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+Book 26 Ezekiel
+001:001 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month],
+        in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives
+        by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw
+        visions of God.
+001:002 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year
+        of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
+001:003 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son
+        of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
+        and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.
+001:004 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north,
+        a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round
+        about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal,
+        out of the midst of the fire.
+001:005 Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.
+        This was their appearance:  they had the likeness of a man.
+001:006 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
+001:007 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
+        was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled
+        like burnished brass.
+001:008 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
+        and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:
+001:009 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn
+        when they went; each one went straight forward.
+001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man;
+        and they four had the face of a lion on the right side;
+        and they four had the face of an ox on the left side;
+        they four had also the face of an eagle.
+001:011 Their faces and their wings were separate above;
+        two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two
+        covered their bodies.
+001:012 Each one went straight forward:  where the spirit was to go,
+        they went; they didn't turn when they went.
+001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
+        was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches:
+        [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures;
+        and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
+001:014 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
+        of a flash of lightning.
+001:015 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on
+        the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four
+        faces of it.
+001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl:
+        and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their
+        work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
+001:017 When they went, they went in their four directions:
+        they didn't turn when they went.
+001:018 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four
+        had their rims full of eyes round about.
+001:019 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them;
+        and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,
+        the wheels were lifted up.
+001:020 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go:
+        and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit
+        of the living creature was in the wheels.
+001:021 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood;
+        and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
+        were lifted up beside them:  for the spirit of the living
+        creature was in the wheels.
+001:022 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness
+        of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on,
+        stretched forth over their heads above.
+001:023 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward
+        the other:  each one had two which covered on this side,
+        and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
+001:024 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise
+        of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise
+        of tumult like the noise of an army:  when they stood,
+        they let down their wings.
+001:025 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads:
+        when they stood, they let down their wings.
+001:026 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of
+        a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone;
+        and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance
+        of a man on it above.
+001:027 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within
+        it round about, from the appearance of his waist and upward;
+        and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw
+        as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness
+        round about him.
+001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day
+        of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
+        This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh.
+        When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice
+        of one that spoke.
+002:001 He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will
+        speak with you.
+002:002 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me
+        on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
+002:003 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel,
+        to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me:
+        they and their fathers have transgressed against me even
+        to this very day.
+002:004 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you
+        to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
+002:005 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,
+        (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there
+        has been a prophet among them.
+002:006 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid
+        of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you
+        do dwell among scorpions:  don't be afraid of their words,
+        nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
+002:007 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear,
+        or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
+002:008 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you
+        rebellious like that rebellious house:  open your mouth,
+        and eat that which I give you.
+002:009 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold,
+        a scroll of a book was therein;
+002:010 He spread it before me:  and it was written within and without;
+        and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
+003:001 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find;
+        eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
+003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
+003:003 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat,
+        and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.
+        Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
+003:004 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel,
+        and speak with my words to them.
+003:005 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
+        a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
+003:006 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language,
+        whose words you can not understand.  Surely, if I sent you
+        to them, they would listen to you.
+003:007 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will
+        not listen to me:  for all the house of Israel are of hard
+        forehead and of a stiff heart.
+003:008 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces,
+        and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
+003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead:
+        don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks,
+        though they are a rebellious house.
+003:010 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
+        speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
+003:011 Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people,
+        and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh;
+        whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
+003:012 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice
+        of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh
+        from his place.
+003:013 [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they
+        touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them,
+        even the noise of a great rushing.
+003:014 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went
+        in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh
+        was strong on me.
+003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived
+        by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
+        overwhelmed among them seven days.
+003:016 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh
+        came to me, saying,
+003:017 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel:
+        therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
+003:018 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him
+        no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way,
+        to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
+        but his blood will I require at your hand.
+003:019 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness,
+        nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity;
+        but you have delivered your soul.
+003:020 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness,
+        and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him,
+        he shall die:  because you have not given him warning,
+        he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has
+        done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require
+        at your hand.
+003:021 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous
+        not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live,
+        because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
+003:022 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise,
+        go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
+003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain:  and behold,
+        the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw
+        by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
+003:024 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet;
+        and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself
+        within your house.
+003:025 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you,
+        and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
+003:026 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth,
+        that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover;
+        for they are a rebellious house.
+003:027 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you
+        shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  He who hears,
+        let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear:
+        for they are a rebellious house.
+004:001 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you,
+        and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
+004:002 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it,
+        and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it,
+        and plant battering rams against it round about.
+004:003 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
+        between you and the city:  and set your face toward it,
+        and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
+        This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
+004:004 Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of
+        the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days
+        that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
+004:005 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be
+        to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days:
+        so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
+004:006 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your
+        right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah:
+        forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
+004:007 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
+        with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
+004:008 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from
+        one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days
+        of your siege.
+004:009 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils,
+        and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make
+        you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that
+        you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days,
+        shall you eat of it.
+004:010 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
+        a day:  from time to time shall you eat it.
+004:011 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin:
+        from time to time shall you drink.
+004:012 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it
+        in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
+004:013 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
+        bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
+004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted;
+        for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten
+        of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals;
+        neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
+004:015 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung
+        for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
+004:016 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff
+        of bread in Jerusalem:  and they shall eat bread by weight,
+        and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure,
+        and in dismay:
+004:017 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another,
+        and pine away in their iniquity.
+005:001 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor
+        shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on
+        your head and on your beard:  then take balances to weigh,
+        and divide the hair.
+005:002 A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city,
+        when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take
+        a third part, and strike with the sword round about it;
+        and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will
+        draw out a sword after them.
+005:003 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
+005:004 Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst
+        of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire
+        come forth into all the house of Israel.
+005:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  This is Jerusalem; I have set her
+        in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
+005:006 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more
+        than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries
+        that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances,
+        and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
+005:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you are turbulent
+        more than the nations that are round about you, and have
+        not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances,
+        neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
+        round about you;
+005:008 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I, even I,
+        am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst
+        of you in the sight of the nations.
+005:009 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I
+        will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
+005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
+        and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
+        judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter
+        to all the winds.
+005:011 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you
+        have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things,
+        and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you];
+        neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
+005:012 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence,
+        and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you;
+        and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you;
+        and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will
+        draw out a sword after them.
+005:013 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause
+        my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted;
+        and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal,
+        when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
+005:014 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among
+        the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all
+        that pass by.
+005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
+        an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you,
+        when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath,
+        and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
+005:016 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine,
+        that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you:
+        and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your
+        staff of bread;
+005:017 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall
+        bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you;
+        and I will bring the sword on you:  I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
+006:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+006:002 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel,
+        and prophesy to them,
+006:003 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
+        and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys:
+        Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will
+        destroy your high places.
+006:004 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars
+        shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men
+        before your idols.
+006:005 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel
+        before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round
+        about your altars.
+006:006 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste,
+        and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars
+        may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be
+        broken and cease, and your incense altars may be hewn down,
+        and your works may be abolished.
+006:007 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that
+        escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered
+        through the countries.
+006:009 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations
+        where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been
+        broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me,
+        and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols:
+        and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils
+        which they have committed in all their abominations.
+006:010 They shall know that I am Yahweh:  I have not said in vain
+        that I would do this evil to them.
+006:011 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Smite with your hand, and stamp with
+        your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations
+        of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword,
+        by the famine, and by the pestilence.
+006:012 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is
+        near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is
+        besieged shall die by the famine:  thus will I accomplish
+        my wrath on them.
+006:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be
+        among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill,
+        on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree,
+        and under every thick oak, the places where they offered
+        sweet savor to all their idols.
+006:014 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate
+        and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all
+        their habitations:  and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+007:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+007:002 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land
+        of Israel, An end:  the end is come on the four corners
+        of the land.
+007:003 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you,
+        and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring
+        on you all your abominations.
+007:004 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity;
+        but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall
+        be in the midst of you:  and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+007:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
+007:006 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you;
+        behold, it comes.
+007:007 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land:
+        the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult,
+        and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
+007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my
+        anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways;
+        and I will bring on you all your abominations.
+007:009 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity:
+        I will bring on you according to your ways; and your
+        abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know
+        that I, Yahweh, do strike.
+007:010 Behold, the day, behold, it comes:  your doom is gone forth;
+        the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
+007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them
+        [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth:
+        neither shall there be eminency among them.
+007:012 The time is come, the day draws near:  don't let the buyer rejoice,
+        nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
+007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
+        although they be yet alive:  for the vision is touching
+        the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall
+        any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
+007:014 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none
+        goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it.
+007:015 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within:
+        he who is in the field shall die with the sword:
+        and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
+007:016 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on
+        the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning,
+        every one in his iniquity.
+007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
+007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
+        cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness
+        on all their heads.
+007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
+        shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall
+        not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh:
+        they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels;
+        because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
+007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty;
+        but they made the images of their abominations [and] their
+        detestable things therein:  therefore have I made it to them
+        as an unclean thing.
+007:021 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
+        and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
+        shall profane it.
+007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane
+        my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it,
+        and profane it.
+007:023 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes,
+        and the city is full of violence.
+007:024 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
+        possess their houses:  I will also make the pride of the strong
+        to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
+007:025 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there
+        shall be none.
+007:026 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor;
+        and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
+        shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
+007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
+        and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:
+        I will do to them after their way, and according to their
+        own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that
+        I am Yahweh.
+008:001 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth
+        [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders
+        of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell
+        there on me.
+008:002 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
+        from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from
+        his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness,
+        as it were glowing metal.
+008:003 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;
+        and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky,
+        and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
+        to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward
+        the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
+        which provokes to jealousy.
+008:004 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
+        the appearance that I saw in the plain.
+008:005 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
+        toward the north.  So I lifted up my eyes the way toward
+        the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this
+        image of jealousy in the entry.
+008:006 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great
+        abominations that the house of Israel do commit here,
+        that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall
+        again see yet other great abominations.
+008:007 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
+        behold, a hole in the wall.
+008:008 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall:
+        and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
+008:009 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that
+        they do here.
+008:010 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things,
+        and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
+        portrayed on the wall round about.
+008:011 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house
+        of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah
+        the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand;
+        and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
+008:012 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
+        of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his
+        chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us;
+        Yahweh has forsaken the land.
+008:013 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great
+        abominations which they do.
+008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house
+        which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women
+        weeping for Tammuz.
+008:015 Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you
+        shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
+008:016 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see,
+        at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch
+        and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs
+        toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east;
+        and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
+008:017 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man?
