abcde ___Ezekiel chapter 1 1 Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2 In the fifth day of the month, that was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 3 The word of the Lord came specifically to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar, and the hand of the Lord was there on him. 4 And I looked, and see, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was around it, and out of the middle of it like the color of amber, out of the middle of the fire. 5 Also out of the middle of it the likeness of four living creatures came. And this was their appearance, they had the likeness of a man. 6 And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, and all four had their faces and their wings. 9 Their wings were joined to each other, they didn't turn when they went, each one went straight forward. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, all four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side, and all four had the face of an ox on the left side, all four also had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were their faces, and their wings were stretched upward, two wings of each one were joined to each other, and two covered their bodies. 12 And each one went straight forward, where the spirit was to go, they went, and they didn't turn when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps, it went up and down among the living creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went out lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned like the appearance of a flash of lightning. 15 Now as I saw the living creatures, see, one wheel on the earth by the living creatures, with its four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a beryl, and all four had one likeness, and their appearance and their work was like a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went on their four sides, and they didn't turn when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful, and their rings were full of eyes all around the four of them. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, there was their spirit to go, and the wheels were lifted up opposite them, for the spirit of the living creature 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 were lifted up opposite them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 22 And the likeness of the firmament on the heads of the living creature was like the color of the terrible crystal, stretched out over their heads above. 23 And under the firmament were their straight wings, one toward the other, everyone had two that covered their bodies on this side, and every one had two that covered their bodies on that side. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an army, when they stood, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, like the appearance of a sapphire stone, and on the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above on it. 27 And I saw as the color of amber, like the appearance of fire all around inside it, from the appearance of his midsection upward, and from the appearance of his midsection downward, I saw like the appearance of fire, and it had brightness all around. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of someone that spoke. ___Ezekiel chapter 2 1 And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you." 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet, so that I heard him that spoke to me. 3 And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me, they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even until this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiff hearted. I send you to them, and you shall say to them, thus says the Lord God. 5 And they, whether they will listen, or whether they won't listen, (for they are a rebellious house,) shall know anyway that there has been a prophet among them. 6 And you, son of man, don't be afraid of them, and don't be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you live among scorpions, don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they're a rebellious house. 7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will listen, or whether they won't listen, for they are most rebellious. 8 But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you, don't be rebellious like that rebellious house, open your mouth, and eat what I give you." 9 And when I looked, see, a hand was sent to me, and see, a roll of a book was in it, 10 And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside, and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe. ___Ezekiel chapter 3 1 Also he said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find, eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel." 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. 3 And he said to me, "Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll that I give you." Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth like honey for sweetness. 4 And he said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For you're not sent to a people of strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel, 6 Not to many people of strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can't understand. Surely, if I'd sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the house of Israel won't listen to you, for they will not listen to me, for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 See, I've made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like an adamant, harder than flint I have made your forehead, don't be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they're a rebellious house." 10 Also he said to me, "Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you, receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 11 And go to those of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, thus says the Lord God, whether they will listen, or whether they won't." 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place." 13 I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched each other, and the noise of the wheels opposite them, and a noise of a great rushing. 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was strong on me. 15 Then I came to those of the captivity at Telabib, that lived by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. 16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel, therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to the wicked, you shall surely die, and you don't give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you've delivered your soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits sin, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die, because you haven't given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered, but I'll require his blood at your hand. 21 But if you warn the righteous man, so that the righteous doesn't sin, and he doesn't sin, he shall surely live, because he's been warned, also you have delivered your soul." 22 And the hand of the Lord was there on me, and he said to me, "Get up, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there." 23 Then I got up, and went out into the plain, and see, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory that I saw by the river of Chebar, and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet, and spoke with me, and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house. 25 But you, O son of man, see, they'll put bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them, 26 And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, so that you'll be dumb, and won't be to them a reprover, for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, thus says the Lord God, he that hears, let him hear, and he that doesn't, let him not hear, for they are a rebellious house." ___Ezekiel chapter 4 1 "You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city, Jerusalem, 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and throw a mount against it, set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around. 3 Also take yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred ninety days, so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you've accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, I have appointed you each day for a year. 7 Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 And see, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn from one side to another, 'til you've ended the days of your siege. 9 Take also for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one container, and make yourself bread from it, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred ninety days you shall eat of it. 10 And your food that you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day, from time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall drink also water by measure, one sixth of a hin, from time to time you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it like barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight." 13 And the Lord said, "Thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." 14 Then I said, "Ah Lord God! See, my soul has not been polluted, for from my youth up even 'til now I haven't eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces, nor has detestable flesh come into my mouth." 15 Then he said to me, "See, I've given you cow's dung instead of man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread with that. 16 Also he said to me, "Son of man, see, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care, and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment, 17 So they will lack bread and water, and be astonished with each other, and consume away for their sin." ___Ezekiel chapter 5 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp knife, take a barber's razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard, then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 2 You shall burn one third with fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege have been fulfilled, and you shall take one third, and strike around it with a knife, and one third you shall scatter in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 You shall also take of it a few in number, and tie them in your skirts. 4 Then take of them again, and throw them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire, for from it shall a fire come out into all the house of Israel. 5 Thus says the Lord God, this is Jerusalem, I have set it in the middle of the nations and countries that are around her. 6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her, for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they haven't walked in them. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, nor have kept my judgments, nor have done according to the judgments of the nations that are around you, 8 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in you that which I haven't done, and what I won't do anymore like it, because of all your dirty things. 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons among you, and the sons shall eat their fathers, and I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds. 11 So, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you've defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your dirty things, therefore I will also diminish you, nor shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 One third of you shall die with the pestilence, and they shall be consumed with famine among you, and one third shall fall by the sword around you, and I will scatter one third into all the winds, and I will pull out a sword after them. 13 Thus my anger shall be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest on them, and I will be comforted, and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury on them. 14 Also I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious reprimands. I the Lord have spoken it. 16 When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that shall be for their destruction, and that I will send to destroy you, and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread, 17 So I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you, and pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I the Lord have spoken it." ___Ezekiel chapter 6 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God, thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, see, I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken, and I will throw down your killed men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols will be broken and stopped, and your images will be cut down, and your works will be abolished. 7 And the killed shall fall among you, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 8 Yet will I leave a remnant, so you'll have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when you'll be scattered through the countries. 9 And those that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they'll be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, that has departed from me, and with their eyes, that go whoring after their idols, and they shall hate themselves for the evils that they've committed in all their detestable things. 10 And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I haven't said in vain that I would do this evil to them. 11 Thus says the Lord God, strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, alas for all the evil detestable things 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 remains and is besieged shall die by the famine, thus I will accomplish my fury on them. 13 Then you'll know that I am the Lord, when their killed men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet odors to all their idols. 14 So will I stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 7 1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel, an end, the end has come on the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end has come on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will repay on you all your detestable things. 4 And my eye won't spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will repay your ways on you, and your detestable things shall be among you, and you shall know that I am the Lord." 5 Thus says the Lord God, "An evil, an only evil, see, has come. 6 An end has come, the end has come, it watches for you, see, it has come. 7 The morning has come to you, O you that live in the land, the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the echo from the mountains. 8 Now I will shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your detestable things. 9 And my eye won't spare, nor will I have pity, I will repay you according to your ways and your detestable things that are among you, and you shall know that I am the Lord that hits. 10 See the day, see, it has come, the morning has gone out, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness, none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs, nor shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time has come, the day approaches, let the buyer not rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for anger is on all the multitude of it. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which has been sold, although they were still alive, for the vision is concerning the whole multitude of it, that won't return, nor shall anyone strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. 14 They have blown the trumpet, to make all ready, but no one goes to the battle, for my anger is on all the multitude of it. 15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside, he that is in the field shall die by the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his sin. 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 on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 19 They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed, their silver and their gold shall not be able to give them deliverance in the day of the anger of the Lord, they shall not satisfy their souls, nor 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 dirty things and of their detestable things in it, therefore I have 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 I will also turn my face away 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 So I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses, I will also make the pomp of the strong to stop, and their holy places shall be defiled. 25 Destruction comes, and they shall seek peace, and there won't be any. 26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor, then they'll seek a vision of the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and advice from the ancients. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled, I will do to them according to their way, and I will judge them according to what they deserve, and they'll know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 8 1 And in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord God fell on me there. 2 Then I saw, and see, a likeness as the appearance of fire, from the appearance of his midsection downward, fire, and from his midsection upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber. 3 And he put out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between heaven and earth, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, that provokes to jealousy. 4 And see, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. 5 Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north." So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said also to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? The very detestable things that the house of Israel commits here, so I should go far off from my sanctuary? But turn yet again, and you'll see worse detestable things." 7 And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, see, a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall," and when I had dug in the wall, see, a door. 9 And he said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked detestable things that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw every form of creeping things, and dirty beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall all around. 11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel stood before them, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood among them, each man with his censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the rooms of his imagery? For they say, the Lord doesn't see us, the Lord has forsaken the earth. 13 He also said to me, turn yet again, and you'll see worse detestable things that they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house that was toward the north, and see, women sat crying for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, have you seen this, O son of man? Turn yet again, and you'll see worse detestable things than these." 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and see, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the detestable things that they commit here? For they've filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger, and see, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore I will also deal in fury, my eye won't spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I won't hear them." ___Ezekiel chapter 9 1 He shouted also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Cause those who have charge of the city to come near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand." 2 And see, six men came from the way of the higher gate, that lies toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand, and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side, and they went in, and stood beside the brass altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side, 4 And the Lord said to him, "Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the detestable things that are done in it. 5 And he said to the others in my hearing, go after him through the city, and strike, let your eye not spare, and don't have pity, 6 Completely kill old and young, both maids, and little children, and women, but don't come near any man on whom is the mark, and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house. 7 And he said to them, defile the house, and fill the courts with the killed, go. And they went out, and killed in the city. 8 And while they were killing them, and I was left, I fell on my face, and shouted, "Ah Lord God! Will you destroy all the remaining of Israel in your pouring out of your fury on Jerusalem?" 9 Then he said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very large, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness, for they say, the Lord has forsaken the earth, and the Lord doesn't see. 10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will repay their way on their head." 11 And, see, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, "I have done like you've commanded me." ___Ezekiel chapter 10 1 Then I looked, and see, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims, something like a sapphire stone appeared over them, like the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, "Go in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city." And in my sight he went in. 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of the Lord went up from the angel, and stood over the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory. 5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks. 6 And when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims, then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one angel stretched out his hand from between the cherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen, who took it, and went out. 8 And the form of a man's hand appeared in the cherubims under their wings. 9 And when I looked, see the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like the color of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they all had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the middle of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went on their four sides, they didn't turn when they went, but toward the place where the head looked they followed it, they didn't turn when they went. 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, the wheels that they all had. 13 As for the wheels, it was shouted to them in my hearing, "O wheel." 14 And everyone had four faces, the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 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 from the earth, the same wheels also didn't turn from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood, and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also, for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 18 Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and 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 everyone stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar, and I knew that they were the cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces each, 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 were the same faces that I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves, everyone went straight forward. ___Ezekiel chapter 11 1 Also the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's house, that looks eastward, and see, twenty five men at the door of the gate, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then he said to me, "Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked advice in this city, 3 Who say, it is not near, let us build houses, this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man." 5 And the Spirit of the Lord fell on me, and said to me, "Speak, thus says the Lord, this is what you've said, O house of Israel, for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 6 You have multiplied your killed in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the killed. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God, your killed whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron, but I will bring you out of the middle of it. 8 You have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword on you, says the Lord God. 9 And I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 You shall fall by the sword, I will judge you in the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 11 This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the flesh in the middle of it, but I will judge you in the border of Israel, 12 And you shall know that I am the Lord, for you haven't walked in my statutes, nor executed my judgments, but have done after the manner of the heathen that are around you." 13 And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, "Ah Lord God! