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Destruction of Jerusalem shown. EZEKIEL.

The calamity of the Jews. their hands, and beautiful crowns upon 11 Then set it empty upon the coals their heads. thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and 43 Then said I unto her that was old in may burn, and that the filthiness of it may adulteries, Will they now commit whore-be molten in it, that the scum of it may be doms with her, and she with them? consumed.

44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because 45 And the righteous men, they shall I have purged thee, and thou wast not judge them after the manner of adulte- purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy resses, and after the manner of women that filthiness any more till I have caused my shed blood; because they are adulteresses, fury to rest upon thee.

and blood is in their hands.

14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall

46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will come to pass, and I will do it; I will not bring up a company upon them, and will go back, neither will I spare, neither will give them to be removed and spoiled. I repent; according to thy ways, and ac47 And the company shall stone them cording to thy doings, shall they judge with stones, and despatch them with their thee, saith the Lord GOD. swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

CHAP. XXIV.

15 T Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the

AGAIN in the ninth year, in the tenth bread of men.

month, in the tenth day of the month, 18 So I spake unto the people in the the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, morning: and at even my wife died; and I 2 Son of man, write thee the name of did in the morning as I was commanded. the day, even of this same day: the king of 19 And the people said unto me, Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this Wilt thou not tell us what these things are same day. to us, that thou doest so?

3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even my sanctuary, the excellency of your every good piece, the thigh, and the shoul-strength, the desire of your eyes, and that der; fill it with the choice bones. which your soul pitieth; and your sons and 5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn your daughters whom ye have left shall fall also the bones under it, and make it boil by the sword. well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

6 TWherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

22 And ye shall do as I have done : ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; one toward another. she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: acit not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; cording to all that he hath done shall ye 8 That it might cause fury to come up do: and when this cometh, ye shall know to take vengeance; I have set her blood that I am the Lord GOD. upon the top of a rock, that it should not 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be be covered. in the day when I take from them their 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; strength, the joy of their glory, the desire Wo to the bloody city' I will even make of their eyes, and that whereupon they set the pile for fire great. their minds, their sons and their daughters, 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, con- 26 That he that escapeth in that day sume the flesh, and spice it well, and let shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear the bones be burned.

it with thine ears?

God's vengeance on Moab. CHAP. XXV, XXVI.

Tyrus is threatened.

27 In that day shall thy mouth be open- and they shall do in Edom according to ed to him which is escaped, and thou shalt mine anger and according to my fury; and speak, and be no more dumb and thou they shall know my vengeance, saith the shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall Lord GOD. know that I am the LORD.

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CHAP. XXV.

15 T Thus saith the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and

HE word of the LORD came again have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; unto me, saying, 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; 2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the Philistines, and I will cut off the Chethe word of the Lord GoD; Thus saith the rethims, and destroy the remnant of the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, sea coasts. 17 And I will execute great vengeance against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when upon them with furious rebukes; and they it was desolate; and against the house of shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. CHAP. XXVI. Judah, when they went into captivity;

4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee

to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

AND it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first day of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,

2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and all thy despite against the land of Israel; will cause many nations to come up against 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out thee, as the sea causeth his waves to mine hand upon thee, and will deliver come up.

4 And they shall destroy the walls of thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: also scrape her dust from her, and make I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know her like the top of a rock.

that I am the LORD.

5 It shall be a place for the spreading

8 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters which are in the 9 Therefore behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities field shall be slain by the sword; and they which are on his frontiers, the glory of the shall know that I am the LORD. 7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Becountry, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and hold, I will bring upon Tyrus NebuchadKiriathaim, 10 Unto the men of the east with the rezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, Ammonites, and will give them in posses- from the north, with horses, and with sion, that the Ammonites may not be re- chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. membered among the nations.

LORD.

8. He shall slay with the sword thy 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against 12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. 9 And he shall set engines of war against that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath thy walls, and with his axes he shall break greatly offended, and revenged himself down thy towers. upon them;

10 By reason of the abundance of his 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; horses their dust shall cover thee: thy I will also stretch out mine hand upon walls shall shake at the noise of the horseEdom, and will cut off man and beast from men, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, it; and I will make it desolate from Te- when he shall enter into thy gates, as men man; and they of Dedan shall fall by the enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon tread down all thy streets: he shall slay Edom by the hand of my people Israel: thy people by the sword, and thy strong

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The mourning for Tyrus..

EZEKIEL. The rich supply of Tyrus.

garrisons shall go down to the ground. fir-trees of Senir: they have taken cedars 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy from Lebanon to make masts for thee. riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, thine oars 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they have made thy benches of ivory, brought the company of the Ashurites shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and out of the isles of Chittim. thy dust,in the midst of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy Egypt was that which thou spreadedst forth 7 Fine linen with broidered work from songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps to be thy sail; blue and purple from the shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee like the top of thee. isles of Elishah was that which covered a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the were thy mariners: thy wise men, 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. rus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. O Ty15 T Thus saith the Lord GoD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all 9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the ships of the sea with their mariners the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay Phut, were in thine army, thy men of war: 10 They of Persia,and of Lud, and of away their robes, and put off their broider- they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; ed garments: they shall clothe themselves they set forth thy comeliness. with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every mo-were upon thy walls round about, and the 11 The men of Arvad with thine army ment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamenta - hanged their shields upon thy walls round Gammadims were in thy towers: they tion for thee, and say to thee, How art about; they have made thy beauty perfect. thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which son of the multitude of all kind of riches 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reawas strong in the sea, she and her in- with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded habitants, which cause their terror to be on in thy fairs.

all that haunt it!

