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He was contemporary with JEREMIAS, and prophesied to +the same effect in Babylon, as JEREMIAS did in Jerusalem; and is said to +have ended his days in like manner, by martyrdom. + + +Ezechiel Chapter 1 + +The time of Ezechiel's prophecy: he sees a glorious vision. + +1:1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on +the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by +the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God. + +The thirtieth year... Either of the age of Ezechiel; or, as others will +have it, from the solemn covenant made in the eighteenth year of the +reign of Josias. 4 Kings 23. + +1:2. On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the +captivity of king Joachin, + +1:3. The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Buzi in +the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the Lord +was there upon him. + +1:4. And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north: and a +great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness was about it: and +out of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of the fire, as it +were the resemblance of amber: + +1:5. And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures: and +this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them. + +Living creatures... Cherubims (as appears from Ecclesiasticus 49.10) +represented to the prophet under these mysterious shapes, as supporting +the throne of God, and as it were drawing his chariot. All this chapter +appeared so obscure, and so full of mysteries to the ancient Hebrews, +that, as we learn from St. Jerome, (Ep. ad Paulin.,) they suffered none +to read it before they were thirty years old. + +1:6. Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. + +1:7. Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like +the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of +glowing brass. + +1:8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four +sides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides, + +1:9. And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They +turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward. + +1:10. And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a +man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the +face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an +eagle over all the four. + +1:11. And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings +of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies: + +1:12. And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse +of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when +they went. + +1:13. And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance +was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of +lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living +creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire. + +1:14. And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of +lightning. + +1:15. Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the +earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces. + +1:16. And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like +the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their +appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a +wheel. + +1:17. When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not +when they went. + +When they went, they went by their four parts... That is, indifferently +to any of their sides either forward or backward: to the right or to the +left. + +1:18. The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful +appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the +four. + +1:19. And, when the living creatures went, the wheels also went together +by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, +the wheels also were lifted up with them. + +1:20. Withersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the +wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of +life was in the wheels. + +1:21. When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and +when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up +together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels. + +1:22. And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the +firmament, the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched +out over their heads above. + +1:23. And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward +the other, every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was +covered in like manner. + +1:24. And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many +waters, as it were the voice of the most high God: when they walked, it +was like the voice of a multitude, like the noise of an army, and when +they stood, their wings were let down. + +1:25. For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was over +their heads, they stood, and let down their wings. + +1:26. And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the +likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon +the likeness of the throne, was the likeness of the appearance of a man +above upon it. + +1:27. And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the appearance of +fire within it round about: from his loins and upward, and from his +loins downward, I saw as it were the resemblance of fire shining round +about. + +1:28. As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy +day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about. + +Ezechiel Chapter 2 + +The prophet receives his commission. + +2:1. This was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the Lord, and I +saw, and I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that spoke, +and he said to me: Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to +thee. + +2:2. And the spirit entered into me after that he spoke to me, and he +set me upon my feet: and I heard him speaking to me, + +2:3. And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a +rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, +have transgressed my covenant even unto this day. + +2:4. And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face, and of an +obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: + +2:5. If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will forbear, +for they are a provoking house: and they shall know that there hath been +a prophet in the midst of them. + +2:6. And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid of their +words: for thou art among unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest +with scorpions. Fear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their +looks: for they are a provoking house. + +2:7. And thou shalt speak my words to them, if perhaps they will hear, +and forbear: for they provoke me to anger. + +2:8. But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say to thee: and do not +thou provoke me, as that house provoketh me: open thy mouth, and eat +what I give thee. + +2:9. And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to me, wherein was a book +rolled up: and he spread it before me, and it was written within and +without: and there were written in it lamentations, and canticles, and +woe. + +Ezechiel Chapter 3 + +The prophet eats the book, and receives further instructions: the office +of a watchman. + +3:1. And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt find: eat +this book, and go speak to the children of Israel. + +Eat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel... By this eating +of the book was signified the diligent attention and affection with +which we are to receive, and embrace the word of God; and to let it, as +it were, sink into our interior by devout meditation. + +3:2. And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book: + +3:3. And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels +shall be filled with this book, which I give thee, and I did eat it: and +it was sweet as honey in my mouth. + +3:4. And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou +shalt speak my words to them. + +3:5. For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an +unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel: + +3:6. Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown tongue, +whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them, +they would hearken to thee. + +3:7. But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will +not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead +and an obstinate heart. + +3:8. Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy +forehead harder than their foreheads. + +3:9. I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, +neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking +house. + +3:10. And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with +thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee: + +3:11. And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the children of +thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus +saith the Lord: If so be they will hear, and will forbear. + +3:12. And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a +great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his +place. + +3:13. The noise of the wings of the living creatures striking one +against another, and the noise of the wheels following the living +creatures, and the noise of a great commotion. + +3:14. The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in +bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was +with me, strengthening me. + +3:15. And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new corn, to +them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I +remained there seven days mourning in the midst of them. + +The heap of new corn... It was the name of a place: in Hebrew, tel abib. + +3:16. And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, +saying: + +3:17. Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: +and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them +from me. + +3:18. If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare +it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his +wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but +I will require his blood at thy hand. + +3:19. But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted +from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his +iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. + +3:20. Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and +shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall +die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, +and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will +require his blood at thy hand. + +3:21. But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he +doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and +thou hast delivered thy soul. + +3:22. And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and +go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee. + +3:23. And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold the glory +of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chobar: +and I fell upon my face. + +3:24. And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he +spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of +thy house. + +3:25. And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee, and +they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the +midst of them. + +3:26. And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, +and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they +are a provoking house. + +3:27. But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou +shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him +hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a provoking +house. + +Ezechiel Chapter 4 + +A prophetic description of the siege of Jerusalem, and the famine that +shall reign there. + +4:1. And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: +and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem. + +4:2. And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and +set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it. + +4:3. And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron +between thee and the city: and set thy face resolutely against it, and +it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign +to the house of Israel. + +4:4. And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay the +iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of +the days that thou shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take upon thee +their iniquity. + +4:5. And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to +the number of the days three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt +bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. + +4:6. And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep again upon +thy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house +of Juda forty days: a day for a year, yea, a day for a year I have +appointed to thee. + +4:7. And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem and thy arm +shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it. + +4:8. Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt not turn +thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy +siege. + +4:9. And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and +millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread +thereof according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy +side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. + +4:10. And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty +staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it. + +4:11. And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: +from time to time thou shalt drink it, + +Hin... That is, a measure of liquids containing about ten pints. + +4:12. And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and +thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a +man. + +4:13. And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread +all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out. + +4:14. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been +defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing +that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath +entered into my mouth. + +4:15. And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung for man's +dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith. + +4:16. And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the +staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and +with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress. + +4:17. So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his +brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities. + +Ezechiel Chapter 5 + +The judgments of God upon the Jews are foreshewn under the type of the +prophet's hair. + +5:1. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth the +hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard: and take +thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair. + +5:2. A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, +according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt +take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: +and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw +out the sword after them. + +5:3. And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in +the skirt of thy cloak. + +5:4. And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst +of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come +forth a fire into all the house of Israel. + +5:5. Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the +midst of the nations, and the countries round about her. + +5:6. And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than +the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are +round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not +walked in my commandments. + +5:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the +Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my +commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done +according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you: + +5:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and +I myself will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the +Gentiles. + +5:9. And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the like to +which I will do no more, because of all thy abominations. + +5:10. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and +the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, +and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind. + +5:11. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast +violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with all thy +abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall not +spare, and I will not have any pity. + +5:12. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and shall be +consumed with famine in the midst of thee: and a third part of thee +shall fall by the sword round about thee: and a third part of thee will +I scatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. + +5:13. And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my indignation to +rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the +Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I shall have accomplished my +indignation in them. + +5:14. And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations +that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by. + +5:15. And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an +astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall +have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in +wrathful rebukes. + +5:16. I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the +grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will +send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and +I will break among you the staff of bread. + +5:17. And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto utter +destruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass through thee, and I +will bring in the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it. + +Ezechiel Chapter 6 + +The punishment of Israel for their idolatry: a remnant shall be saved. + +6:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +6:2. Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and +prophesy against them. + +6:3. 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, and to the +rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I +will destroy your high places. + +6:4. And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken +in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols. + +6:5. And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before +your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars, + +6:6. In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and +the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars +shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall +be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be +defaced. + +6:7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know +that I am the Lord. + +6:8. And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword among the +nations, when I shall have scattered you through the countries. + +6:9. And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the +nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their +heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went +a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with +themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their +abominations. + +6:10. And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I +would do this evil to them. + +6:11. Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy +foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house +of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the +pestilence. + +6:12. He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he that is +near, shall fall by the sword: and he that remaineth, and is besieged, +shall die by the famine: and I will accomplish my indignation upon them. + +6:13. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be +amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on +all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every +thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all +their idols. + +6:14. And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the +land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their +dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 7 + +The final desolation of Israel: from which few shall escape. + +7:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +7:2. And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: +The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land. + +7:3. Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee, +and I will judge thee according to thy ways: and I will set all thy +abominations against thee. + +7:4. And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no pity: but +I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the +midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +7:5. Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is +come. + +7:6. An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against thee: +behold it is come. + +7:7. Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time +is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains. + +7:8. Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will +accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy +ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes. + +7:9. And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will +lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of +thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike. + +7:10. Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the +rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. + +7:11. Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall +remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall +be no rest among them. + +7:12. The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: +nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof. + +7:13. For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold, +although their life be yet among the living. For the vision which +regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall +man be strengthened in the iniquity of his life. + +7:14. Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none to go +to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the people thereof. + +7:15. The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he +that is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the +city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine. + +7:16. And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in +the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every +one for his iniquity. + +7:17. All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with +water. + +7:18. And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall +cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all +their heads. + +7:19. Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a +dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them +in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, +and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the +stumblingblock of their iniquity. + +7:20. And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and +have made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore I +have made it an uncleanness to them. + +7:21. And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to +the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it. + +7:22. And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my +secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. + +Secret place, etc... Viz., the inward sanctuary, the holy of holies. + +7:23. Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of +blood, and the city is full of iniquity. + +Make a shutting up... In Hebrew, a chain, viz., for imprisonment and +captivity. + +7:24. And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess +their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they +shall possess their sanctuary. + +7:25. When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there +shall be none. + +7:26. Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they +shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the +priest, and counsel from the ancients. + +7:27. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, +and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to +them according to their way, and will judge them according to their +judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 8 + +The prophet sees in a vision the abominations committed in Jerusalem; +which determine the Lord to spare them no longer. + +8:1. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the +fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda +sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. + +8:2. And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of fire: from +the appearance of his loins, and downward, fire: and from his loins, and +upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the appearance of amber. + +8:3. And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of +my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, +and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, +that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to +provoke to jealousy. + +8:4. And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to +the vision which I had seen in the plain. + +8:5. And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards the way of +the north, and I lifted up my eyes towards the way of the north: and +behold on the north side of the gate of the altar the idol of jealousy +in the very entry. + +8:6. And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest thou, what +these are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel +committeth here, that I should depart far off from my sanctuary? and +turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations. + +8:7. And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and +behold a hole in the wall. + +8:8. And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had +digged in the wall, behold a door. + +8:9. And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which +they commit here. + +8:10. And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, +and of living creatures, the abominations, and all the idols of the +house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about. + +8:11. And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and +Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of them, that stood +before the pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand: and a cloud +of smoke went up from the incense. + +8:12. And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the +ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in +his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken +the earth. + +8:13. And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see greater +abominations which these commit. + +8:14. And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord's house, +which looked to the north: and behold women sat there mourning for +Adonis. + +Adonis... The favourite of Venus, slain by a wild boar, as feigned by +the heathen poets, and which being here represented by an idol, is +lamented by the female worshippers of that goddess. In the Hebrew, the +name is Tammuz. + +8:15. And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: but turn +thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations than these. + +8:16. And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: +and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and +the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the +temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards +the rising of the sun. + +8:17. And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a +light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these +abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled +the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and +behold they put a branch to their nose. + +8:18. Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not +spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my +ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. + +Ezechiel Chapter 9 + +All are ordered to be destroyed that are not marked in their foreheads. +God will not be entreated for them. + +9:1. And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying: The visitations +of the city are at hand, and every one hath a destroying weapon in his +hand. + +9:2. And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate, which +looketh to the north: and each one had his weapon of destruction in his +hand: and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with linen, +with a writer's inkhorn at his reins: and they went in, and stood by the +brazen altar. + +9:3. And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the cherub, upon +which he was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man +that was clothed with linen, and had a writer's inkhorn at his loins. + +9:4. And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through +the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that +sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst +thereof. + +Mark Thau... Thau, or Tau, is the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet, +and signifies a sign, or a mark; which is the reason why some +translators render this place set a mark, or mark a mark without +specifying what this mark was. But St. Jerome, and other interpreters, +conclude it was the form of the letter Thau, which in the ancient Hebrew +character, was the form of a cross. + +9:5. And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through +the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with +pity. + +9:6. Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but +upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my +sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house. + +9:7. And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the +slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in the +city. + +9:8. And the slaughter being ended I was left; and I fell upon my face, +and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy +all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem? + +9:9. And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of +Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the +city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath +forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not. + +9:10. Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will +requite their way upon their head. + +9:11. And behold the man that was clothed with linen, that had the +inkhorn at his back, returned the word, saying: I have done as thou hast +commanded me. + +Ezechiel Chapter 10 + +Fire is taken from the midst of the wheels under the cherubims, and +scattered over the city. A description of the cherubims. + +10:1. And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of +the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, +as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. + +10:2. And he spoke to the man, that was clothed with linen, and said: Go +in between the wheels that are under the cherubims and fill thy hand +with the coals of fire that are between the cherubims, and pour them out +upon the city. And he went in, in my sight: + +10:3. And the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the +man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court. + +10:4. And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the cherub to +the threshold of the house: and the house was filled with the cloud, and +the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord. + +10:5. And the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard even to the +outward court as the voice of God Almighty speaking. + +10:6. And when he had commanded the man that was clothed with linen, +saying: Take fire from the midst of the wheels that are between the +cherubims: he went in and stood beside the wheel. + +10:7. And one cherub stretched out his arm from the midst of the +cherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims: and he took, and +put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it +and went forth. + +10:8. And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a man's hand +under their wings. + +10:9. And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims: one +wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the +appearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone: + +10:10. And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel +were in the midst of a wheel. + +10:11. And when they went, they went by four ways: and they turned not +when they went: but to the place whither they first turned, the rest +also followed, and did not turn back. + +By four ways... That is, by any of the four ways, forward, backward, to +the right or to the left. + +10:12. And their whole body, and their necks, and their hands, and their +wings, and the circles were full of eyes, round about the four wheels. + +10:13. And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing. + +Voluble... That is, rolling wheels, galgal. + +10:14. And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a cherub, +and the second face, the face of a man: and in the third was the face of +a lion: and in the fourth the face of an eagle. + +10:15. And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature +that I had seen by the river Chobar. + +10:16. And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them: and +when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth, +the wheels stayed not behind, but were by them. + +10:17. When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these +were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them. + +10:18. And the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of the +temple: and stood over the cherubims. + +10:19. And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from the +earth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also followed: and it +stood in the entry of the east gate of the house of the Lord: and the +glory of the God of Israel was over them. + +10:20. This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel +by the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims. + +10:21. Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and the +likeness of a man's hand was under their wings. + +10:22. And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces +which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse +of every one to go straight forward. + +Ezechiel Chapter 11 + +A prophecy against the presumptuous assurance of the great ones. A +remnant shall be saved, and receive a new spirit, and a new heart. + +11:1. And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east gate of +the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the rising of the sun: and +behold in the entry of the gate five and twenty men: and I saw in the +midst of them Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias, +princes of the people. + +11:2. And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study +iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city, + +11:3. Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, +and we the flesh. + +Were not houses lately built, etc... These men despised the predictions +and threats of the prophets; who declared to them from God, that the +city should be destroyed, and the inhabitants carried into captivity: +and they made use of this kind of argument against the prophets, that +the city, so far from being like to be destroyed, had lately been +augmented by the building of new houses; from whence they further +inferred, by way of a proverb, using the similitude of a cauldron, out +of which the flesh is not taken, till it is thoroughly boiled, and fit +to be eaten, that they should not be carried away out of their city, but +there end their days in peace. + +11:4. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of man. + +11:5. And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me: Speak: +Thus saith the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house of Israel, for I know +the thoughts of your heart. + +11:6. You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the +streets thereof with the slain. + +11:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid +in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, all this is the caldron: and I +will bring you forth out of the midst thereof. + +11:8. You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, +saith the Lord God. + +11:9. And I will cast you out of the midst thereof, and I will deliver +you into the hand of the enemies, and I will execute judgments upon you. + +11:10. You shall fall by the sword: I will judge you in the borders of +Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +In the borders of Israel... They pretended that they should die in peace +in Jerusalem; God tells them it should not be so; but that they should +be judged and condemned, and fall by the sword in the borders of Israel: +viz., in Reblatha in the land of Emath, where all their chief men were +put to death by Nabuchodonosor. 4 Kings 25., and Jer. 52.10, 27. + +11:11. This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not be as +flesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the borders of Israel. + +11:12. And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not +walked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have +done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you. + +11:13. And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of +Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud +voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of +all the remnant of Israel? + +11:14. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +11:15. Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and all the +house of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have +said: Get ye far from the Lord, the land is given in possession to us. + +Thy brethren, etc... He speaks of them that had been carried away +captives before; who were despised by them that remained in Jerusalem: +but as the prophet here declares to them from God, should be in a more +happy condition than they, and after some time return from their +captivity. + +11:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed them +far off among the Gentiles, and because I have scattered them among the +countries: I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries whither +they are come. + +11:17. Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the Lord God: I will gather +you from among the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries +wherein you are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. + +11:18. And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the +scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence. + +11:19. And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in +their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, +and will give them a heart of flesh: + +11:20. That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and +do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God. + +11:21. But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals and +abominations, I will lay their way upon their head, saith the Lord God. + +11:22. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels with +them: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. + +11:23. And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and +stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city. + +11:24. And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them +of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which +I had seen was taken up from me. + +11:25. And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the Lord, +which he had shewn me. + +Ezechiel Chapter 12 + +The prophet forsheweth, by signs, the captivity of Sedecias, and the +desolation of the people: all which shall quickly come to pass. + +12:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who +have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they +are a provoking house. + +12:3. Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all necessaries for +removing, and remove by day into their sight: and thou shalt remove out +of thy place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard +it: for they are a provoking house. + +12:4. And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one +that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the +evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his +dwelling. + +12:5. Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt +go forth through it. + +12:6. In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men's shoulders, +thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and +shalt not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of things to +come to the house of Israel. + +12:7. I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my goods +by day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in the evening I digged +through the wall with my hand, and I went forth in the dark, and was +carried on men's shoulders in their sight. + +12:8. And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying: + +12:9. Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, +said to thee: What art thou doing? + +12:10. Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: This burden concerneth my +prince that is in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, that are among +them. + +12:11. Say: I am a sign of things to come to you: as I have done, so +shall it be done to them: they shall be removed from their dwellings, +and go into captivity. + +12:12. And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on +shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the +wall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see +the ground with his eyes. + +12:13. And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my +net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, +and he shall not see it, and there he shall die. + +He shall not see it... Because his eyes shall be put out by +Nabuchodonosor. + +12:14. And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I will +scatter into every wind: and I will draw out the sword after them. + +12:15. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have +dispersed them among the nations, and scattered them in the countries. + +12:16. And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and from the +famine, and from the pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked +deeds among the nations whither they shall go: and they shall know that +I am the Lord. + +12:17. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +12:18. Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry +and sorrow. + +12:19. And say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord God to +them that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their +bread in care, and drink their water in desolation: that the land may +become desolate from the multitude that is therein, for the iniquity of +all that dwell therein. + +12:20. And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and +the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +12:21. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +12:22. Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of +Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall +fail. + +12:23. Say to them therefore: Thus saith the Lord God: I will make this +proverb to cease, neither shall it be any more a common saying in +Israel: and tell them that the days are at hand, and the effect of every +vision. + +12:24. For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful +divination in the midst of the children of Israel. + +12:25. For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it +shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your +days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith +the Lord God. + +12:26. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +12:27. Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The +visions that this man seeth, is for many days to come: and this man +prophesieth of times afar off. + +12:28. Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of +mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be +accomplished, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 13 + +God declares against false prophets and prophetesses, that deceive the +people with lies. + +13:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +13:2. Son of man, prophesy thou against the prophets of Israel that +prophesy: and thou shalt say to them that prophesy out of their own +heart: Hear ye the word of the Lord: + +13:3. Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow +their own spirit, and see nothing. + +13:4. Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts. + +13:5. You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set up a wall +for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of the Lord. + +13:6. They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord +saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to +confirm what they have said. + +13:7. Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and +you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken. + +13:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain +things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith +the Lord God. + +13:9. And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and +that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor +shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither +shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am +the Lord God. + +13:10. Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is +no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt +without straw. + +13:11. Say to them that daub without tempering, that it shall fall: for +there shall be an overflowing shower, and I will cause great hailstones +to fall violently from above, and a stormy wind to throw it down. + +13:12. Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to you: +Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it? + +13:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I will cause a stormy wind +to break forth in my indignation, and there shall be an overflowing +shower in my anger: and great hailstones in my wrath to consume. + +13:14. And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with +untempered mortar: and I will make it even with the ground, and the +foundation thereof shall be laid bare: and it shall fall, and shall be +consumed in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +13:15. And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that +daub it without tempering the mortar, and I will say to you: The wall is +no more, and they that daub it are no more. + +13:16. Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem, and that +see visions of peace for her: and there is no peace, saith the Lord God. + +13:17. And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy +people that prophesy out of their own heart: and do thou prophesy +against them, + +13:18. And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to them that sew cushions +under every elbow: and make pillows for the heads of persons of every +age to catch souls: and when they caught the souls of my people, they +gave life to their souls. + +Sew cushions, etc... Viz., by making people easy in their sins, and +promising them impunity.-Ibid. They gave life to their souls... That is, +they flattered them with promises of life, peace, and security. + +13:19. And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, +and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save +souls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that +believe lies. + +Violated me... That is, dishonoured and discredited me. Ibid. To kill +souls, etc... That is, to sentence souls to death, which are not to die; +and to promise life to them who are not to live. + +13:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I declare against your +cushions, wherewith you catch flying souls: and I will tear them off +from your arms: and I will let go the soul that you catch, the souls +that should fly. + +13:21. And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver my people out of +your hand, neither shall they be any more in your hands to be a prey: +and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +13:22. Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, +whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the +wicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live. + +13:23. Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine divinations +any more, and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall +know that I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 14 + +God suffers the wicked to be deceived in punishment of their wickedness. +The evils that shall come upon them for their sins: for which they shall +not be delivered by the prayers of Noe, Daniel, and Job. But a remnant +shall be preserved. + +14:1. And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat before me. + +14:2. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +14:3. Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their +hearts, and have set up before their face the stumblingblock of their +iniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me? + +Uncleanness... That is, their filthy idols, upon which they have set +their hearts: and which are a stumblingblock to their souls. + +14:4. Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: +Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place his uncleannesses in +his heart, and set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his +face, and shall come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord +will answer him according to the multitude of his uncleannesses: + +Man, man... That is, every man, an Hebrew expression. + +14:5. That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with +which they have departed from me through all their idols. + +14:6. Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Be +converted, and depart from your idols, and turn away your faces from all +your abominations. + +14:7. For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger among the +proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself from me, and place his +idols in his heart, and set the stumblingblock of his iniquity before +his face, and come to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord +will answer him by myself. + +14:8. And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an +example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my +people: and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +14:9. And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have +deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and +will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel. + +The prophet shall err, etc... He speaks of false prophets, answering out +of their own heads and according to their own corrupt inclinations. +Ibid. I have deceived that prophet... God Almighty deceives false +prophets, partly by withdrawing his light from them; and abandoning them +to their own corrupt inclinations, which push them on to prophesy such +things as are agreeable to those who consult them: and partly by +disappointing them, and causing all thing to happen contrary to what +they have said. + +14:10. And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of +him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be. + +14:11. That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor be +polluted with all their transgressions: but may be my people, and I may +be their God, saith the Lord of hosts. + +14:12. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +14:13. Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress +grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the +staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will +destroy man and beast out of it. + +14:14. And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it: +they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of +hosts. + +14:15. And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land to +waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none that can pass +because of the beasts: + +14:16. If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith the Lord, +they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: but they only shall be +delivered, and the land shall be made desolate. + +14:17. Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: +Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it: + +14:18. And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the +Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they +themselves alone shall be delivered. + +14:19. Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my +indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: + +14:20. And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live, +saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but +they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice. + +14:21. For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem +my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the +mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and +beast, + +14:22. Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved, who shall +bring away their sons and daughters: behold they shall come among you, +and you shall see their way, and their doings: and you shall be +comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all +things that I have brought upon it. + +14:23. And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways, and +their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all +that I have done in it, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 15 + +As a vine cut down is fit for nothing but the fire; so it shall be with +Jerusalem, for her sins. + +15:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +15:2. Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all +the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests? + +15:3. Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made +of it for any vessel to hang thereon? + +15:4. Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed +both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it +be useful for any work? + +15:5. Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, +when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of +it? + +15:6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the +trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so +will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + +15:7. And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, +and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when +I shall have set my face against them. + +15:8. And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, +because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 16 + +Under the figure of an unfaithful wife, God upbraids Jerusalem with her +ingratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promiseth mercy by a new +covenant. + +16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +16:2. Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. + +Make known to Jerusalem... That is, by letters, for the prophet was then +in Babylon. + +16:3. And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy +root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an +Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite. + +16:4. And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was +not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted +with salt, nor swaddled with clouts. + +16:5. No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of +compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in +the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born. + +16:6. And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under foot in +thy own blood: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I +have said to thee: Live in thy blood. + +16:7. I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst +increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament: +thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and +full of confusion. + +16:8. And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the +time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy +ignominy and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee, +saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine. + +16:9. And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from +thee: and I anointed thee with oil. + +16:10. And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet +coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed +thee with fine garments. + +16:11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy +hands, and a chain about thy neck. + +I decked thee also with ornaments, etc... That is, with spiritual +benefits, giving you a law with sacrifices, sacraments, and other holy +rites. + +16:12. And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and +a beautiful crown upon thy head. + +16:13. And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed +with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat +fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and +wast advanced to be a queen. + +16:14. And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for +thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith +the Lord God. + +16:15. But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of +thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be +his. + +16:16. And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed +together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not +been done before, nor shall be hereafter. + +16:17. And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my +silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast +committed fornication with them. + +16:18. And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst +them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them. + +16:19. And my bread which I gave thee, the fine flour, and oil, and +honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast set before them for a sweet +odour; and it was done, saith the Lord God. + +16:20. And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast +borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy +fornication small? + +16:21. Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating +them by fire. + +Thou hast sacrificed, etc... As there is nothing more base and +abominable than the crimes mentioned throughout this chapter; so the +infidelities of the Israelites in forsaking God, and sacrificing even +their children to idols, are strongly figured by these allegories. + +16:22. And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not +remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of +confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood. + +16:23. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, +saith the Lord God) + +16:24. That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a +brothel house in every street. + +16:25. At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy +prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast +prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy +fornications. + +16:26. And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy +neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy fornications to +provoke me. + +16:27. Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will take away +thy justification: and I will deliver thee up to the will of the +daughters of the Philistines that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy +wicked way. + +16:28. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because +thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot with +them, even so thou wast not contented. + +16:29. Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan +with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied. + +16:30. Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou +dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute? + +16:31. Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every +way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as +a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price, + +16:32. But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her +husband. + +16:33. Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all +thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every +side, to commit fornication with thee. + +16:34. And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in +thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication, for +in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, the contrary +hath been done in thee. + +16:35. Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord. + +16:36. Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been poured out, +and thy shame discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and +with the idols of thy abominations, by the blood of thy children whom +thou gavest them: + +16:37. Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou hast +taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast +hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side, and +will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy +nakedness. + +16:38. And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood +are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. + +16:39. And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy +thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee +of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and +leave thee naked, and full of disgrace. + +16:40. And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone +thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords. + +16:41. And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute +judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease +from fornication, and shalt give no hire any more. + +16:42. And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy shall +depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more. + +16:43. Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast +provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy +ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to +thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations. + +16:44. Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this +against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter. + +16:45. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and +her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their +husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father +an Amorrhite. + +16:46. And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell +at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand +is Sodom, and her daughters. + +16:47. But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a +little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done +almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways. + +16:48. As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her +daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters. + +16:49. Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness +of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: +and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. + +This was the iniquity of Sodom, etc... That is, these were the steps by +which the Sodomites came to fall into those abominations for which they +were destroyed. For pride, gluttony, and idleness are the highroad to +all kinds of lust; especially when they are accompanied with a neglect +of the works of mercy. + +16:50. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: +and I took them away as thou hast seen. + +16:51. And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast surpassed +them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy +abominations which thou hast done. + +16:52. Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast +surpassed thy sisters with thy sins, doing more wickedly than they: for +they are justified above thee, therefore be thou also confounded, and +bear thy shame, thou that hast justified thy sisters. + +16:53. And I will bring back and restore them by bringing back Sodom, +with her daughters, and by bringing back Samaria, and her daughters: and +I will bring those that return of thee in the midst of them. + +I will bring back, etc... This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles +out of all nations, and of many of the Jews, to the church of Christ. + +16:54. That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded in all +that thou hast done, comforting them. + +16:55. And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their +ancient state: and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their +ancient state: and thou and thy daughters shall return to your ancient +state. + +Ancient state... That is, to their former state of liberty, and their +ancient possessions. In the spiritual sense, to the true liberty, and +the happy inheritance of the children of God, through faith in Christ. + +16:56. And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth, in the day of +thy pride, + +16:57. Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time, making +thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all the daughters of +Palestine round about thee, that encompass thee on all sides. + +16:58. Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace, saith the Lord +God. + +16:59. For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast +despised the oath, in breaking the covenant: + +16:60. And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy +youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant. + +16:61. And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when thou shalt +receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to +thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. + +16:62. And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know +that I am the Lord, + +16:63. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more +open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward +thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 17 + +The parable of the two eagles and the vine. A promise of the cedar of +Christ and his church. + +17:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +17:2. Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house +of Israel, + +17:3. And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, +long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took +away the marrow of the cedar. + +A large eagle... Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon.-Ibid. Came to +Libanus... That is, to Jerusalem.-Ibid. Took away the marrow of the +cedar... King Jechonias. + +17:4. He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away +into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants. + +Chanaan... This name, which signifies traffic, is not taken here for +Palestine, but for Chaldea: and the city of merchants here mentioned is +Babylon. + +17:5. And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for +seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on +the surface of the earth. + +Of the seed of the land, etc... Viz., Sedecias, whom he made king. + +17:6. And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature, +and the branches thereof looked towards him: and the roots thereof were +under him. So it became a vine, and grew into branches, and shot forth +sprigs. + +Towards him... Nabuchodonosor, to whom Sedecias swore allegiance. + +17:7. And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and many +feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were her roots towards +him, stretched forth her branches to him, that he might water it by the +furrows of her plantation. + +Another large eagle... Viz., the king of Egypt. + +17:8. It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might +bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine. + +17:9. Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall +he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up +all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this +without a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root? + +17:10. Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then? shall it not be +dried up when the burning wind shall touch it, and shall it not wither +in the furrows where it grew? + +17:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +17:12. Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? +Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall +take away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to +Babylon. + +Shall take away... Or, hath taken away, etc., for all this was now done. + +17:13. And he shall take one of the king's seed, and make a covenant +with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he shall take away the +mighty men of the land, + +17:14. That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his +covenant and observe it. + +17:15. But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that +it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done +thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the +covenant? + +17:16. As I live, saith the Lord God: In the place where the king +dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he hath made void, and whose +covenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon shall he die. + +17:17. And not with a great army, nor with much people shall Pharao +fight against him: when he shall cast up mounts, and build forts, to cut +off many souls. + +17:18. For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and behold +he hath given his hand: and having done all these things, he shall not +escape. + +17:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As I live, I will lay upon his +head the oath he hath despised, and the covenant he hath broken. + +17:20. And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my +net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the +transgression by which he hath despised me. + +17:21. And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword: +and the residue shall be scattered into every wind: and you shall know +that I the Lord have spoken. + +17:22. Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow of the +high cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a tender twig from the top +of the branches thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain high and +eminent. + +Of the marrow of the high cedar, etc... Of the royal stock of David. +Ibid. A tender twig... Viz., Jesus Christ, whom God hath planted in +mount Sion, that is, the high mountain of his church, to which all +nations flow. + +17:23. On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall +shoot forth into branches and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a +great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall +make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof. + +17:24. And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have +brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up +the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord +have spoken and have done it. + +Ezechiel Chapter 18 + +One man shall not bear the sins of another, but every one his own; if a +wicked man truly repent, he shall be saved; and if a just man leave his +justice, he shall perish. + +18:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What is the meaning? + +18:2. That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of +Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the +children are set on edge. + +18:3. As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no more to +you a proverb in Israel. + +18:4. Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the +soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die. + +18:5. And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice, + +18:6. And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to +the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's +wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman: + +Not eaten upon the mountains... That is, of the sacrifices there offered +to idols. + +18:7. And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the +debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the +hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: + +18:8. Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath withdrawn +his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and +man: + +18:9. Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do +truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God. + +To do truth... That is, to act according to truth; for the Hebrews +called everything that was just, truth. + +18:10. And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and +that hath done some one of these things: + +18:11. Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon the +mountains, and that defileth his neighbour's wife: + +18:12. That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by +violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to +idols, that comitteth abomination: + +18:13. That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an increase: shall such a +one live? he shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these detestable +things, he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him. + +18:14. But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sins, which +he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them: + +18:15. That hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to +the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not defiled his neighbour's +wife: + +18:16. And hath not grieved any man, nor withholden the pledge, nor +taken away with violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and +covered the naked with a garment: + +18:17. That hath turned away his hand from injuring the poor, hath not +taken usury and increase, but hath executed my judgments, and hath +walked in my commandments: this man shall not die for the iniquity of +his father, but living he shall live. + +18:18. As for his father, because he oppressed and offered violence to +his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his people, behold he is +dead in his own iniquity. + +18:19. And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his +father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath +kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live. + +18:20. The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear +the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity +of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the +wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. + +18:21. But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath +committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, +living he shall live, and shall not die. + +18:22. I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his +justice which he hath wrought, he shall live. + +18:23. Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and +not that he should be converted from his ways, and live? + +18:24. But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do +iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to +work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be +remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in +his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die. + +18:25. And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, +therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are +not rather your ways perverse? + +18:26. For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and +comitteth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath +wrought he shall die. + +18:27. And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, +which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save +his soul alive. + +18:28. Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his +iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die. + +18:29. And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not right. +Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are not rather your ways +perverse? + +18:30. Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house +of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your +iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. + +18:31. Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have +transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and +why will you die, O house of Israel? + +18:32. For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, +return ye and live. + +Ezechiel Chapter 19 + +The parable of the young lions, and of the vineyard that is wasted. + +19:1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, + +19:2. And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, +and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? + +Thy mother the lioness... Jerusalem. + +19:3. And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and +he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. + +One of her whelps... Viz., Joachaz, alias Sellum. + +19:4. And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without +receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt. + +19:5. But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took +one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion. + +One of her young lions... Joakim. + +19:6. And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he +learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. + +19:7. He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the +land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his +roaring. + +19:8. And the nations came together against him on every side out of the +provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was +taken. + +19:9. And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the +king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no +more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. + +19:10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her +fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters. + +19:11. And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear +rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her +height in the multitude of her branches. + +19:12. But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the +burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried +up: the fire hath devoured her. + +19:13. And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not +passable, and dry. + +19:14. And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath +devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre +of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation. + +Ezechiel Chapter 20 + +God refuses to answer the ancients of Israel inquiring by the prophet: +but by him setteth his benefits before their eyes, and their heinous +sins: threatening yet greater punishments: but still mixed with mercy. + +20:1. And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the +tenth day of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to +inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me. + +20:2. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +20:3. Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel and say to them: Thus +saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not +answer you, saith the Lord God. + +20:4. If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to +them the abominations of their fathers. + +If thou judgest them... Or, if thou wilt enter into the cause and plead +against them. + +20:5. And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose +Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and +appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, +saying: I am the Lord your God: + +20:6. In that day I lifted up my hand for them to bring them out of the +land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them, flowing with +milk and honey, which excelled amongst all lands. + +20:7. And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his +eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord +your God. + +Scandals, etc... Offensiones. That is, the abominations or idols, to the +worship of which they were allured by their eyes. + +20:8. But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not +every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they +forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation +upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land +of Egypt. + +20:9. But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be +violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among +whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of +Egypt. + +20:10. Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought +them into the desert. + +20:11. And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, +which if a man do, he shall live in them. + +20:12. Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me +and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify +them. + +20:13. But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked +not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do +he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said +therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, +and would consume them. + +20:14. But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be +profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their +sight. + +20:15. So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them +into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the +best of all lands. + +20:16. Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my +statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols. + +20:17. Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did +I consume them in the desert. + +20:18. And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the +statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye +defiled with their idols: + +20:19. I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my +judgments, and do them. + +20:20. And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and +you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God. + +20:21. But their children provoked me, they walked not in my +commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, +he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened +to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them +in the desert. + +20:22. But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that +it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them +forth in their sight. + +20:23. Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to +disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries: + +20:24. Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my +statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after +the idols of their fathers. + +20:25. Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and +judgments, in which they shall not live. + +Statutes that were not good, etc... Viz., the laws and ordinances of +their enemies; or those imposes upon them by that cruel tyrant the +devil, to whose power they were delivered up for their sins. + +20:26. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all +that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am +the Lord. + +I polluted them, etc... That is, I gave them up to such blindness in +punishment of their offences, as to pollute themselves with the blood of +all their firstborn, whom they offered up to their idols in compliance +with their wicked devices. + +20:27. Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to +them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers +blaspheme me, when they had despised and contemned me; + +20:28. And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my +hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, +and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the +provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, +and poured forth their libations. + +20:29. And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? +and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day. + +20:30. Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: +Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit +fornication with their abominations. + +20:31. And you defile yourselves with all your idols unto this day, in +the offering of your gifts, when you make your children pass through the +fire: and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the +Lord God, I will not answer you. + +20:32. Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you +say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth, to +worship stocks and stones. + +20:33. As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you with a +strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. + +20:34. And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you +out of the countries, in which you are scattered, I will reign over you +with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured +out. + +20:35. And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there +will I plead with you face to face. + +The wilderness of people... That is, a desert in which there are no +people. + +20:36. As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of +Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God. + +20:37. And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you +into the bands of the covenant. + +20:38. And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the +wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, and they +shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am +the Lord. + +20:39. And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk +ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you +hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with +your idols; + +Walk ye every one, etc... It is not an allowance, much less a +commandment to serve idols; but a figure of speech, by which God would +have them to understand that if they would walk after their idols, they +must not pretend to serve him at the same time: for that he would by no +means suffer such a mixture of worship. + +20:40. In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the +Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I +say, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I require +your firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your +sanctifications. + +In my holy mountain, etc... The foregoing verse, to make the sense +complete, must be understood so as to condemn and reject that mixture of +worship which the Jews then followed. In this verse, God promises to the +true Israelites, especially to those of the Christian church, that they +shall serve him in another manner, in his holy mountain, the spiritual +Sion: and shall by accepted of by him. + +20:41. I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have +brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the +lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in +the sight of the nations. + +20:42. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have brought +you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand +to give it to your fathers. + +20:43. And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked +doings with which you have been defiled; and you shall be displeased +with yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked deeds which you +committed. + +20:44. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done +well by you for my own name's sake, and not according to your evil ways, +nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of Israel, saith the Lord +God. + +20:45. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +20:46. Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop +towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field. + +Of the south... Jerusalem lay towards the south of Babylon, (where the +prohet then was,) and is here called the forest of the south field, and +is threatened with utter desolation. + +20:47. And say to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus +saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn +in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire +shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the +south even to the north. + +20:48. And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it +shall not be quenched. + +20:49. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this +man speak by parables? + +Ezechiel Chapter 21 + +The destruction of Jerusalem by the sword is further described: the ruin +also of the Ammonites is forshewn. And finally Babylon, the destroyer of +others, shall be destroyed. + +21:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +21:2. Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow +towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel: + +21:3. And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I +come against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and +will cut off in thee the just, and the wicked. + +21:4. And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked, +therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, +from the south even to the north. + +21:5. That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of +its sheath not to be turned back. + +21:6. And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and +with bitterness sigh before them. + +21:7. And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt +say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall +melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, +and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be +done, saith the Lord God. + +21:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +21:9. Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The +sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished. + +21:10. It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may +glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every +tree. + +Thou removest the sceptre of my son... He speaks (according to St. +Jerome) to the sword of Nabuchodonosor: which was about to remove the +sceptre of Israel, whom God here calls his son. + +21:11. And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this +sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, that it may be in the hand of +the slayer. + +21:12. Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it +is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are delivered up +to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh, + +21:13. Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the +sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God. + +21:14. Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands +together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain +be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them +stand amazed, + +21:15. And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their +gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is +furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter. + +21:16. Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left, which +way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face. + +21:17. And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my +indignation: I the Lord have spoken. + +21:18. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +21:19. And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of the king +of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of one land: and with his +hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult at the head of the way of the +city. + +21:20. Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the +children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city. + +21:21. For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two +ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols, +and consulted entrails. + +21:22. On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set +battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in +howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build +forts. + +21:23. And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in +vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to +remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken. + +21:24. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have remembered +your iniquity, and have discovered your prevarications, and your sins +have appeared in all your devices: because, I say, You have remembered, +you shall be taken with the hand. + +21:25. But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come that +hath been appointed in the time of iniquity: + +Thou profane, etc... He speaks to king Sedecias, who had broken his +oath, and was otherwise a wicked prince. + +21:26. Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: +is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that +was high? + +Is it not this that hath exalted the low one... The royal crown of Juda +had exalted Sedecias from a private state and condition to the sovereign +power, as the loss of it had brought down Jechonias, etc. + +21:27. I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was +not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it +him. + +I will shew it to be iniquity, etc... Or, I will overturn it, viz., the +crown of Juda for the manifold iniquities of the kings: but it shall not +be utterly removed, till Christ come whose right it is: and who shall +reign in the spiritual house of Jacob, that is, in his church, for +evermore. + +21:28. And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God +concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and +thou shalt say: O sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be +furbished to destroy, and to glitter, + +Concerning their reproach... By which they had reproached and insulted +over the Jews, at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. + +21:29. Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: +to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose +appointed day is come in the time of iniquity. + +21:30. Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein +thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. + +Return into thy sheath, etc... The sword of Babylon, after raging +against many nations, was shortly to be judged and destroyed at home by +the Medes and Persians. + +21:31. And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my +rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men +that are brutish and contrive thy destruction. + +21:32. Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst +of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it. + +Ezechiel Chapter 22 + +The general corruption of the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for which God +will consume them as dross in his furnace. + +22:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +22:2. And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the +city of blood? + +22:3. And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus +saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst of +her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself, +to defile herself. + +22:4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou +art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy +days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore +have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all +countries. + +22:5. Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall +triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction. + +22:6. Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in +thee to shed blood. + +22:7. They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed +the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and +widow in thee. + +22:8. Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths. + +22:9. Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten +upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst +of thee. + +22:10. They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they +have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee. + +22:11. And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's +wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, +the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in +thee. + +22:12. They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken +usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and +thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. + +22:13. Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou +hast exercised: and at the blood that hath been shed in the midst of +thee. + +22:14. Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days +which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it. + +22:15. And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee +among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee. + +22:16. And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou +shalt know that I am the Lord. + +22:17. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +22:18. Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these +are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: +they are become the dross of silver. + +22:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned +into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of +Jerusalem. + +22:20. As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in +the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so +will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my +rest, and I will melt you down. + +22:21. And will gather you together, and will burn you in the fire of my +wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof. + +22:22. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be +in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have +poured out my indignation upon you. + +22:23. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +22:24. Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not +rained upon in the day of wrath. + +22:25. There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a +lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they +have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst +thereof. + +22:26. Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my +sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor +have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have +turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst +of them. + +22:27. Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the +prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through +covetousness. + +22:28. And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, +seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the +Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken. + +22:29. The people of the land have used oppression, and committed +robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the +stranger by calumny without judgment. + +22:30. And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and +stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not +destroy it: and I found none. + +22:31. And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of my +wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own head, +saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 23 + +Under the names of the two harlots, Oolla and Ooliba, are described the +manifold disloyalties of Samaria and Jerusalem, with the punishment of +them both. + +23:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +23:2. Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. + +23:3. And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they +committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the +teats of their virginity were bruised. + +Committed fornication... That is, idolatry. + +23:4. And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger +sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their +names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba. + +Oolla and Ooliba... God calls the kingdom of Israel Oolla, which +signifies their own habitation, because they separated themselves from +his temple: and the kingdom of Juda, Ooliba, which signifies his +habitation in her, because of his temple among them in Jerusalem. + +23:5. And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her +lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her, + +On the Assyraians, etc... That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all +that is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is +to be understood in a spiritual sense, of their disloyalty to the Lord, +by worshipping strange gods. + +23:6. Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, +all horsemen, mounted upon horses. + +23:7. And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons +of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all +them on whom she doted. + +23:8. Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had +committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they +bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication +upon her. + +23:9. Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into +the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted. + +23:10. They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, +and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they +executed judgments in her. + +23:11. And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more +than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her +sister. + +23:12. Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, +the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours, +to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great +beauty. + +23:13. And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way. + +23:14. And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men +painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours, + +23:15. And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans +on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the +sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were +born, + +23:16. She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent +messengers to them into Chaldea. + +23:17. And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, +they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, +and her soul was glutted with them. + +23:18. And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: +and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her +sister. + +23:19. For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her +youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. + +23:20. And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as +the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses. + +23:21. And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy +breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken. + +23:22. Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise +up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and +I will gather them together against thee round about. + +23:23. The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and +the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young +men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the +renowned horsemen. + +23:24. And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and +wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every +side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment +before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments. + +23:25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute +upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what +remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy +daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire. + +23:26. And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the +instruments of thy glory. + +23:27. And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy +fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up +thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more. + +23:28. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the +hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath +been glutted. + +23:29. And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away +all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and +the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and +thy fornications. + +23:30. They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the +harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols. + +23:31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup +into thy hand. + +23:32. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep +and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very +much. + +23:33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup +of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. + +23:34. And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, +and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy +breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. + +23:35. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten +me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, +and thy fornications. + +23:36. And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge +Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds? + +23:37. Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their +hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover +also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to +be devoured. + +23:38. Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on +the same day, and profaned my sabbaths. + +23:39. And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went +into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even +in the midst of my house. + +23:40. They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a +messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and +didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments. + +23:41. Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before +thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment. + +23:42. And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to +some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the +desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their +heads. + +23:43. And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will +this woman still continue in her fornication. + +23:44. And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto +Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women. + +23:45. They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as +adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because +they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. + +23:46. For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and +deliver them over to tumult and rapine: + +23:47. And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed +with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their +houses they shall burn with fire. + +23:48. And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women +shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them. + +23:49. And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall +bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 24 + +Under the parable of a boiling pot is shewn the utter destruction of +Jerusalem: for which the Jews at Babylon shall not dare to mourn. + +24:1. And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the +tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying: + +24:2. Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the king of +Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day. + +24:3. And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, +and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I +say, and put water in it. + +24:4. Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the +thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones. + +24:5. Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones +under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are +thoroughly sodden in the midst of it. + +24:6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the +pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out +piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it. + +24:7. For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the +smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be +covered with dust. + +24:8. And that I might bring my indignation upon her, and take my +vengeance: I have shed her blood upon the smooth rock, that it should +not be covered. + +24:9. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, of +which I will make a great bonfire. + +24:10. Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh +shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall be sodden, and the +bones shall be consumed. + +24:11. Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot, and the +brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of it be melted in the +midst thereof, and let the rust of it be consumed. + +24:12. Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not +gone out, not even by fire. + +24:13. Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, +and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be +cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee. + +24:14. I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: +I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee +according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord. + +24:15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +24:16. Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a +stroke, and thou shall not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run +down. + +24:17. Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of +thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy +face, nor eat the meat of mourners. + +24:18. So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the +evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me. + +24:19. And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these +things mean that thou doest? + +24:20. And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +24:21. Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I +will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that +your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your +daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword. + +24:22. And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, +nor shall you eat the meat of mourners. + +24:23. You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you +shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, +and every one shall sigh with his brother. + +24:24. And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a sign of things to come: +according to all that he hath done, so shall you do, when this shall +come to pass: and you shall know that I am the Lord God. + +24:25. And thou, O son of man, behold in the day wherein I will take +away from them their strength, and the joy of their glory, and the +desire of their eyes, upon which their souls rest, their sons and their +daughters. + +24:26. In that day when he that escapeth shall come to thee, to tell +thee: + +24:27. In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened to him that hath +escaped, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no more: and thou +shalt be unto them for a sign of things to come, and you shall know that +I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 25 + +A prophecy against the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Philistines, +for their malice against the Israelites. + +25:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +25:2. Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou +shalt prophesy of them. + +25:3. And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of +the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, +upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of Israel, +because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are +led into captivity: + +25:4. Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of the east for an +inheritance, and they shall place their sheepcotes in thee, and shall +set up their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits: and they shall +drink thy milk. + +25:5. And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the children of +Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the +Lord. + +Rabbath... The capital city of the Ammonites: it was afterwards called +Philadelphia. + +25:6. For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy hands +and stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all thy heart against +the land of Israel: + +25:7. Therefore behold I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and will +deliver thee to be the spoil of nations, and will cut thee off from +among the people, and destroy thee out of the lands, and break thee in +pieces: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. + +25:8. Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold +the house of Juda is like all other nations: + +25:9. Therefore behold I will open the shoulder of Moab from the cities, +from his cities, I say, and his borders, the noble cities of the land of +Bethiesimoth, and Beelmeon, and Cariathaim, + +25:10. To the people of the east with the children of Ammon, and I will +give it them for an inheritance: that there may be no more any +remembrance of the children of Ammon among the nations. + +25:11. And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know that I +am the Lord. + +25:12. Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance to +revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath greatly offended, and +hath sought revenge of them: + +25:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand +upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it +desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the +sword. + +25:14. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people +Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my wrath, and my fury: +and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God. + +25:15. Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have taken +vengeance, and have revenged themselves with all their mind, destroying +and satisfying old enmities: + +25:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will stretch forth my +hand upon the Philistines, and will kill the killers, and will destroy +the remnant of the sea coast. + +25:17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them, rebuking them in +fury: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my +vengeance upon them. + +Ezechiel Chapter 26 + +A prophecy of the destruction of the famous city of Tyre by +Nabuchodonosor. + +26:1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of the +month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +26:2. Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of +the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now she +is laid waste. + +26:3. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O +Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of +the sea rise up. + +26:4. And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the +towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a +smooth rock. + +26:5. She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, +because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil +to the nations. + +26:6. Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain by the +sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +26:7. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against Tyre +Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with +horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and companies, and much people. + +26:8. Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: +and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round +about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee. + +26:9. And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy +walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms. + +26:10. By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover +thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, +and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of +a city that is destroyed. + +26:11. With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets, +thy people he shall kill with the sword, and thy famous statues shall +fall to the ground. + +26:12. They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy +merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine +houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in +the midst of the waters. + +26:13. And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the +sound of thy harps shall be heard no more. + +26:14. And I will make thee like a naked rock, thou shalt be a drying +place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken +it, saith the Lord God. + +26:15. Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at +the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be +killed in the midst of thee? + +26:16. Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their +thrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their broidered +garments, and be clothed with astonishment: they shall sit on the +ground, and with amazement shall wonder at thy sudden fall. + +26:17. And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: +How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast +strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread? + +26:18. Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and +the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of +thee. + +26:19. For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall make thee a desolate +city like the cities that are not inhabited: and shall bring the deep +upon thee, and many waters shall cover thee: + +26:20. And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the +pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of +the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down +into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in +the land of the living, + +26:21. I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and if thou +be sought for, thou shalt not be found any more for ever, saith the Lord +God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 27 + +A description of the glory and riches of Tyre: and of her irrecoverable +fall. + +27:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +27:2. Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre: + +27:3. And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the +mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, +thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty, + +27:4. And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built +thee, have perfected thy beauty: + +27:5. With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: +they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts. + +Sea planks... That is, timber brought by sea to build the city. + +27:6. They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have +made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from +the islands of Italy. + +27:7. Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be +spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made +thy covering. + +27:8. The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy +wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots. + +27:9. The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners +for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and +their mariners were thy factors. + +27:10. The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in +thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy +ornament. + +27:11. The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: +the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy +walls round about: they perfected thy beauty. + +Pygmeans... That is, strong and valiant men. In Hebrew, Gammadim. + +27:12. The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a +multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead, + +27:13. Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought +to thy people slaves and vessels of brass. + +27:14. From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and +mules to thy market. + +27:15. The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the +traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and +ebony. + +27:16. The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy +works, they set forth precious stories, and purple, and broidered works, +and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market. + +Chodchod... It is the Hebrew name for some precious stone; but of what +kind in particular interpreters are not agreed. + +27:17. Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the +best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy +fairs. + +27:18. The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy +works, the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best +colour. + +27:19. Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought +iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market. + +27:20. The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats. + +27:21. Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of +thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rams, and kids. + +27:22. The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with all +the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in +thy market. + +27:23. Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and +Chelmad sold to thee. + +27:24. They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue +cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were +wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy +merchandise. + +27:25. The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou +wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea. + +27:26. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind +hath broken thee in the heart of the sea. + +27:27. Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy +mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy +people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude +that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the +day of thy ruin. + +27:28. Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy +pilots. + +27:29. And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: +the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land: + +27:30. And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry +bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be +sprinkled with ashes. + +27:31. And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be +girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of +soul, with most bitter weeping. + +27:32. And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and shall lament +thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the +sea? + +27:33. Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill +many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people +didst enrich the kings of the earth. + +27:34. Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom +of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is +fallen. + +27:35. All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and +all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their +countenance. + +27:36. The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to +nothing, and thou shalt never be any more. + +Ezechiel Chapter 28 + +The king of Tyre, who affected to be like to God, shall fall under the +like sentence with Lucifer. The judgment of Sidon. The restoration of +Israel. + +28:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +28:2. Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: +Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit +in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and +not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God. + +28:3. Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee. + +Thou art wiser than Daniel... Viz., in thy own conceit. The wisdom of +Daniel was so much celebrated in his days, that it became a proverb +amongst the Chaldeans, when any one would express an extraordinary +wisdom, to say he was as wise as Daniel. + +28:4. In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: +and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures. + +28:5. By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast +increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength. + +28:6. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up +as the heart of God: + +28:7. Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest +of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of +thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty. + +28:8. They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the +death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea. + +28:9. Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas +thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee? + +28:10. Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of +strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. + +28:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up +a lamentation upon the king of Tyre: + +28:12. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of +resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. + +Thou wast the seal of resemblance... The king of Tyre, by his dignity +and his natural perfections, bore in himself a certain resemblance to +God, by reason of which he might be called the seal of resemblance, etc. +But what is here said to him is commonly understood of Lucifer, the king +over all the children of pride. + +28:13. Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious +stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the +chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the +carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes +were prepared in the day that thou wast created. + +28:14. Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in +the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of +fire. + +A cherub stretched out... That is, thy wings extended. This alludes to +the figure of the cherubims in the sanctuary, which with stretched out +wings covered the ark.-Ibid. The stones of fire... That is, bright and +precious stones which sparkle like fire. + +28:15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until +iniquity was found in thee. + +28:16. By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were filled +with iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee out from the +mountain of God, and destroyed thee, O covering cherub, out of the midst +of the stones of fire. + +28:17. And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy +wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee +before the face of kings, that they might behold thee. + +28:18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy +iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring +forth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make +thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee. + +28:19. All that shall see thee among the nations, shall be astonished at +thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more. + +28:20. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +28:21. Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy +of it, + +28:22. And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against +thee, Sidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they +shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall execute judgments in her, +and shall be sanctified in her. + +28:23. And I will send into her pestilence, and blood in her streets: +and they shall fall being slain by the sword on all sides in the midst +thereof: and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +28:24. And the house of Israel shall have no more a stumblingblock of +bitterness, nor a thorn causing pain on every side round about them, of +them that are against them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God. + +28:25. Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall have gathered together the +house of Israel out of the people among whom they are scattered: I will +be sanctified in them before the Gentiles: and they shall dwell in their +own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. + +28:26. And they shall dwell therein secure, and they shall build houses, +and shall plant vineyards, and shall dwell with confidence, when I shall +have executed judgments upon all that are their enemies round about: and +they shall know that I am the Lord their God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 29 + +The king of Egypt shall be overthrown, and his kingdom wasted: it shall +be given to Nabuchodonosor for his service against Tyre. + +29:1. In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, +the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +29:2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and thou +shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt: + +29:3. Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against +thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of +thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself. + +29:4. But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of +thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst +of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales. + +29:5. And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of +thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be +taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the +beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air. + +29:6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord: +because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel. + +29:7. When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and +rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest, +and weakenest all their loins. + +29:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword +upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee. + +29:9. And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and +they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is +mine, and I made it. + +29:10. Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I will +make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from +the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia. + +29:11. The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot +of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years. + +29:12. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the +lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the +cites that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty years: +and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse +them through the countries. + +29:13. For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will +gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they had been scattered. + +29:14. And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them +in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall +be there a low kingdom: + +29:15. It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more +be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall +rule no more over the nations. + +29:16. And they shall be no more a confidence to the house of Israel, +teaching iniquity, that they may flee, and follow them: and they shall +know that I am the Lord God. + +29:17. And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year in the first +month, in the first of the month: that the word of the Lord came to me, +saying: + +29:18. Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to +undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every +shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his +army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it. + +29:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set +Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall +take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the +spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army. + +29:20. And for the service that he hath done me against it: I have given +him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured for me, saith the Lord +God. + +29:21. In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel, and I +will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know +that I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 30 + +The desolation of Egypt and her helpers: all her cities shall be wasted. + +30:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +30:2. Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, +Woe, woe to the day: + +30:3. For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy +day, it shall be the time of the nations. + +30:4. And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in +Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude +thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be +destroyed. + +30:5. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and +Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them +by the sword. + +30:6. Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, +and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of +Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of +hosts. + +30:7. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are +desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities +that are wasted. + +30:8. And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have set a +fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed. + +30:9. In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to +destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them +in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come. + +30:10. Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to +cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon. + +30:11. He and his people with him, the strongest of nations, shall be +brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords upon +Egypt: and shall fill the land with the slain. + +30:12. And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver +the land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay waste the land and +all that is therein by the hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken +it. + +30:13. Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I +will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a +prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of +Egypt. + +30:14. And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in +Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria. + +Alexandria... In the Hebrew, No: which was the ancient name of that +city, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his +name called Alexandria. + +30:15. And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the strength of +Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria. + +30:16. And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like a +woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis +there shall be daily distresses. + +30:17. The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by the +sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity. + +30:18. And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall break +there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in +her: a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led into +captivity. + +30:19. And I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I +am the Lord. + +30:20. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in +the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came, me, +saying: + +30:21. Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao king of Egypt: and +behold it is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied up with clothes, and +swathed with linen, that it might recover strength, and hold the sword. + +30:22. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against Pharao +king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his strong arm, which is +already broken: and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand: + +30:23. And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter them +through the countries. + +30:24. And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and will +put my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms of Pharao, and they +shall groan bitterly being slain before his face. + +30:25. And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the +arms of Pharao shall fall: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when +I shall have given my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he +shall have stretched it forth upon the land of Egypt. + +30:26. And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will scatter +them through the countries, and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 31 + +The Assyrian empire fell for their pride: the Egyptian shall fall in +like manner. + +31:1. And it came to pass, in the eleventh year, the third month the +first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +31:2. Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To +whom art thou like in thy greatness? + +31:3. Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, +and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among +the thick boughs. + +31:4. The waters nourished him, the deep set him tip on high, the +streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent, forth its +rivulets to all the trees of the country. + +31:5. Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the +country and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated +because of many waters. + +31:6. And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air +made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought +forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations +dwelt under his shadow. + +31:7. And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading +of his branches: for his root was near great waters. + +31:8. The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir +trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared +with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in +his beauty. + +31:9. For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all +the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him. + +31:10. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in +height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up +in his height: + +31:11. I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the +nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his +wickedness. + +I have delivered... Here the time past is put for the future, i. e., +I shall deliver.--Ibid. The mighty one, etc... Viz., Nabuchodonosor, who +conquered both the Assyrians and Egyptians. + +31:12. And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him +down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in +every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the +country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, +and leave him. + +31:13. All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts +of the field were among his branches. + +31:14. For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt +themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick +branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up +in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest +parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that +go down into the pit. + +31:15. Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I +brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its +rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all +the trees of the field trembled. + +31:16. I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought +him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees +of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened +with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth. + +31:17. For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are +slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his +shadow in the midst of the nations. + +31:18. To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the +trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of +pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst +of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is +Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 32 + +The prophet's lamentation for the king of Egypt. + +32:1. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in +the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, +saying: + +32:2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt, +and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon +that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and +didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their +streams. + +32:3. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over +thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my +net. + +32:4. And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into +the open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon +thee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee. + +32:5. And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy +hills with thy corruption, + +32:6. And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the +mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee. + +32:7. And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I +will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and +the moon shall not give her light. + +32:8. I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee and I will +cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall +fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God. + +32:9. And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I +shall have brought in thy destruction among the nations upon the lands, +which thou knowest not. + +32:10. And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their kings +shall be horribly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to fly upon +their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his +own life, in the day of their ruin. + +32:11. For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon +shall come upon thee, + +32:12. By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude: all +these nations are invincible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt, +and the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. + +32:13. I will destroy also all the beasts thereof that were beside the +great waters: and the foot of man shall trouble them no more, neither +shall the hoof of beasts trouble them. + +32:14. Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to +run like oil, saith the Lord God: + +32:15. When I shall have made the land of Egypt desolate: and the land +shall be destitute of her fulness, when I shall have struck all the +inhabitants thereof and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +32:16. This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith: the +daughters of the nations shall lament therewith for Egypt, and for the +multitude thereof they shall lament therewith, saith the Lord God. + +32:17. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of +the month, that the word of the Lord came to me saying: + +32:18. Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and +cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the +lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. + +32:19. Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the +uncircumcised. + +32:20. They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with the +sword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down, and all her people. + +32:21. The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to him from the +midst of hell, they that went down with his helpers and slept +uncircumcised, slain by the sword. + +32:22. Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves are round +about him, all of them slain, and that fell by the sword. + +32:23. Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of the pit: and his +multitude lay round about his grave: all of them slain, and fallen by +the sword, they that heretofore spread terror in the land of the living. + +32:24. There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all of +them slain, and fallen by the sword; that went down uncircumcised to the +lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror in the land of the +living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down into the +pit. + +32:25. In the midst of the slain they have set him a bed among all his +people: their graves are round about him: all these are uncircumcised, +and slain by the sword: for they spread their terror in the land of the +living, and have borne their shame with them that descend into the pit: +they are laid in the midst of the slain. + +32:26. There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their multitude: their +graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised and slain, and +fallen by the sword: though they spread their terror in the land of the +living. + +32:27. And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them that fell +uncircumcised, that went down to hell with their weapons, and laid their +swords under their heads, and their iniquities were in their bones, +because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. + +32:28. So thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, +and shalt sleep with them that are slain by the sword. + +32:29. There is Edom, and her kings, and all her princes, who with their +army are joined with them that are slain by the sword: and have slept +with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down into the pit. + +32:30. There are all the princes of the north, and all the hunters: who +were brought down with the slain, fearing, and confounded in their +strength: who slept uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, +and have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit. + +32:31. Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all his +multitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all his army, saith +the Lord God: + +32:32. Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, and he +hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by +the sword: Pharao and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 33 + +The duty of the watchman appointed by God: the justice of God's ways: +his judgments upon the Jews. + +33:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +33:2. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: +When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a +man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them: + +33:3. And he sees the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, +and tell the people: + +33:4. Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, +and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his +blood shall be upon his own head. + +33:5. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did not look to himself, +his blood shall be upon him: but if he look to himself, he shall save +his life. + +33:6. And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the +trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and +cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, +but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman. + +33:7. So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of +Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell +it them from me. + +33:8. When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if +thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man +shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. + +33:9. But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his +ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: +but thou hast delivered thy soul. + +33:10. Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus +you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and +we pine away in them: how then can we live? + +33:11. Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the +death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. +Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of +Israel? + +33:12. Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people: +The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he +shall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what +day soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be +able to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin. + +33:13. Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and +he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be +forgotten, and his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall +he die. + +33:14. And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he +do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice, + +33:15. And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had +robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he +shall surely live, and shall not die. + +33:16. None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be imputed to +him: he hath done judgment and justice, he shall surely live. + +33:17. And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is +not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust. + +33:18. For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit +iniquities, he shall die in them. + +33:19. And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall +do judgments, and justice, he shall live in them. + +33:20. And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will judge every +one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel. + +33:21. And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the +tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one +that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste. + +33:22. And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before +he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the +morning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more. + +33:23. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +33:24. Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land +of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, +but we are many, the land is given us in possession. + +33:25. Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with +the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed +blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance? + +33:26. You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and +every one hath defiled his neighbours wife; and shall you possess the +land by inheritance? + +33:27. Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I live, they +that dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall by the sword: and he that +is in the field, shall be given to the beasts to be devoured: and they +that are in holds, and caves, shall die of the pestilence. + +33:28. And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the +proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be +desolate, because there is none to pass by them, + +33:29. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made +their land waste and desolate, for all their abominations which they +have committed. + +33:30. And thou son of man: the children of thy people, that talk of +thee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to +another each man to his neighbour, saying: Come, and let us hear what is +the word that cometh forth from the Lord. + +33:31. And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people +sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them +into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their +covetousness. + +33:32. And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung with a sweet +and agreeable voice: and they hear thy words, and do them not. + +33:33. And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, for behold +it is coming, then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. + +Ezechiel Chapter 34 + +Evil pastors are reproved. Christ the true pastor shall come, and gather +together his flock from all parts of the earth, and preserve it for +ever. + +34:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, it saying: + +34:2. Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, +and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds +of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the +shepherds? + +Shepherds... That is, princes, magistrates, chief priests, and scribes. + +34:3. You ate the milk, and you clothed yourselves with the wool, and +you killed that which was fat: but my flock you did not feed. + +34:4. The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you +have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that +which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you +sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and +with a high hand. + +34:5. And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd and +they became the prey of all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. + +34:6. My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every high hill: +and my flocks were scattered upon the face of the earth, and there was +none that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them. + +34:7. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: + +34:8. As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been +made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the +field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek +after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks: + +34:9. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: + +34:10. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the shepherds, +I will require my flock at their hand, and I will cause them to cease +from feeding the flock any more, neither shall the shepherds feed +themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and +it shall no more be meat for them. + +34:11. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my sheep, +and will visit them. + +34:12. As the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in +the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, +and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been +scattered in the cloudy and dark day. + +34:13. And I will bring them out from the peoples, and will gather them +out of the countries, and will bring them to their own land: and I will +feed them in the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the +habitations of the land. + +34:14. I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their +pastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there shall they rest +on the green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the mountains of +Israel. + +34:15. I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them to lie down, saith +the Lord God. + +34:16. I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, +I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will +strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will +preserve, and I will feed them in judgment. + +34:17. And as for you, O my flocks, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I +judge between cattle and cattle, of rams and of he goats. + +34:18. Was it not enough for you to feed upon good pastures? but you +must also tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures: and +when you drank the clearest water, you troubled the rest with your feet. + +34:19. And my sheep were fed with that which you had trodden with your +feet: and they drank what your feet had troubled. + +34:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God to you: Behold, I myself will +judge between the fat cattle and the lean. + +34:21. Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck all the +weak cattle with your horns, till they were scattered abroad: + +34:22. I will save my flock, and it shall be no more a spoil, and I will +judge between cattle and cattle. + +34:23. And I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM, and he shall feed them, +even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their +shepherd. + +David... Christ, who is of the house of David. + +34:24. And I the Lord will be their God: and my servant David the prince +in the midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it. + +34:25. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the +evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the +wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests. + +34:26. And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will +send down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing. + +34:27. And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth +shall yield her increase, and they shall be in their land without fear: +and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the +bonds of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of +those that rule over them. + +34:28. And they shall be no more for a spoil to the nations, neither +shall the beasts of the earth devour them: but they shall dwell securely +without, any terror. + +34:29. And I will raise up for them a bud of renown: and they shall be +no more consumed with famine in the land, neither shall they bear any +more the reproach of the Gentiles. + +A bud of renown... Germen nominatum. He speaks of Christ our Lord, the +illustrious bud of the house of David, renowned over all the earth. See +Jer. 33.15. + +34:30. And they shall know that I the Lord their God am with them, and +that they are my people the house of Israel: saith the Lord God. + +34:31. And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and I am the +Lord your God, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 35 + +The judgment of mount Seir, for their hatred of Israel. + +35:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +35:2. Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy +concerning it, and say to it: + +35:3. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, +and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee +desolate and waste. + +35:4. I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou +shalt know that I am the Lord. + +35:5. Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the +children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their +affliction, in the time of their last iniquity. + +35:6. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to +blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, +blood shall pursue thee. + +35:7. And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take +away from it him that goeth and him that returneth. + +35:8. And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy +hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are +slain with the sword. + +35:9. I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not +be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God. + +35:10. Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall +be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was +there. + +35:11. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to +thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in +hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have +judged thee. + +35:12. And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy +reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, +saying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume. + +35:13. And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated +from me by your words: I have heard them. + +35:14. Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I +will make thee a wilderness. + +35:15. As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of +Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be +laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am +the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 36 + +The restoration of Israel, not for their merits, but by God's special +grace. Christ's baptism. + +36:1. And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: +Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: + +36:2. Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, +the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance. + +36:3. Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you +have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an +inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of +the talk, and the reproach of the people: + +36:4. Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: +Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the +brooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls, +and to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by +the rest of the nations round about. + +36:5. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have +spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my +land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, +and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste. + +36:6. Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the +mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus +saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my +indignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles. + +36:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that +the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame. + +36:8. But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your +branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at +hand to come. + +36:9. For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be +ploughed and sown. + +36:10. And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: +and the cities ball be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be +repaired. + +36:11. And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they +shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the +beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the +beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +36:12. And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall +possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, +and shalt no more henceforth be without them. + +36:13. Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy say of you: Thou art a +devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation: + +36:14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more nor destroy thy nation +any more, saith the Lord God. + +36:15. Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the nations +any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose thy +nation any more, saith the Lord God. + +Nor lose thy nation any more... This whole promise principally relates +to the church of Christ, and God's perpetual protection of her: for as +to the carnal Jews, they have been removed out of their land these +sixteen hundred years. + +36:16. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +36:17. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, +they defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was +before me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. + +36:18. And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which +they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it. + +36:19. And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed +through the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and +their devices. + +36:20. And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they +profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of +the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land. + +36:21. And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel +hath profaned among the nations to which they went in. + +36:22. Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the +Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of +Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the +nations whither you went. + +36:23. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the +Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of them: that the +Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts, when I +shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. + +36:24. For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you +together out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own +land. + +36:25. And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed +from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. + +36:26. And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: +and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give +you a heart of flesh. + +36:27. And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause +you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them. + +36:28. And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and +you shall be my people, and I will be your God. + +36:29. And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call +for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you. + +36:30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of +the field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the +nations. + +36:31. And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that +were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall +displease you. + +36:32. It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the Lord God, +be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O house +of Israel. + +36:33. Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from +all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and +shall repair the ruinous places, + +36:34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in +the sight of all that passed by, + +36:35. They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a garden +of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and +destroyed, are peopled and fenced. + +36:36. And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall know +that I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and planted what was +desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done it. + +36:37. Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house of +Israel find me, that I will do it for them: I will multiply them as a +flock of men, + +36:38. As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts: +so shall the waste cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know +that I am the Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 37 + +A vision of the resurrection of dry bones, foreshewing the deliverance +of the people from their captivity. Juda and Israel shall be all one +kingdom under Christ. God's everlasting covenant with the church. + +37:1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the +spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was +full of bones. + +37:2. And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very +many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry. + +37:3. And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall +live and I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest. + +37:4. And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to +them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. + +37:5. Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit +into you, and you shall live. + +Spirit... That is, soul, life, and breath. + +37:6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over +you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you +shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord. + +37:7. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there +was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each +one, its joint. + +37:8. And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them: +and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in +them. + +37:9. And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, +and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the +four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again. + +37:10. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into +them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding +great army. + +37:11. And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of +Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we +are cut off. + +37:12. Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: +Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your +sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel. + +37:13. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened +your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my +people: + +37:14. And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I +shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the +Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God: + +37:15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +37:16. And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of +Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another +stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all +the house of Israel, and of his associates. + +37:17. And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall +become one in thy hand. + +37:18. And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: +Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this? + +37:19. Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the +stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of +Israel that are associated with him, and I will put them together with +the stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one +in his hand. + +37:20. And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy hand, +before their eyes. + +37:21. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I +will take of the children of Israel from the midst of the nations +whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will +bring them to their own land. + +37:22. And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of +Israel, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more +be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two +kingdoms. + +37:23. Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with +their abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and I will save them +out of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse +them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. + +37:24. And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have +one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my +commandments, and shall do them. + +37:25. And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant +Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and +their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my +servant shall be their prince for ever. + +37:26. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an +everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will +multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. + +37:27. And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, +and they shall be my people. + +37:28. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of +Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever. + +Ezechiel Chapter 38 + +Gog shall persecute the church in the latter days. He shall be +overthrown. + +38:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +38:2. Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief +prince of Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of him, + +Gog... This name, which signifies hidden or covered, is taken in this +place, either for the persecutors of the church of God in general, or +some arch-persecutor in particular: such as Antichrist shall be in the +latter days. See Apoc. 20.8. And what is said of the punishment of Gog, +is verified by the unhappy ends of persecutors.-Ibid. Magog... Scythia +or Tartary, from whence the Turks, and other enemies of the church of +Christ, originally sprung. + +38:3. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against +thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal. + +38:4. And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and +I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen all +clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and +shields and swords. + +38:5. The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields +and helmets. + +38:6. Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern +parts and all his strength, and many peoples with thee. + +38:7. Prepare and make thyself ready, and all thy multitude that is +assembled about thee, and be thou commander over them. + +38:8. After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou +shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered +out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been +continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, +and they shall all of them dwell securely in it. + +38:9. And thou shalt go up and come like a storm, and like a cloud to +cover the land, thou and all thy bands and many people with thee. + +38:10. Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into +thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design. + +38:11. And thou shalt say: I will go up to the land which is without a +wall, I will come to them that are at rest, and dwell securely: all +these dwell without a wall, they have no bars nor gates: + +38:12. To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to lay thy hand upon +them that had been wasted, and afterwards restored, and upon the people +that is gathered together out of the nations, which hath begun to +possess and to dwell in the midst of the earth. + +38:13. Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis, and all the lions +thereof shall say to thee: Art thou come to take spoils? behold, thou +hast gathered thy multitude to take a prey, to take silver, and gold, +and to carry away goods and substance, and to take rich spoils. + +38:14. Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: Thus saith +the Lord God: Shalt thou not know, in that day, when my people of Israel +shall dwell securely? + +38:15. And thou shalt come out of thy place from the northern parts, +thou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great +company and a mighty army. + +38:16. And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to +cover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I will bring thee +upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified +in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. + +38:17. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou then art he, of whom I have spoken +in the days of old, by my servants the prophets of Israel, who +prophesied in the days of those times that I would bring thee upon them. + +38:18. And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day of the coming +of Gog upon the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my indignation +shall come up in my wrath. + +38:19. And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the fire of my anger, that +in that day there shall be a great commotion upon the land of Israel: + +38:20. So that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the +beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the +ground, and all men that are upon the face of the earth, shall be moved +at my presence: and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the hedges +shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. + +38:21. And I will call in the sword against him in all my mountains, +saith the Lord God: every man's sword shall be pointed against his +brother. + +38:22. And I will judge him with pestilence, and with blood, and with +violent rain, and vast hailstones: I will rain fire and brimstone upon +him, and upon his army, and upon the many nations that are with him. + +38:23. And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be +known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the +Lord. + +Ezechiel Chapter 39 + +God's judgments upon Gog. God's people were punished for their sins: but +shall be favoured with everlasting kindness. + +39:1. And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus saith +the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of +Mosoch and Thubal. + +39:2. And I will turn thee round, and I will lead thee out, and will +make thee go up from the northern parts: and will bring thee upon the +mountains of Israel. + +39:3. And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy +arrows to fall out of thy right hand. + +39:4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy +bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the wild +beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth +to be devoured. + +39:5. Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: for I have spoken it, +saith the Lord God. + +39:6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell +confidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am the Lord. + +39:7. And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people +Israel, and my holy name shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles +shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. + +39:8. Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the Lord God: this is the +day whereof I have spoken. + +39:9. And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and +shall set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, and the spears, the +bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and the pikes: and they shall +burn them with fire seven years. + +39:10. And they shall not bring wood out of the countries, nor cut down +out of the forests: for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and shall +make a prey of them to whom they had been a prey, and they shall rob +those that robbed them, saith the Lord God. + +39:11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a +noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on +the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass +by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall +be called the valley of the multitude of Gog. + +39:12. And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to +cleanse the land. + +39:13. And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it shall be +unto them a noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith the Lord God. + +39:14. And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to +bury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the +earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin +to seek. + +39:15. And they shall go about passing through the land: and when they +shall see the bone of a man, they shall set up sign by it, till the +buriers bury it in the valley, of the multitude of Gog. + +39:16. And the name of the city shall be Amona, and they shall cleanse +the land. + +39:17. And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl, +and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble +yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, +which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to +eat flesh, and drink blood. + +39:18. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the +blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he +goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat. + +39:19. And you shall eat the fat till you be full, and shall drink blood +till you be drunk of the victim which I shall slay for you. + +39:20. And you shall be filled at my table with horses, and mighty +horsemen, and all the men of war, saith the Lord God. + +39:21. And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations shall +see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon +them. + +39:22. And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God +from that day and forward. + +39:23. And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were made +captives for their iniquity, because they forsook me, and I hid my face +from them: and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and +they fell all by the sword. + +39:24. I have dealt with them according to their uncleanness, and +wickedness, and hid my face from them. + +39:25. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now will I bring back the +captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on all the house of Israel and I +will be jealous for my holy name. + +39:26. And they shall bear their confusion, and all the transgressions +wherewith they have transgressed against me, when they shall dwell in +their land securely fearing no man: + +39:27. And I shall have brought them back from among the nations, and +shall have gathered them together out of the lands of their enemies, and +shall be sanctified in them, in the sight of many nations. + +39:28. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I +caused them to be carried away among the nations; and I have gathered +them together unto their own land, and have not left any of them there. + +39:29. And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have poured out +my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 40 + +The prophet sees in a vision the rebuilding of the temple: the +dimensions of several parts thereof. + +40:1. In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning +of the year, the tenth day of the month, the fourteenth year after the +city was destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon +me, and he brought me thither. + +40:2. In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and +set me upon a very high mountain: upon which there was as the building +of a city, bending towards the south. + +40:3. And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance +was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a +measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate. + +40:4. And this man said to me: Son of man, see with thy eyes, and hear +with thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee: for +thou art brought hither that they may be shewn to thee: declare all that +thou seest, to the house of Israel. + +40:5. And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round +about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a +handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and +the height one reed. + +40:6. And he came to the gate that looked toward the east, and he went +up the steps thereof: and he measured the breadth of the threshold of +the gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed broad; + +40:7. And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad: +and between the little chambers were five cubits: + +40:8. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, was +one reed. + +40:9. And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and the front +thereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate was inward. + +40:10. And the little chambers of the gate that looked eastward were +three on this side, and three on that side: all three were of one +measure, and the fronts of one measure, on both parts. + +40:11. And he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate ten +cubits: and the length of the gate thirteen cubits: + +40:12. And the border before the little chambers one cubit: and one +cubit was the border on both sides: and the little chambers were six +cubits on this side and that side. + +40:13. And he measured the gate from the roof of one little chamber to +the roof of another, in breadth five and twenty cubits: door against +door. + +40:14. He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the court +of the gate on every side round about. + +40:15. And before the face of the gate which reached even to the face of +the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits. + +40:16. And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, +which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner +there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before +the fronts the representation of palm trees. + +40:17. And he brought me into the outward court, and behold there were +chambers, and a pavement of stone in the court round about: thirty +chambers encompassed the pavement. + +There were chambers... Gazophylacia, so called, because the priests and +Levites kept in them the stores and vessels that belonged to the temple. + +40:18. And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the +length of the gates was lower. + +40:19. And he measured the breadth from the face of the lower gate to +the front of the inner court without, a hundred cubits to the east, and +to the north. + +40:20. He measured also both the length and the breadth of the gate of +the outward court, which looked northward. + +40:21. And the little chambers thereof three on this side, and three on +that side: and the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the +measure of the former gate, fifty cubits long, and five and twenty +cubits broad. + +40:22. And the windows thereof, and the porch, and the gravings +according to the measure of the gate that looked to the east, and they +went up to it by seven steps, and a porch was before it. + +40:23. And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate of the +north, and that of the east: and he measured from gate to gate a hundred +cubits. + +40:24. And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the +gate that looked to the south: and he measured the front thereof, and +the porch thereof according to the former measures. + +40:25. And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as the +other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and +twenty cubits. + +40:26. And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch before the +doors thereof: and there were graven palm trees, one on this side, and +another on that side in the front thereof. + +40:27. And there was a gate of the inner court towards the south: and he +measured from gate to gate towards the south, a hundred cubits. + +40:28. And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate: and he +measured the gate according to the former measures. + +40:29. The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch +thereof with the same measures: and the windows thereof, and the porch +thereof round about it was fifty cubits in length, and five and twenty +cubits in breadth. + +40:30. And the porch round about was five and twenty cubits long, and +five cubits broad. + +40:31. And the porch thereof to the outward court, and the palm trees +thereof in the front: and there were eight steps to go up to it. + +40:32. And he brought me into the inner court by the way of the east: +and he measured the gate according to the former measures. + +40:33. The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch +thereof as before: and the windows thereof, and the porches thereof +round about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. + +40:34. And the porch thereof, that is, of the outward court: and the +graven palm trees in the front thereof on this side and on that side: +and the going up thereof was by eight steps. + +40:35. And he brought me into the gate that looked to the north: and he +measured according to the former measures. + +40:36. The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch +thereof, and the windows thereof round about it was fifty cubits long, +and five and twenty cubits broad. + +40:37. And the porch thereof looked to the outward court: and the +graving of palm trees in the front thereof was on this side and on that +side: and the going up to it was by eight steps. + +40:38. And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: +there they washed the holocaust. + +40:39. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and +two tables on that side: that the holocaust, and the sin offering, and +the trespass offering might be slain thereon. + +40:40. And on the outward side, which goeth up to the entry of the gate +that looketh toward the north, were two tables: and at the other side +before the porch of the gate were two tables, + +40:41. Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side at +the sides of the gate were eight tables, upon which they slew the +victims. + +40:42. And the four tables for the holocausts were made of square +stones: one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half broad, and +one cubit high: to lay the vessels upon, in which the holocaust and the +victim is slain. + +40:43. And the borders of them were of one handbreadth, turned inwards +round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. + +40:44. And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singing men +in the inner court, which was on the side of the gate that looketh to +the north: and their prospect was towards the south, one at the side of +the east gate, which looketh toward the north. + +40:45. And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the south +shall be for the priests that watch in the wards of the temple. + +40:46. But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be for the +priests that watch over the ministry of the altar. These are the sons of +Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord, to minister to +him. + +40:47. And he measured the court a hundred cubits long, and a hundred +cubits broad foursquare: and the altar that was before the face of the +temple. + +40:48. And he brought me into the porch of the temple: and he measured +the porch five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and +the breadth of the gate three cubits on this side, and three cubits on +that side. + +40:49. And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth +eleven cubits, and there were eight steps to go up to it. And there were +pillars in the fronts: one on this side, and another on that side. + +Ezechiel Chapter 41 + +A description of the temple, and of all the parts of it. + +41:1. And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the fronts six +cubits broad on this side, and six cubits on that side, the breadth of +the tabernacle. + +The temple... This plan of a temple, which was here shewn to the prophet +in a vision, partly had relation to the material temple, which was to be +rebuilt: and partly, in a mystical sense, to the spiritual temple of +God, the church of Christ. + +41:2. And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits: and the sides of the +gate five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he +measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. + +41:3. Then going inward he measured the front of the gate two cubits: +and the gate six cubits, and the breadth of the gate seven cubits. + +41:4. And he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the breadth +twenty cubits, before the face of the temple: and he said to me: This is +the holy of holies. + +41:5. And he measured the wall of the house six cubits: and the breadth +of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side. + +41:6. And the side chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three: and +they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of the +house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of +the temple. + +One by another... Or one over another; literally, side to side, or side +upon side. + +41:7. And there was a broad passage round about, going up by winding +stairs, and it led into the upper loft of the temple all round: +therefore was the temple broader in the higher parts: and so from the +lower parts they went to the higher by the midst. + +41:8. And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of +the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six +cubits: + +41:9. And the thickness of the wall for the side chamber without, which +was five cubits: and the inner house was within the side chambers of the +house, + +And the inner house was within the side chambers of the house... Because +these side chambers were in the very walls of the temple all round. Or, +it may also be rendered (more agreeably to the Hebrew) so as to signify +that the thickness of the wall for the side chamber within, was the same +as that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits. + +41:10. And between the chambers was the breadth of twenty cubits round +about the house on every side. + +41:11. And the door of the side chambers was turned towards the place of +prayer: one door was toward the north, and another door was toward the +south: and the breadth of the place for prayer, was five cubits round +about. + +41:12. And the building that was separate, and turned to the way that +looked toward the sea, was seventy cubits broad and the wall of the +building, five cubits thick round about: and ninety cubits long. + +41:13. And he measured the length of the house, a hundred cubits: and +the separate building, and the walls thereof, a hundred cubits in +length. + +41:14. And the breadth before the face of the house, and of the separate +place toward the east, a hundred cubits. + +41:15. And he measured the length of the building over against it, which +was separated at the back of it: and the galleries on both sides a +hundred cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of the court. + +41:16. The thresholds, and the oblique windows, and the galleries round +about on three sides, over against the threshold of every one, and +floored with wood all round about: and the ground was up to the windows, +and the windows were shut over the doors. + +41:17. And even to the inner house, and without all the wall round about +within and without, by measure. + +41:18. And there were cherubims and palm trees wrought, so that a palm +tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces. + +41:19. The face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the +face of a lion was toward the palm tree on the other side: set forth +through all the house round about. + +41:20. From the ground even to the upper parts of the gate, were +cherubims and palm trees wrought in the wall of the temple. + +41:21. The threshold was foursquare, and the face of the sanctuary sight +to sight. + +The threshold was foursquare... That is, the gate of the temple was +foursquare: and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within. + +41:22. The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof +was two cubits: and the corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the +walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before +the Lord. + +41:23. And there were two doors in the temple, and in the sanctuary. + +41:24. And in the two doors on both sides were two little doors, which +were folded within each other: for there were two wickets on both sides +of the doors. + +41:25. And there were cherubims also wrought in the doors of the temple, +and the figures of palm trees, like as were made on the walls: for which +cause also the planks were thicker in the front of the porch without. + +41:26. Upon which were the oblique windows, and the representation of +palm trees on this side, and on that side in the sides of the porch, +according to the sides of the house, and the breadth of the walls. + +Ezechiel Chapter 42 + +A description of the courts, chambers, and other places belonging to the +temple. + +42:1. And he brought me forth into the outward court by the way that +leadeth to the north, and he brought me into the chamber that was over +against the separate building, and over against the house toward the +north. + +42:2. In the face of the north door was the length of hundred cubits, +and the breadth of fifty cubits. + +42:3. Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over +against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone, +where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery. + +42:4. And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to +the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the +north. + +42:5. Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up +the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts, and +from the midst of the building. + +42:6. For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the +pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower +places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground. + +42:7. And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were +towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty +cubits long. + +42:8. For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty +cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits. + +42:9. And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the east, for +them that went into them out of the outward court. + +42:10. In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward +the east, over against the separate building, and there were chambers +before the building. + +42:11. And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward +the north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the +going in to them, and their fashions, and their doors were alike. + +42:12. According to the doors of the chambers that were towards the +south: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before the +porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in. + +42:13. And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of +the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy +chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into +the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the +offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place. + +42:14. And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not go out +of the holy places into the outward court: but there they shall lay +their vestments, wherein they minister, for they are holy: and they +shall put on other garments, and so they shall go forth to the people. + +42:15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he +brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and +he measured it on every side round about. + +42:16. And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five +hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. + +42:17. And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the +measuring reed round about. + +42:18. And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with the +measuring reed round about. + +42:19. And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the +measuring reed. + +42:20. By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side +round about, five hundred cubits and five hundred cubits broad, making a +separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people. + +Ezechiel Chapter 43 + +The glory of God returns to the new temple. The Israelites shall no more +profane God's name by idolatry: the prophet is commanded to shew them +the dimensions, and form of the temple, and of the altar, with the +sacrifices to be offered thereon. + +43:1. And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the east. + +43:2. And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the way of +the east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth +shone with his majesty. + +43:3. And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen +when he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to +the vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my +face. + +43:4. And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by the way of the +gate that looked to the east. + +43:5. And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: +and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord. + +43:6. And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and the man that +stood by me, + +43:7. Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of +the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of +Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy +name, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses +of their kings, and by the high places. + +43:8. They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and their posts +by my posts: and there was but a wall between me, and them: and they +profaned my holy name by the abominations which they committed: for +which reason I consumed them in my wrath. + +43:9. Now therefore let them put away their fornications, and the +carcasses of their kings far from me: and I will dwell in the midst of +them for ever. + +43:10. But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the temple, and +let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the +building: + +43:11. And be ashamed of all that they have done. Shew them the form of +the house, and of the fashion thereof, the goings out and the comings +in, and the whole plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and all its +order, and all its laws, and thou shalt write it in their sight: that +they may keep the whole form thereof, and its ordinances, and do them. + +43:12. This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All +its border round about; most holy: this then is the law of the house. + +43:13. And these are the measures of the altar by the truest cubit, +which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and +the breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its edge, and round +about, one handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar. + +43:14. And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim two cubits, +and the breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser brim to the greater +brim four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit. + +43:15. And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward +were four horns. + +The Ariel... That is, the altar itself, or rather the highest part of +it, upon which the burnt offerings were laid. In the Hebrew it is Harel, +that is, the mountain of God: but in the following verse Haariel, that +is, the lion of God; a figure, from its consuming, and as it were +devouring the sacrifices, as a lion devours its prey. + +43:16. And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, +foursquare, with equal sides. + +43:17. And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad +in the four corners thereof: and the crown round about it was half a +cubit, and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and its steps turned +toward the east. + +43:18. And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith the Lord God: These are +the ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever it shall be made: that +holocausts may be offered upon it, and blood poured out. + +43:19. And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites, that are of +the race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the Lord God, to offer to +me a calf of the herd for sin. + +43:20. And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt put it upon the four +horns thereof, and upon the four corners of the brim, and upon the crown +round about: and thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it. + +43:21. And thou shalt take the calf, that is offered for sin: and thou +shalt burn him in a separate place of the house without the sanctuary. + +43:22. And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish +for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the +calf. + +43:23. And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation thereof, +thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without blemish, and a ram of the +flock without blemish. + +43:24. And thou shalt offer them in the sight of the Lord, and the +priests shall put salt upon them, and shall offer them a holocaust to +the Lord. + +43:25. Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sin daily: they shall +offer also a calf of the herd, and a ram of the flock without blemish. + +43:26. Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: +and they shall consecrate it. + +Consecrate it... Literally, fill its hand, that is, dedicate and apply +it to holy service. + +43:27. And the days being expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward, +the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace +offerings: and I will be pacified towards you, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 44 + +The east gate of the sanctuary shall be always shut. The uncircumcised +shall not enter into the sanctuary: nor the Levites that have served +idols: but the sons of Sadoc shall do the priestly functions, who stood +firm in the worst of times. + +44:1. And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward +sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut. + +44:2. And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be +opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of +Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut + +44:3. For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread +before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate, +and shall go out by the same way. + +44:4. And he brought me by the way of the north gate, in the sight of +the house: and I saw, and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house +of the Lord: and I fell on my face. + +44:5. And the Lord said to me: Son of man, attend with thy heart and +behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that I say to thee +concerning all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord, and concerning +all the laws thereof: and mark well the ways of the temple, with all the +goings out of the sanctuary. + +44:6. And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh me: Thus +saith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings suffice you, O house of +Israel: + +44:7. In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and +uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: +and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my +covenant by all your wicked doings. + +44:8. And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have +set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. + +44:9. Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and +uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that +is in the midst of the children of Israel. + +44:10. Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the +children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their +idols, and have borne their iniquity: + +44:11. They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the +gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the +holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their +sight, to minister to them. + +44:12. Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a +stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I +lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear +their iniquity: + +44:13. And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of priest to +me, neither shall they come near to any of my holy things that are by +the holy of holies: but they shall bear their shame, and their +wickednesses which they have committed. + +44:14. And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the +service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. + +44:15. But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the +ceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from +me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall stand +before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God. + +44:16. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to +my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies. + +44:17. And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, +they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen +come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and +within. + +44:18. They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches +on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth +sweat. + +44:19. And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, +they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them +up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe +themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people +with their vestments. + +Shall not sanctify the people with their vestments... By exposing them +to the danger of touching the sacred vestments, which none were to touch +but they that were sanctified. + +44:20. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but +they shall only poll their heads. + +44:21. And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner +court. + +44:22. Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is +divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of +Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest. + +44:23. And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and +profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean. + +44:24. And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my +judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances +in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths. + +44:25. And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, +only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and +sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become +unclean. + +44:26. And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. + +44:27. And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner +court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, +saith the Lord God. + +44:28. And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: +neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their +possession. + +44:29. They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and +every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs. + +30. And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of +all things that are offered, shall be the priest's: and you shall give +the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a +blessing upon thy house. + +44:31. The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or +caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle. + +Ezechiel Chapter 45 + +Portions of land for the sanctuary, for the city, and for the prince. +Ordinances for the prince. + +45:1. And when you shall begin to divide the land by lot, separate ye +firstfruits to the Lord, a portion of the land to be holy, in length +twenty-five thousand and in breadth ten thousand: it shall be holy in +all the borders thereof round about. + +Twenty-five thousand... Viz., reeds or cubits. + +45:2. And there shall be for the sanctuary on every side five hundred by +five hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty cubits for the suburbs +thereof round about. + +45:3. And with this measure thou shalt measure the length of five and +twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the +temple and the holy of holies. + +45:4. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the +ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to the ministry of the Lord: +and it shall be a place for their houses, and for the holy place of the +sanctuary. + +45:5. And five and twenty thousand of length, and ten thousand of +breadth shall be for the Levites, that minister in the house: they shall +possess twenty store chambers. + +45:6. And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand +broad, and five and twenty thousand long, according to the separation of +the sanctuary, for the whole house of Israel. + +45:7. For the prince also on the one side and on the other side, +according to the separation of the sanctuary, and according to the +possession of the city, over against the separation of the sanctuary, +and over against the possession of the city: from the side of the sea +even to the sea, and from the side of the east even to the east. And the +length according to every part from the west border to the east border. + +45:8. He shall have a portion of the land in Israel: and the princes +shall no more rob my people: but they shall give the land to the house +of Israel according to their tribes: + +45:9. Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: +cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, +separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God. + +45:10. You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate. + +45:11. The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that +the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth +part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of +a core. + +The ephi and the bate... These measures were of equal capacity, but the +bate served for liquids, and the ephi for dry things. + +45:12. And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sicles, and five and +twenty sicles, and fifteen sicles, make a mna, + +45:13. And these are the firstfruits, which you shall take: the sixth +part of an ephi of a core of wheat, and the sixth part of an ephi of a +core of barley. + +45:14. The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a +core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core. + +45:15. And one ram out of a flock of two hundred, of those that Israel +feedeth for sacrifice, and for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to +make atonement for them, saith the Lord God. + +45:16. All the people of the land shall be bound to these firstfruits +for the prince in Israel. + +45:17. And the prince shall give the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and +the libations on the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, +and on all the solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall offer the +sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust, and the peace offerings to make +expiation for the house of Israel. + +45:18. Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the +month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou +shalt expiate the sanctuary. + +45:19. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering: and +he shall put it on the posts of the house, and on the four corners of +the brim of the altar, and oil the posts of the gate of the inner court. + +45:20. And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of the month, for every +one that hath been ignorant, and hath been deceived by error, and thou +shalt make expiation for the house. + +45:21. In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you shall +observe the solemnity of the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall be +eaten. + +45:22. And the prince on that day shall offer for himself, and for all +the people of the land, a calf for sin. + +45:23. And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for a +holocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams without blemish +daily for seven days: and for sin a he goat daily. + +45:24. And he shall offer the sacrifice of an ephi for every calf, and +an ephi for every ram: and a hin of oil for every ephi. + +45:25. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the +solemn feast, he shall do the like for the seven days: as well in regard +to the sin offering, as to the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the +oil. + +Ezechiel Chapter 46 + +Other ordinances for the prince and for the sacrifices. + +46:1. Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh +toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but +on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new +moon it shall be opened. + +46:2. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate +from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the +priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall +adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate +shall not be shut till the evening. + +46:3. And the people of the land shall adore at the door of that gate +before the Lord on the sabbaths, and on the new moons. + +46:4. And the holocaust that the prince shall offer to the Lord on the +sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without +blemish. + +46:5. And the sacrifice of all ephi for a ram: but for the lambs what +sacrifice his hand shall allow: and a hin of oil for every ephi. + +46:6. And on the day of the new moon a calf of the herd without blemish: +and the six lambs, and the rams shall be without blemish. + +46:7. And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi for calf, an ephi also for +a ram: but for the lambs, as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil for +every ephi. + +46:8. And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the +porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way. + +46:9. But when the people of the land shall go in before the Lord in the +solemn feasts, he that goeth in by the north gate to adore, shall go out +by the way of the south gate; and he that goeth in by the way of the +south gate, shall go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not +return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go out at +that over against it. + +46:10. And the prince in the midst of them, shall go in when they go in, +and go out when they go out. + +46:11. And in the fairs, and in the solemnities there shall be the +sacrifice of an ephi to a calf, and an ephi to a ram: and to the lambs, +the sacrifice shall be as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil to every +ephi. + +46:12. But when the prince shall offer a voluntary holocaust, or +voluntary peace offering to the Lord: the gate that looketh towards the +east shall be opened to him, and he shall offer his holocaust, and his +peace offerings, as it is wont to be done on the sabbath day: and he +shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he is gone forth. + +46:13. And he shall offer every day for a holocaust to the Lord, a lamb +of the same year without blemish: he shall offer it always in the +morning. + +46:14. And he shall offer the sacrifice for it morning by morning, the +sixth part of an ephi: and the third part of a hin of oil to be mingled +with the fine flour: a sacrifice to the Lord by ordinance continual and +everlasting. + +46:15. He shall offer the lamb, and the sacrifice, and the oil morning +by morning: an everlasting holocaust. + +46:16. Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince give a gift to any of his +sons: the inheritance of it shall go to his children, they shall possess +it by inheritance. + +46:17. But if he give a legacy out of his inheritance to one of his +servants, it shall be his until the year of release, and it shall return +to the prince: but his inheritance shall go to his sons. + +46:18. And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by +violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he +shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed +every man from his possession. + +46:19. And he brought me in by the entry that was at the side of the +gate, into the chambers of the sanctuary that were for the priests, +which looked toward the north. And there was a place bending to the +west. + +46:20. And he said to me: This is the place where the priests shall boil +the sin offering, and the trespass offering: where they shall dress the +sacrifice, that they may not bring it out into the outward court, and +the people be sanctified. + +46:21. And he brought me into the outward court, and he led me about by +the four corners of the court: and behold there was a little court in +the corner of the court, to every corner of the court there was a little +court. + +46:22. In the four corners of the court were little courts disposed, +forty cubits long, and thirty broad, all the four were of one measure. + +46:23. And there was a wall round about compassing the four little +courts, and there were kitchens built under the rows round about. + +46:24. And he said to me: This is the house of the kitchens wherein the +ministers of the house of the Lord shall boil the victims of the people. + +Ezechiel Chapter 47 + +The vision of the holy waters issuing out from under the temple: the +borders of the land to be divided among the twelve tribes. + +47:1. And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold +waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: +for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the waters +came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the +altar. + +Waters... These waters are not to be understood literally (for there +were none such that flowed from the temple); but mystically, of the +baptism of Christ, and of his doctrine and his grace: the trees that +grow on the banks are Christian virtues: the fishes are Christians, that +spiritually live in and by these holy waters, the fishermen are the +apostles, and apostolic preachers: the fenny places, where there is no +health, are such as by being out of the church are separated from these +waters of life. + +47:2. And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me +to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked +toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side. + +47:3. And when the man that had the line in his hand went out towards +the east, he measured a thousand cubits: and he brought me through the +water up to the ankles. + +47:4. And again he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the +water up to the knees. + +47:5. And he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water up +to the loins. And he measured a thousand, and it was a torrent, which I +could not pass over: for the waters were risen so as to make a deep +torrent, which could not be passed over. + +47:6. And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man. And he +brought me out, and he caused me to turn to the bank of the torrent. + +47:7. And when I had turned myself, behold on the bank of the torrent +were very many trees on both sides. + +47:8. And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the +hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, +shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed. + +47:9. And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent +shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after +these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all +things shall live to which the torrent shall come. + +47:10. And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even +to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of +the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great +multitude: + +47:11. But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not +be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits. + +47:12. And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow +all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their +fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, +because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the +fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine. + +47:13. Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall +possess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph +hath a double portion. + +47:14. And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his +brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your +fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession. + +47:15. And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from +the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada, + +47:16. Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is between the border of Damascus +and the border of Emath the house of Tichon, which is by the border of +Auran. + +47:17. And the border from the sea even to the court of Enan, shall be +the border of Damascus, and from the north to the north: the border of +Emath, this is the north side. + +47:18. And the east side is from the midst of Auran, and from the midst +of Damascus, and from the midst of Galaad, and from the midst of the +land of Israel, Jordan making the bound to the east sea, and thus you +shall measure the east side. + +47:19. And the south side southward is, from Thamar even to the waters +of contradiction of Cades: and, the torrent even to the great sea: and +this is the south side southward. + +47:20. And the side toward the sea, is the great sea from the borders +straight on, till thou come to Emath: this is the side of the sea. + +47:21. And you shall divide this land unto you by the tribes of Israel: + +47:22. And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to +the strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children +among you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born +among the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you +in the midst of the tribes of Israel. + +47:23. And in what tribe soever the stranger shall be, there shall you +give him possession, saith the Lord God. + +Ezechiel Chapter 48 + +The portions of the twelve tribes, of the sanctuary, of the city, and of +the prince. The dimensions and gates of the city. + +48:1. And these are the names of the tribes from the borders of the +north, by the way of Hethalon, as they go to Emath, the court of Enan +the border of Damascus northward, by the way off Emath. And from the +east side thereof to the sea shall be one portion for Dan. + +48:2. And by the border of Dan, from the east side even to the side of +the sea, one portion for Aser: + +48:3. And by the border of Aser, from the east side even to the side of +the sea one portion for Nephthali. + +48:4. And by the border of Nephthali, from the east side even to the +side of the one portion for Manasses. + +48:5. And by the border of Manasses, from the east side even to the side +of the sea, one portion for Ephraim. + +48:6. And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the side +of the sea, one portion for Ruben. + +48:7. And by the border of Ruben, from the east side even to the side of +the sea, one portion for Juda. + +48:8. And by the border of Juda, from the east side even to the side of +the sea, shall be the firstfruits which you shall set apart, five and +twenty thousand in breadth, and length, as every one of the portions +from the east side to the side of the sea: and the sanctuary shall be in +the midst thereof. + +48:9. The firstfruits which you shall set apart for the Lord will be the +length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand. + +48:10. And these shall be the firstfruits of the sanctuary for the +priests: toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward +the sea ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east also ten thousand +in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and +the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof. + +48:11. The sanctuary shall be for the priests of the sons of Sadoc, who +kept my ceremonies, and went not astray when the children of Israel went +astray, as the Levites also went astray. + +48:12. And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the +land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites, + +48:13. And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the +priests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. +All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten +thousand. + +48:14. And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the +firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the +Lord. + +48:15. But the five thousand that remain in the breadth over against the +five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city for +dwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof. + +48:16. And these are the measures thereof: on the north side four +thousand and five hundred: and on the south side four thousand and five +hundred: and on the east side four thousand and five hundred: and on the +west side four thousand and five hundred. + +48:17. And the suburbs of the city shall be to the north two hundred and +fifty, and the south two hundred and fifty, and to the east two hundred +and fifty, and to the sea two hundred and fifty. + +48:18. And the residue in length by the firstfruits of the sanctuary, +ten thousand toward the east, and ten thousand toward the west, shall be +as the firstfruits of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for +bread to them that serve the city. + +48:19. And they that serve the city, shall serve it out of all the +tribes of Israel. + +48:20. All the firstfruits, of five and twenty thousand, by five and +twenty thousand foursquare, shall be set apart for the firstfruits of +the sanctuary, and for the possession of the city. + +48:21. And the residue shall be for the prince on every side of the +firstfruits of the sanctuary, and of the possession of the city over +against the five and twenty thousand of the firstfruits unto the east +border: toward the sea also over against the five and twenty thousand, +unto the border of the sea, shall likewise be the portion of the prince: +and the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and the sanctuary of the temple +shall be in the midst thereof. + +48:22. And from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession +of the city which are in the midst of the prince's portions: what shall +be to the border of Juda, and to the border of Benjamin, shall also +belong to the prince. + +48:23. And for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west +side, one portion for Benjamin. + +48:24. And over against the border of Benjamin, from the east side to +the west side, one portion for Simeon. + +48:25. And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, +one portion for Issachar. + +48:26. And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west +side, one portion for Zabulon. + +48:27. And by the border of Zabulon, from the east side to the side of +the sea, one portion for Gad. + +48:28. And by the border of Gad, the south side southward: and the +border shall be from Thamar, even to the waters of contradiction of +Cades, the inheritance over against the great sea. + +48:29. This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of +Israel: and these are the portions of them, saith the Lord God. + +48:30. And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou +shalt measure four thousand and five hundred. + +48:31. And the gates of the city according to the name, of the tribes of +Israel, three gates on the north side, the gate of Ruben one, the gate +of Juda one, the gate of Levi one. + +48:32. And at the east side, four thousand and five hundred: and three +gates, the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan +one. + +48:33. And at the south side, thou shalt measure four thousand and five +hundred and three gates, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar +one, the gate of Zabulon one. + +48:34. And at the west side, four thousand and five hundred, and their +three gates, the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser one, the gate of +Nephthali one. + +48:35. Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of the city +from that day, The Lord is there. + +The Lord is there.... This name is here given to the city, that is, to +the church of Christ: because the Lord is always with her till the end +of the world. 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