+        Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
+        abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land
+        with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger:
+        and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
+008:018 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare,
+        neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears
+        with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
+009:001 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you
+        them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man
+        with his destroying weapon in his hand.
+009:002 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate,
+        which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter
+        weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them
+        clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side.
+        They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
+009:003 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
+        whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house:
+        and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's
+        inkhorn by his side.
+009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city,
+        through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads
+        of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
+        that are done in the midst of it.
+009:005 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through
+        the city after him, and strike:  don't let your eye spare,
+        neither have you pity;
+009:006 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin,
+        and little children and women; but don't come near any
+        man on whom is the mark:  and begin at my sanctuary.
+        Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
+009:007 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
+        with the slain:  go you forth.  They went forth, and struck
+        in the city.
+009:008 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left,
+        that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh!
+        will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring
+        out of your wrath on Jerusalem?
+009:009 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
+        Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood,
+        and the city full of perversion:  for they say, Yahweh has
+        forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.
+009:010 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
+        but I will bring their way on their head.
+009:011 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by
+        his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you
+        have commanded me.
+010:001 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head
+        of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or,
+        lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness
+        of a throne.
+010:002 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between
+        the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both
+        your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim,
+        and scatter them over the city.  He went in as I watched.
+010:003 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house,
+        when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
+010:004 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood]
+        over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled
+        with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness
+        of Yahweh's glory.
+010:005 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to
+        the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
+010:006 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen,
+        saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between
+        the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
+010:007 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim
+        to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it],
+        and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen,
+        who took it and went out.
+010:008 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
+        under their wings.
+010:009 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel
+        beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub;
+        and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
+010:010 As for their appearance, they four had one likeness,
+        as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
+010:011 When they went, they went in their four directions:
+        they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head
+        looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
+010:012 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands,
+        and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
+        [even] the wheels that they four had.
+010:013 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing,
+        the whirling [wheels].
+010:014 Every one had four faces:  the first face was the face
+        of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man,
+        and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face
+        of an eagle.
+010:015 The cherubim mounted up:  this is the living creature that I
+        saw by the river Chebar.
+010:016 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when
+        the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,
+        the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
+010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up,
+        these mounted up with them:  for the spirit of the living
+        creature was in them.
+010:018 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house,
+        and stood over the cherubim.
+010:019 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth
+        in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them:
+        and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house;
+        and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
+010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
+        by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
+010:021 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings;
+        and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
+010:022 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I
+        saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves;
+        they went every one straight forward.
+011:001 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to
+        the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward:
+        and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men;
+        and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur,
+        and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
+011:002 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity,
+        and who give wicked counsel in this city;
+011:003 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses:
+        this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
+011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
+011:005 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me,
+        Speak, Thus says Yahweh:  Thus have you said, house of Israel;
+        for I know the things that come into your mind.
+011:006 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled
+        the streets of it with the slain.
+011:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Your slain whom you
+        have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this
+        [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out
+        of the midst of it.
+011:008 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+011:009 I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you
+        into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
+011:010 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border
+        of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+011:011 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh
+        in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
+011:012 and you shall know that I am Yahweh:  for you have not walked
+        in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances,
+        but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
+        round about you.
+011:013 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son
+        of Benaiah died.  Then fell I down on my face, and cried
+        with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make
+        a full end of the remnant of Israel?
+011:014 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+011:015 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men
+        of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them,
+        [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said,
+        Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession.
+011:016 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Whereas I have removed
+        them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered
+        them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary
+        for a little while in the countries where they are come.
+011:017 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will gather you
+        from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you
+        have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
+011:018 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable
+        things of it and all the abominations of it from there.
+011:019 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;
+        and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will
+        give them a heart of flesh;
+011:020 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances,
+        and do them:  and they shall be my people, and I will
+        be their God.
+011:021 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their
+        detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their
+        way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
+011:022 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels
+        were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was
+        over them above.
+011:023 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city,
+        and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
+011:024 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by
+        the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.
+        So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
+011:025 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh
+        had shown me.
+012:001 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
+012:002 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house,
+        who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear,
+        and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
+012:003 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing,
+        and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from
+        your place to another place in their sight:  it may be they
+        will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
+012:004 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight,
+        as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at
+        even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
+012:005 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
+012:006 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder,
+        and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face,
+        that you don't see the land:  for I have set you for a sign
+        to the house of Israel.
+012:007 I did so as I was commanded:  I brought forth my stuff by day,
+        as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall
+        with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it
+        on my shoulder in their sight.
+012:008 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,
+012:009 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
+        said to you, What do you?
+012:010 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  This burden
+        [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel
+        among whom they are.
+012:011 Say, I am your sign:  like as I have done, so shall it be done
+        to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
+012:012 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder
+        in the dark, and shall go forth:  they shall dig through
+        the wall to carry out thereby:  he shall cover his face,
+        because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
+012:013 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare;
+        and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
+        yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
+012:014 I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about
+        him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out
+        the sword after them.
+012:015 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them
+        among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
+012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword,
+        from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare
+        all their abominations among the nations where they come;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+012:017 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+012:018 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water
+        with trembling and with fearfulness;
+012:019 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
+        concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land
+        of Israel:  They shall eat their bread with fearfulness,
+        and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate,
+        [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence
+        of all those who dwell therein.
+012:020 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
+        shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+012:021 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+012:022 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land
+        of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
+012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will
+        make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it
+        as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand,
+        and the fulfillment of every vision.
+012:024 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering
+        divination within the house of Israel.
+012:025 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall
+        speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred:
+        for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word,
+        and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.
+012:026 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision
+        that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies
+        of times that are far off.
+012:028 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  There shall
+        none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I
+        shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
+013:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy,
+        and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart,
+        Hear you the word of Yahweh:
+013:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets,
+        who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
+013:004 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
+013:005 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up
+        the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle
+        in the day of Yahweh.
+013:006 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say,
+        Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them:  and they have made
+        men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
+013:007 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken
+        a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I
+        have not spoken?
+013:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you have spoken
+        falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+013:009 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions,
+        and who divine lies:  they shall not be in the council of my people,
+        neither shall they be written in the writing of the house
+        of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel;
+        and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
+013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
+        and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold,
+        they daub it with whitewash:
+013:011 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall:
+        there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones,
+        shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
+013:012 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you,
+        Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
+013:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will even tear it with
+        a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing
+        shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
+013:014 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash,
+        and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it
+        shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed
+        in the midst of it:  and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those
+        who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you,
+        The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it;
+013:016 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
+        and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+013:017 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters
+        of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart;
+        and prophesy you against them,
+013:018 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Woe to the women who sew
+        pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head
+        of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls!  Will you hunt
+        the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
+013:019 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley
+        and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die,
+        and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying
+        to my people who listen to lies.
+013:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am
+        against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls
+        to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms;
+        and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt
+        to make [them] fly.
+013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
+        your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted;
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+013:022 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous,
+        whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of
+        the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way,
+        and be saved alive:
+013:023 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor
+        practice divination.  I will deliver my people out of your hand;
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.
+014:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+014:003 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart,
+        and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face:
+        should I be inquired of at all by them?
+014:004 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Every man of the house of Israel who takes
+        his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block
+        of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet;
+        I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude
+        of his idols;
+014:005 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
+        because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
+014:006 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols;
+        and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
+014:007 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who
+        sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes
+        his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his
+        iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire
+        for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
+014:008 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him
+        an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut
+        him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+014:009 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have
+        deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him,
+        and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
+014:010 They shall bear their iniquity:  the iniquity of the prophet
+        shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];
+014:011 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
+        neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions;
+        but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+014:012 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+014:013 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass,
+        and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of
+        the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it
+        man and animal;
+014:014 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
+        they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+014:015 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they
+        ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass
+        through because of the animals;
+014:016 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
+        they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
+        should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
+014:017 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through
+        the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
+014:018 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
+        they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they
+        only should be delivered themselves.
+014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath
+        on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
+014:020 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the
+        Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter;
+        they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
+014:021 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  How much more when I send my
+        four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
+        and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it
+        man and animal!
+014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
+        carried forth, both sons and daughters:  behold, they shall come
+        forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings;
+        and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
+        have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
+        brought on it.
+014:023 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings;
+        and you shall know that I have not done without cause all
+        that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
+015:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree,
+        the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
+015:003 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take
+        a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
+015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has
+        devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned:
+        is it profitable for any work?
+015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work:
+        how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned,
+        shall it yet be meet for any work!
+015:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  As the vine tree among
+        the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel,
+        so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
+015:007 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire,
+        but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I
+        am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
+015:008 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
+        a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
+016:001 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
+016:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem:  Your birth
+        and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite
+        was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
+016:004 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was
+        not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you;
+        you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
+016:005 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have
+        compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field,
+        for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
+016:006 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood,
+        I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said
+        to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live.
+016:007 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you
+        increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament;
+        your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown;
+        yet you were naked and bare.
+016:008 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time
+        was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you,
+        and covered your nakedness:  yes, I swore to you,
+        and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh,
+        and you became mine.
+016:009 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away
+        your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
+016:010 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you
+        with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen,
+        and covered you with silk.
+016:011 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands,
+        and a chain on your neck.
+016:012 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears,
+        and a beautiful crown on your head.
+016:013 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing
+        was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate
+        fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful,
+        and you prospered to royal estate.
+016:014 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty;
+        for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+016:015 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute
+        because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution
+        on everyone who passed by; his it was.
+016:016 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places
+        decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them:
+        [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
+016:017 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver,
+        which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men,
+        and played the prostitute with them;
+016:018 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them,
+        and did set my oil and my incense before them.
+016:019 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
+        with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
+        sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
+016:020 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have
+        borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured.
+        Were your prostitution a small matter,
+016:021 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up,
+        in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
+016:022 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not
+        remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare,
+        and was weltering in your blood.
+016:023 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says
+        the Lord Yahweh),
+016:024 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you
+        a lofty place in every street.
+016:025 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way,
+        and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet
+        to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
+016:026 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians,
+        your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied
+        your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
+016:027 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have
+        diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will
+        of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines,
+        who are ashamed of your lewd way.
+016:028 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians,
+        because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute
+        with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
+016:029 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land
+        of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
+016:030 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you
+        do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
+016:031 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way,
+        and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been
+        as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
+016:032 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead
+        of her husband!
