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And this was their appearance; they had the + likeness of a man. + +26:001:006 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. + +26:001:007 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 + colour of burnished brass. + +26:001:008 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their + four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. + +26:001:009 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when + they went; they went every one straight forward. + +26:001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of + a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they + four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also + had the face of an eagle. + +26:001:011 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; + two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two + covered their bodies. + +26:001:012 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit + was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. + +26:001:013 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 forth lightning. + +26:001:014 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of + a flash of lightning. + +26:001:015 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon + the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. + +26:001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the + colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their + appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle + of a wheel. + +26:001:017 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they + turned not when they went. + +26:001:018 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; + and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. + +26:001:019 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. + +26:001:020 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was + their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against + them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. + +26:001:021 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 over against them: for the spirit of the + living creature was in the wheels. + +26:001:022 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living + creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched + forth over their heads above. + +26:001:023 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one + toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this + side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their + bodies. + +26:001:024 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the + noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice + of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let + down their wings. + +26:001:025 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their + heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. + +26:001:026 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the + likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: + and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the + appearance of a man above upon it. + +26:001:027 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire + round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even + upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I + saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness + round about. + +26:001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day + of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. + This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the + LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a + voice of one that spake. + +26:002:001 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I + will speak unto thee. + +26:002:002 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set + me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. + +26:002:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children + of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against + me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even + unto this very day. + +26:002:004 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send + thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the + Lord GOD. + +26:002:005 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will + forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know + that there hath been a prophet among them. + +26:002:006 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid + of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and + thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, + nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious + house. + +26:002:007 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will + hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most + rebellious. + +26:002:008 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou + rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat + that I give thee. + +26:002:009 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, + a roll of a book was therein; + +26:002:010 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and + without: and there was written therein lamentations, and + mourning, and woe. + +26:003:001 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; + eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. + +26:003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. + +26:003:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and + fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I + eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. + +26:003:004 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house + of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. + +26:003:005 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of + an hard language, but to the house of Israel; + +26:003:006 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard + language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I + sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. + +26:003:007 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they + will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are + impudent and hardhearted. + +26:003:008 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and + thy forehead strong against their foreheads. + +26:003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear + them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a + rebellious house. + +26:003:010 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I + shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with + thine ears. + +26:003:011 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children + of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith + the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will + forbear. + +26:003:012 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. + +26:003:013 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures + that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over + against them, and a noise of a great rushing. + +26:003:014 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 upon me. + +26:003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by + the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained + there astonished among them seven days. + +26:003:016 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of + the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:003:017 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of + Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them + warning from me. + +26:003:018 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou + givest him not warning, nor speakest 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 thine + hand. + +26:003:019 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his + wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his + iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. + +26:003:020 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, + and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, + he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he + shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done + shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine + hand. + +26:003:021 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the + righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, + because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. + +26:003:022 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto + me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with + thee. + +26:003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the + glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the + river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. + +26:003:024 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and + spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine + house. + +26:003:025 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon + thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out + among them: + +26:003:026 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, + that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: + for they are a rebellious house. + +26:003:027 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou + shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, + let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for + they are a rebellious house. + +26:004:001 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before + thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: + +26:004:002 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and + cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set + battering rams against it round about. + +26:004:003 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a + wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face + against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege + against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. + +26:004:004 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the + house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days + that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. + +26:004:005 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, + according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety + days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. + +26:004:006 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right + side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah + forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. + +26:004:007 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of + Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt + prophesy against it. + +26:004:008 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not + turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the + days of thy siege. + +26:004:009 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and + lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, + and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the + days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and + ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. + +26:004:010 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty + shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. + +26:004:011 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an + hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. + +26:004:012 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it + with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. + +26:004:013 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat + their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive + them. + +26:004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been + polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten + of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither + came there abominable flesh into my mouth. + +26:004:015 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for + man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. + +26:004:016 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, 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: + +26:004:017 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with + another, and consume away for their iniquity. + +26:005:001 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a + barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon + thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the + hair. + +26:005:002 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the + city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt + take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a + third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out + a sword after them. + +26:005:003 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in + thy skirts. + +26:005:004 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the + fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come + forth into all the house of Israel. + +26:005:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in + the midst of the nations and countries that are round about + her. + +26:005:006 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than + the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are + round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my + statutes, they have not walked in them. + +26:005:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more + than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked + in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have + done according to the judgments of the nations that are round + about you; + +26:005:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am + against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee + in the sight of the nations. + +26:005:009 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and + whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all + thine abominations. + +26:005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, + and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute + judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I + scatter into all the winds. + +26:005:011 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou + hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and + with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish + thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any + pity. + +26:005:012 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with + famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a + third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I + will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw + out a sword after them. + +26:005:013 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my + fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they + shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I + have accomplished my fury in them. + +26:005:014 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the + nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that + pass by. + +26:005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an + astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when + I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in + furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. + +26:005:016 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which + shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to + destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will + break your staff of bread: + +26:005:017 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall + bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through + thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have + spoken it. + +26:006:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:006:002 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and + prophesy against them, + +26:006:003 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord + GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the + hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, + will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high + places. + +26:006:004 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be + broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. + +26:006:005 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel + before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about + your altars. + +26:006:006 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and + the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be + laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and + cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be + abolished. + +26:006:007 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall + know that I am the LORD. + +26:006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall + escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered + through the countries. + +26:006:009 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the + nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am + broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, + and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and + they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have + committed in all their abominations. + +26:006:010 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not + said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. + +26:006:011 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with + thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the + house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the + famine, and by the pestilence. + +26:006:012 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is + near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is + besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my + fury upon them. + +26:006:013 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men + shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon + every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under + every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where + they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. + +26:006:014 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land + desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward + Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I + am the LORD. + +26:007:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:007:002 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land + of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of + the land. + +26:007:003 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon + thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will + recompense upon thee all thine abominations. + +26:007:004 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: + but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine + abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know + that I am the LORD. + +26:007:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is + come. + +26:007:006 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, + it is come. + +26:007:007 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the + land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not + the sounding again of the mountains. + +26:007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish + mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy + ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. + +26:007:009 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will + recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations + that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the + LORD that smiteth. + +26:007:010 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; + the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. + +26:007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them + shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: + neither shall there be wailing for them. + +26:007:012 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer + rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the + multitude thereof. + +26:007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, + although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the + whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall + any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. + +26:007:014 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none + goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude + thereof. + +26:007:015 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine + within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and + he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour + him. + +26:007:016 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the + mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, + every one for his iniquity. + +26:007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as + water. + +26:007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror + shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and + baldness upon all their heads. + +26:007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold + shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be + able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they + shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: + because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. + +26:007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but + they made the images of their abominations and of their + detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from + them. + +26:007:021 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. + +26:007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my + secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile + it. + +26:007:023 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the + city is full of violence. + +26:007:024 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they + shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the + strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. + +26:007:025 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall + be none. + +26:007:026 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon + rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the + law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the + ancients. + +26:007:027 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 unto them after their way, and according + to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I + am the LORD. + +26:008:001 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in + the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the + elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD + fell there upon me. + +26:008:002 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: + from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from + his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the + colour of amber. + +26:008:003 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of + mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and + the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, + to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; + where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh + to jealousy. + +26:008:004 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, + according to the vision that I saw in the plain. + +26:008:005 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the + way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward + the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this + image of jealousy in the entry. + +26:008:006 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they + do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel + committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? + but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater + abominations. + +26:008:007 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, + behold a hole in the wall. + +26:008:008 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and + when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. + +26:008:009 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations + that they do here. + +26:008:010 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping + things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house + of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. + +26:008:011 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the + house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the + son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a + thick cloud of incense went up. + +26:008:012 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the + ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in + the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us + not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. + +26:008:013 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see + greater abominations that they do. + +26:008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house + which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women + weeping for Tammuz. + +26:008:015 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn + thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than + these. + +26:008:016 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, + and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between + the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with + their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces + toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. + +26:008:017 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it + a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the + abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the + land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: + and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. + +26:008:018 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, + neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears + with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. + +26:009:001 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause + them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every + man with his destroying weapon in his hand. + +26:009:002 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, + which lieth 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 brasen altar. + +26:009:003 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the + cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And + he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the + writer's inkhorn by his side; + +26:009:004 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, + through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the + foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the + abominations that be done in the midst thereof. + +26:009:005 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him + through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither + have ye pity: + +26:009:006 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, + and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; + and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men + which were before the house. + +26:009:007 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts + with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in + the city. + +26:009:008 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was + left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord + GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy + pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? + +26:009:009 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and + Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and + the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath + forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. + +26:009:010 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I + have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. + +26:009:011 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn + by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou + hast commanded me. + +26:010:001 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above + the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were + a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a + throne. + +26:010:002 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in + between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand + with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter + them over the city. And he went in in my sight. + +26:010:003 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when + the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. + +26:010:004 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, 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. + +26:010:005 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the + outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he + speaketh. + +26:010:006 And it came to pass, that 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. + +26:010:007 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the + cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and + took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was + clothed with linen: who took it, and went out. + +26:010:008 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand + under their wings. + +26:010:009 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, + one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: + and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl + stone. + +26:010:010 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as + if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. + +26:010:011 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned + not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked + they followed it; they turned not as they went. + +26:010:012 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and + their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, + even the wheels that they four had. + +26:010:013 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O + wheel. + +26:010:014 And every one 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. + +26:010:015 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature + that I saw by the river of Chebar. + +26:010:016 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 turned not from beside them. + +26:010:017 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. + +26:010:018 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of + the house, and stood over the cherubims. + +26:010:019 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from + the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also + were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east + gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel + was over them above. + +26:010:020 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. + +26:010:021 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and + the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. + +26:010:022 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw + by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they + went every one straight forward. + +26:011:001 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east + gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold + at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw + Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, + princes of the people. + +26:011:002 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that + devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: + +26:011:003 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is + the caldron, and we be the flesh. + +26:011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. + +26:011:005 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, + Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of + Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every + one of them. + +26:011:006 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled + the streets thereof with the slain. + +26:011:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have + laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is + the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of + it. + +26:011:008 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, + saith the Lord GOD. + +26:011:009 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you + into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among + you. + +26:011:010 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of + Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:011:011 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the + flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border + of Israel: + +26:011:012 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked + in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done + after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. + +26:011:013 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son + of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with + a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end + of the remnant of Israel? + +26:011:014 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:011:015 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy + kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto + whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from + the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. + +26:011:016 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast + them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered + them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little + sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. + +26:011:017 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you + from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where + ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of + Israel. + +26:011:018 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the + detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof + from thence. + +26:011:019 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit + within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their + flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: + +26:011:020 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, + and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their + God. + +26:011:021 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their + detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense + their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:011:022 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels + beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them + above. + +26:011:023 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, + and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the + city. + +26:011:024 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision + by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. + So the vision that I had seen went up from me. + +26:011:025 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that + the LORD had shewed me. + +26:012:001 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, + +26:012:002 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, + which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, + and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. + +26:012:003 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, + and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from + thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will + consider, though they be a rebellious house. + +26:012:004 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, + as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in + their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. + +26:012:005 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out + thereby. + +26:012:006 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and + carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, + that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign + unto the house of Israel. + +26:012:007 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by + day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through + the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, + and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight. + +26:012:008 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, + +26:012:009 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious + house, said unto thee, What doest thou? + +26:012:010 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden + concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of + Israel that are among them. + +26:012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done + unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity. + +26:012:012 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder + in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through + the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that + he see not the ground with his eyes. + +26:012:013 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in + my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the + Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. + +26:012:014 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to + help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword + after them. + +26:012:015 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter + them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. + +26:012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the + famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all + their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and + they shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:012:017 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, + +26:012:018 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water + with trembling and with carefulness; + +26:012:019 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD + of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; + They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their + water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from + all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that + dwell therein. + +26:012:020 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the + land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:012:021 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:012:022 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of + Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision + faileth? + +26:012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this + proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb + in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the + effect of every vision. + +26:012:024 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering + divination within the house of Israel. + +26:012:025 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall + speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for + in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and + will perform it, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:012:026 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying. + +26:012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The + vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he + prophesieth of the times that are far off. + +26:012:028 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall + none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I + have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:013:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that + prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their + own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; + +26:013:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that + follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! + +26:013:004 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. + +26:013:005 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge + for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of + the LORD. + +26:013:006 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD + saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made + others to hope that they would confirm the word. + +26:013:007 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying + divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have + not spoken? + +26:013:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken + vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, + saith the Lord GOD. + +26:013:009 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and + that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my + people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the + house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of + Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. + +26:013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, + Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, + lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: + +26:013:011 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it + shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O + great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. + +26:013:012 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, + Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? + +26:013:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a + stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing + shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to + consume it. + +26:013:014 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with + untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that + the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, + and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall + know that I am the LORD. + +26:013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them + that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto + you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; + +26:013:016 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning + Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there + is no peace, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:013:017 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters + of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and + prophesy thou against them, + +26:013:018 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew + pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of + every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my + people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? + +26:013:019 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley + and for pieces of bread, to slay 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? + +26:013:020 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your + pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, + and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls + go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. + +26:013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of + your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be + hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:013:022 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, + whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the + wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by + promising him life: + +26:013:023 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: + for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall + know that I am the LORD. + +26:014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat + before me. + +26:014:002 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:014:003 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, + and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their + face: should I be enquired of at all by them? + +26:014:004 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the + Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his + idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his + iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the + LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of + his idols; + +26:014:005 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, + because they are all estranged from me through their idols. + +26:014:006 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord + GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn + away your faces from all your abominations. + +26:014:007 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that + sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and + setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the + stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to + a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will + answer him by myself: + +26:014:008 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 the midst of + my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:014:009 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I + the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my + hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my + people Israel. + +26:014:010 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the + punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of + him that seeketh unto him; + +26:014:011 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, + neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; + but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:014:012 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, + +26:014:013 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing + grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and + will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send + famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: + +26:014:014 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, + they should deliver but their own souls by their + righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:014:015 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they + spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through + because of the beasts: + +26:014:016 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord + GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only + shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. + +26:014:017 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go + through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: + +26:014:018 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord + GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they + only shall be delivered themselves. + +26:014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury + upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: + +26:014:020 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the + Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they + shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. + +26:014:021 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four + sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and + the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man + and beast? + +26:014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be + brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall + come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their + doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I + have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have + brought upon it. + +26:014:023 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their + doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause + all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:015:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than + a branch which is among the trees of the forest? + +26:015:003 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a + pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? + +26:015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth + both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet + for any work? + +26:015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much + less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath + devoured it, and it is burned? + +26:015:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the + trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, + so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + +26:015:007 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from + one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall + know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. + +26:015:008 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed + a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:016:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, + +26:016:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and + thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an + Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. + +26:016:004 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel + was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; + thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. + +26:016:005 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have + compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open + field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast + born. + +26:016:006 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own + blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; + yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. + +26:016:007 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and + thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to + excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair + is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. + +26:016:008 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy + time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, + and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered + into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou + becamest mine. + +26:016:009 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away + thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. + +26:016:010 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with + badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I + covered thee with silk. + +26:016:011 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon + thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. + +26:016:012 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, + and a beautiful crown upon thine head. + +26:016:013 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment + was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst + eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding + beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. + +26:016:014 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: + for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon + thee, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:016:015 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the + harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy + fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. + +26:016:016 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high + places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: + the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. + +26:016:017 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my + silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images + of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, + +26:016:018 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and + thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. + +26:016:019 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and + honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them + for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:016:020 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou + hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them + to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, + +26:016:021 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause + them to pass through the fire for them? + +26:016:022 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not + remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and + bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. + +26:016:023 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto + thee! saith the LORD GOD;) + +26:016:024 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast + made thee an high place in every street. + +26:016:025 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and + hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet + to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. + +26:016:026 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy + neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, + to provoke me to anger. + +26:016:027 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and + have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto + the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the + Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. + +26:016:028 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because + thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with + them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. + +26:016:029 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of + Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied + therewith. + +26:016:030 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest + all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; + +26:016:031 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every + way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not + been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; + +26:016:032 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers + instead of her husband! + +26:016:033 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to + all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee + on every side for thy whoredom. + +26:016:034 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, + whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that + thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, + therefore thou art contrary. + +26:016:035 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: + +26:016:036 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured + out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with + thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by + the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; + +26:016:037 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou + hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with + all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round + about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, + that they may see all thy nakedness. + +26:016:038 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed + blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and + jealousy. + +26:016:039 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall + throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high + places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall + take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. + +26:016:040 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they + shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with + their swords. + +26:016:041 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute + judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will + cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also + shalt give no hire any more. + +26:016:042 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy + shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no + more angry. + +26:016:043 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but + hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also + will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: + and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine + abominations. + +26:016:044 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb + against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. + +26:016:045 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and + her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which + lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an + Hittite, and your father an Amorite. + +26:016:046 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that + dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth + at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. + +26:016:047 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after + their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, + thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. + +26:016:048 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, + she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy + daughters. + +26:016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, + fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in + her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor + and needy. + +26:016:050 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: + therefore I took them away as I saw good. + +26:016:051 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast + multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast + justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou + hast done. + +26:016:052 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame + for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than + they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou + confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast + justified thy sisters. + +26:016:053 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of + Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her + daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy + captives in the midst of them: + +26:016:054 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be + confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a + comfort unto them. + +26:016:055 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to + their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall + return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters + shall return to your former estate. + +26:016:056 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day + of thy pride, + +26:016:057 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy + reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round + about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise + thee round about. + +26:016:058 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the + LORD. + +26:016:059 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as + thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the + covenant. + +26:016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days + of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting + covenant. + +26:016:061 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou + shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I + will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy + covenant. + +26:016:062 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt + know that I am the LORD: + +26:016:063 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open + thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified + toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:017:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the + house of Israel; + +26:017:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great + wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, + came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: + +26:017:004 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into + a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. + +26:017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a + fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a + willow tree. + +26:017:006 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose + branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under + him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot + forth sprigs. + +26:017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many + feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward + him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might + water it by the furrows of her plantation. + +26:017:008 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might + bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it + might be a goodly vine. + +26:017:009 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he + not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, + that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her + spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up + by the roots thereof. + +26:017:010 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not + utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall + wither in the furrows where it grew. + +26:017:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things + mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to + Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes + thereof, and led them with him to Babylon; + +26:017:013 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with + him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the + mighty of the land: + +26:017:014 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself + up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. + +26:017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into + Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall + he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall + he break the covenant, and be delivered? + +26:017:016 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the + king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and + whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon + he shall die. + +26:017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company + make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building + forts, to cut off many persons: + +26:017:018 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, + lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he + shall not escape. + +26:017:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath + that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, + even it will I recompense upon his own head. + +26:017:020 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my + snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with + him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me. + +26:017:021 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the + sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all + winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it. + +26:017:022 Thus saith 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 upon an high mountain and eminent: + +26:017:023 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and + it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly + cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the + shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. + +26:017:024 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. + +26:018:001 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, + +26:018:002 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of + Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the + children's teeth are set on edge? + +26:018:003 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any + more to use this proverb in Israel. + +26:018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also + the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall + die. + +26:018:005 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, + +26:018:006 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up + his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath + defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a + menstruous woman, + +26:018:007 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor + his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his + bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a + garment; + +26:018:008 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken + any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath + executed true judgment between man and man, + +26:018:009 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to + deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord + GOD. + +26:018:010 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and + that doeth the like to any one of these things, + +26:018:011 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten + upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, + +26:018:012 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, + hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to + the idols, hath committed abomination, + +26:018:013 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he + then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these + abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon + him. + +26:018:014 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins + which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, + +26:018:015 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up + his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled + his neighbour's wife, + +26:018:016 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, + neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to + the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, + +26:018:017 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not + received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath + walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of + his father, he shall surely live. + +26:018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his + brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his + people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity. + +26:018:019 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the + father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, + and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall + surely live. + +26:018:020 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear + the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the + iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall + be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon + him. + +26:018:021 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath + committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is + lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. + +26:018:022 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not + be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done + he shall live. + +26:018:023 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith + the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and + live? + +26:018:024 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, + and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the + abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his + righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his + trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath + sinned, in them shall he die. + +26:018:025 Yet ye 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? + +26:018:026 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and + committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that + he hath done shall he die. + +26:018:027 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness + that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and + right, he shall save his soul alive. + +26:018:028 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his + transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, + he shall not die. + +26:018:029 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not + equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your + ways unequal? + +26:018:030 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one + according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn + yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not + be your ruin. + +26:018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have + transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for + why will ye die, O house of Israel? + +26:018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith + the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. + +26:019:001 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, + +26:019:002 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among + lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. + +26:019:003 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, + and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. + +26:019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and + they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. + +26:019:005 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. + +26:019:006 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young + lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. + +26:019:007 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their + cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by + the noise of his roaring. + +26:019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the + provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in + their pit. + +26:019:009 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the + king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice + should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. + +26:019:010 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: + she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many + waters. + +26:019:011 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare + rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, + and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her + branches. + +26:019:012 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the + ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods + were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. + +26:019:013 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty + ground. + +26:019:014 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath + devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a + sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a + lamentation. + +26:020:001 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, + the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of + Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me. + +26:020:002 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, + +26:020:003 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto + them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? + As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by + you. + +26:020:004 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause + them to know the abominations of their fathers: + +26:020:005 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I + chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the + house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of + Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the + LORD your God; + +26:020:006 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them + forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for + them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all + lands: + +26:020:007 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations + of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of + Egypt: I am the LORD your God. + +26:020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: + they did not every man cast away the abominations of their + eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I + said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my + anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. + +26:020:009 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be + polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose + sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth + out of the land of Egypt. + +26:020:010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, + and brought them into the wilderness. + +26:020:011 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, + which if a man do, he shall even live in them. + +26:020:012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me + and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that + sanctify them. + +26:020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: + they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my + judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and + my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour + out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. + +26:020:014 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be + polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them + out. + +26:020:015 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that + I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, + flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; + +26:020:016 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my + statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after + their idols. + +26:020:017 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, + neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. + +26:020:018 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not + in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their + judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: + +26:020:019 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my + judgments, and do them; + +26:020:020 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me + and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. + +26:020:021 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked + not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, + which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted + my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, + to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. + +26:020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's + sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the + heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. + +26:020:023 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I + would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them + through the countries; + +26:020:024 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised + my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were + after their fathers' idols. + +26:020:025 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and + judgments whereby they should not live; + +26:020:026 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to + pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might + make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am + the LORD. + +26:020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say + unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers + have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass + against me. + +26:020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I + lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every + high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there + their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of + their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and + poured out there their drink offerings. + +26:020:029 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? + And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day. + +26:020:030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord + GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and + commit ye whoredom after their abominations? + +26:020:031 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass + through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, + even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house + of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be + enquired of by you. + +26:020:032 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that + ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the + countries, to serve wood and stone. + +26:020:033 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and + with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I + rule over you: + +26:020:034 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you + out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty + hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. + +26:020:035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and + there will I plead with you face to face. + +26:020:036 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the + land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:020:037 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring + you into the bond of the covenant: + +26:020:038 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that + transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the + country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the + land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:020:039 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, + serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will + not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with + your gifts, and with your idols. + +26:020:040 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of + Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of + Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept + them, and there will I require your offerings, and the + firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. + +26:020:041 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out + from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein + ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before + the heathen. + +26:020:042 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you + into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I + lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. + +26:020:043 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, + wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in + your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. + +26:020:044 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with + you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor + according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:020:045 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:020:046 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word + toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south + field; + +26:020:047 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; + Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, + and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry + tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces + from the south to the north shall be burned therein. + +26:020:048 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it + shall not be quenched. + +26:020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak + parables? + +26:021:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:021:002 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word + toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of + Israel, + +26:021:003 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I + am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his + sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the + wicked. + +26:021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and + the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his + sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: + +26:021:005 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my + sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. + +26:021:006 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy + loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. + +26:021:007 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest + thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it + cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be + feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be + weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to + pass, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:021:008 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A + sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: + +26:021:010 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that + it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the + rod of my son, as every tree. + +26:021:011 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: + this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into + the hand of the slayer. + +26:021:012 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it + shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of + the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy + thigh. + +26:021:013 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the + rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:021:014 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands + together and let the sword be doubled the third time, the + sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are + slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. + +26:021:015 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, + that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! + it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. + +26:021:016 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the + left, whithersoever thy face is set. + +26:021:017 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my + fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. + +26:021:018 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, + +26:021:019 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword + of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth + out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the + head of the way to the city. + +26:021:020 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the + Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. + +26:021:021 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. + +26:021:022 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. + +26:021:023 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their + sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to + remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. + +26:021:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your + iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are + discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; + because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be + taken with the hand. + +26:021:025 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, + when iniquity shall have an end, + +26:021:026 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the + crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and + abase him that is high. + +26:021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no + more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. + +26:021:028 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord + GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; + even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the + slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the + glittering: + +26:021:029 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie + unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are + slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity + shall have an end. + +26:021:030 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee + in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy + nativity. + +26:021:031 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow + against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into + the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy. + +26:021:032 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the + midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the + LORD have spoken it. + +26:022:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:022:002 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the + bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. + +26:022:003 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth + blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh + idols against herself to defile herself. + +26:022:004 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and + hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and + thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto + thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the + heathen, and a mocking to all countries. + +26:022:005 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall + mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed. + +26:022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their + power to shed blood. + +26:022:007 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst + of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in + thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. + +26:022:008 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my + sabbaths. + +26:022:009 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee + they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit + lewdness. + +26:022:010 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee + have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. + +26:022:011 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; + and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and + another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's + daughter. + +26:022:012 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken + usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy + neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord + GOD. + +26:022:013 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest + gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in + the midst of thee. + +26:022:014 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the + days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, + and will do it. + +26:022:015 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee + in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. + +26:022:016 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight + of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. + +26:022:017 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all + they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of + the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. + +26:022:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become + dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of + Jerusalem. + +26:022:020 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, + into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to + melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, + and I will leave you there, and melt you. + +26:022:021 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my + wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof. + +26:022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye + be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the + LORD have poured out my fury upon you. + +26:022:023 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:022:024 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not + cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. + +26:022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, + like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured + souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they + have made her many widows in the midst thereof. + +26:022:026 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy + things: they have put no difference between the holy and + profane, neither have they shewed difference between the + unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my + sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. + +26:022:027 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the + prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest + gain. + +26:022:028 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, + seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith + the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. + +26:022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised + robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have + oppressed the stranger wrongfully. + +26:022:030 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the + hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I + should not destroy it: but I found none. + +26:022:031 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have + consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I + recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:023:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, + +26:023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: + +26:023:003 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed + whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, + and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. + +26:023:004 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her + sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. + Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem + Aholibah. + +26:023:005 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted + on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, + +26:023:006 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them + desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. + +26:023:007 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that + were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she + doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. + +26:023:008 Neither left she 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 upon her. + +26:023:009 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, + into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. + +26:023:010 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her + daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous + among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. + +26:023:011 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in + her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than + her sister in her whoredoms. + +26:023:012 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and + rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, + all of them desirable young men. + +26:023:013 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, + +26:023:014 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men + pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans + pourtrayed with vermilion, + +26:023:015 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire + upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the + manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their + nativity: + +26:023:016 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon + them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. + +26:023:017 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. + +26:023:018 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: + then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was + alienated from her sister. + +26:023:019 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance + the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in + the land of Egypt. + +26:023:020 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the + flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. + +26:023:021 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, + in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy + youth. + +26:023:022 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will + raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is + alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; + +26:023:023 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 upon horses. + +26:023:024 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and + wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set + against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I + will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee + according to their judgments. + +26:023:025 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal + furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine + ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take + thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured + by the fire. + +26:023:026 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away + thy fair jewels. + +26:023:027 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy + whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt + not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. + +26:023:028 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into + the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from + whom thy mind is alienated: + +26:023:029 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away + all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the + nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy + lewdness and thy whoredoms. + +26:023:030 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a + whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with + their idols. + +26:023:031 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I + give her cup into thine hand. + +26:023:032 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup + deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in + derision; it containeth much. + +26:023:033 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup + of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister + Samaria. + +26:023:034 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break + the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I + have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:023:035 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten + me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy + lewdness and thy whoredoms. + +26:023:036 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge + Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their + abominations; + +26:023:037 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their + hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and + have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass + for them through the fire, to devour them. + +26:023:038 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my + sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. + +26:023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then + they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, + lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. + +26:023:040 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, + unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom + thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst + thyself with ornaments, + +26:023:041 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, + whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. + +26:023:042 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and + with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the + wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and + beautiful crowns upon their heads. + +26:023:043 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now + commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? + +26:023:044 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that + playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto + Aholibah, the lewd women. + +26:023:045 And the righteous men, they 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. + +26:023:046 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon + them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. + +26:023:047 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch + them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their + daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. + +26:023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all + women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. + +26:023:049 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall + bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the + Lord GOD. + +26:024:001 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day + of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:024:002 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same + day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this + same day. + +26:024:003 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto + them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and + also pour water into it: + +26:024:004 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the + thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. + +26:024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under + it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it + therein. + +26:024:006 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to + the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out + of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. + +26:024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top + of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with + dust; + +26:024:008 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have + set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be + covered. + +26:024:009 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I + will even make the pile for fire great. + +26:024:010 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it + well, and let the bones be burned. + +26:024:011 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it + may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be + molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. + +26:024:012 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went + not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. + +26:024:013 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and + thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy + filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon + thee. + +26:024:014 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will + do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will + I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, + shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:024:015 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine + eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, + neither shall thy tears run down. + +26:024:017 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire + of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, + and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. + +26:024:018 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife + died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. + +26:024:019 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these + things are to us, that thou doest so? + +26:024:020 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, + saying, + +26:024:021 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; + Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your + strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul + pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left + shall fall by the sword. + +26:024:022 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, + nor eat the bread of men. + +26:024:023 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon + your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away + for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. + +26:024:024 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath + done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I + am the Lord GOD. + +26:024:025 Also, thou 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 that whereupon they set their minds, their + sons and their daughters, + +26:024:026 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to + cause thee to hear it with thine ears? + +26:024:027 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, + and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a + sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:025:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, + +26:025:002 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy + against them; + +26:025:003 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; + Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my + sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of + Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, + when they went into captivity; + +26:025:004 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east + for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, + and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, + and they shall drink thy milk. + +26:025:005 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites + a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the + LORD. + +26:025:006 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine + hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with + all thy despite against the land of Israel; + +26:025:007 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and + will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut + thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out + of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know + that I am the LORD. + +26:025:008 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, + Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; + +26:025:009 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the + cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory + of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, + +26:025:010 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give + them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered + among the nations. + +26:025:011 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know + that I am the LORD. + +26:025:012 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against + the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly + offended, and revenged himself upon them; + +26:025:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out + mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; + and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan + shall fall by the sword. + +26:025:014 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people + Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and + according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:025:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by + revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to + destroy it for the old hatred; + +26:025:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out + mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the + Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. + +26:025:017 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious + rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall + lay my vengeance upon them. + +26:026:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of + the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:026:002 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, + Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is + turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: + +26:026:003 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, + O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, + as the sea causeth his waves to come up. + +26:026:004 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her + towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her + like the top of a rock. + +26:026:005 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of + the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it + shall become a spoil to the nations. + +26:026:006 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the + sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:026:007 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the + north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and + companies, and much people. + +26:026:008 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and + he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against + thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. + +26:026:009 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with + his axes he shall break down thy towers. + +26:026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall + cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the + horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he + shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein + is made a breach. + +26:026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy + streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong + garrisons shall go down to the ground. + +26:026:012 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of + thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and + destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and + thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. + +26:026:013 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the + sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. + +26:026:014 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a + place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I + the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:026:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at + the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the + slaughter is made in the midst of thee? + +26:026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their + thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered + garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they + shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, + and be astonished at thee. + +26:026:017 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to + thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring + men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and + her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that + haunt it! + +26:026:018 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the + isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. + +26:026:019 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate + city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall + bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover + thee; + +26:026:020 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the + pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the + low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them + that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I + shall set glory in the land of the living; + +26:026:021 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though + thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:027:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, + +26:027:002 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; + +26:027:003 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of + the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, + Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of + perfect beauty. + +26:027:004 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have + perfected thy beauty. + +26:027:005 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they + have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. + +26:027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company + of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out + of the isles of Chittim. + +26:027:007 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou + spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles + of Elishah was that which covered thee. + +26:027:008 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise + men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. + +26:027:009 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee + thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were + in thee to occupy thy merchandise. + +26:027:010 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy + men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they + set forth thy comeliness. + +26:027:011 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round + about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their + shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty + perfect. + +26:027:012 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all + kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded + in thy fairs. + +26:027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they + traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. + +26:027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses + and horsemen and mules. + +26:027:015 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the + merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present + horns of ivory and ebony. + +26:027:016 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares + of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, + purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and + agate. + +26:027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they + traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, + and oil, and balm. + +26:027:018 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy + making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of + Helbon, and white wool. + +26:027:019 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: + bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. + +26:027:020 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. + +26:027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee + in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy + merchants. + +26:027:022 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: + they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with + all precious stones, and gold. + +26:027:023 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, + and Chilmad, were thy merchants. + +26:027:024 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue + clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, + bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. + +26:027:025 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou + wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the + seas. + +26:027:026 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind + hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. + +26:027:027 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and + thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, + and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy + company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the + midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. + +26:027:028 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. + +26:027:029 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots + of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand + upon the land; + +26:027:030 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and + shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, + they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: + +26:027:031 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird + them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with + bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. + +26:027:032 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for + thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, + like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? + +26:027:033 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many + people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the + multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. + +26:027:034 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the + depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in + the midst of thee shall fall. + +26:027:035 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, + and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled + in their countenance. + +26:027:036 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt + be a terror, and never shalt be any more. + +26:028:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, + +26:028:002 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord + GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I + am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; + yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart + as the heart of God: + +26:028:003 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that + they can hide from thee: + +26:028:004 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten + thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy + treasures: + +26:028:005 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased + thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy + riches: + +26:028:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine + heart as the heart of God; + +26:028:007 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the + terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords + against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy + brightness. + +26:028:008 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the + deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. + +26:028:009 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but + thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that + slayeth thee. + +26:028:010 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of + strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:028:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and + say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the + sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. + +26:028:013 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone + was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the + beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, + and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets + and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou + wast created. + +26:028:014 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set + thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast + walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. + +26:028:015 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast + created, till iniquity was found in thee. + +26:028:016 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst + of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will + cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will + destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones + of fire. + +26:028:017 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast + corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast + thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they + may behold thee. + +26:028:018 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine + iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I + bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour + thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the + sight of all them that behold thee. + +26:028:019 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished + at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any + more. + +26:028:020 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:028:021 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against + it, + +26:028:022 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O + Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they + shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed + judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. + +26:028:023 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her + streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her + by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that + I am the LORD. + +26:028:024 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of + Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about + them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the + Lord GOD. + +26:028:025 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house + of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and + shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then + shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant + Jacob. + +26:028:026 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, + and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, + when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise + them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD + their God. + +26:029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of + the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:029:002 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and + prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: + +26:029:003 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against + thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in + the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine + own, and I have made it for myself. + +26:029:004 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of + thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up + out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers + shall stick unto thy scales. + +26:029:005 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all + the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; + thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given + thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of + the heaven. + +26:029:006 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. + +26:029:007 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and + rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou + brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. + +26:029:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a + sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. + +26:029:009 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they + shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river + is mine, and I have made it. + +26:029:010 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, + and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, + from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. + +26:029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall + pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. + +26:029:012 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the + countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities + that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will + scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse + them through the countries. + +26:029:013 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I + gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were + scattered: + +26:029:014 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause + them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of + their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. + +26:029:015 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt + itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, + that they shall no more rule over the nations. + +26:029:016 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, + which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall + look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. + +26:029:017 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the + first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the + LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:029:018 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: + +26:029:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the + land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he + shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her + prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. + +26:029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he + served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord + GOD. + +26:029:021 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to + bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in + the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:030:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, + +26:030:002 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl + ye, Woe worth the day! + +26:030:003 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a + cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. + +26:030:004 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be + in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they + shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be + broken down. + +26:030:005 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, + and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall + fall with them by the sword. + +26:030:006 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; + and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of + Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:030:007 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that + are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the + cities that are wasted. + +26:030:008 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. + +26:030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make + the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon + them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. + +26:030:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of + Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. + +26:030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall + be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their + swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. + +26:030:012 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the + hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all + that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have + spoken it. + +26:030:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I + will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall + be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a + fear in the land of Egypt. + +26:030:014 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, + and will execute judgments in No. + +26:030:015 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I + will cut off the multitude of No. + +26:030:016 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and + No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses + daily. + +26:030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: + and these cities shall go into captivity. + +26:030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall + break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength + shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and + her daughters shall go into captivity. + +26:030:019 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know + that I am the LORD. + +26:030:020 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, + in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD + came unto me, saying, + +26:030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; + and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a + roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. + +26:030:022 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against + Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, + and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall + out of his hand. + +26:030:023 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will + disperse them through the countries. + +26:030:024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put + my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he + shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded + man. + +26:030:025 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the + arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am + the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king + of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of + Egypt. + +26:030:026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and + disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I + am the LORD. + +26:031:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, + in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came + unto me, saying, + +26:031:002 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his + multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? + +26:031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair + branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; + and his top was among the thick boughs. + +26:031:004 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with + her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little + rivers unto all the trees of the field. + +26:031:005 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. + +26:031:006 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and + under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth + their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. + +26:031:007 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his + branches: for his root was by great waters. + +26:031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir + trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were + not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was + like unto him in his beauty. + +26:031:009 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. + +26:031:010 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up + thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick + boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; + +26:031:011 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. + +26:031:012 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, + and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys + his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the + rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone + down from his shadow, and have left him. + +26:031:013 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and + all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: + +26:031:014 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt + themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among + the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their + height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto + death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the + children of men, with them that go down to the pit. + +26:031:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the + grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I + restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were + stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the + trees of the field fainted for him. + +26:031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I + cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and + all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all + that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of + the earth. + +26:031:017 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain + with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under + his shadow in the midst of the heathen. + +26:031:018 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the + trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees + of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in + the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the + sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord + GOD. + +26:032:001 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, + in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came + unto me, saying, + +26:032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, + and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, + and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth + with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and + fouledst their rivers. + +26:032:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net + over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring + thee up in my net. + +26:032:004 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth + upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the + heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the + whole earth with thee. + +26:032:005 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the + valleys with thy height. + +26:032:006 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou + swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full + of thee. + +26:032:007 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and + make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a + cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. + +26:032:008 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, + and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring + thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which + thou hast not known. + +26:032:010 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings + shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my + sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, + every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. + +26:032:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon + shall come upon thee. + +26:032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to + fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall + spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall + be destroyed. + +26:032:013 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the + great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any + more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. + +26:032:014 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to + run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country + shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall + smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I + am the LORD. + +26:032:016 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the + daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament + for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the + Lord GOD. + +26:032:017 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day + of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them + down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto + the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the + pit. + +26:032:019 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with + the uncircumcised. + +26:032:020 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the + sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her + multitudes. + +26:032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the + midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, + they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. + +26:032:022 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: + all of them slain, fallen by the sword: + +26:032:023 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company + is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the + sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. + +26:032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all + of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down + uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused + their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne + their shame with them that go down to the pit. + +26:032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her + multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them + uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was + caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their + shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the + midst of them that be slain. + +26:032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are + round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the + sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the + living. + +26:032:027 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the + uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons + of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but + their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were + the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. + +26:032:028 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, + and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. + +26:032:029 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with + their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: + they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go + down to the pit. + +26:032:030 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the + Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their + terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie + uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear + their shame with them that go down to the pit. + +26:032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his + multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, + saith the Lord GOD. + +26:032:032 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he + shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that + are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, + saith the Lord GOD. + +26:033:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto + them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the + land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their + watchman: + +26:033:003 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the + trumpet, and warn the people; + +26:033:004 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh + not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood + shall be upon his own head. + +26:033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his + blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall + deliver his soul. + +26:033:006 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the + trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and + take any person from among them, he is taken away in his + iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. + +26:033:007 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the + house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my + mouth, and warn them from me. + +26:033:008 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely + die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, + that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will + I require at thine hand. + +26:033:009 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from + it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his + iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. + +26:033:010 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; + Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be + upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? + +26:033:011 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no + pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn + from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; + for why will ye die, O house of Israel? + +26:033:012 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy + people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver + him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of + the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he + turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be + able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. + +26:033:013 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; + if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all + his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his + iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. + +26:033:014 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if + he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; + +26:033:015 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had + robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing + iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. + +26:033:016 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned + unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he + shall surely live. + +26:033:017 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not + equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. + +26:033:018 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and + committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. + +26:033:019 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which + is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. + +26:033:020 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of + Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. + +26:033:021 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in + the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that + had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is + smitten. + +26:033:022 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he + that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came + to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no + more dumb. + +26:033:023 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:033:024 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of + Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the + land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. + +26:033:025 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with + the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed + blood: and shall ye possess the land? + +26:033:026 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile + every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? + +26:033:027 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, + surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, + and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to + be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves + shall die of the pestilence. + +26:033:028 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her + strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be + desolate, that none shall pass through. + +26:033:029 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the + land most desolate because of all their abominations which + they have committed. + +26:033:030 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are + talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the + houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, + saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that + cometh forth from the LORD. + +26:033:031 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit + before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they + will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, + but their heart goeth after their covetousness. + +26:033:032 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that + hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for + they hear thy words, but they do them not. + +26:033:033 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall + they know that a prophet hath been among them. + +26:034:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, + prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the + shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed + themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? + +26:034:003 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them + that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. + +26:034:004 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed + that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was + broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven + away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with + force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. + +26:034:005 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and + they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they + were scattered. + +26:034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every + high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of + the earth, and none did search or seek after them. + +26:034:007 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; + +26:034:008 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became + a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, + because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search + for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my + flock; + +26:034:009 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; + +26:034:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; + and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to + cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed + themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their + mouth, that they may not be meat for them. + +26:034:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both + search my sheep, and seek them out. + +26:034:012 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is + among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my + sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have + been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. + +26:034:013 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them + from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and + feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in + all the inhabited places of the country. + +26:034:014 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high + mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie + in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the + mountains of Israel. + +26:034:015 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which + was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and + will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the + fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. + +26:034:017 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I + judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he + goats. + +26:034:018 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good + pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of + your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye + must foul the residue with your feet? + +26:034:019 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with + your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your + feet. + +26:034:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even + I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean + cattle. + +26:034:021 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed + all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them + abroad; + +26:034:022 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a + prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. + +26:034:023 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed + them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall + be their shepherd. + +26:034:024 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a + prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. + +26:034:025 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause + the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell + safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. + +26:034:026 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a + blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his + season; there shall be showers of blessing. + +26:034:027 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth + shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their + land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken + the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of + those that served themselves of them. + +26:034:028 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall + the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell + safely, and none shall make them afraid. + +26:034:029 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall + be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the + shame of the heathen any more. + +26:034:030 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, + and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:034:031 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am + your God, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:035:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:035:002 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy + against it, + +26:035:003 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount + Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand + against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. + +26:035:004 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and + thou shalt know that I am the LORD. + +26:035:005 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the + blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in + the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity + had an end: + +26:035:006 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee + unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not + hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. + +26:035:007 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it + him that passeth out and him that returneth. + +26:035:008 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy + hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they + fall that are slain with the sword. + +26:035:009 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall + not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:035:010 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two + countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the + LORD was there: + +26:035:011 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do + according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which + thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make + myself known among them, when I have judged thee. + +26:035:012 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard + all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the + mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are + given us to consume. + +26:035:013 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have + multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. + +26:035:014 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I + will make thee desolate. + +26:035:015 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of + Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou + shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of + it: and they shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:036:001 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, + and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: + +26:036:002 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against + you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: + +26:036:003 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because + they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every + side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the + heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are + an infamy of the people: + +26:036:004 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord + GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the + hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate + wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a + prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round + about; + +26:036:005 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my + jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and + against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their + possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful + minds, to cast it out for a prey. + +26:036:006 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto + the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the + valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my + jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of + the heathen: + +26:036:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, + Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their + shame. + +26:036:008 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your + branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for + they are at hand to come. + +26:036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye + shall be tilled and sown: + +26:036:010 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, + even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the + wastes shall be builded: + +26:036:011 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall + increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old + estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: + and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:036:012 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; + and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their + inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of + men. + +26:036:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land + devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations: + +26:036:014 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy + nations any more, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:036:015 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the + heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the + people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall + any more, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:036:016 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, + they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their + way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. + +26:036:018 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they + had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had + polluted it: + +26:036:019 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were + dispersed through the countries: according to their way and + according to their doings I judged them. + +26:036:020 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, + they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are + the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. + +26:036:021 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel + had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. + +26:036:022 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord + GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for + mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the + heathen, whither ye went. + +26:036:023 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among + the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and + the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, + when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. + +26:036:024 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out + of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. + +26:036:025 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be + clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will + I cleanse you. + +26:036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put + within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your + flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. + +26:036:027 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in + my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. + +26:036:028 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; + and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. + +26:036:029 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will + call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine + upon you. + +26:036:030 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of + the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine + among the heathen. + +26:036:031 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings + that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own + sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. + +26:036:032 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known + unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house + of Israel. + +26:036:033 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed + you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in + the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. + +26:036:034 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate + in the sight of all that passed by. + +26:036:035 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like + the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined + cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. + +26:036:036 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that + I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was + desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. + +26:036:037 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by + the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them + with men like a flock. + +26:036:038 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn + feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of + men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:037:001 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the + spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley + which was full of bones, + +26:037:002 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there + were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very + dry. + +26:037:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I + answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. + +26:037:004 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto + them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. + +26:037:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause + breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: + +26:037:006 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon + you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye + shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. + +26:037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there + was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came + together, bone to his bone. + +26:037:008 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon + them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath + in them. + +26:037:009 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of + man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from + the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that + they may live. + +26:037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into + them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an + exceeding great army. + +26:037:011 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole + house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and + our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. + +26:037:012 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; + Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to + come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of + Israel. + +26:037:013 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your + graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, + +26:037:014 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall + place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD + have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. + +26:037:015 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, + +26:037:016 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon + it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: + then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the + stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his + companions: + +26:037:017 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall + become one in thine hand. + +26:037:018 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, + saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? + +26:037:019 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take + the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the + tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even + with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they + shall be one in mine hand. + +26:037:020 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand + before their eyes. + +26:037:021 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will + take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither + they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring + them into their own land: + +26:037:022 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains + of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they + shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided + into two kingdoms any more at all. + +26:037:023 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their + idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their + transgressions: but I will save them out of all their + dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse + them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. + +26:037:024 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. + +26:037:025 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob + my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall + dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their + children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be + their prince for ever. + +26:037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall + be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, + and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of + them for evermore. + +26:037:027 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their + God, and they shall be my people. + +26:037:028 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, + when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. + +26:038:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +26:038:002 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the + chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, + +26:038:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O + Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: + +26:038:004 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I + will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and + horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a + great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling + swords: + +26:038:005 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield + and helmet: + +26:038:006 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north + quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. + +26:038:007 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy + company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto + them. + +26:038:008 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years + thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the + sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the + mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is + brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely + all of them. + +26:038:009 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a + cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many + people with thee. + +26:038:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at + the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt + think an evil thought: + +26:038:011 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled + villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell + safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither + bars nor gates, + +26:038:012 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon + the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the + people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten + cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. + +26:038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the + young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to + take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? + to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, + to take a great spoil? + +26:038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith + the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth + safely, shalt thou not know