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 15 "Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your kindred, and entirely all the house of Israel, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, get you far from the Lord, this land has been given to us for a possession. 16 Therefore say, thus says the Lord God, although I have thrown them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them like a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall go. 17 Therefore say, thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it, and all the dirty things of it from there. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit inside you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh, 20 So they'll walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for those whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their dirty things, I will repay their way on their own heads, says the Lord God. 22 Then the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from among the city, and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city. 24 Afterward the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. 25 Then I spoke to those of the captivity all the things that the Lord had showed me." ___Ezekiel chapter 12 1 The word of the Lord also came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, you live among a rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and don't see, they have ears to hear, and don't hear, for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, son of man, prepare you stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight, and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight, it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. 4 Then you shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, like stuff for moving, and you shall go out at evening in their sight, like those who go out into captivity. 5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out through the hole. 6 In their sight you shall carry it on your shoulders, and carry it out in the twilight, you shall cover your face, so you don't see the ground, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel. 7 And I did so like I was commanded, I brought out my stuff by day, like stuff for captivity, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand, I brought it out in the twilight, and I carried it on my shoulder in their sight. 8 And in the morning, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 Son of man, hasn't the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, what are you doing? 10 Tell them, thus says the Lord God, this burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them. 11 Say, I am your sign, like I have done, so shall it be done to them, they shall move and go into captivity. 12 And the prince that is among them shall carry on his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go out, they shall dig through the wall to carry out through the hole, he shall cover his face, so he doesn't see the ground with his eyes. 13 I will also spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my trap, and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he won't see it, though he shall die there. 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are around him to help him, and all his bands, and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so they can declare all their detestable things among the heathen where they go, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 17 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat your bread with shaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness, 19 And say to the people of the land, thus says 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, so her land will be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all of those who live in it. 20 And the cities that are 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 that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, the days are prolonged, and every vision fails? 23 Tell them therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will make this proverb stop, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel, but say to them, the days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. 24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. 25 For I am the Lord, I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall happen, it shall be no more prolonged, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord God. 26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 27 Son of man, see, those of the house of Israel say, the vision that he sees is for many days in the future, and he prophesies of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say to them, thus says the Lord God, none of my words shall be prolonged anymore, but the word that I've spoken shall be done, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 13 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts, hear the word of the Lord, 3 Thus says the Lord God, woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 You have not gone up into the gaps, nor made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, the Lord says, and the Lord has not sent them, and they've made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Haven't you seen a vain vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, when you say, the Lord says it, but I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, see, I am against you, says the Lord God. 9 And my hand shall be on the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies, they shall not be in the assembly of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God. 10 Because they have seduced my people, saying, peace, and there was no peace, and someone built up a wall, and see, others daubed it with untempered mortar, 11 Say to those who daub it with untempered mortar that it shall fall, there shall be an overflowing shower, and you, O large hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall tear it. 12 See, when the wall has fallen, won't it be said to you, where is the daubing with which you've daubed it? 13 Therefore thus says the Lord God, I will tear it with a stormy wind in my fury, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and large hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So I will break down the wall that you have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the middle of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 15 Thus I will accomplish my anger on the wall, and on those who've daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, the wall is no more, nor those who daubed it, 16 Specifically, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord God. 17 Likewise, you son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart, and prophesy against them, 18 And say, thus says the Lord God, woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make handkerchiefs on the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save the souls alive that come to you? 19 And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20 So thus says the Lord God, see, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, the souls that you hunt to make them fly. 21 I will also tear your handkerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand to be hunted, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 22 Because you've made the heart of the righteous sad with lies, whom I haven't made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he won't return from his wicked way, by promising him life, 23 Therefore you'll see no more vanity, nor divine divinations, for I will deliver my people out of your hand, and you'll know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 14 1 Then certain of the elders 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 set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their sin before their face, should I at all be inquired of by them? 4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his sin before his face, and comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols, 5 So I can take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, repent, and turn yourselves from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your detestable things. 7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that visits in Israel, who separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his sin before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me, I the Lord will answer him by myself, 8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their sin, the punishment of the prophet shall be like the punishment of him that seeks to him, 11 So that the house of Israel will no more go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions, but so they'll be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord God." 12 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 13 "Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then I will stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the bread of it, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it, 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord God. 15 If I cause vicious animals to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it's desolate, so no man can pass through because of the animals, 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, only they shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it, 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only they themselves shall be delivered. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter, they shall only deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the Lord God, how much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the vicious beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal? 22 Yet see, in it shall be left a remnant that shall be brought out, both sons and daughters, see, they shall come out to you, and you shall see their way and their doings, and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, concerning all that I have brought on it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings, and you shall know that I haven't done all that I have done in it without a reason, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 15 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch that is among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will men take a pin from it to hang any container on it? 4 See, it is thrown into the fire for fuel, the fire devours both the ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it useful for any work? 5 See, when it was whole, it was good for no work, how much less shall it be good for any work, when the fire has devoured it, and it's burned? 6 Therefore thus says the Lord God, like the vine tree among the trees of the forest, that I've given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them, they shall escape from one fire, and another fire shall devour them, and you'll know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them. 8 And I will make the land desolate, because they've committed a trespass, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 16 1 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her detestable things, 3 And say, thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan, your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. 4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed in water to supple you, you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you, but you were thrown out in the open field, to the hating of your person, in the day that you were born. 6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, live, yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, live. 7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you have increased and grown great, and you have come to excellent ornaments, your breasts are fashioned, and your hair has grown, whereas you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, see, your time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness, yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became my. 9 Then washed I you with water, yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with badgers' skin, and I girded you around with fine linen, and I covered you with silk. 11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus were you decked with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work, you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil, and you were very beautiful, and you prospered into a kingdom. 14 And your fame went out among the heathen for your beauty, for it was perfect through my attractiveness, that I had put on you, says the Lord God. 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by, his it was. 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with various colors, and played the harlot on it, it won't be like that, nor shall it happen. 17 You've also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, that I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them, 18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and you've set my oil and my incense before them. 19 My food also that I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you've set it before them for a sweet odor, and thus it was, says the Lord God. 20 Also you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have born to me, and these you've sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter, 21 That you've killed my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22 And in all your detestable things and your whoredoms you haven't remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood. 23 And after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! Says the Lord God,) 24 You've also built for yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You've built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms. 26 You've also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh, and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 27 See, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. 28 You've also played the whore with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable, yes, you've played the harlot with them, and still couldn't be satisfied. 29 You've also multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea, and yet you weren't satisfied with this. 30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman, 31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street, and haven't been like a harlot, in that you scorn wages, 32 But like a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to all whores, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, so they will come to you on every side for your whoredom. 34 And the contrary is in you from other women in your whoredoms, whereas no one follows you to commit whoredoms, and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary. 35 So, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord, 36 Thus says the Lord God, because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your detestable things, and by the blood of your children, that you gave them, 37 See, therefore I'll gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you've hated, I will gather them all around against you, and will uncover your nakedness to them, so they will see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you, like women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy. 39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down yours eminent place, and shall break down your high places, they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women, and I will cause you to stop from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire anymore. 42 So I will make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will no more be angry. 43 Because you haven't remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things, see, therefore I also will repay your way on your head, says the Lord God, and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your detestable things. 44 See, everyone that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, as is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 You are your mother's daughter, who hates her husband and her children, and you're the sister of your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children, your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that live at your left hand, and your younger sister, that lives at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet you haven't walked after their ways, nor done after their detestable things, but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. 49 See, this was the sin of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed detestable things before me, therefore I took them away as I saw fit. 51 Nor has Samaria committed half of your sins, but you have multiplied your detestable things more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your detestable things that you've done. 52 You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you've committed more detestable than they, they are more righteous than you, yes, be confused also, and bear your shame, in that you've justified your sisters. 53 When I shall undo their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then I will undo the captivity of your captives among them, 54 So that you'll carry your own shame, and will be confused with all that you've done, in that you're a comfort to them. 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their previous condition, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their previous condition, then you and your daughters shall return to your previous condition. 56 For your sister Sodom wasn't mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, that despise you all around. 58 You've carried your lewdness and your detestable things, says the Lord. 59 For thus says the Lord God, I will deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 60 But I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you'll remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger, and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord, 63 So you'll remember, and be confused, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you've done, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel 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 says the Lord God, a large eagle with large wings, long winged, full of feathers, that had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar, 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic, he set it in a city of merchants. 5 He took also some of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field, he placed it by great waters, and set it like a willow tree. 6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him, so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 7 There was also another large eagle with large wings and many feathers, and, see, this vine bent her roots toward him, and shot out her branches toward him, so he would water it by the furrows of her plantation. 8 It was planted in good soil by large waters, so it would produce branches, and so it would produce fruit, so it would be a good vine. 9 Say thus says the Lord God, shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, so it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of its spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots of it. 10 Yes see, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not completely wither, when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew. 11 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 12 Say now to the rebellious house, don't you know what these things mean? Tell them, see, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king of it, and the princes if it, and led them with him to Babylon, 13 And has taken of the king's descendants, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath from him, he has also taken the mighty of the land, 14 So the kingdom would be base, so it wouldn't lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it would stand. 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, so they would give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape that does such things? Or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16 As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king lives that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, with him in the middle of Babylon he shall die. 17 Nor shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company work for him in the war, by throwing up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many people, 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, he had given his hand, and has done all these things, he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, as I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will repay on his own head. 20 And I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my trap, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. 21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward all winds, and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken it. 22 Thus says the Lord God, I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it, I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high mountain and eminent, 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it, and it shall produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar, and under it shall live all fowl of every wing, in the shadow of the branches of it they shall live. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish, I the Lord have spoken and have done it." ___Ezekiel chapter 18 1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 2 "What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, says the Lord God, you shall not have occasion anymore to use this proverb in Israel. 4 See, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine, the soul that sins, it shall die. 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, 6 And has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his neighbor's wife, nor has come near to a menstruous woman, 7 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his security deposit, has spoiled no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment, 8 He that hasn't loaned at interest, nor has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man, 9 Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, to deal truly, he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord God. 10 If he fathers a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that does like any of these things, 11 And that doesn't do any of those duties, but has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the security deposit, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed detestable things, 13 Has lent at interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live, he has done all these detestable things, he shall surely die, his blood shall be on him. 14 Now see, if he fathers a son, that sees all his father's sins that he has done, and considers, and doesn't do like that, 15 That has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife, 16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the security deposit, nor has spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment, 17 That has taken off his hand from the poor, that has not received interest nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes, he shall not die for the sin of his father, he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, see, even he shall die in his sin. 19 Yet say you, why? Doesn't the son carry the sin of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. 