The judgment of Zidon. EZEKIEL. * The desolation of Egypt. fore kings, that they may behold thee. rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by thou shalt not be brought together, nor the multitude of thine iniquities, by the gathered: I have given thee for meat to iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will the beasts of the field and to the fowls of bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it the heaven. shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. know that I am the LORD, because they 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall have been a staff of reed to the house cf 19 All they that know thee among the Israel. people shall be astonished at thee: thou any more. 7 When they took hold of thee by thy shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be hand, thou didst break, and rend all their thou brakest, and madest all their loins shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, to be at a stand. 20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 8 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; and cut off man and beast out of thee. Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, 9 And the land of Egypt shall be deso 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: late and waste; and they shall know that and they shall know that I am the LORD, I am the LORD: because he hath said, when I shall have executed judgments in The river is mine, and I have made it. her, and shall be sanctified in her. 10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and against thy rivers, and I will make the and blood into her streets; and the wounded land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, shall be judged in the midst of her by the from the tower of Syene even unto the sword upon her on every side; and they border of Ethiopia. shall know that I am the LORD, 24 And there shall be no more ait, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, 11 No foot of man shall pass through pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor neither shall it be inhabited forty years. any grieving thorn of all that are round about them that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Gon. desolate in the midst of the countries that 12 And I will make the land of Egypt 25 Thus saith the Lord Gon; When I cities that are laid waste shall be desolate are desolate, and her cities among the shall have gathered the house of Israel from forty years: and I will scatter the Egypthe people among whom they are scattered, tians among the nations, and will disperse and shall be sanctified in them in the sight them through the countries. of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. the end of forty years will I gather the 13 Yet thus saith the Lord God; At 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, Egyptians from the people whither they and shall build houses, and plant vine- were scattered: yards; yea, they shall dwell with confi 14 And I will bring again the captivity dence, when I have executed judgments of Egypt, and will cause them to return upon all those that despise them round into the land of Pathros, into the land of about them; and they shall know that I am their habitation; and they shall be there the LORD their God. a base kingdom. CHAP. XXIX. IN the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, neither shall it exalt itself any more above 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confi 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy dence of the house of Israel, which bringagainst him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord they shall look after them: but they shall eth their iniquity to remembrance, when GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh know that I am the Lord GOD. king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, and twentieth year, in the first month, in 17 And it came to pass in the seven My river is mine own, and I have made the first day of the month, the word of the for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and LORD came unto me, saying, I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick of Babylon caused his army to serve a great 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up service against Tyrus: every head was out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the made bald, and every shoulder was peelfish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. ed: yet had he no wages, nor his army, 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the for Tyrus, for the service that he had wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy served against it: Egypt is made desolate CHAP. XXX, XXXI. by the strength of Babylon. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;| destroy the idols, and I will cause their Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto images to cease out of Noph; and there Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall be no more a prince of the land of shall take her multitude, and take her Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be Egypt. the wages for his army. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, 20 I have given him the land of Egypt and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute for his labour wherewith he served against judgments in No. it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. 15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off 21 In that day will I cause the horn the multitude of No. of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin will give thee the opening of the mouth in shall have great pain, and No shall be rent the midst of them; and they shall know asunder, and Noph shall have distresses that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXX. THE again 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Wo worth the day! 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. daily. 17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgments in 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when Egypt: and they shall know that I am the the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall LORD. take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.. 7. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 20 T And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the 9 In that day shall messengers go forth king of Babylon, and put my sword in his from me in ships to make the careless hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall and he shall groan before him with the 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: groanings of a deadly-wounded man. for, lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh make the multitude of Egypt to cease by shall fall down; and they shall know that the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Ba-I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and bylon. 11 He and his people with him, the he shall stretch it out upon the land of terrible of the nations, shall be brought to Egypt. 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know with the slain. that I am the LORD. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and and I will make the land waste, and all CHAP. XXXI. AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the 639 13 Thus saith the Lord GoD; I will also LORD came unto me, saying, Glory and fall of Assyria. EZEKIEL. A lamentation for the 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king and I restrained the floods thereof, and the of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom great waters were stayed: and I caused art thou like in thy greatness? Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a 16 I made the nations to shake at the shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; sound of his fall, when I cast him down to and his top was among the thick boughs. hell with them that descend into the pit: 4 The waters made him great, the deep and all the trees of Eden, the choice and set him up on high with her rivers running best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall round about his plants, and sent out her be comforted in the nether parts of the little rivers unto all the trees of the field. earth. 5 Therefore, his height was exalted 17 They also went down into hell with above all the trees of the field, and his him, unto them that be slain with the sword; boughs were multiplied, and his branches and they that were his arm, that dwelt unbecame long because of the multitude of der his shadow in the midst of the heathen. waters, when he shot forth. 18 To whom art thou thus like in 6 All the fowls of heaven made their glory and in greatness among the trees of nests in his boughs, and under his branches Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with did all the beasts of the field bring forth the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of their young, and under his shadow dwelt the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the all great nations. uncircumcised with them that be slain by 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his the length of his branches: for his root multitude, saith the Lord GOD. was by great waters. CHAP. XXXII. 