it? + +26:038:015 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, + thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon + horses, a great company, and a mighty army: + +26:038:016 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud + to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will + bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when + I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. + +26:038:017 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in + old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which + prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee + against them? + +26:038:018 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come + against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury + shall come up in my face. + +26:038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, + Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land + of Israel; + +26:038:020 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, + and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that + creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face + of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains + shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and + every wall shall fall to the ground. + +26:038:021 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my + mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be + against his brother. + +26:038:022 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; + and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the + many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great + hailstones, fire, and brimstone. + +26:038:023 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be + known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I + am the LORD. + +26:039:001 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, + Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the + chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: + +26:039:002 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of + thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and + will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: + +26:039:003 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause + thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. + +26:039:004 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all + thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee + unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of + the field to be devoured. + +26:039:005 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, + saith the Lord GOD. + +26:039:006 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell + carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the + LORD. + +26:039:007 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people + Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: + and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in + Israel. + +26:039:008 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this + is the day whereof I have spoken. + +26:039:009 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, + and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields + and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, + and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven + years: + +26:039:010 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut + down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons + with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and + rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:039:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto + Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the + passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses + of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his + multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. + +26:039:012 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, + that they may cleanse the land. + +26:039:013 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall + be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:039:014 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing + through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain + upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of + seven months shall they search. + +26:039:015 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth + a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the + buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. + +26:039:016 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall + they cleanse the land. + +26:039:017 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto + every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, + Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side + to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great + sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, + and drink blood. + +26:039:018 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of + the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of + bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. + +26:039:019 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye + be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. + +26:039:020 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, + with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:039:021 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen + shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I + have laid upon them. + +26:039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God + from that day and forward. + +26:039:023 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into + captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against + me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the + hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. + +26:039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to their + transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from + them. + +26:039:025 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the + captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of + Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; + +26:039:026 After that they have borne their shame, and all their + trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they + dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. + +26:039:027 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered + them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in + the sight of many nations; + +26:039:028 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which + caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I + have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of + them any more there. + +26:039:029 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have + poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord + GOD. + +26:040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the + beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the + fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the + selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me + thither. + +26:040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, + and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the + frame of a city on the south. + +26:040:003 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose + appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of + flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the + gate. + +26:040:004 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, + and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I + shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto + thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to + the house of Israel. + +26:040:005 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and + in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the + cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the + building, one reed; and the height, one reed. + +26:040:006 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and + went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the + gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the + gate, which was one reed broad. + +26:040:007 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed + broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and + the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was + one reed. + +26:040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. + +26:040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the + posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was + inward. + +26:040:010 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on + this side, and three on that side; they three were of one + measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on + that side. + +26:040:011 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten + cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. + +26:040:012 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on + this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the + little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits + on that side. + +26:040:013 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber + to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty + cubits, door against door. + +26:040:014 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of + the court round about the gate. + +26:040:015 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of + the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits. + +26:040:016 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to + their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the + arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each + post were palm trees. + +26:040:017 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were + chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: + thirty chambers were upon the pavement. + +26:040:018 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the + length of the gates was the lower pavement. + +26:040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower + gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred + cubits eastward and northward. + +26:040:020 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the + north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth + thereof. + +26:040:021 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and + three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches + thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length + thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty + cubits. + +26:040:022 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, + were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the + east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches + thereof were before them. + +26:040:023 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate + toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from + gate to gate an hundred cubits. + +26:040:024 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate + toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the + arches thereof according to these measures. + +26:040:025 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round + about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and + the breadth five and twenty cubits. + +26:040:026 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches + thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this + side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. + +26:040:027 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and + he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred + cubits. + +26:040:028 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he + measured the south gate according to these measures; + +26:040:029 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and + the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there + were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it + was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. + +26:040:030 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, + and five cubits broad. + +26:040:031 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm + trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had + eight steps. + +26:040:032 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he + measured the gate according to these measures. + +26:040:033 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and + the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and + there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round + about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits + broad. + +26:040:034 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm + trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that + side: and the going up to it had eight steps. + +26:040:035 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according + to these measures; + +26:040:036 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches + thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was + fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. + +26:040:037 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm + trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that + side: and the going up to it had eight steps. + +26:040:038 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of + the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. + +26:040:039 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and + two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering + and the sin offering and the trespass offering. + +26:040:040 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the + north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was + at the porch of the gate, were two tables. + +26:040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, + by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew + their sacrifices. + +26:040:042 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, + of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, + and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments + wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. + +26:040:043 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: + and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. + +26:040:044 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in + the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and + their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the + east gate having the prospect toward the north. + +26:040:045 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward + the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of + the house. + +26:040:046 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the + priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the + sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the + LORD to minister unto him. + +26:040:047 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an + hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was + before the house. + +26:040:048 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. + +26:040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth + eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they + went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on + this side, and another on that side. + +26:041:001 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. + +26:041:002 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of + the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on + the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty + cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. + +26:041:003 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two + cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, + seven cubits. + +26:041:004 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the + breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto + me, This is the most holy place. + +26:041:005 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the + breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the + house on every side. + +26:041:006 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty + in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the + house for the side chambers round about, that they might have + hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. + +26:041:007 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward + to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went + still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of + the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest + chamber to the highest by the midst. + +26:041:008 I saw also the height of the house round about: the + foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great + cubits. + +26:041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber + without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the + place of the side chambers that were within. + +26:041:010 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits + round about the house on every side. + +26:041:011 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that + was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward + the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five + cubits round about. + +26:041:012 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end + toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the + building was five cubits thick round about, and the length + thereof ninety cubits. + +26:041:013 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the + separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an + hundred cubits long; + +26:041:014 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate + place toward the east, an hundred cubits. + +26:041:015 And he measured the length of the building over against the + separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof + on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with + the inner temple, and the porches of the court; + +26:041:016 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries + round about on their three stories, over against the door, + cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the + windows, and the windows were covered; + +26:041:017 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and + without, and by all the wall round about within and without, + by measure. + +26:041:018 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; + +26:041:019 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one + side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the + other side: it was made through all the house round about. + +26:041:020 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm + trees made, and on the wall of the temple. + +26:041:021 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the + sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the + other. + +26:041:022 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length + thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length + thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto + me, This is the table that is before the LORD. + +26:041:023 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. + +26:041:024 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two + leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. + +26:041:025 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, + cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; + and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch + without. + +26:041:026 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side + and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the + side chambers of the house, and thick planks. + +26:042:001 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward + the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over + against the separate place, and which was before the building + toward the north. + +26:042:002 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and + the breadth was fifty cubits. + +26:042:003 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, + and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, + was gallery against gallery in three stories. + +26:042:004 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth + inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. + +26:042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were + higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of + the building. + +26:042:006 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the + pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened + more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. + +26:042:007 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, + toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the + length thereof was fifty cubits. + +26:042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court + was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred + cubits. + +26:042:009 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, + as one goeth into them from the utter court. + +26:042:010 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court + toward the east, over against the separate place, and over + against the building. + +26:042:011 And the way before them was like the appearance of the + chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as + broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to + their fashions, and according to their doors. + +26:042:012 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward + the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way + directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into + them. + +26:042:013 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south + chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy + chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall + eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy + things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the + trespass offering; for the place is holy. + +26:042:014 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of + the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay + their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and + shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those + things which are for the people. + +26:042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he + brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the + east, and measured it round about. + +26:042:016 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five + hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. + +26:042:017 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the + measuring reed round about. + +26:042:018 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the + measuring reed. + +26:042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred + reeds with the measuring reed. + +26:042:020 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, + five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a + separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. + +26:043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that + looketh toward the east: + +26:043:002 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way + of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: + and the earth shined with his glory. + +26:043:003 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I + saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to + destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I + saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. + +26:043:004 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of + the gate whose prospect is toward the east. + +26:043:005 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; + and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. + +26:043:006 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man + stood by me. + +26:043:007 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and + the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the + midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, + shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor + their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their + kings in their high places. + +26:043:008 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and + their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they + have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they + have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. + +26:043:009 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of + their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of + them for ever. + +26:043:010 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that + they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure + the pattern. + +26:043:011 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them + the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings + out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms + thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms + thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their + sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the + ordinances thereof, and do them. + +26:043:012 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the + whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, + this is the law of the house. + +26:043:013 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The + cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be + a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by + the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall + be the higher place of the altar. + +26:043:014 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle + shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the + lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, + and the breadth one cubit. + +26:043:015 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and + upward shall be four horns. + +26:043:016 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, + square in the four squares thereof. + +26:043:017 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen + broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it + shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit + about; and his stairs shall look toward the east. + +26:043:018 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; + These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they + shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to + sprinkle blood thereon. + +26:043:019 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the + seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, + saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. + +26:043:020 