20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not carry the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son, the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do what is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned to him, in his righteousness that he has done, he shall live. 23 Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? Says the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin, and does according to all the detestable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned, in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die. 25 Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel, is not my way equal? Are not your ways unequal? 26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin, and dies in them, for his sin that he has done he shall die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, the way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, aren't my ways equal? Aren't your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Throw away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, for why do you want to die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord God, so turn yourselves, and live." ___Ezekiel chapter 19 1 "Also take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, what is your mother? A lioness that laid down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps, it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey, it devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him, he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid their cities waste, and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him, he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon, they brought him into holds, so his voice wouldn't be heard anymore on the mountains of Israel. 10 Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters, she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters. 11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit, her strong rods were broken and withered, the fire consumed them. 13 And now she's been planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire has gone out of a rod of her branches that has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation." ___Ezekiel chapter 20 1 And in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me. 2 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 3 Son of man, "Speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord God, have you come to inquire of me? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you. 4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the detestable things of their fathers, 5 And say to them, thus says the Lord God, in the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand to the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I am the Lord your God, 6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had spied for them, flowing with milk and honey, that is the glory of all lands, 7 Then I said to them, throw away every man the detestable things of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt, I am the Lord your God. 8 But they rebelled against me, and wouldn't listen to me, every man didn't cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt, then I said, I will pour out my fury on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt. 9 But I worked for my name's sake, so it wouldn't be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10 So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. 12 Also also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the Lord that makes them holy. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness, they didn't walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them, and my Sabbaths they greatly polluted, then I said, I would pour out my fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I worked for my name's sake, so it wouldn't be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. 15 Yet I also lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, so I wouldn't bring them into the land that I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands, 16 Because they despised my judgments, and didn't walk in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols. 17 But my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness. 18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, and don't observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols, 19 I am the Lord your God, walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them, 20 And hallow my Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, so you'll know that I am the Lord your God. 21 But the children rebelled against me, they didn't walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them, they polluted my Sabbaths, then I said I would pour out my fury on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 But I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it wouldn't be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. 23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, so I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries, 24 Because they hadn't executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. 25 So I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live, 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, so I could make them desolate, so that they'd know that I am the Lord. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered their sacrifices there, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, they also made their sweet odor there, and poured out their drink offerings there. 29 Then I said to them, what is the high place that you go to? And the name of it is called Bamah until this day. 30 So say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? And do you commit whoredom after their detestable things? 31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, until this day, and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you. 32 And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, that you say, we will be like the heathen, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. 33 As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you, 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and I will plead with you there face to face. 36 Like I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead with you, says the Lord God. 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant, 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me, I will bring them out of the country where they're visiting, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, go, serve every one his idols, and later also, if you won't listen to me, but pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me, I will accept them there, and I will require your offerings there, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things. 41 I will accept you with your sweet odor, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries in which you've been scattered, and I will be made holy in you before the heathen. 42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers. 43 And you shall remember your ways there, and all your doings, in which you've been defiled, and you shall hate yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you've committed. 44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have worked with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord God." 45 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 46 "Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field, 47 And say to the forest of the south, hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord God, see, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree, the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it, it shall not be quenched. 49 Then I said, ah Lord God! They say about me, doesn't he speak parables?" ___Ezekiel chapter 21 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel, thus says the Lord, see, I am against you, and will draw out my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword shall go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north, 5 So all flesh will know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath, it shall not return anymore. 6 Sigh therefore, son of man, with the breaking of your loins, and sigh with bitterness before their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they say to you, why do you sigh? That you shall answer, for the news, because it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water, see, it comes, and shall be made to happen, says the Lord God." 8 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 "Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says the Lord, say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished, 10 It is sharpened to make a very slaughter, it is furbished so it will glitter, should we then have a party? It holds in contempt the rod of my son, like every tree. 11 And he has given it to be furbished, so it will be handled, this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer. 12 Cry and howl, son of man, for it shall be on my people, it shall be on all the princes of Israel, terrors because of the sword shall be on my people, strike therefore on your thigh. 13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword holds in contempt even the rod? It shall be no more, says the Lord God. 14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the killed, it is the sword of the great men that are killed, that enters into their private rooms. 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, so their heart will faint, and their ruins will be multiplied, ah! It is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. 16 Go one way or the other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set. 17 I will also clap my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest, I the Lord have said it." 18 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 19 "Also, son of man, appoint two ways, so the sword of the king of Babylon can come, both shall come out of one land, and choose a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, so the sword can come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem, the defensed. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. 23 And it shall be to them like a false divination in their sight, to those who have sworn oaths, but he will remember the sin, so they'll be taken. 24 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've made your sin to be remembered, in that your transgressions have been discovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear, because, I say, so that you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. 25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, when sin shall have an end, 26 Thus says the Lord God, remove the diadem, and take off the crown, this shall not be the same, exalt him that is low, and bring him low that is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it, and it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is, and I will give it to him. 28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach, say, the sword, the sword is drawn, it is furbished for the slaughter, to consume because of the glittering, 29 While they show vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you on the necks of those who are killed, of the wicked, whose day has come, when their sin shall have an end. 30 Shall I cause it to return into its sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born. 31 And I will pour out my indignation on you, I will blow against you in the fire of my anger, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy. 32 You shall be for fuel to the fire, your blood shall be in the middle of the land, you shall be no more remembered, for I the Lord have spoken it." ___Ezekiel chapter 22 1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, you shall show her all her detestable things. 3 Then say, thus says the Lord God, the city sheds blood in the middle of it, so that her time will come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself. 4 You've become guilty in your blood that you've shed, and have defiled yourself in your idols that you've made, and you've caused your days to come near, and have come to your years, therefore I've made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those that are near, and those that are far from you, shall mock you, who is infamous and much vexed. 6 See, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood. 7 In you they've set light by father and mother, in the middle of you they've dealt by oppression with the stranger, in you they've vexed the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. 9 Men that carry stories to shed blood are in you, and they eat on the mountains in you, in the middle of you they commit lewdness. 10 In you they've uncovered their fathers' nakedness, they've humbled her that was set apart for pollution in you. 11 And someone has committed a detestable thing with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law, and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 12 They've taken gifts to shed blood in you, you've taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord God. 13 See, therefore I've struck my hand at your dishonest gain that you've made, and at your blood that has been in the middle of you. 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. 15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will consume your filthiness out of you. 16 And you shall take your inheritance in yourself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall 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 has become dross to me, they are all brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace, they are the impurities in silver. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've all become dross, see, therefore I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. 20 Like they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you in the fire of my anger, and you shall be melted in the middle of it. 22 Like silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you'll be melted in the middle of it, and you'll know that I the Lord have poured out my fury on you." 23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24 "Son of man, say to her, you're the land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken the treasure and precious things, they have made many widows for her in the middle of it. 26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things, they have put no difference between the holy and profane, nor have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I've been profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the middle of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, thus says the Lord God, when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy, yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, so I wouldn't destroy it, but I found no one. 31 Therefore I've poured out my indignation on them, I've consumed them with the fire of my anger, I've repaid their own way on their heads, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 23 1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother, 3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt, they committed whoredoms in their youth, their breasts were pressed there, and they bruised the teats of their virginity there. 4 And the names of them were Aholah, the elder, and Aholibah her sister, and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names, Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. 5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all those who were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, she defiled herself with all their idols. 8 Nor did she leave her whoredoms brought from Egypt, for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom on her. 9 So I've delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. 10 These uncovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword, and she became famous among women, for they had executed judgment on her. 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her wrongful love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. 12 She doted on the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took one way, 14 And that she increased her whoredoms, for when she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with girdles on their loins, exceeding in dyed attire on their heads, all of them princes to look at, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land where they were born, 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness, then my mind was alienated from her, like my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus you remembered the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Egyptians for the nipples of your youth. 22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus says the Lord God, see, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side, 23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding on horses. 24 And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, that shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet all around, and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you, they shall take away your nose and your ears, and your remnant shall fall by the sword, they shall take your sons and your daughters, and your remainder shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make your lewdness to stop from you, and your whoredom brought from the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt anymore. 28 For thus says the Lord God, see, I will deliver you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your mind is alienated, 29 And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your whoredoms. 30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone whoring after the heathen, and because you're polluted with their idols. 31 You have walked in the way of your sister, therefore will I give her cup into your hand. 32 Thus says the Lord God, you shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large, you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision, it contains much. 33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. 34 You shall drink it and suck it out, and you shall break the shards of it, and pluck off your own breasts, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God. 35 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've forgotten me, and thrown me behind your back, therefore bear also your lewdness and your whoredoms." 36 The Lord said also to me, "Son of man, will you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Yes, declare to them their detestable things, 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols they've committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Also this they have done to me, they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. 39 For when they had sacrificed their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it, and see, thus have they done in the middle of my house. 40 And also, that you have sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and see, they came, for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments, 41 And sat on a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, on which you've set my incense and my oil. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her, and Sabeans from the wilderness were brought with the men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then I said to her that was old in adulteries, will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? 44 Yet they went in to her, like they go in to a woman that plays the harlot, so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women. 45 And the righteous men shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46 For thus says the Lord God, I will bring up a company on them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords, they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 48 Thus I will cause lewdness to stop out of the land, so all women will be taught not to do like your lewdness. 49 And they shall repay your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols, and you shall know that I am the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 24 1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day, the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. 3 And complete a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, put on a pot, put it on, and also pour water into it, 4 Gather into it the pieces of it, every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder, fill it with the choice bones. 5 Take the choice of the flock, and also burn the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe in it the bones of it. 6 So thus says the Lord God, woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum hasn't gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece, let no lot fall on it. 7 For her blood is among her, she set it on the top of a rock, she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust, 8 So it would cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the top of a rock, so it won't be covered. 9 Therefore thus says the Lord God, woe to the bloody city! I will make the pile for fire large. 10 Heap on wood, light the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. 11 Then set it empty on the coals of it, so the brass of it will be hot, and will burn, and so the filthiness of it will be cast in the foundry in it, so the scum of it will be consumed. 12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum didn't go out of her, her scum shall be in the fire. 13 In your filthiness is lewdness, because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness anymore, 'til I have caused my fury to rest on you. 14 I the Lord have spoken it, it shall happen, and I will do it, I will not go back, nor will I spare, nor will I repent, according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord God." 15 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 16 "Son of man, see, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke, yet you shall neither mourn nor cry, nor shall your tears run down. 17 Refrain from crying, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your head on yourself, and put on your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat the bread of men." 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at even my wife died, and I did in the morning like I was commanded. 19 And the people said to me, "Won't you tell us what these things are to us, because you do this? 20 Then I answered them, "The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 Speak to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, see, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellence of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities, and 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 lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23 And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet, you shall not mourn nor weep, but you shall pine away for your sins, and mourn toward each other. 24 Thus Ezekiel is a sign to you, you shall do according to all that he has done, and when this comes, you shall know that I am the Lord God. 25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and what they set their minds on, their sons and their daughters, 26 That he that escapes in that day shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? 