+016:033 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts
+        to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you
+        on every side for your prostitution.
+016:034 You are different from [other] women in your prostitution,
+        in that none follows you to play the prostitute;
+        and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you,
+        therefore you are different.
+016:035 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
+016:036 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out,
+        and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with
+        your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations,
+        and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
+016:037 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you
+        have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved,
+        with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them
+        against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness
+        to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
+016:038 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood
+        are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
+016:039 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw
+        down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places;
+        and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your
+        beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
+016:040 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall
+        stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
+016:041 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments
+        on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you
+        to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give
+        no hire any more.
+016:042 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy
+        shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be
+        no more angry.
+016:043 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth,
+        but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold,
+        I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh:
+        and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
+016:044 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb
+        against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
+016:045 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband
+        and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters,
+        who loathed their husbands and their children:
+        your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
+016:046 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand,
+        she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells
+        at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
+016:047 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after
+        their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing],
+        you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
+016:048 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done,
+        she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
+016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom:
+        pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her
+        and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand
+        of the poor and needy.
+016:050 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
+        therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
+016:051 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have
+        multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified
+        your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
+016:052 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment
+        for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed
+        more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you:
+        yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you
+        have justified your sisters.
+016:053 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
+        her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
+        and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
+016:054 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because
+        of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
+016:055 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
+        former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return
+        to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall
+        return to your former estate.
+016:056 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day
+        of your pride,
+016:057 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the
+        reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round
+        about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite
+        to you round about.
+016:058 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.
+016:059 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will also deal with you as you
+        have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
+016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days
+        of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
+016:061 Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed,
+        when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters]
+        and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters,
+        but not by your covenant.
+016:062 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know
+        that I am Yahweh;
+016:063 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your
+        mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven
+        you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
+017:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the
+        house of Israel;
+017:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  A great eagle with great wings
+        and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors,
+        came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
+017:004 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried
+        it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
+017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it
+        in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters;
+        he set it as a willow tree.
+017:006 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
+        turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him:
+        so it became a vine, and brought forth branches,
+        and shot forth sprigs.
+017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings
+        and many feathers:  and behold, this vine did bend its
+        roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him,
+        from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
+017:008 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it
+        might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit,
+        that it might be a goodly vine.
+017:009 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Shall it prosper? shall
+        he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it,
+        that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves
+        may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it
+        be raised from the roots of it.
+017:010 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
+        utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither
+        in the beds where it grew.
+017:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things
+        mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem,
+        and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought
+        them to him to Babylon:
+017:013 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him;
+        he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty
+        of the land;
+017:014 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up,
+        but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
+017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors
+        into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.
+        Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall
+        he break the covenant, and yet escape?
+017:016 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where
+        the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised,
+        and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst
+        of Babylon he shall die.
+017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
+        help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts,
+        to cut off many persons.
+017:018 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold,
+        he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things;
+        he shall not escape.
+017:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  As I live, surely my oath
+        that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken,
+        I will even bring it on his own head.
+017:020 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare,
+        and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment
+        with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
+017:021 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword,
+        and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind:
+        and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
+017:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will also take of the lofty top
+        of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost
+        of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high
+        and lofty mountain:
+017:023 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it
+        shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:
+        and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade
+        of the branches of it shall they dwell.
+017:024 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought
+        down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried
+        up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish;
+        I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.
+018:001 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
+018:002 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land
+        of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
+        and the children's teeth are set on edge?
+018:003 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion]
+        any more to use this proverb in Israel.
+018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father,
+        so also the soul of the son is mine:  the soul who sins,
+        he shall die.
+018:005 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
+018:006 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up
+        his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has
+        defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman
+        in her impurity,
+018:007 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge,
+        has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry,
+        and has covered the naked with a garment;
+018:008 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken
+        any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity,
+        has executed true justice between man and man,
+018:009 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly;
+        he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
+018:010 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood,
+        and who does any one of these things,
+018:011 and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten
+        on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
+018:012 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not
+        restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,
+        has committed abomination,
+018:013 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then
+        live? he shall not live:  he has done all these abominations;
+        he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.
+018:014 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins,
+        which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
+018:015 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up
+        his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled
+        his neighbor's wife,
+018:016 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge,
+        neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread
+        to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
+018:017 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received
+        interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked
+        in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father,
+        he shall surely live.
+018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother,
+        and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall
+        die in his iniquity.
+018:019 Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity
+        of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful
+        and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them,
+        he shall surely live.
+018:020 The soul who sins, he shall die:  the son shall not bear
+        the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear
+        the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous
+        shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
+        be on him.
+018:021 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed,
+        and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right,
+        he shall surely live, he shall not die.
+018:022 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be
+        remembered against him:  in his righteousness that he has
+        done he shall live.
+018:023 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh;
+        and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
+018:024 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness,
+        and commits iniquity, and does according to all the
+        abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live?
+        None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered:
+        in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin
+        that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
+018:025 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
+        Hear now, house of Israel:  Is my way not equal?
+        Aren't your ways unequal?
+018:026 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness,
+        and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity
+        that he has done shall he die.
+018:027 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness
+        that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right,
+        he shall save his soul alive.
+018:028 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions
+        that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
+018:029 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal.
+        house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
+018:030 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel,
+        everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh.
+        Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions;
+        so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
+018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you
+        have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:
+        for why will you die, house of Israel?
+018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,
+        says the Lord Yahweh:  therefore turn yourselves, and live.
+019:001 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
+019:002 and say, What was your mother?  A lioness:  she couched among lions,
+        in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
+019:003 She brought up one of her cubs:  he became a young lion,
+        and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
+019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit;
+        and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
+019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
+        then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
+019:006 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion,
+        and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
+019:007 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land
+        was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise
+        of his roaring.
+019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces;
+        and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
+019:009 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king
+        of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice
+        should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
+019:010 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters:
+        it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
+019:011 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule,
+        and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs,
+        and they were seen in their height with the multitude
+        of their branches.
+019:012 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground,
+        and the east wind dried up its fruit:  its strong rods were
+        broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
+019:013 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
+019:014 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured
+        its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter
+        to rule.  This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
+020:001 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month],
+        the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders
+        of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
+020:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+020:003 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says
+        the Lord Yahweh:  Is it to inquire of me that you have come?
+        As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired
+        of by you.
+020:004 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them?
+        Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;
+020:005 and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  In the day when I
+        chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob,
+        and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I
+        swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;
+020:006 in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land
+        of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them,
+        flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
+020:007 I said to them, Cast you away every man the abominations
+        of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols
+        of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
+020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me;
+        they did not every man cast away the abominations of
+        their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
+        Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish
+        my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
+020:009 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be
+        profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were,
+        in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them
+        forth out of the land of Egypt.
+020:010 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
+        and brought them into the wilderness.
+020:011 I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances,
+        which if a man do, he shall live in them.
+020:012 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign
+        between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh
+        who sanctifies them.
+020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
+        they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances,
+        which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths
+        they greatly profaned.  Then I said I would pour out my wrath
+        on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
+020:014 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned
+        in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
+020:015 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I
+        would not bring them into the land which I had given them,
+        flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
+020:016 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in
+        my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths:  for their heart went
+        after their idols.
+020:017 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them,
+        neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
+020:018 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in
+        the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances,
+        nor defile yourselves with their idols.
+020:019 I am Yahweh your God:  walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances,
+        and do them;
+020:020 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me
+        and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
+020:021 But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in
+        my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if
+        a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths.
+        Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish
+        my anger against them in the wilderness.
+020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake,
+        that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations,
+        in whose sight I brought them forth.
+020:023 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter
+        them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
+020:024 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected
+        my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes
+        were after their fathers' idols.
+020:025 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good,
+        and ordinances in which they should not live;
+020:026 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused
+        to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I
+        might make them desolate, to the end that they might know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel,
+        and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  In this moreover
+        have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed
+        a trespass against me.
+020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore
+        to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every
+        thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices,
+        and there they presented the provocation of their offering;
+        there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out
+        there their drink offerings.
+020:029 Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go?
+        So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
+020:030 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Do you
+        pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play
+        you the prostitute after their abominations?
+020:031 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons
+        to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all
+        your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you,
+        house of Israel?  As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will
+        not be inquired of by you;
+020:032 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all,
+        in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families
+        of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
+020:033 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand,
+        and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out,
+        will I be king over you:
+020:034 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out
+        of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand,
+        and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
+020:035 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples,
+        and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
+020:036 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness
+        of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+020:037 I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you
+        into the bond of the covenant;
+020:038 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who
+        disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where
+        they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+020:039 As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Go you,
+        serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will
+        not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane
+        with your gifts, and with your idols.
+020:040 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
+        says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel,
+        all of them, serve me in the land:  there will I accept them,
+        and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits
+        of your offerings, with all your holy things.
+020:041 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from
+        the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you
+        have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight
+        of the nations.
+020:042 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into
+        the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give
+        to your fathers.
+020:043 There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings,
+        in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall
+        loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils
+        that you have committed.
+020:044 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you
+        for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
+        nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+020:045 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+020:046 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your
+        word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest
+        of the field in the South;
+020:047 and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh:  Thus says
+        the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it
+        shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree:
+        the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from
+        the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
+020:048 All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it;
+        it shall not be quenched.
+020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a
+        speaker of parables?
+021:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+021:002 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word]
+        toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
+021:003 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh:  Behold, I am
+        against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath,
+        and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
+021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and
+        the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
+        against all flesh from the south to the north:
+021:005 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth
+        my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
+021:006 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs
+        and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.
+021:007 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say,
+        Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt,
+        and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,
+        and all knees shall be weak as water:  behold, it comes,
+        and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
+021:008 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh:  Say, A sword,
+        a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
+021:010 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished
+        that it may be as lightning:  shall we then make mirth?
+        the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.
+021:011 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled:
+        the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it
+        into the hand of the killer.
+021:012 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all
+        the princes of Israel:  they are delivered over to the sword
+        with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
+021:013 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns
+        shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.
+021:014 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together;
+        and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword
+        of the deadly wounded:  it is the sword of the great one
+        who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
+021:015 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
+        that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied:
+        ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
+021:016 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array,
+        go to the left, wherever your face is set.
+021:017 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath
+        to rest:  I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
+021:018 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
+021:019 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king
+        of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land:
+        and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way
+        to the city.