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the + four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and + upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge + it. + +26:043:021 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he + shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the + sanctuary. + +26:043:022 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats + without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the + altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock. + +26:043:023 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a + young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock + without blemish. + +26:043:024 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests + shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a + burnt offering unto the LORD. + +26:043:025 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin + offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram + out of the flock, without blemish. + +26:043:026 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they + shall consecrate themselves. + +26:043:027 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the + eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt + offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will + accept you, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:044:001 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward + sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. + +26:044:002 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall + not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the + LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it + shall be shut. + +26:044:003 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. + +26:044:004 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: + and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the + house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face. + +26:044:005 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold + with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto + thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, + and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the + house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. + +26:044:006 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of + Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it + suffice you of all your abominations, + +26:044:007 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, + uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in + my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my + bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant + because of all your abominations. + +26:044:008 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye + have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. + +26:044:009 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, + nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of + any stranger that is among the children of Israel. + +26:044:010 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel + went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; + they shall even bear their iniquity. + +26:044:011 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at + the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they + shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the + people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto + them. + +26:044:012 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and + caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore + have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, + and they shall bear their iniquity. + +26:044:013 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a + priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in + the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and + their abominations which they have committed. + +26:044:014 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for + all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done + therein. + +26:044:015 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the + charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray + from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and + they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the + blood, saith the Lord GOD: + +26:044:016 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near + to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my + charge. + +26:044:017 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the + gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen + garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they + minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. + +26:044:018 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have + linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird + themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. + +26:044:019 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the + utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments + wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, + and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not + sanctify the people with their garments. + +26:044:020 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks + to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. + +26:044:021 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the + inner court. + +26:044:022 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that + is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the + house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. + +26:044:023 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy + and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and + the clean. + +26:044:024 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they + shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep + my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall + hallow my sabbaths. + +26:044:025 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: + but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, + for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may + defile themselves. + +26:044:026 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven + days. + +26:044:027 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the + inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his + sin offering, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:044:028 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their + inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I + am their possession. + +26:044:029 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and + the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel + shall be theirs. + +26:044:030 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every + oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the + priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your + dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. + +26:044:031 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, + or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. + +26:045:001 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for + inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy + portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five + and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten + thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round + about. + +26:045:002 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in + length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and + fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. + +26:045:003 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and + twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it + shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. + +26:045:004 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the + ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister + unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and + an holy place for the sanctuary. + +26:045:005 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten + thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of + the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty + chambers. + +26:045:006 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand + broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the + oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house + of Israel. + +26:045:007 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on + the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the + possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy + portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west + side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length + shall be over against one of the portions, from the west + border unto the east border. + +26:045:008 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes + shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land + shall they give to the house of Israel according to their + tribes. + +26:045:009 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of + Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and + justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the + Lord GOD. + +26:045:010 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just + bath. + +26:045:011 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath + may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the + tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the + homer. + +26:045:012 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five + and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. + +26:045:013 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an + ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part + of an ephah of an homer of barley: + +26:045:014 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall + offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an + homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: + +26:045:015 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the + fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt + offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for + them, saith the Lord GOD. + +26:045:016 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the + prince in Israel. + +26:045:017 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. + +26:045:018 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day + of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, + and cleanse the sanctuary: + +26:045:019 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, + and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four + corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the + gate of the inner court. + +26:045:020 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every + one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye + reconcile the house. + +26:045:021 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye + shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened + bread shall be eaten. + +26:045:022 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for + all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. + +26:045:023 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering + to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish + daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin + offering. + +26:045:024 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a + bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an + ephah. + +26:045:025 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall + he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to + the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and + according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. + +26:046:001 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that + looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; + but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the + new moon it shall be opened. + +26:046:002 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that + gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the + priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace + offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: + then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until + the evening. + +26:046:003 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. + +26:046:004 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the + LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, + and a ram without blemish. + +26:046:005 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the + meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and + an hin of oil to an ephah. + +26:046:006 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. + +26:046:007 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, + and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his + hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. + +26:046:008 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of + the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way + thereof. + +26:046:009 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in + the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north + gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and + he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth + by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way + of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over + against it. + +26:046:010 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go + in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. + +26:046:011 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 an hin of oil to an + ephah. + +26:046:012 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering + or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then + open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall + prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did + on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his + going forth one shall shut the gate. + +26:046:013 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a + lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it + every morning. + +26:046:014 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, + the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of + oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering + continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. + +26:046:015 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and + the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering. + +26:046:016 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of + his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall + be their possession by inheritance. + +26:046:017 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his + servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after + it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be + his sons' for them. + +26:046:018 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance + by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he + shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: + that my people be not scattered every man from his possession. + +26:046:019 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side + of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which + looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the + two sides westward. + +26:046:020 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests + shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where + they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out + into the utter court, to sanctify the people. + +26:046:021 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me + to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in + every corner of the court there was a court. + +26:046:022 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. + +26:046:023 And there was a row of building round about in them, round + about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the + rows round about. + +26:046:024 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, + where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of + the people. + +26:047:001 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, + behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the + house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward + the east, and the waters came down from under from the right + side of the house, at the south side of the altar. + +26:047:002 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and + led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way + that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on + the right side. + +26:047:003 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth + eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me + through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. + +26:047:004 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the + waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a + thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the + loins. + +26:047:005 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I + could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim + in, a river that could not be passed over. + +26:047:006 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he + brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. + +26:047:007 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were + very many trees on the one side and on the other. + +26:047:008 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east + country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: + which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be + healed. + +26:047:009 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which + moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and + there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these + waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every + thing shall live whither the river cometh. + +26:047:010 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon + it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to + spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their + kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. + +26:047:011 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not + be healed; they shall be given to salt. + +26:047:012 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on + that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not + fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall + bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their + waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof + shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. + +26:047:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye + shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of + Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. + +26:047:014 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning + the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: + and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. + +26:047:015 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north + side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to + Zedad; + +26:047:016 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of + Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by + the coast of Hauran. + +26:047:017 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of + Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. + And this is the north side. + +26:047:018 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from + Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by + Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the + east side. + +26:047:019 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. + +26:047:020 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, + till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. + +26:047:021 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes + of Israel. + +26:047:022 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for + an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn + among you, which shall beget children among you: and they + shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of + Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes + of Israel. + +26:047:023 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger + sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the + Lord GOD. + +26:048:001 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to + the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, + Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of + Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for + Dan. + +26:048:002 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west + side, a portion for Asher. + +26:048:003 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the + west side, a portion for Naphtali. + +26:048:004 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the + west side, a portion for Manasseh. + +26:048:005 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the + west side, a portion for Ephraim. + +26:048:006 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the + west side, a portion for Reuben. + +26:048:007 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west + side, a portion for Judah. + +26:048:008 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west + side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and + twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the + other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the + sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. + +26:048:009 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of + five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in + breadth. + +26:048:010 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy + oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, + and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the + east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and + twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall + be in the midst thereof. + +26:048:011 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of + Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when + the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went + astray. + +26:048:012 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto + them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. + +26:048:013 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall + have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in + breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and + the breadth ten thousand. + +26:048:014 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate + the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD. + +26:048:015 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over + against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place + for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city + shall be in the midst thereof. + +26:048:016 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four + thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand + and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five + hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. + +26:048:017 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two + hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, + and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west + two hundred and fifty. + +26:048:018 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the + holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand + westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the + holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto + them that serve the city. + +26:048:019 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the + tribes of Israel. + +26:048:020 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and + twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, + with the possession of the city. + +26:048:021 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and + on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of + the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the + oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the + five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against + the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy + oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst + thereof. + +26:048:022 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the + possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is + the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of + Benjamin, shall be for the prince. + +26:048:023 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the + west side, Benjamin shall have a portion. + +26:048:024 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the + west side, Simeon shall have a portion. + +26:048:025 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west + side, Issachar a portion. + +26:048:026 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the + west side, Zebulun a portion. + +26:048:027 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west + side, Gad a portion. + +26:048:028 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the + border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in + Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. + +26:048:029 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes + of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith + the Lord GOD. + +26:048:030 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, + four thousand and five hundred measures. + +26:048:031 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the + tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, + one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. + +26:048:032 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three + gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate + of Dan. + +26:048:033 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: + and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one + gate of Zebulun. + +26:048:034 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their + three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of + Naphtali. + +26:048:035 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of + the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, KING JAMES, BOOK 26 *** + +********** This file should be named 8026.txt or 8026.zip ********** + +This eBook was produced by David Widger +See above the credits to previous producers of this text. + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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