27 In that day your mouth shall be opened to him that has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb, and you shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 25 1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them, 3 And say to the Ammonites, hear the word of the Lord God, thus says the Lord God, because you said, aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity, 4 See, therefore I'll deliver you to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in you, and make their houses in you, they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 6 For thus says the Lord God, because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel, 7 See, therefore I will stretch out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the heathen, and I will cut you off from the people, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries, I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 8 Thus says the Lord God, because Moab and Seir say, see, the house of Judah is like all the heathen, 9 Therefore, see, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities that are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, 10 To the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, so the Ammonites won't be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments on Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 12 Thus says the Lord God, because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and avenged himself on them, 13 Therefore thus says the Lord God, I will also stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and those of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury, and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God. 15 Thus says the Lord God, because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred, 16 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 17 And I will execute great vengeance on them with furious reprimands, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance on them." ___Ezekiel chapter 26 1 And in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, because Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people, she has turned to me, I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste, 3 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against you, like the sea causes its waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers, I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God, and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be killed by the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 For thus says the Lord God, see, I will bring Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon against Tyrus, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and many people. 8 He shall kill your daughters with the sword in the field, and he shall make a fort against you, and cast a mount against you, and lift up the buckler against you. 9 And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and he shall break down your towers with his axes. 10 Because of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you, your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, like men enter into a city that has been broken into. 11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all your streets, he shall kill your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise, and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses, and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the middle of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to stop, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more. 14 And I will make you like the top of a rock, you shall be a place to spread nets on, you shall be built no more, for I the Lord have spoken it, says the Lord God. 15 Thus says the Lord God to Tyrus, shall the islands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made among you? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments, they shall clothe themselves with trembling, they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at you. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, how are you destroyed, that was inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 18 Now the islands shall tremble in the day of your fall, yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure. 19 For thus says the Lord God, when I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep on you, and great waters shall cover you, 20 When I shall bring you down with those who go down into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, so you're not inhabited, and I shall set glory in the land of the living, 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more, though you're sought for, you won't be found again, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 27 1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 2 "Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus, 3 And say to Tyrus, O you that is situated at the entry of the sea, that is a merchant of the people for many islands, thus says the Lord God, O Tyrus, you have said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Your borders are in the middle of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty. 5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir, they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan they've made your oars, the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the islands of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread out to be your sail, blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was what covered you. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners, your wise men, O Tyrus, that were in you, were your pilots. 9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men of it were your caulkers in you, all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise. 10 Those of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army, your men of war, they hung the shield and helmet in you, they set forth your attractiveness. 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers, they hung their shields on your walls all around, they have made your beauty perfect. 12 Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants, they traded the persons of men and containers of brass in your market. 14 Those of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were your merchants, many islands were the merchandise of your hand, they brought you horns of ivory and ebony for a present. 16 Syria was your merchant because of the multitude of the wares of your making, they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your merchants, they traded in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your making, for the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan going back and forth occupied in your fairs, bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market. 20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, and rams, and goats, they were your merchants in these. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants, they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants. 24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market, and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the middle of the seas. 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters, the east wind has broken you in the middle of the seas. 27 Your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the traders of your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are in you, and in all your company that are among you, shall fall into the middle of the seas in the day of your ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand on the land, 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall throw up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes, 31 And they shall make themselves completely bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall cry for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, what city is like Tyrus, like the one destroyed in the middle of the sea? 33 When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many people, you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. 34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company among you shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be very afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at you, you shall be a terror, and never shall be anymore." ___Ezekiel chapter 28 1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, thus says the Lord God, because your heart is lifted up, and you've said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas, yet you're a man, and not God, though you set your heart like the heart of God, 3 See, you're wiser than Daniel, there is no secret that they can hide from you, 4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures, 5 By your great wisdom and by your traffic you've increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches, 6 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've set your heart as the heart of God, 7 See, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. 8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of those who are killed in the middle of the seas. 9 Will you still say before him that kills you, I am God? But you shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that kills you. 10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God. 11 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyrus, and say to him, thus says the Lord God, you seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden the garden of God, every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created. 14 You're the anointed cherub that covers, and I have set you so, you were on the holy mountain of God, you have walked up and down among the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, 'til sin was found in you. 16 By the multitude of your merchandise they've filled the middle of you with violence, and you have sinned, therefore I will throw you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness, I will throw you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, so they can see you. 18 You've defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your sins, by the iniquity of your traffic, therefore I will bring out a fire from the middle of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. 19 All those who know you among the people shall be astonished at you, you shall be a terror, and you shall never be anymore." 20 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 "Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the middle of you, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be made holy in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets, and the wounded shall be judged among her by the sword against her on every side, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 24 And there shall no more be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are around hem, who despised them, and they shall know that I am the Lord God. 25 Thus says the Lord God, when I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they've been scattered, and shall be made holy in them in the sight of the heathen, then they shall live in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall live safely in it, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards, yes, they shall live with confidence, when I have executed judgments on all those who despise them all around them, and they shall know that I am the Lord their God." ___Ezekiel chapter 29 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt, 3 Speak, and say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the middle of his rivers, who has said, my river is my own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales. 5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers, you shall fall on the open fields, you shall not be brought together, nor gathered, I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the sky. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulder, and when they leaned on you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand. 8 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and beast out of you. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the Lord, because he has said, the river is mine, and I have made it. 10 See, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt completely waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene to the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited forty years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that have been laid waste shall be desolate forty years, and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus says the Lord God, at the end of forty years I'll gather the Egyptians from the people where they were scattered, 14 And I will undo the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation, and they shall be a base kingdom there. 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, nor shall it exalt itself anymore above the nations, for I will diminish them, so that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall no more be the confidence of the house of Israel, that brings their sin to remembrance, when they shall look after them, but they shall know that I am the Lord God." 17 And in the twenty seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus, every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled, yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it, 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey, and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for me, says the Lord God. 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud, and I will give you the opening of the mouth among them, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 30 1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy and say, thus says the Lord God, howl, woe worth the day! 3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come on Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the killed shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mixed people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus says the Lord, those also who uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down, from the tower of Syene they shall fall in it by the sword, says the Lord God. 7 And they shall be desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be among 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. 9 In that day shall messengers go out from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come on them, like in the day of Egypt, for see, it comes. 10 Thus says the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to stop by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with dead bodies. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it. 13 Thus says the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to stop out of Noph, and there shall no more be a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. 15 And I will pour my fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt, and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt, Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be torn in pieces, and Noph shall have distresses 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 the yokes of Egypt there, and the pomp of her strength shall stop in her, as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord." 20 And in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and see, 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 says the Lord God, see, 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 king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a fatally wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt. 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 31 1 And in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude, whom are you like in your greatness? 3 See, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running around his plants, and sent out her little rivers to all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. 6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the animals of the field gave birth to their young, and under his shadow lived all great nations. 7 Thus he was fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches, for his root was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God couldn't hide him, the fir trees weren't like his boughs, and the chestnut trees weren't like his branches, nor any was tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty. 9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've lifted up yourself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height, 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen, he shall surely deal with him, I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him, on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land, and all the people of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall remain, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches, 14 For the purpose that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, nor shoot up their top among the thick boughs, nor have their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water, for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit. 15 Thus says the Lord God, in the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning, I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods of it, and the great waters were restrained, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I threw him down to hell with those who go down into the pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him to those who are killed by the sword, and those who were his arm, that lived under his shadow among the heathen. 18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you'll be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth, you shall lie among the uncircumcised with those who are killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 32 1 And in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, you're like a young lion of the nations, and you're like a whale in the seas, and you came out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. 3 Thus says the Lord God, I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people, and they shall bring you up in my net. 4 Then will I leave you on the land, I will throw you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to remain on you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you. 5 And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. 6 I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood, up to the mountains, and the rivers shall be full of you. 7 And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars of it dark, I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 I will make all the bright lights of heaven dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord God. 9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you haven't known. 10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them, and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. 11 For thus says the Lord God, the sword of the king of Babylon shall come against you. 12 By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them, and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude of it shall be destroyed. 13 I will also destroy all the beasts of it from beside the great waters, nor shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them. 14 Then I will make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord God. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that of which it had been full, when I shall strike all those who live in it, then they shall know that I am the Lord. 16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her, the daughters of the nations shall lament her, they shall lament for her, for Egypt, and for all her multitude, says the Lord God. 17 It also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 "Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and throw them down, her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. 19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall among those who are killed by the sword, she is delivered to the sword, draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle of hell with those who help him, they've gone down, they lie uncircumcised, killed by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company, his graves are around him, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, that caused terror in the land of the living. 24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who've gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, that caused their terror in the land of the living, yet they have carried their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set for her a bed among the killed with all her multitude, her graves are around him, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet they've carried their shame with those who go down to the pit, he is put among those who are killed. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude, her graves are around him, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that have fallen from the uncircumcised, who've gone down to hell with their weapons of war, and they've laid their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be on their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yes, you shall be broken among the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are killed by the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who with their might are laid by those who were killed by the sword, they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. 30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who've gone down with the killed, with their terror they are ashamed of their might, and they lie uncircumcised with those who've been killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army killed by the sword, says the Lord God. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living, and he shall be laid among the uncircumcised with those who are killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 33 1 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, when I bring the sword on a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman, 3 If when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people, 4 Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning, his blood shall be on him. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, if the sword comes, and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his sin, but his blood I'll require at the watchman's hand. 7 So you, O son of man, I have set you as a watchman to the house of Israel, therefore you'll hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, if you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his sin, but I will require his blood at your hand. 9 But if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he doesn't turn from his way, he shall die in his sin, but you've delivered your soul. 10 Therefore, O you son of man, speak to the house of Israel, speak like this, saying, if our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say to them, as I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turns from his way and lives, turn, turn from your evil ways, for why do you want to die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, you son of man, say to the children of your people, the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by that in the day that he turns from his wickedness, nor shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live, if he trusts to his own righteousness, and commits sin, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered, but for his sin that he has committed, he shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, you shall surely die, if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right, 15 If the wicked restores the security deposit, gives back what he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life, without committing sin, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned to him, he has done that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of your people say, the way of the Lord is not equal, but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits sin, he shall die by it. 19 But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live by that. 20 Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his ways. 21 And in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, someone that had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, the city has been struck. 22 Now the hand of the Lord was on me in the evening, before he that had escaped came, and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb." 23 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24 "Son of man, those who 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 to us for inheritance. 25 So say to them, thus says the Lord God, you eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood, and shall you possess the land? 26 You stand on your sword, you make detestable things, and every one of you defiles his neighbor's wife, and shall you possess the land? 27 Say thus to them, thus says the Lord God, as I live, surely those who are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who that are in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall stop, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that no one shall pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I've laid the land most desolate because of all their detestable things that they've committed. 