8 The cedars in the garden of God ND it came to pass in the twelfth year, could not hide him: the fir-trees were not in the twelfth month, in the first day like his boughs, and the chesnut-trees were of the month, that the word of the LORD not like his branches; not any tree in the came unto me, saying, garden of God was like unto him in his 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for beauty. Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, 9 have made him fair by the multitude Thou art like a young lion of the nations, of his branches: so that all the trees of and thou art as a whale in the seas: and Eden, that were in the garden of God, en- thou camest forth with thy rivers, and vied him. troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. a 11 I have therefore delivered him into 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; I will cast thee forth upon the open field, he shall surely deal with him: I have and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the moun upon the mountains and in all the valleys tains, and fill the valleys with thy height. his branches are fallen, and his boughs are 6 I will also water with thy blood the broken by all the rivers of the land; and land wherein thou swimmest, even to the all the people of the earth are gone down mountains; and the rivers shall be full of from his shadow, and have left him. thee. 13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of 7 And when I shall put thee out, I will the heaven remain, and all the beasts of cover the heaven, and make the stars the field shall be upon his branches: thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a 14 To the end that,none of all the trees cloud, and the moon shall not give herlight by the waters, exalt themselves for their 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I height, neither shoot up their top among inake dark over thee, and set darkness upthe thick boughs, neither their trees stand on thy land, saith the Lord God. up in their height, all that drink water: 9 I will also vex the hearts of many for they are all delivered unto death, to the people, when I shall bring thy destruction nether parts of the earth, in the midst of among the nations, into the countries which the children of men, with them that go thou hast not known. down to the pit. 10 Yea, I will make many people 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day amazed at thee, and their kings shall be when he went down to the grave I caused horribly afraid forthee, when I shall brand a mourning: I covered the deep for him,ish my sword before them; and they shall fearful fall of Egypt. CHAP, XXXIII. Ezekiel admonished of his duty. tremble at every moment, every man for their terror was caused in the land of the his own life, in the day of thy fall. 11 Forthus saith the Lord GoD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all 12 By the swords of the mighty will I her multitude: her graves are round about cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the nations, all of them: and they shall the sword, though they caused their terror spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the mul- in the land of the living. titude thereof shall be destroyed. 27 And they shall not lie with the 13 I will destroy also all the beasts there- mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, of from beside the great waters; neither which are gone down to hell with their shall the foot of man trouble them any weapons of war: and they have laid their more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. swords under their heads, but their iniqui14 Then will I make their waters deep, ties shall be upon their bones, though they of the living. and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith were the terror of the mighty in the land 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the the Lord GOD. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie destitute of that whereof it was full, when with them that are slain with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. herprinces, which with their might are laid 16 This is the lamentation wherewith by them that were slain by the sword: they they shall lament her: the daughters of shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with the nations shall lament her: they shall them that go down to the pit. lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. 30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth gone down with the slain; with their teryear, in the fifteenth day of the month, that ror they are ashamed of their might; and the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, they lie uncircumcised with them that be 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of slain by the sword, and bear their shame 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and with them that go down to the pit. the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the that go down into the pit. sword, saith the Lord GOD. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in 20 They shall fall in the midst of them the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh CHAP. XXXIII. to the sword: draw her and all her mul- and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. titudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with AGAIN the word of the LORD came them that help him: they are gone down, unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. thy people, and say unto them, When I 22 Asshur is there and all her company: bring the sword upon a land, if the people set him for their watchman: his graves are about him: all of them of the land take a man of their coasts, and slain, fallen by the sword: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn 4 Then, whosoever heareth the sound of her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the the people; sword, which caused terror in the land of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the living. 24 There is Elam and all her multitude the sword come and take him away, his 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, round about her grave, all of them slain, blood shall be upon his own head. fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the and took not warning; his blood shall be earth, which caused their terror in the land upon him. But he that taketh warning 6 But if the watchman see the sword of the living; yet have they borne their shall deliver his soul. shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst come, and blow not the trumpet, and the of the slain with all her multitude: her people be not warned; if the sword come, graves are round about him: all of them and take any person from among them, he uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood 41 641 God shows the EZEKIEL. justice of his ways. will I require at the watchman's hand. in the fifth day of the month, that one that 7 ¶ So thou, O son of man, I have set had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; me saying, The city is smitten. therefore thou shalt hear the word at my 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon mouth, and warn them from me. & When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore,say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the 26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death abomination, and ye defile every one his of the wicked; but that the wicked turn neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? land? 27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto are in the wastes, shall fall by the sword, the children of thy people, The righteous- and him that is in the open field, will I give ness of the righteous shall not deliver him to the beasts to be devoured, and they that in the day of his transgression: as for the be in the forts and in the caves, shall die of wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall the pestilence. thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, by the walls and in the doors of the houses, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his and speak one to another, every one to his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give hear what is the word that cometh forth again that he had robbed, walk in the sta- from the LORD. tutes of life, without committing iniquity; 31 And they come unto thee as the peohe shall surely live, he shall not die. ple cometh, and they sit before thee as my 16 None of his sins that he hath com- people, and they hear thy words, but they mitted shall be mentioned unto him: he will not do them: for with their mouth hath done that which is lawful and right; they shew much love, but their heart goeth he shall surely live. after their covetousness. 17¶ Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 32 And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. 33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, 19 But if the wicked turn from his wick- it will come,) then shall they know that a edness, and do that which is lawful and prophet hath been among them. right, he shall live thereby. CHAP. XXXIV. 20 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the |