+021:020 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of
+        the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
+021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way,
+        at the head of the two ways, to use divination:
+        he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim,
+        he looked in the liver.
+021:022 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem,
+        to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
+        to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams
+        against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
+021:023 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight,
+        who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory,
+        that they may be taken.
+021:024 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you have made
+        your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
+        are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
+        because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
+021:025 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel,
+        whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
+021:026 thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
+        this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low,
+        and abase that which is high.
+021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it:  this also shall be no more,
+        until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
+021:028 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
+        concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach;
+        and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it
+        is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
+021:029 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you,
+        to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
+        whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
+021:030 Cause it to return into its sheath.  In the place where you
+        were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
+021:031 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you
+        with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand
+        of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
+021:032 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in
+        the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered:
+        for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
+022:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+022:002 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody
+        city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
+022:003 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  A city that
+        sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come,
+        and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
+022:004 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed,
+        and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have
+        caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years:
+        therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations,
+        and a mocking to all the countries.
+022:005 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you,
+        you infamous one [and] full of tumult.
+022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power,
+        have been in you to shed blood.
+022:007 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst
+        of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner;
+        in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
+022:008 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
+022:009 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you
+        they have eaten on the mountains:  in the midst of you they
+        have committed lewdness.
+022:010 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you
+        have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
+022:011 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife;
+        and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another
+        in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
+022:012 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken
+        interest and increase, and you have greedily gained
+        of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+022:013 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest
+        gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been
+        in the midst of you.
+022:014 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days
+        that I shall deal with you?  I, Yahweh, have spoken it,
+        and will do it.
+022:015 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through
+        the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
+022:016 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations;
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+022:017 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me:
+        all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst
+        of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
+022:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you are all
+        become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into
+        the midst of Jerusalem.
+022:020 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin
+        into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it,
+        to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath,
+        and I will lay you there, and melt you.
+022:021 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath,
+        and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
+022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
+        you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know
+        that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
+022:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+022:024 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed,
+        nor rained on in the day of indignation.
+022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it,
+        like a roaring lion ravening the prey:  they have devoured souls;
+        they take treasure and precious things; they have made her
+        widows many in the midst of it.
+022:026 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned
+        my holy things:  they have made no distinction between the holy
+        and the common, neither have they caused men to discern
+        between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
+        from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
+022:027 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening
+        the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they
+        may get dishonest gain.
+022:028 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing
+        false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says
+        the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
+022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery;
+        yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed
+        the foreigner wrongfully.
+022:030 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall,
+        and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
+        not destroy it; but I found none.
+022:031 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them;
+        I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath:  their own
+        way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
+023:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
+023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
+023:003 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the
+        prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed,
+        and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
+023:004 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister:
+        and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters.
+        As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
+023:005 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted
+        on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
+023:006 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
+        desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
+023:007 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria
+        all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols
+        she defiled herself.
+023:008 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt;
+        for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom
+        of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
+023:009 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
+        into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
+023:010 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters;
+        and her they killed with the sword:  and she became a byword
+        among women; for they executed judgments on her.
+023:011 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her
+        doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than
+        the prostitution of her sister.
+023:012 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors,
+        clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them
+        desirable young men.
+023:013 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
+023:014 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
+        the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
+023:015 girded with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on
+        their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness
+        of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
+023:016 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers
+        to them into Chaldea.
+023:017 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
+        her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them,
+        and her soul was alienated from them.
+023:018 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness:
+        then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was
+        alienated from her sister.
+023:019 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days
+        of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in
+        the land of Egypt.
+023:020 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh
+        of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
+023:021 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth,
+        in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts
+        of your youth.
+023:022 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will raise
+        up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated,
+        and I will bring them against you on every side:
+023:023 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa,
+        [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men,
+        governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown,
+        all of them riding on horses.
+023:024 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons,
+        and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves
+        against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about;
+        and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge
+        you according to their judgments.
+023:025 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with
+        you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears;
+        and your residue shall fall by the sword:  they shall take
+        your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured
+        by the fire.
+023:026 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away
+        your beautiful jewels.
+023:027 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you,
+        and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt;
+        so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember
+        Egypt any more.
+023:028 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will deliver you
+        into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them
+        from whom your soul is alienated;
+023:029 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take
+        away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare;
+        and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered,
+        both your lewdness and your prostitution.
+023:030 These things shall be done to you, because you have played
+        the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted
+        with their idols.
+023:031 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I
+        give her cup into your hand.
+023:032 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  You will drink of your sister's cup,
+        which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision;
+        it contains much.
+023:033 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
+        astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
+023:034 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall
+        gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts;
+        for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
+023:035 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you have forgotten me,
+        and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your
+        lewdness and your prostitution.
+023:036 Yahweh said moreover to me:  Son of man, will you judge Oholah
+        and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.
+023:037 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands;
+        and with their idols have they committed adultery;
+        and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me,
+        to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.
+023:038 Moreover this they have done to me:  they have defiled my
+        sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
+023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols,
+        then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;
+        and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
+023:040 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far,
+        to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came;
+        for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck
+        yourself with ornaments,
+023:041 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it,
+        whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.
+023:042 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her:
+        and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards
+        from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands
+        of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.
+023:043 Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they
+        play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].
+023:044 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute:
+        so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
+023:045 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment
+        of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood;
+        because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
+023:046 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will bring up a company
+        against them, and will give them to be tossed back and
+        forth and robbed.
+023:047 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with
+        their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters,
+        and burn up their houses with fire.
+023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
+        women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
+023:049 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall
+        bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am
+        the Lord Yahweh.
+024:001 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
+        [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+024:002 Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day:
+        the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
+024:003 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them,
+        Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on,
+        and also pour water into it:
+024:004 gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece,
+        the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
+024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood]
+        for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well;
+        yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.
+024:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Woe to the bloody city,
+        to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust
+        is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece;
+        No lot is fallen on it.
+024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock;
+        she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
+024:008 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set
+        her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
+024:009 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Woe to the bloody city!
+        I also will make the pile great.
+024:010 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh,
+        and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
+024:011 Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot,
+        and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it
+        may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
+024:012 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't
+        go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
+024:013 In your filthiness is lewdness:  because I have cleansed you
+        and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your
+        filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward
+        you to rest.
+024:014 I, Yahweh, have spoken it:  it shall happen, and I will do it:
+        I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;
+        according to your ways, and according to your doings,
+        shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
+024:015 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your
+        eyes with a stroke:  yet you shall neither mourn nor weep,
+        neither shall your tears run down.
+024:017 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead;
+        bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet,
+        and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
+024:018 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died;
+        and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
+024:019 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things
+        are to us, that you do so?
+024:020 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+024:021 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I
+        will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power,
+        the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities;
+        and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind
+        shall fall by the sword.
+024:022 You shall do as I have done:  you shall not cover your lips,
+        nor eat the bread of men.
+024:023 Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet:
+        you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away
+        in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
+024:024 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has
+        done shall you do:  when this comes, then shall you know
+        that I am the Lord Yahweh.
+024:025 You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
+        from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
+        of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart,
+        their sons and their daughters,
+024:026 that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause
+        you to hear it with your ears?
+024:027 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped,
+        and you shall speak, and be no more mute:  so shall you
+        be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+025:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+025:002 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon,
+        and prophesy against them:
+025:003 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you
+        said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned;
+        and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate;
+        and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
+025:004 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east
+        for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you,
+        and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit,
+        and they shall drink your milk.
+025:005 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children
+        of Ammon a resting place for flocks:  and you shall know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+025:006 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you have clapped your hands,
+        and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite
+        of your soul against the land of Israel;
+025:007 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you,
+        and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations;
+        and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause
+        you to perish out of the countries:  I will destroy you;
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+025:008 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because Moab and Seir say, Behold,
+        the house of Judah is like all the nations;
+025:009 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities,
+        from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory
+        of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
+025:010 to the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon;
+        and I will give them for a possession, that the children
+        of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
+025:011 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+025:012 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because Edom has dealt against
+        the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended,
+        and revenged himself on them;
+025:013 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my
+        hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it;
+        and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall
+        they fall by the sword.
+025:014 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel;
+        and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and
+        according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+025:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because the Philistines have dealt
+        by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul
+        to destroy with perpetual enmity;
+025:016 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out
+        my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites,
+        and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
+025:017 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my
+        vengeance on them.
+026:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month,
+        that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+026:002 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha,
+        she is broken:  the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me;
+        I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
+026:003 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you,
+        Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you,
+        as the sea causes its waves to come up.
+026:004 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers:
+        I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
+026:005 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst
+        of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh;
+        and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
+026:006 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword:
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+026:007 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will bring
+        on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings,
+        from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen,
+        and a company, and much people.
+026:008 He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field;
+        and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound
+        against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
+026:009 He shall set his battering engines against your walls,
+        and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
+026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you:
+        your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
+        and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter
+        into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is
+        made a breach.
+026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets;
+        he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars
+        of your strength shall go down to the ground.
+026:012 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey
+        of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls,
+        and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones
+        and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
+026:013 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound
+        of your harps shall be no more heard.
+026:014 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place
+        for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more:
+        for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
+026:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre:  shall not the islands
+        shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan,
+        when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
+026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
+        and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments:
+        they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall
+        sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be
+        astonished at you.
+026:017 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you,
+        How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men,
+        the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and
+        her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all
+        who lived there!
+026:018 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall;
+        yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed
+        at your departure.
+026:019 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  When I shall make you
+        a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;
+        when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters
+        shall cover you;
+026:020 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit,
+        to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower
+        parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
+        with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited;
+        and I will set glory in the land of the living:
+026:021 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being;
+        though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+027:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
+027:002 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
+027:003 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea,
+        who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands,
+        thus says the Lord Yahweh:  You, Tyre, have said, I am
+        perfect in beauty.
+027:004 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders
+        have perfected your beauty.
+027:005 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
+        they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
+027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars;
+        they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
+        from the islands of Kittim.
+027:007 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
+        that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from
+        the islands of Elishah was your awning.
+027:008 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers:
+        your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
+027:009 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your
+        repairers of ship seams:  all the ships of the sea with their
+        mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
+027:010 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war:
+        they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set
+        forth your comeliness.
+027:011 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about,
+        and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields
+        on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty.
+027:012 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude
+        of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead,
+        they traded for your wares.