30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people are still talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to each other, every one to his brother, saying, please come, and hear what the word is that comes out from the Lord. 31 And they come to you like the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they won't do them, for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. 32 And see, you are to them like a very lovely song from someone that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, for they hear your words, but they don't do them. 33 And when this happens, (see, it will come,) then they'll know that a prophet has been among them." ___Ezekiel chapter 34 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, thus says the Lord God to the shepherds, woe be to the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill those who are fed, but you don't feed the flock. 4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, nor have you healed what was sick, nor have you bound up what was broken, nor have you brought back what was driven away, nor have you sought what was lost, but with force and with cruelty you've ruled them. 5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd, and they became food to all the animals of the field, when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill, yes, my flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and no one searched for or sought for them. 7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord, 8 As I live, says the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock, 9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord, 10 Thus says the Lord God, see, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to stop from feeding the flock, nor shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore, for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, so they won't be food for them. 11 For thus says the Lord God, see, I, even I, will search for my sheep, and seek them out. 12 Like a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so I will seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they've been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them on the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel, they shall lie there in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord God. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring back what had been driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord God, see, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. 18 Does it seem to be a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must also tread down with your feet the remainder of your pastures? And to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the remainder with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat what you've walked on with your feet, and they drink what you have fouled with your feet. 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God to them, see, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. 21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, 'til you have scattered them around, 22 Therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey, and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, 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 a prince among them, I the Lord have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to go out of the land, and they shall live safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing, and I will cause the shower to come down 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 its increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I've broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, nor shall the beast of the land devour them, but they shall live safely, and no one shall make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up a plant of renown for them, and they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the heathen anymore. 30 Thus they'll know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord God. 31 And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 35 1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say to it, thus says the Lord God, see, O mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you most desolate. 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 5 Because you've had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their sin had an end, 6 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you, since you have not hated blood, blood shall pursue you. 7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passes out and him that returns. 8 And I will fill his mountains with his killed men, in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, they shall fall that are killed by the sword. 9 I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 10 Because you've said, these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas the Lord was there, 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy that you've used out of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged you. 12 And you shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all your blasphemies that you've spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, they're laid desolate, they're given to us to consume. 13 Thus with your mouth you've boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me, I have heard them. 14 Thus says the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. 15 As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you, you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 36 1 "Also, you son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord, 2 Thus says the Lord God, because the enemy has said against you, aha, the ancient high places are our possession, 3 Therefore prophesy and say, thus says the Lord God, because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, so you would be a possession to the remainder of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people, 4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God, thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, that became a prey and derision to the remainder of the heathen that are all around, 5 Therefore thus says the Lord God, surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the remainder of the heathen, and against all Idumea, who have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to throw it out for a prey. 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, thus says the Lord God, see, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have carried the shame of the heathen, 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God, I have lifted up my hand, surely the heathen that are around you, they shall bear their shame. 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come. 9 For, see, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and planted, 10 And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it, and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built, 11 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring fruit, and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better to you than at your beginnings, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, my people Israel, and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and from now on you shall no more bereave them of men. 13 Thus says the Lord God, because they say to you, you, land devours up men, and have bereaved your nations, 14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nations anymore, says the Lord God. 15 Nor will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the heathen anymore, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people anymore, nor shall you cause your nations to fall anymore, says the Lord God." 16 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 17 "Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings, their way was before me like the uncleanness of a set apart woman. 18 So I poured my fury on them for the blood that they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it, 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries, I judged them according to their way and according to their doings. 20 And when they entered to the heathen, where they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, these are the people of the Lord, and have gone out of his land. 21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, where they went. 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I don't do this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, that you've profaned among the heathen, where you went. 23 And I will make my great name holy, that was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned among them, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when I shall be made holy in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean, from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, I will cleanse you. 26 I will also give you a new heart, I will put inside you a new spirit, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit inside you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine on you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, so you'll receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. 31 Then you'll remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall hate yourselves in your own sight for your sins and for your detestable things. 32 Not for your sakes do I do this, says the Lord God, be it known to you, be ashamed and confused for your own ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus says the Lord God, in the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to live in the cities, and the wastes shall be built. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, this land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities have become fenced, and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left around you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant what was desolate, I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus says the Lord God, I will still for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them, I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, like the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts, so the waste cities shall be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 37 1 The hand of the Lord was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the middle of the valley that was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass around by them, and see, there were very many in the open valley, and see, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, you know." 4 Again he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones, see, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you'll live, 6 And I will lay tendons on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord." 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and see a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And as I watched, see, the tendons and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, thus says the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these who've been killed, so they'll live." 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, a very large army. 11 Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel, see, they say, our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God, see, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And you'll know that I am the Lord, when I've opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I'll place you in your own land, then you'll know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, says the Lord." 15 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 16 "Also, you son of man, take one stick, and write on it, for Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions, then take another stick, and write on it, for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions, 17 And join them to each other into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand. 18 And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, won't you show us what you mean by these? 19 Say to them, thus says the Lord God, see, I will take the stick of Joseph, that is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. 20 And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. 21 And say to them, thus says the Lord God, see, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they've gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into 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 to them all, and they shall no more be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore at all, 23 Nor shall they defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them, so they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd, they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall live in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have lived, and they shall live in it, they, and their children, and their children's children forever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever. 26 Also I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more. 27 Also my tabernacle shall be with them, yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary shall be among them forever more." ___Ezekiel chapter 38 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 And say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, 4 And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords, 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet, 6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with you. 7 Be prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. 8 After many days you shall be visited, in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste, but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall live safely all of them. 9 You shall ascend and come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your bands, and many people with you. 10 Thus says the Lord God, at the same time things shall come into your mind, and you'll think an evil thought, 11 And you'll say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, I will go to those who are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them living without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey, to turn your hand on the desolate places that are now inhabited, and on the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that live in the middle of the land. 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall say to you, have you come to take a spoil? Have you gathered your company to take a prey? To carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, thus says the Lord God, in that day when my people of Israel dwells safely, shall you not know it? 15 And you shall come from your place out of the north parts, you, and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a large company, and a mighty army, 16 And you'll come up against my people of Israel, like a cloud to cover the land, it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, so the heathen will know me, when I shall be made holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus says the Lord God, are you he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them? 18 And at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord God, my fury shall come up in my face. 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my anger have I spoken, surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel, 20 So that the fish of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord God, every man's sword shall be against his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood, and I will rain on him, and on his bands, and on the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and sulphur. 23 Thus I will magnify myself, and make myself holy, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord." ___Ezekiel chapter 39 1 "Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, 2 And I will turn you back, and leave only one sixth of you, and will cause you to come up from the north parts, and will bring you on the mountains of Israel, 3 And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. 4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the people that are with you, I will give you to the ravenous birds of every kind, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 You shall fall on the open field, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God. 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among those who live carelessly in the islands, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 So I will make my holy name known among my people Israel, and I will not let them pollute my holy name anymore, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy one in Israel. 8 See, it has come, and it is done, says the Lord God, this is the day of which I have spoken. 9 And those who live in the cities of Israel shall go out, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand staves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years, 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, nor cut down any out of the forests, for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, says the Lord God. 11 And in that day, I will give to Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the travelers on the east of the sea, and it shall stop the noses of the travelers, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude, and they shall call it the valley of Hamongog. 12 And the house of Israel shall be burying them for seven months, so they can cleanse the land. 13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord God. 14 And they shall separate out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the travelers those that remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it, after the end of seven months they shall search. 15 And the travelers that pass through the land, when anyone sees a man's bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, 'til the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. 16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land. 17 And, you son of man, thus says the Lord God, speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves, and come, gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so you can eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat 'til you're full, and drink blood 'til you're drunk, of my sacrifice that I've sacrificed for you. 20 Thus you'll be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord God. 21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. 23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their sin, because they trespassed against me, therefore I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies, so they fell all by the sword. 24 I've done to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions, and hid my face from them. 25 Therefore thus says the Lord God, now I'll undo the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name, 26 After they have carried their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they lived safely in their land, and no one made them afraid. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am made holy in them in the sight of many nations, 28 Then they'll know that I am the Lord their God, who caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen, but I've gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them there anymore. 29 Nor will I hide my face anymore from them, for I have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 40 1 In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day the hand of the Lord was on me, and brought me there. 2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, by which was like the frame of a city on the south. 3 And he brought me there, and, see, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he stood in the gate. 4 And the man said to me, "Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you, for you've been brought here for me to show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel. 5 And see, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring pole six cubits long by the cubit and a hand breadth, so he measured the breadth of the building, one pole, and the height, one pole. 6 Then he came to the gate that looks toward the east, and went up the stairs of it, and measured the threshold of the gate, that was one pole broad, and the other threshold of the gate, that was one pole broad. 7 And every little room was one pole long, and one pole broad, and between the little rooms were five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate inside was one pole. 8 He also measured the porch of the gate inside, one reed. 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and the posts of it, two cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward. 10 And the little rooms of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side, the three of them were of one measure, and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 The space also before the little rooms was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side, and the little rooms were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 Then he measured the gate from the roof of one little room to the roof of another, the breadth was twenty five cubits, door against door. 14 He also made posts of sixty cubits, even to the post of the court around the gate. 15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits. 16 And there were narrow windows to the little rooms, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches, and windows were all around inward, and on each post were palm trees. 17 Then he brought me into the outward court, and see, there were rooms, and a pavement made for the court all around, thirty rooms were on the pavement. 18 And the pavement by the side of the gates opposite the length of the gates was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits eastward and northward. 20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length of it, and the breadth of it. 21 And the little rooms of it were three on this side and three on that side, and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate, the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits. 22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were according to the measure of the gate that looks toward the east, and they went up to it by seven steps, and the arches of it were before them. 23 And the gate of the inner court was opposite the gate toward the north, and toward the east, and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits. 24 After that he brought me toward the south, and see, a gate toward the south, and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, like those windows, the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits. 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them, and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it. 27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south, and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. 28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these measures, 29 And the little rooms of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures, and there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, it was fifty cubits long, and twenty five cubits broad. 30 And the arches all around were twenty five and cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31 And the arches of it were toward the complete court, and palm trees were on the posts of it, and the going up to it had eight steps. 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east, and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the little rooms of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, were according to these measures, and there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, it was fifty cubits long, and twenty five cubits broad. 