18 Now shall the isles tremble in the were thy merchants: they traded the per13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in sons of men and vessels of brass in thy the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. market.

19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the traded in thy fairs with horses and horse14 They of the house of Togarmah cities that are not inhabited; when I shall men and mules. bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

15 The men of Dedan were thy mer20 When I shall bring thee down with of thine hand: they brought thee for a chants; many isles were the merchandise them that descend into the pit, with the present horns of ivory and ebony. people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places deso- the multitude of the wares of thy making: 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of late of old, with them that go down to the they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, set glory in the land of the living;

21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God.

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CHAP. XXVII.

HE word of the LORD came again
unto me, saying,

2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

and coral, and agate.

were thy merchants: they traded in thy
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they
market wheat of Minnith and Pannag,
and honey, and oil, and balm.

multitude of the wares of thy making, for
18 Damascus was thy merchant in the
Helbon, and white wool.
the multitude of all riches; in the wine of

occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia,
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro
and calamus, were in thy market.

3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord Gon; O Tyrus, thou clothes for chariots. hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious

4 Thy borders are in the midst of the they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, seas, thy builders have perfected thy and goats: in these were they thy merchants. beauty. 29 The merchants of Sheba and Raa

5 They have made all thy ship-boards of mah, they were thy merchants: they oc

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CHAP. XXVIII.

The prince of Tyrus judged. cupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and and with all precious stones, and gold. not God, though thou set thine heart as the 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the heart of God: merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chiliad, were thy merchants.

3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from

24 These were thy merchants in all sorts thee: of things, in blue clothes, and broidered 4 With thy wisdom and with thine unwork, and in chests of rich apparel, bound derstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, with cords, and made of cedar, among thy and hast gotten gold and silver into thy merchandise. treasures:

25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy thee in thy market; and thou wast re-traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and plenished, and made very glorious in the thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: midst of the seas. 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; 26 Thy rowers have brought thee Because thou hast set thine heart as the into great waters: the east wind hath bro- heart of God; ken thee in the midst of the seas.

7 Behold, therefore I will bring tran27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy mer-gers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: chandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy and they shall draw their swords against calkers, and the occupiers of thy mer- the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall chandise, and all thy men of war, that are defile thy brightness. in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be 29 And all that handle the oar, the ma- a man, and no God, in the hand of him riners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall that slayeth thee.

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come down from their ships, they shall 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the unstand upon the land; circumcised by the hand of strangers: for have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou scalest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

32 And in their wailing they shall take 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden up a lamentation for thee, and lament over of God: every precious stone was thy cothee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like vering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the destroyed in the midst of the sea? the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the 33 When thy wares went forth out of sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, the seas, thou filledst many people; thou and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets didst enrich the kings of the earth with and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the multitude of thy riches and of thy the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that

merchandise.

34 In the time when thou shalt be bro- covereth; and I have set thee so: thou ken by the seas in the depths of the wa-wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou ters, thy merchandise and all thy company hast walked up and down in the midst of in the midst of thee shall fall. the stones of fire.

35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from be astonished at thee, and their kings shall the day that thou wast created, till iniquity be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in was found in thee. their countenance.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise 36 The merchants among the people they have filled the midst of thee with vioshall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, lence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I and never shalt be any more. will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the

CHAP. XXVIII.
THE
HE word of the LORD came again
unto me, saying,

stones of fire.

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, by reason of thy brightness: I will cast I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the thee to the ground, I will lay thec be

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The judgment of Zidon.

EZEKIEL.

The desolation of Egypt.

fore kings, that they may behold thee. rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields;
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by thou shalt not be brought together, nor
the multitude of thine iniquities, by the gathered: I have given thee for meat to
iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I the beasts of the field and to the fowls of
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it the heaven.

shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall
ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them know that I am the LORD, because they
that behold thee.
have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel.

19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be

any more.

20 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21 Son of man, set thy face against
Zidon, and prophesy against it,

22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and
I will be glorified in the midst of thee:
and they shall know that I am the LORD, I
when I shall have executed judgments in
her, and shall be sanctified in her.

7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. 10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and against thy rivers, and I will make the and blood into her streets; and the wounded land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, shall be judged in the midst of her by the from the tower of Syene even unto the sword upon her on every side; and they border of Ethiopia. shall know that I am the LORD. 24 And there shall be no more a it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor neither shall it be inhabited forty years. any grieving thorn of all that are round about them that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

11 No foot of man shall pass through

12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

25 Thus saith the Lord Gon; When I
shall have gathered the house of Israel from
the people among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight
of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their 13 Yet thus saith the Lord God; At
land that I have given to my servant Jacob. the end of forty years will I gather the
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, Egyptians from the people whither they
and shall build houses, and plant vine- were scattered:

yards; yea, they shall dwell with confi- 14 And I will bring again the captivity
dence, when I have executed judgments of Egypt, and will cause them to return
upon all those that despise them round into the land of Pathros, into the land of
about them; and they shall know that I am their habitation; and they shall be there
the LORD their God.
a base kingdom.

CHAP. XXIX.

15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; N the tenth year, in the tenth month, in neither shall it exalt itself any more above

of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

they shall no more rule over the nations.

16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord they shall look after them: but they shall GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh know that I am the Lord GOD.

king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth 17 And it came to pass in the seven
in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, and twentieth year, in the first month, in
My river is mine own, and I have made it the first day of the month, the word of the -
for myself.
LORD came unto me, saying,
4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king
I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick of Babylon caused his army to serve a great
unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up service against Tyrus: every head was
out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the made bald, and every shoulder was peel-
fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. ed: yet had he no wages, nor his army,
5 And I will leave thee thrown into the for Tyrus, for the service that he had
wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy served against it:

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