+027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers;
+        they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass
+        for your merchandise.
+027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses
+        and war horses and mules.
+027:015 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were
+        the market of your hand:  they brought you in exchange horns
+        of ivory and ebony.
+027:016 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of
+        your handiworks:  they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple,
+        and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
+027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers:
+        they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections,
+        and honey, and oil, and balm.
+027:018 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks,
+        by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine
+        of Helbon, and white wool.
+027:019 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares:
+        bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
+027:020 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
+027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
+        of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were
+        they your merchants.
+027:022 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers;
+        they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices,
+        and with all precious stones, and gold.
+027:023 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur
+        [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.
+027:024 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings
+        of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing,
+        bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
+027:025 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise:
+        and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart
+        of the seas.
+027:026 Your rowers have brought you into great waters:
+        the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
+027:027 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners,
+        and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers
+        in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you,
+        with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall
+        into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
+027:028 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
+027:029 All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots
+        of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall
+        stand on the land,
+027:030 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall
+        cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads,
+        they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
+027:031 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them
+        with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness
+        of soul with bitter mourning.
+027:032 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you,
+        and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre,
+        like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
+027:033 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples;
+        you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude
+        of your riches and of your merchandise.
+027:034 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths
+        of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall
+        in the midst of you.
+027:035 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you,
+        and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled
+        in their face.
+027:036 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become
+        a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
+028:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
+028:002 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said,
+        I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
+        yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart
+        as the heart of God--
+028:003 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is
+        hidden from you;
+028:004 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches,
+        and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
+028:005 by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased
+        your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--
+028:006 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because you have set
+        your heart as the heart of God,
+028:007 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible
+        of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty
+        of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
+028:008 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death
+        of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
+028:009 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you
+        are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
+028:010 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand
+        of strangers:  for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
+028:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre,
+        and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  You seal up the sum,
+        full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
+028:013 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone
+        adorned you:  ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx,
+        jasper, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, turquoise, and beryl.
+        Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you.
+        In the day that you were created they were prepared.
+028:014 You were the anointed cherub who covers:  and I set you,
+        [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked
+        up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
+028:015 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,
+        until unrighteousness was found in you.
+028:016 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you
+        with violence, and you have sinned:  therefore I have cast you
+        as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
+        covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
+028:017 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have
+        corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness:
+        I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings,
+        that they may see you.
+028:018 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness
+        of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries;
+        therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you;
+        it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth
+        in the sight of all those who see you.
+028:019 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you:
+        you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
+028:020 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+028:021 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
+028:022 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am against
+        you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed
+        judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
+028:023 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets;
+        and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword
+        on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+028:024 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel,
+        nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them,
+        that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am
+        the Lord Yahweh.
+028:025 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  When I shall have gathered the house
+        of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered,
+        and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations,
+        then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to
+        my servant Jacob.
+028:026 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses,
+        and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed
+        judgments on all those who do them despite round about them;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
+029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day
+        of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+029:002 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
+        and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
+029:003 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  "Behold, I am
+        against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies
+        in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own,
+        and I have made it for myself.'
+029:004 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish
+        of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up
+        out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your
+        rivers which stick to your scales.
+029:005 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all
+        the fish of your rivers.  You'll fall on the open field.
+        You won't be brought together, nor gathered.  I have given
+        you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds
+        of the sky.
+029:006 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh,
+        because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
+029:007 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore
+        all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke,
+        and paralyzed all of their thighs."
+029:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  "Behold, I will bring
+        a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.
+029:009 The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh.  Because he has said,
+        'The river is mine, and I have made it;'
+029:010 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers,
+        and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation,
+        from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
+029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall
+        pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
+029:012 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst
+        of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among
+        the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years;
+        and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
+        disperse them through the countries."
+029:013 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  "At the end of forty years will I
+        gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;
+029:014 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them
+        to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth;
+        and they shall be there a base kingdom.
+029:015 It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more
+        lift itself up above the nations:  and I will diminish them,
+        that they shall no more rule over the nations.
+029:016 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
+        bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them:
+        and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'"
+029:017 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month],
+        in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came
+        to me, saying,
+029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
+        serve a great service against Tyre:  every head was made bald,
+        and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army,
+        from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
+029:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will give
+        the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
+        and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil,
+        and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
+029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which
+        he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
+029:021 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel,
+        and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+030:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
+030:002 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Wail, Alas
+        for the day!
+030:003 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near;
+        it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
+030:004 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
+        when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away
+        her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
+030:005 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub,
+        and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall
+        with them by the sword.
+030:006 Thus says Yahweh:  They also who uphold Egypt shall fall;
+        and the pride of her power shall come down:
+        from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+030:007 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that
+        are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities
+        that are wasted.
+030:008 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt,
+        and all her helpers are destroyed.
+030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships
+        to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be
+        anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
+030:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will also make the multitude of
+        Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
+030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
+        shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw
+        their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
+030:012 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into
+        the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate,
+        and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:
+        I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
+030:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will also destroy the idols,
+        and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis;
+        and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt:
+        and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
+030:014 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan,
+        and will execute judgments on No.
+030:015 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt;
+        and I will cut off the multitude of No.
+030:016 I will set a fire in Egypt:  Sin shall be in great anguish,
+        and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries
+        in the daytime.
+030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;
+        and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
+030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall
+        break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power
+        shall cease in her:  as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
+        and her daughters shall go into captivity.
+030:019 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+030:020 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month],
+        in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh
+        came to me, saying,
+030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
+        and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines,
+        to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
+030:022 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am against Pharaoh
+        king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm],
+        and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
+        out of his hand.
+030:023 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
+        them through the countries.
+030:024 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
+        my sword in his hand:  but I will break the arms of Pharaoh,
+        and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a
+        deadly wounded man.
+030:025 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms
+        of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh,
+        when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
+        and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
+030:026 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them
+        through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+031:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month],
+        in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
+        to me, saying,
+031:002 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
+        Whom are you like in your greatness?
+031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful
+        branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature;
+        and its top was among the thick boughs.
+031:004 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow:
+        the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent
+        out its channels to all the trees of the field.
+031:005 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;
+        and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long
+        by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
+031:006 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs;
+        and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring
+        forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.
+031:007 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
+        for its root was by many waters.
+031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir
+        trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were
+        not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God
+        like it in its beauty.
+031:009 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
+        so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden
+        of God, envied it.
+031:010 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh:  Because you are exalted
+        in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs,
+        and his heart is lifted up in his height;
+031:011 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of
+        the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven
+        him out for his wickedness.
+031:012 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
+        and have left him:  on the mountains and in all the valleys
+        his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all
+        the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth
+        are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
+031:013 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all
+        the animals of the field shall be on his branches;
+031:014 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
+        in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs,
+        nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height,
+        [even] all who drink water:  for they are all delivered to death,
+        to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children
+        of men, with those who go down to the pit.
+031:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  In the day when he went down to
+        Sheol I caused a mourning:  I covered the deep for him, and I
+        restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed;
+        and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees
+        of the field fainted for him.
+031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
+        cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit;
+        and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon,
+        all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts
+        of the earth.
+031:017 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain
+        by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived
+        under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
+031:018 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees
+        of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden
+        to the lower parts of the earth:  you shall lie in the midst
+        of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
+        This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
+032:001 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,
+        in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
+        to me, saying,
+032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
+        and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations:
+        yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth
+        with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet,
+        and fouled their rivers.
+032:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I will spread out my net on you
+        with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up
+        in my net.
+032:004 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field,
+        and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you,
+        and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
+032:005 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys
+        with your height.
+032:006 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim,
+        even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
+032:007 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make
+        the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud,
+        and the moon shall not give its light.
+032:008 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you,
+        and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
+032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
+        bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries
+        which you have not known.
+032:010 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
+        shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my
+        sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
+        every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
+032:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  The sword of the king of Babylon
+        shall come on you.
+032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall;
+        the terrible of the nations are they all:  and they shall
+        bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude
+        of it shall be destroyed.
+032:013 I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters;
+        neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more,
+        nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
+032:014 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers
+        to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
+032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
+        a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall
+        strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+032:016 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament;
+        the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt,
+        and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+032:017 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day]
+        of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down,
+        even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower
+        parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
+032:019 Whom do you pass in beauty?  Go down, and be laid
+        with the uncircumcised.
+032:020 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword:
+        she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
+032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst
+        of Sheol with those who help him:  they are gone down,
+        they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
+032:022 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her;
+        all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
+032:023 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit,
+        and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain,
+        fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
+032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave;
+        all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down
+        uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused
+        their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their
+        shame with those who go down to the pit.
+032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain
+        with all her multitude; her graves are round about her;
+        all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their
+        terror was caused in the land of the living, and they
+        have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit:
+        he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
+032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are
+        round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
+        for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
+032:027 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of
+        the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their
+        weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads,
+        and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were]
+        the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
+032:028 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
+        and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
+032:029 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their
+        might are laid with those who are slain by the sword:
+        they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go
+        down to the pit.
+032:030 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all
+        the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror
+        which they caused by their might they are put to shame;
+        and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword,
+        and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
+032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all
+        his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+032:032 For I have put his terror in the land of the living;
+        and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised,
+        with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all
+        his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
+033:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them,
+        When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land
+        take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
+033:003 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet,
+        and warn the people;
+033:004 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't
+        take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
+        shall be on his own head.
+033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning;
+        his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning,
+        he would have delivered his soul.
+033:006 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet,
+        and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take
+        any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity,
+        but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
+033:007 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house
+        of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
+        warning from me.
+033:008 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die,
+        and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way;
+        that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood
+        will I require at your hand.
+033:009 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it,
+        and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity,
+        but you have delivered your soul.
+033:010 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel:  Thus you speak,
+        saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we
+        pine away in them; how then can we live?
+033:011 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure
+        in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from
+        his way and live:  turn you, turn you from your evil ways;
+        for why will you die, house of Israel?
+033:012 You, son of man, tell the children of your people,
+        The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day
+        of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked,
+        he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from
+        his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able
+        to live thereby in the day that he sins.
+033:013 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live;
+        if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
+        none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his
+        iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
+033:014 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die;
+        if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
+033:015 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken
+        by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity;
+        he shall surely live, he shall not die.
+033:016 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered
+        against him:  he has done that which is lawful and right;
+        he shall surely live.
