thee; and ye 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth. seek peace, and there shall be none.

The vision of jealousy, and

CHAP. VIII, IX.

the chambers of imagery.

26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, censer in his hand; and a thick cloud a and rumour shall be upon rumour; then incense went up.

shall they seek a vision of the prophet; 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, but the law shall perish from the priest, hast thou seen what the ancients of the and counsel from the ancients. house of Israel do in the dark, every man

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince in the chambers of his imagery? for they shall be clothed with desolation, and the say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath hands of the people of the land shall be forsaken the earth. troubled I will do unto them after their 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee way, and according to their deserts will I yet again, and thou shalt see greater abojudge them, and they shall know that I am minations that they do. the LORD.

CHAP. VIII.

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was to

AND it came to pass in the sixth year, ward the north; and behold, there sat

in the sixth month, in the fifth day of women weeping for Tammuz.

the month, as I sat in my house, and the 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou elders of Judah sat before me, that the seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet band of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. again, and thou shalt see greater abomina2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the tions than these. appearance of fire: from the appearance 16 And he brought me into the inner of his loins even downward, fire; and from court of the LORD's house, and behold, at his loins even upward, as the appearance the door of the temple of the LORD, beof brightness, as the colour of amber. tween the porch and the altar, were about 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, five and twenty men, with their backs toand took me by a lock of my head; and ward the temple of the LORD, and their the spirit lifted me up between the earth faces toward the east; and they worshipand the heaven, and brought me in the ped the sun toward the east. visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou the inner gate that looketh toward the seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing north; where was the seat of the image of to the house of Judah that they commit the jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. abominations which they commit here? for 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of they have filled the land with violence, and Israel was there, according to the vision have returned to provoke me to anger: that I saw in the plain. and lo, they put the branch to their nose. 5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: lift up thine eyes now the way toward the mine eye shall not spare, neither will I north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way have pity: and though they cry in mine toward the north, and behold northward ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear at the gate of the altar this image of jea- them.

lousy in the entry.

6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of

tions.

CHAP. IX.

man, seest thou what they do? even the HE cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have great abominations that the house of Israel charge over the city to draw near, even committeth here, that I should go far off every man with his destroying weapon in from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet his hand. again, and thou shalt see greater abomina- 2 And behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth to7 ¶ And he brought me to the door of the ward the north, and every man a slaughtercourt; and when I looked, behold a hole weapon in his hand; and one man among in the wall. them was clothed with linen, with a wri8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, ter's inkhorn by his side: and they went dig now in the wall: and when I had dig-in and stood beside the brazen altar. ged in the wall, behold a door. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and be-gone up from the cherub whereupon he hold the wicked abominations that they do was, to the threshold of the house. And here. he called to the man clothed with linen,

10 So I went in and saw; and behold which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; every form of creeping things, and abo- 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go minable beasts, and all the idols of the through the midst of the city, through the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon round about. the foreheads of the men that sigh and that

11 And there stood before them seventy cry for all the abominations that be done in men of the ancients of the house of Israel, the midst thereof. and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah 5 ¶ And to the others he said in my the son of Shaphan, with every man his hearing, Go ye after him through the city,

Vision of the coals of fire,

EZEKIEL.

and of the cherubims. and smite: let not your eye spare, neither him that was clothed with linen: who took have ye pity: it, and went out.

6 Slay utterly old and young, both 8 T And there appeared in the cherumaids, and little children, and women: but bims the form of a man's hand under their come not near any man upon whom is the wings.

before the house.

mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then 9 And when I looked, behold the four they began at the ancient men which were wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

8¶ And it came to pass while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell 11 When they went, they went upon their upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah four sides; they turned not as they went,but Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the resi- to the place whither the head looked they due of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury followed it; they turned not as they went. upon Jerusalem?

9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel!

14 And every one had four faces: the 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall first face was the face of a cherub, and the not spare, neither will I have pity, but I second face was the face of a man, and the will recompense their way upon their third the face of a lion, and the fourth the head. face of an eagle.

11 And behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

CHAP. X.

HEN I looked, and behold, in the

the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up not from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up 2 And he spake unto the man clothed themselves also: for the spirit of the living with linen, and said, Go in between the creature was in them.

wheels, even under the cherub, and fill 18 Then the glory of the LORD departthy hand with coals of fire from between ed from off the threshold of the house, and the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

stood over the cherubims.