34 And the arches of it were toward the outward court, and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side, and the approach to it had eight steps. 35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures, 36 The little rooms of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it, and the windows to it all around, the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits. 37 And the posts of it were toward the complete court, and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side, and the approach to it had eight steps. 38 And the rooms and the entries of it were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. 39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill on them the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. 40 And at the side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables, and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate, eight tables, on which they killed their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of cut stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which also they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43 And inside were hooks, a hand broad, fastened all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. 44 And outside the inner gate were the rooms of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate, and their prospect was toward the south, one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. 45 And he said to me, "This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. 46 And the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar, these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near to the Lord to minister to him." 47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare, and the altar that was before the house. 48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps by which they went up to it, and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. ___Ezekiel chapter 41 1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits, and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side, and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then he went inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits, and the door, six cubits, and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4 So he measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple, and he said to me, this is the most holy place. 5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. 6 And there were three side rooms, one over another, and thirty in order, and they entered into the wall that was of the house for the side rooms all around, so they would have hold, but they didn't have hold in the wall of the house. 7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding around still upward to the side rooms, for the winding around of the house still went upward around the house, therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest room to the highest by the middle. 8 I saw also the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side room outside, was five cubits, and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that were inside. 10 And between the rooms was the wideness of twenty cubits all around the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side rooms were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south, and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and the length of it ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long, and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it, a hundred cubits long, 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building opposite the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court, 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries all around on their three stories, opposite the door, with a wood ceiling all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered, 17 To that above the door, to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. 18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces, 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side, it was made through all the house all around. 20 From the ground to above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary, the appearance of the one like the appearance of the other. 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits, and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood, and he said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord." 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors each had two leaves, two turning leaves, two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25 And cherubims and palm trees were made on them, on the doors of the temple, as were made on the walls, and there were thick planks on the face of the porch outside. 26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and on the side rooms of the house, and thick planks. ___Ezekiel chapter 42 1 Then he brought me out into the complete court, the way toward the north, and he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and that was before the building toward the north. 2 The north door was before the length of a hundred cubits, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3 Opposite the twenty cubits that were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement that was for the complete court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 And a walkway of ten cubits breadth inward was before the rooms, a way of one cubit, and their doors were toward the north. 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter, for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middle of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, but didn't have pillars like the pillars of the courts, therefore the building was restricted more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. 7 And the wall that was outside opposite the rooms, toward the complete court on the forepart of the rooms, the length of it was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the complete court was fifty cubits, and see, before the temple were a hundred cubits. 9 And from under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the complete court. 10 The rooms were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate place, and opposite the building. 11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the rooms that were toward the north, as long as they were, and as broad as they were, and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 And according to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. 13 Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, that are before the separate place, are holy rooms, where the priests that approach to the Lord shall eat the most holy things, they shall lay the most holy things there, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter in it, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the complete court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there, for they are holy, and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to the things that are for the people." 15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring pole, five hundred poles, with the measuring pole all around. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred poles, with the measuring pole all around. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred poles, with the measuring pole. 19 He turned around to the west side, and measured five hundred poles with the measuring pole. 20 He measured it by the four sides, it had a wall all around, five hundred poles long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. ___Ezekiel chapter 43 1 Afterward, he brought me to the gate, the gate that looks toward the east, 2 And see, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east, and his voice was like a noise of many waters, and the earth shined with his glory. 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision that I saw, according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city, and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face. 4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court, and see, the glory of the Lord filled the house. 6 And I heard him speaking to me out of the house, and the man stood by me. 7 And he said to me, "Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will live among the children of Israel forever, and my holy name, the house of Israel shall defile no more, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have defiled my holy name by their detestable things that they've committed, so I've consumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will live among them forever. 10 You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, so they'll be ashamed of their sins, and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they're ashamed of all that they've done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the goings out of it, and the comings in of it, and all the forms of it, and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the laws of it, and write it in their sight, so they'll keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it, and do them. 12 This is the law of the house, on the top of the mountain the whole limit of it all around shall be most holy. See, this is the law of the house. 13 And these are the measures of the altar according to the cubits, the cubit is a cubit and a hand width, the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it all around shall be a span, and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom on the ground to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit, and from the lesser settle to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So the altar shall be four cubits, and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares of it. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares of it, and the border around it shall be half a cubit, and the bottom of it shall be a cubit around, and its stairs shall look toward the east." 18 And he said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord God, these are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it. 19 And you shall give to the priests the Levites that are of the descendants of Zadok, that approach to me, to minister to me, says the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20 And you shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and on the border all around, in this way you shall cleanse and purge it. 21 You shall take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary. 22 And on the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar, like they cleansed it with the bullock. 23 When you've made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24 And you shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord. 25 Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering, they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26 Seven days they shall purge the altar and purify it, and they shall consecrate themselves. 27 And when these days have expired, it shall be that on the eighth day, and thereafter, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 44 1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary that looks toward the east, and it was shut. 2 Then the Lord said to me, "This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince, the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord, he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same." 4 Then he brought me the way of the north gate before the house, and I looked, and see, 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, remember well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws of it, and remember well the entering in of the house, with exit of the sanctuary. 6 And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, O house of Israel, let it be sufficient to you regarding all your detestable things, 7 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your detestable things. 8 And you haven't kept the charge of my holy things, but you've set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9 Thus says the Lord God, no stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. 10 And the Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me following their idols, they shall carry their sin. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house, they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into sin, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they shall carry their sin. 13 And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place, but they shall carry their shame, and their detestable deeds that they've committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done in it. 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God, 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 And when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments, and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and inside. 18 They shall have linen hats on their heads, and shall have linen pants on their lower bodies, they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat. 19 And when they go out into the complete court, into the complete court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy rooms, and they shall put on other clothes, and they shall not make the people holy with their garments. 20 Nor shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long, they shall only poll their heads. 21 Nor shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Nor shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that's divorced, but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment, and they shall judge it according to my judgments, and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies, and they shall hallow my Sabbaths. 25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves, but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. 27 And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord God. 28 And it shall be to them for an inheritance, I am their inheritance, and you shall give them no possession in Israel, I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every offering of all, of every sort of your offerings, shall be the priest's, you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough, so he will cause the blessing to rest in your house. 31 The priests shall not eat anything that dies on its own, or is torn, whether it's bird or animal." ___Ezekiel chapter 45 1 "Also, when you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the Lord, a holy portion of the land, the length shall be the length of twenty five thousand poles, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders of it all around. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square all around, and fifty cubits all around for the suburbs of it. 3 And of this measure you shall measure the length of twenty five thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, who shall come near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And also the twenty five thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, the Levites, the ministers of the house, shall have for themselves, for a possession for twenty rooms. 6 And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty five thousand long, opposite the offering of the holy portion, it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And a portion shall be for the prince on one side and on the other side of the offering of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the offering of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward, and the length shall be opposite one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. 8 His possession shall be in the land in Israel, and my princes shall no more oppress my people, and they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9 Thus says the Lord God, let it be sufficient for you, O princes of Israel, remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, stop your taking away from my people, says the Lord God. 10 You shall have honest balances, and an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath will contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer, the measure of it shall be according to the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs, twenty shekels, twenty five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. 13 This is the offering that you shall offer, one sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and you shall give one sixth of an ephah of a homer of barley, 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths, for ten baths are a homer, 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, says the Lord God. 16 All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel, he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. 18 Thus says the Lord God, in the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary, 19 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the posts of the house, and on the four corners of the settle of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And so you shall do the seventh day of the month for everyone that errs, and for him that is simple, so shall you reconcile the house. 21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. 23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah. 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, he shall he do like that in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil." ___Ezekiel chapter 46 1 "Thus says the Lord God, the gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate, then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the Sabbaths and in the new moons. 4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord in the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram, they shall be without blemish. 7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain to, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go out by the way of it. 9 But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that enters in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate, and he that enters 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 by which he came in, but shall go for out opposite it. 10 And the prince among them, when they go in, shall go in, and when they go out, shall go out. 11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily to the Lord, someone shall then open for him the gate that looks toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day, then he shall go out, and after his going out, someone shall shut the gate. 13 You shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish every day, you shall prepare it every morning. 14 And you shall prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour, a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance to the Lord. 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering. 16 Thus says the Lord God, if the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be his sons', it shall be their possession by inheritance. 17 But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his until the year of liberty, afterward it shall return to the prince, but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. 18 Also the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession, but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession, so my people are not scattered every man from his possession." 19 After he brought me through the entry, that was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms of the priests, that looked toward the north, and, see, there was a place on the two sides westward. 20 Then he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering, so they don't carry them out into the complete court, to make the people holy. 21 Then he brought me out into the complete court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court, and, see, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad, these four corners were of one measure. 23 And there was a row of building all around in them, all around the four of them, and it was made with boiling places under the rows all around. 24 Then he said to me, these are the places of those who boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people." ___Ezekiel chapter 47 1 Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house, and see, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. 2 Then he brought me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me around the way outside to the complete gate by the way that looks eastward, and see, waters ran out on the right side. 3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters, the waters were to the ankles. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters, the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through, the waters were to the belt buckle. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I couldn't pass over, for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that couldn't be passed over. 6 And he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 7 Now when I had returned, see, at the bank of the river there were very many trees on one side and on the other. 8 Then he said to me, "These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea, which being brought into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 9 And everything that lives and moves, wherever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come there, for they shall be healed, and everything shall live where the river comes. 10 And the fishermen shall stand on it from Engedi even to Eneglaim, they shall be a place to spread out nets, their fish shall be according to their kinds, like the fish of the great sea, very many. 11 But the miry places of it and the marshes of it shall not be healed, they shall be given to salt. 12 And by the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side, all trees shall grow for food, whose leaf shall not fade, nor shall the fruit of it be consumed, it shall produce new fruit according to its months, because their waters issued out of the sanctuary, and the fruit of it shall be for food, and the leaves of it for medicine. 13 Thus says the Lord God, this shall be the border, by which you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel, Joseph shall have two portions. 14 And you shall inherit it, one as well as another, concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you for inheritance. 15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, like men go to Zedad, 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath, Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. 18 And the east side you shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border to the east sea. And this is the east side. 19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. 20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, 'til a man comes opposite Hamath. This is the west side. 21 So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel. 22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that visit among you, that shall father children among you, and they shall be to you as born in the country among the children of Israel, they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And in whichever tribe the stranger visits, you shall give him his inheritance there, says the Lord God." ___Ezekiel chapter 48 1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goes to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath, for these are his sides east and west, a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Asher. 3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Naphtali. 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Manasseh. 5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Ephraim. 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, a portion for Reuben. 7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Judah. 8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering that you shall offer of twenty five thousand poles in breadth, and in length like one of the other parts, from the east side to the west side, and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it. 9 The offering that you shall offer to the Lord shall be of twenty five thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. 