+033:017 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord
+        is not equal:  but as for them, their way is not equal.
+033:018 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
+        he shall even die therein.
+033:019 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which
+        is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
+033:020 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
+        House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
+033:021 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
+        tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one
+        who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city
+        has been struck.
+033:022 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening,
+        before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth,
+        until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened,
+        and I was no more mute.
+033:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+033:024 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste 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 for inheritance.
+033:025 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  You eat with
+        the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood:
+        and shall you possess the land?
+033:026 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile
+        everyone his neighbor's wife:  and shall you possess the land?
+033:027 Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  As I live,
+        surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword;
+        and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals
+        to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in
+        the caves shall die of the pestilence.
+033:028 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment;
+        and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains
+        of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
+033:029 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made
+        the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all
+        their abominations which they have committed.
+033:030 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk
+        of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak
+        one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come
+        and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
+033:031 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you
+        as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them;
+        for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart
+        goes after their gain.
+033:032 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has
+        a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument;
+        for they hear your words, but they don't do them.
+033:033 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they
+        know that a prophet has been among them.
+034:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
+        prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves!
+        Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
+034:003 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill
+        the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
+034:004 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed
+        that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which
+        was broken, neither have you brought back that which was
+        driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost;
+        but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.
+034:005 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd;
+        and they became food to all the animals of the field,
+        and were scattered.
+034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill:
+        yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth;
+        and there was none who searched or sought.
+034:007 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
+034:008 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became
+        a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field,
+        because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds
+        search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves,
+        and didn't feed my sheep;
+034:009 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
+034:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am against the shepherds;
+        and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them
+        to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds
+        feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from
+        their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
+034:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I myself, even I,
+        will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
+034:012 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among
+        his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep;
+        and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been
+        scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
+034:013 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from
+        the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I
+        will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses,
+        and in all the inhabited places of the country.
+034:014 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains
+        of the height of Israel shall their fold be:  there shall
+        they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they
+        feed on the mountains of Israel.
+034:015 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause
+        them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
+034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back
+        that which was driven away, and will bind up that which
+        was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
+        but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed
+        them in justice.
+034:017 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I judge
+        between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
+034:018 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture,
+        but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your
+        pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must
+        foul the residue with your feet?
+034:019 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet,
+        and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
+034:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them:  Behold, I, even I,
+        will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
+034:021 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all
+        the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
+034:022 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey;
+        and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
+034:023 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.
+034:024 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince
+        among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
+034:025 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
+        evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
+        securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
+034:026 I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
+        and I will cause the shower to come down in its season;
+        there shall be showers of blessing.
+034:027 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall
+        yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken
+        the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand
+        of those who made slaves of them.
+034:028 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall
+        the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely,
+        and none shall make them afraid.
+034:029 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall
+        be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear
+        the shame of the nations any more.
+034:030 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them,
+        and that they, the house of Israel, are my people,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+034:031 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+035:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+035:002 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
+035:003 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am against you,
+        Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you,
+        and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
+035:004 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate;
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+035:005 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over
+        the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time
+        of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
+035:006 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare
+        you to blood, and blood shall pursue you:  since you have
+        not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
+035:007 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation;
+        and I will cut off from it him who passes through and
+        him who returns.
+035:008 I will fill its mountains with its slain:  in your hills
+        and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they
+        fall who are slain with the sword.
+035:009 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall
+        not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+035:010 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries
+        shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
+035:011 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according
+        to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown
+        out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known
+        among them, when I shall judge you.
+035:012 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults
+        which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying,
+        They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
+035:013 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth,
+        and have multiplied your words against me:  I have heard it.
+035:014 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  When the whole earth rejoices,
+        I will make you desolate.
+035:015 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house
+        of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you:
+        you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it;
+        and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+036:001 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say,
+        You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
+036:002 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because the enemy has said against you,
+        Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
+036:003 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because, even
+        because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up
+        on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue
+        of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers,
+        and the evil report of the people;
+036:004 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
+        and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys,
+        to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken,
+        which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations
+        that are round about;
+036:005 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Surely in the fire of my
+        jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations,
+        and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves
+        for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite
+        of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
+036:006 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell
+        the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to
+        the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I have spoken
+        in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne
+        the shame of the nations:
+036:007 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  I have sworn, [saying],
+        Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall
+        bear their shame.
+036:008 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches,
+        and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at
+        hand to come.
+036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you
+        shall be tilled and sown;
+036:010 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel,
+        even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste
+        places shall be built;
+036:011 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase
+        and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your
+        former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings:
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+036:012 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
+        and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance,
+        and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.
+036:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Because they say to you,
+        You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver
+        of your nation;
+036:014 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your
+        nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
+036:015 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations,
+        neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more,
+        neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+036:016 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land,
+        they defiled it by their way and by their doings:
+        their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman
+        in her impurity.
+036:018 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they
+        had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it
+        with their idols;
+036:019 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed
+        through the countries:  according to their way and according
+        to their doings I judged them.
+036:020 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned
+        my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people
+        of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
+036:021 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel
+        had profaned among the nations, where they went.
+036:022 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel,
+        but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations,
+        where you went.
+036:023 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among
+        the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them;
+        and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh,
+        when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
+036:024 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out
+        of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
+036:025 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean:
+        from all your filthiness, and from all your idols,
+        will I cleanse you.
+036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
+        within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
+        and I will give you a heart of flesh.
+036:027 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
+        my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
+036:028 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
+        and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
+036:029 I will save you from all your uncleanness:  and I will call
+        for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
+036:030 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase
+        of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach
+        of famine among the nations.
+036:031 Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that
+        were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own
+        sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
+036:032 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it
+        known to you:  be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
+        house of Israel.
+036:033 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  In the day that I cleanse you from
+        all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited,
+        and the waste places shall be built.
+036:034 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was
+        a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
+036:035 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
+        the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
+        cities are fortified and inhabited.
+036:036 Then the nations that are left round about you shall know
+        that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted
+        that which was desolate:  I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I
+        will do it.
+036:037 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  For this, moreover, will I
+        be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them:
+        I will increase them with men like a flock.
+036:038 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her
+        appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with
+        flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+037:001 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit
+        of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley;
+        and it was full of bones.
+037:002 He caused me to pass by them round about:  and behold,
+        there were very many in the open valley; and behold,
+        they were very dry.
+037:003 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live?  I answered,
+        Lord Yahweh, you know.
+037:004 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them,
+        you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
+037:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones:  Behold, I will cause
+        breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
+037:006 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you,
+        and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live;
+        and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
+037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded:  and as I prophesied,
+        there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones
+        came together, bone to its bone.
+037:008 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up,
+        and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
+037:009 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man,
+        and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Come from
+        the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain,
+        that they may live.
+037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came
+        into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet,
+        an exceedingly great army.
+037:011 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
+        house of Israel:  behold, they say, Our bones are dried up,
+        and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
+037:012 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you
+        to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring
+        you into the land of Israel.
+037:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves,
+        and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
+037:014 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place
+        you in your own land:  and you shall know that I, Yahweh,
+        have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
+037:015 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
+037:016 You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah,
+        and for the children of Israel his companions:  then take
+        another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
+        and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
+037:017 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they
+        may become one in your hand.
+037:018 When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying,
+        Will you not show us what you mean by these?
+037:019 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will take
+        the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
+        and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them
+        with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
+        and they shall be one in my hand.
+037:020 The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
+037:021 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I will take
+        the children of Israel from among the nations, where they
+        are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them
+        into their own land:
+037:022 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains
+        of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they
+        shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
+        into two kingdoms any more at all;
+037:023 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
+        nor with their detestable things, nor with any of
+        their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their
+        dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
+        so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
+037:024 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall
+        have one shepherd:  they shall also walk in my ordinances,
+        and observe my statutes, and do them.
+037:025 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant,
+        in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they,
+        and their children, and their children's children, forever:
+        and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
+037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall
+        be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them,
+        and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst
+        of them forevermore.
+037:027 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God,
+        and they shall be my people.
+037:028 The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel,
+        when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
+038:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+038:002 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog,
+        the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
+038:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am against you,
+        Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
+038:004 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I
+        will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen,
+        all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler
+        and shield, all of them handling swords;
+038:005 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
+038:006 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in
+        the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes;
+        even many peoples with you.
+038:007 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies
+        who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
+038:008 After many days you shall be visited:  in the latter years you
+        shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword,
+        that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel,
+        which have been a continual waste; but it is brought
+        forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely,
+        all of them.
+038:009 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall
+        be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes,
+        and many peoples with you.
+038:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  It shall happen in that day,
+        that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise
+        an evil device:
+038:011 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;
+        I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely,
+        all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
+        bars nor gates;
+038:012 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand
+        against the waste places that are [now] inhabited,
+        and against the people who are gathered out of the nations,
+        who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
+        of the earth.
+038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all
+        the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take
+        the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey?
+        to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods,
+        to take great spoil?
+038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the
+        Lord Yahweh:  In that day when my people Israel dwells securely,
+        shall you not know it?
+038:015 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts
+        of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them
+        riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;
+038:016 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud
+        to cover the land:  it shall happen in the latter days, that I
+        will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me,
+        when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
+038:017 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Are you he of whom I spoke in old
+        time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in
+        those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?
+038:018 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land
+        of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up
+        into my nostrils.
+038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
+        Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
+        land of Israel;
+038:020 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky,
+        and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who
+        creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface
+        of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
+        shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall,
+        and every wall shall fall to the ground.
+038:021 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,
+        says the Lord Yahweh:  every man's sword shall be
+        against his brother.
+038:022 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment
+        with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on
+        the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower,
+        and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
+038:023 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make
+        myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know
+        that I am Yahweh.
+039:001 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says
+        the Lord Yahweh:  Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince
+        of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
+039:002 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will
+        cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north;
+        and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel;
+039:003 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause
+        your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
+039:004 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all
+        your hordes, and the peoples who are with you:
+        I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort,
+        and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
+039:005 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+039:006 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely
+        in the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
+039:007 My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel;
+        neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more:
+        and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
+039:008 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh;
+        this is the day about which I have spoken.
+039:009 Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
+        and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them,
+        both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows,
+        and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires
+        of them seven years;
+039:010 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut
+        down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of
+        the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them,
+        and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
+039:011 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place
+        for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on
+        the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through:
+        and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude;
+        and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
+039:012 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them,
+        that they may cleanse the land.