19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S from the cherub, and stood over the thresh-house; and the glory of the God of Israel old of the house; and the house was filled was over them above.

with the cloud, and the court was full of 20 This is the living creature that I saw the brightness of the LORD's glory. under the God of Israel by the river of 5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings Chebar; and I knew that they were the was heard even to the outer court, as cherubims. the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Pake fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

7 T And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and

21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward. CHAP. XI.

OREOVER, the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate

took thereof, and put it into the hands of of the LORD's house, which looketh east

The princes' sin and judgment. CHAP. XII. Type of Ezekiel's removing. !ward: and behold at the door of the gate GoD; I will even gather you from the peofive and twenty men; among whom I saw ple, and assemble you out of the countries Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah where ye have been scattered, and I will the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. give you the land of Israel.

2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

4 T Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof from thence.

19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon 20 That they may walk in my statutes, me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith and keep mine ordinances, and do them: the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of and they shall be my people, and I will be Israel: for I know the things that come their God. into your mind, every one of them.

6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst 22 Then did the cherubims lift up their of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the wings, and the wheels beside them; and caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the glory of the God of Israel was over the midst of it. them above.

8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will 23 And the glory of the LORD went up bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord from the midst of the city, and stood upon GOD. the mountain which is on the east side of

9 And I will bring you out of the midst the city. thereof, and deliver you into the hands of 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, strangers, and will execute judgments and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of among you. God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will So the vision that I had seen went up judge you in the border of Israel; and ye from me. shall know that I am the LORD.

25 Then I spake unto them of the cap11 This city shall not be your caldron, tivity all the things that the LORD had neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst shewed me. thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

THE

CHAP. XII.

word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and bearnot: for they are a rebellious house. 13 And it came to pass, when I pro- 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare phesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah thee stuff for removing, and remove by died. Then fell I down upon my face, day in their sight; and thou shalt remove and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah from thy place to another place in their Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of sight; it may be they will consider, though the remnant of Israel?

14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

they be a rebellious house.

4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. 5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that GOD; Although I have cast them far off thou see not the ground: for I have set among the heathen, and although I have thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. scattered them among the countries, yet 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I will I be to them as a little sanctuary in brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for the countries where they shall come. captivity, and in the even I digged through 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord the wall with my hand; I brought it

Desolation of the Jews shewed.

EZEKIEL.

The reproof of lying prophets

forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

my shoulder in their sight.

8 T And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come 9 Son of man, hath not the house of to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, in your days, O rebellious house, will I say What doest thou? the word, and will perform it, saith the

26 Again the word of the LORD came

10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of to me, saying, Israel that are among them.

11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

12 And the prince that is among them 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, the Lord GOD; There shall none of my and shall go forth: they shall dig through words be prolonged any more, but the word the wall to carry out thereby he shall which I have spoken shall be done, saith cover his face, that he see not the ground the Lord GOD. with his eyes.

:

13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

AN

CHAP. XIII.

ND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own 14 And I will scatter toward every hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; wind all that are about him to help him, 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo unto and all his bands; and I will draw out the the foolish prophets, that follow their own sword after them. spirit, and have seen nothing!

4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, 16 But I will leave a few men of them neither made up the hedge for the house of from the sword, from the famine, and from Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the pestilence; that they may declare all the LORD.

their abominations among the heathen 6 They have seen vanity and lying whither they come; and they shall know divination, saying, The LORD saith: and that I am the LORD. the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

17 Moreover the word of the came to me, saying,

LORD

18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GoD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall people, neither shall they be written in be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; the writing of the house of Israel, neither and ye shall know that I am the LORD. shall they enter into the land of Israel; and 21 And the word of the LORD came ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. unto me, saying, 10 Because, even because they have

22 Son of man, what is that proverb that seduced my people, saying, Peace; and ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The there was no peace; and one built up a days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? wall, and lo, others daubed it with untem23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the pered mortar :

Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to 11 Say unto them which daub it with cease, and they shall no more use it as a pro- untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there verb in Israel; but say unto them, The days shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O are at hand, and the effect of every vision. great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy 24 For there shall be no more any vain wind shall rend it.