10 And this holy offering shall be for the priests, toward the north twenty five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty five thousand in length, and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the middle of it. 11 It shall be for the priests that are made holy by the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, that didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, like the Levites went astray. 12 And this offering of the land that is offered shall be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. 13 And opposite the border of the priests the Levites shall have twenty five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, all the length shall be twenty five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. 14 And they shall not sell any of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first fruits of the land, for it is holy to the Lord. 15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth opposite the twenty five thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs, and the city shall be in the middle of it. 16 And these shall be the measures of it, the north side four thousand five hundred, and the south side four thousand five hundred, and on the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred. 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty. 18 And the remainder in length opposite the offering of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward, and it shall be opposite the offering of the holy portion, and the increase of it shall be for food for those who serve the city. 19 And those who serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. 20 All the offering shall be twenty five thousand by twenty five thousand, you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city. 21 And the remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering, and of the possession of the city, opposite the twenty five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward opposite the twenty five thousand toward the west border, opposite the portions for the prince, and it shall be the holy offering, and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. 22 Also from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being among that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. 23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion. 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar a portion. 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun a portion. 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad a portion. 28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. 29 This is the land that you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, says the Lord God. 30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand five hundred measures. 31 And the gates of the city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward, one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. 32 And at the east side four thousand five hundred, and three gates, and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. 33 And at the south side four thousand five hundred measures, and three gates, one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. 34 At the west side four thousand five hundred, with their three gates, one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. 35 It was all around eighteen thousand measures, and the name of the city from that day shall be, the Lord is there." ___Daniel chapter 1 1 In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the containers of the house of God, that he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he brought the containers into the treasure house of his god. 3 And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's descendants, and of the princes, 4 Children in whom there was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had the ability to stand in the king's palace, and whom they could teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans. 5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's food, and of the wine that he drank, so nourishing them three years, so that at the end of it they could stand before the king. 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 7 To whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names, for he gave to Daniel the name of Belteshazzar, and to Hananiah, of Shadrach, and to Mishael, of Meshach, and to Azariah, of Abednego. 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine that he drank, therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs not to defile himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. 10 And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink, for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children who are of your sort? Then shall you make me endanger my head to the king." 11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 "Please test your servants ten days, and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. 13 Then let our countenances be looked at before you, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's food, and as you see, deal with your servants." 14 So he agreed with them in this matter, and tested them ten days. 15 And at the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children who ate the portion of the king's food. 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their food, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse. 17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. 18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the king talked with them, and among them all, none were found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, therefore they stood before the king. 20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel continued until the first year of king Cyrus. ___Daniel chapter 2 1 And in the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, because of which his spirit was troubled, and he couldn't sleep. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said to them, "I've dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream." 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Syriack, "O king, live forever, tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." 5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, "The thing has gone from me, if you will not make known to me the dream, with the interpretation of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a manure pile. 6 But if you show the dream, and the interpretation of it, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor, therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation of it." 7 They answered back, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it." 8 The king answered and said, "I certainly know that you would gain the time, because you see the thing has gone from me. 9 But if you will not make known to me the dream, there is but one decree for you, for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, 'til the time is changed, therefore tell me the dream, and I'll know that you can show me the interpretation of it." 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, "There is not a man on the earth that can show the king's matter, therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things of any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. 11 And it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no one that can show it before the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh." 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13 And the decree went out that the wise men should be killed, and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be killed. 14 Then Daniel answered with advice and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon, 15 He said to Arioch the king's captain, "Why is the decree so hasty from the king?" Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. 16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation. 17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, 18 So that they would desire mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his fellows wouldn't die with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel said, "Blessed be the name of God forever and always, for wisdom and might are his, 21 And he changes the times and the seasons, he removes kings, and sets up kings, he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who know understanding, 22 He reveals the deep and secret things, he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. 23 I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might, and has made known to me now what we desired of you, for you've now made known to us the king's matter." 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon, he went and said to him, "Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon, bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation." 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said to him, "I have found a man of the captives of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation." 26 The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it?" 27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, "The secret that the king has demanded can't be shown to the king by the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, 28 But there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these, 29 As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind on your bed, what would happen hereafter, and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what shall happen. 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than anyone living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and so that you'll know the thoughts of your heart. 31 You, O king, saw a large image. This large image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you, and the form of it was terrible. 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his chest and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34 You saw 'til a stone was cut out without hands, that struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, was broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them, and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 36 This is the dream, and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 37 You, O king, are a king of kings, for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38 And wherever the children of men live, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky, he has given into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold. 39 And after you another kingdom shall arise inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, that shall rule over all the earth. 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, since iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things, and as iron that breaks all these, it shall break in pieces and bruise. 41 And because you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it some of the strength of the iron, since you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 And since the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43 And because you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the descendants of men, but they shall not stick to each other, just like iron doesn't mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom, that shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Since you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure." 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him. 47 The king answered Daniel, "Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you could reveal this secret." 48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. 49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon, but Daniel sat in the gate of the king. ___Daniel chapter 3 1 Nebuchadnezzar, the king, made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits, he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up, and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4 Then an announcer shouted, "To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 5 That when you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up, 6 And whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall be thrown the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace." 7 Therefore, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 8 So at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. 9 They spoke to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever. 10 "You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image, 11 And whoever doesn't fall down and worship, that he should be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. 12 There are certain Jews whom you've set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, these men, O king, have not obeyed you, they don't serve your gods, and don't worship the golden image that you've set up." 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, "Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, don't you serve my gods, nor worship the golden image that I've set up? 15 Now if you're ready, when you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I've made, well, but if you don't worship, you'll be thrown the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace, and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hands?" 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you about this. 17 If he chooses to, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not, know this, O king, that we won't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image that you've set up." 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and his facial expression changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, therefore he commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times as hot as it was usually heated. 20 And he commanded the mightiest men that were in his army to tie Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were tied in their coats, their pants, and their hats, and their other garments, and were thrown into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. 22 Therefore, because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire killed the men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down tied into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and got up fast, and said to his counselors, "Didn't we throw three tied men into the middle of the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king." 25 He answered, "See, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they're not harmed, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the most high God, come out, and come here." Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came out of the middle of the fire. 27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, on whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, nor were their coats changed, nor did the smell of fire come from them. 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and given deliverance to his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, so they wouldn't serve nor worship any god, except their own God. 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, who say anything bad about the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a manure pile, because there is no other God that can deliver like this." 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon. ___Daniel chapter 4 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that live in all the earth, peace be multiplied to you. 2 "I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the high God has done with me. 3 How great are his signs! And how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. 4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace, 5 I saw a dream that made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. 6 Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, so they could make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in, and I told the dream before them, but they didn't make known to me the interpretation of it. 8 But at last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and I told the dream to him, saying, 9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it. 10 Thus were the visions of my head in my bed, I saw, and see, a tree in the middle of the earth, and the height of it was great. 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to heaven, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth, 12 The leaves of it were attractive, and it had a lot of fruit, and in it was food for all, the beasts of the field found shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven lived in the boughs of it, and all flesh was fed by it. 13 I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, see, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven, 14 He shouted, cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit, let the beasts get out from under it, and the fowls from its branches, 15 But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth, 16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given to him, and let seven times pass over him. 17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, so that the living will know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he chooses, and sets up over it the lowest of men. 18 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, O Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation of it, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you. 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke, and said, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation of it, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, my lord, the dream is to those who hate you, and the interpretation of it to your enemies. 20 The tree that you saw, that grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the heaven, and the sight of it to all the earth, 21 Whose leaves were attractive, and that had a lot of fruit, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and on whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation, 22 It is you, O king, that has grown and become strong, for your greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth. 23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, cut the tree down, and destroy it, yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him, 24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most high, that has come on my lord the king, 25 They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen, and they shall sprinkle you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, 'til you know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will. 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots, your kingdom shall be sure to you, after you shall have known that the heavens rule. 27 So, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your sins by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of your peace." 28 All this came on king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king said, "Isn't this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?" 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, "O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken, the kingdom has departed from you. 32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, they shall make you eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will." 33 The same hour, the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, 'til his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. 34 "And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the most high, and I praised and honored him that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation, 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth have zero reputation, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and no one can hold back his hand, or say to him, what are you doing? 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned to me, and my counselors and my lords sought to me, and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me. 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and his ways judgment, and those that walk in pride he is able to bring low." ___Daniel chapter 5 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver containers that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, so the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, could drink in them. 3 Then they brought the golden containers that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that was at Jerusalem, and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank from them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In the same hour fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote opposite the candlestick on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's facial expression changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck to each other. 7 The king shouted out to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with red cloth, and have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler of the kingdom." 8 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they couldn't read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation of it. 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his facial expression changed in, and his lords were astonished. 10 Now the queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house, and the queen said, "O king, live forever, don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your facial expression be changed, 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him, whom king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, 12 Since an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation." 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? 14 I've heard about you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you. 15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, so they could read this writing, and tell me the interpretation of it, but they couldn't show the interpretation of the thing, 16 And I've heard about, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve doubts, now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you'll be clothed with red cloth, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler of the kingdom." 17 Then Daniel said before the king, "Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to someone else, but I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. 18 O king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor, 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him, whom he chose, he killed, and whom he chose, he kept alive, and whom he chose, he set up, and whom he chose, he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him, 21 And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, 'til he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appoints over it whomever he chooses. 22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, haven't humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 23 But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the containers of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, that don't see, nor hear, nor know, and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you haven't glorified, 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from him, and this writing was written. 25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL, you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. 28 PERES, your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with red cloth, and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he's the third ruler in the kingdom. 30 In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed. 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about sixty two years old. ___Daniel chapter 6 1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty princes, who would be over the whole kingdom, 2 And over these, three presidents, of whom Daniel was first, so the princes would give account to them, and so the king would have no loss. 3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought he might set him over the whole kingdom. 4 Then the presidents and princes looked for occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, since he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then these men said, "We won't find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God." 6 Then these presidents and princes went together to the king, and said to him, "King Darius, live forever. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, so it won't be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, that doesn't change." 9 So king Darius signed the writing and the decree. 10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing had been signed, he went into his house, his windows being open in his room toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, like he did before. 11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree, "Haven't you signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, except from you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions?" The king answered and said, "The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, that doesn't change." 13 Then they answered before the king, "That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't obey you, O king, nor the decree that you've signed, but makes his petition three times a day." 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him, and he labored 'til sundown to find deliverance for him. 15 Then these men went to the king, and said, "Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree nor statute that the king establishes may be changed." 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and threw him into the den of lions. Now the king said to Daniel, "Your God whom you serve continually will give you deliverance." 17 And a stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, so the purpose couldn't be changed about Daniel. 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night not eating, nor were instruments of music brought before him, and he couldn't sleep. 19 Then the king got up very early in the morning, and hurried to the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he shouted with a lamentable voice to Daniel, and the king said to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?" 21 Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever. 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, so that they haven't hurt me, since before him, innocence was found in me, and also before you, O king, I've done nothing wrong." 23 Then the king was very glad for him, and commanded that they take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and was found unhurt, because he believed in his God. 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they threw them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives. And the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they even hit the bottom of the den. 25 Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages, that live in all the earth, "Peace be multiplied to you. 26 I make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, and steady forever, and his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even until the end. 27 He gives deliverance and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions." 28 So this Daniel prospered in the rule of Darius, and in the rule of Cyrus the Persian. ___Daniel chapter 7 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed, then he wrote the dream, and told the summary of the matters. 2 Daniel said, "I saw in my vision by night, and see, the four winds of the heaven fought on the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, different from each other. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings, I watched until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on its feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 5 And see, another beast, a second, like a bear, and it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth, and they said to it, get up, devour a lot of flesh. 6 After this I saw another, like a leopard, that had four wings of a bird on its back, the beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and see, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and very strong, and it had large iron teeth, it devoured and broke in pieces, and stomped the remainder with its feet, and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and see, another little horn came up among them, before whom three of the first horns were uprooted, and see, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. 9 I watched 'til the thrones were thrown down, and the Ancient of days sat, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool, his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels like burning fire. 10 A fiery stream issued and came out from before him, millions ministered to him, and one hundred million stood before him, the judgment was set, and the books were opened. 11 I saw then, because of the voice of the great words that the horn spoke, I saw until the beast was killed, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. 12 Concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. 13 I saw in the night visions, and see, someone like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And he was given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, so that all people, nations, and languages, would serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, that won't pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. 15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the middle of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. 16 I came near one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. 17 These four great beasts, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth. 18 But the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, forever and always. 19 Then I wanted to know the truth of the fourth beast, that was different from all the others, very dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass, who devoured, broke in pieces, and stomped the remainder with his feet, 20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other one that came up, before whom three fell, of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them, 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most high, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23 Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall arise after them, and he shall be different from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 25 And he shall speak great words against the most high, and shall wear out the saints of the most high, and think to change times and laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. 26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it until the end. 27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. 28 Until now is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations troubled me much, and my facial expression changed, but I kept the matter in my heart." ___Daniel chapter 8 1 In the third year of the rule of king Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me at the first. 2 And I saw in a vision, and it occurred, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam, and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and, see, a ram stood before the river that had two horns, and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, so that no animals could stand before him, nor was there anyone that could deliver out of his hand, but he did whatever he wanted, and became great. 5 And as I was considering, see, a male goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and didn't touch the ground, and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, that I had seen standing before the river, and ran at him in the fury of his power. 7 And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns, and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he threw him down to the ground, and stomped on him, and there was no one that could deliver the ram out of his hand. 8 Therefore the he goat grew very great, and when he was strong, the large horn was broken, and instead of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came a little horn, that grew very great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10 And it became great, even to the host of heaven, and it threw down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stomped on them. 11 Yes, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down. 12 And an army was given to him against the daily sacrifice because of transgression, and it threw the truth down to the ground, and it practiced, and prospered. 13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said to the saint that spoke, "How long shall the vision be concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be walked on under foot?" 14 And he said to me, "Until two thousand three hundred days, then the sanctuary shall be cleansed." 15 And when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then see, something like the appearance of a man stood before me. 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, that called, and said, "Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." 17 So he came near where I stood, and when he came, I was afraid, and fell on my face, but he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, for the vision shall be at the time of the end." 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground, but he touched me, and set me upright. 19 And he said, "See, I will make you know what shall be at the end of the indignation, for at the time appointed the end shall be. 20 The ram that you saw having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. 21 And the rough goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up instead of it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce facial expression, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25 And also through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and shall destroy many by peace, he shall also stand up against the prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hand. 26 And the vision of the evening and the morning that was told is true, so shut up the vision, for it shall be for many days." 27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days, afterward I rose up, and did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, but no one understood it. ___Daniel chapter 9 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the descendants of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, 2 In the first year of his rule, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, from which the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes, 4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, "O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to those who love him, and to those who keep his commandments, 5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, by departing from your precepts and from your judgments, 6 Nor have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you've driven them, because of their trespass that they've trespassed against you. 8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him, 10 Nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, that he set before us by his servants the prophets. 11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed your law, by departing, so they wouldn't obey your voice, therefore the curse has been poured on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. 12 And he has confirmed his words, that he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing on us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem. 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us, yet we didn't make our prayer before the Lord our God, so that we would turn from our sins, and understand your truth. 14 Therefore the Lord has watched on the evil, and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works that he does, for we didn't obey his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, that has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and has gotten yourself a name, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16 O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beg of you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all that are around us. 17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. 18 O my God, incline your ear, and hear, open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name, for we don't present our supplications before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive, O Lord, listen and do, don't defer, for your own sake, O my God, for your city and your people are called by your name." 20 And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, 21 Yes, while I was speaking the prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me at about the time of the evening offering. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, "O Daniel, I have now come to give you skill and understanding. 23 At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came out, and I've come to show you, for you are greatly beloved, therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. 24 Seventy weeks have been determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for sin, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty two weeks, the street shall be built again, and the wall, during times of trouble. 26 And after sixty two weeks the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself, and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to stop, and for the over-spreading of detestable things he shall make it desolate, until the consummation, and what has been determined shall be poured on the desolate." ___Daniel chapter 10 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar, and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long, and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. 2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. 3 I ate no pleasant bread, nor did flesh nor wine come into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, 'til three whole weeks went by. 4 And in the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the large river Hiddekel, 5 Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and see, a certain man clothed in linen, whose midsection was clothed with fine gold of Uphaz, 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet colored like polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. 7 And I alone, Daniel, saw the vision, for the men that were with me didn't see the vision, but a great quaking fell on them, so that they fled to hide themselves. 8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me, for my attractiveness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words, and when I heard the voice of his words, then I was in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. 10 And see, a hand touched me, that set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands. 11 And he said to me, "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I'm sent to you now." And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling. 12 Then he said to me, "Don't be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to afflict yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I've come because of your words. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia resisted me twenty one days, but see, Michael, one of the top princes, came and helped me, and I remained there with the kings of Persia. 14 Now I've come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days." 15 And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and I couldn't speak. 16 And see, someone like the sons of men touched my lips, then I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, "O my lord, by the vision, my sorrows are turned on me, and I have retained no strength. 17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, nor is there breath left in me." 18 Then someone like the appearance of a man came again and touched me, and he strengthened me, 19 And said, "O man greatly beloved, don't be afraid, peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." And when he had spoken to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me." 20 Then he said, "Do you know why I've come to you? And now I'll return to fight with the prince of Persia, and when I've gone out, see, the prince of Greece shall come. 21 But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is no one that holds with me in these things, except Michael your prince." ___Daniel chapter 11 1 "Also in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood to confirm and to strengthen him. 2 And now I'll show you the truth. See, three kings shall yet stand up in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than all of them, and by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up everyone against the realm of Greece. 3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. 4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, and not to his descendants, nor according to his dominion that he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up for others beside those. 5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes, and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion, his dominion shall be a great dominion. 6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together, for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the arm, nor shall he stand, nor his arm, but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he that fathered her, and he that strengthened her, in those times. 7 But out of a branch of her roots someone shall stand up in his estate, who shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail, 8 And shall also carry their gods captives into Egypt, with their princes, and with their precious containers of silver and of gold, and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. 9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. 10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, and someone shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, then he shall return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress. 11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come out and fight with him, with the king of the north, and he shall set out a great multitude, but the multitude shall be given into his hand. 12 And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall throw down many ten thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it. 13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set out a multitude greater than the previous one, and shall certainly come, after a certain number of years, with a great army and with much riches. 14 And in those times many stand shall up against the king of the south, also the robbers of your people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision, but they shall fall. 15 So the king of the north shall come, and raise up a mount, and take the most fenced cities, and the arms of the south shall not resist, nor his chosen people, nor shall there be any strength to resist. 16 But he that comes against him shall do whatever he wants, and no one shall stand before him, and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed. 17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him, that's what he'll do, and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her, but she shall not stand on his side, nor be for him. 18 After this he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, but a prince for his own benefit shall cause the reproach offered by him to stop, he shall cause it to turn on him without his own reproach. 19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. 20 Then in his estate a raiser of taxes shall stand up in the glory of the kingdom, but within a few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. 21 And in his estate, a filthy person shall stand up, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom, but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms of a flood they shall be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken, yes, also the prince of the covenant. 23 And after the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully, for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. 24 He shall enter peaceably even on the fattest places of the province, and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers, he shall scatter the prey among them, and spoil, and riches, yes, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, for a time. 25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army, and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for they shall forecast devices against him. 26 Yes, those who eat of the portion of his food shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow, and many shall fall down killed. 27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table, but it shall not prosper, for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. 28 Then he shall return into his land with great riches, and his heart shall be against the holy covenant, and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land. 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south, but it shall not be like the former, or as the latter. 30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him, therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, that's how he'll do, so he'll return, and have intelligence with those who forsake the holy covenant. 31 And arms shall stand on his side, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the detestable thing that causes desolation. 32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries, but the people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. 33 And those who have understanding among the people shall instruct many, yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help, but many shall stick to them with flatteries. 35 And some of those of understanding shall fall to test them, and to purge, and to make them white, until the time of the end, because it is yet for a time appointed. 36 And the king shall do whatever he wants, and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper 'til the indignation has been accomplished, for what has been determined shall be done. 37 Nor shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god, for he shall magnify himself above all. 38 But in his estate he shall honor the God of forces, and he'll honor a god whom his fathers didn't know with gold, and with silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. 39 This is what he'll do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for profit. 40 And at the time of the end, the king of the south shall push at him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the main part of the children of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch out his hand also on the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. 44 But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him, therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy, and to completely make away many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain, yet he shall come to his end, and no one shall help him." ___Daniel chapter 12 1 "And at that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people, and there shall be a time of trouble, such as there never has been since there was a nation, until that time, and at that time your people shall receive deliverance, everyone that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and always. 4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end, many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased." 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and see, two others stood, one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, "How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?" 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half, and when he shall have accomplished scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. 8 And I heard, but I didn't understand, then I said, O my Lord, what shall the end of these things be? 9 And he said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed 'til the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tested, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the detestable thing that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred thirty five days. 13 But go you your way 'til the end is, for you shall rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days."