+039:013 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall
+        be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+039:014 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass
+        through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury
+        those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it:
+        after the end of seven months shall they search.
+039:015 Those who pass through the land shall pass through;
+        and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign
+        by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley
+        of Hamon Gog.
+039:016 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city.  Thus shall they
+        cleanse the land.
+039:017 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Speak to
+        the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field,
+        Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
+        to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
+        sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh
+        and drink blood.
+039:018 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood
+        of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
+        of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
+039:019 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you
+        be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
+039:020 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots,
+        with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
+039:021 I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations
+        shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
+        have laid on them.
+039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God,
+        from that day and forward.
+039:023 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into
+        captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me,
+        and I hid my face from them:  so I gave them into the hand
+        of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
+039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to their
+        transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
+039:025 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Now will I bring back
+        the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house
+        of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
+039:026 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by
+        which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell
+        securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;
+039:027 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered
+        them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them
+        in the sight of many nations.
+039:028 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused
+        them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered
+        them to their own land; and I will leave none of them
+        any more there;
+039:029 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured
+        out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
+040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning
+        of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth
+        year after that the city was struck, in the same day,
+        the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
+040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,
+        and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it
+        were the frame of a city on the south.
+040:003 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man,
+        whose appearance was like the appearance of brass,
+        with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed;
+        and he stood in the gate.
+040:004 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear
+        with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall
+        show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you,
+        are you brought here:  declare all that you see to the
+        house of Israel.
+040:005 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about,
+        and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long,
+        of a cubit and a handbreadth each:  so he measured the thickness
+        of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
+040:006 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went
+        up the steps of it:  and he measured the threshold of the gate,
+        one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
+040:007 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad;
+        and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits;
+        and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward
+        the house was one reed.
+040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
+040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits;
+        and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate
+        was toward the house.
+040:010 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side,
+        and three on that side; they three were of one measure:
+        and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
+040:011 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits;
+        and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
+040:012 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side],
+        and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges,
+        six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
+040:013 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to
+        the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits;
+        door against door.
+040:014 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached]
+        to the posts, round about the gate.
+040:015 [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront
+        of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
+040:016 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts
+        within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches;
+        and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post
+        were palm trees.
+040:017 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were
+        chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about:
+        thirty chambers were on the pavement.
+040:018 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to
+        the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
+040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate
+        to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits,
+        [both] on the east and on the north.
+040:020 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north,
+        he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.
+040:021 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side;
+        and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure
+        of the first gate:  the length of it was fifty cubits,
+        and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
+040:022 The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees
+        of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect
+        is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps;
+        and the arches of it were before them.
+040:023 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate,
+        [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate
+        to gate one hundred cubits.
+040:024 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south:
+        and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according
+        to these measures.
+040:025 There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about,
+        like those windows:  the length was fifty cubits,
+        and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
+040:026 There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it
+        were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side,
+        and another on that side, on the posts of it.
+040:027 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south:
+        and he measured from gate to gate toward the south
+        a hundred cubits.
+040:028 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate:
+        and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
+040:029 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it,
+        according to these measures:  and there were windows in it
+        and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
+        and twenty-five cubits broad.
+040:030 There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long,
+        and five cubits broad.
+040:031 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
+        were on the posts of it:  and the ascent to it had eight steps.
+040:032 He brought me into the inner court toward the east:
+        and he measured the gate according to these measures;
+040:033 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it,
+        according to these measures:  and there were windows therein
+        and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
+        and twenty-five cubits broad.
+040:034 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
+        were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side:
+        and the ascent to it had eight steps.
+040:035 He brought me to the north gate:  and he measured [it] according
+        to these measures;
+040:036 the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it:
+        and there were windows therein round about; the length was
+        fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
+040:037 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
+        were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side:
+        and the ascent to it had eight steps.
+040:038 A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates;
+        there they washed the burnt offering.
+040:039 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side,
+        and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering
+        and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
+040:040 On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate
+        toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side,
+        which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
+040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
+        by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they
+        killed [the sacrifices].
+040:042 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone,
+        a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad,
+        and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments
+        with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
+040:043 The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about:
+        and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
+040:044 Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers
+        in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate;
+        and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side
+        of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
+040:045 He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south,
+        is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;
+040:046 and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is
+        for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar:
+        these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi
+        come near to Yahweh to minister to him.
+040:047 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred
+        cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
+040:048 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each
+        post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits
+        on that side:  and the breadth of the gate was three cubits
+        on this side, and three cubits on that side.
+040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
+        eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it:
+        and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side,
+        and another on that side.
+041:001 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits
+        broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
+        which was the breadth of the tent.
+041:002 The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides
+        of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five
+        cubits on the other side:  and he measured the length of it,
+        forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
+041:003 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance,
+        two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth
+        of the entrance, seven cubits.
+041:004 He measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth,
+        twenty cubits, before the temple:  and he said to me,
+        This is the most holy place.
+041:005 Then 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.
+041:006 The side chambers were in three stories, one over another,
+        and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which
+        belonged to the house for the side chambers round about,
+        that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold
+        in the wall of the house.
+041:007 The side chambers were broader as they encompassed [the
+        house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of
+        the house went higher and higher round about the house:
+        therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward;
+        and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest
+        by the middle [chamber].
+041:008 I saw also that the house had a raised base round about:
+        the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed
+        of six great cubits.
+041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers,
+        on the outside, was five cubits:  and that which was left was
+        the place of the side chambers that belonged to the house.
+041:010 Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round
+        about the house on every side.
+041:011 The doors of the side chambers were toward [the place] that was left,
+        one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:
+        and the breadth of the place that was left was five
+        cubits round about.
+041:012 The building that was before the separate place at the side
+        toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of
+        the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length
+        of it ninety cubits.
+041:013 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long;
+        and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it,
+        one hundred cubits long;
+041:014 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate
+        place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
+041:015 He measured the length of the building before the separate
+        place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it
+        on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits;
+        and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
+041:016 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round
+        about on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood
+        ceilings round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows,
+        (now the windows were covered),
+041:017 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside,
+        and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
+041:018 It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was
+        between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
+041:019 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on
+        the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm
+        tree on the other side.  [thus was it] made through all
+        the house round about:
+041:020 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made:
+        thus was the wall of the temple.
+041:021 As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face
+        of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance
+        [of the temple].
+041:022 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it
+        two cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it,
+        and the walls of it, were of wood:  and he said to me,
+        This is the table that is before Yahweh.
+041:023 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
+041:024 The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves:
+        two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
+041:025 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
+        cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls;
+        and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
+041:026 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side
+        and on the other side, on the sides of the porch:
+        thus were the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
+042:001 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward
+        the north:  and he brought me into the chamber that was
+        over against the separate place, and which was over against
+        the building toward the north.
+042:002 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door,
+        and the breadth was fifty cubits.
+042:003 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court,
+        and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court,
+        was gallery against gallery in the third story.
+042:004 Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward,
+        a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
+042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took
+        away from these, more than from the lower and the middle,
+        in the building.
+042:006 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars
+        as the pillars of the courts:  therefore [the uppermost] was
+        straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
+042:007 The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers,
+        toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it
+        was fifty cubits.
+042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court
+        was fifty cubits:  and behold, before the temple were
+        one hundred cubits.
+042:009 From under these chambers was the entry on the east side,
+        as one goes into them from the outer court.
+042:010 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,
+        before the separate place, and before the building,
+        there were chambers.
+042:011 The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of]
+        the chambers which were toward the north; according to their
+        length so was their breadth:  and all their exits were both
+        according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
+042:012 According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south
+        was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly
+        before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
+042:013 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
+        which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers,
+        where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most
+        holy things:  there shall they lay the most holy things, and the
+        meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering;
+        for the place is holy.
+042:014 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of
+        the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay
+        their garments in which they minister; for they are holy:
+        and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach
+        to that which pertains to the people.
+042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house,
+        he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect
+        is toward the east, and measured it round about.
+042:016 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five
+        hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
+042:017 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring
+        reed round about.
+042:018 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with
+        the measuring reed.
+042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
+        reeds with the measuring reed.
+042:020 He measured it on the four sides:  it had a wall round about,
+        the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred,
+        to make a separation between that which was holy and that
+        which was common.
+043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks
+        toward the east.
+043:002 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way
+        of the east:  and his voice was like the sound of many waters;
+        and the earth shined with his glory.
+043:003 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
+        even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy
+        the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw
+        by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
+043:004 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate
+        whose prospect is toward the east.
+043:005 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
+        and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
+043:006 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man
+        stood by me.
+043:007 He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne,
+        and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will
+        dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever.
+        The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name,
+        neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution,
+        and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
+043:008 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold,
+        and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but]
+        the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy
+        name by their abominations which they have committed:
+        therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
+043:009 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies
+        of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst
+        of them forever.
+043:010 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel,
+        that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them
+        measure the pattern.
+043:011 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them
+        the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the exits
+        of it, and the entrances of it, and all the forms of it,
+        and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it,
+        and all the laws of it; and write it in their sight; that they
+        may keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it,
+        and do them.
+043:012 This is the law of the house:  on the top of the mountain
+        the whole limit of it round about shall be most holy.
+        Behold, this is the law of the house.
+043:013 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit
+        is a cubit and a handbreadth):  the bottom shall be a cubit,
+        and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it
+        round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
+043:014 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall
+        be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from
+        the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits,
+        and the breadth a cubit.
+043:015 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth
+        and upward there shall be four horns.
+043:016 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad,
+        square in the four sides of it.
+043:017 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad
+        in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half
+        a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about;
+        and the steps of it shall look toward the east.
+043:018 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh:  These are
+        the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it,
+        to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
+043:019 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of
+        the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,
+        says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.
+043:020 You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it,
+        and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about:
+        thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it.
+043:021 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering,
+        and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house,
+        outside of the sanctuary.
+043:022 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish
+        for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar,
+        as they did cleanse it with the bull.
+043:023 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young
+        bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
+043:024 You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall
+        cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt
+        offering to Yahweh.
+043:025 Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin offering:
+        they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of
+        the flock, without blemish.
+043:026 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it;
+        so shall they consecrate it.
+043:027 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on
+        the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your
+        burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings;
+        and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
+044:001 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary,
+        which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
+044:002 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened,
+        neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God
+        of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.
+044:003 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread
+        before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate,
+        and shall go out by the way of the same.
+044:004 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house;
+        and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house
+        of Yahweh:  and I fell on my face.
+044:005 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes,
+        and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all
+        the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it;
+        and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit
+        of the sanctuary.
+044:006 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says
+        the Lord Yahweh:  you house of Israel, let it suffice you
+        of all your abominations,
+044:007 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in
+        heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary,
+        to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread,
+        the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant,
+        [to add] to all your abominations.
+044:008 You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have
+        set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
+044:009 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
+        and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary,
+        of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
+044:010 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray,
+        who went astray from me after their idols, they shall
+        bear their iniquity.
+044:011 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight
+        at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house:
+        they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people,
+        and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
+044:012 Because they ministered to them before their idols,
+        and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house
+        of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them,
+        says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
+044:013 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office
+        of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
+        to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame,
+        and their abominations which they have committed.
+044:014 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all
+        the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
+044:015 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept
+        the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went
+        astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me;
+        and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and
+        the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
+044:016 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near
+        to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
+044:017 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the
+        inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;
+        and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates
+        of the inner court, and within.
+044:018 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen
+        breeches on their waists; they shall not gird themselves
+        with [anything that causes] sweat.
+044:019 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer
+        court to the people, they shall put off their garments
+        in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers;
+        and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify
+        the people with their garments.
+044:020 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks
+        to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
+044:021 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter
+        into the inner court.
+044:022 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is
+        put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house
+        of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
+044:023 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy
+        and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean
+        and the clean.
+044:024 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my
+        ordinances shall they judge it:  and they shall keep my laws
+        and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall
+        make my Sabbaths holy.
+044:025 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves;
+        but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter,
+        for brother, or for sister who has had no husband,
+        they may defile themselves.
+044:026 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
+044:027 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court,
+        to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+044:028 They shall have an inheritance:  I am their inheritance; and you
+        shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
+044:029 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering,
+        and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel
+        shall be theirs.
+044:030 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering
+        of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest:
+        you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough,
+        to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
+044:031 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself,
+        or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
+045:001 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance,
+        you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion
+        of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five
+        thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand:
+        it shall be holy in all the border of it round about.
+045:002 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in
+        length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about;
+        and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about.
+045:003 Of this measure shall you measure a length of twenty-five thousand,
+        and a breadth of ten thousand:  and in it shall be the sanctuary,
+        which is most holy.
+045:004 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests,
+        the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh;
+        and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place
+        for the sanctuary.
+045:005 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth,
+        shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house,
+        for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty chambers.
+045:006 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad,
+        and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering
+        of the holy portion:  it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
+045:007 [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on
+        the other side of the holy offering and of the possession
+        of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front
+        of the possession of the city, on the west side westward,
+        and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one
+        of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
+045:008 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel:
+        and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall
+        give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
+045:009 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  Let it suffice you, princes of Israel:
+        remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness;
+        dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
+045:010 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
+045:011 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
+        may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth
+        part of a homer:  the measure of it shall be after the homer.
+045:012 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.  Twenty shekels plus
+        twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
+045:013 This is the offering that you shall offer:  the sixth part
+        of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth
+        part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
+045:014 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part
+        of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer;
+        (for ten baths are a homer;)
+045:015 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered
+        pastures of Israel--for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering,
+        and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+045:016 All the people of the land shall give to this offering for
+        the prince in Israel.
+045:017 It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings,
+        and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings,
+        in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths,
+        in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel:
+        he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering,
+        and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
+        atonement for the house of Israel.
+045:018 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  In the first [month], in the first
+        [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish;
+        and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
+045:019 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering,
+        and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four
+        corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate
+        of the inner court.
+045:020 So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone
+        who errs, and for him who is simple:  so shall you make
+        atonement for the house.
+045:021 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month,
+        you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days;
+        unleavened bread shall be eaten.
+045:022 On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all
+        the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
+045:023 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering
+        to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily
+        the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
+045:024 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull,
+        and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
+045:025 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month,
+        in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days;
+        according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering,
+        and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.
+046:001 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  The gate of the inner court that
+        looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days;
+        but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day
+        of the new moon it shall be opened.
+046:002 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside,
+        and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests
+        shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
+        and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate:
+        then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut
+        until the evening.
+046:003 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate
+        before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
+046:004 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh
+        shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a
+        ram without blemish;
+046:005 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram,
+        and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give,
+        and a hin of oil to an ephah.
+046:006 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish,
+        and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
+046:007 and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull,
+        and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according
+        as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
+046:008 When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch
+        of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of it.
+046:009 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh
+        in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north
+        gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate;
+        and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go
+        forth by the way of the north gate:  he shall not return
+        by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go
+        forth straight before him.
+046:010 The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them;
+        and when they go out, he shall go out.
+046:011 In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering
+        shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram,
+        and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil
+        to an ephah.
+046:012 When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt
+        offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh,
+        one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east;
+        and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
+        as he does on the Sabbath day:  then he shall go forth;
+        and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
+046:013 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a
+        burnt offering to Yahweh daily:  morning by morning shall
+        you prepare it.
+046:014 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning,
+        the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil,
+        to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually
+        by a perpetual ordinance.
+046:015 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering,
+        and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
+046:016 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  If the prince give a gift to any
+        of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons;
+        it is their possession by inheritance.
+046:017 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants,
+        it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall
+        return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall
+        be for his sons.
+046:018 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance,
+        to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give
+        inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my
+        people not be scattered every man from his possession.
+046:019 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side
+        of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests,
+        which looked toward the north:  and behold, there was a place
+        on the hinder part westward.
+046:020 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil
+        the trespass offering and the sin offering, [and] where they
+        shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them forth
+        into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
+046:021 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused
+        me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold,
+        in every corner of the court there was a court.
+046:022 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
+        forty [cubits] long and thirty broad:  these four in the corners
+        were of one measure.
+046:023 There was a wall round about in them, round about the four,
+        and boiling places were made under the walls round about.
+046:024 Then said he to me, These are the boiling houses, where the
+        ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
+047:001 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold,
+        waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward;
+        (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;)
+        and the waters came down from under, from the right side
+        of the house, on the south of the altar.
+047:002 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward,
+        and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate,
+        by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east;
+        and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
+047:003 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand,
+        he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass
+        through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
+047:004 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through
+        the waters, waters that were to the knees.  Again he measured
+        one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters],
+        waters that were to the waist.
+047:005 Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river
+        that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen,
+        waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
+047:006 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]?
+        Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank
+        of the river.
+047:007 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river
+        were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
+047:008 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward
+        the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah;
+        and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall
+        the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters
+        shall be healed.
+047:009 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms,
+        in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there
+        shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters
+        are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed,
+        and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
+047:010 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it:
+        from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the
+        spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds,
+        as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
+047:011 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not
+        be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
+047:012 By the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side,
+        shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither,
+        neither shall the fruit of it fail:  it shall bring forth
+        new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out
+        of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for food,
+        and the leaf of it for healing.
+047:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:  This shall be the border, by which you
+        shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve
+        tribes of Israel:  Joseph [shall have two] portions.
+047:014 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore
+        to give it to your fathers:  and this land shall fall
+        to you for inheritance.
+047:015 This shall be the border of the land:  On the north side,
+        from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
+047:016 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border
+        of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon,
+        which is by the border of Hauran.
+047:017 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border
+        of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath.
+        This is the north side.
+047:018 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead,
+        and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan;
+        from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure.
+        This is the east side.
+047:019 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters
+        of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
+        This is the south side southward.
+047:020 The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south]
+        border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath.
+        This is the west side.
+047:021 So shall you divide this land to you according to the
+        tribes of Israel.
+047:022 It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an
+        inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you,
+        who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you
+        as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall
+        have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
+047:023 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns,
+        there shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.
+048:001 Now these are the names of the tribes:  From the north end,
+        beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan
+        at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they
+        shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].
+048:002 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side,
+        Asher, one [portion].
+048:003 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side,
+        Naphtali, one [portion].
+048:004 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side,
+        Manasseh, one [portion].
+048:005 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side,
+        Ephraim, one [portion].
+048:006 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the
+        west side, Reuben, one [portion].
+048:007 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side,
+        Judah, one [portion].
+048:008 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side,
+        shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand
+        [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions,
+        from the east side to the west side:  and the sanctuary shall
+        be in the midst of it.
+048:009 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five
+        thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
+048:010 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering:
+        toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward
+        the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand
+        in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length:
+        and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.
+048:011 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons
+        of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn't go astray when
+        the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
+048:012 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land,
+        a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
+048:013 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have
+        twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth:
+        all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the
+        breadth ten thousand.
+048:014 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first
+        fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
+048:015 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front
+        of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use,
+        for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city
+        shall be in the midst of it.
+048:016 These shall be the measures of it:  the north side four thousand
+        and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred,
+        and on the east side four thousand and five hundred,
+        and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
+048:017 The city shall have suburbs:  toward the north two hundred fifty,
+        and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east
+        two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
+048:018 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering,
+        shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward;
+        and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and the increase
+        of it shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
+048:019 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel,
+        shall cultivate it.
+048:020 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by
+        twenty-five thousand:  you shall offer the holy offering four-square,
+        with the possession of the city.
+048:021 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on
+        the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city;
+        in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward
+        the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five
+        thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions,
+        it shall be for the prince:  and the holy offering and
+        the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
+048:022 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession
+        of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's,
+        between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin,
+        it shall be for the prince.
+048:023 As for the rest of the tribes:  from the east side to the
+        west side, Benjamin, one [portion].
+048:024 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side,
+        Simeon, one [portion].
+048:025 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side,
+        Issachar, one [portion].
+048:026 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side,
+        Zebulun, one [portion].
+048:027 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side,
+        Gad, one [portion].
+048:028 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border
+        shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh,
+        to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
+048:029 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes
+        of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions,
+        says the Lord Yahweh.
+048:030 These are the exits of the city:  On the north side four
+        thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;
+048:031 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes
+        of Israel, three gates northward:  the gate of Reuben, one;
+        the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
+048:032 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds],
+        and three gates:  even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate
+        of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
+048:033 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds]
+        by measure, and three gates:  the gate of Simeon, one; the gate
+        of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
+048:034 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds],
+        with their three gates:  the gate of Gad, one; the gate
+        of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
+048:035 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about:
+        and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
+
+
+
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